Attack on Titan is an amazing anime that excels in all areas. It's artwork, design, storyboards, colouring is all first rate.
The story is also large, complex and often very unpredictable. What makes it even more interesting is that all of the main characters in the story also don't know what is going on... everyone, including the viewer is racing to find understanding. However, despite having a large, complex story, at this point in time, the story is extremely complete. Everything appears to be well thought out and every detail has been accounted for. Even though many of the ideas are very foreign to us, everything is heavily grounded in a form of realism allowing the viewer to follow along and drawn into the story with ease.
Attack on Titan features a large number of characters, which is to be expected from such a large story. Their crisscrossing relationships and ideals make this world all the more compelling and complex. It also begs the question that even if they solve the major issues with the titans, will their world, like our own be any more stable and or safe?
Although the conflict in this story is truly unique, it's also completely relatable. How do relate to our fellow peers? How do we overcome fear?
Perhaps by watching Attack on Titan, not only are we being entertained, but we can explore the same questions from the safety of our homes.
As this is my favorite anime to date, I give Attack on Titan a 5 out of 5.
I'm eagerly awaiting season 2.
The main story is very simple. It's about a young girl and her step brother and sister and their struggle to find a life free from danger. However, as the story progresses you start to learn that there is so much more to the story that the characters can not even understand or contemplate.
The artwork is a little older with muted colours but the designs are still very good and the animation is very polished.
Not all of the characters develop in the story which I think makes the story just a little flat. However, a number of the characters within the story do develop to different degrees.
The conflicts are essentially fairly easy to understand but towards the end I feel like both the characters and the viewers are confused to greater and lesser degrees. It does explain everything in a way that the viewer will understand, but at the same time it's just a tip of the iceberg type of understanding. The explanation suggests a much larger story that is not explained in much detail.
Overall, I give the Scrapped Princess a 3 out of 5.
This anime feels like a small window into a big story. Although the main story does wrap itself up neatly it obviously needs more seasons to complete it. The character development is very shallow, largely because the character themselves don't remember who they were.
The artwork is lovely and the designs are very well done, which is to be expected from the game development process. The colouring and animation is also very well done. As a side note, I'll also mention that Shining Hearts has a very cute soundtrack. Their composers did a great job.
The main conflict in the story is really hard to put in context for both the characters and the viewers because no one knows the back story. Our only clue is the allusion to the idea that there are more episodes to come which will explain everything.
Shining hearts -Shiawase No Pan is very cute but with such limited character and plot development I give it a 2.5 out of 5.
Mai Otome originally premiered in 2005 and it features a group of girls and women that with the help of nano machines become superior fighters that keep the peace in their world.
The artwork and animation is clean and complete but some of the design and colour choices feel older in style to me.
The conflicts are both relevant to the story and to young viewers as the story touches on school bullying amongst other things.
Overall, the story at this time feels incomplete to me. I've read that it was purposely left open ended to allow for more story development. Although I did enjoy watching Mai Otome, until the story is more complete I give it a 2.5 out of 5.
Cautions: There are a few concepts in this story that could be unsettling for Western viewers, such as the two young teenager girls falling in love with a middle aged man. Please use discretion before watching this anime.
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