At long last, he picked up the damn boulder. If I were a more cynical person, I might ask questions like the following about Armin and Pixis’ master plan: If Eren, as a titan, can pick up a rock heavy enough to block the entrance, why can’t another titan push […] Read more

At this point, it seems as if you can pretty much fill in the blanks of an episode of Attack on Titan before it starts. I’ve been trying to remember another action shounen that moves as slowly as Shingeki no Kyoujin does, and it’s not easy. It is a tale. […] Read more

It’s nice to see some forward movement, and it’s mostly thanks to one character. I’m kind of torn about Dot Pixis, for the same reasons I’m of two minds about this episode itself.  I’m beginning to see now why Attack on Titan is apparently infamous among manga readers for the […] Read more

Nope, definitely not getting any less silly. My reactions to Attack on Titan continue to be somewhat different than with most series.  I find myself laughing at seemingly inopportune moments with alarming regularity, yet it doesn’t make me dislike what I’m seeing.  I’m not sure whether this is because I […] Read more

He’s back, whether you want him or not… I guess this is the day for gender-bender characters in anime.  There’s Yeti (Wiseman’s antics have me more convinced than ever that he’s a snow boy) and in a series where I didn’t necessarily expect to find one, we have Hanji (Paku […] Read more

Well, the “what” turned out to be pretty much as expected – hopefully we get down to the “how” next week. I was walking around in Kiba yesterday.  It’s very much a working-class commuter neighborhood, about as far from the bright lights of Akihabara or Shibuya and their countless tourists […] Read more

Best strap the seatbelt on tightly, because we’re fully back in JoJo mode… Damn, but the mystery aspect of this series is really interesting.  To be honest I still rarely find myself caring much whenever a character says anything (apart from last week’s ep, which was very effective) and I […] Read more

This was really the first episode of Shingeki no Kyojin that played exactly like what I was expecting before the series premiered. I’ve made a point not to look at any reactions to this week’s episode of Attack on Titan before posting, but if I’m going to guess, it’d be […] Read more

I won’t lie – my favorite part of this episode was the last 15 seconds. I know I’ll once again take a lot of flak for comparing this series to Kakumeiki Valvrave, but despite the obvious difference in overall quality (again, Shingeki is certainly better) there are some pretty important […] Read more

There’s more than a little JoJo in Attack on Titan, now that I think about it. Kakumeiki Valvrave gets a lot of flak (not entirely without reason) for being a bit of a scattershot affair, but I’m not sure why Shingeki no Kyojin seems largely immune from it.  While certainly […] Read more