Šingeki no kjodžin - Season 1

This installment has a really amazing atmosphere. It is not afraid to be gory, and all in all it manages to capture the sense of oppression the characters are experiencing in their particular world. The narrative is really good and has some interesting twists. You, therefore, can become very easily intrigued as to what Eren is going to find in the basement, and what the titans are really like. It really does a great job in making it easy to get hooked on this show very quickly. If I throw in two very good and atmospheric openings, which manage to grab the audience’s attention from the get-go, and a lot of action scenes that keep the audience glued to the screen, then I would really have to say that this is a superb production. I can therefore easily understand what all the show's aficionados (and there are a lot of them) see in it, and I could probably stretch to awarding it five stars, even though the animation lets the side down and I did not find it very impressive, however... I cannot praise to high heavens a production where I find most of the characters incredibly irritating. I have never seen a greater hysterical character than Eren, and his perpetual emotional outbursts made me afraid he would burst a blood vessel. Armin on the other hand was a flamboyant crybaby, a boy who was more effeminate than a woman, and the fact that he was very smart was in no way a redeeming characteristic. Then, that particular thing was balanced out by Mikasa who, regardless of the fact she is a girl, has the biggest balls of everyone in the entire show. Even though she reminded me of my favorite anime girl, Rukia from Bleach, that determination and toughness were still enough to put off a guy like me from falling under her spell. I did think that Levi could have become my favorite character because at first he did not seem too bad and I was happy that finally, a badass like him had turned up. However, when I saw that he was kicking like a girl, and we were shown his passion for cleaning, my interest in him rapidly waned... Well, that left me with only Jean, “Potato Girl” Sasha, and Erwin who ended up as my favorite characters, which is just not enough. Therefore, you have to now accept that I am not going to award this season five stars, although I am looking forward to the second season. 7.5/10. (25.05.2019)

An unprecedented blast, which dazzled me faster than a terrifying giant could materialize after a flash. It only took a few character traits for Eren, Mikasa, and Armin to be cleverly introduced, alongside supporting characters (the indecisive Jean, the spot-on Sasha "Potato Girl" Blouse), and before the closing credits even appeared, the suspenseful action saga had me in its grasp. I can't even remember the last time an animated series consumed me so quickly, when even I – as a person who savors and doesn't waste beloved tales – don't know when to take a break and would prefer to let all of Attack keep playing. The pace of the first few story arcs (roughly until the end of the Battle of Trost) is legitimately the most brisk I have ever seen in anime. At that moment, it simply had to slow down, occasionally play with memories, carefully let the plot run for a longer time on multiple fronts, and then conclude everything with a fight that takes your breath away with each blow. After so many crushing moments, when the viewer repeatedly realizes that any character in any quantity could die behind the walls of the three districts, all I wished for was a small, optimistic victory. After the first season, I regularly dreamed at night of flying over rooftops, cutting into giant necks, riding alongside Captain Levi – and last but not least, of getting the next season as soon as possible. Sie sind das Essen und wir sind die Jäger! (You are the food and we are the hunters!) (02.09.2019)