Why can't I bring myself to continue watching an anime that is lauded, praised and virtually worshipped by a mass of anime watchers? Well, its because I just found so utterly unoriginal, contrived and boring.
Attack on Titan is essentially an anime about zombies who mindlessly want to rip people to shreds and eat them for no reason whatsoever. (For those of you who try to tell me AoT is not about zombies: shut up. It came out during the era where zombies were a thing, and due to perfect timing it blew up and turned into a "worldwide phenomenon". )
Humanity lives in terror of these bizarre humanoid creatures until a bunch of generic teenagers - led by a rage driven Gary Stu who is really fucking annoying - come along with their anachronistic weapons in what looks like Renaissance era Germany. Still, nobody knows WHY these creatures exist! Which is probably why AoT is just SO thrilling.
(Oh, come off it, it's so obvious that they're a result of some Weapon X programme gone wrong. There is absolutely no subtlety to the show whatsoever. If you haven't figured out the basement is really a chamber for an evil scientist, right now, your intelligence must be lacking.)
I won't even talk about the characters because Eren is just insufferable and everyone else is like a piece of cardboard. Especially that Mikasa - all she does is look depressing into the distance whilst fighting Titans with the most nonchalant expression on her face. Ever.
The complete lack of originality that comes with AoT could be forgiven if it was at least executed in an enjoyable manner. But when Eren and his gang aren't slicing Titans to bits, they're spending needles screen time doing typical shounen exposition. They talk for what feels like hours in monotonous tones which is set to boring ass music that really just drills the brain in. The pacing of show also moves at the speed of a slug crawling up the Empire State Building, which suggests that AoT will run on for another 300 episodes before it finally gets somewhere. I mean why the fuck would you dedicate an episode to cleaning? All it does is waste time and bore me to fucking tears.
I just couldn't do it any more: the story was predictable, the characters lacking in flavour, and the pacing so freaking slow it almost cured my insomnia.
How this show has a such a high ranking is beyond me, but, hey, if you want to buy into this dumb-ass show who am I to stop you?
