Instead of the progressive, politically informed, fantastical narrative I was promised by the previous brilliance of AOT, I watched as the show decided not to subvert anti-Semitic tropes, but instead to confirm them. I watched a show in which the Jewish-coded characters were blatantly oppressed with blood libel rhetoric which ended up being entirely true. Attack on Titan is disrespectful to Jewish history and thoughtlessly employs symbols of painful aspects of that history only to ultimately fail to make truly progressive arguments about the nature of discrimination and oppression

“Oh gracious and merciful goddesses of Olympus, hear my prayer and spare me this torment. I have been wronged by one of your own, yet I am also one of your own, as woman, and invoke the natural law of sisterhood.”

Examining the theological implications of patriarchal tradition on young feminine minds.