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Captain Invictus posted:Outstanding first episode. This one at least fulfills every expectation I had from the trailer. We'll see how well the animation quality sticks throughout the rest of the show or if it nosedives after episode 3. Grave of the fireflys. It and Barefoot Gen are the two most thoroughly depressing animes ive ever seen, especially since they both deal with very real stories. Anyway, THIS SHOW IS AMAZING. The last anime i felt i needed to see the next episode of this badly was Cowboy Bebop. Anyone know when its coming?
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Darth Walrus posted:Barefoot Gen? That's the one! Man, that poo poo's just horrifying. Not really for this thread, though. Housh posted:Learned about this series from Captain Invictus post in the GBS Youtube thread. I haven't heard of the manga...heck I haven't watched an anime in years. Really sold on that first episode. 
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Apr 7, 2013 13:17
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I never thought I'd see a show that get me to sympathize with the drunken city guardsman. Also poo poo is fuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up.
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Apr 7, 2013 13:30
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I was sold at the intro part. Well, this seems to set the new 10 on the scale of "Art quality" and "Animation" i guess. And it's EVIL! ps: If any of you get the terrible, terrible idea of going to /a/, don't. It's chock-filled with spoilers about this.
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Apr 7, 2013 14:31
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Aureon posted:ps: If any of you get the terrible, terrible idea of going to /a/, don't. It's chock-filled with spoilers about this. And the manga has some pretty  twists too so people who don't really care still owe it to themselves to stay a little spoiler-free.
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Apr 7, 2013 14:51
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Yeah, I also knew right after the intro that I HAVE to watch this show.
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Apr 7, 2013 15:03
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anyone have a good quality subbed version? found the full ep1 on youtube but the quality is kinda poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1la0axBbcnI
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Apr 7, 2013 15:42
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Hat Butt posted:anyone have a good quality subbed version? GG is subbing it.
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Housh posted:Learned about this series from Captain Invictus post in the GBS Youtube thread. I haven't heard of the manga...heck I haven't watched an anime in years. Really sold on that first episode. gg is pretty fast, especially when it comes to good shows, so probably.
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Apr 7, 2013 15:53
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gg is also pretty bad. They cocked up the very first line. The commie translation is honestly better, but for some bizarre reason they've decided to rename the monsters "Eotenas" because they think it sounds cool
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Apr 7, 2013 16:00
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Speaking of subs, why did they call the Scouting Legion the Recon Corps? It pretty much ruined the show. Not true show was awesome and I am excited for more
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Apr 7, 2013 16:01
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Things that grin at you as they try and murder you have long been genuine nightmare fuel for me. I couldn't be sold on this enough.
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Apr 7, 2013 16:10
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PaulC posted:gg is also pretty bad. They cocked up the very first line. Titans, giants and jotun (=eotenas) are very, very similar. And considering the setting, using a word from norse mythology might feel a bit more appropriate.
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Apr 7, 2013 16:12
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coreycoryecorey posted:Speaking of subs, why did they call the Scouting Legion the Recon Corps? It pretty much ruined the show. Scouting Legion makes no sense tbh. Official translation is Survey Corps, and that sounds horrible. I'd guess Recon Corps is a decent choice.
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Apr 7, 2013 16:16
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Titans, giants and jotun (=eotenas) are very, very similar. And considering the setting, using a word from norse mythology might feel a bit more appropriate. Except that most people don't know what it means so it just looks like a nonsense word to them and even in Commies explanation they say "Giant" would be the accurate translation. They also say they know better than the author who seems to want the beasties to be called Titans.
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Popo posted:Commies explanation I just read that explanation now and I think your avatar might be an accurate summation of what was going on while they were writing it.
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Apr 7, 2013 17:13
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To be fair, for all we know the Kyojin ARE actually gods or something and it will end with third impact. I'm 3 months behind on the manga so w/e on that front. I really like the treatment the show is giving this, especially as people were saying, Hannes' staring down the giant. The one niggling thing is that sure, we've barely seen the beginning of a fight scene even, but the small snippet we saw seemed to lack a lot of the sheer energy and sense of speed that I thought of the manga fight scenes as having. Eren and co all sounded a little generic but that is totally fine because it's well established that they are pretty normal kids, maybe with the exception of Armin I guess.
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Apr 7, 2013 17:15
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Titans, giants and jotun (=eotenas) are very, very similar. And considering the setting, using a word from norse mythology might feel a bit more appropriate. Eotenas is still stupid because it's an old english word, which means it's not in use in any language used today, and even if you wanted to go for an old-timey word for some bizarre reason, it would make more sense to go for its source-word Etunaz (which is proto-Germanic, fitting with the mostly Germanic character-names), or the far more well-known and appropriate Jotunn, which is literally the same word - both come from Etunaz - except, you know, well-known and Norse, which makes more sense given some other names in the series so far. And that's assuming you do want to change Titans, for some stupid reason.
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Apr 7, 2013 18:00
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Wow, great animation quality. Voice acting was good but a little overdone in some parts. But pretty faithful the manga but just seems much bleaker when animated. I hope they don't change too much or make the animation quality go to poo poo.
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Apr 7, 2013 18:08
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Welp, I'm certainly going to my local store and getting the currently out volumes of this. It looks great, though horrific!
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coreycoryecorey posted:Speaking of subs, why did they call the Scouting Legion the Recon Corps? It pretty much ruined the show. Mango-chan @ GGKthx.org posted:No, we’re not going to use “Scouting Legion” because some manga translator translated it that way. Official translations used “Survey Corps,” but we think “Recon Corps” fit better given the nature of what they do (see opening scene).
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Apr 7, 2013 18:17
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It's always amusing to see subbers/scanlators being catty at each other.
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Apr 7, 2013 18:28
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Well, at least it's not on the level of 'nakama' and 'keikaku'. 
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Apr 7, 2013 18:33
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GG has some of the most naturalistic subbing out there (when they aren't being deliberately funny about it) so I'm totally okay with them being kind of catty about this.
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Apr 7, 2013 19:19
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Aureon posted:Scouting Legion makes no sense tbh. Scouting, Survey, and Recon all mean the same thing. Corps and Legion also, effectively, mean the same thing, though I guess Corps implies a greater level of organization.
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Apr 7, 2013 19:36
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It's usually a pretty safe bet to assume that GG has made the correct choice. Also a lot of its leadership are Goons and abhor subbing idiocy so there's that too!
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All I know is that with my lovely computer, the amount of typesetting Commie did to put their new title card in the OP crashed my player. I didn't like what GG did with Jojo, but I'll give them a try next week. By the way, show was fantastic and I'm torn between going ahead and reading the manga or keeping myself virgin for the anime.
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Apr 7, 2013 19:44
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Remember that we are undoubtedly going to be seeing an anime-original ending for this series, so chances are it's going to diverge after a point. The manga has not even approached what would be considered a natural cut-off, except for a point rather early on.
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As a long-time fan of the manga, this anime absolutely delivered on every aspect. But when the opening theme started playing, man did I ever get pumped up for this show.  It's not at all what I expected given the tone of the series but boy, I sure do love it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f100aYy1wio
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That was a really good first ep. The whole intro sequence really pulled me in.
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Apr 7, 2013 21:52
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Oh man, this is going to be such a good ride. Really loved the intro sequence and the adaptation is pretty good so far. Anyway, according to this, Noboru Takagi wrote episodes 8, 12, 13, 19, 21, and 22, so we have at least half a year of episodes.  edit: Went back over the thread and missed AnonSpore's post.  Oh well, here it is in English.
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Also watched it from that link posted in gbs and I thought it was pretty good. Will look forward to the next episode
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I don't want to spoil the newbies, so where (if anywhere) would be the best place to speculate about the probable endpoint?
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Darth Walrus posted:I don't want to spoil the newbies, so where (if anywhere) would be the best place to speculate about the probable endpoint? If you want to speculate about stuff that's only been in the anime so far and you've only watched the anime, this is the place to do it. Else, check out the manga thread.
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jonjonaug posted:If you want to speculate about stuff that's only been in the anime so far and you've only watched the anime, this is the place to do it. I figured as much, I just wasn't sure if spoiler-heavy discussion of a likely ending for the anime would be on topic for the manga thread.
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Waffleman_ posted:I didn't like what GG did with Jojo, but I'll give them a try next week. GG outright said they where being silly with Jojo, so don't let that put you off. Great first ep, I just hope they have the budget to keep this up.
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drat, that was a pretty much perfect first episode. The setting is fascinating, the animation is beautiful and holy poo poo those loving giants. I liked how the opening theme got me all 'LET'S KILL SOME loving GIANTS!' and then... the episode happened.
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The show's confirmed 25 episodes from the BD solicitation. http://www.shingeki.tv/products/bd_01.php
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Eggn0g posted:GG outright said they where being silly with Jojo, so don't let that put you off. Yeah, I find them fine other than what they did with Jojo. Translations should really be judged on a case-by-case basis anyway. It's an art, not a science.
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