Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24155619-20140711014702/@comment-3257939-20141206233253

ChishioKunrin wrote: People made me get into SAO. It's the reason I never watched Attack on Titan. I've decided that I shouldn't watch an anime just because everybody is so obsessed with it that it becomes a fad. Sometimes, those fad anime are shit. I should watch an anime because I genuinely find it interesting, not because everyone is going "YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS IT'S THE NEW COOL ANIME IT'S LIKE THE BEST THING EVER OMFG LOOK AT IT." Well, personally, I find Attack on Titan better than SAO. It's similar to SAO but the great difference between those two series is that romance does not dominate it.

Attack on Titan takes itself more seriously and really knows how to express the suffering of the characters for knowing that they're going to die at some point because it's a battle for survival, unlike SAO which forgets completely the "we can die" part and focuses on the harem of the protagonist. The only episodes that I liked from the anime were the ones when we actually see the characters fighting for their lives like they're supposed to be doing which were not much since the protagonist is basically god and is an expert in everything making the fights pointless.

It's why I really enjoyed the fight scenes in Breach. We finally got to see Team RWBY losing a battle. It's necessary to lose a fight to leave clear that the character is not invincible. Yang, for example, was believed to be invincible because of her semblance and we learned at her fight with Neo that she can be defeated.