Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20180722183806/@comment-35822279-20180728005639

This was an ok episode in my opinion as it was mostly good but also had some easy to spot issues.

- I agree with everyone here that the events were a little rushed as even though Uprising is my least favourite arc I still feel that the stuff this episode skipped over is still vital to understanding events and characters later on. So hopefully they just restructured the event order or they are revisited via flashbacks which is a tad clunky but better than skipping it entirely.

- The best scene of the episode for me was Hange's deduction of Nick's murder at the hands of Sannes as it was pretty cool to see Hange use her intelligence and odd personality to break through Sanne's lies and find physical evidence of the torture (even better in animated form than on the page IMO)  + the music, composition, VA, and cinematography were excellent in this scene.

- Kenny's ambush being moved up was unexpected and a tad too early but I'm still pretty stoked to see the upcoming fight animated as that was one of my favourite parts in the Uprising manga arc.

- The OP is probably my least favourite of the 4 AOT OPs as it was a bit basic for my taste (Images, animation etc.) and it felt like it would have worked better elsewhere but the song itself was well sung and nicely composed.

- The training scene was a little too short for my taste as it skipped over a lot of details but it's nice to see Eren's Cronenberg scene made the jump (I love body horror).

- The opening scene was solid as its nice to get a breather before things start ramping up and the voice actors (Japanese, I watch the show with subs) have quite a bit of chemistry with each other so I found it enjoyable.

- The worst individual scene for me was Armin getting molested by Dimo Reeves as I found that scene hard to take seriously in the manga and it was nearly as bad here (Jean's VA's dead pan reaction came close to making it bearable though).

- The weakest aspect of this outing was definitely it's pacing as it did run a little too quickly which is kinda funny as the reason why Uprising is my least favourite arc in the manga is it's sluggish pacing but here it was almost like they went to the opposite extreme to try and fix that issue but hopefully they find a happy medium as they go along.