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Compared to Fullmetal Alchemist, this story badly fails to convince that decent human beings can commit war crimes, a premise Japanese writers sadly have a vested interest in arguing. The truth is that genocides aren't committed by decent people for passably sensible reasons, but for lies and greed by moral idiots who seldom feel guilt for what they've done. Seeing the point of view of genocidal maniacs is scarcely a more valuable exercise than sympathising with them. The true premise of Attack on Titan, that those people forced to live in ghettos and wear yellow stars really were demons who had and would harm Germany - and might justly be genocided by sterilisation for it - has made Attack on Titan a truly repulsive lie since episode 80.
I'm still watching it though. As unsympathetic and unconvincing as the characters have become, a sufficient buildup of emotional scale and momentum will carry even such a show to the end.
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