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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. Barefoot Gen?
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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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Apr 7, 2013 22:48
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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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Apr 7, 2013 22:52
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It's in the UK? Woop-woop-woop! Just hope there isn't too huge a gap between it airing in Japan and it airing on Crunchyroll (looking at you, Fate/zero).
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Apr 13, 2013 11:46
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Popo posted:Attack on Titan is a very dark and grim series as one can tell by the fan works. Honestly, that's actually true. Fanworks tend to be created to fill a gap the existing work doesn't cater for, so the grimdarkiest shows get the most cheery, light-hearted fanworks and vice versa. Just look at all the horrible poo poo that's cropped up around My Little Pony... or don't, if you value your sanity.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:21
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Waffleman_ posted:And a lot of it is just the humor present in such stark thematic dissonance. Well, quite.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:25
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Don't forget the massive billow of steam after ol' skinless appeared that blasted our heroes off the wall. Yep, it's no animation error - weird poo poo be going on.
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Apr 28, 2013 18:47
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So when can we expect this to hit Crunchyroll?
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May 5, 2013 20:04
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I have found the greatest thing.
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May 8, 2013 23:16
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It's mentioned in the manga (this isn't a spoiler, just a background detail) that the army's minimum recruitment age is twelve. Really rubs in how desperate they're getting.
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May 17, 2013 19:37
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Let's not forget the job they signed up for. Being small and light is no disadvantage when you're swinging around in 3DMG.
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May 17, 2013 23:22
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GoldenNugget posted:Wow they did a great job with that episode. A few questions though (non manga). Pomegranates are 'the fruit of the dead'. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 15:54 on May 19, 2013 |
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May 19, 2013 15:51
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Soks posted:Other than the loving lipstick, I still just don't get that. She never even remotely came across as the kind to pretty herself up at all. It's so loving alien on her. I dunno, the story drops more than a few hints that she might want Eren to notice her, and that she manages her appearance accordingly (the haircut, for instance).
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May 19, 2013 22:54
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Paracelsus posted:Ripped and also some sort of last remaining heir of a ~mysterious clan from the orient~, to infer a bit from what her mother said to her. Not to mention that Doctor Jaeger had regular appointments with her before poo poo went down (and then adopted her, which probably didn't slow down whatever he was doing). Notice, also, that the anime has used lightning effects to show weird Titan stuff (like the Colossal's sudden appearance, and the berserker-Titan's regeneration). Sure, the lightning flashes and the cracking wood may have been symbolic, but it's a symbolism that seems eerily similar to actual, 'real-world' stuff happening in the show.
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May 20, 2013 11:31
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I'm not entirely sure what to feel about the untimely demise of the kawaiiest Titan.
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May 26, 2013 21:47
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I think the partial transformation was just because Eren was only trying to partially transform. He just wanted to become/create a shield for his friends, not a rampaging death-machine, and so the Titan-construct he grew here was purely defensive.
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Jun 2, 2013 22:01
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Schwarzwald posted:You may be the first person to have ever compared Eren to Valjean. Well, they are both monstrously-strong dudes struggling to acquire and retain some shred of humanity. On the other hand, that makes Mikasa Fantine, and I don't think any of us want to see that.
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boom boom boom posted:But the Big Zam is the exact same height. Take a while until we can get a mass-produced copy for the display, though.
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Jun 8, 2013 22:14
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I was thinking Guilty Crown.
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hello i read the manga let me lead you along paths of "speculation" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 23, 2013 18:58
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Kisdum?
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Jul 1, 2013 15:21
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darkgray posted:Not sure what you're asking, but I meant this show. Spelling is hard. That was what I was asking, thanks. I tried Googling 'kisdum', but found only that it is apparently the Cebuano word for 'frown'.
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The fandom delivers yet again. The Jaegers welcome their firstborn into the world (relax, it's SFW).
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Jul 3, 2013 17:20
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Remind me, have we ever seen Mikasa look anywhere near as murderous elsewhere in this show as she did when Levi was beating on Eren? Because if looks could flay, that dude would have left the room in a bucket.
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Jul 14, 2013 16:10
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Silver2195 posted:One who died before World War II, so the controversy seems a bit overblown. I may be wrong here, but I believe he was active in Korea (which was subjected to a brutal Japanese occupation that began in 1910).
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Jul 16, 2013 14:30
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Nephthys posted:I'm pondering how Eren can know how to transform. He questions it in the episode, but theres no answer given. But Phobophilia's post reminds me that Titans have an instinctual need to eat humans, so I'm theorising that it might be similar to that. Eren has displayed that he's borderline in-human already with regeneration, so it isn't a stretch to think he might be odd in other ways, like having instincts instilling into him by his father. Remember what his dad said about 'their memories will teach you'? I think he pulled a Dark City and injected our boy with an instruction manual in addition to his powers, and that unlocked when he transformed for the first time.
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Jul 21, 2013 18:25
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Barent posted:The difference here being that this threat is an actual, really bad threat that currently has humanity on the ropes, instead of a made up one. And you think that fascist propaganda doesn't treat The Jewish Conspiracy as an actual, really bad threat? I mean, I get that this show probably isn't fascist (the depiction of women as something other than baby-factories for the glorious Aryan master race is a bit of a hint), but that's a really bad counterargument.
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Jul 28, 2013 12:38
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Silver2195 posted:It comes up a lot in a certain type of Western fantasy (orcs as noble savages), but it's a reaction to an even worse trope (creatures who are basically human, except evil, just because). And who often explicitly have the characteristics of (insert non-white race or non-Western culture here). Early speculative fiction left us with a really dark legacy.
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Jul 30, 2013 21:26
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Poor Sasha... why did she even decide to join the recon corps? Most of humanity's farmland was in Wall Maria before it fell. How else was she going to re-stock on potatoes?
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Aug 4, 2013 16:09
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hiddenriverninja posted:pretty sure it's three words: gently caress, gently caress, gently caress! I dunno, that look of grim determination as she yanks her horse out of the way adds a few paragraphs. I mean, it's not like grim determination is an expression we often see on Sasha except when she's contemplating a really enormous bowl of chips.
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Captain Invictus posted:And MMA fights, because the author is a gigantic MMA fan. Like, their blog is apparently mostly gushing about MMA. Speaking of, did anyone recognise any of the moves the female Titan pulled in this episode? The author likes to inject MMA elements into his fights.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Titans aren't particularly intelligent. Even aberrant titans aren't really smart, they just act funny (perhaps due to abnormalities in their brain similar to physical abnormalities on Titan bodies?). I believe that titans have an innate sense of detecting humans, sort of like "sniffing them out" but not necessarily related to scents. This would explain why they constantly claw at the walls instead of just giving up after a while, and why they attack both Titan Eren and the Female Titan. One difference we've seen so far is that whilst they seem to be all smiles and sunshine when they're eating humans, piloted Titans seem to genuinely piss them off. The ones that attacked Eren and our new antagonist seemed to be genuinely angry, which is pretty rare for bigmen.
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TK-31 posted:Here's to hoping all the upcoming nazi-apologia shows can at least be as self aware as Valvrave is. Look, sometimes you just need to found a Third Galactic Reich if you wanna fight off the Jewish vampire Illuminati. Ain't nothing fascist about that. 
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Senor Candle posted:Until he has as much control as the female titan does I would be willing to bet that Levi is just as effective and way less dangerous to use. They only have one Levi, though.
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Renoistic posted:FT was very expressive in this episode and looked positively human at times. And then her face ripped open when she was pulling Eren out of his cockpit with her teeth and gaaaah  .
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I liked this bit from that Titan game:quote:When you begin play as a Rookie, choose only a first name. When you make it to Level 1 or start play at Level 1, also choose a last name.
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snucks posted:It also makes you a lot less likely to kick the bucket. We have our quota of I 'unno, Levi and Mikasa occupy very different categories in the 'genius Titan-murderer' area of expertise (for a start, Levi can actually teach people stuff), but Erwin could probably be killed off without totally derailing the story. It would just require a narrative arc of Armin (or Jean, or Armin and Jean working together) being thrust into a role he's really not sure he's ready for yet and having to catch up fast.
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Sep 2, 2013 21:54
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Vincent Valentine posted:He's a vital asset but he's not single-handedly "loving everything and everyone up". Actually, that's exactly what he's doing. That's his problem.
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Tarodia posted:I think my favourite part was how Mikasa's evidence was "They kinda look alike" To be fair, she did also point out that they have the exact same fighting-style, which is the sort of evidence you can trust from one of your top murder specialists.
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The entire soundtrack may be pretty badass, but I'd like to give a little shout-out to one of the less famous 'gently caress yeah humanity' tracks on it, '立body機motion': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7IrrO09Ok As for Sawano's Unicorn work, here's my favourite piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycF7G_Y7KXU
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