Attack on Titan Page 2

Started by Sheep January 22nd, 2014 8:41 AM
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I'm not one for dubbed anime either so I haven't been following the news for it thus I have absolutely no idea that this existed, to be quite honest :c Thought Jean's voice would be slightly lower, filled with angst...And Levi! XD Oh dear. I have nothing against dubbed series, but it's not for me. I find myself trying to contain my laughter because after watching it in Japanese, I can only imagine those faces with their voices.
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Watched the anime on the weekend, subtitled. The soundtrack is the best I've heard outside of video games. Really brought out a lot of scenes that, without it, could've ended up melodramatic; I think they came across pretty well in the end. All it needs is more action from the wall-mounted cannons (I had hoped for at least one lavish depiction of massed volleys) and for Ymir and Sasha to stop being so backgroundy (this is probably only an issue with the anime, though). I don't expect it's to most people's taste, but I really liked all the long-winded guff about the long-range scouting formation. Not bad for an animation I watched purely because the uniforms look pretty hot the 3D gear is pretty cool.

Does anyone else feel like Jean should be the main protagonist? I mean, given the amount of development his character gets.

Lastly, Eren should've been female; looks more mature, that way.



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Maybe killing off Eren should have been permanent... I mean what kind of anime kills off protagonist? It might have been original.
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I'd hoped that'd be the case, and that it would cycle over different characters as the main one as they each die off, but no...
After initially understanding it to be a series about how the characters deal with personal loss, I thought the author really could've gone for a format like that.



Armin is actually my favorite character in this whole show. No joke. :3
I think I like Hanji more, but Armin is a close second; just a shame he doesn't seem to get any kills, like he was completely shoehorned into the 'brains of the outfit' role to the exclusion of his entire three years of military training.

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Watched the anime on the weekend, subtitled. The soundtrack is the best I've heard outside of video games. Really brought out a lot of scenes that, without it, could've ended up melodramatic; I think they came across pretty well in the end.
Then you should play some Bravely Default. Some of the soundtrack were made by the same folks. :P

I think I like Hanji more, but Armin is a close second; just a shame he doesn't seem to get any kills, like he was completely shoehorned into the 'brains of the outfit' role to the exclusion of his entire three years of military training.
Yeah it sucks that he's been forced to cover for a certain role in the series. But its typical of shonen to just push someone into certain trope roles so...

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I think I like Hanji more, but Armin is a close second; just a shame he doesn't seem to get any kills, like he was completely shoehorned into the 'brains of the outfit' role to the exclusion of his entire three years of military training.
Hanji is the only good female character in the series (if I don't count Armin).
And... only good character is Levi...
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Then you should play some Bravely Default. Some of the soundtrack were made by the same folks. :P



Yeah it sucks that he's been forced to cover for a certain role in the series. But its typical of shonen to just push someone into certain trope roles so...
Unfortunately I already have a backlog of TRPGs. Someday.

Honestly, I find it hard to think of SnK as shōnen, but I guess they're bound to become more edgy and violent as time goes on, culminating in this sort of thing. The narrative is probably typical of one (I wouldn't entirely know), but it a lot of the visuals don't exactly resemble daytime television.



Hanji is the only good female character in the series (if I don't count Armin).
And... only good character is Levi...
... Does Armin turn out to be female at some point in the manga or are you just being funny (sorry, I don't have a better way to put that)? He looks like that Schrödinger guy from Hellsing, and after seeing enough of that sort of thing, I can fully believe Armin is male.

Just curious, what makes Levi the best character?

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Levi is your typical badass with no character depth to him. He doesn't have much apart from being one of the strongest humans in terms of combat abilities and a fangirl magnet. I'm not a fan. Armin's better than Levi.

...he's just dissing Armin for being a cloyster, Cassino. Or trying to be funny/joking, whatever.

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... Does Armin turn out to be female at some point in the manga or are you just being funny (sorry, I don't have a better way to put that)? He looks like that Schrödinger guy from Hellsing, and after seeing enough of that sort of thing, I can fully believe Armin is male.
It's a common joke to adress Armin as female.
And... yea, you can say, he becomes female for a bit =)
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He dresses as Krista and no one finds anything. Heck, even some perverted oji-san wants him even after realizing he's a boy


Just curious, what makes Levi the best character?
He's not whiny as the rest of the cast, pretty much what Dante said, he's badass.
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Levi isn't the only one who isn't "whiny" so to speak haha. So I do kind of hope there is more reason to that. I like Levi but I'm going to have to go with Armin as my favorite. Despite being shoehorned into 'brains' trope I've been finding the parts with him my favorite (the scene with him, Jean, and Reiner is currently my favorite of the series so far) and truth me told my favorites tend to be blonde hair blue eyes oops.

That said I finished the anime and caught up with the manga last night. The anime was nice until the last three episodes when it deviated from the manga and then it just got... yeah. But I've enjoyed the manga so far. I think the character that bugs me the most (other than anime!eren especially in the last three episodes ugh) is Mikasa because I wish she could become a more rounded character in which whenever she's focused on it's not because of Eren in some way, shape, or form.

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I fully agree, I have never understood why Levi is such a favorite. I spend a lot of time on tumblr, and it really scares me how much the fans on there idolize him to the point where it feels like the Levi they idolize isn't even the Levi that's in the manga.. if that makes sense? It's like they've given him a new personality based on fanart and subtle moments and bad translations in the official manga to replace his personality of... nothing really. He is cool, I guess, but he is really nothing more than that.

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Because people, for some reason, really like the stoic type who seem to not care about anything. Which is all right but for some reason a lot of them like to take it out of proportion (i mean don't even get my started with the Sasuke fans from way back then.)

Though I have to say that I an understand the subtle moments. It's sometimes those little subtle things that you don't always catch at first that can really define and add depth to a character. Whether they actually interpret these subtle moments correctly though is another matter. Since I just got into AoT I can't say much for the fandom (which knowing me I will end up avoiding regardless) nor do I want to jump to conclusions on what you mean exactly by it.

That said in general people like to do weird things to characters in the fandom that cause them to have a 'fandom version' of their actual selves. Specifically of the character archetype Levi is in so it really sounds like he's no exception.

But god I hope Eren doesn't have a fandom interpretation because then that would mean there are three versions of him floating around hahaha.

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it feels like the Levi they idolize isn't even the Levi that's in the manga.. if that makes sense?
It makes. In manga he's not voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya.

I just got into AoT I can't say much for the fandom (which knowing me I will end up avoiding regardless)
You should... One of my friend lost interest in Eotenas because of fandom.

Rivaille has about as much depth as the rest of the cast. None.
Can't disagree with this, though =D
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Because people, for some reason, really like the stoic type who seem to not care about anything. Which is all right but for some reason a lot of them like to take it out of proportion (i mean don't even get my started with the Sasuke fans from way back then.)

Though I have to say that I an understand the subtle moments. It's sometimes those little subtle things that you don't always catch at first that can really define and add depth to a character. Whether they actually interpret these subtle moments correctly though is another matter. Since I just got into AoT I can't say much for the fandom (which knowing me I will end up avoiding regardless) nor do I want to jump to conclusions on what you mean exactly by it.

That said in general people like to do weird things to characters in the fandom that cause them to have a 'fandom version' of their actual selves. Specifically of the character archetype Levi is in so it really sounds like he's no exception.

But god I hope Eren doesn't have a fandom interpretation because then that would mean there are three versions of him floating around hahaha.
Oh yeah, definitely. I totally agree and think that many subtle moments really help define the characters. This isn't really a good example, but basically there is a huge section of tumblr that ships Eren and Levi together. Even the smallest of interactions is seen as supporting of that relationship in their eyes, and it's.. weird. In one episode Levi says "Stay within two horses of me" or something like that and I've seen people go "aw, he wants to protect Eren" or something. ~_~ It's just so odd. I see the strangest parts of the fandom on there. o.e

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What I've gathered from stuff I've heard about tumblr on the internet - stay away from the fangirls. They're dangerous.

I only liked levi a bit as the action segments with him doing stuff were cool. I still don't see how he appeals even visually to people. He's no even that good looking. O.o I mean. I can understand Free!'s characters. They look good. But levi? Nopes. ;p

either way, to manga readers - does anything exciting happen after chapter 52? I got bored so I stopped reading there.

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I can't remember off the top of my head what they are doing in that chapter, but there hasn't been any titan fighting in the more recent chapters. They have mostly been dealing with the corrupt government and searching for answers (which they haven't really gotten any regarding titans). I guess there was a twist at the end of the most recent chapter, but it didn't have anything to do with titans, really.

If you can read quickly like I can and/or if you have time I would just catch up, only because I think things will start moving soon so then maybe it'll get more exciting? I am only reading at this point because I want to see how everything gets explained in the end. There are just too many questions ;; and I want to know what's in eren's basement

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either way, to manga readers - does anything exciting happen after chapter 52? I got bored so I stopped reading there.
Was there anything exciting in the previous 20 chapters so the new chapters could follow? =D
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@lapras - ah, thanks for the info! I won't be picking it back up for now, though, because reading one chapter on this mobile is a pain and a battle I'm not motivated to fight lol. I don't care about action/fights - all I want is the plot to move ahead when it comes to titans and the mysteries behind the basement. Which doesn't seem like it is being addressed.

@Satoshi - Well, the Reiner/Bertholdt/Annie revelation and the giant ape titan were slightly exciting. But I stopped reading because it got boring. And seems like I won't be picking it back up till maybe the end of series.

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@lapras - ah, thanks for the info! I won't be picking it back up for now, though, because reading one chapter on this mobile is a pain and a battle I'm not motivated to fight lol. I don't care about action/fights - all I want is the plot to move ahead when it comes to titans and the mysteries behind the basement. Which doesn't seem like it is being addressed.
Oh yeah! I forgot you were on mobile. Yeah, don't do that. I really don't think that they will be focusing on anything else other than the government for a while, and then I think once they do something about that then they'll FINALLY get some answers that answer the why questions.

I also looked back on Chapter 50 and I actually think there was a plot twist that you could have guessed earlier but it was confirmed in later chapters but they didn't really do anything about it.

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@Satoshi - Well, the Reiner/Bertholdt/Annie revelation and the giant ape titan were slightly exciting. But I stopped reading because it got boring. And seems like I won't be picking it back up till maybe the end of series.
The Giant Ape... well... that could have been interesting it they did not scrap it in 3 chapters...
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yeah, agreed. SnK's just a mess right now. Its beginning made me go 'holy ♥♥♥♥, this is totally gonna be the best anime ever!' and then the anime just...didn't do anything special. And manga is dragging on and on and on without anything interesting going on. Personally think the mangaka is trying to pad the series in order to earn as much as possible from this cash cow. Not that I blame him.

Spoiler:

EVERYTHING MAKES SO MUCH SENSSSS.

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Well right now

Spoiler:
they're dealing with the government and figuring out how to overthrow it. idk if that would perk your interests but yeah there's that? I mean the last chapter was really erwin explaining how to go about doing that and then other such things like torturing this one guy for information. but other than that? yeah not much going on haha. hopefully it'll pick up soon?


meanwhile I bought the cutest little keychain while at the convention. it's one of the main trio when they were a little younger. eren looks like a dork snoozing and drooling and just ahh very cute. sis got a sasha one which is also very cute. ♥ and, unsurprisingly, there were 328409423 people wearing the uniforms there.