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vinceyface's review against another edition
3.0
This was fine, it was fun and I enjoyed about half the stories in it. Some of them are worth it for the art alone, but overall you're going in to this book because you like a bunch of the creators and/or you are a big fan of AOT. Just don't go into this expecting it to be some AMAZING canonical work of AOT lore, the best stories in here are the silly ones and the ones lovingly making fun of AOT.
eljeem's review against another edition
3.0
A collection of "fan art" that reinterprets Hajime Isayama's work. Interesting if you're looking for inspiration from several different creative writers and thinkers. I particularly enjoyed the travel guides by Hilde Gartner, and my favorite, the very last story, Memory Maze by Asaf and Tomer Hanuka! Everything about this story from art style to color palette is beautiful.
arberry's review against another edition
3.0
So hyped for the anime to pick up this spring, and this anthology is a loving send up of the story as well as further proof of how good it is. Will definitely need to catch up with the manga soon.
grimalkintoes's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
thekarpuk's review against another edition
2.0
This book should have been easy to like. A lot of the art is amazing, and there's a good chunk of the creators whose work I already read.
But damn if the misses don't outweigh the hits.
From what I can see, there's only really two ways you can go if someone asks you to write something related to Attack on Titan. You can either lean into the intense, tragic nature of the source material, or you can poke fun at the premise. The stories that worked best tended to go with the former. There's a few stories, many of them with amazing art, that really capture the sadness that makes the original manga so powerful.
But it annoyed me that most of the stories by creators I'm already a fan of were mostly irrelevant spoofs. Faith Erin Hicks story about making Titans laugh with dumb jokes just made me sigh, the comic by the team from Batgirl of Burnside did a dumb comic that doubled as a message about cosplay and consent (I liked the message more than the story), and beyond that there was an ongoing mini comic full of the sort of dumb jokes you'd expect on a deep otaku fan webcomic.
When this collection works, it works well, but that's not nearly often enough to satisfy.
But damn if the misses don't outweigh the hits.
From what I can see, there's only really two ways you can go if someone asks you to write something related to Attack on Titan. You can either lean into the intense, tragic nature of the source material, or you can poke fun at the premise. The stories that worked best tended to go with the former. There's a few stories, many of them with amazing art, that really capture the sadness that makes the original manga so powerful.
But it annoyed me that most of the stories by creators I'm already a fan of were mostly irrelevant spoofs. Faith Erin Hicks story about making Titans laugh with dumb jokes just made me sigh, the comic by the team from Batgirl of Burnside did a dumb comic that doubled as a message about cosplay and consent (I liked the message more than the story), and beyond that there was an ongoing mini comic full of the sort of dumb jokes you'd expect on a deep otaku fan webcomic.
When this collection works, it works well, but that's not nearly often enough to satisfy.
chancla's review against another edition
2.0
2.5
As someone who has been reading Attack on Titan fanfiction throughout all of my teenage years, my standards were a little high about this book.
Attack on Titan Anthology is a compilation of mini stories that were inspired by Hajime Isayama's masterpiece. A lot of artists participated on this project and a lot of different and unique different art styles can be appreciated, but to be honest I expected more. Some stories were not even close to good and were boring as hell. This book is kinda small and it still took me like three days to finish it :/
Not everything was bad tho, there were some works that I enjoyed, like the mini comic strips "Attack on Attack on Titan" and "The Titan's Laugh", which was kinda dumb but also sweet.
However, I wanted to make an special mention to "Skies Above" and "Memory Gaze". Both of them were my favorite stories from this book and probably the ones that made more sense. Both stories had a bittersweet tragic feeling which is more accurate with the theme of Attack on Titan and I could totally see them happening in canon. "Skies Above" covers a part of the actual story that Isayama mentions on the manga but never develops, the dreamers who tried to find the truth of the titans and the world during the hundreds of years that humanity lived inside the walls, all of them never succeding because of the oppresive government and Military Police', who got them killed and took aways their inventions and information. I would definitely would love to read more of that in the future.
Besides that, theres not really a lot to say. Attack on Titan has a fantastic universe. If you are fan of the series, I would recommend to read some fan work too but I don't know if this book would be on my recommendations.
As someone who has been reading Attack on Titan fanfiction throughout all of my teenage years, my standards were a little high about this book.
Attack on Titan Anthology is a compilation of mini stories that were inspired by Hajime Isayama's masterpiece. A lot of artists participated on this project and a lot of different and unique different art styles can be appreciated, but to be honest I expected more. Some stories were not even close to good and were boring as hell. This book is kinda small and it still took me like three days to finish it :/
Not everything was bad tho, there were some works that I enjoyed, like the mini comic strips "Attack on Attack on Titan" and "The Titan's Laugh", which was kinda dumb but also sweet.
However, I wanted to make an special mention to "Skies Above" and "Memory Gaze". Both of them were my favorite stories from this book and probably the ones that made more sense. Both stories had a bittersweet tragic feeling which is more accurate with the theme of Attack on Titan and I could totally see them happening in canon. "Skies Above" covers a part of the actual story that Isayama mentions on the manga but never develops, the dreamers who tried to find the truth of the titans and the world during the hundreds of years that humanity lived inside the walls, all of them never succeding because of the oppresive government and Military Police', who got them killed and took aways their inventions and information. I would definitely would love to read more of that in the future.
Besides that, theres not really a lot to say. Attack on Titan has a fantastic universe. If you are fan of the series, I would recommend to read some fan work too but I don't know if this book would be on my recommendations.
hyaenidae's review against another edition
3.0
No mediocre, but a rather mixed impression: some takes on the world of Titans were great, some were ok, some were off and some were just wasted effort. Yet the whole anthology shows the potential to go rogue with the whole Titan-spleen.
typewriterdeluxe's review against another edition
2.0
This book is built on a fun idea, but the final product certainly isn't worth the $30 purchase price.
This book made me realize that being an industry professional doesn't necessarily mean that someone is able to write good (or hilarious, or emotionally moving) fan fiction. There are some okay pieces in this book but the majority are misses. The best piece, by far, was the brief but powerful "Memory Maze" by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka.
I recommend skipping this anthology and instead making your own fan art/fan fiction exploring the Attack on Titan universe.
This book made me realize that being an industry professional doesn't necessarily mean that someone is able to write good (or hilarious, or emotionally moving) fan fiction. There are some okay pieces in this book but the majority are misses. The best piece, by far, was the brief but powerful "Memory Maze" by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka.
I recommend skipping this anthology and instead making your own fan art/fan fiction exploring the Attack on Titan universe.