The reason Attack on Titan was so popular was because it was misery porn mixed in with the occasional ray of shounen optimism.Most other manga don't commit on the misery as much as AoT did. That's why they fall short.
>>290870307>Most other manga don't commit on the misery as much as AoT did.Most other stories in general, even the edgy ones. It's not just misery, it also commits to being morbid. I mean, in how many other shows there's a "good" guy who forced an antagonist to drink his own shit?It's a pretty unique show and pretty entertaining one. I like how it shits on retarded shounen tropes like casual self-harm for the sake of looking badass, and how it makes war (and human existence, really) look like absolute hell that it is.
>>290870307your thread is bad and you should feel bad
>>290870307read more manga, retarded newfaggot
>>290870307It also helps that it has a very high-concept premise compared to pretty much all other super popular shonen. Too bad it strays off later on, but leaving such a good first impression was an important factor to its popularity early on.
>>290871644>>290871674forced disagreements, low IQ detected
>>290871636SnK really felt like a documentary at times. It's still a shounen at the end of the day, with a powerful group of heroes who (mostly) make it to the end of the manga, but when it's not jerking off Eren, Mikasa or Levi, it's an absolute masterpiece.I feel like the manga could have worked as a subversion of the shounen trope by having Eren die for good, shifting a well-established protagonist for pure realism.I don't think I've ever seen that in a manga before.
>Mikasa is apparently inspired by Casca according to IsayamaHow the hell can you copy someone else's homework and still completely fail?
