Maitreyi Ramakrishnan talks about how Attack on Titan shaped her worldview. She remembers protesting at five years old and wishes she could erase her memory of the anime to experience it fresh, calling it transformative.
I love to find stories that make me feel stupid. I trusted it, and it flipped. Am I allowed to say that? Spoiler alert! I was on my first protest at, like, the age of, like, 5. This was just another day in the household of my family. But it's been him the entire time, and you're just like, whoa. Spoiler alert again! Only one? Only one. That's messed up. Storytelling has been so pivotal in history, in culture, for a reason. If I could erase my brain and, like, delete all information I have about this series and find it again for the first time, this would be it. Like, this is the one.
So big question, how did Attack on Titan change your life?
Um, changed my life because—
