User blog comment:Coquidragon/Episode 20 non review/@comment-4829046-20141118133729/@comment-1746153-20141118135912

Yeah, I agree with you concerning art and characters. Though I see many errors and inconsistencies in AgK's artwork the action scenes look quite good, and the characters are defined well enough to be memorable. The plot however unfortunately lacks development, and many potentially interesting things were never explored. All those "unpleasant" topics are there mostly for cheap shock factor, I often feel like I'm bashed in the face with all this "omg the Empire is corrupted!", "omg, everyone is a rapist!". As a psychological horror fan I feel like this in your face approach actually lessens the impact.

Tbh I only started reading AgK because of hearing about it too many times, and while I do enjoy it, I wouldn't really rank it among my favorite manga series ever (since I mostly like Seinen). I started to like Ran very much quite randomly back in summer (after he died, heh), and that actually helped me fight depression, though I'm mostly over it now (both my depression and Ran obsession).

And I also like SnK/AoT, and story-wise I indeed enjoy it more than AgK (even if it is confusing at times since I'm very bad at politics). However I can't really find characters to like there.