Attack On Titan / Shingeki No Kyojin Review

Attack On Titan's setting is that perhaps the only remaining people are living inside a city that is surrounded by massive walls. They are constantly sending scouting legions outside which either don't return or return with massive losses. The 50m tall wall usually protects the people inside it unless a Titan attacks, which coincidentally happens in the first chapter. The titan manages to destroy a way for smaller giants to rampage around the city and that leads to this series protagonists, Eren Jaegers mother dying. After a couple of years Eren has joined in to the fight against the giants...

Shingeki no Kyojin has a pretty good idea: it portrays yet another scene of apocalypse for human kind and leaves some questions open such as where do they giants originate from.  
Art of this series starts out at the beginning varying from bad to decent, but in my opinion it improves with time into pretty good (there are some sceneries that can be described as excellent) even though it sometimes looks like a bit presonalized and unpolished: it suits the series pretty well. What deserves some praising are the action scenes of the series, they have a good flow and are well made.

As for the characters I thought at first that it doesn't succeed well with them: The main characters somewhat manage to grow on the reader, but as for side characters most of them feel pretty much to be fodder for the giants to eat. It however may have been the authors intention since you can never know who is going to get eaten. I think that characters are one of this series' weak side, which thankfully gets covered somewhat up with a pretty good story-setup.

The story of Attack On Titan is the reason why I've read this series further: The story in my opinion doesn't pick up too quickly, but if you don't give up before the "happenings" really start then I can say that it's possible for you not to put down this manga for a while.

At the beginning it feels like there's a little bit too much unnecessary dialog which makes me want to skip some pages and that the author isn't focusing on the relevant things enough. If you can look through the flaws that this series has then you are up for a treat: the mystery part which involves the giants and there revelations around them were reason enough for me to continue reading. It's the perhaps the thing in which the author has really succeeded the best in this series and weirdly enough, that keeps surprisingly many readers satisfied. In my case the whole point of following this series may be summed up in finding out more of the giants which proves to be entertaining as the series progresses further, even though the action can't be classified as bad.