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Attack on Titan isn't relentlessly grimdark, though the first few chapters may seem that way. The potato scene is a well-known bit of genuine humor. Like, not black humor, but something honestly funny without anything horrible happening.
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Soulcleaver posted:Four, assuming Bert & Ernie's friend who got eaten by Ymir in the flashback was also a human-titan. Can't get over Bert and Ernie catching on so fast as nicknames.
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Jun 19, 2013 02:15
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I would say it's roughly like if Final Fantasy Tactics were a magna written by Junji Ito. (Only on ADTRW do I allow myself sentences that nerdy).
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Jun 19, 2013 08:36
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I can go nerdier. To me it feels like Battlestar Galactica crossed with the Nightwatch parts of Game of Thrones, written by Junji Ito. The BSG part especially with all the "OMG this character is a secret titan!" stuff going on.
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Jun 19, 2013 15:02
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I thought of it more as a zombie/kaiju fusion.
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Jun 19, 2013 17:12
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It's zombie if the zombies were 50 feet tall, and giant robot if the robots were made out of meat.
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Jun 19, 2013 17:44
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Anatharon posted:I read very little manga but my brother's gotten into this lately. Is the whole thing, well, comically dark? I tried watching Evangelion and it really reminded me of A Series of Unfortunate Events so I couldn't really get interested. This seems interesting and all but I find it hard to stay engaged in something that tries too hard to stay dark. It is comically dark for the reader just because the titans look so silly at times. Smiling like dopes, nugget arms, tiny titans that are barely taller than humans still hungering, etc. So it does look silly, but to the characters and the reader there are times when these dopes just tear into a human, consume them, and *smile* through the entire process. They are not happy because they caught someone, they are not happy because they got a meal, them being smiley is just something they are and there are times where that disturbs me the right out.
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Jun 19, 2013 19:20
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I'm not sure if there actually smiling so much as baring their teeth.
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Jun 19, 2013 22:56
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It's grim, but you won't hate all the characters the way you do in Evangelion.
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Jun 20, 2013 00:30
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Dr_Amazing posted:It's grim, but you won't hate all the characters the way you do in Evangelion. You could say that about almost anything.
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Jun 20, 2013 03:19
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I finally read the manga after watching the anime because curiosity got the better of me and then all it did was make me have more questions.  Everytime they start doing well and make progress some poo poo goes down that is totally unexpected. We got a titan as an ally? Nope time to lose a bunch of people to Annie. Oh you captured Annie? Time for some weird sasquatch to call in a bunch of titans. (Transform humans into titans?) Oh Annie bought you time to get Eren and Mikasa there? Time for Reiner and Bert to try to kidnap Eren and Annie. How did Ymir kill Reiner's + Bert's friend? Where was their village? Shouldn't they have been away from their village to attack the walls? The only thing I can hope for is that Eren somehow convinces them to go to his basement.
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Jun 20, 2013 14:47
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I was thinking the titan-humans aren't super-strong or durable unless they turn. So, perhaps she chomped down on his head (killing him) before he even had the chance to turn.
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Jun 20, 2013 16:22
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I mean why was she there? Why were they there? Reiner and Bert should've been at the wall to break it. Once its broken they have no safety against Titans so they should've hid behind the second wall. Basically how does: They break the wall -> They make it back to their now unsafe village -> They're surprised a titan killed their family (Ymir is there cus ???) -> go into military occur.
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Jun 20, 2013 16:39
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Kild posted:I mean why was she there? Why were they there? Reiner and Bert should've been at the wall to break it. Once its broken they have no safety against Titans so they should've hid behind the second wall. There's nothing to indicate that they broke the wall before it happened though. Just that a friend got chomped when they were kids. The bit about their village (being attacked by titan) could also have easily been a lie, since either Bert or Reiner (I forget who) says he wants to get back, and has recently made it seem like Eren is the key to getting back to their village. Which implies that it wasn't eaten by Titans like he told Eren back in training.
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Jun 20, 2013 16:42
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Why are you assuming that they originated from inside the wall?
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Kild posted:I mean why was she there? Why were they there? Reiner and Bert should've been at the wall to break it. Once its broken they have no safety against Titans so they should've hid behind the second wall. I think this is the order: They're surprised a titan killed their family (Ymir is there cus ???) -> They break the wall -> go into military Ymir munching on their friend probably occurred outside the walls entirely. It's likely where their home village is. They wanted to destroy the walls and kill all the humans within, so Bert and Ernie broke the wall and used the resulting confusion to blend in with the survivors and infiltrate society.
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Jun 20, 2013 16:47
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How do villages exist outside the walls? Also if Ymir is a human why would she eat people for sport unless it was a very early transformation that she couldn't control I guess. e: KittyEmpress posted:
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Jun 20, 2013 17:08
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There are lots of ways for people to live outside the walls, just not in the numbers found inside. A plateau, an island, underground, a smaller wall, etc.
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Jun 20, 2013 17:23
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Serious Frolicking posted:There are lots of ways for people to live outside the walls, just not in the numbers found inside. A plateau, an island, underground, a smaller wall, etc. This hasn't been shown though has it?
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Jun 20, 2013 17:25
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No, and it's not even certain that there's an actual village, since Reiner's memory has apparently been messed with
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Jun 20, 2013 17:46
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Serious Frolicking posted:There are lots of ways for people to live outside the walls, just not in the numbers found inside. A plateau, an island, underground, a smaller wall, etc. Also, if everyone is a titan then they're probably a bit better defended than the humans. I mean, Eren barely keeps control and can take 2-3 each. As long as a huge swarm doesn't come, I'm sure a village of human-titans could defend themselves just fine. And Hild, you seem to have missed what I said - I never said she didn't eat his friend/family, what I said was that the village you are assuming exists is not confirmed to be inside the walls like he claimed it was when LYING about his backstory Especially since they're headed OUTSIDE of the walls with Eren, as far as I can tell.
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Jun 20, 2013 18:08
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KittyEmpress posted:Also, if everyone is a titan then they're probably a bit better defended than the humans. I mean, Eren barely keeps control and can take 2-3 each. As long as a huge swarm doesn't come, I'm sure a village of human-titans could defend themselves just fine. Oh I see. But they're in between wall Maria and wall Rose. Kild fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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Jun 20, 2013 18:10
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Kild posted:Oh I see. But they're in between wall Maria and wall Rose. The titan village is in Eren's dad's basement.
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Jun 20, 2013 18:55
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Kild posted:Oh I see. But they're in between wall Maria and wall Rose. This is true, but they said that they could 'only make it this far' before they got tired. We don't actually know where they're going, and it could either be outside of the walls or to a village inside it. Until then, well, I guess no one's right because gently caress if anyone knows.
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Jun 20, 2013 19:18
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Abitha Denton posted:The titan village is in Eren's dad's basement. Fraggle Rock is the exact opposite of a titan village.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:07
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I just blitzed through the manga today after watching the anime a couple days ago, and I have to say once it hit the point that it turns out the entire main cast is a titan it kind of took me out of it. It turns out the catalysts for the entire series were right here all along! I don't know. I'll probably keep tabs on this but it's a weird turn to take in my opinion.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:26
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The anime people really should avoid the manga because it's one of the few times that the anime does everything the manga does but way better.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:34
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Except the pacing in the most recent couple of episodes. I'm not going WAH WAH RUINED FOREVER like some people in the anime thread because there weren't any bigmans in them, but yeah they were kinda slow and had some blabbering for filler. The next episode has rock lifting though, so it should be pretty rad.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:42
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Kild posted:How do villages exist outside the walls? Also if Ymir is a human why would she eat people for sport unless it was a very early transformation that she couldn't control I guess. One thing of note (maybe?) is that it looks like all three were wearing backpacks in this image.
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Jun 20, 2013 23:00
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The anime has done really well, gripes about the past three episodes aside (I wasn't too fazed by it). However, I've batted ideas around with some friends about how the series will end, and if it ends where we're thinking it will (he said Annie's capture, I said Utgard but that might be a stretch) it might never regain its earlier pacing. It'd be interesting but unlikely if the creator collaborated with the anime folks in making an anime original ending if it came down to that, but given the original stuff added he prolly isn't involved that much in the content. I might be forgetting just how much happens between now and then.
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Jun 20, 2013 23:01
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The only acceptable anime-only endings are "Titans eat everybody" and "Eren kills every drat titan in the world".
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Jun 20, 2013 23:07
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Soulcleaver posted:The only acceptable anime-only endings are "Titans eat everybody" and "Eren kills every drat titan in the world".
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Jun 21, 2013 00:31
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Soulcleaver posted:Except the pacing in the most recent couple of episodes. I'm not going WAH WAH RUINED FOREVER like some people in the anime thread because there weren't any bigmans in them, but yeah they were kinda slow and had some blabbering for filler. The next episode has rock lifting though, so it should be pretty rad. Yeah but then we're going to get like an hour of the dumbest trail ever. "How dare you use your superpowers to save the entire town? We will throw away literally the only chance we have to really help humanity. "
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Jun 21, 2013 01:44
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Dr_Amazing posted:Yeah but then we're going to get like an hour of the dumbest trail ever. "How dare you use your superpowers to save the entire town? We will throw away literally the only chance we have to really help humanity. " Eren-Titan did try to punch Mikasa, though. Apart from general paranoia about Titans in general, there were legitimate reasons to distrust Eren-Titan specifically. What if he goes out of control again in the middle of the city? Or during a critical mission? Dissecting him is a lower-risk, lower-reward approach vs the higher-risk, higher-reward approach of trying to harness him as a living weapon, but there are merits to both and the former cannot simply be dismissed as "dumb". JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jun 21, 2013 |
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Jun 21, 2013 01:59
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PRESENT FOR YOU ALL http://fenglee.com/game/aog/
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Jun 21, 2013 10:18
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doyle-san posted:PRESENT FOR YOU ALL What is it? I try to make a habit of not randomly downloading things in languages I can't read.
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Jun 21, 2013 10:44
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E: wrong thread ughhh SALR
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Jun 21, 2013 10:56
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Karnegal posted:What is it? I try to make a habit of not randomly downloading things in languages I can't read. From what I can extrapolate from Chrome's translation is seems to be a 3DMG game.
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Jun 21, 2013 11:15
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doyle-san posted:PRESENT FOR YOU ALL It's a Unity 3DMG game it seems. It certainly gives you an appreciation of how hard (and thus useless outside of an anime setting) the 3DMG is.
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Jun 21, 2013 12:53
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doyle-san posted:PRESENT FOR YOU ALL
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