<p>For one, a <a href="http://gaggingonsexism.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/attack-on-titan-attack-on-gender-roles-in-shonen-genre/">great</a> <a href="http://sketchyfeminist.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/review-attack-on-titan-shingeki-no-kyojin-season-one/">many</a> <a href="http://taylorramage.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/lessons-from-attack-on-titan-how-to-write-a-shonen-series-without-throwing-women-under-the-bus/">people</a> have claimed that there is a positive feminist angle to the series, specifically with the equal representation of women within the series’ military. The <a href="http://fujoshifeminism.tumblr.com/post/75100366947/attack-on-titan-mikasa-ackerman-is-not-a-feminist">argument against this</a> focuses on two aspects: Mikasa’s unyielding devotion towards Eren and the lack of prominent, high-ranking female military officials. I won’t belabour either of those points because viewing the series as having a feminist message either way seems counter-productive when there is no commentary on gender within the show itself. So when you have strong and weak - albeit slightly shallow - representations of genders (including canonical <a href="http://www.mangatherapy.com/post/84195650648/ambiguously-amazing-hange-zoe">non-binary denominations</a> with characters such as Hanji), with no ill or favourable treatment for either, any problem with a specific character becomes about them rather than the series as a whole. A series which is entirely bereft of the <a href="http://images.chaostangent.com/2014/09/titan-51.jpg">fan service</a> and romantic subplots that usually provide thorny sticking points for such a discussion.</p>