So, what is the best and most amazing thing about the show?
Death of the characters.
Entire show basically runs of the initial shock factor built around psychical intimidation of the viewers by suggestive themes of gore, agony, despair and death. Most characters die horribly screaming and pissing their pants while being torn apart and eaten alive by giant monsters and show creators didn’t spared any expense in filling the show with this kind of scene to attract every kind of sadist weirdo anime community have to offer. Even though I cannot deny the fact they are very good in making suggestive scenes and psychically intimidating the viewer, but it’s not enough to make a show good if only thing authors do is to revel in top-end gore. It may be realistic, considering the real history of human race filled with wars, but it certainly isn’t entertaining or it shouldn't be.
In time, you stop to care about the death shows display as you are completely dulled just like the character they introduce late in the season. Suggestive scenes which shocked you first doesn’t mean anything to you any more as you stop being influenced by all that bloody carnage authors throw you again and again.
Apart of that, show doesn’t have anything to offer.
Story is nearly pointless. It doesn’t matter if you have titans, giants, zombies or tentacle monsters from outer space, only important thing is they kill people and you are probably expected to enjoy it. Story and setting serves only purpose and that is killing character.
How possible a medieval society built a walls higher than skyscrapers? Doesn’t matter, giants break in and kill people. Only weapon society created is steampunk spiderman gear with retractable blades? How this suppose to be realistic or effective? Don’t ask, most important thing is that things deliver characters to their early demise and you can enjoy their death in hands of ever hungry monsters. How come main characters are nearly immortal and superior fighters always out of the danger while lifespan of average fighter counts in split second? Not to mention that plot relevant question as origin of the titans or what is hidden in that basement are never answered as writers were obviously too busy to kill the side cast.
Character development? No, we will rather show you death of another random guy.
And if story really need to follow the [i]Everyone Dies[/i] scenario, why we have three main character who are nearly immortal or do take plot armor to the letter?
Well, because you need them around so story can show you … more side character deaths!
After an initial shock and raising a lot of question, it forgets about everything and undergoes a very strange pacing when they skip entire weeks of years just to show you … another side character death, another suffering, another viewer intimidation.
In the end, enjoyment of this story is near nil for a viewer who isn’t latent sadistic psychopath who revel is seeing death at least in animated form.
Story and plot losts itself at cca episode 2. Drama is there, but build only on suffering. Nothing nice even happen. Characters either die or are plainly annoying…
I went through the story to the end, hoping for either come conclusion or anwers which would give this massacre some meaning in the end, but it never came. While I must admit show had the potential in making me “expecting something” I have to say I would be best if I’d never watch the show.
