It’s probably no mistake that I love series that know their build-up; the series that really manage to prepare, and use this preparation, rather than just going into random directions. Shingeki no Kyojin showed with this episode that it really knows its build-up. The climax of this episode was amazing, and in a very different way from what you usually see.
Nearly the entire episode was about hope: trying to convince everyone in this series that the best course of action would be to send Eren to plug up the hole in Wall Maria. There were a lot of uncertainties, and so the characters had to resort to using hope: this can work. There were so many people in doubts in this episode. If it works, then this will be the first time mankind has ever won from the titans. This will turn the tide and we can actually start to fight back with Eren that way. It will be worth all of the sacrifices! And then Eren just started to smash in random walls. Oh, the despair! It was awesome.
As for the budget, this episode showed that this is really a manga adaptation: there were quite a few still frames, that looked like they came right out of the manga. And that, combined with some beautiful money-shots of Eren and Mikasa flying through the city. It’s clear that the best animator of this week’s episode worked on that city, and it’s the kind of action scene that really is unique to this anime.
Rating: 6/8 (Awesome)
Wrong. He didn’t smash a random wall.
He attacked Mikasa. MUCH worse.
Such a terrible pace…
Agreed
Yeah most of the episodes seam far to drawn out. On top of the poor pacing there is usually a cliff hanger at the end of each episode that makes it worse.
And look at all those beautiful clouds. I love the lightning in this series!
I can’t get enough of this show.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but these days psgels’ reviews seem to be getting a little sloppy…it’s like,how you explain it…not the same as how it used to be earlier. Maybe because of real life issues, he is not getting much time for blogging, which I can understand; keeping up with so many shows and at the same time writing quality reviews for each.
I don’t know if people will agree with me, instead of doing an episode by episode review, psgels, you should do an overall quality review after a series ends, highlighting the plus and minus which will be better.
Well, Psgels always writes an overall review after a series end.
Trust me, it’s pretty hard to write a quality review for just one episode.
The real animator of Production IG worked on the houses and Titan fights.
The manga assistants worked on the rest of them. Hence why there are a lot of still frames / pictures.
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They really should focus on animating things rather than hiding all that misery with filter saturated overly detailed shots of the sky that are more distracting than the characters themselves. They even reused animation from previous episodes. Terrible pacing as usual.
True
They sure are milking it for all it’s worth.
Hopefully , the action gonna start next episode.