That is all the pictures I have. I didn't really get to take a lot of pictures as I was feeling quite unwell during my trip but you just have to make the best out of it, am I right ??
So anyway, during my leave of absence, I manage to finish Shingeki No Kyojin. I downloaded the episode every week when it first release and was planning to watch it at that time but with how exams going around and me being impatient for needing to wait a new episode every week made me wait till the season was over before I watched it. I can tell you that I am impressed, very impressed.
Just a short summary, Shingeki No Kyojin/ Attack on Titan is a anime set one hundred years prior to the beginning of the story, giant humanoid creatures called the Titans force humanity to retreat and stay hidden in a system of concrete walls. The walls protected the humans for 100 years until one day, a 60 meter titan decided that that day was perfect to knock down the walls surrounding/ protecting the humans. Story is mostly surrounding a guy who wants to fight back against the titans and realising that he can transform into a Titan. ( Kinda a typical story if you ask me. )
The storyline was perfectly enough to make me want more of it. As a viewer , I really appreciate a good storyline ( I think I said it before) and a good storyline is one of the main reasons that makes me come back to a TV series or a book series. It did felt a little rushed for me though but netherless I enjoyed it.
The characters are good. Hajime Isayama did a really good job in portraying how some humans are ignorant or cruel or just plain nice. It really make you notice that there are too some people like that in real life. The cruelty in life is portrayed nicely in the manga/show. You are shown how some people moans, cries, get angry because of their situation. You are shown how most people handle their fear and those who doesn't. There are also those characters that only thinks of themselves and gets you all riled up even though it is just a show because of how true the character is to some real life human beings. Though the ability of some of the characters are a little unrealistic but whatever I guess. It is nice to gawked at people's awesome abilities too. There is a nice amount of character development in the TV series but of course it is not completely finished as the manga is still going on. And that is what keep me coming back for more. The relationships between some of the characters made me so emotional and kept my hand busy with clutching my pillow in fear and sadness. This is because some of the characters that they made you love them dies and you are left with their lover or their family being all shitty sad and you are just there weeping.
The series did a good job portraying helplessness and realistic emotions. The anime is quite gruesome so if you can't handle it, I don't think it is a good idea to watch it but hey hey you never know if you never try right ? The soundtrack for the show is perfect. Most of the time, once I hear the opening and closing song in the first episode, I would skip it in the other episodes but I found myself not skipping it and just sitting down with the earphones on jamming to the music.
The animation was good and different compare to all those other animes I watched. It looked realistic with what how a person, a normal person would look like. It shows one's emotions really well and you can find yourself laughing at some of the titan's design though after a while, you will probably be petrified with what the titans did. The gruesome part wasn't some lame attempt , in fact, it was quite realistic. It is also nice to see the art of the character are based on their family. As you can see the main character Mikasa has black hair, light skin and black, calming eyes , which is typically how a Asian look like. It makes the anime more realistic you know. (Mikasa is a mix of Japanese and American but you get what I mean right ?)
I can see why it is the most anticipated anime show this year and why everyone is so crazy over it. I find myself getting crazy over it too. Almost everywhere I go, I will definitely see it or hear some people talk about it. It is a anime that I will rewatch in the future. I am now catching up with the manga as the manga is faster than the anime (duh! ) and it will keep me restrain enough for season 2 (if it is coming out, it is not confirmed yet.) Animes are usually one of the reasons people can excited for the manga and yea, if the guy in charge was planning to get more people into his manga by making this show, well, he did a great job in it.
I am not going to bother giving an overall rating as I suck at giving those because I always can't make up my choice between this number or the other. But it is definitely an anime I recommend people to watch.
I am finishing up Allegiant now and so far, not really happy with it. We'll see how it goes.
I feel like I am being so obnoxious this few days so let me just hide in my room and not talk to anyone until I learn to stop being so obnoxious. Yeap. The perfect plan !
Anyway, I leave you with an awesome video on this guys who made a real life version of Sokka's meteorite sword from REAL meteorite. Hella rad.
I am going to go try sleep off this sudden obnoxious attitude off. Yeap. See you at the next post !
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