So let me start off by saying I do like Attack On Titan I think the first few seasons are really good examples on the anime and manga medium but as we all know the most recent season dropped. Dropped hard. At first, I didn’t think there was much wrong with it just a little awkward CG and sort of weird audio mixing but other than that eh it was a decent start.
Then after the Attack On Marley episodes started airing, is when my problem soon started to rise. The Warhammer Titan. The animation of the Warhammer Titan is not good. Not good at all. Actually the titans in general are extremely poorly animated. Also just as a side note I really dislike the animation of the opening I just want something cool but let’s be real it was pretty lazy. The song is a fucking bop but the actual animation of it is really disappointing compared to literally any other AOT Opening. The animation overall is poor. It isn't good. While I understand the schedule and how unfortunate it is, but I am reviewing what I am seeing and what I am seeing is weird line work, sloppy movement, terrible fight scenes, and even bad character models. It is bad. Very bad.
The sound also really disappointing. Now let’s start off with the Soundtrack or the lack there of. There is literally just no good tracks besides from one they overused in the trailer. They don’t even utilise the best part of the song but they just overuse it for the sort of “ oh cool “ sort of stuff not the “HOLY SHIT” stuff. I remember screaming that at the reveal in AOT S2. The soundtrack was popping in my ears and it was just a good time. Though it’s not here that same feeling just isn’t here. Songs like ' You See Big Girl ' or other amazing tracks are barely used. Those are the tracks that personally get me going. They get me excited. Why am I not excited?
The story. Ok here is one of the problems with AOT itself. The story is a bit wonky. I feel 90% of the time AOT doesn’t know what it wants to be. Like it was a mystery survival horror which was what got me into the series then it wants to be a human vs human struggle which was fine. BUT NOW WE ARE STRAIGHT UP MILITARY STRUGGLE. Like damn. I think I just really miss the mystery of the show to be honest. Lets not even talk about the shit ass underuse of so many characters. Armin has literally done nothing all series besides from the last chapter it took him over 137 chapters to do something. Mikasa who had a fucking brand that we had no idea about no hint it was just there. That’s just fucking lazy. Plus she also does nothing but be like damn Eren for the whole series so cool. Levi. I like Levi but god damn I want him to do more cool shit. Eren is fine. All the side characters like Jean, Connie and others to me feel under-utilised as well who are just in and out of existence. A lot of characters just feel half baked.
Ok now the main reason why I wrote the original review the community. Now don’t get me wrong I can respect extremely passionate people about anime or manga, I am exactly like this with Berserk and I will not lie I have had arguments with people before over Berserk. However the overwhelming amount of Love and Hate this series gets is staggering. Look it’s not a life-changing masterpiece, but it is also not a extremely shit series with no substance. It is somewhere in between. Now I personally hate seeing ships in any series they just gross me out since it’s taking away from the source material of the story but when people ship Zeke and Levi or Eren it’s just annoying and gross man. There has been no indication of them having any sort of romance thing going on and it’s very fucking weird when people are into that shit. I don’t ship characters because I think it takes away from a lot of the stories because it is not what the original mangaka intended. Like shipping Griffith and Guts because of their backstories no. That’s not how it works. Plus the passionate some people put into the series is really off-putting and once again I am like this with Berserk to a fault but it is a lesson we need to learn. That while we love our anime and manga we need to just let people have their own opinion and if they are willing to discuss then discuss but if not just leave it you don’t need to validate your own opinion but changing someone’s else’s.
Overall AOT doesn’t deserve the immense amount of hate but it also doesn’t deserve the immense amount of love it is just somewhere in the middle. Be reasonable with your reviews folks it’s not 1 but it is definitely not 10. There are many problems within the story itself and with the fanbase but that is any anime to be fair. Thanks for reading.
