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Squidster posted:I was wondering what the hell that thing in the street was. I thought it was the giant fingertip Mikasa had severed. It seems like that's what they want us to conclude from those scenes, but I'm still waiting to see if Eren has become Titan or if he can regurgitate his body to be human again. I guess we'll eventually see what's in his dad's cellar that's so important or at least learn more about the injections. It could also just be the possibility that it's one of those radically different titans similar to the armored one and the colossal titan, but I'm still leaning towards the Eren thing. So many questions to be answered and I can't wait for this to go week by week. Ak Gara posted:
I thought about this myself and I'm just going to go with the fact that because they regenerate so quickly, they're probably highly mutable as well, so Eren's DNA or something let him mutate the one that swallowed him into a ripped elf titan with CQC.
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Angry titan owns. That yelling contest was funny as poo poo. Even better since the glass jaw titan just went out like a chump immediately.
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May 19, 2013 17:33
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Ak Gara posted:
Mass famine arising from complete devastation to the humans' potato crop? Yeah, that's way worse than titans eating people one at a time.
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May 19, 2013 17:42
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JosephWongKS posted:Mass famine arising from complete devastation to the humans' potato crop? Yeah, that's way worse than titans eating people one at a time. Starvation is a pretty horrible way to die.
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Why would you care about anyone besides Sasha? Given the titan's eye color, it should be pretty obvious that it's Eren. I guess all that's left now is to explain how he became one (probably dad-related), and whether he can become human again? It would kind of suck if the struggle between man and titan was resolved by a human/titan defeating ALL the titans though.
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May 19, 2013 18:13
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But imagine if in like 10 episodes they have Titans with 3D Maneuver gear being launched from the center of the city like Gundams.
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Centzon Totochtin posted:Why would you care about anyone besides Sasha? Please consider that people who have read the whole manga are super hyped and saying this is one of their favorite series in years and not "welp, thanks for enjoying the only good part of this series with us guys, it's all downhill from here". The author knows what he's doing and so far, even in manga-land, has yet to screw things up. So feel confident that this might be one of the best series in the last decade if it continues at the pace it's been going, which with episode 7's quality and accuracy(aside from the ninja dodgin' Mikasa and the pomegranate thing which are anime-only) it has shown very little signs of loving up.
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May 19, 2013 18:20
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I liked the pomegranate thing. In fact this adaptation has been a lot kinder to Mikasa I feel.
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May 19, 2013 18:23
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Captain Invictus posted:Please consider that people who have read the whole manga are super hyped and saying this is one of their favorite series in years and not "welp, thanks for enjoying the only good part of this series with us guys, it's all downhill from here". Ok, I will be sure to just assume the story will be the most amazing thing ever and never speculate about anything ever since I never read the manga, thank god you were here to set me straight!!! I never said that I thought the story had peaked or that I was going to stop watching, so I have no idea why you got so defensive about it.
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Talk about completely misunderstanding and getting real touchy about it!
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May 19, 2013 20:15
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Rei_ posted:I liked the pomegranate thing. In fact this adaptation has been a lot kinder to Mikasa I feel. Other than the loving lipstick, I still just don't get that. She never even remotely came across as the kind to pretty herself up at all. It's so loving alien on her.
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Soks posted:Other than the loving lipstick, I still just don't get that. She never even remotely came across as the kind to pretty herself up at all. It's so loving alien on her. I think that's just the art style. Some of the women are being drawn as softly as possible without actually deviating from the core art style of the manga, its the most obvious in Mikasa's case though.
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May 19, 2013 22:07
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Soks posted:Other than the loving lipstick, I still just don't get that. She never even remotely came across as the kind to pretty herself up at all. It's so loving alien on her. People have lips and sometimes they're drawn on people and sometimes they're not.
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Soks posted:Other than the loving lipstick, I still just don't get that. She never even remotely came across as the kind to pretty herself up at all. It's so loving alien on her. I think alot of that episode was outsourced, so it was probably just the animators playing fast and loose with the storyboards
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May 19, 2013 22:40
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Soks posted:Other than the loving lipstick, I still just don't get that. She never even remotely came across as the kind to pretty herself up at all. It's so loving alien on her. I dunno, the story drops more than a few hints that she might want Eren to notice her, and that she manages her appearance accordingly (the haircut, for instance).
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May 19, 2013 22:54
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Mikasa's slightly changed appearance has already been flawlessly addressed. Vincent Valentine posted:Please stop arguing about my anime wife. None of you can possibly understand what she has been through, what she is still going through. My anime wife is flawless, her lips are pink and her eyes sparkle because she is a queen; the queen of my heart.
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Rei_ posted:But imagine if in like 10 episodes they have Titans with 3D Maneuver gear being launched from the center of the city like Gundams. Pretty sure this was posted already but... 
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Excellent. Guess I'll pay attention to cons later this year to see if Funi drops a con-exclusive early release. Also glad to see that someone picked up the original manga as well. Now I just need a budget to afford all of this. 
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AradoBalanga posted:Now I just need a budget to afford all of this. At least Funi will make it cheaper than say Sentai-works. Or whatever they're calling themselves.
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Mikasa is now my favorite character. I've read a chapter or two further than this in the manga, and drat, they did such a great job of her in this episode. That song at the end helped, it was really nice. I'm really starting to enjoy the ED, too. One question: I have a hard time judging voice acting in another language, but I find myself liking anime Mikasa a lot more than manga Mikasa, and I think a large part of that comes down to her acting. What do people think of the job her VA is doing? lohli posted:I don't want to seem like some sort of terrible manga purist who demands it all be perfect 1:1 representations of the manga but I think some of the stuff they've put in as extras are really bad, specifically what they've done with Mikasa(Her little lightning effect from the flashback where she lost her parents irked me since that's not really a thing that Attack on Titan does at all, I do understand it wasn't trying to be something like a shounen powerup visual-effect but I thought the scene didn't need something like that to illustrate the point that was being made, but having her doing all sorts of super acrobatic stuff to dodge a titan while she's unable to use 3D gear and even effectively attacking it with a sword that is all but out of usable blades just runs counter to everything the series has set out to establish. I agree that the minor additions/alterations the anime is making change the tone of some scenes, and sometimes even the show overall. To me, though, that's an improvement. As other have mentioned, the boxing titan stuff in this episode was really freaking crazy. When I read that in the manga, it felt a little bit out of place. It was just a little less grounded and a little more anime than the rest of the show. Having that scene with Mikasa doing crazy anime backflips helps even out the tone and make the boxing titan feel more like it's part of the same universe as the rest of the characters. Whoever's doing the direction for this show is doing an outstanding job. You ask me, it's better than the original manga. Part of that is the addition of voice acting, music, color, sound, and animation, sure, but it's more than that. There are all these minor additions & alterations that just make everything fit together so much better. It all helps the show do a better job than the manga of making sure the viewer is in the right headspace to properly appreciate a given scene or character.
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XboxPants posted:Mikasa is now my favorite character. I've read a chapter or two further than this in the manga, and drat, they did such a great job of her in this episode. That song at the end helped, it was really nice. I'm really starting to enjoy the ED, too. She sounds a bit monotone and subdued. I initially thought it was because her VA wasn't experienced (I'm not familiar with her) but I came to think she's doing it that way because that's how she was directed. I'm beginning to agree that it's probably better to do it that way, as she's usually cool headed (unlike, say, Eren).
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Cybershell posted:Why the hell do people have a problem with that "lightning" effect from Mikasa's flashback? It was obviously just a visual representation of the electric impulses sent by her brain, not a loving "power up" sequence. It's Code Geass's fault.
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Yeah, I never got that either. It was just a visual representation of her brain saying move your rear end girl, kill this gently caress or this gently caress will kill you. The floorboard shattering was pretty ANIME but even that didn't bother me too much.
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Mike Hock posted:Yeah, I never got that either. It was just a visual representation of her brain saying move your rear end girl, kill this gently caress or this gently caress will kill you. The floorboard shattering was pretty ANIME but even that didn't bother me too much. Maybe the cabin was poorly maintained and the wood got rotten and it was just a crappy floor board and nothing more. 
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May 20, 2013 05:28
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Ak Gara posted:Maybe the cabin was poorly maintained and the wood got rotten and it was just a crappy floor board and nothing more. Well, it was a pretty lovely run down cabin out in the middle of the woods used as a hideout for hoodlums.
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Ak Gara posted:Maybe the cabin was poorly maintained and the wood got rotten and it was just a crappy floor board and nothing more. Then why did the knife handle shatter in her hand as well? Eren brought that knife with him, and dude was clearly serious about killing things that piss him off.
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Gyges posted:Then why did the knife handle shatter in her hand as well? Eren brought that knife with him, and dude was clearly serious about killing things that piss him off. That's clearly just a cheap-rear end, poorly-made kitchen knife meant for cutting apples that Eren had taken from Mikasa's cabin. Eren had initially just tagged along with his father and wasn't expecting the Ackermans to be brutally murdered when he got there; I doubt he would have brought along a combat knife for (what he thought was) a routine house visit.
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JosephWongKS posted:That's clearly just a cheap-rear end, poorly-made kitchen knife meant for cutting apples that Eren had taken from Mikasa's cabin. Eren had initially just tagged along with his father and wasn't expecting the Ackermans to be brutally murdered when he got there; I doubt he would have brought along a combat knife for (what he thought was) a routine house visit. Yeah I know this sounds silly justifying it but honestly, the people in question are low as hell on resources anyway. The average kitchen would have wood-grip cheaply made knives.
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A block of wood, no matter how cheap, is still going to have a ton of compressive strength. Let's face it Mikasa is ripped as gently caress.
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Daler Mehndi posted:She sounds a bit monotone and subdued. I initially thought it was because her VA wasn't experienced (I'm not familiar with her) but I came to think she's doing it that way because that's how she was directed. I'm beginning to agree that it's probably better to do it that way, as she's usually cool headed (unlike, say, Eren).
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XboxPants posted:I agree that the minor additions/alterations the anime is making change the tone of some scenes, and sometimes even the show overall. To me, though, that's an improvement. As other have mentioned, the boxing titan stuff in this episode was really freaking crazy. When I read that in the manga, it felt a little bit out of place. It was just a little less grounded and a little more anime than the rest of the show. Having that scene with Mikasa doing crazy anime backflips helps even out the tone and make the boxing titan feel more like it's part of the same universe as the rest of the characters.
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This show has an interesting premise and fantastic production values but so far the protagonist is such a dumb loving bratty idiot it's ruining my enjoyment of anything else.
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rainy day posted:This show has an interesting premise and fantastic production values but so far the protagonist is such a dumb loving bratty idiot it's ruining my enjoyment of anything else. I have this weird feeling you haven't gotten very far into it. 
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Captain Invictus posted:I have this weird feeling you haven't gotten very far into it. I've watched the first seven episodes but unfortunately I'd already been told the basic premise so I feel the need to spoil it for other people. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Phobophilia posted:A block of wood, no matter how cheap, is still going to have a ton of compressive strength. Let's face it Mikasa is ripped as gently caress.
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Paracelsus posted:Ripped and also some sort of last remaining heir of a ~mysterious clan from the orient~, to infer a bit from what her mother said to her. Not to mention that Doctor Jaeger had regular appointments with her before poo poo went down (and then adopted her, which probably didn't slow down whatever he was doing). Notice, also, that the anime has used lightning effects to show weird Titan stuff (like the Colossal's sudden appearance, and the berserker-Titan's regeneration). Sure, the lightning flashes and the cracking wood may have been symbolic, but it's a symbolism that seems eerily similar to actual, 'real-world' stuff happening in the show.
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rainy day posted:This show has an interesting premise and fantastic production values but so far the protagonist is such a dumb loving bratty idiot it's ruining my enjoyment of anything else. Now I'm imagining the show staring Shinji Ikari. It... doesn't actually change anything 
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Ak Gara posted:Now I'm imagining the show staring Shinji Ikari. Episode 5 would be enjoyable instead of horrifying.
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