Review of Attack on Titan
My two reasons for watching this were its insane popularity along with the fact Bobduh didn't drop it, so I figured, how bad can it be? ...and dived right into it. At first it seemed like an interesting concept, but later it proved to be just a god damn shounen that has no intention of actually being over by the episode 25. That's what I get for not researching beforehand. And that would all be great if plot wasn't so damn slow. It has its good points, so it isn't a total waste. Particularly its world and the idea of everyone fighting big ass titansusing spiderman like abilities.
What was keeping me interested the most was to see the development of the story, to see how they will uncover the secrets of what's actually going on, and then what will they do about it and how. That would have been mind kind of story. We get some fighting and some non fighting, and find out a couple of clues for what might be going on with the world, and that's it. My biggest problem with this is that it's just shounen enough for it to matter. It means the plot logic suffers, and the pacing suffers, and the average IQ suffers. And all those combined make the show nearly unwatchable for me.
It's not totally shounen though, at least enough to leave me hoping it'll actually do something useful with its second half. But then halfway through second half I realised this isn't gonna be over any time soon. It felt stupid dropping it at that point so I just finished it for the sake of finishing it. My opinion of this was going to be highly based of what the show will do with the overall world situation questions and how it will handle it. It ended up not answering them and hence not handling it at all. So it's silly to write a review for this as it could be either 10% of the story or 50% of the story. But even though I'm interested to see the resolution of what the fuck is going on with the world, I don't think I'll be watching the next season, for this season annoyed me to the point of nearly dropping it at places.
Lot of action sequences were really fun and high budget. Some visuals were good. Overall style being a bit distinctive was both a plus and a minus for me, as well as the design of titans, as it's both unique and innovative, as well as visually unappealing and creepy as fuck. Though I guess it needs to be pointed out this doesn't suck as much as actual shounens, like Magi or Naruto or whatever, it's still far above that.