The Old Version of Attack on Titan

The battle manga part with webslinging and exacto knife swords was entirely about attracting smoothbrain shonentards so Isayama could hit them with the racist politics worldbuilding story later on.
The madman had the balls to make a hit manga that most mangakas would give anything to get period and then torch it for the story he actually wanted to tell.

It was a nazi anime then, it is a nazi anime now

And I like it

The same happened to me, the first episodes seemed impressive to me, a dystopian world where a force of nature subjugates humans for no apparent reason, death is just around the corner, I loved the lore of this world, social adaptations, technological, and religious to which humans had to resort to survive ..... then Eren transformed and for me it stopped being a horror story to become a generic seinen with mechas made of meat.

And holy shit how boring are Mikasa and Levi characters, they are just a couple of Mary sue written for light novels.

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I agree with you op. However, where would the series go if it never moved on to explain the situation? You would have to end on a bittersweet or straight up dark note without ever knowing what happened to the world.

You can't really do that with any popular series nowadays. The internet age has made people accustomed to getting all the answers and everything that ends up being ambiguous is just perceived as lazy or unsatisfying.

How were Titans ever even a problem when Levi, king of the manlets, is able to take down dozens of titans, and even Beastie Boy. Even Mikasa can take them out the normal titans effortlessly.

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No

Far prefer how the series has turned out. I've always liked series that reveal bits and pieces of the world the characters are living in without ever showing us the whole picture. It leads to a bunch of different theories being generated. Then when a HUGE mystery is revealed about something foundational to the nature or reality of the world it totally shifts our perception of the universe in which the show is taking place. So the ending of S3 with the revelation of the "truth" was amazing. The revelation made complete sense and answered a lot of questions. (this is also a part of the reason why I like Shinsekai Yori as it did the same sort of world reveal that AOT did).

If the world remained as a titan vs human thing I honestly...wouldn't have seen it going anywhere. The only possible way a story like that will end is with either the titans or the humans winning. Could've still been good but more predictable.

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Turned to shit when paths magic was introduced and the character bloat got too much

Wanna know how I know you barely went by the first season?

I honestly like how the story has developed, but I'll always have an itch at the back of my mind, a wish to see what the original planned ending was. Apparently humanity was going to lose, so there may not have been an outside world at that point?
I wish we could get a Brotherhood-style retelling with the original ending.

Yes, thank you! Mikasa and Levi are so fucking boring. Normies loving them so much just proves they all have shit taste.

The series purposefully kept you wondering why from the very beginning. You don't want it to explore that, and just leave that thread hanging? You just want action, respite, repeat? If you don't want worldbuilding you get shit like DBZ where's it's all new bad guy shows up, more power, more transformations, then repeat.

I'm getting the feeling it won't end that way though and Eren will disappoint us (he's already shown to be somewhat apologetic).
Plus they just off'ed Floch by making him job, and who was the only other interesting guy left. Still made normies consider for a moment something much grander than merely utilitarian thinking.

Some of the scenes at the moment are so cringe though.

And how the worldbuilding has developed isn't something that's just tacked on. It was hinted at from the beginning and planned.

Yes, it's shit now.

this

Author is ambitious but doesn't have the competency to back that ambition up.

I find Season 1 hard to rewatch compared to later arcs because of how basic the plot was and the inordinate amount of time spent on random characters that die an episode or two later. Once the main plot gets going and the main cast is settled on with Season 2/3 it feels like an entirely different series in a good way. S4 will be even better in this regard but I can see some of the 'omg Levi epic' shonentards getting lost with the change in direction. Certain shippers are also going to be pissed

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Yes, I feel the exact same way. I'm still gonna keep reading till the end but I'll never enjoy it like I did before.

I'm not saying Isayama is trying to teach people to be racist, I mean it's a political story about racial survival and genocide. The ending isn't going to be "genocidal defense of race is actually good" but it's still not a story a shonen magazine would let you start with, nor would people have bought it.

>Does anybody miss when Attack on Titan was mainly about all humanity defending itself against a race of giant beasts known as Titans?
Yup. I hate how it went from "Through will and unity, us humans can overcome any threat!" to "Maybe murdering every other people isnt so bad if it means saving your own kind?"

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>I just want the same thing repeated endlessly until an inevitable drop in viewership and cancellation
Watch a sitcom if that's what you want. Actual stories progress.