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Isambard K. Brunel posted:So, here's some speculation that came to mind when watching the anime - what if Eren's 'newly discovered' power isn't for controlling Titans, but anything? It seems like it was more him telling her to fight than the situation that made Mikasa suddenly become a killing machine, and even has this repeated 'lightning effect'/'eye dilation' thing whenever he gives someone a command - the anime even goes further with some kind of biological... image effect thing.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:... power works on abnormal Titans, though. What if abnormal titans are just titans with instructions? 'Don't kill Ymir' for example...
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Hm? I thought he had his right wrist sliced instead of his heart (unless you're referring to Erwin slashing him across the chest in chapter 49). http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c042/29.html http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c049/35.html Perhaps he didn't get his heart slashed, but I'm willing to bet either way that damaging the brain is the only way to eliminate a titan shifter.
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What if Titan Shifters can't be killed in human form? After taking too many injuries to regenerate, or take traumatic brain damage, perhaps they reflexively shift into a titan form and become brain-damaged Abnormals. Also of note:  While it looks she might have pulled her strike on Bert, it looks like her blade just plain snapped off in Ryner's other arm. She woulda killed him if she could. Man, I cannot wait to see that poo poo in the anime. Squidster fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Those blades have already been stated to be fragile to begin with and with someone like Reiner whose body is probably tougher than a normal person's, I'd imagine his is tougher to break through. That's not even forgetting Mikasa was holding back because she didn't actually want to kill either of them, if she wanted to kill them, they'd be dead. It's already been established Mikasa is a killing machine and if she deems it necessary will straight up murder someone, the only thing holding her back was that they all became friends.
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Wow, they literally are giant-sized cardboard box openers.
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Squidster posted:
The one in Reiner isn't broken. Take a look at the base of the blade and what the fingers on her right hand are doing, she released it from the handle.
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I don't think she did that because she was going easy on him, I think she did that because it was stuck or too dull to be useful anymore.
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Blades get stuck in bone and poo poo all the time and she literally just cut lengthwise up his arm so poo poo was probably stuck as gently caress
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I'm sure this has been asked before but I don't want to accidentally stumble on spoilers. Is this the kind of thing where I can just start reading the Manga from the point the anime stopped and be fine, or are the order of events slightly different and there's actually stuff I'm missing from the earlier chapters?
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Read from where the anime stopped. Not only did it not miss anything particularly important, a lot of scenes were made better/clearer in the anime. Alternatively, read from the beginning. One of the great things about this is re-reading it and seeing that almost ever major reveal so far was foreshadowed very heavily, just nobody really noticed it because they weren't looking for it.
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AnonSpore posted:Well I mean the guy explicitly says he was just trying to mimic the original art style and also apologizes for causing a hubbub on twitter because it got reposted without a source and people thought it was Isayama BUT I'm sure it's all actually a highly calculated ruse and it's Isayama himself, posting porn of his characters on a pixiv account because Thanks man. I don't speak moonrunes, I wouldn't have known if it wasn't for you. I mean like who's to say that's not canon simply because the dude hasn't drawn it himself? With teens being the main force in the survey team, you think most of them dying off fast a logical step in the though process is "gently caress I need to get laid before I'm eaten" Horrible Smutbeast posted:It is underage because you can't make pornographic material of someone who is not an adult (ie 18 or 19) you loving creeps. Age of consent and the age where you can legally star in pornographic materials are completely different things. What is it about anime that makes people lose their loving minds like this? (ie the derail for the last few pages) Are you trying to establish consent lines with fictional characters? Really? Isambard K. Brunel posted:So, here's some speculation that came to mind when watching the anime - (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Greenbean, gently caress off with your lovely derail, man. Nobody cares about your porn! LibbyM, Squidster posted:If you want to read the manga, you're pretty safe to start reading at http://www.mangareader.net/shingeki-no-kyojin/32/2 , as the two mediums tell almost the identical story. The final fight between Eren and Annie is quite different, so I'd recommend re-reading that.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Are you trying to establish consent lines with fictional characters? Really? US, Australian and UK law (amongst other places I'm sure) does, so uh yes really.
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RabidWeasel posted:US, Australian and UK law (amongst other places I'm sure) does, so uh yes really.
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Yes, let us discuss Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in the Attack on Titan thread. This is a good idea.
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Attack on Titan- International Legalism
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More like Attack on Free Speech! *Writes 5,000 word essay about why loli fuckpillows are perfectly healthy*
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Any tips on enjoying this Anime? Not a huge Anime fan...at all...but was recommended this from a friend. It was really cool at first, and then it had humans that transform into titans and devolved into the most generic ~anime~ ever with the highschool characterizations. Does it get better? I stopped around episode 14 I think.
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The pacing ramps up a bit around then and there's a lot of good actions stuff in the rest of the series but other than that the show is what it is and if you don't like it nothings likely to change. That said you're over halfway through already.
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You're in the wrong thread, this one is a minefield of spoilers. On that one we really need a better thread title. I know clicked on this one a bunch of times when I was still strictly an anime viewer.
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oswald ownenstein posted:Any tips on enjoying this Anime? It's pretty good at delivering twists and cliffhangers to keep the audience interested, and twists tend to be hinted in neat ways that make a second watch/read worthwhile. Apart from that, well, it's a lot more visceral than it's purely generic counterparts. The main story is something like 65% done in the manga, if I remember correctly, so it also doesn't seem likely to have its narrative taken over by an endless cycle of fights and power-ups. It might have been interesting to see if it would have went in a more nihilistic direction had it not become so popular, though.
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Hodgepodge posted:It's pretty good at delivering twists and cliffhangers to keep the audience interested, and twists tend to be hinted in neat ways that make a second watch/read worthwhile. Everyone goes out in a blaze of glory trying to retake the wall, and the last panel is a pan to the titan factory with armies of titans still streaming out?
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Honestly, this series has some of the strangest fanart...
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The chapter 53 raw is out. http://www.mangabird.com/shingeki-no-kyojin-53?page=0 There is an interesting implication to what Grisha was talking about. Past lives? Genetic memory? Edit: Regarding the military police: Nile is probably not a bad guy. He's just following orders and his faction had nothing to do with Nick's death. He would have joined the Scouts with Erwin, but fell in love with a barmaid and joined the military police to marry her. He's expecting his third child. Death flag. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Nelson Mandingo posted:The chapter 53 raw is out. Never mind that. Look at that Armin getting molested while cross dressing scene. The gently caress?  I can hear the fujoshi screams from all the way across the Pacific.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:The chapter 53 raw is out. So so far it doesn't look like Eren has Annie and Reiner's hardening power at all (or yet)? I'm guessing that the Armin impersonating Historia part (I guess it works since the way Isayama draws them you could swear they were twins) and Jean (?) as Eren is a sting operation to strike at the Survey Corps' enemies/conspiracy from the interior, since I saw Djel Sanes and that other MP rear end in a top hat from the previous chapter Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:So so far it doesn't look like Eren has Annie and Reiner's hardening power at all (or yet)? Yeah. About half the chapter is talking about how Eren can't get hard and is too small to fill a hole.
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jonjonaug posted:Yeah. About half the chapter is talking about how Eren can't get hard and is too small to fill a hole. Man, I like how Isayama just plays with humanity's hopes. Eren might be able to harden his body and plug the gap in Shiganshina...oh wait, he can't 
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jonjonaug posted:Yeah. About half the chapter is talking about how Eren can't get hard and is too small to fill a hole.  Man, I can't wait for the translation, the scene where Armin is tied up is really weird.
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Huh, so it looks like Eren produced a shrunken titan if it's below 10m in that panel.
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I always figured it would be something of a side joke within the series that implies Eren isn't very muscular. http://i.imgur.com/SZsrGnA.jpg I guess I see why his Titan is ripped as hell, he's secreting away an eight pack. At this point Armin is going to end up the most swole of them all. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Other than it being, you know, manga, I imagine people who use 3DMG get that kind of wiry strength instead of super huge.
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I assume the raw is in Chinese, and not the actual Japanese raw.
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Well now. Now Eren's having flasbacks to a girl version of himself. Between that, the chapter 1 dream, and Ymir reading the canned food, it's starting to look like Titan shifters are really, REALLY loving old e: Also, Historia didn't say one loving word this chapter except yes when Levi told her to get in the carriage. Girl is doing the ayanami better than Mikasa right now A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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A big flaming stink posted:Well now. Now Eren's having flasbacks to a girl version of himself. Between that, the chapter 1 dream, and Ymir reading the canned food, it's starting to look like Titan shifters are really, REALLY loving old Isn't that just his mom?
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Kild posted:Isn't that just his mom? nah, he's getting a flashback looking in a mirror
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Kild posted:Isn't that just his mom? Maybe. He's either seeing an Assassin's Creed style genetic memory through the eyes of his mother, or a relative, or a reincarnation bit. http://www.mangabee.com/Attack_on_Titan/1/19/ In which case, I think the injection Grisha gave wasn't the whole mysterious power package.
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Daler Mehndi posted:I assume the raw is in Chinese, and not the actual Japanese raw. I can't read it at all so yes. I wish people would be specific with their terminology. The chapter linked in the thread is a Chinese scanlation, not a raw.
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