It's seems this hype train decided to make another stop this summer.
Story: 6
Attack On Titan starts off very strong, the setting is very original and the story line is very unique. I think everyone will agree with me that episode 1 almost made you shit yourself with excitement and left you begging for more, then it all goes downhill. Then you get a couple of boring episodes of Eren + friends training and shitting around. The show keeps up this constant trend of interesting action episodes to boring explanation episodes. They never decide they need to explain what the fuck is going on, no explanation whatsoever. The only hint we get to how it's even possible for Eren to turn into a Titan is a shitty fragmented flashback of his dad talking about their basement. No one ever explains why these humans who can turn into Titans are trying to break the fucking wall down. After watching this show I decided to read the manga and get this, nothing has been explained. They just keep dancing around the fucking question, as if the explanation is supposed to be brilliant. If you want a storyline where barely any progress is made, I definitely recommend this for you.
Art: 10
Of course the art is gorgeous, it's one of the newest anime's of 2013. You actually give two shits about the art when you watch an anime then you'll love this one, but giving it a higher rating than something like Trigun because of the animation is idiotic. The animation in this show is created with the latest technology, this technology hasn't always been around.
Sound: 9
Other than the first five seconds of the opening song I don't really care to listen to it. It does what every anime with action in it does, use orchestral music, that always works. Anyways I subtract one point for unoriginal music choice and an only decent opening song (completely my opinion).
Character: 5
Probably what drags this anime down the most is the main character.
Eren: A typical shonen hero, thinks he can beat anything and he is very ambitious. We have a term for these kind of people, all bark and no bite. The whole anime is him getting his ass-kicked. But wait I forgot about that one moment where he transforms and beats up some titans on no! Thank God the plot was so convenient that Eren was eaten by a Titan and he awakened his own special powers while being digested by this oversized mentally handicapped humanoid. Like every other typical shonen heroes he is unique, he has some special power which makes him worth a damn. Since he couldn't kill Titans like a normal soldier he relies on his overpowered emotionless girlfriend(Yuno 2.0) to save him half the time or every other soldier to sacrifice them-self for him. His altogether uselessness shines when another intelligent titan comes, kicks the crap out of him and then captures him requiring Mikasa to come save him while teaming up with the badass emotionless OP Levi. Jesus, he even makes Armin look useful.
Enjoyment: 6
Had me really interested sometimes and then other times I was completely bored.
SAO was much more able to keep me consistently entertained.
Overall: 6.5
Meh, bandwagons just make it seem better than they actually are.
