Will AOT go down as a Classic?

georgemehh1 said:
it s not even close to be the best lmao

LustKamisama said:


First, any decent human will share the same opinion on slavery, it's just in the US it's a massive stain in history, that said nearly every first-world country practices it but I wouldn't know if their history class highlighted it. It is indisputable that AoT handles the slavery subplot horribly.

Secondly, he is the cause of her death, directly or indirectly it both satisfied the means of killing, whether you like it or not. Eren is an emotionally charged character, he was written this way. So him not showing grief toward killing his mom undermines the whole scene from the first arc and butcher him before he's putting on a facade.

Thirdly, what happened to Reiner's PTSD? why did the pacifier Armin thanks Eren for the genocide(from the official)? Reiner being Isayama's favorite went from a broken man into sniffing letters. The best defense people gave is expecting too much from this shounen as it was never able to deliver thematic depth like HxH, FMA and should put on par with MHA, or even Naruto.

imbAF said:

Dankshin0bi said:
It’s not about you you start a story, it’s about how it ENDS. Therefore no it is not a masterpiece and it will not go down in history, might be historically fucked for dropping the ball on the last 3 chapter

Roger1 said:
It will go down as one of the worst solely cause of the ending. Remember GOT? Everyone was saying it was the best show ever until the ending happened.

imbAF said:


Steins gate requires 11 episode to be immensely interesting, season 2 is nowhere near close to the epicness of the first.

HxH is on hiatus for eternity and its super good but the thematic doesn't come close to aot.

Death Note is epic when you are a newcomer in the anime and also a bit edgy, but still a masterpiece .


FMAB is ok. Nothing special about it, jack of all trades master of none.

And Code geass was ok, until Lelouch goes and tells her that he can control her if he wants and his geass was activated, that was a cheap way to stretch the story. And ofc Lelouch's solution looks awesome when you are a 16 years old and believe in idealism. In reality the problems among people cannot simply vanish just because one guy died. Lelouch dies and the whole world is happy and sunshine? It doesn't work like that. How it works in reality is similar to what happened in AOT.

And stop using lmao in the end, it doesn't validate your opinion more.

AdamWayne04 said:


What about AOT? first season could be mysterious, interesting, well animated or whatever, but not a masterpiece in storytelling or character development.

Second season was slightly better (in my opinion), more slow paced and focused on story, but still the same tier.

Third season? I dont really remember many details so lets skip for now

Third season part two made a nice mixure of action, storytelling, character development and worldbuilding, and a good revelation arc.

Still not as thrilling as S;G (and I agree with you about S;G 0 being very far away), not as mature as Monster, not as complex as Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, or as unique as Monogatari.

So nope, not the best, even compared in overall quality.

Also I liked Code Geass more that's maynly my opinion

georgemehh1 said:
it s not even close to be the best lmao

Mack_Yeager said:


Why it has done almost 99% of what all audiences like ,action,mystery and plot twists

samashi20 said:


While I agree with you that the ending will have a major role in determining whether it'll be a classic or not, I still think that the 4 first seasons are popular enough for it to still be considered a classic. Many people got into anime by watching AoT, and even the ones who are not into anime, still watch AoT.

Allystare said:


Have you forgotten about GOT? It was just as popular for its seasons, and a huge cultural craze for several years, until the final season, and virtually no one talks about it now. In a few years it will have no new watchers.

Compare that with the Sopranos, which ended years and years ago, but positive remembrances of it keeps bringing new people into the fandom, and it's maintained its place as a classic trailblazing show.

Also the part about 'many people got into watching anime because of AOT' is rather dubious. Anime has enjoyed international popularity for something close to 30 years and has been featured heavily on Saturday morning cartoon programming for kids for decades in Western countries. You can say that about shows like DBZ, but it really doesn't apply to AOT. AOT was immensely popular, and a staple of Otaku diets, but not a genre-popularizer (the genre was already at the height of its popularity years before AOT came along), and it had years-long hiatuses where interest for it receded.

samashi20 said:


1. I'm not a manga reader, these are just my speculations about the reaction of the fandom to the ending and the series as a whole. I also have not seen GOT, so I have no idea whatsoever about the plot or the ending.

2. I think you got me completely wrong with "Many people got into anime because of AOT". I'm not saying AOT brought popularity to anime in general, nor to the genre. I'm just saying people who never cared about anime before started watching AOT and got slowly into anime. So I'm not sure why you're discussing the genre or the popularity of anime as a whole.

imbAF said:
If you take everything into consideration such as : story, character development, Animation, VA's. OST, quality of animation etc etc, even tho you might find animes who excel in on or in the other department, AOT is overall the best anime that has come from the industry until now

TheGuiltMan said:


its the best mainstream show and I say that because its pretty hard to say its objectively the best I think aot blends seinen and shonen aspects really well comaprable to death note so I would agree with this at the same time its not a perfect adaptation nothing that goes from Manga to Anime ever is

Examples

Jojo Bizarre Adventure suffers from long winded battles full of commentary which is much longer compared to the manga. FMAB skips portions of the manga and has a much lighter tone compared to the manga and original adaptation same goes Hunter x Hunter


I will say that the biggest strength of aot is the hill like development which can suck you in and immerse you in although even though I say that you have to get past the first season which even though its gets better is painful with its characters every character is just....idk boring and emo it fits with the world but even fans agree and don't believe me the most popular character is a girl who gets unimaginably excited about eating food and is famous for eating a potato thats how boring I think the first season characters are

luckily the show goes rapid progression and moments which make you get attached to the characters even if they are literally cardboard the mere fact that established characters could die at any moment gets the attached to them although I would also say that Isayama goes overboard with killing off characters at the early moments such that I just expected the characters to die so in a way the reverse happened until an arc later

Abd778881121 said:
naaaaah....characters doesn't have to be funny to be funny to be interesting...and no characters are not bland they have there own personality and have deep character growth...and the world setting itself make the characters act like that... they're are just surviving....and this one of few few shows that doesn't have cliche anime character reaction nonsense...

TheGuiltMan said:


I’m pretty sure I made exactly the point you made it’s not really the characters that have good depth it’s their progression through the narrative that makes them interesting as the story progresses seeing the wear and tear of the characters makes them more interesting from a narrative standpoint they are boring af in season 1 I can not say that about other shows that have a season of anime also interesting characters don’t just mean generic or cliche

Akane Tsunemori from Psycho-Pass She starts off as your stereotypical naive, rookie cop. Psycho-Pass, she quickly matures into one of the best characters I've seen.

She realizes the system is unfair and tries to change it from the inside. Psycho Pass She demonstrates incredible emotional resilience, able to recover quickly from stressful situations and make level-headed decisions. It's clear she still feels emotions as strong as anyone, but she is able to control them in order to get the job done.

Her relationship with Kougami is complex to say the least. There is certainly an element of her that is attracted to the sexy bad boy that Kougami is. At the same time, she is not so lovestruck as to lose focus on her own goals and ideals. She respects him, but this doesn't mean she agrees with his way of doing things. She is also quite wary of what Kougami could become in his lust for revenge.

Interesting doesn’t mean generic I expected more insight from the characters in season 1 it mostly focuses on eren and saves a lot of character moments for later seasons while adding subtle foreshadowing really a lot of the development is in the last half of the series

aLotQuestion_ said:
It will goes down to hall of shame, like School Live! and Another.

Abd778881121 said:
your point just doesn't make sense.... how can there be a good narrative with bland characters....just bcs u dont like them doesn't mean it's bad character writing....