After just watching the first season, I became an official Attack on Titans fan. Yes, I jumped into the bandwagon a bit too late. The anime was released more than four years ago, and it’s only now that I fully appreciate its past paced action and brutality. If Dragonball Z is about fun, Naruto about seclusion and Rurouni Kenshin about redemption, Attack on Titans is more on survival (at least that’s how I see it). And rare among Shounen types are the accurate display of human emotion. The big-eyed design of animes did its job well of showing fear, trauma and shock, and not just the usual anger and grief. The anime has it flaws though, but Attack on Titans excelled on something that most TV animations ignored.

The fights look real.

I know that tethering yourself on a gas powered grappling hook and charging with only swords is not the best way to tackle a giant. We will have more of that later on. But what really impressed me is how they staged the hand to hand Titan duel. There are few high flying and rapid exchanges here, and the fights will make an MMA fan and fighters alike smile.