Review of Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan is an anime about a mentally unbalanced child discovering true gamer rage after a traumatic event that ignited a desire that defines his entire existence: killing every tall person in the world. This is probably due to the fact that he struggles to outgrow an Asian girl (and one of them killed his mom or something) but that's neither here nor there. To succeed in his quest, he has to ally with someone who really enjoys sending people to their death and his cannon fodder. The most important one of them being the shortest character in the whole anime. There's probably no reasonwhy this guy is also obsessed with tall people, and able to kill them with surgical precision.

He learns many useful skills like flying to make his height not as much of an issue or the much more useful ability of lying on his Tinder bio. He uses these skills to do some very important work, like lifting rocks and... beating a woman. Although in his defense, she was a tall woman so he's not that sidetracked. A slight issue is that misogyny might be now part of his character development.

In this world crafted to the finest details, we get to learn some very important and fundamental things such as the fact that tall people are human, kind of. Or the fact that Eren (the aforementioned mentally unbalanced child), or rather his dad keeps tall people in his basement, or at least a secret about them. We get a glimpse of how society works, where humans live in a state of constant siege die to the fact they lost the war to these tall people and their genetic superiority.

The stagnation caused by their natural predators cause the military to be corrupt and mostly inept at their job, and for a stigma to grow towards people going outside because they spend money and die, which is a situation worth being jealous over. Also they built a wall and nobody in particular has to pay for it, and the walls are also given names and deified, which means you can't have sex with them, and that, I believe is a travesty.

Another one of Attack on Titan's strengths lies in it's characters with very diverse starting points towards their journeys. We have the Asian girl who's really obsessive towards this mentally ill kid since that day she was convinced of committing murder. There's also the third wheel who has to learn how not to be a bitch. There's this guy with the face of a horse who has to come to terms with the fact that people die when they are killed and how together we can stop this. There's like, a dozen future corpses, which is pretty awesome. And there's the rest of the characters who are also pretty cool. Like the short guy who spins and gets sad when people die. And the leader of the survey corps who just really wants a W, regardless of all the sacrifices the others have to make, and he's pretty damn proud of it.

This whole narrative sandwich is served in a pretty neat wrapper of some top notch animation from Wit studio that made the very diverse types of combat feel equally as powerful yet distinct enough for them to complement each other, and made the emotion that much more impactful, along with a soundtrack divine enough for someone as tone deaf as I am to mention it, even outside of the openings.

All in all, Attack on Titan is very much crafted to perfection, the only reason I rate it an 8 and not more is because, I dunno, I felt like it.