Firstly, I'm a sucker for those Titan fights with Erin and other Titans. Like I get so excited it's almost scary, I just love them.
This might sound weird to say, but one of the things I love about this anime is how realistic it is, despite such an event happening being of course fantasy. But the characters react realistically with their emotions, people die, people have dreams of grandeur and then die horribly and suddenly, without much warning in this world, which both shows you the terrifying situation humanity is in and also suits it. It would be unrealistic if all the friends and comrades made it out alive and were all badass fighters.
Also realistic in how everything feels for me; since the first episode, when I watched the Colossal Titan break Wall Maria, I felt afraid, as I would if I was there in that place. It really sucked me in; not like I was afraid when I turned the show off, but watching it, I felt the danger and fear and horror. Somehow, this story really puts those feelings in me.
Anyway, I love it when Erin transforms, it's awesome. Not sure what it is about it, I think his Titan form is a cool design, but the sounds they make and how both creepy and awesome he looks definitely contributes.
So was I the only one who suspected that the female Titan was Annie fairly early on? After the first episode you see her in, I thought she looked pretty similar to Annie, and the way she stopped before killing Armen made me think she knew him and didn't want to kill him.
But now she's stuck in some crystal cocoon and the anime ends with a cryptic saying of how they wouldn't find out just what's up with her and how important it is until much later on.
Oh and that little tiny minuscule itty bitty detail of a Titan's face in the wall. After a bit of stone crumbles away. Like yeah. HOLY SHIT. What does that mean?
Anywayyyyy, thoughts I want answered in the future: Who are the other two Titan's, the Armored one and the Colossal? Are they also characters we know in the anime, or people that have yet to be revealed? Have they been around from the beginning (the characters) or just from the start of the second part?
Where is Erin's dad, is he still alive and out there? What's in that basement?
What's up with Annie?
Will Erin lose it and eat people, like when he starts getting freaky and crazy as a Titan and talks about wanting to eat other Titans?
Where did the Titans even come from?
Why is there a Titan
inside the wall? is it made from Titans or something?
Why is Erin's Titan form very much like a normal Titan, with skin and stuff, whereas the other special Titan forms have that bone/muscle showing? What makes them so different in looks and how do they get that power?
Aaand last question, also bit of a theory: Why, if those special Titans are people as well, would they be trying to destroy humanity's last safe haven? Why would they do that? For revenge? Hatred? Something else? Makes me wonder if perhaps there's another human settlement out there that's using the Titans to take out a faction of humanity that they don't want.