Mar 29, 2016
First review so I apologize if it isn't well done. but damn the initial hate over this series.
tl;dr? Do you have 3 hours to spare? watch it.
Story: What is the story? Humanity is on the verge of death with unbeatable monsters eating everyone. Last hope are God Eaters, beings who have taken into themselves what makes these monsters so special allowing them to fight them. The MC becomes a God Eater and we follow him as he does what he came here to do, kill those monsters. If this sounds kind of like Attack on Titan then you can pretty much say that you are
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in the right. What i would say is that both stories have great worlds, and characters (of which some die), but what sets this one apart is, in AoT i hated Eren as a main character. But in God Eater, Lenka is a pretty decent lead. He is naive but not stupid, i would almost relate him to Shirou from Fate/Stay Night as a MC. Both are capable, intelligent, but when others are in danger, hindsight goes out the window. This story from the first God Eater game on the PSP originally and mainly only covers 1/3 of the game, the story I would say is good. It isn't as fleshed out as it can be but the concept of what is going on and why is very interesting to me. It's a cool thought and they do enough to make you interested in how this will all turn out.
Art: A series that seems to be rendered in more than the basic few types of colours that conventional anime usually gets rendered in adding to the style. I LOVE the art style in this series because of how much detail and shadow is in every scene, mind blowing. There are times when the animation is at a meh point but the art more than makes up for it and there is no animation section so i won't deduct marks for that.
Sound: The sound was good, nothing amazing but they do the job. On a few scenes the music chosen and the music cue was fantastic, but the lack of, in my opinion, a great OST sets it from going above and beyond. Doesn't stop me from getting that opening though.
Character: This may be biased slightly because, from playing the game, i have more fleshed out characters in my head but I will try not to confuse them. Overall the characters were not handled AS well as they could have been and in some instances I look at what some choose to do and go "...doesn't make much sense but okay." However in saying that there are some great key characters and over a 13 episode series they do the job. You will probably only remember 3-5 characters from the cast though and only remember well 2-3 of them.
Enjoyment: Bias most likely cause i played the game but this series I LOVED and ENJOYED. I have re-watched it 5 times and those later episodes that are in a class of their own i've rematched countless times. I loved them and enjoyed them fully.
Overall: It's got action, shounen, and some good cheesy lines but that doesn't stop this series from being one that I will absolutely buy the blu-ray of and keep on my hard drive for impulse watching at random points in time. It isn't a masterpiece but it is definitely a guilty pleasure. You don't need to be a masterpiece to be a series i will watch over and over again at later times and this one is definitely just that.
It's a 13 episode series that, overall was enjoyable when watched all together. Initial turn off because they only did 9 episodes in over 1 seasons with a massive gap between those and the last 4 episodes. Leaves a bad taste in peoples mouthes but if you are NOW coming to watch it, absolutely go for it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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