35 Moments That Blew Attack On Titan Fan's Minds
11. The Armoured And Colossal Titan Attack The Wall
It's really difficult to have a first episode that instantly hooks its audience, especially in anime where the concepts and ideas can be so out there, that it needs more than the typical 24 minute runtime on a show.
What Attack on Titan does so brilliantly in the first episode is create a sense of calm, while explaining how the world the characters live in works. Even though there's a sense of dread because titans lie outside the walls at all times, we're set at ease as they tell us time and time again that there hasn't been a titan attack in decades.
And yet, with a flash of lightning, their entire world changes as the Colossal Titan and and Armoured Titan breach the walls allowing a near endless supply of Titans to roam in and devour the citizens of the Shiganshina district.