Attack on Titan is a superb anime about giant titans that eat people alive and attack cities. It takes place in a kind of old time world, where they still have rifles with gun powder. Their main means of fighting the titans are these 3D-maneuvering devices that allow them to scale walls and climb up titans easily. In addition, they have these really cool looking swords as seen in the picture above. The character in the picture is my favorite character, Captain Levi, one of the commanders of the Scout Regiment, a group of elite soldiers that attack titans. The only way to kill the Titans easily and most effectively is to cut the back of their necks out.
Anyways, the story focuses on three childhood friends: Eren Yeager (the main character), Mikasa (a great soldier who grew up with Eren), and Armin (a wimp but a tactical genius). As kids Eren and Mikasa fought off an attack in their home in which robbers broke into their house. Eren and Mikasa fought them off and even killed them. This showed their ruthlessness even at a young age. Eventually all three of the characters join the army. While fighting in a huge titan attack Eren gets eaten and everyone assumes that he has died. But instead something else happens. Eren becomes a titan himself! So he becomes a huge giant titan and starts beating up on all the other titans, losing limbs and still fighting until all the titans are wiped out.
When he gets back to human form he doesn't remember anything other than being eaten alive and the army is there ready to kill him with cannons until he can tell them what he is. He yells out to them that he's human. They decide to shoot but somehow Eren makes a barrier and the cannon fire is blocked. Then, General Pixis (an eccentric general) decides that Eren would be a valuable asset to take back Wall Maria so he allows Eren to live and to help. The humans live inside a series of walls and there was a wall that needed to be blocked with a boulder. Eren, with his titan strength was the only way for them to lift the boulder and block the wall off again so no titans could come through.
Anyways, they end up blocking the wall but Eren is brought to a court hearing to decide if he should live to defend humanity and help save humankind or to be killed for being a monster that can barely control his power. He ends up being allowed to live and ends up joining the Scout Regiment, the elite squad of soldiers that kill the most titans. The Military Police, on the other hand is a corrupt organization of the army in charge of other affairs. So the Scout Regiment ends up going on a recon mission outside of the walls when they start seeing variant titans. And even a female titan that is immediately noticed by Armin to be a human female inside the titan because it had intelligence and even avoided killing Armin when it mentioned Eren. The female was trying to get to Eren so Captain Levi orders the entire squad to go to a huge forest where they can try to capture the female titan, who they weren't sure who it was. They end up trapping the female titan but she ends up screaming and calling other titans to come eat her flesh, thus allowing her to escape in human form and join the Scout Regiment. Then, somehow she became a titan again and chased down Eren and the squad. The squad all gets killed protecting Eren and he gets mad and activates his titan power. Eren gets defeated horribly and even gets his head kicked off. Then the female titan puts him in her mouth and starts running away. Mikasa and Captain Levi chase her down and cripple her until they save Eren and make their way back to the safety of the Wall.
Later, the Scout Regiment finds out that the female titan might be Annie, a blond with great fighting skills. So they make a plan to try to capture her but when it fails Eren has to resort to titan form again and this time he ends up tearing the female titan's limbs off and almost eating her. Annie gets captured but she's crystallized in some sort of titan thing and they get no information off of her. But they all agree that this was a great hope for humankind to stop her and that there are definitely more human titans out there, and perhaps they could use them to defeat the titans altogether.
So what do I think of this anime? Its incredible. Its one of the better animes I've seen in a long time and its relatively new still. The ending was a bit ambiguous because they don't get any information out of Annie. Why was she trying to kill Eren? How did she become a titan? Where are the other human titans? Things get unanswered but maybe there will be a second version or something to come down the road. The fights with the titans were great and the death and destruction is at a massive level. This is an anime we can all enjoy.
Anyways, the story focuses on three childhood friends: Eren Yeager (the main character), Mikasa (a great soldier who grew up with Eren), and Armin (a wimp but a tactical genius). As kids Eren and Mikasa fought off an attack in their home in which robbers broke into their house. Eren and Mikasa fought them off and even killed them. This showed their ruthlessness even at a young age. Eventually all three of the characters join the army. While fighting in a huge titan attack Eren gets eaten and everyone assumes that he has died. But instead something else happens. Eren becomes a titan himself! So he becomes a huge giant titan and starts beating up on all the other titans, losing limbs and still fighting until all the titans are wiped out.
When he gets back to human form he doesn't remember anything other than being eaten alive and the army is there ready to kill him with cannons until he can tell them what he is. He yells out to them that he's human. They decide to shoot but somehow Eren makes a barrier and the cannon fire is blocked. Then, General Pixis (an eccentric general) decides that Eren would be a valuable asset to take back Wall Maria so he allows Eren to live and to help. The humans live inside a series of walls and there was a wall that needed to be blocked with a boulder. Eren, with his titan strength was the only way for them to lift the boulder and block the wall off again so no titans could come through.
Anyways, they end up blocking the wall but Eren is brought to a court hearing to decide if he should live to defend humanity and help save humankind or to be killed for being a monster that can barely control his power. He ends up being allowed to live and ends up joining the Scout Regiment, the elite squad of soldiers that kill the most titans. The Military Police, on the other hand is a corrupt organization of the army in charge of other affairs. So the Scout Regiment ends up going on a recon mission outside of the walls when they start seeing variant titans. And even a female titan that is immediately noticed by Armin to be a human female inside the titan because it had intelligence and even avoided killing Armin when it mentioned Eren. The female was trying to get to Eren so Captain Levi orders the entire squad to go to a huge forest where they can try to capture the female titan, who they weren't sure who it was. They end up trapping the female titan but she ends up screaming and calling other titans to come eat her flesh, thus allowing her to escape in human form and join the Scout Regiment. Then, somehow she became a titan again and chased down Eren and the squad. The squad all gets killed protecting Eren and he gets mad and activates his titan power. Eren gets defeated horribly and even gets his head kicked off. Then the female titan puts him in her mouth and starts running away. Mikasa and Captain Levi chase her down and cripple her until they save Eren and make their way back to the safety of the Wall.
Later, the Scout Regiment finds out that the female titan might be Annie, a blond with great fighting skills. So they make a plan to try to capture her but when it fails Eren has to resort to titan form again and this time he ends up tearing the female titan's limbs off and almost eating her. Annie gets captured but she's crystallized in some sort of titan thing and they get no information off of her. But they all agree that this was a great hope for humankind to stop her and that there are definitely more human titans out there, and perhaps they could use them to defeat the titans altogether.
So what do I think of this anime? Its incredible. Its one of the better animes I've seen in a long time and its relatively new still. The ending was a bit ambiguous because they don't get any information out of Annie. Why was she trying to kill Eren? How did she become a titan? Where are the other human titans? Things get unanswered but maybe there will be a second version or something to come down the road. The fights with the titans were great and the death and destruction is at a massive level. This is an anime we can all enjoy.
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