In a strange new (possibly future) world, mankind has been eaten and hunted to the brink of extinction. By what, you ask? By creatures like our little friend I have pictured here-the Titans. These colossal humanoid creatures are nigh-indestructible, unpredictable and hungry for human flesh.
The final vestiges of humanity have retreated into a massive city with three protective walls. This is where our story begins.
Hero Ehren Yeager, his cowardly genius friend Armin Arlehrt and the moderately-attractive Mikasa Ackerman have all joined an expedition/Titan-repellent force known as the Survey Corps. This motley crew of warriors in their gas-powered, super-jumping flight gear, is sworn to defend their city from those few Titans who break through, as well as to try and take back their world.
Ehren, Armin and Mikasa are also doing this to take revenge on the monsters who slaughtered their family and friends several years before the story actually started.
Along the way, we also discover the existence of people who can transform into Titans (for good or evil) and a fanatical cult dedicated to worshipping them [the Titans].
All in all, it's a pretty decent series, as far as I'm concerned, though that isn't to say that it's not without its faults.
Somehow, despite the amount of time that the series has gone on, the Internet is still saying that there is no new information on the actual Titans themselves. Their existence and where they came from remains a complete mystery, which is infuriating to me. I like to have things explained for me right away, and to have the answers to all my questions delivered right to me and all wrapped up in a nice little bow.
That, and the series itself (at least the manga) seems a tad bit slow-moving. Perhaps it's that the still and silent manga can't really convey all the "whoosh" and all the explosions and what-have-you in a way that I can really appreciate. I still have yet to watch the anime, though I will most likely be watching it as the Funimation dub. To me, as a manga, it pretty much seems all military-like: "This operation will take 15 minutes that we don't have, and it will take X minutes for Group Y to move to Point Z", etc.
Some people call this horror, but it hardly seems that way to me. In point of fact, I only picked it up a year or two ago at the library just because it was something new on the shelves.
It isn't great, but I'll stick with it. I leave you people free to take it or leave it as you please. Let's hope that the anime version is good.
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