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I'd let this thread go unnoticed until I saw it linked from the Finer Arts sticky in GBS. From reading the first chapter, it looks like the artist...isn't very good, he's not HORRIBLE, but his human characters are in a really, really rough style. I hope that he refines his style over the course of the series(similar to how Arakawa and Oda significantly evolved theirs over the years), because it is an interesting concept, and I'll be reading more most definitely! Avoiding reading the rest of the thread until I catch up. edit: 9 chapters in and this is pretty incredible, really REALLY rough artwork but honestly, it's such a fresh concept that it's forgivable. I do also think it's hilarious that they tried to get something like this put in Shonen Jump. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Oct 2, 2011 |
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I like Sasha.   edit: why does Imgur have a cropping option when it never loving works.
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Oct 2, 2011 18:29
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And when someone's entire hands are smaller than their eyes, but yeah, the action stuff is well-made.
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Oct 9, 2011 04:29
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"Advance of Giants" has now been licensed. The official English title apparently is "Attack on Titan". I think I'd prefer "Attack on Titans", Advance of the Titans/Giants" or the other one Crunchyroll called it, "Giant's March", but whatever. Still good news, gonna buy the poo poo out of the volumes.
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Soulcleaver posted:Just saw this and read to the current chapter based on Zorak's summary. What a fantastic premise, what a tense and addictive series. I hope, as other readers do, that the author never ruins the mystery and explains where they come from. The disturbing, alien nature of the titans is what propels the story. The hidden aristocracy of the inner circles of the city may be another enemy as well, and possibly even the source of the giants. They totally are going to explain it. They've uncovered multiple hints and as cool as it would be NOT to explain it, it would also be a huge cop-out after they've discovered so much about them. The "they shouldn't even be able to move with the mass they're supposed to have at their size" thing is a good example of something that will have to be explained. I think at this point it'll probably wind up being that Titans were an experiment in creating either A: biological warriors or B: efficient, easy-to-dispose-of(in the sense that the Titan bodies evaporate) workers, and over time it was found that the process erodes the mind of the controlling human, and the Titan body itself takes control albeit primitively, absorbing the human in the neck-cockpit-thing and putting them into a dream-like state. Then they ran rampant. I wager that's how The Walls were able to be constructed, using Titan labor. This is just using information we currently have though, there could be more reveals that throw this into question. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Oct 25, 2011 |
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Oct 25, 2011 01:21
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A  , being eaten by a hundred lesser s
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Nov 10, 2011 22:18
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Because it's a refreshing take on the old zombie apocalypse trope, except instead of zombies they are human-shaped monsters ten times the size of a man but just as fast. And some of these huge zombies are smart and want to destroy(?) the last bastion of humanity! And only one man, who can turn into a giant zombie at will, has the ability to stop them. Bruce Willis as Eren in...ATTACK ON TITAN, coming Summer 2014
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Apr 18, 2012 19:52
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Sanguinia posted:This is like "WHAT THE gently caress IS EVEN GOING ON?": The Series. Also, this chapter works great when set alongside Prelude to War.
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May 12, 2012 00:56
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hackbunny posted:It could be awesome, that was the second best
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Jun 12, 2012 01:58
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twist in ffffffffffffffffff
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Einander posted:So after this chapter, titan-wise, it looks like we have two enemy factions with titans, possibly three: It all makes sense now. This is a pre-prequel to Nausicaa: Valley of the Winds, the first God Warrior prototypes. Things haven't even begun to get as bad as they can yet.
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Jul 9, 2012 12:17
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If you can't stand the characters, I suggest you stop reading now.
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Jul 18, 2012 16:13
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He said entertaining and relevant. One of these does not apply to Mikasa.
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Aug 27, 2012 06:09
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Why is this manga so great? Because it takes such awful, awful delaying tactic tropes such as cutting away right when someone names a newly important character or reveals a secret about someone, then cuts back to see the shocked reactions of everyone but never saying that person's name while this one just does that and then tells you who they are a couple pages later. 
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miscellaneous14 posted:Now that I've spent the entire day reading through this from the beginning after hearing about it just this morning, somehow I need to completely forget it exists so I can come back in a year or two when it's finally finished. Yeah, I linked the trailer in the GBS youtube thread and said "people who try to pull DBZ poo poo end up as Titan chow" and someone responded with "dunno man, looks like some DBZ poo poo to me", which is exactly what I was implying, since isn't that final super-dramatic shot in the trailer of Erin jetting over and under stuff the scene where he gets eaten? It's been a while since I read the first chapters. Maybe I should go re-read them/the whole drat series again.
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Dec 12, 2012 01:00
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What if Titans start out as big ones like Eren/Annie, but once they lose control they become dumb, and the human inside gradually is eroded away, as the human gets smaller, so does the Titan, with scale/limbs based on how eroded those parts of the human inside are. Certainly would explain the hosed-uppedness of the anatomy of the Titans!
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Vincent Valentine posted:I thought her dying at the end there was sort of unambiguous. It's pretty much accepted that when a character holds up the head of another injured character, drops some exposition on them, and the injured character closes their eyes, that dude just died. I mean, sure, it's not the case 100% of the time(Thanks Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, it was a good joke) but it's pretty drat close. At the same time, I feel like it would be completely fitting in this manga for the chapter to end on an I-can-die-happy-now eyes closing scene only for her to survive in the next chapter. But then again, that would mean she might exposition fairy away some mystery, and that can't happen, so she's gotta die. Dr_Amazing posted:I'm assuming that as a smaller titian, her real body is taking up a lot more room inside it. The way they were ripping into the titan body, it makes sense she could have lost a limb or 2. Yeah, the zombie apocalypse scenario is looking a lot more likely from the last half dozen chapters.
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Got to page 13, started laughing hysterically, almost closed the page right there. Jesus, that was...not a well-dropped bombshell. edit: alright, reading the rest of it, I'm okay with the way it was handled. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Feb 14, 2013 |
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Violen posted:I wasn't bothered by Eren's subdued reaction at all. It follows pretty believably how a long-term friend of both men would react to such a monumental betrayal, with delayed realization. You can tell both he and Reiner quickly lose their little facades of composition, and start barely holding back flipping the gently caress out. Reiner over the irreversibility of what he just decided to do, and Eren over the fact that two more of his long-term comrades were responsible for the deaths of so many others. Plus, it wasn't so much a bombshell as an impossible-to-handle confirmation of what he, Armin, Mikasa and the others had discussed the possibilities of at length. There are some reveals in this story that demand an immediate emotional spittake, but this wasn't one of them. Especially with all the risk versus reward choices that must've been spontaneously flashing a mile a minute through Eren's overloaded mind. Plus, you know, the death of his mother.
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Feb 14, 2013 10:19
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Jesus. It's like, half the chapter is two-page spreads. And it's really incredible how much the artist has improved since the beginning. the Armored Titan body looks really well-done in particular.
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Mar 10, 2013 10:45
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Eren needs a titan-sized football helmet
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Mar 20, 2013 14:59
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Zorak posted:Doesn't seem to be the case. They've dissected normal Titans alive and found nothing particularly indicative of a pilot, as far as we're aware. I'm still a fan of the theory that Titans start out relatively huge and shrink over time as the pilot gets more and more absorbed into the Titan body.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Another big problem with the idea that every titan has a pilot is the existence of roughly human-sized titans. No, that theory I mentioned posited that as a normal titan such as Eren's absorbs the human inside of it, they get smaller themselves. So once the human is entirely absorbed, the Titan becomes basically human-sized. Maybe. I dunno.
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Apr 11, 2013 16:39
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It's a mystery!
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Elemennop posted:i really hope Eren starts doing some wrestling and brazilian jiu-jitsu on Rayner, goes for a double leg, passes gaurd, gets a mounted triangle and once he realizes titans don't need to breathe switches to an arm bar where he rips it off I meant to say this earlier, but yeah it's really ridiculous just how spot-on this post is considering it's from last month. Good one!
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Apr 13, 2013 13:31
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The Devil Tesla posted:Post from the anime thread:
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Apr 15, 2013 01:57
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Dan7el posted:I don't understand why people don't live underground or habitats that are tightly enclosed with small tunnels. I can understand the need to farm, but that doesn't mean they need to build regular houses too. Maybe the 100 year peace made them slack? The art is okay, but Eren's expression seems to never change. At least I can tell, for the most part, what a page or scene is about -- unlike many other mangas. The creepy titans make it. Its cool how they vary in size from just barely superhuman to ginormous. Titans can smell people. It's why hiding inside a house is useless. Hence, hiding underground would be useless as well, unless you were suuuuuper far down.
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Apr 16, 2013 12:32
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Has Mikasa ever been cut? It's been a while since I read the whole manga, so I don't recall.
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Apr 21, 2013 01:14
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No Mikasa, you are the test subjects. And then Rivalle was a Titan.
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Apr 21, 2013 02:27
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Sindai posted:Titans are actually composed of flan. That's why their density is so low! Sasha is actually a clone of Mikasa, a facet of her predisposed to eating instead of war! When this flan discovery is revealed, she will have her time in the spotlight when she unleashes her specialty fighting skill, Sashster Hungryff! edit: stupid referential derails like this are probably my favorite part of ADTRW
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Apr 21, 2013 05:50
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GreenBuckanneer posted:So 200 new pages! New chapter out? Nope just chattin about the animes I'll never watch. You're making a poor decision! 
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ActionZero posted:I'm not sure if the best part about this show is watching it or watching the reactions in the anime thread. There's someone complaining about "The Colossal Titan just kinda teleports in. One frame not there, next frame PEEKABOO!" which is almost exactly what I thought when I read that scene in chapter 4. I wasn't complaining of it being a problem story-wise, I was complaining of it being an animation issue.
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JosephWongKS posted:One of these days we'll get a chapter with a flashback showing how Sasha became obsessed with potatoes after her mother got eaten by a titan while baking potatoes for the family, and all our potato jokes will retroactively become terribly depressing. I find all the potato jokes terribly depressing already Nilbop posted:God I hope there is an explanation for this.
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Giggily posted:I don't think it was. I remember being kind of confused as to who he was when he was first mentioned. It's a pretty nice setup for his appearance. Showing up out of the blue was slightly jarring, and I just read that part last night. The little touches like him stealing the wine and chugging it upon hearing the news that Trost had been breached, and that he was holding back for the slobby nobleman, was nicely done. And the entire rest of the episode was pulse-pounding and intense as expected. I loving knew that the bit from the first trailer with Eren super well-animatedly zipping through the streets towards that Titan was cut away the MOMENT poo poo went real bad for him. So glad that was the case. I am so intensely hyped up right now, even ten minutes after finishing the episode. Can't wait to see how they handle Titan Eren if they get into it next episode, I wager they'll fit it in there somehow, probably close to the end where he'll save Mikasa. poo poo, this adaptation, it's so drat good. This SEASON is so drat good, and I've yet to watch half of the "really good shows" I've heard about! edit: Mercrom posted:That was a good episode. If Eren doesn't turn out to have titan regenerating super powers given to him by his mad scientist dad then the next episode will be even better, unless it somehow creates a battle strategy that involves Eren repeatedly feeding himself to titans. lol Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 04:05 on May 5, 2013 |
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Gyges posted:I wonder if they'll just rearrange stuff and show Eren transform into a Titan before Rage Titan shows up to save Mikasa. That would be The Worst
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chami posted:I don't think they've even addressed the issue of Eren's tenuous control over his Titan form yet; didn't he try to smash Mikasa the second time he transformed? Hopefully as this series goes on it emphasizes that you don't want to be full of rage and hot-bloodedness when you're a 15-meter tall murder machine in a war zone with squishier friendlies around. I think it's meant to be assumed he's been gradually taking more and more conscious control of the titan each time he turns into it.
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Eiba posted:And there we go. We've got it. The dumbest theory presented with a straight face. Hahahaha I was reading his post and planning on saying "man that is a real Devil Fruits Are Nanomachines or Blackbeard's Fetus theory, that is".
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May 7, 2013 09:04
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I love the term "protuberance town".
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May 8, 2013 03:18
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Autonomous Monster posted:And to stop just shutting down whenever she thinks she's lost Eren, good God woman. I'm really glad this and One Piece exist. They're like opposite ends of the same spectrum and they're both really good, it's great.
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I think it was weird how, very soon after they had rescued Mikasa from slave traders who murdered her parents, Eren's dad is all happy face as he says "come live with us". OR WAS IT??? 
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Bob Moog sex tape posted:This comic is just too awesome. What if Annie's flashback is basically her version of Eren sitting in a room in his bliss state, but either A: the dude saying that is in her dream, or B: someone's been brainwashing them while they're in titan training mode? Like...I dunno...when they were practicing(assuming they needed to) turning into titans, and someone was doing similar things like Armin did with Eren, but considerably...less heroic.
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