Midnight Sun

Why am I doing this to myself, I know every week is like being punched in the gut. No OST? No problem, the japanese VA cast come in and ruin your whole day with outstanding performances. Emotional rollercoaster. This and the previous episodes are such contrasts but represent the wide range of events that can occur in the world of Attack on Titan. Masterpiece.

You may be wondering why I say that? Is it because it's bad? Obviously not. My rating in the case of this episode just like in the case for every episode of this second part of season 3 is the maximum IMDB lets me give.

The reason I say that in the title is that this episode made me forget I was watching an anime and gave me the impression that I was watching a real show with real persons who shed tears, fought over decisions and eventually sacrificed something in order to achieve some sort of victory.

Victories don't come without any costs and sometimes in order to move forward we must leave something behind.

Amazing music, animation and especially Voice Acting (eng dubb, but Japanese is also fantastic) made this episode fantastic and along with the previous two episodes the peak of anime. Nothing else even comes close to it.

Without divulging too much of the plot, I'll give a summary of what was so perfect about this episode.

There was a wonderful lack of fighting scenes this time round, yet tensions ran so much higher than ever. The lack of a soundtrack throughout the episode gave such an eerie setting you'd think someone was about to die (they do that a lot with this show). The production staff made a fantastic use of stills to summarise a plot point (see the very last scene) and still had some fantastically fluid animation to make sure you were always immersed and never taken away from the story.

The voice actors all did a very, very special job, even watching without subtitles I was able to tell what they were saying (bare in mind I don't understand Japanese) and I genuinely thought at several points that the VAs were put under physical pain to produce such terrifying and perfect sounds.

Hiroyuki Sawano was wonderful as always with his accompanying soundtrack, and did a great job rounding off the episode with the renaissance-like image at the end.

Very rushed review but I loved this episode, probably the best single piece of TV I've seen to date. 10/10

Emotional and hard to swallow, just like life we come to face difficult decisions and have to let go of things and people we love, respect and care for. Never knowing what will truly be the best for us in the future. Attack on Titan continues to tackles these questions and develop its story and characters is such a beautiful way. My hat goes off to these writers and artists. BRAVO!!!!!

This episode was an emotional rollercoaster. Trying to see who they would choose to revive was nothing short of emotional considering they were two of my favorite characters, but it opened the question as to who they should really revive. This is like a classic episode of Game of Thrones of trying to see who is good and who is bad. A perfect episode that deserves as much merit as the last episode. How could I not know that an animated show would be able to pull so many heartstrings?