Hello Again, If you haven't already, check out my Season 1 review to understand my take on the series and how I found it.

Anyways Season 2 of Attack on Titan was weird to me for one reason. As previously explained I stopped watching AOT back in 2017, during Season 2 because of school. However I can't remember for the life of me at what point i stopped, i remembered the beast titan and Mikes death but not up to The reveal of the colossal and armoured titan, my best guess was it was around Mikes death then, maybe id caught up and didn't continue to follow it weekly. However, I did remember the identities of those titans which made re-watching it feel like I both knew and didn't know, it felt new and old.

Now in 2021 though, it was still a greatly enjoyable second season, while very short it is probably the strongest showing of how quickly a story can completely open up and is the foundation for the following seasons. Season 1 while great was quite closed in, the main areas of the story where within the walls, and the female titan arc was the best showing of the possibility of the expansion possible, even the female titans identity alone didn't really open much up as nothing more could be suggested without assumptions.

Season 2 however, explores outside the walls a lot more and a lot more questions and scenarios occur that perfectly sets up future story telling as well as a whole lot of theories. Obviously, there is Reiner and Bertholdts surprise reveal of their titan powers, which while done abruptly actually makes complete sense and sets up some beautiful following episodes, not only this but also Ymir completely caught me off guard, someone from the sidelines suddenly having a pivotal role was a great change of story telling and all in all, having these 3 characters suddenly become so pivotal in the story not only changed how you looked at side characters and the story itself but now their was more evidence for questioning things, we had 4 examples of titan shifters so who was to say there wasn't more and the fact they were all within Eren's Training Corp buddies. Not only this but the beast titan was a mysterious character who singlehandedly created some massive plot points, being able to talk and seemingly control titans.

All of these points and so many more such as Historia, People turning into titans and the titans in the walls is what makes this season so strong, it is without a doubt the Season that changed the story forever and to do so in just 12 episodes is insane. Personally its probably one of the weakest seasons for me, but that's not to say its bad. While it sets up so much, because it doesn't actively solve or develop much other than the insane reveal it falls a little flat, but i greatly appreciate the hold this Season has on the overarching story of AOT