Bryce PapenbrookAttack on Titan, Part 2 (Standard Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

People unfamiliar with anime may be put off by its somewhat deserved stigma for sexualizing women, weak plots and/or gratuitous violence. While AoT certainly packs the latter, its violence serves to illustrate a deeper human truth: that our world is rarely black and white.How AoT manages to demonstrate this is notable in light of its seemingly nonsensical premise: that humans are trapped in a city with giant walls to defend against enormous humanoid cannibals. Soldiers can only defeat them through steam-powered grappling hooks that fling them near the monsters' necks; their sole weak spots to a blade. The cannibals are otherwise immune to guns through an immense regenerative capacity, and if they ever break through the walls, lots of people are getting eaten. Did you get all that? You have king kongs bumbling around, and batmans zooming by slicing the backs of their necks. Sounds like a bad acid trip to me.But this is where AoT manages to diverge from most anime and deliver something that we can all relate with: difficult decisions in light of loss. It does this without restraint and shows brutality in all its horror, along with the emotional devastation it wreaks among survivors. And while we do have a cliched hero who vows revenge, he's no Superman or Goku with unlimited power levels. He's as human and vulnerable as the rest of us, and sometimes gets himself into trouble when he loses control of his emotions. Even though he develops significant abilities later on in the story, that exclusive human element--vulnerability--remains an important recurring theme.With vulnerability comes dependency, and dependency, friendship, and from these three evolve the complex decisions we all make in our own lives. AoT takes you to a place where the consequences of such decisions are amplified a thousand fold, using characters more complex than their appearances would suggest. And it does so without any cheap fluff to broaden its audience: no jiggling boobs, silly jokes or high school hookups for unsexed manchildren. Just people dealing with loss in an increasingly bleak world, and doing their best to survive.If there is a western analogue to AoT, it's likely The Walking Dead. The show does have some flaws (there is heavy exposition and repetitive time fillers), likely due to cost concerns from pirating, but if you have time to kill and are curious about anime, this is probably the show for you. Seriously, it's barely $17 bucks for the HD version and Netflix has all of season 1, so do yourself a favor and check it out. You're in for a wild ride!

Attack on Titans:I first saw this anime with subs, last year (2013), and I was surprised by how good it was! When I first heard of Attack on Titan, I was expecting the greek titans jeje I was wrong with that, The titans are more human like, with the thirst for blood, they will eat anyone who gets in their way (or at least most of them will). The anime can get very intense at times with top notch action scenes! It does get a little slow in some episodes, but it was nothing that made me want to stop watching it. The Japanese voice acting is really good, and while the dub is not as good as the subs, it's still good, for those who prefer the dubbed versions. The animation is different from what I have seen before, the characters outlines are thicker than most anime, but I really like that. Character development is not great, but still good, with the main character (Eren) being sorta 1 dimensional... The anime can be really gory and brutal at times, so I wouldn't recommend it to little kids... Overall, it's a good anime, plot and story are done well, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes action/adventure anime.Part 2 Limited edition+ Artbox:Part 2 limited edition is pretty much build the same as part 1, with different pictures, interviews, information on titans and such. The artbox holds both parts, Limited edition Part 1 and part 2 and they both fit perfectly in it. The box is made of cardboard (like a lot artboxes), but it's sturdy, so you don't have to worry about it bending easily. On the spine and top, it only has the name of the anime, and in the back it has the face on a titan. I recommend buying this edition ONLY if you're a big fan of this anime and or like collecting limited editions and such. Between part 1 and 2 limited edition, it would cost you well over $100 bucks, which is not really worth it, if you just like it, and want to own it. For you guys, I recommend the regular edition which goes for about $60 bucks for both parts.I will upload some images so you could checked out, if you guys want to see how it looks.

The pricing for Attack on Titan Part 2 Limited Edition w/BOX is perfect when it comes to the Black Friday deal of 50% off bringing it around $53.50 even with tax. Before it could have cost you around $95.00. What a Black Friday deal on anime from Amazon.com.I loved this anime series so much. My excitement first began with the PV that first hit via Youtube. I could tell even then it was going to make such an uproar. I mean the movement in animation was extraordinary when it came to scenes of the characters using 3D Maneuver Gear.Even so, Attack on Titan, has such heavy suspense value and strong character development especially given the graphic story premise of the Attack on Titan storyline.Yuki Kaji also shines in his role as Eren Jaeger the most. He instills such a mental fury in the lead character of the series that an audience likely will be moved by it. Other characters that have a sense of power and emotion will be Yui Ishikawa. Next will be somewhat of almost better known character Captain Levi voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya. If you are not aware of Hiroshi Kamiya's voice acting then please be aware he is an excellent voice actor and most of the time many of the anime he has starred in be it as lead or supporting character have also been excellent. Yes, Attack on Titan, also contains talented voice acting.While I am sure other reviewers have stated the same. Attack on Titan does tend to be highly regarded by many but just because of that high praise does it just mean it is overrated. It is not. It is only that it tends to be very accessible across a few different cultures. Making it have a wide fanbase. Despite that there will, of course, be those who might still not find it to their taste but its still worth a look if you want to see a mature struggle for survival anime series for the most part and high production values when it comes to animation.