Jun 27, 2014
Is Attack on Titan is one of my favorite animes? Yes, and there are many reasons for that.
Is Attack on Titan is the greatest anime that I never see? No, and there are many reasons for that too. And I will explain why.
Story / 7
Even if some people consider Attack on Titan an average shonen, like One Piece, Naruto or Bleach, I can't see this anime like that. Compared to these light-minded, friendship and justice forever animes, Attack on Titan bring us to the darkness of the human being, the pitiful selfishness and cowardice in front of the worst terror that we could imagine -
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the brutal annihilation by someone stronger than us.
I'm not going to explain how this anime played so easily with my emotions, how some moments were so strong that they brought tears to my eyes. I think many people here explained it better than me.
But still, I have to say that Attack on Titan is still a shonen, and so, brings with him some flaws of the average shonen. When you look back to those twenty five episodes, you can see that it's slow. A slow story, with some more boring episodes between the main two arcs, with a lot, A LOT of battles. The anime (I said the anime because it doesn't necessarily apply to the manga) is a shonen, but a very good shonen who doesn't quite looks like any others.
Art / 10
Aaaaah, the art! How can you talk about Attack on Titan without mentioning the beautiful work between the images ? The animation, the colors, the atmosphere is remarkable, the same quality has the best movie for some moments. I couldn't say it's perfect, because some episodes are less beautiful than others, but DAMN. I don't think you never seen an anime looking like that before.
Sound / 10
I'm not a good reviewer about the music of something, but, you know, here the whole thing - the music is as astonishing as the art, and both of them together can be described in one word - epic.
Character / 6
And then there is the worst point of Attack on Titan, even if it doesn't bothered me when I watched it.
Because Attack on Titan is such an oudstanding piece of work, with all the colors and the music and the emotions assembled so greatly with each other that you don't remark that any of the main characters has any « psychological evolution » (I don't know if you say it like that, but oh well you understand). Like most of the shonen characters, they are, at the final episode, the same that they were as the first one, or almost - they doesn't really evolve, doesn't really mature. All of them (with some exceptions, I admit) are cliches, and they will be cliches to the very end.
It doesn't really bothered me because, well, I like shonens, and so I'm used to this. But if you don't like the whiny Eren, the crazy Mikasa or one of the most important characters, maybe you will not enjoy as much I has enjoyed it.
Finally, Attack on Titan is not the greatest anime ever. It has too many mistakes, too many imperfections for me to call it the perfection, like FMB. But, like Death note many years ago, Attack on Titan is surely one of the most enjoyable anime that I never seen in my life. It's a rollercoaster of emotion and epicness, a well executed horror and action show, an anime so better than the average that it's difficult to ignore it. Trying it will not cause you harm, I swear ;).
PS. Sorry for the english, I'm french-canadian :)
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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