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It's alright for a one shot.

Maki and Inumaki aren't used the best as side characters.

Yuuta is a meh protagonist and is sometimes he's annoyingly overpowered.

There isn't much of a well constructed plot but what do you expect for a one shot?

The art is fine but I much prefer Gege's new art style over his old one.

... The fights are meh, they aren't choreographed in any way.

4/10


I don't want to write a longer review but Mal won't let me submit it, so I'm writing this,

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Probably one of the uncreative manga series I've read in a while. I can literally guess everything that's going to happen in every single chapter. The minute the MC turns into the weird godzilla form, you already know it's going to be one of those. I had the same critique for chainsaw man with the aot bullshit. It's the mangaka's excuse for why the mc is stronger than everybody else without the hard work. You know I will say a non teenage MC is nice to see and his goals are decent. He's boring but not complete garbage. Everyone else is the equivalent to cardboard.

The ... art is...good enough. It seems the like the mangaka doesn't have much interest in drawing backgrounds and isn't great at drawing poses so you'll usually just get a close up of everyone's face so they can avoid it. The character designs kinda suck, the only good one is the chick with pigtails who looks like a little girl. The monster designs look neat, thats probably the best thing art wise in the series. IDK how anyone can enjoy this whose watched or read more than 5 shounen series, but have fun tho.

Story: 1

Art: 6

Character: 3

Enjoyment: 2

Overall: 2

Surprisingly great.

I would say the first couple chapters of the manga (basically everything S1 covered) start off kinda messy, and incoherent and has the generic structure of most shounen. Mini arc, downtime, mini arc, then some more downtime. By far the weakest point of the series is the beginning.

I guess the best part of Jujutsu Kaisen is that though concept wise, very uncreative, the way it goes about these concepts makes it much more enjoyable than most shounen. I like how the villains are handled instead of the old *shounen protagonist defeats bad guy, here's an even stronger bad guy they have to ... defeat!*. I love how all the characters are interesting in their own right instead of trying to give them sad complexing backstories in attempt to make them deep. I love Itadori as a protagonist. The whole *evil entity possessing the main character* concept isn't new. Usually most mangas/animes that use this trope will use it as a power up for the MC and the only negatives to this possesion is that maybe the entity hurts some of the MCs friends or whatever and the MC feels bad about it for a short period time. Jujutsu Kaisen goes full force with this trope making it a complete basis on the entire story, other character's morality and Itadori's depth. The amount of damage this evil entity does VERY extreme, not just oops I got my best friend hurt "boo hoo". I also love how Gege (the mangaka) was able to do the "special like no other" main character trope that wasn't just the main character being stronger than everybody else or *shivers* "the underdog". Thank god this isn't just another power fanatasy shounen.

Also, action shounen manga with ZERO fanservice, humor that doesn't rely on unfunny boob jokes and terrible female characters??? Wow I've set the bar real low here. I love Megumi and Nobara and I know damn well they're not even completely fleshed out yet based on what's going to happen in the next arc. I like how the characters feel like that they have a lot of plot armor. Main characters get severly injured, main characters die. I can actually worry about them for once. I'm not sure why this is rated so low compared to stuff like Chainsaw man (which I think is a much weaker manga), probably because most people haven't reviewed past the craziness of the shibuya incident arc and it's not as popular. If this seems generic based on the first couple chapters, but please continue reading. It's one hell of a ride.

The art is is very skillful. I like how Gege is able to simplify anatomy. People may look at it and think it's bad drawing but it's extremely hard to do more geometrical drawings while making the anatomy look accurate. Gege is also really good a drawing hands. They'll be panels of them just showing off. The fight scenes are always great, dynamic poses and easy to follow whilst feeling urgent through the sketchiness and roughness of the artsyle. The backgrounds are very good and doesn't have characters walking about in white voids causing the reader to have no sense of having a setting or feeling grounded. The character design is great, the mangaka doesn't need to do the "5 DIFFERENT HAIRCOLORS THIS, CRAZY CLOTHES THAT" to make the character designs feel unique.

Props to this manga for doing the copy paste shounen story but actually doing it right.


Art: 9

Characters: 8.5

Story: 7.5 - 8

Enjoyment: 8.5

Overall: 8.5/10

I mean it's whatever.

Some of the episodes just feel like filler. Adding a load of new stale characters to your already stale cast was a bad move. Falco is hella boring and reminds me of a typical anime of the season protagonist and he likes Gabi for literally no reason. Gabi, though kinda one note has at least something going for her. Eren bores the hell out of me. He starts talking poetic nonsense as if his ideas are extremely complex and philosophical when they're really just straight forward "Everyone bad. Kill". The choreography is really bad. AOT fans get mad when people start ... criticizing the animation, but this is an action show that has amazing fight scenes under its belt. Yes I'm going to complain about the animation. The cgi is integrated well but it sometimes looks goofy, it's going to age really badly. *Spoilers* Sasha dies and everyone makes a big deal about it. She was barely developed. I like her but it's not like we lost anything important. Can't you guys see Isayama just remembered "oh yeah I gotta kill another undeveloped squad memeber so everyone thinks my show is brutal to it's characters" and then allows his more favorited cast to have infinite plot armor. Reiner is the best thing in the show. Zeke has potential but they're not doing anything with him. Eren's overrated.

(Also random side note, do you guys seriously think this is going to beat FMAB? Im not a fan or anything but you do realize scores, especially with popular anime significant drop over time *stares at kimi no wa* Don't be surprised when it's underneath Gintama in a year).

Anyways

Story: 4/10:
I'm sort of sick of the whole "muh grey area, all sides are bad" thing for the billionth time with nothing to it.

Art: 5/10:
Bad survey corps fight scenes, passable titan fight scenes, casual animation is okay (I think I've been spoiled by wonder eggs priority animation).

Sound: 6/10
yeah whatever, nothing amazing.

Characters: 4/10
Stop adding new characters and giving them air time.

Enjoyment: 3/10
I liked the other seasons more even though I wasn't the biggest fan.

OVERALL: 4/10

Everything that happened between Season 3 and Season 4 needs to get sorted out, give me another flashback or something because it's really confusing.

People call this creative but it's the same old reskinned shounen story. Im guessing people find the chainsaw part creative which it is but the concept is just Devil man, aot, boy turns into strong monster ability all over again. The story is just the same old organization of people featuring a bunch of teenagers who fight some sort of race of supernatural monsters except its edgier.

I don't like any of the characters. Denji's little gimmick of touching boobs gets annoying really quick, I also find boob jokes to be unfunny and immature. Denji beats everyone just cause (ah yes, another bullshit power fantasy). ... People claim Denjis character is relatable, I can somewhat see that until you reach the part where Denji would risk his life for some boobs. If you find that relatable and not pathetic, then I hope you have enough money to buy yourself a prostitute. Denji's recklessness over boobs would be fine if the mangaka stop trying to take their series so seriously, you can't do both.

Aki is the billionth, edgy sidekick who hates the MC after barely talking to them until the MC does something cool and earns the edgy sidekick character's respect. Can we please retire the SasukeGrayTodoroki ultra sad back story characters. Power is something a 13 year old boy would come up with, whose personality is killing and blood in an attempt to be edgy. Makima is boring and there's definitely not something up with her. She won't possibly turn out to be some sort of antagonist, no way! I think the mangaka was trying to give her a "Johan" feel (Johan from Monster) except he only used the personality of Johan for Makima and zero depth.

I don't find the comedy to be funny because a lot of the punch lines are haha sex. I guess people can get caught up in the gore and character designs and immediately think this manga is amazing but rarely think about the writing. The pacing is ultra speed so it's hard to get invested to the "story" because shit just happens (yeah, I think that's the best way to sum up chainsaw man, shit happens) you don't feel any connection to the characters or plot whatsoever. The art is okay, (IDK why ya'll are raving about, I'm pretty sure most of ya'll are just confusing liking an art style and actual skill) Power's design is way too similar to zero twos for her own good, the anatomy gets a little iffy (everyone's always stiff af, like they're smiling for the camera. This is especially noticeable in the fight scenes when everyone is just in some generic pose) literally all the characters have the same face (The only differences are the pupils lol) and the paneling/composition can sometimes suck.

I recommend Dorohedoro, it's a lot more creative, has more interesting characters. The art may not be the best but it's great for gore fans since ya'll seem to love that stuff. Damn if I wrote a story and all I had to do was write a gore fest and sex jokes for everyone to think my stuff was amazing, I'd take it. Anyways 3/10.

Haha, yet another example of all beauty with no substance,

Your Name is quite a mess of a movie, random things unexplained, plot holes, stale characters, the list goes on.

The best words to describe this movie is, anti-climatic. Every impactful moment involving Taki and Mitsuha feels like absolutely nothing to me because their situation involves 0 personal interaction causing me to be in disbelief on how they fell in love. I understand you care about him but I just don't get why? This would have been easily done better if it was just a friendship instead of biting of more than you can chew ... and making it a romance. But since it's a girl and a guy, you can't have that. The romance is just completely unbelievable to me. I'm not sure how anyone actually thinks 2 people can fall in love like that. They had 0 chemistry, the writers just sorta, shoved them together. It makes more sense for them to care about their friends and family more than each other because those are the people they actually interacted with.

The characters are quite flat and so are their relationships, you don't get much of their outside relationships except for meaningless interactions between other characters. The only characters who didn't suffer from this issue were Mitsuha's friends and that one chic Taki has a crush on, but even her character was barely meaningful to the story or her relationship with Taki. Taki's dad was just forgotten about and so were Mitsuha's other friends. I'm not sure why they added all these characters to barely do anything with them. From Taki's side, it seems like they were going to do something with these side characters but nope. You could have left them as just a snapshot of Taki's relationships and outside life, no need for them to get so close to the plot. I could understand the abundance of out of place characters if they did something to develop the main characters but no, they just took a back seat and nothing else for most of the movie.

Mitsuha's family were severely underused, and we don't get much of Mitsuha's relationship with her father so I don't care when she eventually stands up to him. Grandma and Sister are there...yeah. Mitsuha's friend were kinda cool tho, they actually did something and interacted with the main characters.

There's just too many things this movie wanted to do involving relationships, Taki's relationship with the hot chick was just there I guess, his 2 friends were there I guess. Mitsuha's relationship with her grandma and sister were there and her relationship with her dad was there too, barely. At this point, just drop all these relationships since you want to focus on the main 2 characters so damn bad, you can't do both.

Taki is just the boring default protagonist that every person that identifies as a man can relate to. It's getting old. This character is a virgin who can be slightly anxious sometimes but can also can solve everyone's problems because they're the heroin. Taki stays completely static through out the entire movie, no change, no character development. He's boring to say the least. Mitsuha is slightly better written, she's your basic cute timid girl than any boy could fall for. She has character development [if you squint really hard] involving her dad which was sadly, once again, barely touched on.

There are a lot of plot holes and unexplained plot points throughout this movie. First of all, you're telling me Matsuhi, nor Taki were aware of the dates?? Like, did Matsuhi not check Taki's phone and saw a different date than she was aware of. Did Taki never write the date on his homework while in Matsuhi's body? What are these random amnesia moments they keep having. Hello? This just seems like they did it as a plot device to raise the stakes. How come Matsuhi drinking homegirl's spit gave him some visions? We're just gonna pass this off as magic spit necessary to get the plot going? yes? okay. How did they switch bodies while still awake. I thought they could only did it when they fell alseep, that's how the story set it up as. You have to have a set of rules involving magical supernatural situations like this, it keeps the story grounded. You can't have random sh1t just happen for no reason, this just makes it so that anything is possible, reducing the stakes.

The climax of the story was quite anti-climatic. They just sorta did a 360 and finally decided to reveal the obviously coming major plot point. I feel like they should have left clues showing the viewer something was off, building up to the reveal instead of just saying "OMg she was dead from the start. wild! Isn't that CRAZYYYYYY" like we're 5, There's a load of missed opportunities to improve the storytelling in general.

The animation was disappointing to say the least, yes it's pretty but the animation itself is boring. Take this for example, loads of recent disney movies have these gorgeous hyperrealistic backgrounds, but... it's boring. Now take Spiderman Into- the Spiderverse. The backgrounds are more inventive, different, interesting, creative. It just has more personality, it's own feel. Your Name just looks nice, that's it, ya know? The way characters move are boring too, the only thing I'll praise it for is how they show Mitsuha's more feminine mannerism through Taki's body. I thought that was pretty cool. Everything else, meh. Oh and there's the red string, super deep right? Never seen that before.

Story: 3
Art: 8
Sound: 7 [the score was really basic]
Characters: 1
Enjoyment:: 2

Overall: 2

I made a review on this a couple months ago. I realized how garbage it was and decided to make a new review. I've actually watched 16/26 eps, ignore what mal says.

Let's start with the story. It's a typical shounen story. Tanjiro's family dies [which I coudn't care less because they were on screen for like 2 minutes], his surviving sister becomes a demon. Now Tanjiro must find a way to cure his sister. Okay not bad, there's a lot you can do with this. Tanjiro decides to become demon slayer, basically the reskinned Ninja, Hero, Hunter, mage, etc. Alright, getting a little cliche but ... not bad.

The world building is a bit iffy, how does Tanjiro no believe a demons. There's an entire police force dedicated to fighting them. People get killed by demon all the time. TANJIRO MEETS A DEMON SLAYER. But he still doesn't believe in demons, aight.

Tanjiro starts to train but it holds 0 emotional weight because they speed through it. Some might say, oh but it's different then most shounen training arcs because it didn't take a 1000 eps. Just because something's different doesn't make it good. We don't see any of the techniques tanjiro learns so the first time we're in a fight, it's not grounded. Tanjiro could pull anything out of his as$ and win to fight because we don't know any of the techniques he's learned. Oh an tanjiro can talk to these 2 specific ghost for some reason.

We then learn Nezuko was sleeping the entire time Tanjiro was training which again, leaves no emotional weight since we only found out after Tanjiro finished training. We find out Nezuko was hypnotized to think humans good, demons bad...okay???? how does that work, how did the old man hypnotize her. Why couldn't it just be the love for her family keeping her from harming humans. If she was un-hypnotized she'd kill humans right? So her entire relationship between her and other humans feels fake. It would be better suited with the themes of family if it was her own restraint on herself for the sake of her brother.

Anyways Tanjiro kills some demon blah blah blah, don't care. Tanjiro takes a Demon Slayer test that wasn't very creatively designed. It's just "fight demon, who survive get license". Tanjiro later meets a nurse demon chick who says she can cure her sister using the 12 demon moons blood I believe (correct me If I'm wrong). Alright, we set up a structure, kill all the demon moons, collect their blood, cure sister. Okay now the story's grounded now we can- just kidding, later in the story Muzan kills almost all the 12 demon moons. What was the point of setting that up. To subvert expectations? Again, different doesn't mean good. Tanjiro fights fake demon moon and later goes into this town and finds muzan AND TOUCHES HIM. WHAT?! He touches the big final boss and were not even half way into the first season. Now the villain just feels anti-climatic due to the writer allowing Tanjiro to get so close to him so quickly. Then the villain just turns some random guy into a demon right in public in front of Tanjiro with no care in the world. WHY would he do that? He's risking his human persona, he has a whole family! [also are we not going to address the fact Muzan's daughter is half demon and half human?] This just feels like the writer needed a way for Tanjiro to confirm Muzan is the guy he's after so she just writes in Muzan making a dumb decision.

A little while later, Tanjiro befriends Inosuke and Zenitsu. I'm going to take this time to talk about the characters. Jesus christ I hate Zenitsu. All Zenitsu does is cry, scream, sexually harass women and suddenly become an amazing fighter when the plot needs him too. Inosuke is fun but there nothing much to his character except for the gag of him being pretty boy and head butting everything. Nezuko is a severely underused and an underdeveloped character. She's like a pretty decoration whilst being extremely essential. The writer never fleshed out her relationship with her brother, and she's constantly subjected to the box. She's just cute anime girl, cinnamon roll, smol bean bait.

Neuzko is extremely important to the plot, everything relies on her. This causes Nezuko to never have any real stakes because if she were to die, everything falls apart. If she were in a fight, nothing matters because you'll know she'll turn out fine. If she gets hurt, she'll just sleep it off. The viewer never haves to worry about her. Tanjiro's boring af. He's nice. That's it, he's nice and kind and likes his sister.

Now moving on, Tanjiro goes into this haunted house, I actually really enjoyed this mini arc. The villain was cool, the house was cool. The only thing I didn't enjoy was Zenitsu's unfunny antics. After that Tanjiro and co. goes off the fight spider family. This is the part where I dropped the show because I literally couldn't take Zenitsu anymore and I didn't feel the story was good enough to balance my hatred for crying yellow man.

I have no intention of continuing the anime, I don't care about hyped up episode 19, fights don't do it for me anyways. All this show is beauty with no substance. I can guarantee if the animation wasn't so stellar, this show wouldn't be where it is now. It's a medicore story. The manga's score use to be rated a 7.46, this just goes to show nothing about the story was worth over an 8.0, the animation carried the entire thing. Did the hype ruin it for me? Maybe, I never really had my expectations high for shounen battle anime because usually the only reason it's hyped is because of its fights.

If you believe I only dislike the show because it's popular please go cry about it. You can't excuse criticism for show with "oh you just hate it because it's popular". My favorite shows are literally Death Note, Cowboy Bebop and Hunter x Hunter, I'm not some hipster. I have no reason to hate on Mainstream. Anyways, here are my scores:

Story: 3
Art: 9
Sound: 8
Characer: 1
Enjoyment: 3

Overall: 3

Let's start with the world-building. Most of the world's population has received quirks, since the story is a set in a world similar to our own, how the hell hasn't society completely collapsed???? I know this is fiction but if you're going to make everything in the real world and the MHA world the same except with superheroes, you gotta be somewhat realistic on how society functions when 80% of the world now has superpowers.

Now let's get to One for All. The thing with Deku's power is that it feels too convenient. Of course Deku gets the super ... ultra amazing special ability that no one else has when he just so happens to really want to be a superhero. I know some people wanted Deku to fight villains without any powers which would be cool since it would be more meaningful to the story, but wouldn't work due to the power scaling of the show. I think it would have been nicer if Deku received a normal power that maybe wasn't super powerful, not some super secret awesome ability like no other power. It would honestly fit better with the themes and would cure the show from "super special main character" syndrome. Honestly, Deku having a normal power would make the show seem more inspiring and less of a power fantasy.

(Also whats with everyone acting like All Might's powers are a big secret, it obviously has something to do with enhanced human ability, he has super strength or something lmao)

The characters are bad. They're all stale one note pieces of cardboard. Deku is your classic shounen protagonist with the the classic goal of "I wanna be the best [insert] ever", at least he's hot-headed. The show acts like Deku is an amazing selfless brave hero when he does the bare minimum. All Might spends ages trying to find a successor for "one for all" and the person he finally finds and who he believes is worthy is some kid with a death wish and no powers who tried to save someone from a villain. The standards are really high on this one. Bakugo is the original childhood friend turned bully. Uraraka is the female protagonist only existing for the purposes of a romantic subplot. All Might is dying superman, Everyone else doesn't matter. Maybe the show will figure out what to do with the characters later on.

The show doesn't know how to handle a lot of characters. Sure you can have a lot of characters without making every single one of them deep and meaningful, Hunter x Hunter did that. But the difference between hunter x hunter and MHA is that the show puts focus away from the main characters in order the let the abundance of side character to shine. MHA wants to put focus on the main 4 constantly (Deku, Bakugo, Uraraka, All Might) while also wanting a load of side characters. MHA needs to learn how to balance.

*Spoilers ahead*

Every episode is just class 1A dilly dallying consisting of test, Deku's monologues and Bakugo drama. All of this leads up to the final fight. Oh what a mess this was. Because this is a shounen, of course it leads to a final big fight. Due to the show not knowing what it's doing, without any build up it just places a fight out of nowhere at the end of the season because shounen. A couple of villains break in to UA because of course they do and go to a training dome thing because that's where the main characters are. There's a lot of convenient situations that just happen so it would be easier for the mangaka to write. The villains are trash, their motivations are surface level, they are non threatening, shown by being defeated easily by a couple of teenagers in training.

What I will praise the show for is it's unique and amazing character designs and the fun art style. The animation isn't inventive but it's classic good shounen animation, nothing wrong with that.

Story: 3
Art: 8
Sound: 8
Characters: 2
Enjoyment: 4

Overall: 5

My Hero Academia is fine I guess.

The amazing concept blinds the readers with its poor writing decisions, unoriginality and cliches. This review is just a loose writing of my complaints for AOT



****SPOILERS AHEAD****



Let's start off with the characters. The characters are probably one of the biggest problems with the manga. They're bland, 2 dimensional, uninteresting. Giving your character a somewhat sad backstory isn't the same as giving your character are dept. Characters fall into basic archetypes and barely grow (except for Eren) I wouldn't even care if Mikasa or Armin, the 2 main characters died. That should say a lot. There are some interesting well written characters such as Zeke and ... Ymir, but I couldn't say the same for the rest.

The antagonist have so much plot armor for no reason except for Isayama needing them for the story a little longer. How do you screw up not killing a vulnerable, defenseless enemy 5 TIMES! "wE nEeD tO kEeP tHeM aLiVe bEcAuSe ThEy MigHt hAvE iMpOrtAnT iNfoRmaTiON" How about we quit trying gain information after the second time we miss the opportunity to kill the enemy in the same arc! It's infuriating. You can't screw up that many times, it's looses it's believability.

Now let's talk about the poor writing decisions. When Eren and Co. finally reached the basement and read the journals, I was so disappointed on how the information about the titans was revealed. The manga decided to drop an entire history lesson and backstory and moved on like it was nothing. It was so out of place and out of nowhere. There was absolutely no build up, the manga just said "yeah, here's the twist, where going to take the story in this direction now". They pulled all of that information out of thin air! I'm not sure if the writers know how to handle a lot of exposition. The only way they know how to do it is by explaining everything in one go, like a textbook. The "twist" felt like it was handed to me on a silver platter. The reveal was suppose to be big and make the reader's jaw drop, but for me having so much information revealed all in one go made it feel very anti-climatic. The unknown keeps me invested in a story. Honestly I don't care anymore, I read the manga to find out more, and since I know everything now, there's no point. The story is just morality garbage, no mystery, no nothing. it annoys me that they explained every single nook and cranny of the aot universe all at once.

Also what's the deal with the memories Eren received by touching Historia's hand? Why? WHY? Magic that's why. But why then? why not before?? Why those specific memories?? This is just lazy, you can't just throw in magic to explain stuff when you need them to. Adding magic to your story is extremely hard, you need to know how to regulate and establish its rules, you CAN NOT just use magic as an excuse for weird situations, it's bad writing. Isayama likes to add some weird magic abilities and little rules whenever he needs to and it's the most annoying thing. The magic is so loose and so flexible that at this point, anythings a possibility causing the aot universe lose it's ground.

The holocaust references were done pretty sloppily as well. Eldians are essentially suppose to be jewish people but of course they're not normal humans. They have a fundamental difference to the marleyans. Jewish people do not, have any fundamental difference, they're just as normal as everyone else. The Eldians also use to rule above the marleyans. Jews were never the oppressors. I'm not sure what Isayama is trying to say or do here, but he's probably not doing it right. edit: (okay so it turns out the guy is a whole Japanese imperialist, yikes)

The paradise arc was such disappointment. The manga chose to do the "THE GOOD GUYS WERE THE BAD GUYS ALL ALONG!!!" twist, or more specifically, "humans were the real villains", which is one of the most overused plot twist in any form of media. It's so overused that I guessed it would go down that road while watching the first season of attack on titan. The writers tried to do the philosophy of human cruelty but fall flat on their faces. It's so surface level and shallow. There's nothing deep about "humans bad". That's like saying "racism bad". It does absolutely nothing new on showing the cruelty of humans. To be honest, hunter x hunter did it better during the chimera ant arc. By showing the hypocrisy of humans, and putting them in the perspective of the animals and how we treat them. Reading that arc, you were able to realize how ridiculously terrible humans can be. It doesn't spell it out for you like attack on titan does.

I hear a lot of people claim how Eren is one of the best written MCs of all time. I have to laugh, does a character being an anti-hero make them a good MC? During the paradise arc, people love to exclaim how deep and morally gray Eren due to him originally being anti-titan but now anti-human. Eren's entire thing now is "humans bad". That's so incredibly boring and not whatsoever deep. A character being an anti-hero does not suddenly make them morally gray. Eren is just a black a white character. There are some conflicting feelings (which are honestly the bare minimum) about how individually humans aren't bad but that's about all the depth you're gonna get from Eren's philosophy. Nothing new, nothing special. (I'm also not a fan of the once naive main character suddenly becomes an edge trope)

Let's compare Eren's simplistic philosophy to another character's simplistic philosophy, Light Yagami. I enjoyed Light's character more due to the writers treating him as insane, the reader is suppose to think Light is basically crazy, his simplistic perspective is the entire point. On the other hand, the writers for AOT treat Eren's perspective as enlightened. Eren acts like he just solved the secrets of the universe by understanding humans can do bad things too, making him a whole lot less enjoyable of a character.

The art is.... not for everyone, Some of the character are drawn in awkward positions and facial expressions are limited.

There's some romance in them manga which is extremely forced and done poorly [especially that Armin and annie non-sense]. (I'm convinced shounen writers have forgoten how to write relationships)

Armin couldn't have developed romantic feelings for a girl who couldn't even move or speak, so the explanation is he received his feelings from bertholdt. That's the fakest thing I've ever heard, Armin's feelings don't even come from himself. Does that mean Eren could have been given romantic feelings for his mother????? I feel like Isayama wrote this in so he could have another hetero romantic subplot.

Also why does Eren's titan look different? Is there any reason or is it that Isayama wanted to make Eren a little scarier or something. This must be another situation of throwing random elements with no explanation, or if there is an explanation, it's magic.

Isayama definitely knew where he wanted to take the story, it's just his execution was poor. Season 4 is coming soon and I'm prepared for its mediocrity to shoot to the top of my anime list surpassing Fullmetal with a score of a 10 due to the fanboys thinking it's the best thing since sliced bread, blinded by flashy fight scenes.

Though it has problems, the manga is definitely entertaining, I recommend this to people who are new to manga/anime.

I would have given this show a lower score if it wasn't for Phosphophyllite's development. Phosphophyllite was seemingly your typical energetic, innocent and quirky protagonist. Luckily her development had her stand out from the Atsuko Kagari's of the anime world. The lack of knowledge of the lunarians adds a sense of horror and mystery to the creatures. I thought the aspect of losing your memory when a gem loss of piece of themselves was dumb and added no sense of weight or fear when that occurred. Finding out that information felt very anti-climatic but after seeing Phosphophyllite's personality do a whole 360, my feelings on ... that info definitely changed.

The animation in the show is downright gorgeous. This is 3d anime done right! This is one of the few animes were I actaully get excited for fight scenes. The show uses them sparingly making them making the viewer more eager to watch them. Fight scenes, especially in shounen anime have become very boring and overdone. Seeing anime boys fling their swords around can get dull overtime. Who knew abusing the camera angles can make fight scenes so much more engaging.

Though the anime ended on a cliffhanger and probably won't have a season 2, it still felt very satisfying. I wish people could pause their hyped up seasonal shounen and watch something new and refreshing.