Nexize wrote:
Akame ga Kill
Zankyou no Terror
Attack on Titan = No ? Wut what's going on
they are great
Well, time to put on my reviewer glasses. Uhhumn.
Akame ga Kill is an anime that tries it's best to make you care about the characters, with lots of deaths. Before you complain about them, unless you've lived under a rock, it isn't much of a spoiler anymore that anyone can die at any moment. The anime does a couple of pretty good death scenes (Sheele, Bulat), and then a couple of sloppy ones (Lubbock, Mine). The thing that makes Akame ga Kill bad for the most part is how it eventually just seems like the characters don't care all that much that one of their buddies died, with forced comedy. On top of that, most of the characters are pretty bland, and if any of them start getting character development, a death flag is triggered. In the end the only deaths that really affected Tatsumi, which is your mainstream "nice guy" character who wants to save everybody, are Sheele's, Bulat's and Mine's deaths.
I can rant on a lot about Akame ga Kill, but I think this is enough for now.
Zankyou no Terror was a pretty good watch. The first episodes are amazing, the animation is pretty good and surprisingly it has no fanservice, something you wouldn't except from MAPPA. However, the main problem is the characters and parts of the plot. With the introduction of Five, the anime wastes a couple of episodes on a horrendous character that should not even have any power, yet she does. And everything she does is for bullshit reasons. As for the ending, if the anime were 24 episodes it'd feel more of an accomplishment for Nine and Twelve, but with only 11 episodes, it didn't really feel like the ending was important (nor was it actually good).
Attack on Titan is a case similar to Akame ga Kill, except it has better animation and a better OST. The characters die left and right, but you just don't care. You haven't known them for long enough to really care that they're gone. Over the course of the series, the main characters don't change (with the exception of Armin). Mikasa is a plot device, and stupidly overpowered for no good reason. She's never learned the skills for combat like that, and yes she pulls it off flawlessly. Eren, who, btw, still makes dumb decisions and yet makes it out alive because of plot armor, gets a power that makes no sense. But then again, maybe a second season will fix that.
The only good thing about all these anime you listed are the animation and sound. This is a common trap where people overhype literally everything that looks and sounds somewhat decent, examples being Sword Art Online and No Game No Life.
Feel free to comment on how shit my reviewing skills are, but note that I won't take you seriously unless you prevent counter arguments.