Monday 11 May 2015

Attack on Titan - seeing beyond violence

Hi all.
I've decided to continue the anime/manga review trend - recently I watched two anime series, and one of them is Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin).

I started watching it mostly because I had heard the name before and someone posted a meme on the interwebz asking who would win in a fight - Kirito (from Sword Art Online) or Eren Jeager (from AoT).

Shortly, AoT follows the story of three friends who fight giant humanoids who feed on humans while exhibiting a creepy grin - titans. The titans appeared several hundreds of years ago, and led manking to the brink of extinction. In order to survive, the humans build 50 meter-tall walls and for 100 years lived away from threat within them. One day, however, mankind remembered the fear and terror caused by titans when an exceptionally tall titan opened the outer wall. The three main characters, Eren, Mikasa and Armin, eventually lost they're families and joined the military forces in order to fight the giant beats.
There is little knowledge about titans, their origin and why they eat humans. However, an unexpected turn of events during a battle challenges the formerly clear definition of humans and titans (If you are interested and can handle violence and blood, go watch it!).


attack-on-titan

I knew it was a survival themed anime, so I jumped ahead