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REVIEW: Attack on Titan episodes 1-6

FLCL was meant to be fun and bizarre, and taking it seriously would be the wrong thing to do. But Attack on Titan is clearly not meant to be fun. It's extremely dour, violently graphic, and takes itself completely seriously.

As for things being explained, what I was saying was that the explanation of how the giant titan just popped into existence is so daft that the show is essentially using game logic. A zany Comedy doesn't need to make sense and be plausible, but a serious story like Attack on Titan needs to make some semblance of sense. Different stories are held to different standards depending on what they set out to achieve, and all Attack on Titan has made me do is 1: cringe at the horrible drama, and 2: roll me eyes at how poorly the logic is implemented. It's tried to be clever, but the writer obviously cannot handle the story he has constructed.

I'm reminded of Scrapped Princess, which although it had magic in a medieval setting was very clever in foreshadowing right from the start that spoiler[the magic was not all it seemed.] Therefore even though the answers were not given until well into the show, there was always that sense that things would make sense if given enough time. All Attack on Titan has done is cause things to make even less sense. Lazy defenders who were drunk on the job and didn't see the giant titan approach makes far more sense than the giant titan being zapped into existence right next to (but not inside) the wall.

On a different note...YOU ARE ALL WRONG, THE MADOKA MAGICA PARODY IS CLEARLY THE BEST!

Next thing I know you'll be trying to handwave the fact that none of the defenders saw a 50-60m tall titan coming until it popped it's head over the top of the wall and looked into the city. Something that big is impossible to miss, and we know the guards on the walls can see the surrounding land since it was specifically mentioned.

FLCL was meant to be fun and bizarre, and taking it seriously would be the wrong thing to do. But Attack on Titan is clearly not meant to be fun. It's extremely dour, violently graphic, and takes itself completely seriously.

Like you could literally tell me that Queen's Blade or Boku no Pico is your personal religion

bunnyfoofoo05 wrote:

Like you could literally tell me that Queen's Blade or Boku no Pico is your personal religion

Please don't put an excellent series of OVAs next to trash.

Lazy defenders who were drunk on the job and didn't see the giant titan approach makes far more sense than the giant titan being zapped into existence right next to (but not inside) the wall.

No, it just means you shouldn't start complaining about plot-holes when you're less than 1/4 of the way through a series and it's clearly something isn't supposed to be, and doesn't need to be, explained yet. See also SAO, and people demanding to know every tiny detail about the villains plan after the first or second episode.

and the second villain's "plan" was rarely ever shown or referred to, never amounted to anything,

SAO was an absolutely terrible example for you to use for this point, since we NEVER found out the motivations or details of EITHER of the villain's plans even after they had been caught and stopped. [...] second villain's "plan" was rarely ever shown or referred to, never amounted to anything, and seemed more like an excuse to just capture and try to sexually abuse Asuna.

I never finished the second half, but as I recall, wasn't his plan spoiler[to develop mind control using the captured SAO players and sell it] while the deal with Asuna spoiler[was to keep her under to let the sham marriage go through and gain control of the company]?

bunnyfoofoo05 wrote:

On a different note...YOU ARE ALL WRONG, THE MADOKA MAGICA PARODY IS CLEARLY THE BEST!

I'll vote for the He-man MAD OP, although I also liked the Thomas the Tank Engine one, and one that had something to do with North Korea.

SAO was an absolutely terrible example for you to use for this point,