STORY- 7/10
The premise of this story is great: Titans have taken over the earth and humanity has been besieged with only three massive walls as protection. Suddenly one of the is breached and humanity is forced to retreat under constant threat of the other two being destroyed as well. Loved it. Did have some pacing issues (as in a lot), but that doesn't really bother me a lot. After the Battle of Trost, stuff does slow down for a while, which I didn't like, but you can't make everyone happy can you.
ART- 9/10
While at times I did feel that the art seemed kinda old (mostly when Mikasa and Armin were talking in Trost), the 3DMG scenes easily made up for it, with beautiful POV's of the user grappling from building to building, taking no fall damage at all as they skidded across the floor (even though in the OVA Armin broke both of his legs while walking up stairs). One of the best points of the show, only to be overtaken by the next category.
SOUND- 10/10
Hiroyuki Sawano is a master of creating soundtracks that make you feel hopeless one moment, to ready to kill Titans and absolutely annihilate the crap out of those goddamn Titans. No OST that I've ever listened to has even come close to the masterpiece that is Attack on Titan's soundtrack. Honorable mentions to the tracks Vogel Im Kafig, the Reluctant Heroes, and XL-TT as three of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. And of course, the openings are unforgettable. Guren no Yumiya is the first opening I've heard that I never skipped once hearing it, and is currently the second most popular anime opening on Youtube (after Tokyo Ghoul's Unravel, another masterpiece). Jiyuu no Tsubasa wasn't as good as Guren no Yumiya, but still did it's job and far outclassed the latter in its full version. The voice acting was also excellent, although if you don't like Eren's screaming, then you might not agree with me.
CHARACTER- 5/10
Definitely the lowest part of the show. While the manga definitely develops the characters more, the fact remains that while the anime could have easily done so, it simply did not due to its source material saving the character development for later on in the series, which, unfortunately, did not make it in time to be part of the anime. So many minor characters that get developed in the manga but not the anime that we hardly care about; the only sides that we really care about are probably Levi, Jean, and Petra, and for good reason.
ENJOYMENT- 10/10
While this show has its flaws, remember that this is my opinion on the show and what I thought of it. At heart, I guess I'm not that much different from the fanboys, but I thoroughly enjoyed every single minute of this show, even with its flaws. Amazing action scenes, soundtrack, memorable characters (the ones that got developed), I absolutely loved it.
OVERALL- 8/10
Unfortunately (for me at least), the show was not near perfection to everyone, and the fact remains that the pacing and characters could have been much better. While the anime is not finished, a lot more could've been done to make everything BETTER. Given that it is an adaption of a manga series and that it can't really do that, I guess Wit Studio tried its best to reduce the pacing issues as much as possible (honorable mention to Episode 22, which is partially filler, but still excellent, and I even thought it was from the manga due to how realistic it was). Recommend to all anime fans (except maybe those who get attached to red-shirts).
