This is by no means a masterpiece of cinema, maybe for anime yes, but film no, but it is above average.

The story is somewhat deep, intelligent and interesting. The characters are relatable and surprisingly human, with a lot of raw emotion.

But....

The format resembles cartoons from the 90s, meaning it has those issues...

There are pointless episodes every so often, completely pointless episodes where nothing happens, the story doesnt progress, noting interesting or engaging happens, and its just some lame character foreboding or complete exposition, hello 90s!

The pacing is erratic, youll have 10 episodes where the story advances at an absolute snails pace, then the next 2 sum up the entire season, hello 90s!

Even though the animation is mostly well done, in that again 90s theme, it reuses stock textures and images from, you guessed it, 90s stock art assets!

AoT peaks in season 2, and you can tell they ran out of ideas and are really throwing everything out there just to keep this gravy train going, just like GoT. Its still great viewing but nowhere near as good as the early seasons.

Even if youre not an anime person, you can still watch and enjoy this, and at least understand the buzz. Its definitely the best anime produced in a long time.