Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Attack on Titan 1 by Hajime Isayama

7 reviews

kase's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Gore

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Attack on Titan volume 1 by Hajime Isayama is a horror/action manga about giant titans that want to eat everyone. This is my second time reading this manga, the first time I read this was back in 2010 when it was first published. Having read this a second time, I can really appreciate the electric start to this story. 

The main characters, Eren, Mikasa, and Armin live in a town that is walled off from the titans that are dangerous. The manga starts off with the three characters as pre teens and they're having a discussion about the wall to their town being breached.

Right as they say that, a giant titan comes and busts the wall down. The three survive but the end up becoming personnel for the military five years later.

The manga ends on a cliff hanger, like most of the Attack on Titan mangas do. It doesn't bother me now, in the year 2023 because the series is finally complete. When the second volume wasn't available, I was a little pressed. 

Overall this was interesting and there are a lot of questions that I have and I'm excited for them to finally get answered. I'm giving this volume 5 stars out of 5.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Stars

I read this for free on libbyapp.com

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Cursing, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Death of parent, Blood, and Grief

journeywithrosie's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 Went into this totally blind. Didn’t expect it to absolutely break my heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gore, Violence, and Grief

swimfast724's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

It's only the first volume so the main story hasn't really started yet, but that doesn't mean it's not interesting. It has me so hooked 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Death, Violence, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Grief, Genocide, and Gore

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Classism, Grief, Genocide, War, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Confinement, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol

nat_kiverse's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Violence, Death, Gore, Confinement, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcoholism

juksu's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I read this as a teen and while I don't think I'd enjoy it today, I still think it's super neat. The anime was cool, though I didn't finish it. It has a really interesting world that unfolds slowly, mingled with (I've heard) critiques of fascism and dictatorship, so if those parts of the world bother you, the latter part of the story unpacks it more. But it takea a while to get there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Grief