If you've been around awhile you've probably seen this before.
Every couple of years an anime/manga comes out of nowhere and is the Greatest Thing Ever. This goes back at least to Neon Genesis Evangelion in otaku culture through Fullmetal Alchemist or Death Note, and can be seen with say HBO series. A Cyclical Trope of culture, those occasional Great Shows combining critical and popular acclaim. I guarantee every single one of them has hyperbolic exclamations of being better then sliced bread and being "overrated". Which is it?
Well a more reasonable person might realize that taking mindbogglingly awesome as a benchmark for success is utterly foolish. Likewise other people experiencing that shouldn't be held against a show. Fans are terrible people, especially you. We all know you have a favorite you do the same thing for.
And on that account Attack on Titan has some warts of course but does it deserve the hype... yeah actually it does.
As much as anything ever will anyways.
I came to the show mostly to kill some time, having no interest in it. Yet as a watched it still managed to put a grappling hook in me. Probably from a solid cast of likable characters, mostly not named Eren who btw is psycho. Supported by the ongoing mysteries being revealed just right keeping you guessing, interested, and giving some epic replay value to the story. I've seen a lot of this before whether its the Big O or Nausicaa but I haven't seen it in awhile or quite this way so its very interesting seeing what tropes this will end up with.
That's not to say there aren't problems here or there. You can nitpick anything if you really try of course. I think worst though is that this series takes awhile to Grow Its Beard. I know exactly where too. By the time of the Spoon Scene I was fed up with "Eren on Trial", but from once everyone drops the Idiot Ball at the end of that, the beard grows in thick. And people stop being stupid.
Unfortunately this does happen fairly late in the anime which can warp opinion. I can only recommend going to the manga, where the art alone should make clear Hajime Isayama was still very much working things out. And there is so much more going on after the anime ends. And that makes second viewings far more interesting.
Ignoring Hype... Still a Great Yarn. And Read the Manga, Seriously.
If you've been around awhile you've probably seen this before.
Every couple of years an anime/manga comes out of nowhere and is the Greatest Thing Ever. This goes back at least to Neon Genesis Evangelion in otaku culture through Fullmetal Alchemist or Death Note, and can be seen with say HBO series. A Cyclical Trope of culture, those occasional Great Shows combining critical and popular acclaim. I guarantee every single one of them has hyperbolic exclamations of being better then sliced bread and being "overrated". Which is it?
Well a more reasonable person might realize that taking mindbogglingly awesome as a benchmark for success is utterly foolish. Likewise other people experiencing that shouldn't be held against a show. Fans are terrible people, especially you. We all know you have a favorite you do the same thing for.
And on that account Attack on Titan has some warts of course but does it deserve the hype... yeah actually it does. As much as anything ever will anyways.
I came to the show mostly to kill some time, having no interest in it. Yet as a watched it still managed to put a grappling hook in me. Probably from a solid cast of likable characters, mostly not named Eren who btw is psycho. Supported by the ongoing mysteries being revealed just right keeping you guessing, interested, and giving some epic replay value to the story. I've seen a lot of this before whether its the Big O or Nausicaa but I haven't seen it in awhile or quite this way so its very interesting seeing what tropes this will end up with.
That's not to say there aren't problems here or there. You can nitpick anything if you really try of course. I think worst though is that this series takes awhile to Grow Its Beard. I know exactly where too. By the time of the Spoon Scene I was fed up with "Eren on Trial", but from once everyone drops the Idiot Ball at the end of that, the beard grows in thick. And people stop being stupid.
Unfortunately this does happen fairly late in the anime which can warp opinion. I can only recommend going to the manga, where the art alone should make clear Hajime Isayama was still very much working things out. And there is so much more going on after the anime ends. And that makes second viewings far more interesting.