Review of Deceiver

Attack on Titan: Deceiver (2021)
Season 4, Episode 11
9/10
Nations' Sonder
21 February 2021
I believe that this show raises more philosophical questions than any individual can imagine, due to the diverse personalities written for each character, with a bit more than just shallow lines written for a side-character. Each character is written as a perspective, a window in the aot world, for a certain type of people, questioning their personal morality and stances. It is hard to not relate to one single character.

Sonder is the realisation that all bypassers on the street have got their own complex lives and aren't just faces that serve our own perspectives. Their world is as big as ours. What this show should make people realise is that our enemies, countries and nations, are as complex as ours. They are as right as we are, and just as wrong as we are. I really believe in Isayama having a beautiful mind.

It is also hard to hate any of them. It just makes sense what they all feel and yet it's so wrong. The way this is executed is taken way further every single episode and it's not the hype and excitement induced from fights and battles that make this a good show, it's how we "feel" the characters and apply our own moral stances to situations we are never gonna experience and yet finding them relatable and understandable.

I hope other people try interpreting this show the way I do, and I promise, everyone should and will get something from this, at least a bit more than just entertainment.
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