Attack On Titan Has Perfected Sanderson's First Law

[Bacon]

This is something I realized in the car today after watching the latest episode of the final season.

In case you're not acquainted :

SANDERSON’S FIRST LAW : AN AUTHOR’S ABILITY TO SOLVE CONFLICT WITH MAGIC IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO HOW WELL THE READER UNDERSTANDS SAID MAGIC.

So...

Immediately, I'm met with the problem that everything I can say is a spoiler.

And I want everyone to watch Attack On Titan to the end because I love it for exactly the same reasons I love Sanderson Novels.

So I'll sum it up like this :

This series could have easily ended in season 1 if the characters knew then, what they know by the end of season 4.

And if they did that, it would've sucked.

But instead, it's filled with nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat-tension the entire way through

 

Start of Season 1 :

Magic Knowledge : Nothing

Conflict Resolution : 100% military

 

End of Season 1 / Start of Season 2 :

Magic Knowledge : Beginner

Conflict Resolution : 75% military, 25% magic

 

End of Season 2 / Start of Season 3 :

Magic Knowledge : Journeyman

Conflict Resolution : 50% military, 50% magic

 

End of Season 3 / Start of Season 4 :

Magic Knowledge : Expert

Conflict Resolution : 25% military, 75% magic

 

End of Season 4 :

Magic Knowledge : Master

Conflict Resolution : 100% magic

 

Even still, the story is always, first and foremost, about character.

Yeah, there's big naked people doing big naked things.

But the non-naked people are always the main focus

And also sometimes action set-pieces 

TLDR :

WATCH THIS ANIME!!!

[+ILuvHats he/him]

Always glad to see another AoT fan . It’s unfortunate that Wit Studio dropped it after season 3, though it’s understandable given how little time they had for production and their financial concerns. It was Wit’s insanely high production quality combined with Isayama’s brilliant source material that made AoT a phenomenon which transcended the medium. Mappa’s doing a decent job with animation, but the animation has gone from amazing to merely above average. Still watching it for the story though.

[Bacon]

Animation, schmanimation.

I get what you mean, but the visuals are more than doing their job to tell this story.

This story, being easily in the top-10 most well-crafted I have ever been told.

The sheer number of times my mind has been absolutely blown by it...

Especially after yesterday's episode.

My god.

I have no doubt that it will be 1 of the central representatives of the art form that people study a century from now despite being born long after most of it has faded from our cultural memory.