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I do love how quickly the priest went from horrified to outraged e: VVV The giants are huge, impossible to hide, clearly related to human beings and there's obviously an agenda behind them. Only the most hardcore of religious nuts will refuse accept how entirely earthly and materialistic the titan threat is after seeing a dead/sleeping giant embedded in a wall hackbunny fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 11, 2012 |
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hackbunny posted:I do love how quickly the priest went from horrified to outraged I wonder how recent events will affect church membership.
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May 11, 2012 23:28
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hackbunny posted:I do love how quickly the priest went from horrified to outraged Yeah, although him shouting "You must not come any closer to the wall!" at Annie sounds mighty suspicious in retrospect. Maybe the church knows about the wall being a giant brick-and-mortar titan piņata? Who built those walls, anyway?.
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May 11, 2012 23:31
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Hugs Boson posted:Yeah, although him shouting "You must not come any closer to the wall!" at Annie sounds mighty suspicious in retrospect. Maybe the church knows about the wall being a giant brick-and-mortar titan piņata? Who built those walls, anyway?. Oh wow, good point. They probably thought that religion was a good way to keep people from asking too many questions, but I think it will backfire on them, both in terms of disillusioned people and the inevitable breeding of a fanatic fringe Eren revealing himself as a titan precipitated one hell of a situation
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May 11, 2012 23:38
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Yessss, have some of that, ye bitch. I'm sorry, but "Daddy told me to be a complete oval office my whole life, so I am" is not a tenable arguement for killing dozens and dozens of people. Also, it looks like that titan was buried to keep it subdued - it's eyes look like it was lobotomized, or like it's just about to wake up from a long sleep. The reaction to sunlight makes sense in that case.
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hackbunny posted:Annie did look like she was just escaping, and not intentionally meaning to expose the entombed titan. Which probably means the walls are absolutely full of dead titans. I'm having Evangelion graveyard flashbacks Unlikely. Walls have gone down before, and if they had titans in them I imagine this is something people would have known by now. On the other hand, she had basically no problems whatsoever loving that wall up, which begs the question: why haven't the titans just knocked all the walls down? Is it because they know there's titans in the walls and don't want to kill their friends?
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May 12, 2012 00:10
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This is like "WHAT THE gently caress IS EVEN GOING ON?": The Series.
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Sanguinia posted:This is like "WHAT THE gently caress IS EVEN GOING ON?": The Series. No, that would be Gantz. This is great though.
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May 12, 2012 00:47
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Sanguinia posted:This is like "WHAT THE gently caress IS EVEN GOING ON?": The Series. Also, this chapter works great when set alongside Prelude to War.
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May 12, 2012 00:56
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Vincent Valentine posted:Unlikely. Walls have gone down before, and if they had titans in them I imagine this is something people would have known by now.
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May 12, 2012 03:22
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This manga is so bloody great. Every new surprising turn it takes is something that seems out of the blue at first but is actually sensible upon rereading. It's almost as if... Hajime Isayama has a plan and isn't making things up he goes along like most comic authors? drat I love
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May 12, 2012 03:35
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Yomtom posted:New chapter is out http://www.mangareader.net/shingeki-no-kyojin/33  is pretty much the exact reaction I had to this chapter. Very well done, and it raises a ton more questions that may have been foreshadowed earlier and we just missed it. Because of how deep within the city this particular series of walls is, is it possible that unlike the exterior walls they have never been breached? Maybe only the very innermost sorts of walls have a Titan in them, or maybe just this one spot for some reason.
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May 12, 2012 04:27
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Goddamn Mikasa you are one ice cold mother fucker.
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Isn't it likely to think that the titans are simply wanting to get into the city to help their entombed titan dude out of the wall?
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That chapter was so good it felt so short.Nilbop posted:Yessss, have some of that, ye bitch. Totally agree, except it was over a hundred people, she single handedly wiped out a third of the scouting legion. Annie was sadistic while doing it too, if you remember the team at the windmill. She enjoyed twirling the guy at the end of the rope around and kicking the team leader's horse. Rivaille said as much to her while on her head about enjoyng killing. In any case what she and the other human titans are doing might be for the greater good of humanity because maybe they are fighting a shadow war with the central authority behind all this for the general populations sake but mudering all those people is impossible to forgive, she crossed the line. Her father might have been hinting at this in his words. Vincent Valentine posted:Unlikely. Walls have gone down before, and if they had titans in them I imagine this is something people would have known by now. Maybe the human titans are in on the conspiracy. It has been put forward before that the loss of land might be a way for the people behind all this (the King?) to gain more control over the population. Illuyankas posted:None of the walls (mostly the gates from what I remember) were taken out by the normal, non-human piloted titans, and both non-fifty metre titans who did damage the wall did the whole metallic skin thing. Yeah, normal titans don't have those hard pointy fingers, she must've been doing something. Sindai posted:Goddamn Mikasa you are one ice cold mother fucker. Yeah, best to make a personal note never to cross Mikasa. Mo_Steel posted:
They could be using titans as mortar for the walls. It has been done before, the Great Wall of China was in part made with the remains of the people condemed to build it. But then that raises the question of how they got a live titan in the wall in the first place. Simstim fucked around with this message at 05:47 on May 12, 2012 |
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May 12, 2012 05:39
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Uh, am I the only one seeing the connection between us finding out that the Church's "Group Prayer Stance" is joining arms and making a circular wall of humans, and finding out that the circular walls around the city are full of Titans in the same chapter?
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May 12, 2012 05:55
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Cuchulain posted:Uh, am I the only one seeing the connection between us finding out that the Church's "Group Prayer Stance" is joining arms and making a circular wall of humans, and finding out that the circular walls around the city are full of Titans in the same chapter? I think the prayer stance is more of a representation of the actual walls that protect them, since they pray to the walls. Having them be full of titans or at least 1 is just like Welp there's that religion down the drain.
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May 12, 2012 06:03
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Simstim posted:
As for how, there's that earlier chapter where they reinforce the wall by putting harpoons on it and having titans run into it. Though I don't see what the advantage is from a structural sense.
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So that's how they built such large walls  Sindai posted:Goddamn Mikasa you are one ice cold mother fucker. 
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I don't see how the walls can be full of titans. It would weaken the walls, be incredibly difficult, and given the number of people you'd have to involve and the scale of the job, it would be impossible to keep secret. And I don't see why they'd do it anyway. It just doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the story. It's not clever enough.
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Simstim posted:They could be using titans as mortar for the walls. It has been done before, the Great Wall of China was in part made with the remains of the people condemed to build it. But then that raises the question of how they got a live titan in the wall in the first place. I'm pretty sure that's just a myth. No one builds lasting structures with dead people inside, it's horrible for structural integrity. The people who do that are mob goombas without any engineering cares or training looking to hide a body. Of course it may be that Titans could turn out to be super awesome wall filler due to their vastly different physiology than human bodies.
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Titans regenerate endlessly. They may slow down when deprived of sunlight, but I don't think they ever really stop.
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The Uniqlo on 5th Ave in Manhattan is currently selling Attack on Titan t-shirts!! I bought 2 myself, but they're selling like 4 different designs.  
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Christ I just cannot get past how dumb that name is. The shirts look pretty cool though!
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It's just such a lackluster B-movie type name, which is deceiving because the series is anything but.
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Advance of the Giants sounds like a lackluster C-movie title, so there's that.
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HenryEx posted:Advance of the Giants sounds like a lackluster C-movie title, so there's that. But Attack on Titan makes me think of exactly that, an attack on the moon Titan, not giants.
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Simstim posted:But Attack on Titan makes me think of exactly that, an attack on the moon Titan, not giants. Maybe it's cause the giants are attacking the city whose buildings and walls are made out of moon cheese 
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Simstim posted:But Attack on Titan makes me think of exactly that, an attack on the moon Titan, not giants. You have probably just solved the eventual big reveal.
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The name Attack on Titan makes a lot more sense with the latest chapter.
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Simstim posted:Yeah, best to make a personal note never to cross Mikasa. That's why she can't be a human-giant, at least yet. If she were, the series would have to be called Retreat From That Titan. I kind of like the Attack on Titan in the context of secondary material like shirts. It has that muddled mistranslation feel, making the artwork even more surreal and giving me and excuse to wear it (I don't even wear shirts with a visible logo, but those are nice shirts).
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Hodgepodge posted:That's why she can't be a human-giant, at least yet. If she were, the series would have to be called Retreat From That Titan. That would completely reverse the roles. Instead of humans getting screwed all the time, Titans would be getting screwed all the time. Which would shatter my mind if it actually happened in the series.
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Feriowind posted:The Uniqlo on 5th Ave in Manhattan is currently selling Attack on Titan t-shirts!! I bought 2 myself, but they're selling like 4 different designs. That is the most goofy-rear end font they could have possibly chosen to represent a comic book about giant monsters consuming humanity, both literally and figuratively.
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Hodgepodge posted:That's why she can't be a human-giant, at least yet. If she were, the series would have to be called Retreat From That Titan. But seriously, Eren had better get some better Titan powers or he's just going to keep getting owned by other human titans.
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Is Uniqlo some kind of Hot Topic-style store where they cater to a very specific demographic (in this case anime and games)? I keep seeing people post their t-shirts and it's always stuff I'd never have thought to see on a thing people would wear.
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Pierson posted:Is Uniqlo some kind of Hot Topic-style store where they cater to a very specific demographic (in this case anime and games)? I keep seeing people post their t-shirts and it's always stuff I'd never have thought to see on a thing people would wear. Its a japanese clothing store, kind of like a japanese Old Navy (in real Japan) and they often sell graphic tees with pop culture stuff on it. Like shirts with robocop on them and poo poo. Being Japan, their graphic tees sometimes deal with anime and manga. They are not anything like hot topic. Their regular clothes are really fit and comfy for skinny people.
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ANIME AKBAR posted:But seriously, Eren had better get some better Titan powers or he's just going to keep getting owned by other human titans. I think the idea is that Annie is both more knowledgeable about her Titan form and just straight-up the better hand to hand fighter. Which is nice because it keep the tone of the series to have the main character get his Shonen-protagonist-powers only to be repeatedly and brutally outclassed by an enemy.
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Hodgepodge posted:I think the idea is that Annie is both more knowledgeable about her Titan form and just straight-up the better hand to hand fighter. Which is nice because it keep the tone of the series to have the main character get his Shonen-protagonist-powers only to be repeatedly and brutally outclassed by an enemy. Eh, it's not really anything new or different though. Most Shonen-protagonist-powers are good for a fight maybe two then they are outclassed and then fall into the repeating cycle of power up-> kick rear end-> get outclassed-> power up -> kick rear end-> get outclassed-> rinse and repeat.
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SirDan3k posted:Eh, it's not really anything new or different though. Most Shonen-protagonist-powers are good for a fight maybe two then they are outclassed and then fall into the repeating cycle of power up-> kick rear end-> get outclassed-> power up -> kick rear end-> get outclassed-> rinse and repeat. Except our protagonist doesn't get better, just angrier. His refusal to stop fighting is also on par with the black knight from Monty Python.
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Nasgate posted:Except our protagonist doesn't get better, just angrier. His refusal to stop fighting is also on par with the black knight from Monty Python. It's also a reflection of the tone of the manga in that you don't get super-powers just because you could really, really use them. Even if you've been training. Even if you're super angry.
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