Anime 40028 Shingeki No Kyojin The Final Season Reviews Filter Check 3

If your expectation for Attack on Titan is an anime you can watch on a screen and hear with speakers, then this season will do you well, but if your expectations are a well directed, well organized story brought to life with beautiful animation crafted by a passionate team of talented artists and genius creatives, then you will be sorely disappointed, because unlike previous seasons, this production is so hideously ugly, you’d think Attack on Titan wasn’t the defining masterpiece of our era, which it most certainly is.

There seems to be this odd and ignorant consensus pervading the fandom which suggests any and all criticism ... aimed at a poor product is somehow a direct insult to the workers who made it, and this is a shockingly immature worldview to espouse. Let me get one thing straight: you can say whatever you want about WIT Studio falling victim to Kodansha’s unfair and unreasonable production scheduling in the third season just like MAPPA is now, and how that lead to a double split-cour which ultimately wasn’t even enough to assure consistent quality throughout part two, but you must also admit pointing out these things is nothing more than a diversion from the far greater travesty of animation before you now. Attack on Titan: The Not-So-Final Season is a disgrace to the franchise which came before it on every visual level, and to say so is in no way to deride the overworked animation staff at MAPPA. Am I going to sit here and deny the existence of the throngs of rabid keyboard warriors on social media sending them death threats for producing such appalling CG and embarrassing 2D animation? No, but those people are foolish children with too much time on their hands, and by echoing their indisputably warranted criticisms, I and others like me are not justifying their acts of disrespect and harassment, so I urge you not to feel sorry for saying what you see clearly in front of you and criticizing it for what it is: an ugly, cheap anime.

After episode six, I officially became a manga reader, since I simply could not let this atrocity be my first experience of Attack on Titan’s brilliant story, and what I found in the manga was absolutely stellar shot composition which I had previously thought was simply a product of Tetsuro Araki’s adaptation. Obviously, Araki’s heart-stopping visual direction and irreplaceable cinematic instinct made the anime adaptation what it ultimately was, but Hajime Isayama’s knack for framing an iconic single image when it mattered most still shouldn’t be overstated when the final season here has neither directorial flow nor memorable cinematics. The new character designs which pride themselves on their close resemblance to the original artwork found in the manga simply cannot use their adherence to the source material as a defense of their janky anatomy and inferiority to the beautiful artwork of Kyoji Asano, and the new music cannot use its passable composition as a defense of its utter incompatibility with Hiroyuki Sawano’s constantly recycled tracks. I understand this is a somewhat particular distinction to be made, but with the sheer amount of blatant animation shortcuts used throughout this season—not even counting the CG—season three part two looks like a studio trying their hardest while grappling with a ridiculous time table, whereas this looks like a studio using a ridiculous time table as an excuse to not try their hardest.

But nevertheless, does the masterful writing save the day and make this thing worth watching? With how much is cut out, rearranged, and left unfinished, I would say no, but that doesn’t make it bad. If anything, the narrative has only gotten better and the themes have only gone deeper. With the basement and its contents finally revealed, the series had to occupy the world it so suddenly established and situate the story as we knew it within that world elegantly, and even with the content from the manga which got butchered in translation, it absolutely achieved this feat. As it demystifies Marleyan society and rationalizes the international bigotry towards the Eldian people, it builds the foundation for one of the most interesting and morally provocative conflicts I've yet to see portrayed in fiction, and it does so with complex characters who never fail to inspire emotion, or inspiration itself. While Attack on Titan: The Not-So-Final season is, indeed, not the final season, it’s still an adaptation of a manga, so it continues the story with more or less the same degree of excellence as the first three seasons did, and while it abruptly ends on a cliffhanger mid-arc, that’s more a testament to the fragile production than the source material, its quality of writing, or the acuteness with which said writing was brought to screen. One thing’s for sure, though, narratives as enthralling as this come once in a generation, and it’s a shame this one is receiving such paltry treatment.

This review was originally going to be a lot more sentimental than it turned out to be. To cope with the extreme dejection I felt after watching such a dishonorable end to this once-great adaptation of an unequivocal masterpiece, I was going to try and write this review to examine the final season as a standalone work while simultaneously offering an all-encompassing retrospective on the modern classic that is Attack on Titan, but after WIT Studio dropped it and MAPPA shit it back out in such a visually repulsive and structurally incomplete fashion, I accepted the fact I couldn’t really do that anymore, and my enthusiasm burnt out along with the quality of the show itself. I’ve lost my motivation to even mind it anymore, and if the fact this season is among the highest rated anime on MAL didn’t make this obvious enough already, you all don’t seem to mind Attack on Titan anymore either. The reality that such a magnificently made work of art could receive such a stark downgrade yet still be well received by the exact same fanbase solely because they enjoy entertaining the mere idea of it is not only a sad reflection of the culture surrounding the work, but a cruel insult to the first three seasons which were only able to be the dazzling spectacles they were thanks to the back-breaking work ethic and tremendous talent of the original staff who so naively thought their admirable labor and impressive results weren’t lost on the audience, who’s appetite all can now clearly see as being apparently, totally mindless.

Thank you for reading.

Attack on Titan is probably one of the most overrated animes of all time, and to be honest, I had high expectations about this series. Before I continue, this review will cover the series from the first season to the fourth one, with few minor spoilers.

I have to admit that the scenario and the atmosphere are pretty cool, you can feel the decadence of humanity, the empowerment of the soldiers when they want to achieve something, the desperation they have when they fail, and the epicness that the music has is incredible, all along with a great art style; the world is amazing, painstakingly detailed, ... and it doesn't feel just like a background.

Yes, the aesthetic is great... but everything else was disappointing.

The characters wobbled between a bad and a mediocre level of quality, their characterization is erratic, or they are directly so flat that it hurts, Mikasa, Levi, Sasha Blouse, Erwin Smith, etc, barely have any other personality trait beyond being an emo or an outgoing person, and some of them don't have a proper exploration of their motivations, despite they are relevant characters, we don't have a personal connection with them, "the Titans killed their loved ones" ok, but we don't know how good their relationship was, since we just ASSUMED they used to have a good relationship with their loved ones (acording to what they've told us)

Historia is a weird girl for multiple reasons, first, she claimed to be the "Humanity's biggest enemy" and then, she becomes the queen of the realm she supposedly hated, and she also decided that her life purpose will be to save everyone. Then we have Eren... Jesus Christ, he is the author's spoiled baby, there were so many moments when Eren should have died, but thanks to the magic of the plot armor, He survived! And don't forget that he's the carrier of a big superpower that makes him so special; you could say that this does not cause anything but a pain to him, but I can't believe that bullshit when the author is constantly saving him so deliberately in such epic ways over and over again.

Factor shock is the main characteristic this anime has, we had deaths of characters who we never met in-depth, or the best we've got from them was a flashback... minutes before they died, such a way to waste the potential of some interesting characters.

The anime stretched the main mystery to the top, either by some Diabolus ex Machina, such as the moment when Annie Leonhart got freeze or the amnesia Eren was carrying. There were so many moments when the great mystery could be solved, but the story decided to delay the big revelation, just to make the plot longer.

The political issues in the plot were... very stupid... I mean, the king was a useless asshole, and no, he wasn't a puppet, he literally was a retard who was sitting on the throne, just to feign he was the authority... and no one in the town had suspicions about him?... ok?

Anyway, I could spend hours and hours speaking on every single flaw this anime has, but my point is clear, this anime is shit 4/10

(SLIGHT SPOILERS FOR SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN AHEAD, WATCH THE OTHER SEASONS BEFORE READING!!!!!!)

Attack on Titan has been renowned throughout the years as one of the greatest anime to come out of the 2010's with its massive fanbase and incredible hype, and it's easy to see why. It's gory, it's a shonen with a somewhat unique plot, typical shonen main character and a hot side character and the great animation combined with great sound. However much i hate this series, i always praised it for some great scenes with animation and music that was unmatched by other anime. Season 4 of attack on titan lost those ... two things that made it somewhat enjoyable to watch.

Story: 5/10
First of all, the battle between marley and the mid east allied forces here makes no sense and isn't explained further but we will let it slide since it doesn't really matter. I don't care how important all of this talking is, but i didn't come here to see these people talking about who will be the sucsessor to whatever titan. It's a snoozefest, and the few action scenes we get to see are really short and boring. In classic AOT fashion, it shows the viewers some extremely long dialogue and utterly boring conversations between chracters that seems somehwat important but really is just there to make us think this story is deep. Absolute trash, the only reason it's getting hype is because of the fangirls losing their minds and soaking their pants because they saw Zeke smoking a cigarette. The incredibly mediocre story of the show has just gotten worse, turning in to some boring trash garbage.

Art: 2/10
This is the worst part about the anime. The only reason it gets two points is because it is a little more accurate to the manga compared to the previous seasons, but it's still awful. MAPPA obviously don't give a shit about the animation and decided to ruin the one thing attack on titan had going for it with terrible cgi that is hard to look at. Even during scenes with no action, the charatcers seem loose and move like an abnormal titan. The animation quality has dropped lower than my balls did. The armored titan looks like a big piece of meat covered with wood combined with iron mans eyes and the beast titan has a body 10x bigger than it's head, looking idiotic. It's like replacing Godzilla's head with Donkey Kong's left nut. As bad as the titan's look, young Reiner looks a bit less dumb now which is a plus. If it's this bad already, how are they plannng on making the Warhammer Titan look remotely good? The later parts of the series are going to be hard to animate and it seems like this series is doomed. MAPPA are concentrating on Jujutsu Midkaisen it seems. Attack On Titan fans lying to themselves trying to tell themselves that the animation is good is like Playboi Carti fans in denial after Whole Lotta Trash forcing themselves to like it, in denial.

Sound: 5/10
What the fuck happened to the banger openings this anime had? Guren no Yumiya was a 10/10 opening, Sasageyo was a banger and every other openign was decent too. Now instead we have someone just singing gibberish with visuals that look like a 2020 gender reveal. One thing is for sure, the opneing reflects on how absolutely trash this series is. The overall sound in the other scenes is decent, but not as good anymore. Very dissapointing.

Character: 3/10
What is there to even say about this. Eren went from a crybaby to a homeless man trying to sound cool with his wise words which just turn out to sound cringe considering this is the kid who was screaming non stop in season 1. Reiner is on the verge of killing himself which is completely his fault. Shouldn't have chosen that path buddy. And now to the new ones, Gabi is a dumb kid who just gets lucky during battle. Falco is probably even dumber; "I just want to protect you Gabi, that's why i'm ruining your dreams and taking the titan from you so my family can be honorary marleyan and yours can be devil eldians!". Pieck is possibly the most overrated girl in this series, she looks like a zombie and is almost as ugly as her titan. She hasn't done anything other than trying to look cute. Why is she getting hype? Horny 14 year old fanboys that have never felt the warmth of a woman. Everyone else is the same. Zeke is the best character in the series but so far he hasn't done anything than smoke a cigarette.

Enjoyment: 3/10
This season is so boring i'd rather watch paint dry or even try to read the Dragon Ball manga without getting a stroke. Seriously, all this dialogue is just making me hungry. After the episode is over, I feel like I got nothing from it. Nothing new happened and we move on to re-read a chapter of Berserk aka peak fiction. Trash anime.

Overall: 3 pity points/10

I'm just going to say it: This season sucked.

I'm not some AoT hater, while the series has had its bumps, I've given every previous season a positive score. I like Attack on Titan, but the hype for this extremely flawed "final" season is absolutely ridiculous.

Let's start with the most pervasive problem; this show just isn't fun to watch. The dialog is awkward, the characters shout all the time when it's just not necessary at all, and they beat you over your head with their themes so hard it genuinely made it hard for me to even keep watching at times. Plus there are moments the ... art shows a character making a reaction face that's just...ugly. Not in a cool, horrifying way that communicates the tone of the scene, in a gross, "I don't even want to look at this" kind of way.

Now, if you read my reviews of previous seasons, you'll notice all of these things existed in the series prior to this point. Those seasons made up for it with bombastic action scenes and powerful character moments. This season...doesn't. Okay, that's not completely true, Reiner got fleshed out a bit and it was pretty good, but that's literally it. The action was a major step down from previous seasons, the returning characters all get shoved to the background until the end, and the new characters...oh man do they suck.

So if the things that made previous seasons great are missing, surely they replace it with something equally engaging, right? Right? No. We spend a ridiculous amount of time with two brand new characters, Gabi, who is somehow a less interesting and nuanced version of Erin McYells-A-Lot from season 1, and Falco, who's somehow a less interesting and nuanced version of Reiner. To be fair, I actually like what they're trying to do with these two, demonstrate how hate and war are a cycle that will continue from generation to generation...unless individuals each choose the hard path to not seek revenge and stop the violence. This is actually beautifully demonstrated when a father chooses not to kill the soldier who murdered his daughter in order to set a good example for his other children. It is then immediately ruined when one of his children immediately tries to exact revenge themselves, rendering his noble action meaningless. Gabi and Falco are equally confusing, you can make the case Gabi is only the way she is because of the environment she was raised in, but Falco was raised in the same environment and came out completely different, so she really doesn't have an excuse, she just sucks as a human being. Is that the point the series? Some people just suck? I guess that's a valid idea, but is it an entertaining one? No.

And this is all just the surface level stuff I've been complaining about. The more you think about this season, the more it falls apart. Like how the 5 year time skip, and subsequent radical changes in personality, robs us of any connection we had to these characters, or how, at the end of the day, this whole season was almost completely pointless because they're still in the exact same situation they were in at the end of last season, except now the main character is an unlikable douchebag. So...if this season isn't fun to watch on a superficial level, and it's not engaging on a deeper level, what's good about it exactly? I genuinely can't tell.

Story: 1/10
The story in AOT had been pretty mediocre since the beginning. It had begun making sense in Season 3 however with the backstories and all of what had happened in the past looping back in and making sense, but S4 seems just all over the place introducing another country's perspective of sorts which just doesn't seem fitting at this point to do. Not to forget that the world building is as shallow as can be, with the entirety of the world building revolving around only two countries while many a times the characters mention "the world will see your acts" or things like that ... bringing in confusion as to "who do they mean by the world?" because they have never actually shown any world beyond this.

Art: 1/10
The art in Season 1, 2 and 3 was pretty good, if not the best I have seen in anime in general. The art in this season is like slideshows. They animated Mikasa like a guy and Armin like a girl. They animated the Survey Corps attacking a titan like flies going around on the screen, without any laws of physics on it, it's like a single pic that was moving around as if in an Adobe FlashPlayer animation. They didn't even animate a whole titan because they didn't want to draw 13 frames.

Sound: 2/10
The overall sound of the anime is really bad, when it comes to the character voicelines. Armin was voiced by a female seiyuu clearly, doesn't match with his past voices. Much of the sound design of the anime overall is not good, I have given an additional point however for the ED which I really love.

Character: 1/10
This has been consistent for me since the beginning, nothing has changed to it even now. The characters are still just as bland and lacking character as they were before, they have made changes to Eren but I don't see how that has happened or what has made it happen. Same with the other characters, they show a change having occurred but I don't see where it comes from.

Enjoyment: 1/10
It's still a struggle for me to watch the anime in its totality. I had dropped the first season way early when it was still airing, but now that I have somehow managed to pull myself up and watch the series in its totality, I thought I will leave a review here on the 4th season. When it comes to enjoyment, the fourth season is going very slow and is not enjoyable. There are obvious pacing issues, the animation is pulling it back majorly, and the sound design being so mediocre also pulls it back. The consistent bantering about "the world" not aligning with what they have shown us till date also brings the enjoyment down considerably because we just cannot relate to who they mean by the world.

Overall: 1/10
Still as bad as I remember.

Attack on Titan is one the best work of fiction that i have read/experienced in the past decade. It might be the best one depending on the manga ending. It is the reason why i am wasting 45min+ of my life writing such a long review. Because it is that sort of work that quite literally made me rethink certain things in life. It deserves it.

Now, i am not going to go too much in-depth as to why i think Isayama is a genius and attack on titan's writing is a masterpiece, i will go straight to the reason why i despise the ... season 4 of the anime, adapted by MAPPA.

So why am i giving it one star?

You see, we are in a strange circumstance with the final season of attack on titan. It used to be the case where people hated the use of CGI and hated rushed adaptations with bad animations and bad direction in the anime community. I can still remember when people consistently made fun of naruto vs pain fight a while ago, and criticized the bad animation in Naruto. It was commonplace.

Or WAS it, really? I would argue that this is still the case, even to this day!

Even in 2021, NO ONE LIKES cgi.

Even in 2021, NO ONE LIKES rushed or mediocre adaptations.

Even in 2021, NO ONE LIKES bad direction.

But the thing is, most of these other shows where other people are vocal about these issues, are usually mid if not straight up garbage plot-wise. So as soon as more superficial aspects such as animation and direction fall apart, people are quick to notice and point at it. Making it far easier for the average joe with no attention to detail to feel like what they are watching is complete garbage. So they point towards the nearest culprit, that being the studio.

HOWEVER, Attack on Titan has such an amazing plot and story that many people are willing to completely overlook that, the majority of the time without even realizing it, in a subconscious level.

The plot OUTSHINES anything MAPPA could possibly spill on the screens.

Before season 4, WIT had consistently provided what must be without doubt one the best animation in the industry with Attack on Titan. Not only that, but they had Tetsurō Araki as the Chief Director for seasons 1-3. THIS GUYS IS A GENIUS. He is the same director behind death note and the potato chip scene. THE POTATO CHIP SCENE!!!!!!

CGI is not the only problem with season 4. It's also the DRASTIC decline in quality of direction compared to previous seasons. In impactful moments such as Declaration of War during episode 5, Armin's transformation, etc, the difference is brutal. I can GUARANTEE YOU that WIT would have delivered us with some otherworldly genius direction, usage of OST and some mind blowing SAKUGA during all these moments. THEY ALWAYS DID. They always EXCELLED at it.

I could argue and exemplify this about any of the many impactful scenes on season 4, but i am going to stick with Armin's transformation to avoid giving any spoilers.

WIT would have probably taken many different shots/angles of the explosion, show buildings and citizens near it being blown up/running away from it. Maybe show a woman on the ground looking at it and being engulfed by the explosion. They would have built up to that moment with the OST. Made the explosion EXTRA impactful by having the camera upclose and using many animation techniques to make the explosion look even more menacing and powerful, and almost make the viewers feel like they got caught in the explosion themselves. Done some crazy animation thingies where armin gets slowly covered by the colossal's fibers and the titan's flesh. His face would have probably shown the colossal titan's face amidst the lightning... God, who knows! My point is, those guys are creative beyond believe.

What did Mappa do?

Armin takes the hood off, camera immediately turns towards those horrible CGI titan models of the Attack Titan, Cart Titan, Beast titan. Explosion in the background. Then it goes back to a still shot of the Colossal titan with a drowned out OST in the background. THAT'S IT.

Where is the... magic?

Where is the direction we are used to? Where is the creativity? Where is it?

Why do you think Bert/Reiner reveal will forever be one of the most memorable moments of attack on Titan. Why?

DIRECTION. OST. ANIMATION.

WIT ARE CREATIVE GENIUSES.

MAPPA turned all impactful moments in season 4 into nothing but a mediocre, panel by panel adaptation from the manga, with some CGI in between. That's just not the quality that many people, me included, were expecting for the most hyped season of the show coming from the manga. THIS IS THE SEASON WHERE ALL DOTS CONNECT. It's where AoT's storytelling truly peaks.

It deserves MUCH better than that!

What would have MAPPA done in Bert's/Reiner's reveal? Do you really think they would have achieved the same level as WIT? NEVER. Even with all time and budget on the planet.

You can literally see every single fiber of Eren's titan forming as he punches Reiner face and drags his face across the wall. You can feel the impact and power of their titans while they fight. You can see the half human/half titan face mixed during the lightning of the transformation. They never, ever halfassed during those moments. They went far and beyond. The SAKUGA was off the charts.

Again, WIT's direction used every single tool at their disposal to make every single impactful moment from the manga ten times more impactful in the anime. They IMPROVED every single aspect from the manga to the anime. They made AoT with LOVE, they did not treat it like just another project/money bag.

Getting a mediocre adaptation that lacks those very same things in the most memorable of all seasons just sucks. Ngl. It's such an incredible waste of potential. AoT could have been not just the anime of the season, but one of the best shows to air in the last two decades. It's just so undeserving of this masterpiece.

And what's worse? People are content with it. Because the plot is good, and they associate that to MAPPA doing a "perfect job". Or give other excuses such as MAPPA not having enough time to do so, when they agreed with that scheduled and said they could do it themselves.

So we will sadly, never get a proper adaptation to this season like WIT delivered to us in previous seasons.

If enough people raised their voices, if enough people showed their discontent, maybe. Maybe the production committee would tell MAPPA to drop it for a while and work on it more before releasing. Maybe MAPPA would do it. But it's too late. What was born with in highest quality will die in mediocrity.

Now we just got to accept the future and keep moving forward.

The story just continues to be brilliant, especially for viewers who haven't read the manga. There are new characters emerging with good development and seeing the old characters as adults is really nice. However, it is a pity that you don't really experience the development of the old characters, instead new characters are introduced right at the beginning.

Sound-wise the anime is still very immersive and the music really enjoyable.

BUT: The CGI animations are horrible. All the Titans and even the scouts were animated with CGI. As a result, the animations run at what feels like 10 fps. Some claim that the CGI is barely ... noticeable. Even my grandmother with her poor eyesight noticed the difference right away, and pointed it out when we watched it together.

The last season was unfortunately ruined by the bad animations. Very unfortunate.

I honestly have no idea why this show is anywhere near the top much less the second highest rated show on this platform.

The first 3 seasons were good but this one really drops the ball in my opinion. And no I'm no complaining about the CGi. It's not perfect but it can easily be overlooked if there was a good story behind it. And in my opinion the final season of attack on titan doesn't have it.

I would have waited until all of the season is out to make up my mind about it, but when the first half of it already it out and ... it's this bad I really don't see how the rest can do literally anything to salvage it.

My biggest problem has to be the stupid time skip they added. Don't get me wrong. Time skips can work. But not like this. The first time we even see the main cast is like 5 episodes in to the season and they're changed to the point that I honestly can't bring myself to care about any of them. Characters changing and developing is usually a good thing but the difference here is that I didn't get to witness any of the change and growth. So these people are like completely new characters that barely resemble the main cast I've been following for the past 3 seasons. With how they're spent they're time I literally care and know more about Gabi, Falco and the rest of the new characters than the people who I'm supposed to have spent 3 seasons getting to know.

Yes, the fight scenes were cool. But they would have been just as cool as a clip on YouTube with absolutely no context. I will probably still finish it just because I have nothing better to do with my weekend but if you for example have some anime in you're "to watch" list. Then go watch those instead of wasting your time with this show.

Look how they massacred my boy

Everything got worse in this season. I'm just really sad with happened with this anime.

You can barrely notice that the music is there. It's absolutelly meh.

The animation is awful. It seems that the dialogue scenes received more attention than the fights.

The story got worse but it's bearable at least. The worst part is the pace of the anime, it's almost frozen, nothing happens on the epsodes. My gf sometimes couln't watch and I was able to condense everything that happened in 1 or 2 sentences.

There is nothing more to say about this, so here goes MAL rules

Disclaimer: I love the source material, I think this is a nasty adaptation.

Tldr for this review, the animation is balls.
The first season of attack on titan came out when I was in 8th grade, now I'm 20. I love this series a great deal and season 3 was so good I went and read the manga. Of course the trouble with that is I no longer get the enjoyment of finding out what happens in the show, and so I am forced to critique the adaptation rather than the story it's based on since I already know it.
When I'm watching a show and the ... animation or direction is so bad it takes me out of what's happening, I like to play a game. I count how many shots and how much time elapses between still frame/cgi and animation. With this season, I find myself doing it at least once an episode, and the results are sad. I find that on average there is one slightly animated shot every 30 secs to a minute (characters head shifting while talking, character running but you don't see their legs) and no actual animation. Remember all those cool shots of Levi flying all over the place from earlier seasons? dead, no more. The scouts and titans are now 100% CGI except for still frames, and the Titans are CGI in still frames as well.
I'm no CGI elitist, I didn't care about CGI in the earlier seasons cause it was used sparingly and looked good or at least passible, and the gorgeous 2d animation compensated. Everything looks so fucking goofy now, I can't take anything seriously with the way things look. Nothing fucking moves, this is the biggest anime of the year and it looks like shit. MAPPA is capable of making it look good, look at the animation in GoHS or Jujutsu Kaisen. Worst of all everyone is closing their eyes and saying it doesn't look like shit and calling everyone who says it looks like shit a "CGI elitist."
In conclusion,
Fuck you MAPPA bye bye, I torrent all my anime anyways.

Watch this if you don't have time to read the manga
4/10 for now

I see many 9-10/10 reviews and I cannot fathom to see how anyone comes to that conclusion. I'm not one to hate just for the sake that its a popular show, but I can't help but to side with the haters in agreement that this is the most overrated show ever aired to date, really, 9.15 average? This season is the most confusing, incoherent, uninspired season to date. This is a prime example of how 'complicated' does not mean insightful, deep, or anything genuinely interesting.


First off, you can tell there must have been some budget cuts in so many instances and negatively ... impacts the show:
1. Incredible amount of dialogue from behind character's heads
2. CGI fight scenes that don't blend well into the rest of the animation
3. Scenes were character animations are actual mistakes that somehow slipped by
..I could go on, about all the blurred background scenes, windows with only light (no outside views) coming through etc but I'll stop here. Instead of filling their pockets, they should have paid more animators to do a better job.

Character design in both the artistic and personality sense are both outrageously bad. EVERYONE has a grave expression on their face at every waking moment for some reason. This obviously diminishes the meaningfulness of that expression for the moments where its justified and just makes everyone look like bitter annoying characters. The new characters are not unique artistically in any way and it becomes a struggle just to remember each of their significance. And with our old cast of characters, we have undergone some personality changes which fundamentally clash with their previous character growth/deep rooted connections, meanwhile some characters remain unchanged artistically as if they didn't age with the rest of the cast. (1/10)


As far as plot is concerned (or the lack there of), there are far too many convenient scapegoat moments (like, 10 years ago they said this thing that one time) to justify high stakes decisions that just seem frankly out of place and unsatisfying as any means of justification for actions. It takes us 5 or 6 episodes to see any characters we recognize, all while we are struggling to determine the significance of the ones laid out before us. So much information is kept from the viewer in an estranged effort to maintain some thin veil of mystery that the plot is a confusing mess. The main plotline is weak, full of holes, and doesn't make a glimmer of sense to the viewer until it doesn't matter any more. Actions and decisions made by (thought to be minor) characters and main ones alike are unjustified for their amount of impact. More explaination without convenient scapegoating is needed badly. (1/10)


As a completionist I endure the pain of watching this season each week hoping that maybe it will turn itself into something half baked, but every week I am disappointed and left with more questions than the show has answers. Enjoyment (1/10)


Sound isn't the worst thing, but its also quite lackluster, as well as some scenes where the music is completely asynchronous to the visuals at hand. Might be rating this lower than it should be due to it's connection with everything else bad and unenjoyable but whatever. (3/10)


Overall, don't waste your time. Pretend the series ended after 2 seasons and don't get caught up in the hype train. (2/10)

Yea! Attack on titan is getting season 4. Yes!

This is what is going on and on in the fans that they lost all sense of sanity. If you stay hungry for several days you will the food even if it tastes worst. Attack on titan is just like that. The fans were so desperate that they have become just like those mindless titans. The author thinks he is a god so he can do whatever he wants now that his work is so popular. Yeah! the first three seasons of Attack on titan was so good. The plot, the characters and the animation was ... all top notch. So he arrogantly made it more intense by adding shit type scenes and reversing characters. But believe me! The fans will take toxic if it is in the show or in the plot. Toxic fans.

Plot is reversed. More insanity. Until the 3rd season it was edible. But now it is out of hand. So much hatred and unnecessary edgy contents for no good reasons. So much sick mentality. Sick contents. Making it look like it is the most right thing to do.

The art and sound are both good. The animation is good. But compared to studio wit. It is slightly weaker. But really good for the cheap plot. MAPPA did a great job here. i really appreciate it. But like I said before after the third seasons the author along with the fans have got mad. So fans threatened the studio. Such insanity. No one in right mind complain about animation that is this good.

Characters were good. But now most of them are dead. And the rest are destroyed. Well the author wanted to kill all of the characters. So instead of killing all. He made the rest destroyed. I mean mikasa, Eren,.......so on.

I didn't enjoy least beat this season. I won't be able to enjoy it all since I am well acquainted with the manga. But still until the third season it was really great. But now it is really bad.

My overall rating of this show is really bad. IT WAS REALLY GOOD. BUT NOW IT IS BAD. SO i WILL SAY BAD. NOT LIKE THOSE MINDLESS TITAN LIKE TOXIC FANS. Who will eat shit if it is put in the Attack on titan show.
The show is now a wasted effort.

To say i like aot is like i saying like date a live (i don't like date a live). We all know that aot is one of the most overrated anime of all time and one of the most worst anime that been ever created. All right but how about this season... This season is not only the worst but also i think it just destroyed aot than before but okay let's start

the firsr thing i don't like about this season is the fact that it has worse animation than the previous seasons well at least the last seasons had pretty good animation but this ... one? this has poor animation which looks bad and cgi which we all know looks bad.

the second thing i don't like is eren... like he was already bad character, why he became even worse character. His plans are so incomprehensible and so bland that while watching this season i think "why does he even exist" i just don't get why eren is the character in this season.

the third and last thing i don't like about this season is boredom. literally when i'm watching this i didn't say "wow this is good" or "wow that was epic". Literally in first 5 episodes nothing happens but after 5 episode it gets "interesting" but then again this anime become boring and i wonder what this anime finnaly suppposed to be.

All right so in summary this season is the worst out of all aot, no interesting, tragic animation and boredom.

I mean it's whatever.

Some of the episodes just feel like filler. Adding a load of new stale characters to your already stale cast was a bad move. Falco is hella boring and reminds me of a typical anime of the season protagonist and he likes Gabi for literally no reason. Gabi, though kinda one note has at least something going for her. Eren bores the hell out of me. He starts talking poetic nonsense as if his ideas are extremely complex and philosophical when they're really just straight forward "Everyone bad. Kill". The choreography is really bad. AOT fans get mad when people start ... criticizing the animation, but this is an action show that has amazing fight scenes under its belt. Yes I'm going to complain about the animation. The cgi is integrated well but it sometimes looks goofy, it's going to age really badly. *Spoilers* Sasha dies and everyone makes a big deal about it. She was barely developed. I like her but it's not like we lost anything important. Can't you guys see Isayama just remembered "oh yeah I gotta kill another undeveloped squad memeber so everyone thinks my show is brutal to it's characters" and then allows his more favorited cast to have infinite plot armor. Reiner is the best thing in the show. Zeke has potential but they're not doing anything with him. Eren's overrated.

(Also random side note, do you guys seriously think this is going to beat FMAB? Im not a fan or anything but you do realize scores, especially with popular anime significant drop over time *stares at kimi no wa* Don't be surprised when it's underneath Gintama in a year).

Anyways

Story: 4/10:
I'm sort of sick of the whole "muh grey area, all sides are bad" thing for the billionth time with nothing to it.

Art: 5/10:
Bad survey corps fight scenes, passable titan fight scenes, casual animation is okay (I think I've been spoiled by wonder eggs priority animation).

Sound: 6/10
yeah whatever, nothing amazing.

Characters: 4/10
Stop adding new characters and giving them air time.

Enjoyment: 3/10
I liked the other seasons more even though I wasn't the biggest fan.

OVERALL: 4/10

Everything that happened between Season 3 and Season 4 needs to get sorted out, give me another flashback or something because it's really confusing.

SNK season four was, simply put, painfully disappointing, at least for me personally. Unlike most of the people giving negative reviews of the final season, I actually am a fan of SNK. In my opinion, the first three seasons are all nines out of ten. I was hyped for season four just like everybody else, and I watched the first couple of episodes with great excitement. But as the season progressed, I no longer looked forward to new episodes, and eventually I dropped the show entirely. However, I finished the manga, so I know the entire story.

First of all, and a topic that has ... been driven into the ground by the internet, is the fact that the visuals are... below average. This isn't related to the animation, this is just the way characters are drawn. Now, I didn't like the art style change back when season 2 aired, so this is not a new criticism I have of the show. But the quality of the visuals in season four have decreased to the point where it has become detrimental to the overall quality of the show.
But the biggest problem with this season and something that I don't think is recognized enough in it's criticism is the time skip. Now, a time skip is not inherently bad, but when it is being used to bypass years of character and plot development, it's bad. Really bad. Especially, when your main character is almost an entirely different person after said time skip. As a viewer and a long time fan, I felt very alienated while watching this season. The combination of the decrease in art quality and the time skip, makes this season feel like it's from an entirely different show.

Quick run down on some of the other plot/character problems:
1) Eren has no real motivation for his actions. Or at least none that are shown in the show (see time skip problem described above)
2) A lot of the new characters are either annoying, unnecessary, detrimental to the quality of the story or all three (and Gabby completely fails as the supposed character reflection of Eren that she was supposedly supposed to be.)
3) Mikasa's secret tattoo. why?

Just putting this out into the world before the series finale airs, and the internet explodes.

a pile of trash, the animation and execution are no different from those trash isekai series

in part is understable, since they didn't have enough time to manufacturer a good series, the previous studio dropped the production since they didn't let to them enough time, while other studios refuse to do such work in that short amount of time, here comes mappa studio, who can yes produce it faster, but the results are equal to trash

there is an overuse of anime japanese studio quality cgi, meaning that's bad cgi, japanese studios usually do use cgi to cut down on cost/time, and the results are pretty bad, ... the camera placement is boringly static, and flat, and sometimes feels like they badly played with the camera keys/curvature, it's too fast

meanwhile the 2d animation remains scarce, the camera is always in flat position, the characters are barely animated, and often they do put in static images with some camera movements to give the allusion of an animated scene, all things that we can usually find in trash/poor budget production

the osts.. they mainly have recycled the ost of previous series, other ones are from those generic ost that you can find in stock/license free resources, also often they feel missplaced, such as they didn't really took the time to do a proper video editing job

for the story of it, I have nothing to say, from now it seems that's following the manga, but just concentrating into the story for an animation media, for me it's dumb, animation is the main part of such medium, however if I should give a score for the story I would give 6, since it seems that they are following the manga, I have nothing to say about the story

I finally got round to catching up to this anime after the part finished, and let me say it was disappointing.

the characters are mediocre at best but i cant get emotionally attached to a women who hasn't done anything since season 2 (Sasha)

Gabi on the other hand is the most well written character in S4 and you can care for a 12 year old girl only doing what she was told do, also all her friends DIE in front of her and grown ass men want to beat her up think of someone else's point of view for once in there lives

I was ... really hoping the levi would die in that explosion with that stupid fucking monkey, he only in the series to show the "TrAgIc FiGhTiNg BaCkStOrY" to the audience his fighting style is to become a Beyblade

Reiner has more plot amour than goku on steroids, he should of died like 8 times he is so trash he has amour then get it punched off of him immediately it is literally cardboard

man-kasa the worst tom boy of the 21st century she isn't even hot she simps over eren like 40 yr old hogs that watch this show simp over v-tubers

eren is the single most annoying person in this dumpster fire of a show he is so replaceable it isn't even funny there nothing special about his goofy ass

the fandom is even worse than the show. there isn't even a point to be so angry that a good studio had to animate this trash show i'm surprised they even decided to animate this god awful show, how dose it feel that you get angry at hard working people drawing day after day to then serve you beautifully presented shit on a plate

overall a 3/10 the fandom, the plot, the characters and every thing else is just so bad. this is overrated as all fuck

Seasons from 1 to 3 were one of the best anime i have ever watched. I had highs hopes, that final season will be better or as good as the previous seasons. However after watch all 16 episodes i have to say that it was a big disappointment.

This season can be a separate anime. There aren't any significant between season 4 and the previous one. You meet old characters but they behave completely different than they used to and we don't know why.

New characters are boring. They have one feature and that's all, they doesn't change at all during the whole season. On ... top of that every hero behave very stupid and only stupidity push plot forward.

When it comes to animation is ok but nothing more. In season 1-3 animation was masterpiece and one of the reason why Attack on titan was so popular. It provides a lot of enjoyment to watch like characters fight, everting looked like a dream.

Nevertheless the biggest problem of this season is story. Plot is just far-fetched, problems that appears beacasue of stupid characters, perfect timing of every action and some magic story armor for some of the heroes. In the past due to story we had fights, now due to fights we have story.

To sum it up i can only say that big expectacions met big disapoinmened.

SPOILERS for Attack on Titan seasons 1-3 (and Claymore, for comparison's sake)!

I can see that many of the negative reviews for AOT season 4 are awfully nitpicky. I'm not gonna engage in nitpicking and I am not going to latch on to the show's plot holes either. I feel like there are broader and more important elements for me to critique than the minute details. If stuff like the physics of the 3D Maneuver Gear bother you, I don't know how you made it this far with the show.

What happened to Attack on Titan reminds me a lot of what happened to Claymore (manga) many ... years ago. The entire setting you knew, the one you thought you should care about, turns out to be just a small island in a larger world. A fly in an evil empire's militaristic soup. The monsters that you remember once sending shivers down your spine are revealed to be just weapons of war - things that can be created and even controlled. The lens, through which you observe the story, is now zoomed so far out, that all the struggles, drama and horror you went through with the show's characters before, now seems terribly small and insignificant.

But. Claymore at least had the decency to brush aside it's awful attempt at a shocking plot twist after it didn't really land for anybody. It wrapped up the story in the confines of the setting it had already established. The damage had been done and the twist had made everything worse, but at least it remained a concise story. Attack on Titan on the other hand doubles down on it's twist hard. While I kinda want to commend it for sticking to it's guns, the fact is that this is not even the same story anymore. This is an entirely new setting with new stakes and rules. Even new cast, really. There are enough new characters that get introduced during season 4 to fill up the entire character roster of an average anime series. I got nothing against expanding the scope of a series. It can keep things fresh and interesting. But this isn't expanding. There is a difference between expanding and just throwing the original premise in the trash.

Ever since season 1 ended, almost every new detail we have learned about the world has made the once cool and compelling setting less and less interesting. Was the Colossal Titan something that caught your attention back in the day? Thought it was menacing? In the endless cycle of the series trying to one-up itself, not only have we already seen bigger titans, but now we hear that there are literal millions of Colossal Titans. Millions. Did you happen to enjoy the main characters' struggle in the cool walled-off world of fascism, cruelty and cover-ups? Too bad. You were just watching bunch of recluses on an island - a society, held together by memory altering magic powers. Thought the silent terror of the unintelligent, man-eating titans was really horrific? Did you get invested in the fight against them? They are just killed off-screen. All of them. The great threat to mankind done and dusted, without so much as a montage sequence to commemorate the oocasion. We still get the transforming super titans... But those turn out to be nothing more than glorified mecha suits by the end. In a way, it's actually worse than just having mecha suits, because at least a vehicle could be lost or irreparably broken, so there might be some tension related to losing one. But with the titans, you can just keep conjuring them up as long as the "pilot" stays alive. Here, there are no lasting physical consequences to either the pilot or the vehicle outside of death.

Let's talk about the utilization of Eren in this. I don't know if it was the call of the writer(s), the director or the voice actor, but being "jaded" is translated to being "boring and monotone". No matter what you thought about Eren as a character in the previous seasons, it was actually kinda fun seeing him get agitated - spitting out (often hollow) threats and making bold claims. Screaming in rage or in terror. Crying his eyes out. Whether you thought he was oblivious, stupid or annoying, the character had some energy to him. Almost every single line of Eren, as delivered during season 4, sounds like he is one second away from falling asleep. You might call it character development - I call it yet another thing ruined. Not all development is good development and a stagnant character is better than a boring, passionless edgelord. I think I can just barely swallow the shift in Eren's morality, but not in his behavior. As a direction to take Eren towards, this could have worked, but it's pushed way too far.

The most frustrating thing about Season 4 is that, in a vacuum, there are still some neat things going on. The presentation is still more than fine and some of the dramatic peaks were undeniably effective and decently set up. There are even some deeper themes being explored than what we are used to in the show's previous seasons. As a detached, individual anime story, this could have been all right. But because this exists in the Attack on Titan "universe", it is hard for me to pay attention to anything that is going on beyond a once-so-awesome series that has systematically driven itself into the ground.

What was a good mindless action packed show surrounded by mystery and a sense of dread regarding the unknown evolved into a complete convoluted mess of increasingly confusing proportions.

I feel like I wasted my time trying to find something interesting in what turned out to be the author's desperation to piece things together while trying to keep up with the series' hype and popularity rather than trying to tell a good story.
Although one thing did remain consistent, and it was the excessive use of convenient plot twists to turn the story however which way desirable.

This makes it painfully obvious each and every ... time it occurs that the writer does not have any foresight on how to progress the story and is making it up as he goes along based on the feedback he receives from the series' fanbase.