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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Just marathonned the show while I was out sick from work for a few days. I gotta say this is probably my favorite anime I've watched in a good while. It felt like a slightly less mature and more grimdark Evangelion to me, which I actually really loved. The characters were good, the animation was generally pretty great, and the action scenes were always interesting due to the unique circumstances of the fights. You should start with the final Annie vs. Eren fight (around chapter 32, I think), since the anime makes some changes to make it feel somewhat more conclusive.
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Silver2195 posted:You should start with the final Annie vs. Eren fight (around chapter 32, I think), since the anime makes some changes to make it feel somewhat more conclusive. Also either watch the OVA (Ilse's notebook) or read the chapter it was based on (18.5, as I recall).
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Apr 10, 2014 03:02
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Will do, thanks for the tips
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Apr 10, 2014 03:10
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:the animation was generally pretty great I just can't not think of the purple bricks whenever someone says this, but there was some pretty spectacular animation where it mattered.
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Apr 10, 2014 03:59
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Oh yeah, was it ever explained why titan Eren attacked mikasa?
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Apr 10, 2014 04:00
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Oh yeah, was it ever explained why titan Eren attacked mikasa? ...Because Eren has a hard time controlling his Titan form and loving things up is what Titans usually do?
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Apr 10, 2014 04:01
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Oh yeah, was it ever explained why titan Eren attacked mikasa? I think it was he lost his ability to control his actions and acted on the fact that he was angry at Mikasa because of her insistence to constantly babysit him.
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Apr 10, 2014 04:05
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Oh okay, I figured it was something like that. It's been a week or so since I watched it so some of the details have gotten fuzzy. I've started on the manga and it seems pretty great as well, but I'll save that for the other thread.
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Apr 10, 2014 04:07
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Bremen posted:I absolutely love that you claim you can predict a show so easily, and then conclude that if your predictions don't match the manga that can only be because the manga hasn't reached that point yet. I mean, you can think whatever you want, but I was right about pretty much everything. I read the cliff's notes version and everything I predicted came to pass. I don't even think I'm that great for doing it, I consider myself of average intelligence. So if even I could figure it out, anyone smarter certainly could.
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Apr 10, 2014 04:34
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You're like that adorable little kid that passionately argues about a topic he knows absolutely nothing about and gets angry when no one listens to him. You know pretty much everyone posting in this thread while the show was airing predicted exactly the same things you did? We just didn't feel the need to complain about it, because there was nothing to complain about.
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Apr 10, 2014 05:17
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Darth Windu posted:I liked that too, and it was why I kept watching (a friend also told me about the atom bomb connection and that kept me pretty interested since i love that sort of stuff). Eren's rage accomplished a lot, and it seems fair to say that he played a pretty major role in preventing Annie's escape. He reminded me a lot of Gohan. "DBZ is my only basis for comparison" 
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Apr 10, 2014 05:19
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ViggyNash posted:You're like that adorable little kid that passionately argues about a topic he knows absolutely nothing about and gets angry when no one listens to him. Fair enough. If someone had said that, I'd have posted with less incredulity. But being as I was told the best part of the series was its unpredictability and rejection of anime tropes, I hope you can understand why I'd be a bit frustrated.
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Apr 10, 2014 05:38
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If you were expecting anime Game of Thrones, then yeah, I can see how that's frustrating. At the end of the day, AoT is still shonen and while it does what it does well, it still has those limitations. I'd encourage you to read the manga anyway, since it sounds like there were parts of it you liked and it certainly is a twisty series.
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Apr 10, 2014 05:44
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Don't bother replying to Darth Windu, every time I have seen him post about anything related to fiction he has been completely and objectively wrong. And I had thought it was impossible to be objectively wrong on a subjective topic until I first saw one of his posts. Just smile, nod and move along.
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Apr 10, 2014 05:59
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Nah, opinions are whatever, it's the way he says it in such a way as to look like a condescending, ignorant douche while voicing it that makes people mock him. Or he is just a master troll, either or.
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What I don't get is how he can claim he he is super good at speculation, post speculation that is either wrong or unconfirmed, read some spoilers that confirm he is wrong or that we don't know yet, then come back to declare he was right all along. The rest of the complaints are the expected fare but this takes some serious doublethinking.
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Apr 10, 2014 06:52
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GimmickMan posted:What I don't get is how he can claim he he is super good at speculation, post speculation that is either wrong or unconfirmed, read some spoilers that confirm he is wrong or that we don't know yet, then come back to declare he was right all along. Well duh.. no one here is showing how he's wrong, after all! So that must mean he's right, not that he's picked the spoiler free thread to gloat in and no one else wants to drop spoilers just to prove him wrong.
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Darth Windu posted:OH gently caress I WAS RIGHT. ANNIE IS A MOTHERFUCKIN TITAN AND SHE'S EVIL!! First "prediction" isn't impressive at all. Everyone saw that coming. Everyone. Second one....uhm. No? (Edit: y'know...gently caress it. You're not worth a probation.) Arkitektbmw fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Apr 10, 2014 07:40
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Even Armin worked it out 5 minutes in. And that realisation informed every one of his strategies from then on.
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Darth Windu posted:I hope you can understand why I'd be a bit frustrated. Here's a thing: If watching animation makes you frustrated, it's a good idea to stop entirely. Seriously though, what is the point of posting like an aggressive worthog in a China store?
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Darth Windu posted:Fair enough. If someone had said that, I'd have posted with less incredulity. But being as I was told the best part of the series was its unpredictability and rejection of anime tropes, I hope you can understand why I'd be a bit frustrated. No, I don't, because you simply assumed that no one else in the thread was competent enough come up with those predictions so you thought you were cool because you were able to figure all of that out (and making some of that poo poo up), and then you backtracked by saying that any one with average intelligence should have gotten that. Did you see Eren getting eaten 5 episodes in coming? Did you see him turning into a titan coming? Did you see the female titan coming? Just because you were able to figure out the simplest part of the mystery doesn't mean you've predicted the whole goddam show.
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ViggyNash posted:No, I don't, because you simply assumed that no one else in the thread was competent enough come up with those predictions so you thought you were cool because you were able to figure all of that out (and making some of that poo poo up), and then you backtracked by saying that any one with average intelligence should have gotten that.  He didn't even figure that much out though.Most of what I read of his "predictions" weren't ever proven true. At all.... \/\/\/\/ good idea... Arkitektbmw fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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I think he's trying to provoke people to spoil the plot in order to refute him. Just stop talking about him.
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Hey, wasn't there supposed to be a new OVA soonish? Do we know anything about that?
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Go RV! posted:Hey, wasn't there supposed to be a new OVA soonish? Do we know anything about that? Someone's uploaded the very first scene and opening, and it's quite a riot. Oh Jean. :iamafag: Don't know about any subs yet.
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Terper posted:Someone's uploaded the very first scene and opening, and it's quite a riot. Oh Jean. :iamafag: Don't know about any subs yet.  If this is just an animation of all the Fake Previews from the manga, I will be extremely happy.  Especially if they include Armin and Stairs.
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Terper posted:Someone's uploaded the very first scene and opening, and it's quite a riot. Oh Jean. :iamafag: Don't know about any subs yet. The best opening.
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Squidster posted:If this is just an animation of all the Fake Previews from the manga, I will be extremely happy.
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Squidster posted:If this is just an animation of all the Fake Previews from the manga, I will be extremely happy. But I think you're gonna be quite happy, yes. 
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PaganGoatPants posted:The best opening. I laughed when Jean pulled a fistpump at the point where Eren killed a titan.
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The anime is going to air on Toonami starting May 3rd http://www.funimation.com/blog/2014...tm_nooverride=1
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Oh man that's sooner than I was expecting, radical.
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1. Was buying a pinata in downtown LA and there was, in that vast sea of unlicensed children's entertainment paper-mache, a pair of Mikasa and Armin pinatas. 2. Just realized that the titans are incredibly reminiscent of hungry ghosts.
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snucks posted:1. Was buying a pinata in downtown LA and there was, in that vast sea of unlicensed children's entertainment paper-mache, a pair of Mikasa and Armin pinatas.
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There is a new OAV that came out recently right? Is it subbed yet?
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Xavier434 posted:There is a new OAV that came out recently right? Is it subbed yet? It should be out there in the 
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You can watch it at over at http://www.watchaot.net/2014/04/attack-on-titan-ova-episode-2.html . Crunchyroll won't touch it, and it won't be available stateside for years. Be warned that it's a non-canon anime-only thing, not a gamechanger like Ilse's Journal. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Try http://www.phianime.tv/shingeki-no-kyojin-ova-episode-2/ Squidster fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Squidster posted:You can watch it at over at http://www.watchaot.net/2014/04/attack-on-titan-ova-episode-2.html . Crunchyroll won't touch it, and it won't be available stateside for years. Be warned that it's a non-canon anime-only thing, not a gamechanger like Ilse's Journal. Video not found 
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That owned. I don't care how silly and entirely unnecessary it was, it was amazing.
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