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A review by chancla
Attack on Titan Anthology by Gail Simone, Scott Snyder, Faith Erin Hicks
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.