its my understanding that the author is an ultranationalist and hates koreans with like his entire heart or something. i googled around and found this http://yorozuya-gin-chan.tumblr.com/post/64283661133/zankyo-isayama-hajime-apparently-said-on

yeah it starts out pretty much as a non-ironic Starship Troopers, and although things get quite a bit less straightforward later on, the author is still a tremendous fuck and it sometimes seeps through to the work itself.

yup, it's :////

i watched the first episode knowing nothing about the show at all, and i did not manage to make it to the second