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"Don't make this gay, Mikasa!" Spot on.
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Hellbunny posted:TLDR: "Advance of the Titan? More like ADVANCE OF THE GLORIOUS COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARIES, AMIRIGHT?" The Titans being transformed humans who compulsively consume even though it is of no benefit to them (and frequently gets them killed) fits this reading far too well
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 00:28 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Edit: and a pitch-perfect Patrick Warburton impression.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 00:34 |
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"I'll Bertell you what I Bertold him." Wonderful.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 01:23 |
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Jackard posted:They did a decent job on this, especially liked 5:03 and the SotC music when Hannes showed up. Much better than the awful Hellsing Abridged. I will break you
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 01:25 |
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That was kind of magical. Hopefully it'll update more often than their other abridged series.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 01:29 |
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Haha, Aryan Coconut.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 01:40 |
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This series of shorts is pretty good too, though it starts right about when Eren is first revealed as a titan.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 02:21 |
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Jackard posted:They did a decent job on this, especially liked 5:03 and the SotC music when Hannes showed up. Much better than the awful Hellsing Abridged. I thought they were horning it in when the Shadow of the Colossus music came on. Made it up with Brock Lesnar's theme for the Armored Titan though; I kinda hoped they keep using WWE themes for those characters that can turn into titans and back, but then I got the Inception bwoooomp instead of Cult of Personality. As far as abridged series go, it's pretty alright.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 02:22 |
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Fiend Computer posted:That was kind of magical. Hopefully it'll update more often than their other abridged series. Given that it was 20 minutes and used 6 episodes or so, I don't think he needs to rush.
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Hellbunny posted:To put it mildly, this and similar interpretations seems to ignore HUGE parts of the "text" that is Shingeki. I don't think the world of Shingeki conflicts with the idea of an idealized past: but the past they're idealizing is the one that predates the appearance of the titans. The government inside the wall is shown to be corrupt and society is shown to be outwardly peaceful but inwardly degenerating, and to a large degree this is blamed on the complacency of the people within the wall who are unwilling to face the horrors outside and a lack of strength and willpower in the ruling elite. As for the sacrificing of a fifth of the population: the thing that forced this situation was an insufficient amount of land for the people to live on. They were starving to death due to the lack of territory, and the effort to reclaim the lost land was depicted as half-hearted as the inner circles were too worried about defending themselves. It's also not necessarily the case that a fascist philosophy can't embrace the down-trodden poor as a hero figure; national socialism was a counterpoint to Marxist socialism, and had a (stated) goal of breaking down barriers of social stratification in pursuit of a common goal of ruthless expansionism. All the racial cleansing was supposed to make the populace more homogenous so they could all be one big "community". Painting the current leadership of the state as soft, ineffectual, and cut off from the common man doesn't conflict with a fascist message if their goal is to say that they should be installing new (fascist) leadership who has the true interests of the nation at heart. As for Eren, his arc doesn't necessarily conflict with an imperialistic message at all; particularly if Isiyama has a somewhat nuanced flavor of fascism. The mindless, unnecessary consumption of the titans is supposed to illustrate their superficiality and wastefulness, and the fact that they are transformed humans is supposed to make them pitiable. One could see the monkey titan climbing the wall and transforming Connie's village into titans as foreign influence likewise transforming the Japanese people into superficial consumers. Eren's newfound power is the ability to control the titans directly: his arc is to realize that victory is not going to lie in blindly destroying all of the titans, rather he must subjugate them and use them to the benefit of humanity. To that end, painting titans as being mislead or forced against their will to attack mankind could illustrate that control of them needs to be taken away from whoever has it and placed in the hands of the heroes of the story, who would be more benevolent masters. That all said, it's just an interpretation. A lot of figuring out what the intended message of the series is going to be will rely on where it goes from here.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 02:37 |
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Ahahahahaha the Goofy Movie song I wish they'd gotten ShinigamiEater to do Armin but overall it's great
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 02:43 |
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I like the part where little dudes fight big dudes and sometimes it's a big dude fighting another big dude.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 04:50 |
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Soulcleaver posted:I like the part where little dudes fight big dudes and sometimes it's a big dude fighting another big dude. Typical lumpenprole ignorance.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 04:54 |
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Winky posted:I don't think the world of Shingeki conflicts with the idea of an idealized past: but the past they're idealizing is the one that predates the appearance of the titans. The government inside the wall is shown to be corrupt and society is shown to be outwardly peaceful but inwardly degenerating, and to a large degree this is blamed on the complacency of the people within the wall who are unwilling to face the horrors outside and a lack of strength and willpower in the ruling elite. I choose to read this (and all of AoT) as, first and foremost, an extended metaphor of growing up and generational conflict: the idealism of youth pushing back against the compromises of an adult world that has lost the capacity to dream. The political angle is secondary to this, in my view (though interesting to read). Isayama's done a great job so far in showing how various characters, young and old, critique and react to the system in their own way, without coming across as favoring any one ideology as the "right" way. I do hope we see bowl-cut Imperial Police guy again, to see how his views may have evolved lately. Assuming he didn't die along the way or Isayama didn't forget about him.
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# ? Nov 14, 2013 05:07 |
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tlarn posted:I thought they were horning it in when the Shadow of the Colossus music came on. Made it up with Brock Lesnar's theme for the Armored Titan though; I kinda hoped they keep using WWE themes for those characters that can turn into titans and back, but then I got the Inception bwoooomp instead of Cult of Personality. As far as abridged series go, it's pretty alright. The Lesnar theme is specifically because the armored titan's look is actually inspired by Brock. I also loved the ~hello darkness my old friend~. If that's an AD reference that's pretty awesome.
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# ? Nov 15, 2013 00:04 |
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So, I've been thinking about it a lot, and you know what I'm wondering? Why don't they just build giant robots to combat the titans? I mean, they already have the tech to make the 3DMG, why not put some effort researching tech which would allow any solder the power that Eren has? Shingeki no Kyojin would be a lot better with robots, in my opinion.
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So you want Pacific Rim but with giant humans and actually being an anime?
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 03:02 |
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I see no problems with this.
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Captain Pissweak posted:So you want Pacific Rim but with giant humans and actually being an anime? That sounds more interesting than Pacific Rim. I couldn't get into it because of the weird 2-person mech thing. I never really grasped exactly what the point of having a second person as a link between the robot and human. At least this show doesn't resort to bullshit jargon to introduce a sidekick character. This would be like Pacific Rim without the bullshit, so that sounds pretty a-ok.
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Pickled Kittens posted:That sounds more interesting than Pacific Rim. I couldn't get into it because of the weird 2-person mech thing. I never really grasped exactly what the point of having a second person as a link between the robot and human. At least this show doesn't resort to bullshit jargon to introduce a sidekick character. Wait so you have problems with two people driving one mech, but people who can summon meat giants out of nowhere is okay? I do not understand you at all.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 03:14 |
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Pickled Kittens posted:That sounds more interesting than Pacific Rim. I couldn't get into it because of the weird 2-person mech thing. I never really grasped exactly what the point of having a second person as a link between the robot and human. At least this show doesn't resort to bullshit jargon to introduce a sidekick character. They explained that at the beginning with some pretty simple pseudoscience though (left half of brain controls one half of the body and vice versa, therefore we'll use two brains for controlling these giant robots). This isn't the Pacific Rim thread though so I'll not get all
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 03:20 |
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Saagonsa posted:So, I've been thinking about it a lot, and you know what I'm wondering? Why don't they just build giant robots to combat the titans? I mean, they already have the tech to make the 3DMG, why not put some effort researching tech which would allow any solder the power that Eren has? Shingeki no Kyojin would be a lot better with robots, in my opinion.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 03:27 |
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GOT A EXTRA TITTY posted:That sounds more interesting than Pacific Rim. I couldn't get into it because of the weird 2-person mech thing. I never really grasped exactly what the point of having a second person as a link between the robot and human. At least this show doesn't resort to bullshit jargon to introduce a sidekick character. This would be like Pacific Rim without the bullshit, so that sounds pretty a-ok.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 03:33 |
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Jackard posted:Why does it take more than one person to fly a 747, It's not as if most tanks have several people in them covering different jobs or anything...
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 03:38 |
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Yeah but I control all kinds of complicated things with just my Dual Shock
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 04:25 |
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You guys might be interested to know that the original SnK oneshot has recently been translated. And, hoo boy, is the art something to look at. http://www.batoto.net/read/_/206616/shingeki-no-kyojin_ch00_by_kike/2
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The Duke of Butts posted:You guys might be interested to know that the original SnK oneshot has recently been translated. And, hoo boy, is the art something to look at.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 05:34 |
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The Duke of Butts posted:You guys might be interested to know that the original SnK oneshot has recently been translated. And, hoo boy, is the art something to look at. Wow that is so terrible. Kinda amazed that AoT turned out as well as it has, now.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 05:40 |
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It's kind of inspiring how much he's improved since then. Thanks for linking it!
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 05:54 |
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I don't think it's bad per se, just really sketchy.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 13:15 |
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Captain Pissweak posted:So you want Pacific Rim but with giant humans and actually being an anime? At the end of this arc, it's revealed that the inner city has these robots that can slaughter titans easily, making Eren's command of them pretty worthless. So Mikasa and Levi go in and steal the plans to make the robots. They then discover the robots can be scaled up in size easily, making it possible to make a human-controlled titan controlling a robot.
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# ? Nov 16, 2013 19:55 |
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Then they combine the human-controlled titan-controlled robots into a giant multi-human-controlled-titan-controlled robot and
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# ? Nov 17, 2013 02:21 |
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Tykero posted:Then they combine the human-controlled titan-controlled robots into a giant multi-human-controlled-titan-controlled robot and The last episode is going to have titan-titans throwing galaxies at each other.
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# ? Nov 17, 2013 02:24 |
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re: oneshotchat. In TV pilot episodes are usually below par so why would manga be different?Jackard posted:They did a decent job on this, especially liked 5:03 and the SotC music when Hannes showed up. Much better than the awful Hellsing Abridged. The Mikasa vacation backstory at the one minute mark was hilarious. And then the third guy showed up! Not that any of this matters since you think Hellsing Abridged is lame and thus you are already dead inside.
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People taking my jokepost seriously aside (seriously, robots? c'mon I'm not that dumb)The Duke of Butts posted:You guys might be interested to know that the original SnK oneshot has recently been translated. And, hoo boy, is the art something to look at. Wow, and here I thought his artistic improvement between chapter 1 and now was a big leap. Saagonsa fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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change my name posted:The last episode is going to have titan-titans throwing galaxies at each other. I'd be okay with that, but then I'm of the opinion that more shows should end with galaxies being thrown at things.
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# ? Nov 17, 2013 04:15 |
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The only thing good about that one-shot is it was probably the inspiration for Sam's Gun Sword in Revengeance.
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# ? Nov 17, 2013 04:43 |
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DeusExMachinima posted:Not that any of this matters since you think Hellsing Abridged is lame and thus you are already dead inside. Jackard fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Nov 17, 2013 |
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The Duke of Butts posted:You guys might be interested to know that the original SnK oneshot has recently been translated. And, hoo boy, is the art something to look at. She does have something in her mouth, right?
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