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Anime Review: Attack on Titan Season 2 (2017) by Masashi Koizuka

With the first seasons leaving much more questions than answers, the second season continues in the great fashion of the second, with the story competing with the action for the most intricate aspect.

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The story continues right where the first one left off, just after the fight with the female Titan, which revealed a couple of things regarding the origin of Titans, but actually created even more questions. Eren and his scout friends have no time to rest as a horde approaches Wall Rose. While a new and more dangerous Abnormal appears, Beast Titan, the scouts realize that the wall holds much more secrets than they assumed, as the revelations follow one another. While Eren and Mikasa's relationship remains on the front, the one between Ymir and Krista also comes to the fore, as do Reiner and Bertholt, who are the sources of the most shocking revelation of the second season.

The second season continues the great combination of thriller, mystery, fantasy, drama and impressive action in the best way, with every question answered posing two more, as we also watch the fights, and particularly the deaths of protagonists, shaping the character of the ones left behind. Furthermore, and as the secrets this time involve the Titans at least as much as the humans, the story becomes even deeper, particularly through an identity crisis a number of them to face, while the switch of focus from the triptych of Eren-Mikasa and Armin definitely benefits the narrative. At the same time, the social comments regarding religion, authority, friendship, and love provide an additional level for the title, that stresses the dramatic element. Tetsuro Araki's direction, this time with the assistance of continues to be thrilling, implementing all the aforementioned elements in great fashion.

All these elements retain the agony for the whole duration of the season, which moves in rapid fashion through the impressive, filled with blood and violence action scenes, a number of which are of epic proportions. Technically, the title features outstanding drawing for a TV series, with the Beast Titan coming to add himself to the impressive design of the rest of the Abnormals. The animation by continues to amaze, with the movement of both humans and Titans being both realistic and stunning, particularly during the action scenes

The second season of “” is at least as great as the first, with the sole flaw being that it really leaves you hungry for more, as the story's revelations create even more questions and everybody's fate is hanging by a thread.

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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