RE: Anime that is aniMAZING also critique why not
06-05-2013, 08:43 AM
So on a totally radical front, I'm gonna recommend an anime that's not 5/10/20 years old.
It's called Attack on Titan, and I'm assuming you've all heard of it already because it got a bit internet famous; the premise is that the human race, in some steampunk future-past, is trapped behind the walls of an enormous fortress because 10-meter-high, immensely strong and resilient giants are all around them and seem to love killing and eating people because they can.
It's not really deep or symbolic or whatever, but it's a good combination of action horror with a terrible sense of awe. The main character had a chance to be [generic_action_anime_protagonist_01] but instead he's a crazy, horribly obsessed pubescent version of Captain Ahab, which I adore, and the supporting characters get good development even if I don't like them all (it's nice to see people react under extreme, all-consuming existential stress and have totally changed personalities). I mostly got hooked by the overall tone of terrible awe, though, and the plot/pacing/animation does a really good job of conveying the utter helplessness the characters feel and the incredible disparity of power and scale between them and their enemies.
I can't yet comment on a number of things, like "does the plot suck and have a bunch of deus-ex-machina or loose ends?" and "do character arcs get resolved well?" because it's not finished and everything is ~~secrets~~, but on the whole I think it's a great piece of horror anime even if it doesn't turn out to be A Classic For The Ages.
It's called Attack on Titan, and I'm assuming you've all heard of it already because it got a bit internet famous; the premise is that the human race, in some steampunk future-past, is trapped behind the walls of an enormous fortress because 10-meter-high, immensely strong and resilient giants are all around them and seem to love killing and eating people because they can.
It's not really deep or symbolic or whatever, but it's a good combination of action horror with a terrible sense of awe. The main character had a chance to be [generic_action_anime_protagonist_01] but instead he's a crazy, horribly obsessed pubescent version of Captain Ahab, which I adore, and the supporting characters get good development even if I don't like them all (it's nice to see people react under extreme, all-consuming existential stress and have totally changed personalities). I mostly got hooked by the overall tone of terrible awe, though, and the plot/pacing/animation does a really good job of conveying the utter helplessness the characters feel and the incredible disparity of power and scale between them and their enemies.
I can't yet comment on a number of things, like "does the plot suck and have a bunch of deus-ex-machina or loose ends?" and "do character arcs get resolved well?" because it's not finished and everything is ~~secrets~~, but on the whole I think it's a great piece of horror anime even if it doesn't turn out to be A Classic For The Ages.
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