Review of Attack on Titan

Before getting into the actual review, I **highly** recommend watching this series with subs. I am very rarely one to significantly prefer subs, but the Japanese voice acting is much better IMO. I definitely understand the appeal of the series so far and have enjoyed it overall, but I think the ‘57th Exterior Scouting Mission’ arc held the rest of the season back— particularly parts 4-6. I won’t give spoilers, but the abysmal decision-making from the characters and the amount of inner dialogue/monologues that usually occurred in the middle of big fights made the second half of the arc kind of excruciating to watch. It’s possible, ifnot likely, that this was done on purpose, but I think it was overdone to the point that it became annoying.

That being said, this slight shortcoming was made up for in the final arc of the season and, generally speaking, there hasn't been a ton of character development yet. In that way, I think the rest of this series beyond the first season has a *ton* of potential to get very good, very quickly. While the first season had its flaws, it did a fantastic job of setting the rest up for success.