Jul 14, 2014
"Shingeki no Kyojin" or "Attack on Titan" (AOT) has received praise from both critics and audiences alike. With this in mind, I decided to watch it and was seriously disappointed. Although AOT has incredible artwork and highly developed characters, it fails to deliver a good story. The plot itself is actually interesting and has a lot of potential to be really good, but the anime drags on and on, taking several episodes simply to cover one battle or one plot point. Furthermore, each plot point
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doesn't add much to the story itself, by which I mean it only adds more questions and gives no answers. A story needs to give answers to the questions it asks or that it invokes, otherwise it leaves the audience (or at least it left me) feeling let down.
Also, despite the fact that the characters are highly developed, I personally found it hard to care that much about them since most of them end up dying rather quickly, making all that development pretty much pointless. This also made me feel rather uninspired whenever a character gave some inspirational speech or rallying cry because even when they do that, they end up getting slaughtered.
Lastly, the excessive amount of emotional scenes took away a lot of their intended effect. I found myself thinking "yes, yes, we get it, can we move on now?" whenever these drawn out emotional scenes appeared simply because there were too many of them and they really desensitized me to the very real emotions that were present.
With those things in mind, I will admit that the artwork of AOT is incredible, using a unique style and taking full advantage of certain elements present within AOT's unique world to create some very powerful scenes. Also, although the characters feel a little disposable to me, The characters are still very well developed and relatable.
So it ultimately comes down to what your looking for in an anime. If your looking for a good, full story, i would recommend you pass. But if your more into artwork and character, then you definitely need to watch it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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