The story line is painfully similar to attack on Titan but it deviates just a little bit around episode 5. It's too much violent but I still found it entertaining. I wouldn't recommend it if you already saw AOT.

If you like poor writing, idiotic characters, implausible and copied plots (Yes, this does try to copy Attack on Titan), then this is the show for you! We have a lead character who is just implausibly stupid (I'm gonna test my gun instead of trying to flee the city.) As if the iron zombies are in short supply.... Then we get a 12 year old bi-polar ninja girl, and an antagonist who commits mass genocides for no real reason. No one trusts our Green haired protagonist until episode 4, despite him meeting all their demands and saving them several times. We are also forced to deal with a Steampunk element that is overplayed and uninteresting, especially in this world of over- used tropes (including Zombies! We don't have enough shows with zombies!) Want a shitty gore fest till something decent comes on? Then this 4hr season will kill your time and IQ.

Beautifully animated. It starts off about society struggling to survive against a powerful enemy. This enemy grows stronger and smarter, while the humans continue to lose resources, shelter, and hope. But the storytellers decide to abandon this story in favor of a villain separate from the primary threat to humans. The "heroes" have been struggling to survive and find food after only a few days. The human villain should have run out of resources and crew, but the scarcity of resources is no longer mentioned. By the end, the "heroes" have cooperated with the villain to wipe out two cities and kill tens of thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands. It could be said that this was to save their friends, but it shouldn't justify it to the survivors, who forgive the villains crew and the "heroes."The survivors of the city, the friends of the "heroes", and the remaining crew of the villain, all join together and left the city. The villain is successful, the "heroes" lose some people but not everyone and count it as success. Terrible story

This anime is visually appealing and the animation is top notch. I heard it was made by the same team that adapted Attack on Titan and that became too obvious too quickly.The protagonists live in a post-apocalyptic world. Something must have happened and they are now the prey of zombie-like creatures called Akabane. It seems to be some kind of disease that's passed through blood/bites, but we don't know how or why it appeared. I say zombie- like but don't get the wrong idea. Their physical abilities are not normal. In terms of strength, toughness, speed, agility and overall physical prowess, they're beyond human. They just behave like zombies, being seemingly brain dead, drawn towards human flesh or just murdering them.The hero, Ikoma, suffered through a childhood trauma that made him determined to fight and kill the Akabane (rings a bell right?). He'll be living through another experience that's gonna change him and meet Mumei, a ridiculously strong girl that looks like a child and probably is.To be fair, this show has its own identity, a unique environment, characters, setting... But considering this one is not adapted from another source like AOT (manga), it feels a bit cheap to come up with that many similar plot lines. The soundtrack and the way it's used is also very reminiscent of Attack on Titan. It looks like they tried to replicate a good formula to do something with this anime. Not sure what or why, but considering there is a lot of people waiting for a the second season of AOT, it really begs the question.The first 3 episodes didn't fascinate me, I wasn't as much into it as I expected. To me, the characters's attributes came of as stereotyped, the hero as generic, very similar to Eren yet somehow boring.I don't care much for him whereas I found Eren likable and was able to be invested in what happened to his character. I also found his partner Mumei to be quite conventional. A sort of seemingly insensitive, obnoxious, cool-looking overpowered fighter that beats the frak out of him instead of using words or at least adequate use of her force. The girl beating on the male protagonist on every whim she has is overused in animes, usually as comic relief, here I'm not sure why but either way I've never been found of it. I'm Not sure where they are going with this Kabaneri thing and their thirst for human blood, maybe it will bring something interesting, but right now I don't really care.The show has some strong qualities and some weak points in my opinion. If you're not annoyed by the redundancies with AOT and If you really like the the main protagonists, you should be able to enjoy it more than I do. If not, you'll probably feel like me and see it as an alluring but kinda shallow show that won't get your hopes up very much. That being said, it'd be premature of me to make a definitive opinion after 3 episodes only so I will keep on watching to see if how it develops and hopefully grows on me.Overall I still enjoy this anime. Would have given it a 7.5 if I could but it does not reach an 8 in my heart. It does bring some good things to the table, like the railway system that gives off this fast pace rhythm and a kind of intensity to some scenes. I was just expecting something different and was not as fascinated as I was by Attack on Titan. It's all very subjective and I'd recommend people to give it a try. You should be able to tell if the show is meant for you after watching a couple of episodes.I think that making a comparison with AOT is really fair considering the circumstances. The same teams is behind both animes and there are obvious similarities concerning major fundamental plot lines so it does make sense.As for me, I enjoyed the beginning of AOT more than this one. I felt greater depth, better character development, better plot, more dramatic intensity and I liked the soundtrack better. How about you ? Watch and find out.