Review of Attack on Titan

Before I start praising this series, let's look at negatives first. For one, if you do not plan to read manga afterwards, don't bother. If season 2 is ever to come, then only in about 2-3 years. And even then you'll end up waiting for another season to conclude the story. Isayama plans to have around 80-100 chapters over all. This season only covered 33-34 chapters. If you do the maths, you can see how many seasons are needed to see this story finished. Instead of getting answers, you'll end up with more question by the end of this season. You will also end up with half developed castbecause there are so many characters and not all of them get to shine this season what can make anime watchers go "Why were they even needed?"
Answers is simple "They are, but not in this season".

I honestly believe that this series would benefit far more by having one big season as FMA. If FMA was done in this fashion, we would have pretty much same problem.

Another problem could be slightly dragged story. While it is engaging, there are times when you wish the pace would pick up and get down to business already.

What also puts off are thick lines around characters what makes them really stand out from the backgrounds. Sometimes it looks great but other times you just go "No".

Having said that, let's look at positives now.
The cast that did get developed this season is entertaining and characters of the main focus got time to shine and develop.

A typical crybaby turned into powerful manipulator and liar.
Egoist started to care.
Unimportant character is important.

And so on.

Not a single character is white or black, each one is different shade of grey. Some are darker and some are lighter. Never the same.

While Shingeki does keep a lot of shounen stereotypes, it also destroys most of them. And I mean DESTROYS!

Tired of characters never dying like in Bleach? This is for you.
Tired of "friendship power wins everything"? This is for you.

Series also have some great and memorable soundtracks and action scenes with 3D gear are beautiful.

Titans will make chills run down your spine while others will make you go "WTF?". Yeh, their designs are just that unique. You are either creped out or laugh out loud.

While slowly, story keeps progressing. With every new answer, we get new question and with every new question we get closer to the truth.

While some scene might seem pointless, they actually contain lots of clues and once you re-watch it you go "How could I miss it?!". So do pay attention.

I personally enjoyed series a lot, the mystery of the world and titans are fascinating, characters are engaging and action is amazing.

Originally I planned to give this series 9 but after several last episodes it had to go down to 8.

Main reason is that anime team skipped some of the manga scenes which made events at the end confusing.
Because of the added filler material, some scenes were handled differently and I just did not like it. For one, they completely destroyed Eren's development as a character.
In manga he seemed to learn and develop while here he basically went to square one.

So yeh, if you plan to read manga later on, definitely watch this!
If no, better don't bother or you might end up with bitter taste in your mouth.