Attack on titan is another awesome anime. It centres around a dystopian future (although my brother is convinced that it is set in the past - I really don't know which it is but I assume it is set in the future) where gigantic humans called Titans brutally eat humans for fun. The ups of this anime include the emotional backstory which makes the audience immediately connect with the characters. So the concept is great. I love how it's got - or if it doesn't, that anyone can form - an ambiguous moral; like maybe (and these are just my theories) it's saying that humanity is "killing" itself (titans (i.e. giant humans) killing smaller humans) by all the things we are doing, literally when you think of global warming, all the wars we have with one another, also maybe it's poking fun at the notion of social class - particularly, we still have imperial systems and lots of poor people maybe it's saying in this day and age such a thing is unacceptable and incredibly backward compared to how much we have otherwise advanced as a species.

I may be overanalysing but I do love how the anime itself is so ambiguous that I am able to interpret it in such manners.

Apart from that, the characters are good although I cannot entirely empathise with them since, despite their emotional backstory, the main characters are too "unflawed" - Eren is so entirely fearless, Mikasa is so perfect in her fighting ability and so level-headed. Armin is the most relatable as despite being incredibly intelligent, he is not a skilled fighter and has some fear and so, is flawed.

The only real downside, however, is that I believe that most episodes are dragged out way too long with insignificant scenes taking up most of the episodes. After the episode has ended you realise that barely anything has actually happened in the episode. Certain situations are drawn out over several episodes when they could easily fit into a couple episodes. Some flashbacks are also way too long, taking up most of the episode, and you end up forgetting that the whole thing was just a flashback and are confused when it finishes (or maybe it's just me).

So overall, the anime has a great concept and has expressed it well. However, the episode structure and certain aspects of the characters are what has made me give it 9/10 instead of a full 10/10.