The complexities of Attack on Titan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9cGjFi4zo - 19:07
Attack on Titan is not just another simple fighting anime with clear distinctions of heroes and
villains, contrary to a presentation of this anime from a student in one section of my summer anime
class last year. Besides other reasons for being popular, like the anime coming out during a time
when fighting zombies was the latest thing (fighting Titans is like fighting giant zombies), the style
of fighting these Titans, and the fact that everyone looks the same when fighting them in terms of the
fighting uniform, there are also many complexities to it. Examples of these complexities are
addressed in the video I use for this reflection (apparently there are more complexities addressed in
the manga).
A lot of these examples of complexities have to with the distinction of friend and enemy, which is
a very blurry distinction in this anime. For example, the Titans themselves appear to be the enemy
due to their threatening appearance, but are actually the ones who created the society that the human
characters live in. There is more to the Titans that these human characters think.
Or at least the human characters who fight these Titans since there are other human characters in
this same society who think differently. This is the case because the human society in this anime is
divided. The city built within a wall also has two other cities built within walls within the first one.
Things in such a society are bound to be complex, especially a distinction between friend and enemy.
The complexities of Attack on Titan have to do with the distinctions of friend and enemy. It is
another example of an anime where there is more to it than just the fighting.
Attack on Titan is not just another simple fighting anime with clear distinctions of heroes and
villains, contrary to a presentation of this anime from a student in one section of my summer anime
class last year. Besides other reasons for being popular, like the anime coming out during a time
when fighting zombies was the latest thing (fighting Titans is like fighting giant zombies), the style
of fighting these Titans, and the fact that everyone looks the same when fighting them in terms of the
fighting uniform, there are also many complexities to it. Examples of these complexities are
addressed in the video I use for this reflection (apparently there are more complexities addressed in
the manga).
A lot of these examples of complexities have to with the distinction of friend and enemy, which is
a very blurry distinction in this anime. For example, the Titans themselves appear to be the enemy
due to their threatening appearance, but are actually the ones who created the society that the human
characters live in. There is more to the Titans that these human characters think.
Or at least the human characters who fight these Titans since there are other human characters in
this same society who think differently. This is the case because the human society in this anime is
divided. The city built within a wall also has two other cities built within walls within the first one.
Things in such a society are bound to be complex, especially a distinction between friend and enemy.
The complexities of Attack on Titan have to do with the distinctions of friend and enemy. It is
another example of an anime where there is more to it than just the fighting.
Comments
Post a Comment