Shingeki no Kyojin

Pretty long but 6000 chapters in I can confidently say this is my favorite manga series. The story excels in many aspects from art to character design, with the intricate layout of the plot acting as a catalyst that propelled this story to its now renowned status. With this manga finally coming to an end, I felt it was important to reflect upon the many memories, be it good or bad, that this story gave me, ultimately becoming a significant part of my life up until this point.

Anyways, um... I bought a whole bunch of shungite rocks, do you know what shungite is? Anybody know what shungite is? No, not Suge Knight, I think he's locked up in prison. I'm talkin' shungite. Anyways, it's a two billion year-old like, rock stone that protects against frequencies and unwanted frequencies that may be traveling in the air. That's my story, I bought a whole bunch of stuff. Put 'em around the la casa. Little pyramids, stuff like that.

keep moving forward, because there is nothing left for you to look back at other than regret, sins and suffering.

attack on titan's essence to me is what iam going to say next:

fighting for survival in pursuit of a dream. sustained by your ideals and the people you care about. but the world is cruel and unfair.It's all just one big cycle of hate, pain and suffering. repeating itself over and over. no one is safe, everyone is caught up in this insane maelstrom of seething rage and struggle for survival. your life might just get snuffed in an instant. all your worth and and everything you ever dedicated your heart to will disappear. Youll cease to exist. only your comrades will remember you. maybe in a way youll still live on, as a reminder of what was and what should be. maybe your death was a good thing? you're free now. you are free from this hell. all the burdens you shouldered are lifted. no more sins to atone for, no more dreams to sacrifice for and most importantly no more life to struggle to keep. attack on titan starts off as a story simply drenched in black and white, but as the series progresses the colors mix, capturing the complex morality and nature of humans. the series paints most of its characters in a shade of grey. this is what truly makes attack on titan amazing. all of this sets up stage for some of the greatest action scenes, morally complex dilemmas and most importantly the amazing character arcs and development that keep you attached hopefully till the very end.


things i learned from attack on titan:

we are all the same. no one is perfect. we're all sinful in one way or another. i dont think people will ever really understand one another. simply cuz of perspectives. well you see, to FULLY understand something one has to have ALL of the truth. but no one will ever have that, not unless you can view things from everyone's perspective or the other person's perspective. your own perspective or anyone's perspective in general are narrow little windows in which you view an ENTIRE WORLD. TRUTH will never be reached by anyone really. you can argue that people can talk it out or strive to understand each other but there is no guarantee that whatever insight youre gonna get is the TRUTH. maybe its just some "truth" thats being told to satisfy a false sense of curiosity or to shut you up. i said FALSE sense of curiosity cause no one genuinely wants to understand the other. we're just satisfied with our narrow viewpoint on everything. maybe we feel superior for being different or something idk tbh. i personally have struggled to understand people myself. anyways attack on titan's main weapon is PERSPECTIVES AND THE TRUTH. nothing is ever as simple as it initially seems in attack on titan AND I LOVE THAT SOOO MUCH MAN.

to conclude, i really just love attack on titan and i wish that whoever initially dismissed it as being OVERHYPED OR OVERRATED re-consider and give it another go with an open mind. Attack on titan will shock you , make you happy, make you sad and just make you experience just about every emotion there is in the wide spectrum of emotions. READ OR WATCH ATTACK ON TITAN.

Before delving into spoilers, I should say that Attack on Titan is a lot more nuanced than it appears on the surface. The story starts of very simple. But over time, as elements are introduced and the world as well as the cast of characters expands, it becomes a very intricate, thrilling and gripping.

***BEWARE OF SPOILERS FROM HERE ON!***

Attack on Titan is a series that has defined a part of me — through discussing it almost every single day for months and months... through anxiously waiting for a new chapter to drop so it'd stir the topics up a bit or finally give answers to the mystery-boxes.
Writing this review is terrifying because of how special and important this series is for me, in terms of my investment in the characters and the narrative, as well as the friends made by conversing over it.
And although Attack on Titan's latest arc, which also is the final arc, has been problematic in the way it's told the story, namely — how it has jumped from one plot-point to another, instead of slowly unrolling all of them in a one continuous flow — despite that...
I can't not say: Attack on Titan is brilliant.
And it's been so since the beginning.
At first the story purposefully draws people into having a certain mindset. But that's later revealed to be a small and narrow outlook which was shared with the characters, and that was essential to make the readers empathize with the situation the characters were in to such a degree, that it'd seal any other possible way of looking at the situation off. So when the characters were challenged in their understanding of the world, so were the readers.
At first it's just droplets of information continuing to pose questions about what is really going on in the story. But they're easy to ignore or interpret in a way that melts them into the preconception.
Then the characters start to encounter a lot more overt signs that everything isn't as it seems and find contradictions between what was their common-knowledge and what they actually see in the world.
And that results in a culmination which totally shifts the entire narrative to a completely new page and perspective. The premise of the story evolves side by side with the characters when they learn more about their surroundings and themselves. The lingering questions and clues all begin to make sense.

When you find out what Attack on Titan is truly about, at first, it may seem alienating due to the contrast it has with the story up to that point. But in truth, alien would be one of the least likely words I'd use to describe it.
What Attack on Titan shows in its last two arcs is so eerily real and close to the "real-world". The situation the characters find themselves in is something that could happen and has happened to people.
It's believable and impactful. And because every character has their own story, viewpoint and understandable mindset, it's nigh impossible to confidently call anyone right. But it also feels wrong to call them the opposite as well.
It's the ultimately morally grey story. There's no certain culprit who could be blamed for the situation in which the characters find themselves in. It's the outcome of many decisions which were taken by characters to try and have a place for themselves in the world. Who is in the wrong? Who is the villain? Who is the monster of the story? There isn't a clear answer to any such question. It's all up to the readers to decide what they see as the best path in the circumstances. It might be angering, it might make anyone feel powerlessness or sorrow... and achieving that was the intent of Isayama.
Attack on Titan is a masterpiece, it's a story that I definitely wouldn't call simple entertainment, although, it's fine to think of it as such, since it's just really entertaining too. But, if you haven't read it, please do, or not. I mean, it's just... fantastic, at least in my opinion, y'know

Why the heck they are fighting🤬? Its better if human get along and have fun, why they dont play basketball or maybe amogus😥? But i like titan he look really funny and friend so its a 10 i think. But i dont understand why they would attack him? The title ''Attack on titan'' is very bully 🤬🤬🤬.

The review has to be longer oh muy god why? My review is very pohosogical wtf 🤬 I need to make it longer, but add me on amogus - TheAmogusSussy5

Guys....... who is imposter in attack on titan? 🤬 Not me i was doing task in walla maria. gagahahagha 🤣🤣🤣.

The amazing concept blinds the readers with its poor writing decisions, unoriginality and cliches. This review is just a loose writing of my complaints for AOT



****SPOILERS AHEAD****



Let's start off with the characters. The characters are probably one of the biggest problems with the manga. They're bland, 2 dimensional, uninteresting. Giving your character a somewhat sad backstory isn't the same as giving your character are dept. Characters fall into basic archetypes and barely grow (except for Eren) I wouldn't even care if Mikasa or Armin, the 2 main characters died. That should say a lot. There are some interesting well written characters such as Zeke and Ymir, but I couldn't say the same for the rest.

The antagonist have so much plot armor for no reason except for Isayama needing them for the story a little longer. How do you screw up not killing a vulnerable, defenseless enemy 5 TIMES! "wE nEeD tO kEeP tHeM aLiVe bEcAuSe ThEy MigHt hAvE iMpOrtAnT iNfoRmaTiON" How about we quit trying gain information after the second time we miss the opportunity to kill the enemy in the same arc! It's infuriating. You can't screw up that many times, it's looses it's believability.

Now let's talk about the poor writing decisions. When Eren and Co. finally reached the basement and read the journals, I was so disappointed on how the information about the titans was revealed. The manga decided to drop an entire history lesson and backstory and moved on like it was nothing. It was so out of place and out of nowhere. There was absolutely no build up, the manga just said "yeah, here's the twist, where going to take the story in this direction now". They pulled all of that information out of thin air! I'm not sure if the writers know how to handle a lot of exposition. The only way they know how to do it is by explaining everything in one go, like a textbook. The "twist" felt like it was handed to me on a silver platter. The reveal was suppose to be big and make the reader's jaw drop, but for me having so much information revealed all in one go made it feel very anti-climatic. The unknown keeps me invested in a story. Honestly I don't care anymore, I read the manga to find out more, and since I know everything now, there's no point. The story is just morality garbage, no mystery, no nothing. it annoys me that they explained every single nook and cranny of the aot universe all at once.

Also what's the deal with the memories Eren received by touching Historia's hand? Why? WHY? Magic that's why. But why then? why not before?? Why those specific memories?? This is just lazy, you can't just throw in magic to explain stuff when you need them to. Adding magic to your story is extremely hard, you need to know how to regulate and establish its rules, you CAN NOT just use magic as an excuse for weird situations, it's bad writing. Isayama likes to add some weird magic abilities and little rules whenever he needs to and it's the most annoying thing. The magic is so loose and so flexible that at this point, anythings a possibility causing the aot universe lose it's ground.

The holocaust references were done pretty sloppily as well. Eldians are essentially suppose to be jewish people but of course they're not normal humans. They have a fundamental difference to the marleyans. Jewish people do not, have any fundamental difference, they're just as normal as everyone else. The Eldians also use to rule above the marleyans. Jews were never the oppressors. I'm not sure what Isayama is trying to say or do here, but he's probably not doing it right. edit: (okay so it turns out the guy is a whole Japanese imperialist, yikes)

The paradise arc was such disappointment. The manga chose to do the "THE GOOD GUYS WERE THE BAD GUYS ALL ALONG!!!" twist, or more specifically, "humans were the real villains", which is one of the most overused plot twist in any form of media. It's so overused that I guessed it would go down that road while watching the first season of attack on titan. The writers tried to do the philosophy of human cruelty but fall flat on their faces. It's so surface level and shallow. There's nothing deep about "humans bad". That's like saying "racism bad". It does absolutely nothing new on showing the cruelty of humans. To be honest, hunter x hunter did it better during the chimera ant arc. By showing the hypocrisy of humans, and putting them in the perspective of the animals and how we treat them. Reading that arc, you were able to realize how ridiculously terrible humans can be. It doesn't spell it out for you like attack on titan does.

I hear a lot of people claim how Eren is one of the best written MCs of all time. I have to laugh, does a character being an anti-hero make them a good MC? During the paradise arc, people love to exclaim how deep and morally gray Eren due to him originally being anti-titan but now anti-human. Eren's entire thing now is "humans bad". That's so incredibly boring and not whatsoever deep. A character being an anti-hero does not suddenly make them morally gray. Eren is just a black a white character. There are some conflicting feelings (which are honestly the bare minimum) about how individually humans aren't bad but that's about all the depth you're gonna get from Eren's philosophy. Nothing new, nothing special. (I'm also not a fan of the once naive main character suddenly becomes an edge trope)

Let's compare Eren's simplistic philosophy to another character's simplistic philosophy, Light Yagami. I enjoyed Light's character more due to the writers treating him as insane, the reader is suppose to think Light is basically crazy, his simplistic perspective is the entire point. On the other hand, the writers for AOT treat Eren's perspective as enlightened. Eren acts like he just solved the secrets of the universe by understanding humans can do bad things too, making him a whole lot less enjoyable of a character.

The art is.... not for everyone, Some of the character are drawn in awkward positions and facial expressions are limited.

There's some romance in them manga which is extremely forced and done poorly [especially that Armin and annie non-sense]. (I'm convinced shounen writers have forgoten how to write relationships)

Armin couldn't have developed romantic feelings for a girl who couldn't even move or speak, so the explanation is he received his feelings from bertholdt. That's the fakest thing I've ever heard, Armin's feelings don't even come from himself. Does that mean Eren could have been given romantic feelings for his mother????? I feel like Isayama wrote this in so he could have another hetero romantic subplot.

Also why does Eren's titan look different? Is there any reason or is it that Isayama wanted to make Eren a little scarier or something. This must be another situation of throwing random elements with no explanation, or if there is an explanation, it's magic.

Isayama definitely knew where he wanted to take the story, it's just his execution was poor. Season 4 is coming soon and I'm prepared for its mediocrity to shoot to the top of my anime list surpassing Fullmetal with a score of a 10 due to the fanboys thinking it's the best thing since sliced bread, blinded by flashy fight scenes.

Though it has problems, the manga is definitely entertaining, I recommend this to people who are new to manga/anime.

[spoilers for anime]

First off, just want to start this out by saying you have experienced nothing like this. The culmination of so many ideas, plots, ideologies, betrayals, etc has created, in opinion, one of the best stories of our time. Yes, this included all the other shows and movies I have watched outside of anime as well. Alright now that I've prefaced this, let's strap in because this is going to be a very long review...

I first was exposed to AOT through the anime and my first impression of it was, wow, this is a cool premise and holy hell, that's a lot of people I see dying. And my reaction didn't go much further than that. I liked the introduction of the characters and plot and thought, overall, the series was a fairly good watch. As for the characters, in the beginning, they were pretty one dimensional and because of this, the show had to rely on shock factor to keep me going. And in particular, I wasn't super fond of Eren. So for this review, I am mostly going to be addressing this point and explain how and why AOT is so good now because of the growth and development of Eren's character.

Currently, I am caught up to the manga (I'm writing this when CHP. 128 has been released) and all these thoughts I had about season 1 made me realize this is how it had to be. And don't worry I'm not gonna go into stuff the anime has not covered yet. Doing so would be robbing you of one of the most meticulously thought out stories ever. If you're confused about my statement about season 1, let me elaborate; when the series began we are introduced to this edgy little brat Eren. Now he's just had his town destroyed and his mom eaten in front of him and has sworn vengeance against all titans. Pretty cool right? Wrong. Eren from the minute he was introduced was a one-dimensional character whose only development came from his mom's death. But now let me tell you why it had to be this way.

Eren is a shounen protagonist born into a seinen world. He's a kid who hasn't properly developed his emotions and cannot deal with harsh realities and situations like an adult. I'll reiterate, Eren is just a kid who knows absolutely nothing. But slowly as the series progresses, new things are thrown at him by the harsh world of AOT and they force him to grow up.

First example (Annie): Eren, being the edge-lord that he is, only thinks about killing titans but what if someone close to you was one of them. This is the first of many times we see Eren questioning himself. When Eren realizes the Female Titan is Annie, he is panicked and cannot transform right away. I'm pretty sure in the manga he didn't have this moment as much but, Isayama (the author), I know works closely with the animators at WIT Studios and probably told them he wanted this emphasized. This panicked state of Eren finally showed us a new side of his, a more compassionate side that didn't want to believe someone he trusted could be a titan who's killed so many. But still, this isn't enough to break his will and he keeps moving forward. The seed has been planted.

Second Example (Riener and Bert): For us anime viewer, it's been years but for Eren and the gang it's only a couple of days since they find out about Annie and had to fight her. And right after this, we get the reveal of Riener and Bert as the Armour and Colossus Titans. Now for the initial breaking of the walls in Shinganshina, we didn't see Annie's Female Titan but the memory of the Colossus and the Armor has been burned into Erens memory. Now Eren has lost two more close friends and again has to call into question his ideals. However, this only lasts for a second as his rage is a much more dominating factor when it comes to this. Eren, who at this time, sees Riener as an older brother now feels this betrayal as far more substantial than to that of both Annie and Bert which is why he so easily loses control. Another seed is planted

Third example (Eren is not special): As we move into season 3, Eren is yet again captured, this time along with Historia, for the Reiss family to reclaim the founder. At this point in the story, I'd argue Eren's character is still a little flat but he's gone through so much that he's nearing a breaking point. I sure others thought this was also strange but remember back to season 1 when Eren realized he could turn into a titan. why did he not hate himself? Eren at this point was on a fixed mindset of killing the titan for his revenge. So why did he not hate himself despite being exactly what it was he hated? The answer is that Eren thought he was special. He had tricked himself into justifying himself being a titan because it allowed him to do more. Well, after Eren's captured he finally has this epiphany moment and realizes he's not special. He's not some shounen protagonist who was fated to be this world's savior. He's just a kid who's in over his head and has had this burdens of his father tossed onto him, as far as he knows at this point in the story (but not technically and I am not gonna elaborate on that because it's manga spoilers). The final and most critical seed is planted. At the end of season 3, we finally get to see Eren come out of his shonen protagonist shell and begin to take this world for what it is.

Now all these things Eren has gone through are beginning to finally weigh on his mind and are about to come forth. As season 3 of the anime ended, Eren while not having progressed in insane amount is about to as all the seeds that have been planted in him are about to grow. But unfortunately, that's when we get into manga spoilers. I'd love to talk about the manga because after season 3 of the anime is truly when Eren becomes one of the greatest protagonists of all time and makes AOT a classic that, in my opinion, can even rival One Piece ut I think I'm gonna leave it here as this review, which was more of a character analysis, is now stupidly long. My final comments would be please please please read the manga. Eren is a character who truly created a story in which he evolves with the ever so complex plot lines and politics. Overall AOT is a classic in its own league and Eren is the character who made it what it is.

If you've read Attack on Titan, but didn't get to chapter 100, you didn't read Attack on Titan. You've only read the prologue. That's all.

Everything in this series is a setup. Every cliche character trope, every overdone interaction that seems like the most generic thing, everything.

Without spoiling too much, i just want people to pick this manga up and experience it all for themselves, The masterful plot, character motivations, worldbuilding, development, interesting moral takes, all of it is simply too brilliant to explain in just a mere review. You have to experience it.

Wipe away everything you think you know about Attack on Titan in terms of its reputation and fandom and what not. Go into it with an open mind. You still have time to experience the finale.

Peace out

Read it

This is my first and probably only review I’ll write on this site, but I just had to say something about how fantastic this series is. Spoiler-free.

Attack on Titan is easily one of the best stories of modern times. It is filled with glorious action, brilliant plot twists, and delves into themes such as war, death, corruption and existentialism.

Character-wise, Attack on Titan has an incredible cast, each with their unique motives and ideals about the current situation. Isayama is a huge fan of creating morally grey characters; there are no true heroes or villains in this story. And this is why the characters are so great, because they realistically respond to the bleak world they live in. Heroes must sometimes be evil for the “greater good”, and this is demonstrated numerous times through the Survey Corps. Similarly, villains are not simply evil for the sake of it; Isayama likes to emphasise this idea through the use of flashbacks for noteworthy evil characters.

The action in this story is, simply put, absolutely insane. Whether it be humans against titans, humans against humans, or titans versus titans, Isayama has no trouble in creating massive hype for the fights, most notably, the Return to Shiganshina arc. By the end of every chapter in this arc I was just in awe of the epic clashes and tense moments involving fan-favourites such as Levi, Eren, Armin, Erwin and Mikasa.

Of course, there is more than just action in this series (despite it being the main reason why the majority of people get into the series), and this starts to manifest during the Uprising Arc. This is when you start to ask yourself a million and one questions, and think about what’s really happening. Where did the titans come from? What is Grisha’s role in this story? What’s in Eren’s basement? What is the Reiss family hiding? These are the types of questions that make you so engrossed in the series, and with every answer came even more questions, so there was always more to learn about this strange world Isayama has developed.

Finally, the way that this series transforms from a mysterious survival story into a deep, complex and extremely well-written narrative on warfare is just amazing. A certain chapter later in the series marks a significant shift in the story, and from this point Isayama seriously steps up in everything; art, character development, worldbuilding and drama. It completely changes the dynamics of the plot, and it’s almost like an entirely different story to everything before it, but definitely for the better.

Best thing I’ve ever read, 10/10.

So, here's my second review. And since I didn't like much the way I wrote the Psycho-Pass review, I'll change it. I'll just comment through all the aspects of the manga without having a "separate category", where I rate every single one. So, let's get into the review of the almost perfect manga, Shingeki no Kyojin - attack on titan.
(Remembering this review goes only to the first 11 volumes from the manga. I will re-review Shingeki no Kyojin once the manga finished publishing)

Note: Sorry if it is a bit incomplete or short. I tried my best not to spoil also, so don't worry if you haven't read the manga.

Shingeki no Kyojin (or "attack on titan"), is a historical science fiction/fantasy seinen manga series with shounen aspects written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. Let's first talk about the plot, which is definitely the best and strongest aspect of the manga.

It's a shame I can't give a plot summary here, because I would like to get a bit into the details, and also, I really don't enjoy going on talking about the plot without mentioning at least the basics. But what can I do? Well, the story at first to me looked cool and interesting, but as it develops more and more, mysteries appear and unimaginable things are revealed. This is what Shingeki no Kyojin did best: creating so many unresolved mysteries at the same time that we get a lot more interested on the story and keep reading. The narrative is constructed in a incredible way, and everything make us feel the despair and fear that the characters are going through while fighting the titans, also another strong point of the manga that we didn't see in the anime.
The characters are also very unique. Every character is different in personality, decisions and even the fear they feel. Also, it seems that every single one of them has a special role during the story, or everyone has a mystery behind their background story and such. Of course there are those one characters which have a bit more depth or carisma than others (of course other than the main Eren, Mikasa and Armin), like for example Corporal Rivaille and Sasha Braus, whom I believe a lot of people liked since the moment they appeared. Of course the background of some characters aren't developed a lot during the story, but that can't be a flaw, since the manga has not ended yet.

All the concept of the story is well made and can be explained. Every single thing. That is extremely good for every deep story that I read, and what lots of not only anime and manga, but movies, games, novels, etc; lacks sometimes. Things need an explanation at least. And those explanations and the current revelations that pointed me from the opinion of Shingeki no Kyojin was a supernatural/fantasy anime to my thoughts that the anime actually goes much more to a sic-fi genre. However, again, since the story isn't finished and lots of things haven't been resolved, I can't be sure of the genre yet. And that's only my opinion, there are people who still believe the manga to be supernatural.

One of the best things that I found about the story was also the deconstruction of typical shonen or even fighting-central seinen. There are few cliches during the manga, and when those appear, they are really well-used to increase the emphasis of something that happened or what someone is saying.
And also, something that Shingeki no Kyojin does – or better, the author of the story – is the fact that it kind of doesn't care about deaths of characters, and that is seen very rarely in anime, as well as the censure, that is almost absent throughout the chapters. The deaths does not seem dramatic, but they somehow make you feel at least a bit of emotion, it doesn't matter who they were. But of course I won't get into detail on this part.

And, as the story isn't finished yet, I cannot give my general opinions on the ending. But I can only tell that I'm always afraid of endings when I read ongoing mangas or watch ongoing anime. I always think: "What if the ending is completely terrible? What if it ruins the anime/manga?" But , I here can say that I have high expectations that this manga will have a great and well-thought ending. I hope the author doesn't mess up during the ending of the series.

Well, now we go on to the art. Well, this is where the manga fails. The art overall is not good, that being because the artist probably is beginning. There are huge anatomy flaws on lots of scenes, proportion mistakes and such things. Also, the shading done in the manga is not the best, and I didn't like much the way Isayama inked the black parts of the pages, those being normally a bunch of lines. However I know that it may be hard to do 50 pages a month, so he probably does that to make it in time to publish. That being, the fight scenes including humans using the DMT aren't really well drawn, however nothing that disturbs the eye of those who read the manga.
But the flaws on the art are only for the characters (humans). The titans are overall pretty good and odd – on a good way – drawn and they vary much in forms, sizes and even their faces are almost all different from each other (some titans with beard, others with chubby creepy faces, and some of them are made to look badass – you that already read through good part of the manga probably know what I'm talking about).
Also, the art out stands on the scenarios, that are without doubt one of the best out of all manga I've read. It is definitely the most obscure and dark one of today's good manga, with the whole titan story and the mysteries that the plot presents to us. However, I still am not sure if the artist had his assistants draw part of the scenario or not. Even if that's the case, the creativity he had to design everything – the walls for example – is just insane.

The fact that the manga presents lots of mysteries is the key to its full enjoyment. You will keep wanting to read more and more, because, well, you want to find out what the freak is happening, and as more unresolved things appear together, you keep wanting more to read. Until you reach the manga's last chapter, and have to wait one month for it to be posted around in some website.
The enjoyment, unlike lots of other series, isn't made by the comedy, which is practically absent on the entire manga, and when it happened, of course it was on the calmest moments, where the characters could kind of just relax. And normally when Sasha's around, since she is that typical character on a serious story that is used to relieve a bit of the stressful atmosphere around the other characters, but that as well have her serious moments. The comedy is even funny, probably because of the lack of it.

Overall Score: 9.3/10

Shingeki no Kyojin is the best manga being launched during this time without a doubt, and it probably holds one of the best stories I have seen on an anime or manga. The manga presents only one flaw: the art. Don't get me wrong, I don't really think art is super important, however, for mangos with epic stories and intense, fast-paced fights, it is almost mandatory. It doesn't ruin the manga, not even a bit, because of the awesome story that it presents. Its enjoyment is outstanding, characters very good and almost everyone that I know who read the manga say to be one of the best from today's time and, of course, recommend it to others.

So, as a final speech, I strongly recommend to all of you Shingeki no Kyojin, both for the ones who want a more serious thing instead of constant comedy, cliche romance and nonsense fighting, and also, I recommend for the boys/girls who only read shounen. I suggest you to go read the manga, because most people who read and watch shounen will like this.

So, this was my review of Shingeki no Kyojin. Until my next review,
NuclearNecro-42, signing off, and going back to Ishimura.

No need to introduce SnK, the most popular anime and manga of this last decade.
Everyone at least heard about it, everyone watched the anime, but maybe not everyone read the manga?
At least I did, and really, it's one of those success I can't explain. Now I'm not attacking the general opinion, but the general arguments people give. Because a lot of what is heard about SnK is plain wrong.


STORY
SnK is about a group of humans, surrounded by Titans, living inside walls that Titans can't break. Then it's about a battle between this group and a group of humans turning into Titans. Then it's about a religious group reigning inside these walls. Then it becomes a f*cking western cowboy show. Then it comes back to survival. Then it's about an all-out war.

Let's be real, that story is a HUGE MESS. I'm not talking about the storyline, but about HOW IT UNFOLDS.

- Things get repeated twice in a row.

- On the contrary, other things come out of nowhere, then there's a flashback or a dialogue explaining what the reader should already know.
It's like you try to tell a joke, then in the end your buddy doesn't laugh and you say "oh, I forgot to tell you that dude is Irish, that's why it's funny!".

- Then there are major revelations thrown out without any kind of staging.
Sometimes it's like Darth Vador told "Oh, btw, I'm Luke Skywalker's dad" in the middle of the movie. A revelation is a MAJOR plot point, it needs to be a MAJOR moment.

- My biggest personal issue with this story is the amount of BS thrown out through the entire manga. So, Titan powers can manipulate everyone's memories, huh? SO easy. I put it at the same level as the Dream theory: it's just too easy.
The same for all the other Titan powers. It can do pretty much anything the story needs. I suspect there's a Titan able to cook spaghettis somewhere...

- But the biggest problem, as I wanted to put in evidence above, is the LACK OF PROPER DIRECTION. First it's a survival story, then it wants to be an investigation series, then it's western, then it's an all-out war, and so on. It just keeps changing its course!

It's just bad storytelling. Now it seems the author knows where he is going, and THAT is really praiseworthy! Clearly the storyline is not improvised.
BUT clearly, he doesn't know how to properly tell a story. The manga is full of moments where it seems the author tells "oh, I forgot to tell you this" or "crap, I forgot this scene, let's put it here as a flashback".


Now, a word about the philosophy. You'll here many fan(boys?) tell how deep this story is. It's not.
It's the classic "racism is bad" message, good morale but that's not something you'll LEARN by reading SnK.
Not only that, it doesn't go any deep into anything. There's a part about religion, but it tells so few about it. Also, obviously, the manga wants to show human cruelty. But it's made in such a simplistic way ("bruh, look how bad humans can be, booooooh!"), it can't even be called philosophy, that's just insulting. Something is deep when it dives in the subject, but SnK stays vague about its themes.

I'll be blunt, there is NOTHING TO LEARN from this manga. It won't change your way of life. It won't dive into any subject.


Now, I trash-talked a lot, but there is one UNDENIABLE MAJOR GOOD POINT: the ambiance.
SnK is CRUEL. It's cruel with its characters, it's cruel with the reader. It's epic, serious, violent.
And THAT's what made it popular. Because it's a trend in this century: things have to be dark for people to enjoy.


ART
It's just trash.
- Too many useless traits, it makes it look like a draft and it doesn't make it more detailed than any other manga.
- The battles are a mess on paper.
- But the worst has to be the chara-design. The edges are way too thick and irregular, and so many characters look way too similar. Christa and Armin, despite being different genders, have the exact same face.
Many secondary characters have the same haircut and face as important characters, so when they come on stage, it's easy to miss who it is.
- Finally, there's way too much dialogue, to a point that I seriously believe there's more bubbles than there are drawings on each page.

(Yes, I don't really like the manga format, HOWEVER there are some that I find decent or even great ; take One Punch Man for example).


CHARACTERS
That's yet another point where I'll have to be mean. I hear many people praise SnK for its chara-development and its complex characters.

... Where exactly do you see all that? Most characters are purely one-dimensional!

- Livai is the edgy guy who doesn't care about morales.
- Erwin is the wise strategist, who has almost literally ONE SINGLE FACE in the entire thing.
- Mikasa is a female warrior who cares about Eren.
- Armin is the clever boy who's not confident enough.

And that's them ALMOST THE ENTIRE TIME. Sometimes, a character gets a chapter about their story. It develops them a little, then it comes back to its one-dimensional self. Or they completely disappear from the story.
The only characters with decent development are Eren and Reiner. The rest barely changes the entire time and many of them don't really matter. Well, Armin does get more confident, but it's not like it was any major drift in the character.



Now it's not all bad. The characters are badass, and that makes them cool. But don't let it blind you, they're still one-dimensional.



ENJOYMENT
While I really enjoy some parts of the anime, I can't explain the manga's success. I mean, the arguments I hear in favor of it are so obviously biased.

Now I do understand why it is popular: its cruelty is not something we see all the time in anime. It's fresh, and let's be honest, seeing imaginary people suffer is often a guilty pleasure. That's why violent shows and games are so popular. Sometimes, it's even the only reason, and I suspect it's the case for the SnK manga.

Shingeki No Kyojin has just recently started airing as an anime this season and is the most hyped up show that is currently running. I got into the manga about a month before the anime started to see what it was about. I haven’t read too many manga so far, but I can still feel like I want to write a review about how spectacular this manga is.

I’ll address the few downsides to this manga before explaining each of the parts individually. First, this manga starts off a little slow. It goes in a slightly different, less chronological order than the anime, with more jumping around to different times and some flashbacks. Once you get into it and get used to the huge character cast who keep dying and getting replaced by stronger, more important, and longer lasting characters, it gets easier to understand. The other problem this manga suffers from is that with the huge character cast, the character designs for some characters are fairly similar and sometimes cause you to forget which character is which. This problem ends eventually though when the manga starts to focus more on the important people and less on the massive amount of death fodder characters.

Plot – 10/10
The plot is amazing. As you probably already know, the plot of Shingeki No Kyojin is about humans who have been forced to retreat behind a set of three walls and several smaller settlements next to them for over a hundred years. Titans, beings whose shapes are similar to humans’ who range from 3 meters to even one that is 60 meters tall (really fucking tall if you don’t know metric like me). For hundreds of years, the humans have survived inside the walls without the titans ever breaking through, but that’s where the story begins. One day when, five years prior to where the main events of the story begin, the 60 meter titan appears outside of the wall of the settlement where the three main characters (Eren, Mikasa, and Armin) live and breaks through the wall letting smaller titans into the settlement and producing mass chaos and lots and lots of death. Some people manage to escape, but the titans have already taken over and forced the humans to retreat behind the next of the three main walls. From there, the story jumps ahead a few years to when the main characters are joining the military and then graduate. From there, the story really gets going, but I won’t spoil anything else. It only takes about five chapters to get really into the plot. Having just caught up to the manga at 44 chapters earlier today, I can tell you that after Chapter 30 readers are in for a huge plot twist ride especially after Chapter 40. These twists really catch you off guard but are not bad in the slightest.

Art – 9/10
As I mentioned, some of the characters designs are somewhat similar. So far, the anime, which adds color especially to hair to help differentiate between brown and black hair, seems to have fixed this problem. The other problem is that some fights, especially using the 3D maneuver gear which is the main weapon used to kill titans, is so intense that it is clearly not something still images can convey as well as the anime has so far. The art is still great, but the task of drawing these action scenes is just too much sometimes. Still it does succeed in capturing the emotions of the characters, especially when they are horrified, which happens a lot.

Characters – 10/10
Eventually this manga slows down the amount of death fodder characters and gets you more into the main ones who are great characters. Eren, the main protagonist, is a boy bent on killing all titans and getting revenge for the loss of his mother when the titans first broke through the wall several years ago. Mikasa is Eren’s friend and the strongest fighter in their graduating class from the military. She is always looking after Eren and doing everything to protect him, and he does get into a hell of a lot of trouble. Armin is Eren’s other childhood friend. Unlike Eren and Mikasa, he is not a good fighter though he excels in strategizing. Personally, I think Armin may be my favorite character, though I think a lot of people like Mikasa the best. Some other notable characters are Rivaille (or Levy) who is the strongest fighter in the whole military and can take down dozens of titans single-handedly, Sasha (aka “Potato girl”) who likes food and is also a great fighter, and Annie who excels in hand-to-hand combat, and Reiner who is very muscular and always wants to protect everyone he can. While some characters may not seem very important at first, many of them have things they are hiding and pasts that have not yet even been fully explained at 44 chapters. You emotional connection you get with these characters can hurt you sometimes if a character you like a lot dies, but others live on draw you into a strong connection with them instead and never cease to amaze you.

Enjoyment – 10/10
I’ve been reading this manga somewhat slowly for the past couple months, but just today I read from Chapter 31 to 44 almost all in one sitting. Once this manga really gets going, it draws you in and you better be prepared for this thrilling, gory, twisted ride that I highly recommend to everyone who enjoys survival horror or action manga.

Fascinating horror manga about humans vs. Titans (these giants that vary from 4m to 50m tall who eat humans -- although not really for nourishment, they just like to kill/attack).

Manga follows a group of kids who witness the slaughter of their families and who vow to train to become soldiers to reclaim their territory and wipe out the giants. It sounds pretty lolwhatever but it's actually really scary, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Part of it has to do with the way the giants are drawn imo -- they look like deformed humans with big stupid faces (although some of them have intelligence too) and the scenes where they are snacking on humans (the drawings of giants pulling humans apart or stuffing them into their mouths head first or chomping them in half are so eerie) creep me out big time.

Appears to be a lot of back story that the mangaka can explore, like why the giants eat humans if they survived just fine for years without humans to eat, why some giants are "deviant" and have intelligence, what is Eren's secret, etc. I can't stop thinking about this manga. Hope more is released soon!!!

This review is based up until chapter 48.

Shingeki no Kyojin has a comprehensive enough plotline--humans being chased around and eaten by grotesque giants called Titans, which do faintly resemble large, ugly humans.
However, the series actually has much more to do than just focusing on humans being eaten, which is probably its best asset. Shingeki has several mysteries that intertwine as one reads the series--how the Titans were made, exactly how they work, who is controlling them, what's that huge monkey, and a few other that are secret--and I think the fact that it isn't eleven volumes of pointless bloodshed that makes the series so popular.
Shingeki also has some good character development--hardly any live character stays the same, for better or for worse. Each character has their own story and personality, and te mangaka is good at revealing them.
The artwork isn't gorgeous, but I think it's a good fit for the series. If Isayama Hajime used a beautiful art style, I'd think it's be distracting.
For those who find the series too graphic, I'd say the anime toned it down a lot.

For this manga, the reader needs to be a super active reader. One has to pay attention to every page, panel, behavior of the characters, even random stuff in the background needs your attention in order to understand what's going on, and to make smart predictions/theories of the storyline.
One on the best pieces of literature that I have read in a long time.

Seeing there ar and many 10s on the manga version of Shingeki, I get quite curious and got thinking back in day I loved reading the manga and reflecting when it lost me.

So to begin with, I wanna say that people get some things wrong, the concept of a story not being "your typical shonen" is quite silly, first, because "shonen" is demography refering to young male audiance and therefore it has nothing to do with what you're usually reffering to, the right term is either battleshonen or action manga. Second, because there are plenty of "seinen" manga (that is, manga aimed to adult male audiance) from different genres that share many of the same writing flaws and rely too much on cheap shock value and gore to seem more "mature", it's just a writer choosing to tell things more suited for adults, it doesn't mean his actual skills have a power up or whatever.

It doesn't matter if you grew up reading battleshonens and got tired of some of the same tropes, it doesn't automatically makes a manga with adult themes and gore an automatic masterpiece, there're many things to take into account to judge quality beyond the shallow "I've see this trope before".

Having said that, I used to like Shingeki, mainly because of the anime adaptations, even back when I got into the manga I did like it for what it was, the world was cruel, the setting was interesting and creative, the titans were and still are quite scary and creepy, and we see the consequences of mankind greed and apathy, and that was nice.

But then as the time passed and I learnt more about art and writing and some of its flaws started getting more and more visible to me.

STORY (poor)

The story is quite messy, it had plenty of potential from the get go, but Isayama goes different places and it's clear he didn't plan everything through, his foreshadowings aren't quite actual "foreshadowings", they are more of a "I'll let this loose ends so that I may think about what to use it for later" and that wouldn't be a problem IF ONLY these loose ends were tied in a natural manner afterwards. The manga changes its genre constantly, first a survival manga, then it gets tossed aside (almost completely) to give place to a political internal dispute, then it changes itself completely in the post time skip into a rather weird and irresponsible use of sensible historical symbology that definetely doesn't fit the "there are always two sides" narrative.

Other aspects of the story also aren't properly handled, like the power system, that is completely convoluted, badly explained and with new rules taken out of the blue, some of which aren't bring up again for convenience.

There are important plot points that are closed/ solved offscreen with no impact, there are pacing problems, plotpoints always take the fallacy of false dillema route, dialogue are just bad writen there are plenty of text to read with little personality that ignores "show, don't tell" approach, etc.

Also, it gets pretty confusing to understand what's going on and what characters are talking about, people usually say that it's like that because it's too complex and that maybe things will be "explained later" or that they're a "mistery, but when this feeling is that constant it gets obvious that the author is not good a a storyteller.

It's a story that is trying to go into dark yet human territory like A Song of Ice and Fire books or Breaking Bad, but the author doesn't have the same skills tu pull it off in a deep and meaningful way.

Also, it's not the main focus of the manga, but Isayama tries it anyways: jokes.
They are awful, he is not good or clear enough for it to be funny, sometiimes they take more panels than they deserve and doesn't make me laugh once.


ART (poor)

The art is... bad. There are few shots in which I can see dinamicity, mostly with Titans and the odd artstyle really does fit with the creepiness that are Titans, I appreciate that, but most often than not there are more problems. The paneling is just terrible and uncreative, character designs aren't expressive - to people that somehow thinks that's because they are nuanced expressions, no, they just aren't clear - and it's easier to mistake a character for another, we can't see difference between characters body expressions and sillouetes, composition is messy, characters facial features and proportions are inconsistent, etc.
I can praise background art, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's an assistant that takes care of this department to be honest.

CHARACTERS (decent)

I HAVE to point this out: most characters are NOT deep or good written as people say.
How do I know that? Well, there jusn't isn't much to say about each character, pretend we have a Dnd-like paper describing each individual character traits and quirks, backstory, flaws and positives, goals and etc. There isn't much, Eren doesn't have much to be told besides being one person that want revenge (and that gets even more revengeful with a flop of a switch), Levi is edge and badass (I give him that) but that's it, Mikasa is just.. one-note really, Armin is the smart cautious one, etc.
If I were to point good examples, I'd say Erwin got a nice closure, Jean used to be the most interesting gray character and Reiner is currently the most well developed of the bunch (only after the timeskip).
But aside from them, characters in general are either gimmicky, unninteresting, annoying, and without nuance.
People are impacted for their deaths more because they are gruesome and people get shocked by the idea of getting eatting alive and whatnot, but definetly NOT because the characters have Breaking Bad/ early Game of Thrones level of characterization.
An example in a battleshonen: One Piece.
People complain about OP fake deaths, and I agree they're silly, but when the author does kill a character and wants us to feel for them, he knows how to make us feel for them and how to build up plot and move the pieces in order for it to happen. Same thing goes for HunterXHunter and Fullmetal Alchemist mangas, another examples of oftenly underestimated stories because they're ""shonen"".

ENJOYMENT (fair)

I give it a slight high score because it really works with interesting setting and concepts, it's not perfect, but it actually fun to see Titan dinamics in action, I'll give Isayama that merit.
What gripes me is that the other problems bring it down, because there's just so much lost potential.
I can only imagine what it would've been if other mangakas had their own version of Shingeki no Kyojin past chapter 1.
Imagine Kentaro Miura working on it?

OVERALL (mediocre)

It has interesting concepts and is ambitious, but like I said, being impressed by how different it is and by the fact it plays with adult and morally questionable themes that you haven't see before will only take you that far until you read other stories that have work within the same proposal, at that point, it wont really be only about being impressed by what tropes you didn't see (because eventually you'll realize nothing is 100% new), execution will matter more than what tropes are left to see, and that's why I don't think Shingeki is as great as I thought it'd be, being different wasn't enough for the problems I see along the way.

it's almost midnight as i'm writing and currently procrastinating so there might be some typos but i just wanted to get this out of my way.

someone on the forums recommended this manga and i decided to check it out, initially believing that it would be another boring shounen manga. fortunately, i was proven wrong (that person has a good taste in manga) and became so wrapped up in this story. even the first volume leaves me wanting for /more/ since it ended with a huge plot twist!

STORY: very, very nicely done! leaves you with plenty of suspense and anticipating. it's like a thriller where you quickly flip a page (or in this case, press the next arrow key). the pace's not too bad; it's neither too fast or too slow, but just right. although, at times, there may be some concept pages thrown in for clarity such as how the walls are built and maintained -- a crucial component of the plot. it's quite clear that this new mangaka did some research on the practicalities of his inventions, which makes this manga well thought out.

ART: like the other reviewer said, art is very, very mediocre; just enough to make this manga readable. the characters are drawn out of proportions and if you're one of those people with a sense of OCD (or the general eye-twitching at bad art), then this manga may irritate you a lot. however, in this case, this evident weakness doesn't detract from the quality of the manga. i agree with the other reviewer about the mangaka's rendering of the titans: they were /absolutely/ terrifying and evoked the raw emotion of fear from me. the way the panels were structured made me feel the same fear as the characters in the story. i love, love, love the monsters' design and their lack of proportions does make for the terrifying moment.

CHARACTER: at the beginning, when some men were in the woods, i didn't care for the characters much. however, by the end of the volume, i liked misaka even though she's usually very stoic. she does care for her friends. the human characters behaved realistically. if you were confronted by a giant who wants nothing more than eating you, what would you do? no one would dare defeat a titan on their own until they had a huge motivation.

the main driving force of this manga, though, is the human-eating monster. in the first volume, the titans provide a key point of conflict as they easily trample down the walls and invade the humans' remaining territory. not much is known about them other than the fact that they ignore animals and plants and have only one known weakness so far.

ENJOYMENT: because i read this manga late at night, shinegeki no kyojin provided me entertainment. i would definitely re-read it because it captured what no other popular manga did: it exposed my fear of being eaten and of the unknown. i did notice some points where the quality of art wasn't the best, but the storytelling ability spurred me on to read more. i know that three volumes have been released so far, so i'm definitely looking forward to the second scanlated volume!

OVERALL: great story, art could use work in defining humans, characters aren't thoroughly developed /yet/, high level of enjoyment. i heard a rumor that this manga was rejected by WSJ because it wasn't what they were looking for and i believe that it was a good thing that this manga was rejected because had it been accepted, the story would have to be dumbed down for the readers. this type of story is clearly for the seinen audience.

so, if you have time and like plot-based manga regardless of the art quality, shingeki no kyojin is definitely a great read!

Attack on Titan is about humanity's survival after 100 years when a majority of humans are wiped out by titans. They live surrounded by walls up to 50 metres high to keep the titans out. The story focuses on the characters Eren Jaeger and Mikasa Ackerman.

Attack on Titan is an original manga that I highly recommend to anyone who likes drama, action, fantasy or horror. The emotions and atmosphere are portrayed amazingly and the story is really awesome. A must read.

I quite like the art and the titans are very bizzare and freaky. The art varies in preference to different people.

This new manga is topping the sales charts in Japan and I think for a good reason.

I just started reading it (I am just into the second chapter) and I am already hooked.
First let me spend a few words on the drawings. The backgrounds are quite nice and polished, but the characters, although nice, could be less "noisy".
I think this kind of style is instead very appropriate with the giants (or titans). They are strange, distorted human forms with the skin of their faces revealing all their theeth in a wicked grin. Their body proportions are usually off enough to give them an even more monstrous appearence.
The faces of the characters are nevertheless pretty good at conveing emotions.

The characters' fear in the face of an impossibly stronger predator is well represented. Imagine if you were face to face with a monstrous 15 meters tall man with a wicked grin and the will to eat you...

This plays on our instinctive fears of predators. It's true that today humans are at the top of the food chain, but it hasn't always been like that.
Probably if lions would evolve an intelligence they wouldn't know this kind of fear as they have no natural predators (normally), but for us the fear of being preys, of being helpless in front of a strong predator is something we can understand well.

I don't remember another manga with such a strong emphasis on this aspect and this certainly is a good thing!

The only small complaint could be that the drawings quality is not always the best, but seeing how the series has just started I think the author has plenty of time to improve.

I definitely recommend this series!

Attack on Titan is like fast food. Enjoy it while it's hot. You shouldn't think about or doubt it while you're reading it; just keep reading and enjoy the actions, plot twists, and deaths. If you take too long to read it, the plot will become nonsense.

Attack on Titan is highly enjoyable. It doesn't have fan-service to distract you, no 30 chapter long fight scenes, nor does it drag on about the importance of friendship and other garbage that shounen mangas force you to worship. It's flat out action with "kill or be killed" perspective. The fights are thrilling, the deaths are emotional, the plot twists are surprising, and the setting is mysterious.

The manga tries to keep it real: humans are fragile, corrupted, greedy, and mostly selfish. I guess that's the selling point of this manga. Where you have characters shooting beams out of their mouth in most mangas, here is an action manga that actually shows that humans are not invisible. It doesn't matter if the character is major or minor, death is an inevitable fate, and the mangaka doesn't hesitate to kill his characters. Death isn't glorifying, it's not sweet, it's not fun, and for a soldier, it definitely isn't welcomed. This is where the enjoyment hits the peak, the idea that a death in battlefield is anything but important. The war goes on and lost ones are replaces. Some rue, some forget. But the courage to fight knowing dismal rates of survival is truly heroic and when the protagonists achieve victory, you can feel it. I guess this part of Attack on Titan is what I enjoy, it's keen details on death, human nature, and sacrifice.

Now, I told you to read it as quickly as you can. Why? The plot is a mess. It lacks originality and logic. The whole idea of monsters invading humans and fighting monsters with monsters is copied from Claymore. It's sad just how much it borrows from the older series. The concept of corruption, mysterious setting, and grand conspiracy all comes of Claymore. I can go on about every little thing Attack on Titan borrow (copies) from Claymore, but it would be a disappointing experience.

The other thing wrong with the plot is its inconsistent pacing and explanations. The author tried to put too many ideas into one story; it's just a big mess. It has come to the point where the author is contradicting himself and pulling out explanations out of the blue. And as each chapter moves on, the only thing interesting to happen is character deaths.

Characters, like the story itself, is also copies. Hot-headed young man with power trying to pursue goals with help of childhood friends under a prodigy lieutenant in an organization full of conspiracy that is somehow related to the character's father...yes, it's Fullmetal Alchemist all over again. There is just nothing to speak about them, no originality whatsoever.

I can't give it a 10, 9, or 8. It's not creative, not original, nor full of intelligence. It doesn't bring anything new to the table. It's a mix of Claymore and Fullmetal Alchemist set with an apocalypse setting. It's not qualified for a 7 either. But it's enjoyable. It's fun to read. I appreciate the author's effort to portray the dark themes, and he executes them well. And with a sketchy, unique, and not-moe art style, the author deserves a little praise.

As I said, read it quick, appreciate the intense setting and action. Appreciate the twists and turns. Be overwhelmed by the titans and their actions. Be anxious about the culprits, be thrilled by the conspiracy. Just don't think, don't compare, that's the best way to enjoy this manga.

Overall: 6.25

After reading so many manga, it is hard to find one that will capture you at first read. Shingeki no Kyojin is one of the manga that caught me by surprise and I definitely love reading this.

Story 10/10
Compared to other manga dealing with the supernatural, giants as the main villain is already a very interesting choice. Maybe because giants, even as portrayed in this manga, dont really have special powers; they are just big, very very hard to kill and not picky at eating people. The great thing about this manga is that everything seems very realistic, apart from the existence of the giants. The story is set in a apocalyptic type situation where the last human colony faces giant attack threats constantly. After decades of unsuccessful threats on the giants, the characters in this manga are struggling with fear and hopelessness, they are neither heroic nor optimistic.

Art 8/10
I enjoyed the mangaka's style, it's gritty and at times, messy, but it sets the manga apart from the rest. The characters all have different features, so it's easy to identify them. However, the best part would have to be the way the mangaka drew the giants. They are so horrible and evil and ughhh... It makes you absolutely terrified whenever you see a giant in any page. And the deaths of all the people eaten by the giants were well drawn. ugh. And the expressions of fear and desperation in the characters' faces, makes you feel so bad for them.

Character 9/10
I love that the characters in this manga are portrayed realistically. None of the characters have the illusions of being heroic or optimistic. In fact, each of them are selfish in their own ways. After reading many shounen manga where the villains just wont die, it's hard to believe that the heroes can still remain confident and courageous (bleach's kurosaki, dgray's walker). And in this manga, you can see that the characters are just real people with no special powers or weapons, tired of fighting and seeing deaths around them.

Enjoyment 10/10
This manga caught me right from the start. Maybe I just really like the dark, desperate kind of mood that this manga brings (reminds me of early d.gray-man). The villains, the giants, and evil and crazy and horribly terrifying, The main characters are weak, terrified people just struggling to survive. Amazing read.

Overall 10/10
I would recommend this to everyone. It is really amazing.