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Autumncomet posted:Didn't he have Mikasa's help with that, in hitting Reiner's armor's weak spots? Because if Mikasa can help, Bert can too. Eren was managing to break Reiner's arms with Annie's wrestling moves.
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Schubalts posted:Eren was managing to break Reiner's arms with Annie's wrestling moves. If I remember right he wasn't breaking his arms, he was ripping them out. Or at least attempting to.
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Vincent Valentine posted:If I remember right he wasn't breaking his arms, he was ripping them out. Or at least attempting to. Actually, he did a guillotine choke on Reiner. When applied to humans this would restrict airflow to the lungs, but in this instance it was used to snap Reiner's nape open.
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Oct 2, 2013 17:15
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The land beyond the walls is more beautiful than could ever have been imagined.  From here.
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Oct 2, 2013 17:43
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Who's that on the carrousel?
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Oct 2, 2013 17:44
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Sindai posted:Who's that on the carrousel? Based on the comments, Gaius from Fire Emblem.
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Fatkraken posted:Everyone is a titan. The wall is titans. The world is a titan. It's titans all the way down. The series will end by breaking the fourth wall, explaining that you, the reader, are a titan.
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Squidster posted:The land beyond the walls is more beautiful than could ever have been imagined. Thoren posted:The series will end by breaking the fourth wall, explaining that you, the reader, are a titan.
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Fatkraken posted:Everyone is a titan. The wall is titans. The world is a titan. It's titans all the way down. I'm not letting this post go unappreciated.  Wow. It is actually really hard to find a good reference pic of the colossal titan.
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Bisensual posted:I'm not letting this post go unappreciated.  I think you may have made his head a bit too large tho; IIRC his head is really tiny in proportion to the rest of his body.
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His feet are also more like an elephants. Elephant feet wouldn't look as good with the Atlas imagery, though.
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Oct 2, 2013 21:04
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That Attack on Titan fangame has a forest level now. Shockingly easier to maneuver than the town.
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So many god drat layers and layers of foreshadowing, callbacks, call forwards. Mr. Isayama is really good at this. Just noticed this. Look at Berthold. Hidden in plain sight. http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c041/24.html
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Very nice find!! This is the kind of stuff we need to look for while we wait.
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Oct 2, 2013 23:56
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Squidster posted:The land beyond the walls is more beautiful than could ever have been imagined.  And of course, every cartoon character in existence has been drawn peeking over the wall in place of the colossal titan.
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Oct 3, 2013 01:26
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Nelson Mandingo posted:So many god drat layers and layers of foreshadowing, callbacks, call forwards. Mr. Isayama is really good at this. Looking back, this is an interesting Reiner moment.
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Oct 3, 2013 01:39
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Tender Child Loins posted:Looking back, this is an interesting Reiner moment. What are we supposed to be looking at? Just that he was grabbing her leg too tightly? What is that a sign of? Just general craziness?
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:What are we supposed to be looking at? Just that he was grabbing her leg too tightly? What is that a sign of? Just general craziness? Sorry, should have been more specific. That, and also the next page where he seems to snap out of a trance. To me, it looks like it's foreshadowing the revelation of his mental split.
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The (probably joke) speculation about Mikasa being a titan because the rest of the top of the class is titans has me wondering about Rivaille. If Eren's dad experimented on Mikasa or whatever to make her super strong, then it's very conspicuous that Rivaille is even more powerful than her, and by a wide margin. Experience and talent and training matter a lot of course but still, the gap between Rivaille and every other human is pretty drat big in terms of combat abilities. I wonder if Eren's dad or a similar scientist did something with him, but it couldn't be done on a wide scale, like Captain America's super soldier serum or whatever. I haven't really seen any hints about this though, but one cool thing about this manga is that you can basically look at the facts and figure out something is going on. I don't think Rivaille is just a mega-badass because it's a manga. I also think Armin will think of using Christa as a hostage soon to control Ymir. Connie might even be on the verge of the idea but Armin will probably have to be the one to really put it into action. If they even get the chance. His lie about Annie being constantly tortured because of her healing ability to get Reiner to flip out was great. I really like how the 'smart' character actually does smart things within the story and it feels organic instead of something super convoluted to show how super smart and cool he is.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:What are we supposed to be looking at? Just that he was grabbing her leg too tightly? What is that a sign of? Just general craziness? Maybe it's me, but Reiner looks loving mad. 
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i300 posted:Maybe it's me, but Reiner looks loving mad. "This dumbfuck is the one we're forced to protect?"
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Oct 3, 2013 01:57
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i300 posted:Maybe it's me, but Reiner looks loving mad. Yeah, come to think of it he probably recognized the titan that ate his and Bert's friend.
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Say Nothing posted:The fan art for this manga has been pretty incredible.  I guarantee only like 5 other people are going to get this reference.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Yeah, come to think of it he probably recognized the titan that ate his and Bert's friend. When exactly did that happen?
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AradoBalanga posted:Indeed it is. Heh, isn't that some fairly obscure music video Ghibli did? I'm surprised that there's a crossover with that of all things.
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Metropolis posted:The (probably joke) speculation about Mikasa being a titan because the rest of the top of the class is titans has me wondering about Rivaille. If Eren's dad experimented on Mikasa or whatever to make her super strong, then it's very conspicuous that Rivaille is even more powerful than her, and by a wide margin. Experience and talent and training matter a lot of course but still, the gap between Rivaille and every other human is pretty drat big in terms of combat abilities. I wonder if Eren's dad or a similar scientist did something with him, but it couldn't be done on a wide scale, like Captain America's super soldier serum or whatever. I haven't really seen any hints about this though, but one cool thing about this manga is that you can basically look at the facts and figure out something is going on. I don't think Rivaille is just a mega-badass because it's a manga. I always thought of Levi as the soldier Mikasa could become if she moved past her rage and her need to always protect Eren no matter what. He is a just a cold, calculating killing machine. I don't think it is coincidence that the one time they worked together, he gets injured because she goes for a kill he has specifically said they shouldn't go for because of her hatred for everybody who hurt her precious Eren. But on the other hand, there is that bit about Levi being "surprisingly old". Now, that could just mean that he is old by shonen manga standards, where twenty year olds are wizzed veterans looking down on the young fifteen year old newbies (and then sacrificing themselves to save them), or it could be a hint that he is or was a titan at some point.
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AradoBalanga posted:Indeed it is. Man such a great AMV.
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AradoBalanga posted:Indeed it is. This just blew my loving mind.
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ArchangeI posted:I always thought of Levi as the soldier Mikasa could become if she moved past her rage and her need to always protect Eren no matter what. He is a just a cold, calculating killing machine. I don't think it is coincidence that the one time they worked together, he gets injured because she goes for a kill he has specifically said they shouldn't go for because of her hatred for everybody who hurt her precious Eren. He's in his early thirties. While we're speculating and pointing out things, by the way, both Levi and Mikasa are abnormally heavy for their heights.
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AnonSpore posted:While we're speculating and pointing out things, by the way, both Levi and Mikasa are abnormally heavy for their heights. High muscle mass, likely.
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I don't think we've ever been given a number for Levi's age, just that he's surprisingly old.
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RatHat posted:I don't think we've ever been given a number for Levi's age, just that he's surprisingly old. Isayama revealed it at a fan meeting. Hanji, Levi, and Erwin are all in their thirties, with Erwin the oldest and Hanji the youngest. Not their specific ages, though, no. AnonSpore fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Missing Name posted:High muscle mass, likely. Just like Mikasa, Levi is ripped as hell. Being a human buzzsaw is a great workout.
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SC Bracer posted:Heh, isn't that some fairly obscure music video Ghibli did? I'm surprised that there's a crossover with that of all things.
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Metropolis posted:Experience and talent and training matter a lot of course but still, the gap between Rivaille and every other human is pretty drat big in terms of combat abilities.. He's the "guy that's super powerful despite not having any special powers" guy that you see in most action shounen manga. tl;dr: 
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Nelson Mandingo posted:So many god drat layers and layers of foreshadowing, callbacks, call forwards. Mr. Isayama is really good at this. At the risk of looking like a moron what do you mean "hidden"? He's right there, what am I missing?
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MeLKoR posted:At the risk of looking like a moron what do you mean "hidden"? He's right there, what am I missing? He's about to bite his hand. 
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TheKingofSprings posted:He's about to bite his hand. Yep, I look like a moron now. V  V
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Genocyber posted:He's the "guy that's super powerful despite not having any special powers" guy that you see in most action shounen manga. 
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Phobophilia posted:My impression is that Annie set out to capture Eren, but slaughtering the Recon corps wasn't the primary goal. Unfortunately for the Recon Corps, squishing them like bugs was just so easy. She just couldn't help it. From the anime thread. I think SnK asks a very interesting question: what goes through the head of a mass murderer? By all accounts, Bert, Reiner and Annie are brave, admirable people outside of their wall-smashing man-squishing titan forms. They are not outright psychopaths, they are perfectly human with goals that just happen to be incompatible with every other human within the walls. They mentally put off the enormity of their actions so to avoid thinking of it, and they are too cowardly to change paths and go straight home, as that would mean admitting that all those deaths in the goal of mission were purely nihilistic. Despite all of Reiner's protestations, he is still a soldier: on orders from some yet unknown polity, his actions killed many many people. Thus far, there isn't some kind of fascist holocaust apologia, the other humans are perfectly justified in killing or capturing them in as little time as possible so to save the lives of others.
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