Audience reviews
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Franktamas
Review for both part 1 and part 2:
I'm genuinely surprised by how much of a step up this season is compared to the earlier ones.
For the first time in the series, there's a clear sense of narrative causality and coherence. Characters act according to their personalities, knowledge, and circumstances. Most events feel motivated, grounded in logic and built upon prior developments, rather than emerging randomly at the writer's whim.
It almost feels like a different writer took over. The first two arcs in particular enter a territory I can confidently call great. They’re well-constructed, narratively driven, and offer a sense of logical progression that’s been sorely missing in past seasons.
The non-linear time jumps can be a bit confusing at times. They're not incomprehensible, but they…
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When it comes to anime there's a group of people that seems to take pride in the fact that they will actively enjoy a story more if it's animated poorly. I respect people who can completely ignore surface level qualities as if they were reading a book, but I'm not one of them. To me, an anime can't be good without at least a passable level of animation quality. Unfortunately, despite this being my favourite arc in the entire manga, this is one of those anime that is produced so poorly that no amount of writing can save it.
CGI is everywhere, and it's jarring. Characters using their ODM gear have been reduced to still PNGs zipping across the screen. Long gone are the days of Eren doing six backflips over the Trost district before transforming into a titan with a beautiful flash of lightnin…
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Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 1 represents a significant low point for the series. The persistent issue of low-quality CGI, which has plagued the show since its inception, is more pronounced than ever, remaining visually unappealing and disappointing given the series' stature.
The dynamic action sequences that defined the previous season have been notably stripped down, diminishing their impact. Critical plot points are often conveyed through flashbacks, disrupting the season's pacing and coherence.
Following the time skip, character motivations undergo drastic changes that are inadequately explained within the season. The captivating sense of mystery and intrigue that characterized earlier seasons is conspicuously absent, replaced by a less compelling focus on political intr…
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To me, aot ended at the last episode of season 3. After that point, it just wasn’t attack on titan anymore.
Let me start by getting something straight. The plot for this season was not bad. In fact, it was actually good. However, the transition from season 3 to final season took away most of what I loved about aot. Most of the things I loved about aot was the whole tone, with people dying left and right, and humanity fighting a losing battle against titans. I also enjoyed the reveals of when a trusted ally was actually a titan all along. It’s these moments that I enjoy of aot, as well as the hype. Another problem might have been the fact that season 3 part 2 was the peak of the show. The problem when a show has their peak a lot earlier than the end of the show is that everything after th…
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I got motion sick watching one of the episodes, I think it was Ep 4, and it was like watching a slideshow it was really bad. I normally love MAPPA but I think they did not do a good job on this one, can't recommend watching it. The story went off the rails and I just got annoyed with the show by the end of it. The first 3 seasons were absolute peak fiction and this just left me feeling pretty let down I guess. I think it's too dissimilar in style and story for it to be enjoyable for someone who liked the first three seasons.
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SPOILERS for Attack on Titan seasons 1-3 (and Claymore, for comparison's sake)!
I can see that many of the negative reviews for AOT season 4 are awfully nitpicky. I'm not gonna engage in nitpicking and I am not going to latch on to the show's plot holes either. I feel like there are broader and more important elements for me to critique than the minute details. If stuff like the physics of the 3D Maneuver Gear bother you, I don't know how you made it this far with the show.
What happened to Attack on Titan reminds me a lot of what happened to Claymore (manga) many years ago. The entire setting you knew, the one you thought you should care about, turns out to be just a small island in a larger world. A fly in an evil empire's militaristic soup. The monsters that you remember once sending…
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Seasons from 1 to 3 were one of the best anime i have ever watched. I had highs hopes, that final season will be better or as good as the previous seasons. However after watch all 16 episodes i have to say that it was a big disappointment.
This season can be a separate anime. There aren't any significant between season 4 and the previous one. You meet old characters but they behave completely different than they used to and we don't know why.
New characters are boring. They have one feature and that's all, they doesn't change at all during the whole season. On top of that every hero behave very stupid and only stupidity push plot forward.
When it comes to animation is ok but nothing more. In season 1-3 animation was masterpiece and one of the reason why Attack on titan was so popular…
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Ight bro I'm not saying this season is bad, its just that thus season pales in comparison to the other seasons. I was never to big of a fan of AOT in the first place(I think the show is good I rated the other season an 8). This season is worse. in everyway, the animation, story, animation, art, its all a step down. People be giving this shit a 10 an it isn't even close to a 10. Those people fucking tripping' n shit. But in all this season is straight ass, fucking boring, doesn't even compare to great anime's like SAO.
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I finally got round to catching up to this anime after the part finished, and let me say it was disappointing.
the characters are mediocre at best but i cant get emotionally attached to a women who hasn't done anything since season 2 (Sasha)
Gabi on the other hand is the most well written character in S4 and you can care for a 12 year old girl only doing what she was told do, also all her friends DIE in front of her and grown ass men want to beat her up think of someone else's point of view for once in there lives
I was really hoping the levi would die in that explosion with that stupid fucking monkey, he only in the series to show the "TrAgIc FiGhTiNg BaCkStOrY" to the audience his fighting style is to become a Beyblade
Reiner has more plot amour than goku on steroids, he should of d…
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Look how they massacred my boy
Everything got worse in this season. I'm just really sad with happened with this anime.
You can barrely notice that the music is there. It's absolutelly meh.
The animation is awful. It seems that the dialogue scenes received more attention than the fights.
The story got worse but it's bearable at least. The worst part is the pace of the anime, it's almost frozen, nothing happens on the epsodes. My gf sometimes couln't watch and I was able to condense everything that happened in 1 or 2 sentences.
There is nothing more to say about this, so here goes MAL rules
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(I apologize in advance for my poor English)This season of AOT was really overhyped by the fandom and any criticism of it just means that people say you are too dumb to understand it OR "you should be grateful for what you have got ".
Animation - Hands down the worst it has been in the 4 seasons of AOT. Very choppy animation at some places (for example the forest fight), along with hideous CGI for ALL the titan shifters this time, the camera angles and the editing all feels so amateur and like it is done with no passion at all. Still frames for most of the dialogue scenes with that boring brown filter ... I thought we were done with that. If you look at the various shots and camera angles that WIT gave us, along with the audiovisuals they were absolutely stunning, but MAPPA is just a step…
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Oh boy. Possibly the most over-rated series this season by a long shot. As someone who has enjoyed the Shingeki series quite a bit I was so disappointed by this final season, and I really don't understand why it's receiving such raving reviews. #2 of all time? Really? It's going to be a sad day when this inevitably overtakes FMA Brotherhood in the #1 spot that's for sure.
Where to begin... there's so many things I dislike about this season.
The majority of this season follows the story of side characters we've never seen before and honestly don't care about at all. Most them are extremely one-dimensional and very dislikeable with few redeeming qualities. What little screen time the main characters get is super underwhelming and none of them are even remotely the same people from the prev…
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I'm just going to say it: This season sucked.
I'm not some AoT hater, while the series has had its bumps, I've given every previous season a positive score. I like Attack on Titan, but the hype for this extremely flawed "final" season is absolutely ridiculous.
Let's start with the most pervasive problem; this show just isn't fun to watch. The dialog is awkward, the characters shout all the time when it's just not necessary at all, and they beat you over your head with their themes so hard it genuinely made it hard for me to even keep watching at times. Plus there are moments the art shows a character making a reaction face that's just...ugly. Not in a cool, horrifying way that communicates the tone of the scene, in a gross, "I don't even want to look at this" kind of way.
Now, if you re…
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Attack on Titan will be probably go down in history as an anime “classic”. As much as some will dislike the show and this Season in particular there is no denying it. At this point it surpassed Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood as the highest rated show on this website (yikes this didn't age well), maybe partially because of the euphoria and hype for the next Season, but even with that taken into consideration it's a show loved by so many people. And while I enjoy the show I would not claim it to be "peak fiction" or even an extraordinary show.
There are some spoilers in this review, you have been warned.
This Season is a great shift in every sense of the word. At first, we don't even follow the main cast we knew up to that point, then this season is more dialogue heavy than the previous…
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Attack on Titan: The Final Season is an ambitious project. Here we have the culmination of years worth of meticulous planning, foreshadowing and build-up. The narrative apex of what started out as a fairly straightforward survival story, now an intricate weaving of political drama, social commentary and grandiose action setpieces, with the best yet to come.
To pull off a story of such epic scale on animation is not an easy task. Adaptations of the sort often struggle with several difficulties even getting off the ground, let alone actually doing justice to the source material. AOT has been blessed in this regard by an adaptation that while not the most technically accomplished or smooth in terms of production, has remained consistently great thanks to its commitment to a strong artistic…
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Alright I'll be talking about the final season, the manga and will also be acknowledging other anime like FMAB.
First, let me talk about this season. The episodes were insane with the soundtrack, animation and the only drawback was the CG, which was pretty good too. So I'd give it a 9.5/10.
Now let me address the manga and the hype around it. I've read every single chapter and it is honestly an incredibly well written piece of fiction with every single piece of the puzzle connecting. The characters are top tier and a few have had amazing development over the years.
This season's change in perspective and showing that not everything is black or white and is just a spectrum is exceptional. A lot of anime just show the villain being a bad character and might show why they are doing so but…
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If your expectation for Attack on Titan is an anime you can watch on a screen and hear with speakers, then this season will do you well, but if your expectations are a well directed, well organized story brought to life with beautiful animation crafted by a passionate team of talented artists and genius creatives, then you will be sorely disappointed, because unlike previous seasons, this production is so hideously ugly, you’d think Attack on Titan wasn’t the defining masterpiece of our era, which it most certainly is.
There seems to be this odd and ignorant consensus pervading the fandom which suggests any and all criticism aimed at a poor product is somehow a direct insult to the workers who made it, and this is a shockingly immature worldview to espouse. Let me get one thing straight:…
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(TLDR Review at the bottom, as always, thanks for reading)
最後の進撃が始まる。
Attack On Titan. But is it an attack on titans now, or maybe a bigger enemy at hand?
I'm sure AOT needs no introduction, it is that one anime that has spammed up everyone's YT recommendations with drip memes, Eren table scene memes, 10 hour fuck Gabi videos and her getting beat up,ｔｈｉｃｃｋａｓａ if you dived that deep into the culture. When the first episode of the final season came out, it was so powerful not even telling my dad for the Crunchyroll to work was possible. When I say this anime is something else in terms of internal and external events, I mean that this anime is something else. God knows when we are getting another community and anime like this ever again. I am glad I was here to experience this bit of the t…
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Shingeki no Kyojin,a title with many hidden meanings, is a series where a mystery box is slowly unveiled as the characters get developed and the viewer gets more interested in the story as a whole. It isn't the kind of story where one can predict what can happen next. Marley? Eldia? Rumbling? I'd consider you crazy if you told me about these during the first 5 episodes of season 3 part 2.
It should also be mentioned that it is a story that can make one question their own morality as the characters come into dilemmas, as there's no black and white, just shades of gray, every character is a villain to another character, no matter who they are. This creates questions on who's right and wrong on viewer's minds, and I'm a sucker for such stories.
Now, time to get to rating individually.
Story…
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Attack on Titan is a modern masterpiece. It’s not just a piece of fiction which has thrown quality season after season, it’s also one of the very few anime to have broken into the mainstream, so much so that people who do not watch anime at all have experienced and loved it. The emergence of the first season of Attack on Titan drove the series’ popularity to levels rarely seen before in the medium. The long wait before the release of season 2 was a major reason (along with certain pacing issues with the manga at the time) for the dying interest in the series at the time. By the time S2 aired, Attack on Titan wasn’t the global phenomenon anymore. One Punch Man had broken the mold in a similar vein to AoT S1 and become the new big anime amongst casuals and non anime watchers.
Then came Seas…
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