Even fuller credit to Theshortfulone on another Attack on Titan video for the comment:
Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) is an anime released this year. It's, on typical fashion, an adaptation of it's homonimous manga by Hajime Isayama.
In general, though mine is hardly the voice of deep experience, this show has an amazing production value. The animations are very fluid, well-done, and most characters are very well drawn. I could perhaps note (again, as a personal opinion, as I am unable to evaluate it in an experienced view) that minor characters are not particularly appealing design-wise. The soundtrack is powerful, especially the opening theme. It does support what is happening quite effectivelly, conveying the correct emotion for what's going on.
The plot, however, seems fenomenal thus far. I've refrained from reading the manga on purpose, to avoid losing interest in the anime, but from the brilliant debut (I cannot spoil, but the first episode is as far from calm as it gets, with very deep plot implications right off the bat) to the lastest episode, there seems to be little stopping to the flow.
In general, the plot is as follows: Humanity has been hit by a calamity known as the Titans, massive human-eating monstrosities bent on nothing but charging forward to anihilate every last one of us. Little to nothing is known about them. Humanity has been reduced to, essentially, a giant fortress surrounded by 3 walls; the deeper in, the higher society is, and the better the protection gets. A group of soldiers exit every now and than to attempt recon missions to actually find out exactly how they function. All that's been found thus far is that their weak spot is the back side of their necks; if that is not sliced down, they simply regenrate. To be able to beat them, a special suit is used to navigate through the air using terrain to one's advantage.
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The main character, Eren Jaeger, is a young boy who enlists the soldiers. His sidekicks, Mikasa and Armin, do so as well. They eventually will go up against the mighty Titans in humanity's desperate struggle.
I'm doing my best to avoid spoiling, as it is quite the complex world, and episode 1 is the kind of episode that usually turns up very close to the end of a series, but this is the gist of it.
Overall, the side-characters are the show's weakest point so far (which is episode 11 on the anime).
They do have some degree of personality, but not really all that much. This might change as the story progresses, though I actually do not seem to be bothered by this all that much. The general world created is interesting enough that I rather see how it develops than focus on the side stories of some no-name ranks. The main characters, however, are very strongly developped from episode 1 and keep this strength very powerfully throughout.
They do have some degree of personality, but not really all that much. This might change as the story progresses, though I actually do not seem to be bothered by this all that much. The general world created is interesting enough that I rather see how it develops than focus on the side stories of some no-name ranks. The main characters, however, are very strongly developped from episode 1 and keep this strength very powerfully throughout.
An interesting world, interesting main cast, and constant living on the edge cliffhangers keep interest rates very high. The general brutallity of the scenes is also quite high.
We'll see how it develops, since this strong start surelly seems quite the setting.
I will have sex with the bees and the eagles
ha ha ha ha ha potato pizza
ha ha ha ha ha potato pizza"
Oh, misheard lyrics.