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A review by dontwritedown
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, Vol. 17 by Satoshi Shiki, Ryo Suzukaze, Hajime Isayama
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
As a big Attack on Titan fan, I was more than a little frustrated with this series and it almost retcons/contradicts a lot of the original series world building. It's written as horrible fanfiction that keeps trying to rework its own world building to align with canon.
At it's core it sounds like a good idea, a Titan son, and at the time this was released to the public, we did not know much about Titan biology in canon so in theory you could have a Titan's son, but as the main storyline came out parallel to this, you can see where the author's collide and this one has to throw up their hands in the air in defeat. Like "Titan's can't find humans in the rain." K then why are some of the most iconic Attack On Titan titan fight scenes in the rain?
Attack On Titan is known for having killer women soldiers so I found the misogyny for Rosa and Sharle to be so out of character for the world. We have Ymir, Mikasa, Annie, Sasha and Krista who are well established bad asses in the military and somehow y'all are gonna work an inferiority plot into the prequel?
Add on top of that, none of these people or plotlines matter or have any purpose. We never meet Kuklo and Sharle's descendants in the main line and there's no reason for me to care about them. I don't even care about the main plotline to disband the Survey Corps because I know the Survey Corps still exists years later. Now if this was set in the northern district and the plotline was to find that town settlement of exiles, that I would care about because that has value. That answer isn't answered for me already.
Also sudenite Cardina should've been a redhead.
That is all.
At it's core it sounds like a good idea, a Titan son, and at the time this was released to the public, we did not know much about Titan biology in canon so in theory you could have a Titan's son, but as the main storyline came out parallel to this, you can see where the author's collide and this one has to throw up their hands in the air in defeat. Like "Titan's can't find humans in the rain." K then why are some of the most iconic Attack On Titan titan fight scenes in the rain?
Attack On Titan is known for having killer women soldiers so I found the misogyny for Rosa and Sharle to be so out of character for the world. We have Ymir, Mikasa, Annie, Sasha and Krista who are well established bad asses in the military and somehow y'all are gonna work an inferiority plot into the prequel?
Add on top of that, none of these people or plotlines matter or have any purpose. We never meet Kuklo and Sharle's descendants in the main line and there's no reason for me to care about them. I don't even care about the main plotline to disband the Survey Corps because I know the Survey Corps still exists years later. Now if this was set in the northern district and the plotline was to find that town settlement of exiles, that I would care about because that has value. That answer isn't answered for me already.
Also sudenite Cardina should've been a redhead.
That is all.