Attack on Titan

If you want my honest opinion, I don't think you should read the manga. Just watch the anime. The animation's amazing, the voice acting is pretty good, there's a lot of character development in the first few episodes, and while it can be a bit slow, it will get climactic and eventually you're going to love this anime. I unfortunately, have read the whole manga and I regret it because there are a lot of good surprises that would of been so much better in animation. Although there is some filler, it actually makes sense and IMHO contributes to the story
tl;dr:Watch the anime, dont read the manga unless you're reading chapters you already saw episodes on.

 

I guess this is one of those cases where opinions greatly differ. I enjoy only parts of the anime nowadays, hell it was the $kids "adaptation" that introduced me to One Piece back in 2004 and it really wasn't till 2007 when I started to read the manga. Yes, a lot of the scenes are better when animated, but the manga has grown on me over the years while the tedium of the anime has sullied itself. Some implied filler was good but a lot of it kind of ruined the mood especially...

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...during the marineford war. It was a fast flowing arc in the manga while the anime kind of ruined it with bizarre moments like Hancock's fantasies and buggy making a lame joke in what could have been a hilarious scene if they just followed the manga...

I don't hate the anime, I just look down on it due to Toei's decisions. In my opinion, what they need to do is have a filler arc after the current one...

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with the current one being punk hazzard. That way they can exploit Law's current popularity, have some hijinx with Ceaser, and most needed of all create some needed space between the anime and manga. The one episode per chapter is really not doing the anime any justice.

 

Spoiler alert.

 

I think I may enjoy it. XD

Now I know random dude 83 never had a chance!
Unless that is a main character, then I would be disappointed knowing their fate of being hilariously trampled by a titan.

 

On second thought...

 

Most Certainly however, You are not only signing up for a show about people killing titans, you are signing up for a Huge Amount of emotional Damage, you have been warned.