Attack on Titan Page 3

Started by Sheep January 22nd, 2014 8:41 AM
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Now that someone's mentioned it, I have a nasty feeling the animators are going to go with something non-canon while the manga has time to get to some actually relevant information for once. Some non-canon things I can think of are expounding on the ape titan plot, extending the fight Eren has with Reiner/Berthold and perhaps even going in a different direction with Ymir/Historia, if temporarily.

Could be my paranoia acting up but I'm afraid a lot of what's coming up will be ad lib.
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The stuff you mentioned is, like, a thousand times more interesting than the ♥♥♥♥ that's going on in the manga right now, though.

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True but regardless of how boring things are I feel like a premature move to alternative storylines will ultimately ruin whatever endgame the mangaka has in mind... if such even exists...
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True but regardless of how boring things are I feel like a premature move to alternative storylines will ultimately ruin whatever endgame the mangaka has in mind... if such even exists...
Well... he did say he didn't want to prolong it much and wanted to end it in 100 chapters or something... but... considering the "speed" of pace we may not get it finished in 500.
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Well... he did say he didn't want to prolong it much and wanted to end it in 100 chapters or something... but... considering the "speed" of pace we may not get it finished in 500.
Absolutely not. Unless the next handful of chapters actually makes progress on the political front (or so people say, idk what's going with overthrowing the government and all that) or getting Eren to his house without ape titans and more configuration titans getting in the way... then maybe.
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500 is a massive exaggeration but I can see him stretching it to a good 120-150 instead of his 'planned' 100 if he sticks to current pacing.

I mean, ffs, I don't get why he even had to introduce a bunch of boring subplots right now. And even those who're reading it and are up to date have, more or less, said that nothing noteworthy/interesting happened in the last 4-5 chapters. That's 4-5 real life months. :/ Not even One Piece, even at its lowest, drags this much.

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500 is a massive exaggeration but I can see him stretching it to a good 120-150 instead of his 'planned' 100 if he sticks to current pacing.

I mean, ffs, I don't get why he even had to introduce a bunch of boring subplots right now. And even those who're reading it and are up to date have, more or less, said that nothing noteworthy/interesting happened in the last 4-5 chapters. That's 4-5 real life months. :/ Not even One Piece, even at its lowest, drags this much.
Haha, exactly. It was very linear (which was good) - get to the god forsaken house. Then all of these other subplots such as

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the ape titan and his thirst for knowledge and ascertaining of the 3D maneuver gear which, let's be frank, screwed over mankind, Ymir's shapeshifting, Historia's entire background, visiting the towns, Conny's parents being titans, Sasha's... whatever the hell that was/is, Reiner and Berthold being douches


some of it's probably super important to the main plot but whyyyyy
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Yeah. It's really unfortunate. I'm REALLY hoping it picks up in the next one or the one after at least. They just discovered something that will give them some claim to recreate the government, so crossing my fingers for them actually acting on this new discovery. (Just please... I wouldnt even mind a timeskip of a couple months or w/e if its necessary)

@Solace I'm also really hoping that the explanation pulls that stuff together nicely in the end. I dont think anyone has seen it but SNK is kind of reminding me of the tv show Lost, where they introduced a bunh of things that made you ask a ♥♥♥♥ ton of qs and then in the end BAM they explainsd (almost) all of it. I think I read something that said the illustrator had some sort of ending plan in the beginning, so hopefully everything up until now has been purposeful. (although I did also read somewhere that he wanted to change the ending because it would be too upsetting or something?)

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Actually, Historia/Ape/ConnieVillage/Ryner+Berdholdt stuff is interesting in my eyes. My interest in the series actually peaked when these were brought up. As ALL of them indirectly relate to the mysteries behind titans. BUT, the way the mangaka is handling them now - bringing up all these plot points and then giving them a shaft and going with a craaaaaaaawwwwling pace is what infuriates me. Plus, overthrowing the government wat. I haven't read the latest ones so I don't know everything yet but I thought this was about titans??

Also, yes, he did say he has changed the ending. Because fans probably wouldn't like his original vision.

I personally believe one of the greatest insult a writer can do to his own work is letting what masses like/dislike change his vision of the series. I'm not fond of it.

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Let's be frank. He's introducing those subplots only to prolong the manga with, in my opinion, no motivation to finish.
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So I just started watching AoT last night and I got through the first 5 episodes. I was pretty sure it was gonna be an overhyped overdone anime as well and then I got to the end of episode 5.

Now I'm curious how the story is going to progress and I feel ashamed for judging this series too quickly.


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I think this was brought up in the DCC, but I'm reposting here for relevancy.

http://www.funimation.com/blog/2014/04/12/funimation-series-attack-on-titan-to-air-on-toonami-block/

Flower Mound, TX – (April 12, 2014) Adult Swim, the cable and satellite network paired with Cartoon Network, announced today that it will begin airing Attack on Titan during the popular anime programming block known as Toonami. The series is scheduled to begin airing on Saturday, May 3rd at 11:30 pm ET.

Attack on Titan joins other FUNimation Entertainment® series Space Dandy, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Black Lagoon currently airing on the network.
Ready for the censoring of 90% of the blood and 20 out of 22 minutes of violence per episode.
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Oh, English version of Eotenas... with all the censorship, they will make a short out of it... well... it could even become watchable that way...
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The anime lived up to my expectations but I feel that without the anime the series is slowly dying.

The latest arc I find pretty interesting as it's not just focusing on the titan problem but human's natural enemy...humans. Though I miss the titan action xD

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without the anime the series is slowly dying.
Ironically the anime fanbase caused the mangaka to rethink his original plans for the series finale, presumably giving them a happy ending. So in my opinion it was the anime that killed it in the first place.

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Ironically the anime fanbase caused the mangaka to rethink his original plans for the series finale, presumably giving them a happy ending. So in my opinion it was the anime that killed it in the first place.
That's what happens when someone becomes mainstream.
(Anyways, didn't someone already write this? xD)
And even without changed ending, Eotenas went into ♥♥♥♥ starting with Female Titan arc.
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I was pretty impressed with the idea of the female titan arc but it went in a skewed, Mary Sue-ish "this won't end well 100% for mankind" direction and ruined it for me. At least in the long run. Everyone will die.
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I don't think everybody will die, as much as I want them to :( I mean, there isn't any way to prove it since they haven't been fighting titans, but since the ending was changed I think he will be more reluctant to kill people off. He certainly wasn't holding back on killing people in the first part of the show (the anime basically). As much as it might suck for them to die I think it is more unrealistic if all of Levi's squad now just happens to survive >.> It is just theory, though, since there aren't any titans around currently. Maybe I'm wrong. :o

I mean, in Lost, there were literally like 45 characters who appeared in 10+ episodes or who we thought were main chars or were treated like main chars until they died a couple episodes later and only 15 of them are still alive lmao. Don't be afraid kill people off Isayama! D:

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I don't think everybody will die, as much as I want them to :(
LOL. What? Who's on that list of yours? XD

It's kind of sad to think that the author changed the ending based on peoples' responses \:

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LOL. What? Who's on that list of yours? XD

It's kind of sad to think that the author changed the ending based on peoples' responses \:
Lmao. It's not really anyone specific, but I just have this inkling that he will just end up not killing anyone else from the original squad when, like I said, it's kinda unrealistic in a way if they all just happen to end up surviving. D; I mean, he is really only keeping them in the story because the fans like them. I mean, the chances of everyone we know from 104th Trainee Squad just happening to be on Levi's squad? Ok, I get that it's maybe because they're all from the top 10, but lumping everyone from the top 10 in 1 squad which, as we saw in the Expedition Beyond the Walls, does not even do the actual fighting since they are "The Special Ops Squad" is kinda odd. Ok, well, maybe they're protecting Eren and Historia, but maybe having Mikasa+Levi (called the two strongest) + all the other top 10 might be overkill just a little bit.

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LOL. What? Who's on that list of yours? XD
Everyone :P
But they won't die, they will get near-death experience and start transforming into Eotenas...
I can totally see that coming :/
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Lmao. It's not really anyone specific, but I just have this inkling that he will just end up not killing anyone else from the original squad when, like I said, it's kinda unrealistic in a way if they all just happen to end up surviving. D; I mean, he is really only keeping them in the story because the fans like them. I mean, the chances of everyone we know from 104th Trainee Squad just happening to be on Levi's squad? Ok, I get that it's maybe because they're all from the top 10, but lumping everyone from the top 10 in 1 squad which, as we saw in the Expedition Beyond the Walls, does not even do the actual fighting since they are "The Special Ops Squad" is kinda odd. Ok, well, maybe they're protecting Eren and Historia, but maybe having Mikasa+Levi (called the two strongest) + all the other top 10 might be overkill just a little bit.
I know what you mean \: Sometimes in other manga/anime series, I feel as if there are an unnecessary amount of characters being saved by the skin of their teeth, and it would be better with them killed off, as horrible as that sounds DX Then there's the characters who do end up dying, and I would rather have them not ;-;

Everyone :P
But they won't die, they will get near-death experience and start transforming into Eotenas...
I can totally see that coming :/
Eren's father totally has something to do with it! He just up and left coincidentally when the series started, but I'm not sure everyone has the ability to transform though \: Or I'm just lost. I haven't read the manga for quite some time, and I've forgotten all the details @[email protected]

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Eren's father totally has something to do with it! He just up and left coincidentally when the series started, but I'm not sure everyone has the ability to transform though \: Or I'm just lost. I haven't read the manga for quite some time, and I've forgotten all the details @[email protected]
Manga kinda forgot the part about Eren's father...
Maybe in next 50 chapters he will be mentioned.
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