Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20190603021521/@comment-39172349-20190603110254

RuneLai wrote: YD.Ann wrote: I don't give episodes "10s" when rating unless there are mind blowing pivital moments on display as shown here. I was spoiled on what would happen, and I was still in suspense. Great work by everyone that made this possible, from the production to the music and voice acting. This is becomming a S-Rank show. I hear it gets trash after this, but I'm hoping not. I really enjoyed the next arc, but some people can't stand it. On the other hand, the same could be said for Season 3 Part 1. People have called it the worst arc in the series, but I liked it just fine. No matter what happens, there will always be some arcs that some people like better than others depending on their tastes.

As far as this episode goes, I wasn't too thrilled with it. The flashbacks when Levi was preparing to give the injection to Erwin felt much more repetitive in anime than in the manga, because the manga was able to vary it by using different panels, different dialogue bubbles, even if they were from the same scene, but you can't do that in anime, so we end up with something like Kenny repeating himself because they're using the same few seconds of footage. It makes for a nice rendition of Levi's conflicting feelings on the page, but the transition to animated form wasn't nearly as smooth.

With the manga, my primary complaint about Midnight Sun is that there was never any doubt in my mind that between Erwin and Armin, Armin was going to be saved. The choice was being played for needless drama for a foregone conclusion, but I think since the anime combines Cleaver and Midnight Sun into a single episode it works better. (This especially annoyed me since Erwin is one of my favorite characters, and it felt like this was a cheaper send-off than dying in his suicide charge.)

The fact the anime is in video format prevents viewers from stopping and thinking too much about who will get the injection, which is a plus. Since learning Erwin is alive and deciding who gets the injection happens in a single episode, we don't have a month-long wait of people rolling their eyes while they're already sure of the result.