(SOME SPOILERS FOR AOT S4) This review is all my opinion.
For me, Seasons 2 and 3 of Attack On Titan were some of the best anime experiences I've had in recent time, and after watching this follow up to the other parts of this show, I have to say I feel very disappointed.
Story: 6, For this anime the story has always been mixed for me, because it's sometimes amazing how they can fit so many backstories and character moments that make this cast feel real. But on the other hand there are large segments (specifically the first 6 and last 2 episodes of season 3)
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where it feels way too quickly paced and sloppy, making it hard to understand to the point where even now that I have finished the whole anime I still can't understand the stuff that happened all that time ago. Season 4 has done the same thing season 3 has done except you never catch on because there's even more confusing story elements than back then. The worldbuilding is an absolute train wreck, not because it's necessarily bad (though i personally don't like it) but because they explain so much so quickly that i still only understand half the stuff that's happening. This has always been a problem since season 3, and it seems my friends/family that have watched also agree with me. Anyways, if season 3 did that and i still loved that season then why is season 4 worse? Well, it's because the annoying and bland new cast they introduced. They introduced new characters in the new season which i usually don't mind, but they don't feel like characters, they feel like plot devices and emotional robots to get the story across to us. Yelena has the generic "i want to see the world burn" personality that every personality-less anime character needs, and not just her. Gabi could of been a great character, they even gave her 4 episodes of setup along with the other warriors (which i personally found better than the rest of the season) but they somehow made her feel like a plot device just running into coincidence after coincidence to show the conflict between Eldians and the world. It all feels forced in my opinion, and her killing one of the main characters then just happening to run into her family was way too coincidental to be true. Enough about her, Floch was introduced at the end of last season, and was clearly set up to be a new and important character. I didn't personally like him that much, it felt forced. But i was accepting to see him join the survey corps or whatever he was going to take part in. Turns out that he is just a generic evil minion of Eren, Who now owns some sort of cult. ON TO EREN!!! But first I wanna talk about character designs. I don't like the character designs as much as before but they don't effect my score or anything, I just personally think everybody looks worse than before, with exception of Armin and Eren looking just as cool as before. Two more things before Eren, there were multiple occasions where certain things could of and should of happened but they didn't. Reiner and the Jaw titan were both sitting on the floor, passed out. The survey corps could of easily gotten them both under Eren's order to make sure they aren't in any danger, and also so the enemy loses 2 of their most valuable assets. Also, when Zackery's office was blown up, Mikasa and Armin didn't get questioned at all, until much after, in which there were absolutely no consequences besides being accused of being a yeagerist for 1 second in a throwaway line. Next thing, the animation/art style change. Everyone has complained about this so I'm just going to say that i don't like it at all, I get that this season is dark, but every season has been dark. The other seasons had this beautiful and unique art style that matched the manga really well, The colors popped and it was always a treat to watch scenes, hell even the non-fight scenes were just so beautiful looking most of the time. But now it has this dark, gross, boring looking art style. Anyways, that's just my opinion, but it just lacks personality compared to the other seasons. Speaking of Animation/Art style/Whatever, The CG is god awful, it is so distracting, it just looks plain off, and its ugly. The CG with the colossal titan was always off putting and ugly, but it felt somewhat special since it was so big. But now every titan that isn't a normal one is in CG, it contrasts with the rest of the art style and honestly ruined all of the scenes involving titans in this season for me. Next is something that is 100% personal, but i do not care for or about the outside world. The series was much more interesting within the walls, and i feel that figuring out the "truth" ruined it all. I feel it could of been much better if the series ended with the truth/the outside, but i was still on board. I was on board the whole time until there was about 6 or so episodes left, for the rest of that i was just waiting to finish it, sitting there bored. All in all this season was very disappointing and flat out bad in my opinion. Though there were some cool parts, most of them were ruined by the surrounding boredom and confusing world building that was brain-rotting to take in so quickly. For sure this is a 5/10 for me, I really wanted to like this season, and i can see many reasons why. The potential for the Discrimination within the world vs the Eldians, The building of the Yeagerists, The Warriors who sadly became a bunch of boring characters used as plot devices and were flat out not entertaining in the slightest. Everything was just wasted potential and completely 2-Dimensional, at least that's how I saw it.
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(SOME SPOILERS FOR AOT S4) This review is all my opinion.
For me, Seasons 2 and 3 of Attack On Titan were some of the best anime experiences I've had in recent time, and after watching this follow up to the other parts of this show, I have to say I feel very disappointed. Story: 6, For this anime the story has always been mixed for me, because it's sometimes amazing how they can fit so many backstories and character moments that make this cast feel real. But on the other hand there are large segments (specifically the first 6 and last 2 episodes of season 3) ... 
Jun 10, 2021
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Though a One Shot, This less than 50-page manga left me wanting more, believing it could make itself a full shonen-action series. It has a charming and not to mention badass main character, and a simple but well designed villain. (which he gave me some tokyo ghoul vibes ngl), This manga had some great action panels and an interesting concept!! i gave it a 7 personally, but thats just because of how short this is. It has tons of potential and even if it just stays as this one shot, I do think this is something everyone should at least check out.
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