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-title = "Attack on Titan (2013-2023)"
-author = ["MichaƂ Sapka"]
-date = 2024-06-09T17:10:00+02:00
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-abstract = "My review of the anime"
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-_Attack on Titan_ may very well be the defining anime of this decade.
-It started as a huge hit, then it faded into obscurity, just to return with a huge bang and end with huge disappointment.
-
-The premise is quite interesting:
-pre-industrial age; humanity is close to extension, locked behind gigantic walls.
-Outside lives the biggest threat man has ever faced - Titans.
-Race of gigantic, humanoid beasts whose only purpose in life is to attack and devour humans.
-We meet our main heroes - Eren, Mikasa, and Armin, just before the Titans breach one of the walls.
-
-The following 4 seasons differ in quality.
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-The first one is interesting, but suffers from terrible narration where we are constantly interrupted by internal monologues.
-We either learn what we already know, or random ideas are thrown at us.
-The second one has no idea what it wants to be, and this is where viewership dropped sharply.
-Then came the third one.
-It seems to continue to downward trend from s2, but halfway through everything changes.
-Without spoiling anything, _AoT_ stops being dumb fun and seems to become an intelligent commentary on human condition.
-Before that, I was watching the series because I had nothing better to do.
-After _this_ scene I instantly became invested and shocked.
-Then the fourth came out, developing on what made the third great.
-I was close to calling this a great series, but unfortunately it's all thrown out the window with the 2.5 hours long finale, which is almost entirerly one, long fight.
-So much potential, such great buildup.
-All wasted in the name of a boring action scene.
-I don't remember when was the last time I felt so betrayed.
-
-The great part of _AoT_ takes a lot from history and great fiction like Dune.
-We're seeing great idea one after another.
-The story is full of interesting twists.
-By the end, it's all meaningless.
-
-{{< rating 3.5 "attack-on-titan.jpg" >}}
-Cover
-{{< /rating >}}
-
-Story-wise, the only two redeeming qualities of this series are personal journeys of Eren and Gabi (introduced in S4).
-Only their stories interest me.
-Not that there is anything bad about the rest of the characters, they are ok[^fn:1].
-Run-of-the-mill anime characters.
-
-Yes, the series looks and sound pretty.
-It's full of nicely animated action scenes.
-But I can't stop comparing it to _Evangelion_.
-
-Both series start cool, but are not memorable.
-Then they develop into marvels, pure greatest.
-But _NGE_ never stopped being great.
-After it gained actual meat, it developed it culminating in the greatest movie I've ever experienced.
-Full of story, drama, meaning, and emotions.
-
-_AoT_ ends in _Iron Man 3_ - a prolonged, boring fight scene.
-
-And while the scenes shown during end credits return the series on its track, it changes nothing.
-They nicely connect and develop the great ideas behind the _golden era of AoT_, but they should not be the one good part!
-The ending should be it, as the way it happened is I wasted 2.5 hours filled with boredom.
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-_AoT_ could have been great, but it is not.
-It's an ok action series with huge unresolved ambitions.
-If it was just a dumb action show, then ok - I would have some fun, then forget it.
-It would fail in comparison of other shows we see now, like Jujtsu Kaisen, but it would be very much ok.
-Unfortunately with added ambition, it ends in a huge disappointment.
-
-It was very close, everything was going great.
-And then it hits a wall.
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-[^fn:1]: Except of Armin who single handely ruins the first few seasons.
- He is the character who is able to calculate probability to 4 decimal places.
- I see this kind of characters all around modern anime, and every time I have to roll my eyes.
- Remember how _Big Bang Theory_ was often describes at how "dumb people think smart people are"?
- Yeah, that's Armin.
- The same kind of bullshit ruined shows like Kaji or Code Geass for me.