Why I Was Wrong About Attack on Titan | The Genius of Episode One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2020
- Attack on Titan(Shingeki no Kyojin) is one of the most popular anime and manga in the world. And yet somehow when Hoodie first watched it, he reviewed it poorly. All these years later and Hoodie has finally rewatched and re-reviewed Attack on Titan, deciding once and for all that he was wrong. Attack on Titan is as genius as everyone says it is. Eren Jaegar is a great character. Mikasa is a real one. Armin's pretty cool too. Now get off his back.
PS. Erwin Smith is the best character in the show, followed closely behind by Reiner and Levi.
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Him talking about watching anime with his mom is so wholesome
Yeah, I'm so happy for him and his mom. I wish mine also watched snk with me.
My mom just finished S3, we will start watching S4 soon ❤️🤭
@@nermeenmohey3692 same! I’ve been trying to get her to watch it for years
@@sarasadiq6918 It's worth it. My mom watched Death note, AOT, Parasyite, and Tokyo ghoul. But she loves AOT and Death note the most 😂❤️
nermeen mohey Death Note is actually the next on my list for her to watch! I think it’s not gonna be as hard to convince her after the first one since there isn’t any more of the “but it’s a cartoon!” prejudice😂 She insisted that she won’t cry from an anime, but during the Armin and Ervin scene (you know), she was bawling, as was I.
Attack on titan's writing is so powerful it made this man go through character development
Lol
I guess you could say he followed his path in life
Frrr
@@payforoxygen i see what you did there
This man.... just kept moving forward....
When Attack on titan makes YOU go through character development.
Lmao
Thats seriously me hahaha
Avatar made me go through character development lmaoooo
LMAO!!!
Def #freedom
When Bertholdt yelled "you spawn of the devil" to insult Armin I thought it was a awkward translation. Now even that line was a small clue to the world building story. Amazing
the words that show the brainwashing of the warriors and what they believe
@@thorgrin7680 The funny thing is, Bertholdt really was never brainwashed, he always knew what they were doing was wrong. But he said that to Armin out of anger in a similar way someone will call someone an idiot, even if they don't truly believe it.
@@thelegacyofgaming2928 the whole fucking warrior unit knew that except Reiner. At least before they all went to Paradi
@@ohboi9578 Yep, that's why Marcel was looking at Reiner in a weird way when they were kids when Reiner was talking about being a hero, all of them probably thought he was an idiot, but Bertholdt was kind enough to still be friends with him.
@@thorgrin7680 idk. if i heard someome talking about torturing the love of my life with glee. pretty sure I'd call them a horrid fuckin devil monster too
- So if someone says attack on titan is a bad show they're wrong?
- Exactly.
You´re precisely right.
Ofc they're wrong.
Basically.
Indeed
They are all wrong if they think Aot is bad
Yes
The foreshadowing in AOT is insane
Went back and watched the civil war arc and when Historia was rescuing Eren she said something along the lines of “Let the world be destroyed by titans, I don’t care”. The significance of that to the manga now blew my mind. The guys been leaving breadcrumbs and hints from the beginning.
@@MarcusSoulCombos spoiler talk here
Theres also a line that Erens says in his fight against Annie when he goes berserk, its anime only but fucking hell "ill destroy the entire world" "im free" hits way too hard now
@@justsomeone6166 Isayama once told the Anime is the final version of Attack on Titan, therefore, the line when Eren was berserker is cannon.
@@Huntlley well at leats he kept his promise
@@justsomeone6166 I hope so. I'll team Eren after all.
The genius of Aot season 1 episode 1 : Wife 1 eats Wife 2
I see what you did there
LMAO
Battle of Wives
Good point.
Lol
Aot is the best anime in anime history, period. No sexual anime lolis, no weird power names, no characters making weird exaggerated faces... just plain real life-like.
Yeahh bro pure awesomeness ^__^
The fact the audience is so use to the giant naked people in the show that it doesn’t fall under the “no characters making weird exaggerated faces” kills me 😂😂
@@Frizzylifts nah I'm meaning like when characters feel extremly happy or angry they makes these cartoony 0w0 faces and stuff. The titan's weird faces are like that because they were (spoilers ahead) drugged people from the titan serum.
Lmfao, not all animes are uwu sexualised lolis. There are a lot that aren't, AoT really isn't such an exception. Are you drunk?
Also, no weird hair colours.
Isaiyama is a writer first, artist second. And it shows.
He's definitely improved as an artist over the years as well. The art in the recent chapters have been really good.
@@jerryaustin3330 Yeah, it comes with practice. His oldest chapters vs his newest chapters is night and day in quality.
@@jerryaustin3330 I disagree, even though he has improved his art is still inferior to any other popular manga artist now days.
@@Mufflin Thats why OP said Isayama is artist second... It is still quite decent imo
@@tofferooni4972 That's why I didn't relpy to OP.
It's nice to see how this show got better with each season and how people's opinions on it have changed.
yeah, we basically started off like eren, a kid who knew nothing about the truth of the world, we all thought the titans were the bad ones and humanity was nearly extinct, however, as the story progresses, you begin to learn the truth along side with the characters and even see their development and progression throughout the story
@@cherobu2288 Season 1: Titans are the bad guys.
Season 4: *Oh fuck*
The show was always great, it's just that the payoff of the mysteries is so good.
If you rewatch from the start you can see so many details sprinkled in there that you wouldn't notice the first time you watch.
@@thenooboverthere3882 literally rewatched s1-3 so its fresh in my mind for this season and holy shit was their so much detail that you don't pick up on at all the first go around. Definitely a show you need to watch at least twice.
It was literally a seinen disguised as a shounen untill season 3
One of my favorite things about Attack on Titan is how it tricks you into thinking this is going to be just a fun turn-your-brain-off type of action romp, and then proceeds to deliver one of the deepest and most complex stories you’ve ever seen
Tbh you’re weren’t necessarily wrong. The creator of AOT said it he had no complex narrative for it. That all changed after he binged GAME OF THRONES
@@hmgclipz6808 actually breaking bad, watchmen,game of thrones etc.
Inspiration ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡.
Plus isayama might just have been being modest
I’m gonna be honest. I was one of those people who thought it was overrated and boring. But during this quarantine i saw a lot of talk for the Season 4 trailer. I was looking for something new to watch so I caved in and started watching it. I recently finished Season 3 two days ago and can confidently say Attack On Titan is one of the best anime i’ve ever seen and i’ve never felt so happy to have been so wrong.
My soldiers rageeeeeee!!!
Can't not love this show
@@jd2161 "I said advance gotdammit!" oh Erwin I wish you learned the truth
you went from thinking it's overrated and boring to changing your yt name and pfp to eren jaeger lol
@@hotdogga Fr 💀
Best*
Zeke Yeager: I outsmarted you Eren
Eren Yeager: Well I outsmarted your outsmarting
Spoiler
.
.
Eren has been playing chess in the 5th dimension
@@sakesithole6295 Both figuratively and literally lol.
Jaeger
@@sakesithole6295 I REALLY HAVE TO CORRECT HIM THO.
AOT is a SEINEN
NOT
a Shonen...
There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE.
That's why is very different from Naruto and DBZ. We can't really compare them.
@@ljeans531 it was aimed for teenage boys so it is shonen, unfortunately it got more attention from middle aged women in Germany so is it a josei
Description: Erwin Smith is the best character followed closely by Reiner and Levi
Season 4 Eren: Allow me to introduce myself
Yes
Eren : I just keep moving forward until. ................
I still like Reiner and Levi more than eren
@AussieBoy I feel like S4 Reiner is a better character than Eren but I could see why Eren is better.
@@zacurrya9485 he meant as an “character” Eren was written better than Reiner and Levi altough Reiner is pretty damn close to him
*Kato:* Attack on Titan is a Masterpiece
*Gigguk:* Ah, I see you've been through character development as well
Hahahaha Not Gigguk🤣😂😂
@@ionlydrinkjesusmilk7256i totally agree. I liked AoT since the beginning but now, I absolutely LOVE this anime
@@ionlydrinkjesusmilk7256 what he meant by that it was just another shonen show with main character with a single goal,but season 3 changed the whole show,I agree the first season is a banger to watch but that season alone can't be deemed as masterpiece if it wasn't for isayama's phenomenal writing
@@ionlydrinkjesusmilk7256 he called it “attack on Titan is incredible now”. He never said it wasn’t good in season 1.
@@ionlydrinkjesusmilk7256 you said he “implied it” which he did not at all.
*In Russian accent* "In Attack on Titan, characters develop YOU!"
This man changed his mind because it was all part of Eren's plan
Lol
lmaooo Eren made Isayama write Attack on Titan
We all know that 😉😉
it's all part of erwin's failsafe plan
@@MrFarenheit *just another day for the survey corps hehehehehe*
Lol this is what u call smart. Deliberately making a video wen S4 starts.
Indeed, very brilliant though also probably a byproduct of him picking up AoT because its Final Season was starting soon.
@@paragonnight437 yep
@@FiggFig fr silly you tubers 😂
Gotta take advantage of that algorithm
@@dogestep64 fr it’s annoying though
The unique history, many plot twist, a well constructed back history, a lot of emotions and violance. This anime is already one of the greatest ones of all time with less than 200 episodes.
@@the-meriem945 I really don't, even though I also think that AoT is the current best Anime, FMA:B, Elfen lied, Parasyte following.
Honestly, less than 200 hundred episodes probably helped in making it good, as much as some people want a show to go on forever, there's a limit to how long something can be before it becomes all fluff.
@@valarmis fax
Doesn't it have less than 100 episodes?
@@sir_sack was just about to say that
The writing is so good that it managed to impress me twice. First time was following the story with all it's twists and turns all of the cool or heartbreaking moments and crazy decisions. Second was when i rewatched it. There are so many hints and foreshadowing but are so well made and so well placed that it's impossible to grasp them watching it the first time. Rewatching offers a totally different experience which is equally as impressive as the first watch.
Nah ur wrong the first time watching an anime is always the best experience and sadly I wish I can do that again with all the animes I’ve watched but it’s impossible 😪
Dude, take note of the first episodes title:
"To you, 2000 years from now"
I PROMISE you that that'll be important for Season 4... It's an INSANE testiment to how far ahead Isayama planned for this story...
i was rewarching entire series just recently and noticed the title... holy shit that's so brilliant
RIGHT?? Isayama knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he picked up the pencil it's actually scary
Cant wait for "from you, 2000 years ago"
And don't forget the season 4 spoilers in the first opening... Isayama already knew the ending of his manga at the beginning of writing it... A true genius...
You also have to think about the fact that he planned to end the story much faster and more brutal but when the anime got popular he decided to make the story longer with more depth to make a different ending that is less brutal but at least bittersweet. Not every author can do that without messing up. Think about it foreshadowing in season 1 is still relevant to S4! His plans for the ending may have changed but the quality did not drop but got better. He did all that without changing the original elements of the original ending but somehow worked with it. What a mad man!
Translation: "I'd really like those AoT S4 hype views!!!"
EXACTLY
@@mcphoenix8815 I REALLY HAVE TO CORRECT HIM THO.
AOT is a SEINEN
NOT
a Shonen...
There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE.
That's why is very different from Naruto and DBZ. We can't really compare them.
@@ljeans531 nah, it's still a shounen even tho it feels like a seinen, simply because it's published on a shounen magazine.
Maybe he looked back and rewatched AOT _because_ S4 is coming? That's what I did, at least.
@@ljeans531 no its shonen
"The world is cruel and merciless, but it is also very beautiful." - Mikasa
I'm a mom watching AOT with my son. We have been discussing so many important philosophical issues thanks to the show. And, wow, what fantastic storytelling! Possibly the greatest I've ever seen--and I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
Season 4 still has reveals dating back to episode 1. Can’t wait for people to see it!
Spoiler
Man when "From you, 2000 years ago" happens, the anime onlys will freak the fuck out
@@joaoassumpcao3347 Spoiler
Chapter 120-121 are probably more in line with reveals set up from long ago, specifically with Grisha looking at Adult Eren in chapter 1. Simply because chapter 122 is far more vague with how its connected with chapter 1 and we didn't really got fully confirmed connection, so we just gotta assume atm.
I really thought Attack on Titan did a great job with horror, and making humans seemingly insignificant. I never thought it was boring, though. I always felt something was missing, though, which season 2, nd later 4, would change.
That was actually my biggest thought as well - it never has any kind of power creep. A series like this would absolutely be forgiven for starting to treat the feral Titans as lesser threats, once things like Eren's powers and the character's ability to defeat them became cemented. But even at the very end, when we're having a climactic battle with the Beast Titan and his gang, the big Titans are never presented as the next danger. It's always "There's a bunch of Titans here, _and_ there's some big ones with dangerous powers to top the whole mess off".
Yeah I loved that. They have canons and weapons designed to kill titans but it still dosent work all the way
The words "because I was born into this world" really reached my soul. Like...you realise we are all living inside walls too? We create all sorts of boundaries to make it so difficult to explore the world outside our birthplace.
Same.
I went from "lol, this anime is soo weird. it's okay, not that great tho"
to "SASAGEYOOO SASAAAGEYOOOO SHINZOUU SASAGEYOOO" haha
Same, I convinced my family to watch the first episode wit mw, and when it was finished, my mom told me I wasnt allowed to eat Thanksgiving with them😭😭😭 lmfao
SAMEEE OMG 😱
me tooo it was because i was too strict and critical that i didn't enjoy it that much but when i decided to rewatch it again i was like alright enough being so critical i just wanna enjoy this anime AND IT BECAME MY FAVORITE ITS SO AWESOME
Now it's IF I LOOSE IT ALL SLIP AND FALL I WILL NEVER LOOK AWAYYYY
@@mrlank4325 SUSUMEEEE
You actually didn't like it at first until Erin went back and told you to like it
Lol true
Attack on Titan is up there with the greatest stories ever told and I'm an anime only.
Surely , GOT doesnt even come close ,mainly becuase of character building done poorly
As a manga reader I can indeed agree with you
@ND AR You are in for a treat my friend
@@Hrishtam Funny how my friend (who loves anime) got me to watch AoT by comparing it to GoT. They aren't even in the same league anymore.
@@extraplain2412 wait wats GOT
Remember kids, never join the crowd and hate things just cuz it's popular.
Form. Your. Own. Individual. Opinions.
Great character development
But no development what so ever after mappa took it lmao just slap some CGI on it and call it a day
@artery Don't even try to tell me that WIT used as much CGI as Mappa lmao WIT only used it on colossal go watch S3 hardly any other titan is CGI the beast, the cart..etc all hand drawn, working doing pandemic isn't an excuse many entertainment studios including movie makers and what not postponed their productions to make something better in the end, i'd happily wait a couple more years for something of quality because AOT is so dear to me i want it to have a proper ending with the best animations to compliment the other decent 3 seasons
Max Ayoub
Self Entitlement much?
Imagine judging an entire season because of a single episode, way to jump on the shit train.
And they had a much more limited timeframe than Wits. Why the fuck did you think Wits dropped AOT 4?
@@maxayoub9412 hardly used CGI? am i the only one seeing landscape CGI then on every longshot WIT studio made? Or the terrain moving instead of the horses? Or the terrain moving instead of the titans in any longshot AHAH
@@maxayoub9412 do you work on a studio? Are you an animator? Or better yet, do you have a job? Have you ever heard of deadlines, among other stuff like idk... having other projects beside SnK? Why do you think WIT STUDIO dropped SnK in the first place? And why do you think they’re dropping this season now? You’re acting like hand-drawn is better when the final seasons have TITANS running most of the screen-time, especially during Rumbling. This bloke do be jumping on the hate-train lol.
“Boy was I wrong” yes, yes we know, -every single time I rewatch an episode it’s like the I’m watching it for the first time, you can just keep watching this anime and it keeps getting better and better literally possibly the best show ever created
Also it seems every single time you rewatched an episode to break down the exposition of the plot build up you also realized damn I keep finding new stuff in this anime 2 fold haha
@@maxlopez439 Yes! I rewatched it with my roommate after catching up to season 4 and it's completely different when you pick up on all the hints
Attack of Titan stands after a decade because the author really thought of the story and how the characters are so human and relatable. Not the biggest fan of animes but AoT is one of best stories out there.
“why does it have such a german aesthetic?”
*oh my god how did he know*
I mean they're literly stuck in a medival era because they're too busy to stay alive from giant monsters
@@arashparthian_112 not really the medieval but its closerto the renaisance age
@@ervandrafadhlil403 Inside the walls anyway
*screams in WW2*
exactly what I was thinking LMAO mom im scared come pick me uuup
I actually thought Attack on Titan was overrated for the 4 years after Season 1 finished. Now, I think it's super underrated and my favorite anime out there.
No! Very Overrating.
@@babc6394 Nope, the hype it gets is nowhere near as much as what Season 1 got and now it definitely deserves the hype it got throughout Season 1 and more. Underrated.
@@kurimiaisukurimu yeah yeah.. this is theme of AoT. "minor spoiler"
Not just argue about how right are you when you don't know what the other people's side.
There's a lot more to it than that lol
@@kurimiaisukurimu Then you should know crunchyroll server crashed because of the traffic. Did this happened when AOT S1 released!? Stop spreading bullshit. I know you love AOT and me too. But don't be a jackass. Please.
The moment I started watching Attack on Titan I fell in love with it. It stands out from the crowd in all the right ways. I've never seen another show/story with such a totally unique and fascinating premise that was executed with this degree of care and excellence. On my first watchthrough of the show I absolutely loved it. However, I recently re-watched seasons 1-4 and my mind was completly blown. Usually the more I analyze a show, the more holes and issues I find that lessen my enjoyment. For what might be a first for me, Attack on Titan is the complete opposite. Watching through the show the second time, it became very apparent to me just how much thought Isayama put into EVERYTHING and JUST HOW GOOD the writing is. It's actually incredible just how chilling some of the scenes from the second and third season are now that I truly understand the charachters.
If you like shows that have a lot of hidden foreshadowing you might like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and it's season 2 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, are both really good. I haven't gotten around to finishing the new season yet, but I did see a couple of episodes of it.
@@chironthecuddley6144 sounds interesting. I remember not really caring about those things that much but now I can go on and on about those things in any show.
Hearing you say it was mediocre broke my heart
Even I thought it was mediocre when I started watching it but now I'm so wrong 😂
facts don't care about your feelings xd
When I watched the first episodes I thought it was just an average show and gave up on it, then a few months later I decided to still give it a shot and I definitely don’t regret it
@@antonikudlicki1100??
AoT in my opinion is one of the best animes out there. I really appreciate the amount of effort that Isayama put into this amazing story. Can’t wait for season 4
that aint your opinion bro, you're spitting straight facts
One of the best STORIES. its seriously a classic . Its a study material for literature students
@Anon yeah I hadn’t watched it at the time lol but you’re right it had just released when I made my comment
@@Hrishtam Then you never read literature.
@@Hrishtam I agree! I have studied Shahnama, Beowulf, Mahabharata, Poetic Edda, Homer, Macbeth and I know for a fact that Attack on Titan is as good as those.
Some people say that you shouldn't judge an anime by it's first episode.
Instead I choose to point at anime like Attack on Titan which does everything right in it's first episode. We are not judging a book by it's cover after all, but it's first chapter. There are just too many anime these days that fail to impress with it's pilot episode, isekai in particular. I just wish more studios would look at the anime that do it right. In just the first episode Attack on Titan establishes basic worldbuilding, introduces the main cast of characters, introduces the antagonist, has some foreshadowing and shows off the protagonist's motivation and goals. The first episode can't get much better than that. I don't expect every anime to do all of these things, but the viewer should at least have a basic idea of what to expect. From the first episode of Attack on Titan most viewers would expect the rest of the show to be about Eren fighting the titans, which would be correct. It's too much to ask of the viewers to stay interested if you don't give them a good enough reason to.
Sorry just had to get all of that out there. Anyway, nice video.
Yeah the only isekai to get me hooked first episode was shield hero but that’s because it had a 45 minute first episode
Edit: and konosuba but that’s different
Yeah they did introduce eren which he both the protagonist and the antagonist of the show.
@Lionard Kirsch I haven’t watched ngnl but rezero really only gets started in the second episode
@Lionard Kirsch also I didn’t mean for it to come off that way but their is a bunch of shows I love, that the first episode wasn’t crazy it’s just those are some that the first episode was just really good
Totally agree
This show is fuckin nuts. I get just as hyped with its dialogue as its action scenes.
I just keep moving forward.
Bro, Hannes was such a good character, I never got the chance to really appreciate him until after he was gone, but damn does it hit hard knowing he's gonna die when you re-watch the series
I think that's the point of his character, to hit us in the guts about the people in our lives that we may have treated the same, taking them for granted until after they have left our lives, then it was too late!
Him/her
I remember when I didn't think this show was all that special after watching season 1.
Boy was I wrong.
Edit: 139 brought this from a 8-9/10 for me to 4/10 so damn fast.
same sis, I honestly thought it was overhyped but goddamn it deserves all the recognition
FR
Idk why people felt this way. It was obviously good and people went out of their way to hate on it. Even if you didn’t enjoy it as much because people hyped it up you had to at least look at it objectively and say that it was good.
BOI WERE WE WRONG
@@iciest.icy.n.icy.rice.1 press F for floch
yesss!!!! I cannot express how much I love aot, if I was given a choice for only one anime to exist, I would have chosen AOT without a doubt. The best story telling, the masterpiece of a plot,foreshadowing , betrayal, loss, anger, the way that this story isn't just about the main character . Its not just Eren's story, its armin's , annie's, levi's ,erwin's , ymir's, mikasa's, reiner's, everyone's , that what I love the most about AOT.
The foreshadowing, the twist, the pacing and the story itself is really perfect for me!
What I like best is how the world has real consequences but they naturally evolve. In season 1 you have people living behind walls, in fear of the titans and with little to no understanding of them. By the end of season 3 they have killed nearly every titan on their island, understand their nature entirely and are grappling with the history and geopolitics that brought about their situation. Its a steady, unforced and comfortable ride that takes you far and away from what the story first started out as. A less confident writer would of kept people riding around on horses, slashing titan necks for ages because that was what selled.
I agree. Isayama definitely knew what he was doing. He planned the story from start to finish and didn't just wing it like a lot of manga authors do.
Character development, Realistic Emotions, Relatable characters, etc
It's got everything a good series needs
By relatable I mean season 4 Reiner
"good" is and understatement after reading the latest chapters i just hope the writer doesn't fuck up the ending.
@@bouzianenadhir8503 by the looks of it, isayama isn't going to
@@03.ximipa3ahmadrinofarosmu3 he pulled the greatest shit ever....😂😂
Still don’t know how you can see a series about human’s living within towering walls hiding from Titans and the dawn of humanity upon the first episode and scream textbook typic series.
Ikr?! What textbook type of series is that?
I'll tell you how:
be ignorant
*drops mic
Basically he thought that AoT is going to be another zombie series, with Titan as zombies
@@sehalos I definitely did at the first episode lol
I don’t understand why it would be mediocre as well. The concept is very unique.
The writer clearly knew what the end goal was and I gotta admit I never really expected the sharp turn it took after the basement reveal which I also didn't understand immediately lol.
I completely agree with your theorizing point, and it's something I've started to notice with all my favorite series as well as the series that have disappointed me the most (rest in peace rwby)
damn....... i remember when rwby theories dominated my youtube feed and i was so invested because everything seemed like it had a purpose. a damn shame.
@@rayvaughn4855 what is rwby ?
@@theflashgordon193 an anime inspired web series made by a company called rooster teeth. It has 8 seasons so far, 4 of which that are up on TH-cam. You can check it out if you want. Personally, I think the series falls off after season 3 but I recommend you still give it a try.
@@rayvaughn4855 ok I will give it a try thank
@@theflashgordon193 important piece of context about rwby that may shed light on its drop in quality after the 3rd season. during the production of season 3 the show's creator, animation and most likely creative director, Monty Oum. tragically passed away due to a severe and unexpected allergic reaction. the result being that rwby was left as a ship without a captain.
All I'm gonna say is
"From you,2000 years ago"
That moment will absolutely blow anime onlies away.
I dont know how the hell my brain came up to this but when I saw your comment i immediately replaced all the titan screams with *YAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!*
Seriously what the hell is wrong with my brain?
@@deoxi3207 maybe Eren told you to think so...
i remember being in elementary watching aot when it first came out and i always wondered if there would be another season. but when seasons 2 and 3 came out i didn’t even know until last year so i binged it all now i’m fully caught up with s4 p2, what a journey it’s been, gotta be back at my top ten anime
SAME!! those days i was playing attack on titan in roblox and waiting for the next seasons. kids these days will never understand being an attack on titan day one.
I let my mother watch it when I started watching the show in the living room, she's not a fan of anime, but damn she would rather finish a season than cook us rice.
same😂
"Erwin Smith is the best character in the show, followed closely by Reiner and Levi." - The Description.
That's how I knew you were a man of good taste before even starting this video.
Did Eren tell you that
Exactly Erwin is goated but honestly after s4 eren will be the best character followed by Reiner
@@showssports4281 True.
Erwin and Reiner are great characters but Levi is just so overrated 🙄
@@sastaassh1112 fan girls do take it kinda far but he’s a great character regardless with a great backstory, likable personality, funniest dialogues, and just overall ever cool character in the first three seasons I’ll say he was the second best after Erwin
Oh boy, this final season they will come back to that first episode multiple times, and that first episode will become 1000 times better because of the dread that came even before it and how much it actually foreshadowed the far future and in ways probably even the upcoming ending...
Honestly, I used to be right there with you. I thought Attack on Titan was little more than a blood saturated nihilistic despair factory of waste and barbarism. That it survived solely off of Walking Dead style *shock factor* and beautiful animation alone. (Not to mention the stellar soundtrack, that was never in question).
However, the later parts of the Manga and Season 4 have radically altered my view of this story. The storytelling is so deliberate and tight, almost nothing feels wasted... Which is saying a LOT these days as too many shows just feel like a waste of time. (Looking at you Game of Thrones and Walking Dead).
is this a joke? after that ending it's way worse than game of thrones
@@sunny_senpai Lmao!... Now that's a joke! You're a funny guy!
Funfact: Isayama, Attack on titan's author, is a fan of game of thrones
@@jawnlouiseordonia8291 I recalling him saying that... Back before season 8 made the franchise sh*t the bed. The way it ended actually worried him.
@@SirMattomaton He exaggerated, however, the ending was very lackluster and poorly written. Really fumbled the bag.
What’s really crazy is how the writer uses “known plights” of different peoples in AOT. The people of paradise island and the Eldians in Marly almost mirror the field vs. house slave mindsets. Two groups of people that are one in the same but view each other based on their relationship with their oppressor. It’s amazing that he could package it so well. Great content btw. Subbed.
The anime of the decade, finally back.
The end of season 3 subtly gives us the reason why Eren had that dream in season 1 episode 1.
and when he asks mikasa when her hair got so long 👁👄👁
Wait but he didn’t have the Titan power by that point, so does that mean he was destined to receive it regardless?
@@skyt8327 yes
@@skyt8327 yes he is. you will see (i hope they animate it) that Eren is much more then we have see
Spoilers
Not really. The "thing" with Kruger seems pretty unrelated to Eren's dream in chapter 1. It is either something not yet revealed or due to Ymir sending some sort of memories to him as implied by the end of chapter 122 (which also has a paired title with chapter 1). Also of note, the dream in the manga is different from the dream in the anime due to Isayama not yet being very involved in the anime's production, so that tends to confuse some people as to what Eren probably saw.
So I recently finished watching up to the end of season 4.
Immediately turned around and binge watched it again. Twice in a month. Yeah... it's that good
The way AOT is structured, you really can't judge individual seasons by themselves because each subsequent season expands upon a lot of the concepts introduced in the previous seasons that it retroactively improves them. AOT season 1 is fairly okay alone, but then season 4 came all the way back and provided so much context for season 1 that season 1 became absolutely incredible for how much its set up paid off.
Back when I was searching for negative views on AoT, I found your video and was immediately disappointed when I found you hadn’t completed the show. The previous review was full of arguments from ignorance, holes often fulfilled from the first season.
I’m so glad you finished the show and changed your mind. People weren’t upset at you the first video iirc, they just disagreed with your take. You’ll be easily forgiven by the masses, especially since you admitted your faults.
It’s awesome to see you reevaluate your feelings on Attack on Titan. Especially since I went on the same journey. I loved it when I first saw it, but people saying that it was “babies first anime” made me distance myself from it out of shame. I only recently put it BACK on my favourites list as one of the best shows I’ve even seen
I kinda had a similar experience, actually. I watched the first season with my mom like 5 years ago or so in middle school, and was largely disinterested. I kinda held the same issues; seemed uninteresting, blah blah.
I saw people on twitter just a few weeks ago talking about how good the show was, that it was ending, and decided to just jump back in from the beginning and give it a second chance.
Literally just watching the first season again changed my mind. Realizing that they were alluding to Annie being a Titan shifter since her first introduction, and that Eren was far from the only shifter, made me realize there was a lot going on. And since I'm older, all of the characters' nuances were much more relatable and feeling. By the first season, which I had already watched in full, my mind was changed.
I caught up to where S4 Part 2 is now just on sunday (happened to be the same day a new episode came out, lol) and my god. This show officially fucked me up. The amount of thought into the world, it's circumstances, and the story beats all before he had to have written before he even started on the story itself; it's just mind-boggling. The amount of thought every action, thing, occurence, even menial has is inspiring. It's the kind of thing I want to do myself. And just hearing literally any intro, outro, impactful song has me sobbing in minutes, thinking about the characters, the story, Mikasa's abs... Only something you would call a Masterpiece could make you do that.
Attack on Titan is a fucking masterpiece, plain and simple. All writers, artists, and influencers should aspire to this level of creativity, planning, feeling, and accomplishment that Isayama has.
I was also thinking the same way as well. I watched the first season and was like "ahh, okay... this is interesting" but it never gotten me further than that. I thought it would be a hundreds episodes of anime with no exact direction, just humans vs titans spiced with a bit of betrayals, dramas, and twists here and there without intend to ending the anime. Then I continued to the 2nd season, just because why not. And I was hooked and started to think "holy, this show is amazing".
"Birds trapped in cages" as vogel im kafig plays
perfection
Attack on Titan as a Shounen is really unique in Story writing, Plot and character development the foreshadowing is executed excellently and would not spoil you to the upcoming climax in the plot progression in the story
Years ago, I saw a car ad with titans and wondered what the hell that was about so checked it out... From season 1 it grew from interesting to awe inspiring. This is one of the best stories in any form I've ever encountered and to think I just randomly stumbled upon it! It has such a beautiful melancholic air surrounding it.
Just the reoccurring themes in the story that were introduced in that first episode such as the wall being a cage and how it impacts the characters is gorgeous.
AOT shows does mystery so well have so many question and each episode pays it off and goes super depth explain all super clear, to then bring up more mystery that start expanding the world they live in.
I remember seeing the first season on netflix for years and never giving it a chance because it looked like it would be not my thing and now look at me, freaking out over season four
I’ve had it in my watch later for years now I finally started it last month and I’m so glad I did
Ohhh boiii wait til you read the last manga chapter that came out today, gives even a whole other perspective on this episode
I literally just watched another creator who made a video saying after they revisited aot that their opinions had changed so seeing this video right after that one is a pretty neat-coincidence ;)
@brien think the channel’s name is manime ^^
Last season just started. AoT is gonna be bringing is all sorts of views, lots of people are gonna be “changing their minds” on the story.
From Eren 10 years ago: Suicidal Bastard
To Eren 10 years later: Homicidal Bastard
GENOCIDAL MANIAC
He’s boutta get the worlds first “omnicide” achievement
I remember watching the first ep, and thinking, *this is gonna be huge*. Such a masterpiece.
I'm really glad you watched this masterpiece, seriously I remember the PAIN I had to go through, the TED TALKS I had to give my friends to convince them to watch AOT after dropping it after the first episode just beacuse some people said it isnt good, and now here they are literally bawling their eyes off by just the thought of it ending lmfao.
Man, it’s gotta be awesome that your mom watches Anime. My mom still thinks I am watching cartoons.
Exactly, what a lucky dude
I can't even get my dad, a Star Wars fan to watch Star Wars The Clone Wars and this man has his mom watching one of the most gruesome "zombie" stories and theorizing with him... I'm not jealous at all... not even the slightest...
The only anime I got my parents to watch was Ghibli stuff like Spirited Away. My mom liked it. I think they are still traumatized by the first pokemon movie they watched on the cinema and the endless Dragonball reruns they were forced to watch when we were kids.
They did like Game Of Thrones, Pacific Rim, Star Wars, James Bond and they love the MCU. My dad even liked that mediocre GitS movie with ScarJo. I will try to introduce them to AOT, try telling them it is GOT that doesn’t shit the bed.
I kind of got my mom to sat on the couch for one season, one day straight because she was bored of Indonesian telenovelas. Got my chance, so I took it. She took it as a "meh cartoon?" at first but got angry when we reached the female titan part, and I told her we should rest and continue tomorrow lol
She refused to continue watching in fear of not being to sleep at night but continuously asked me if the anime's finished so she can watch all of them at once.
Then, she told me "so animes are like this?" Yes, mom, the one I liked are these ones. "All of them?" Well there's gintama but that's a different story--
@@roretagirsang9274 dang congrats
i fell in love with aot since almost 5 yrs ago when i started the anime and nothing makes me prouder than hearing compliments abt this show 😭 it will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart (esp Levi ❣️)
So many random hints, like what eren said about mikasas hair when he woke up from his dream, erens oath to kill all monsters outside the walls, and mr jaegers promise of showing eren the basement, even though he wasn’t looking at eren(manga). They all were given meaning in season 4. Such an amazing serious I really want a continuation
Kato: ''A show my mom would like"
SnK episode One: The mom gets eaten
2:02 that's a really cool metaphor
And it is so true in AoT's case, especially knowing what's gonna happen in S4... It feels like Isayama already foreshadowed most of the story in the first season and no one caught it lol. Shit is crazy, but Isayama is truly a genuis.
@@Osama-KIN_TMZ01 PLEASE I’m an anime only but could you give like three examples without spoiling me ? I’m up to date with everything (ANIME ONLY)
only because I really agree with you but haven’t rewatched the first three seasons since they came out so have forgotten for the most part :)
@@jeithelocalist9212 You are treading a dangerous path. If you ask around like this, some idiot WILL spoil you.
Theres no way to "hint" at what's coming without spoiling plot points, so I'm not going to do that. Needless to say: buckle in, it's going to be a wild ride.
@@jeithelocalist9212 I'll tell you one minor detail in an earlier episode/chapter that was easily overlooked.
At one point, Reiner, Ymir, and some other soldiers were holed up in a ruined castle that was recently being used by someone unknown before them. Ymir was hungry so she went looking around until she found a can of herring. It was labelled in a different language so Reiner asked Ymir how she knew it was herring. Their conversation got interrupted when titans started attacking.
It seems its only people who are ignorant of media in general who thought AoT S1 was average.
Anime splits up the seasons but in reality its 1 large story who no seasonal splits in the source material. The beginning is just a set up for the rest of the story. This would be clear for anyone who isn't ignorant to media as a whole.
With a bit of thought it was clear, even back then the show wasn't playing all its cards, with so much foreshadowing through all of season 1.
I mean episode 1 is called "To you 2000 years from now"
The 4 year break didn't helped either :/. I find it funny that i hated it at some time and now i love it to death
@@gyro6181 you love both AOT and Berserk? I like you
Wait isnt it 2000 years?
*2000 years
I love this anime, ever since it was released... just wow, to see how far its gone. The manga is just incredible
Hannes decision to ran away with Eren and Mikasa from the smiling titan was a wise choice. Since the later season revealed that Hannes really has no match with the smiling titan and ended up being eaten alive.
Imagine if he got killed in the first episode for facing against the smiling titan, eren ang mikasa would've been eaten also and Eren's founding Titan and Attact Titan would've been transferred to Grisha's first wife. What a twist
Eren didn’t have either at that point in time he got them a little afterwards because Grisha at this point was eating the fritzs’
AOT is going to be the greatest anime after this season wraps. The storytelling has been stellar and the adaptation from the manga has been perfection. The manga should be studied in a lot of literature programs. Great anti-war piece. And I mean it, it should get a Pulitzer. That's how good the writing has been for this story.
Been a while since this channel has been active Katō but glad your back
episode 1 Of Aot Is Probably one of the most iconic first episodes of an anime ever
Ok, I know this show is amazing,
But I still kinda feel like people don't talk about the 3d manuevere gear enough, like they do Alot, but like wow
Like imagine zipping around with that stuff 😍
Like as a sport, just imagine how cool that's be 🥺
Attack on Titan is so good bc it starts off like a Shōnen then becomes a seinen. Isayama is a magician with his writing
Rip to those who stopped watching the show after Season 1. Hahahahaha I watched around S2 so i was safed with those 2013 over hyped.
Yeah lots of FMAB, Eva, JoJo etc gatekeepers mad salty right now lol
I watch it during the overhype..... not actually heard any bad comment thought because im not super into anime community during that time :)
And probally because im like 9 during it airing.
@@GPEGEMGTM3 They're so damn annoying
Stopped being involved with the series fo a few years now and oh boy feels good to be back. I remember I jus got restless of waiting for Season 3 Part 2 and decided to read the manga and it was an immaculate experience reading up to a good portion of what now is known as Season 4. I love how the series progressed from the mysterious and terrifying environment of season one to now a literal war between two sides
One of the best TH-cam analyses I've ever seen, kudos to you my man. Especially the observation about people theorizing due to them trusting that the writer is building a coherent narrative world.
The moment when you know about the 2000 years thing, and you look back to Chapter 1.
Remember that time the colossal titan is the biggest, HAA !!! great days
Wow, what an impressively deeply layered assessment. Great content!!! Well put together and really easy to listen to.
AOT ep 1 was literally THEEE best ever first episode of any anime ever created
Ysayama has the best writing I've ever seen, everything that is happening currently was taken into consideration when making the very first parts, you find references to the last event of the manga in the first episode and there's also a chapter telling the invasion from the Invaders' perspectives, believe it or not there are still things which haven't been about episode 1, which is very impressive
"To you,2000 years in future"
"From you, 2000 years ago"
Don't watch season 1 it has spoilers for season 4
I cannot fucking wait to see this animated!
Legend has it that it’s not possible for one to still dislike the show through the Trost arc. My Dad has always been very insistent that he does not like anime, however my brother and I are 4 episodes in with him and now he’s hooked. He gets legitimately upset when the “to be continued” screen comes on signaling our viewing time is over. I am so happy that this series exists and even happier that now I get to share it with my favorite people in the world.
Season four will make you appreciate the first episode even more. You will understand soon. I am a manga reader and the first episode has more significance then you might think.