Animehead Brothers: Attack on Titan Review: Woodpecker

Attack on Titan:

Rating: 7.5/10

For those of you that have watched this amazing series, you might be surprised with my rating. I gave it a 7.5, because of a couple of the shows major flaws. First some of the episodes are action packed and full of excitement, and others are insignificant and seem to accomplish absolutely nothing in the whole 26 minutes of your time. Secondly the plot quite recently has made some odd development that make the earlier plot line a bit questionable. Now that the bad part of the review is over, I will continue this post with the addition of some key variables that made the show absolutely awesome. This show is by far the best Fantasy anime I have ever watched. Besides how elongated the episodes are, the story is full of blood, violence, screaming, death, and let's not be light on this, even more death.

Music:
As far as the music is concerned I actually enjoy the regular soundtracks very much. Though I preferred the first opening song to the most recent. Anyways the soundtracks are just like the anime, suspense building, intense, sad, and very dark. Attack on Titan is the first anime that I have watched that actually put more than one English background song in the show, which I found a little strange and awesome at the same time.

Animation Style:
I felt that the animation style for this anime was put together pretty well. It was very Death Note like quality, this would only make sense because these two shows are from the same creator. There isn't much more I can add to my review of the animation besides just saying it was pretty good.

Plot: (Please know that this plot showing is going to be as anti-spoiler alert as possible.)
Basically the story is set in a more medieval/renaissance era, where the human inhabitants were being devoured by the creature they called Titans. During this time there was a huge war and the humans somehow managed to build a colossal 3 layered wall in a certain territory (This is miraculously constructed right under the viscous Titan's noses). A couple hundred years later the story is set on the three main characters Eren, Mikasa, and Armin (They are only kids at the beginning of the anime). Long story short, the colossal Titan breaks down the wall of the out most city that the main characters happen to live in. They run away, Eren's life is in ruin, and the story moves on to boot camp. They learn the skills they need and move on to graduation. As cliche as this is, they are attacked again only a day after everyone's coronation into there faction (Military Police, Scout Regiment, or the Stationary Guard). I will stop here to prevent giving away the juicy part of the plot, though I will just say that it gets better and better the more you watch. Past this point there is some more plot twists that are very enjoyable and some very close calls following Eren and his dark path.

Characters:
As we know at this point the three main characters are Eren, Mikasa, and Armin. There are a lot more character, but you will soon find out that they have a tendency to die a lot due to the amount of Titan massacres. As far as Eren's story, he was the son of a doctor (now missing) and has a very violent, blunt, and sometimes carried away personality. Mikasa is somewhat infatuated and obsessed with Eren. I think Mikasa really started to cling to Eren after her parents death and her move into his family. In Armin's case there really isn't too much back story on him, you mostly here about his grandfather and how he talked about the outside world all of the time.

This anime comes with a high recommendation if you are looking for a good anime to watch. If you enjoy watching animes with blood, violence, and lots of dead people, then this show is just right for you.

As I said in my last post, I should be writing another review on SAO sometime this weekend and I am looking forward to seeing what kind of cool AMV's and backgrounds are out there.