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A review by dontwritedown
Attack on Titan, Volume 34 by Hajime Isayama
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Attack On Titan, finished in a month mostly due to Barnes and Noble, Amazon Kindle Unlimited and the library not having all the parts available at the same time, otherwise this would've been finished in a week.
Attack On Titan will always have a special place in my heart, because it was the first place I ever saw a nonbinary person, Hange Zoƫ. Even though a majority of this translation went the anime route and called Hange a "she" throughout most of it. I was in the fandom, not too long after the first season of the anime wrapped up and Ymir was revealed as a titan. I've been through the deeps of thinking this would all end once we reached the sea. And in many ways, I still maintain that the series should've wrapped up once they reached the sea.
Overall a majority of the points were taken off due to some of plot points coming off as anti-semetic, but as someone who is not Jewish, I do not feel like it's my place to get on a step stool for it nor do I feel comfortable breaking it down myself for overstepping, but I do have to address the elephant in the room with AoT's controversies. A few of these chapters have aged like milk and this edition was released in 2021, so I am interested to see how these later chapters will age down the line.
More points were also taken off due to the semi-ambiguous final chapter. Most of this can probably come down to expression and me not veing able to read faces well and the format, but I did have to go the wikia for an hour to fully understand the last two chapters. I wish it would be more in your face about who Mikasa settled down with and the ending fates of the other main character Eldians and survivors of 104th Training Corps like Annie, Armin, Historia, Connie and Jean (though one can argue in one panel it looks like Jean was the one to finally marry Mikasa).
Either way you slice, Attack on Titan should be acknowledged as the eastern Game of Thrones. Breaking lots of records, but also being divisive in its final moments and production quality.
Attack On Titan will always have a special place in my heart, because it was the first place I ever saw a nonbinary person, Hange Zoƫ. Even though a majority of this translation went the anime route and called Hange a "she" throughout most of it. I was in the fandom, not too long after the first season of the anime wrapped up and Ymir was revealed as a titan. I've been through the deeps of thinking this would all end once we reached the sea. And in many ways, I still maintain that the series should've wrapped up once they reached the sea.
Overall a majority of the points were taken off due to some of plot points coming off as anti-semetic, but as someone who is not Jewish, I do not feel like it's my place to get on a step stool for it nor do I feel comfortable breaking it down myself for overstepping, but I do have to address the elephant in the room with AoT's controversies. A few of these chapters have aged like milk and this edition was released in 2021, so I am interested to see how these later chapters will age down the line.
More points were also taken off due to the semi-ambiguous final chapter. Most of this can probably come down to expression and me not veing able to read faces well and the format, but I did have to go the wikia for an hour to fully understand the last two chapters. I wish it would be more in your face about who Mikasa settled down with and the ending fates of the other main character Eldians and survivors of 104th Training Corps like Annie, Armin, Historia, Connie and Jean (though one can argue in one panel it looks like Jean was the one to finally marry Mikasa).
Either way you slice, Attack on Titan should be acknowledged as the eastern Game of Thrones. Breaking lots of records, but also being divisive in its final moments and production quality.