Dormin111 Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Attack on Titan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/) is a new anime show which just popped up on Netflix with very good reviews. I had never watched an anime show before and decided to check it out due to the cool premise and sheer curiosity. I was not disappointing. It's about a post-apocalypse scenario where most of humanity was killed by these mindless humanoid giant beings called titans, and the survivors now live in a small walled off region. In the first episode, the walls are breached by a new type of Titan and the ensuing attack kills about 20% of the surviving humans. From then on, the show follows a group of young soldiers who join the military to fight the Titans. The philosophy and aesthetics of the show are fascinating. The primary over-arching theme is about the importance of total warfare. Most of the good guys act like the villains in any other military-themed story, by continually pressing for extreme measures to defeat the titans, while the bad guys are either too cowardly, mystical, or weak willed to do what's necessary to fight back. The protagonist borders on the psychotic in his drive to destroy the titans. Aesthetically, there are a lot of romantic elements. The characters all represent clear concepts or moral ideas, even minor ones. The art style is beautiful, and the Titans are brilliantly creepy. Has anyone else watched it? If not, I recommend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiuol Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 I started this recently, I'll post about it when I finish! Most of the best anime I've seen in terms of intellectual depth (some are shallow yet good, i.e. FLCL) express something about heroism and epic struggles/conflicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairnet Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I watched it. It has some interesting themes. A critical moment is when an officer (Levi) challenges the protagonist (Erin) to put his faith in himself or put his faith in the military, and then he says that he doesn't know which choice he should make, but that he has to make a choice even though no one will know the outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Buddha Posted January 29, 2014 Report Share Posted January 29, 2014 Not to hijack a thread..... but does anyone remember when this was broadcast in the early 1980's? Star Blazers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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