Euphoria14 said: Mr Khan said: Euphoria14 said: Damn, already finished the 1st season of Attack on Titan and sad to not have any episodes left to watch. Could someone recommend me something else similar? I thought it was incredible. Claymore has a similar premise, about elite (biologically modified) soldiers taking on a threat that preys upon normal humans that regulars cannot hope to stop (although it is demons in this case, who operate more on the sly), similar amount of violence and similar tone, but a cast populated almost entirely by women. Trouble with the anime is it has one of those made-up endings, since the manga is still running. I started watching that a couple years back and not sure why I stopped. Maybe because I found that they ended it after just (1) season.   Made up or not, is the ending enough to bring closure for what it was they showed in that season? If so I might give it a shot. Until then I decided to start watching a show called "Berserk". Not the movies, but the older series that has like 25 episodes or something.

Actually now that i remember it, the ending isn't made up. The final fight in the anime has some good emotional weight (compared to Trinity Blood, for instance, where the ending just came out of left field), though ultimately sets up a "we'll just have to keep on surviving and fighting" kind of ending.

Just finished the show and I'm not displeased with it.
Just spent a bit of time reading some reviews on anidb and managed to get myself angered up to the point of going SSJ myself at the sheer mediocrity of the general anime watcher's mindset. But anyway, that's a whole different discussion .

I can say that the series is a pretty good contender to my list of anime that I would recommend.
Very high production values - naturally - and a lot of creative risks recommend this show - a lot of comments are indicative of how poorly received creative risks are these days -. Sure, the story doesn't go where we would EXPECT it to go, it doesn't solve every plot line, it doesn't solve much really....but it's consistent with everything else. Watching Attack on Titan I couldn't help but notice how there is real emphasis put upon the fact that no matter how high the effort, no matter how great the risk involved, no matter how seemingly important the character...everything can ultimately end up not mattering.
And that. IS. AWESOME!
For a series to go so confidently in this direction, considering the current anime landscape, is a sign of a very well thought out risk. For that alone, if nothing else, this deserves our attention.

Also, in recent years I've noticed a worrying trend in anime where the genre in itself has become completely desensitized to violence. I would see in a lot of series violence for the sake of violence, meaningless death and a complete lack of reaction from characters towards this, as if it were the most normal of things - something that has irked me a LOT in almost every recent show I had the patience to sit through -.
Not here.
I loved the fact that death carries weight in Attack on Titan. Characters are killed and that means something to someone. It's not an invincible army bravely marching on and on without any thought to the dead and the wounded. It feels real. It feels human.

Just my 2 cents for this show, now that I've finally finished watching it. I'm pretty happy with this overall and I really hope the quality would stay at least as high as this for a second season eventually.