Nov 8, 2014
Since the hype about Shingeki no Kyojin is rather hard to escape my girlfriend decided to watch it, and so I watched along. We watched it in one go.
And to be honest it wasn't really worth the time for me and not for her either.
I partially understand what people may find awesome about this anime but all the things that felt over dramatized, unrealistic or outright stupid simply outweighed the good points for me.
Story: The story of Shingeki no Kyojin is at least rather unique and it does a lot of things right. It's not really easy to predict and it keeps luring with questions
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and raises the desire to know what's going on. Having it end in a titanical cliffhanger that feels like the whole 25 episodes were just a small beginning is not so cool though.
Art & Sound are both very good, I got nothing to complain about here.
Character though... Shingeki no Kyojin has some nice character development, and I liked how they built up a real story for most characters, with a proper past and a nice way of presenting things piece for piece to try and keep things interesting.
However Shingeki no Kyojin felt like it really chewed through every last totally overused cliche of people fucking up absolutely everything constantly. Up to the point where it felt like however evil and overpowered the titans are, the biggest enemy throughout the anime were people who failed at everything they touched, and not because the titans were oh so strong, but rather because they were oh so darn stupid.
After just 7 episodes or so I could pretty much predict every upcoming death as in: "Well, since no one get's his job done properly anyway, there is no way this operation is going to go well without all the really important people dying." and every single time I was proven right. And just watching a bunch of people fail predictably and horribly for several episodes on end just trying to get one single thing done is really no fun for me.
So all in all it was rather hard for me to enjoy watching this, as it mostly frustrated me.
Mind you though, for people that love to have protagonists failing around all the time and just barely winning by pure luck or getting their shit together in the absolutely very last second (after half the cast died of course) Shingeki no Kyojin may actually prove to be really fun to watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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