(This is my first review! English isn't my first language, hope it makes sense)

So I'll be upfront, I picked up the manga where the 2nd season of the anime left off. I'm not one for classic shounen anime, unless the art is really captivating and there's some good humor.

A lot has happened since that point, and man oh man have the past 15 chapters been such eye candy. The past ~5 especially, in terms of art. It's improved a lot when looking at initial chapters, and I understand from there why people would drop it.

My favorite part about this series is that no character has a set purpose. There isn't a character just for comic relief, it's spread out just like it should be in stories. There isn't a set evil character, as the story goes on the lines are connecting to something much bigger.

I watched Attack on Titan during the initial hype, but that got frustrating how clear cut their roles were. Eren is clearly the protag, whereas Yuu here is a main voice but not by much - his family have voices too. Though that becomes much clearer compared to the anime - or maybe showing how Yuu is opening to others?

There's very serious scenes, but the heaviness is balanced out with amusing parts. Not really a spoiler, but one scene the core group are all in the bathroom discussing something. Shinoa says along the lines of "Sorry for changing the subject.... but how do you use these?" in reference to urinals. Then it shifts back to the topic on hand and all resumes.

Of course, the art is a driving factor for me. Yet its in the same way that a game being pretty (ie FF XIII) can fall flat if mechanics or story fall short. We'll see how the current arc develops, but I'm much more interested than any of the past ones.