Review of Attack on Titan
Good When the action is heavy, there is a lot of nice, fluid animation. The inside-out look of some titans looks nifty. Amazing voice actors and performances all around (I watched this season in Japanese). This season is filled with crazy good sound effects and visual effects. Many people died, some spared for the plot; still, important figures die. The viewer may develop a fetish after witnessing "some things." The ranking system and military code are done well β to a certain extent. Some characters look amazing! πThe story is exceptionally unique and satisfying (nearly all the way).
This season includes interesting warfare, physical and psychological. For instance, the Spider-Man cable things are sick.
Attack on Titan is a nice, representational, good cliche shonen anime.
Bad
The art style is hit or miss.
The lipstick (or colored lips) on some females looks terrible (especially Mikasa).
Misaka looks better without lipstick. Her eyes, face, and head got weird after the first time skip. She is supposed to be one of the tough as nails chicks who are not afraid to get dirty β not some dainty harlot.
The art style (proportions, scaling, et cetera) is inconsistent on many occasions. Misaka is done the worst; she looks like a doll or a dude half the time. I stop watching Attack on Titan for one episode, and she looks different the next.
In episode four, Hannes and some other dudes walked into a scene with Eren, Armine, and Misaka. Hannes and the dude's patches were roses in one shot and wings in the next. There may be more errors like this that I overlooked.
Eren yelled so much in the first two episodes. He almost ruptured my eardrums.
The pacing was decent until the fifth episode.
My God, surely they know that not every flashback, explanation, breakdown, or recap is necessary. Let the story tell itself through action, and stop dragging out episodes for no good reason!
This season automatically loses points due to a need to skip through so much excessive crap.
Why do characters get ESP as soon as someone far across the map (out of sight) possibly dies?
Most of the stuff done for dramatic effect is ill-executed and sometimes corny.
There is not enough gore. People want to see some entrails and brain matter get ripped out. Show the viewer a clear sight of arms and legs being torn from their sockets.
In episode ten, the main characters stayed in the same spot nearly half the episode, for no good reason!
Some of the secondary/side characters are terribly written.
Food girl, freckles girl, short blondie girl (not the queen, Annie, of course), Misaka (when she looks weird or acts out of character), and the shaved head guy (that is basically Krillin) are all pretty irritating and nonsensical.
Food girl, why did you sign up for something when you are the biggest burden on the team?
I wished they died sooner than episode seventeen; I hardly enjoyed any of their pathetic screen time.