Not to mention the art direction being somewhat generic for its genre. There's only a handful of notable cuts throughout the entire run. I'm kinda surprised how mediocre the animation was, especially in an action series for BONES, but they were probably dumping all their resources into Darker than Black at the time. I can see why some people like it, mainly due to the atmosphere, but I'm left apathetic to the anime as a whole. It's not a good thing when the ending of the show reminded me of Blood-C. I wasn't impressed with the characters, art direction, animation, storyboarding, or general story premise. It's one of BONES more forgotten shows and I can see why. Duckroll and somebody else here recommended it so I decided to give it a whirl. I finally got around to watching this show in the past few weeks as I've been meaning to start it for a few months now. IIRC the manga (no spoilers, just impressions) The series has some crazy good action scenes, and the titans are awesome villains. I'm not sure how it could have been better integrated though - maybe after the fight? Also, the flashback occurs in a weird spot, kind of interrupting the "wdf" aspect of the twist. Two things bugged me about the most recent reveal, in hindsight - the rest of the troop keeps walking long after Mikasa stops, and this looks a little awkward, especially because they do eventually stop but by that point should be too far to hear. They just didn't seem super important, but they were there, and their prior scenes all make sense with this new context. When I read the reveal in the manga, I was like "who the fuck are all these characters and why should I care?" but all of them - Ymir, Historia, Reiner, Bert - they've all been there from the beginning. Going through the series again with the knowledge of the most recent reveal was super interesting. The four year gap between seasons somehow imprinted on my brain that there was a time skip between them of a few weeks, but nope - the most recent episode happens just a couple days after the Female Titan incident. Should have done it before the second season started though, not after. Really enjoyed going through the show again, really reignited my love of the series. So I'm not going to entertain those kinds of episodes with my enthusiasm anymore. It's like the anime industry is continuously whispering in my ear: "Original Super Robots are dead, that's your lot." Not some random episode of a show with a plot that has nothing to do with super robots. I want to see 2D super robot animation from a full-length 2D Super Robot show. It's honestly painful at this point, seeing great 2D Super Robot animation WASTED on one-off forgettable tributes to a subgenre of mecha from a bygone age. This exact same thing happened with Flip Flappers episode 8 and one particular episode of Active Raid that I can't be bothered to remember the number. I'd get all excited over some good 2D robot sakuga and jump up and down about how good it feels to see a good mecha thing again and we'd all forget about it like it was nothing of significance. Normally that'd have me racing to watch the episode but then it hit me like a ton of bricks to my face on how it was all going to go down. You know! The one with the cool mecha on it! I thought about watching LWA 18, but I decided not to after looking at the screencaps.
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