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Squidster posted:I think the chewy titan-shifter seed is incompatible with other seeds. Otherwise it would be safest for Berthold and Reiner to just eat anyone they suspected of being the Coordinate and hope for the best. It wouldn't be for them because it would mean they are now targets for being eaten themselves.
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Jun 8, 2014 21:31
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Historia isn't going to eat Eren. She's going to be somhow subdued for a while and eventually end up eating Ymir because that is way way more tragic.
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Jan 10, 2015 07:09
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The basement will reveal that the entire planet is a Titan. Also the moon. Everything is Titans. I look forward to Attack On Dead Space 3.
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Apr 2, 2015 22:50
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GimmickMan posted:We had a major, end of arc battle in which nobody died and things went mostly as planned. It is weird and makes me suspicious we'll see some kind of twist in the next chapter. Levi's gonna get shot. Just watch.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:21
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It isn't like a Titan serum is very useful on its own since you just become an uncontrollable monster.
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May 10, 2015 00:19
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iamsosmrt posted:I had a bit of a hard time following the action at the end and thought it could've used a few more panels. Seems like a rather risky gamble on Armin's part being that there was no way to know that Eren could do everything he did at the end. But I suppose there weren't that many options. Didn't they set up Jean as being getting better at that? Or did I miss him dying?
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Jun 9, 2016 17:20
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I'm not sure why people are assuming Armin is alive enough for the serum to work considering he looks really really dead.
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Jun 10, 2016 00:12
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Yeah, Armin surviving is the first time this series has really lost me when it comes to death. That poo poo is unbelievable and also feels thematically weak. Armin died about as firmly and fully as a character can die both in story and in theme and then nope lol alive.
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Jul 17, 2016 03:51
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AtheistMantis posted:Now that I think of it, was Bert's special ability his size? What if it was actually the ability to produce immense heat, and his size was just a thing unique to him. Then tiny Armin titan has the ability to turn into a fireball. And the survey corps just learned about the concept of baseball. What a twist! Aren't all the Titans inside the wall Colossal Titans?
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Aug 10, 2016 05:50
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In It For The Tank posted:Here is my immediate attempt to reconcile everything that we have seen in this series together with this revelation. Lots of speculation below: It's incredibly hard for me to reconcile 'we have literal shifter Titans' and "we need to keep the Titans contained using a ridiculously circuitous plan." Erin alone can wreck Titan's poo poo like nothing. I'm pretty sure if you wanted to wipe out Titans it would take two or three Colossal Titans a couple days tops.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:56
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Schwarzwald posted:As I'm not familiar with either Muvluv Alternative or Muvluv Classic, can someone fill me in on what the reference or whatever is? Muvluv is a generic harem thing. It has a sequel/spinoff/whatever which is a super-grimdark mecha show where humanity is losing a war against unstoppable super-beasts.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:57
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Monocled Falcon posted:I don't know what to think now. I was only into this series because it made zombies scary again. The wider world is intriguing, though it doesn't seem well foreshadowed. It's been foreshadowed throughout the series with things like the cans of food with unknown languages that Ymir can read.
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Oct 8, 2016 04:40
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Slartibartfast is totally loving with Eren.
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Oct 8, 2016 21:22
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Piriwi posted:What I didn't understand about the plan to use shifters is that to the supposed king it would've been obvious who is responsible for the attack the walls. So the argument that if Marley were to attack with their regular army the king would bring down the walls and release the giant titans inside, that doesn't really hold up. Marley people can't become Titans so it's entirely banking on the idea the king would assume it's a rebellion or something from the inside. (At least from what we know so far.) It's worth remembering that despite whatever the 'the power is broke into pieces' thing is, we know for a fact there are multiple of the special Titans, including the Colossal ones inside the walls, so the appearance of another Colossal Titan doesn't inherently mean it's a Marley attack.
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Nov 11, 2016 02:28
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change my name posted:So I'm guessing this stuff definitively rules all of the spinoffs not canon? I don't remember if they were or not anyways. Alternately everything in the book is a lie and we'll discover in 5 chapters that Eren got totally tricked and now has to go on a quest to find the SECOND TRUE BASEMENT.
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Nov 11, 2016 20:06
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snucks posted:I loved this. Less a fan of the fact that master tactician The Owl decided to enact his Grisha-saving plan once all other revolutionary recruits were dead or titanized. Was there a point to this besides dramatic tension? Would letting these revolutionaries live within the wall be too dangerous to the mission? I get the impression that he had been intending to let Grisha die but changed his mind once it came down to it and pulled his hidden Titan trump card earlier than expected.
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Nov 12, 2016 00:13
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Honestly based off the dialogue "Advancing Titan" really makes the most sense but they went for Attack as the translation so you either lose the name-drop or you lose the best meaning. It's a crappy side effect of sticking with the Engrishy name.
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Dec 8, 2016 01:46
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Captain Invictus posted:chapter 89 Holy poo poo that is an insanely bad translation. Wait, are they in some kind insane memory-based time loop? ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Dec 29, 2016 17:32
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TFRazorsaw posted:I need to ask you guys a question. I would say it isn't that overt if you're not looking for it and in fact is obscured enough that, at least at this point, it feels like it's skimming more than diving in. That said it's hard to say where it will go and it absolutely gets into uncomfortable territory sometimes.
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Jan 1, 2017 05:22
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Sarcophallus posted:There's just something a bit odd about being uncomfortable with someone's art work and story telling because of their personal opinions. That's really a dumb argument. Atlus Shrugged is explicitly about pushing and promoting her political views. It should make you uncomfortable if you don't agree with them because it actually does motivate and influence people. Like this isn't even hypothetical, I can point you to multiple politicians influenced by that book and it's drat near a college tradition for someone to read it and be motivated by it. It is entirely possible for artwork that is pushing certain political views to influence someone. In fact that is frequently the point of artwork. We had a goddamn Supreme Court Justice of the United States cite the television show 24 as justification for torture and Japan's certainly had plenty of their own problems with stuff like that too. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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Jan 1, 2017 17:59
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I wonder if the time skip means that Armin trained up his Titan self offscreen so they'll skip all of that for him.
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Feb 10, 2017 16:26
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The manga, in retrospect, does a lot of super-suspicious stuff that you don't notice through a combination of not looking for it, the art being kinda bad, and clever direction. It's a lot harder to hide that stuff in animation because you're not glancing over one panel briefly.
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Apr 24, 2017 01:36
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So, I forget: We're told that each of the 'special' Titans is a unique and irreplaceable type, right? What does that mean for the Colossal Titans in the walls?
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May 5, 2017 18:53
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JahRoo posted:The flashbacks are cool because they expand on stuff that was sort of implied but unanswered how they attacked the wall, Annie's role, where their cover story came from, etc.. At the same time it's also frustrating because it's been several chapters since the timeskip and we still haven't seen any of the dudes from Paradise and have no idea what they're planning. It seems like we might still be a chapter or two away from returning to Eren and co. It's probably because their return to the story is going to be explosive and violent and things need to be properly set up before they are demolished.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:01
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Kild posted:I figured the asian part was the ackerman part That wouldn't jive with Levi, would it?
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Jan 4, 2018 01:27
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Turin Turambar posted:I suspect it could be all a plan to finally get the Warhammer titan. As we are seeing now, she is nigh invulnerable. ... when she's blastin'?
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Mar 7, 2018 21:01
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SatansBestBuddy posted:fuuuuuuuuck that was the good poo poo They created a giant guillotine to kill all the titans. It turned out that without people intentionally supressing the ways to dealing with Titans they're not that hard to resolve.
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Mar 11, 2018 18:13
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EmmyOk posted:I'm enjoying it much more this time through, I think when it was first airing I was twenty and a hipster who hated something getting popular with the normies as well as being a bit fed up with super bleak things. The titans are really creep and these giant red dudes are so unfair how are you even supposed to hurt them? That dude ran through a wall and iirc Eren is only normal titan sized. I also stopped one episode shy of Levi who I am informed is one rude dude. Jesus. I had a brief moment of "why are you treating that like it was so long ago" before I remembered the anime started five goddamn years ago.
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Mar 17, 2018 21:42
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Viridiant posted:I recall it being a complete surprise to most people. It's well put together because it's the sort of thing that seems obvious in hindsight but really wasn't. I wasn't looking at these threads as much back then so I can't remember what the general theories were unfortunately. As I recall there was one person in particular who got it pretty spot-on? I don't think that was on SA though, I just remember people talking about that here. Yeah, there was an oft-linked forum post where someone made an extremely well reason argument based off context clues that figured out the identity of the shifters and people were like "naaaah, that's ridiculous" until they got retroactively proven entirely right.
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Mar 24, 2018 06:51
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a.lo posted:Who am I rooting for Meat.
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Manatee Cannon posted:it does happen a lot in manga tbh 
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Feb 8, 2019 05:49
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ATP_Power posted:I know it's not gonna happen but a sadistic part of me wants the next episode to end on this shot: I forget what was the key actually for?
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Jun 4, 2019 02:54
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Kerning Chameleon posted:The Wall Titans weren't crystallized, though, we saw that in their reveal. The wall was built around them. I thought the idea was that they made the wall by crystallizing themselves.
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Oct 4, 2019 23:59
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TheHan posted:I think if it was done well, it wouldn’t leave room for debate at all. If people are arguing whether you intended to demonize the Jewish race, that’s like my bar for “Did not convey your ideas clearly” That's not really genuinely fair at all. If your argument is "people can take negative things away" then almost nothing can follow your rules. You unironically have people who will argue that ANY sufficiently evil group was in the right. There are people who claim that Voldemort from Harry Potter was objectively in the right despite being a literal snake-faced evilman.
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Oct 6, 2019 23:55
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TheHan posted:Yeah you can take it to an extreme, but that’s true of anything. I’ve never read Harry Potter but from what I’ve heard, Voldemort is just wizard hitler and wants to do genocides. I’m assuming there’s nothing in the text that implies he’s in the right for wanting to just do evil things, and only the most liberal interpretations of it could come to that conclusion. That’s akin to those edgelords who college who would try and argue that Hitler was good for Germany, actually Then you can point to anything else. The Empire from Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Zeon, X-Men, it doesn't really matter which. There will be a not-insignificant group of people who take that message away from something that has ambiguity in *any* form.
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Oct 7, 2019 00:40
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TheHan posted:So why specifically use imagery from the one instance in history where one side was 100% in the wrong and lying about everything? . ... Are you being serious right now? Like seriously? That isn't even the only time in the past hundred years, let alone the only time in history. Edit: Like seriously, you've had a weird undercurrent to what you've been saying and this seems to bring it into light. You seem to be arguing "genocide can be justified" and your complaint is that AoT is bad because it uses the 'one instance in history where one side was 100% wrong and lying about everything' which seems to imply you think all the other times the 'one side' actually had a point for the awful insane atrocities they committed? ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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TheHan posted:Hey, the point's this: And this is where the issue lies. You seem to think that these things are different if there's 'justification' in it, ignoring that historically there is always justification for it to the people who do it. Many times those justifications are nonsense bullshit and even when they are based on something 'real' that real thing is twisted into nonsense. The idea that there is such thing as an 'unambiguous' mass murder is pretty much ignoring history, because people will always try to justify themselves and even if there is any truth to imagined reasons that doesn't suddenly make it okay.
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TheHan posted:If anything that makes it sound even more out of place. Yeah there are people who’ll try and justify the holocaust, those people are nazis. Why open the holocaust door and invite comparisons between one side of your conflict to nazis, especially when your theme is about violence begetting violence and no side being justified in their actions. Cause now one side looks like nazis, and the other looks Jewish. Just open any other door. So this actually does come back to the fact that you did mean to type 'the one' and not 'that one.' You think *any other comparison* would be okay. Do you not realize how awful that sounds?  Like let's just spitball here. What door would you open there that would be more acceptable to you?
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TBH I think it's best not to try to overexplain the Titans. No explanation is really going to hold satisfying weight and just "it's a weird thing that happened" is enough for the story.
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