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Nonexistence posted:What's the second pic a reference to? IGN's reaction at E3 2003 when being told of a Pacman VS for GameCube compared to a new Zelda game   Nowadays it's used for Something they don't like (Shigaraki's first costume) [first panel] Something they do like (Shigaraki's new costume) [second panel]
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Hahaha wow, it's not even just "Oh wow this panel looks similar to this meme", they're literally doing all the same poses. That's so great.
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Scholtz posted:Hahaha wow, it's not even just "Oh wow this panel looks similar to this meme", they're literally doing all the same poses. That's so great. Still more subtle than when Attack on Titan pulled it.
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chiasaur11 posted:Still more subtle than when Attack on Titan pulled it. Lol, that almost... almost endears me to Attack on Titan.
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This is great, but I also wonder what those other two kids are up two these days? You know, other than freaking out over the mass chaos going on right now.
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Rhonne posted:This is great, but I also wonder what those other two kids are up two these days? You know, other than freaking out over the mass chaos going on right now. I think one got killed by Endeavor
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TheKingofSprings posted:I think one got killed by Endeavor Nah, neither of those are the winged kid who was probably turned into a Nomu.
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Probably Magic posted:Lol, that almost... almost endears me to Attack on Titan. Attack on Titan actually has a ton of those little references, ranging from a panel where Reiner, Bert, and Annie are doing the "Man distracted from his girlfriend" meme to a cameo by Saul Goodman. Also, every volume of the manga ends with a fake preview that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual events of the manga. (I mean, unless the final volume revolves around Baggy Pants Leon) It's surprisingly charming series when it wants to be.
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Shame about all the fascism.
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PMush Perfect posted:Shame about all the fascism. Didn't the author respond to this criticism by making the bad guys literally the Nazi's and the good guys literally Jews?
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Nephthys posted:Didn't the author respond to this criticism by making the bad guys literally the Nazi's and the good guys literally Jews? Yes "respond" as if it were not how the story was going and also like some response on western Twitter changed the design, story and influence of a Japanese manga.
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Sep 30, 2020 11:26
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PMush Perfect posted:Shame about all the fascism. My Cop Academia feels like its in the early Attack on Titan stages where it's hard to tell whether it is an indictment or fascism or actually fascist so this take is really funny.
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Was Attack on Titan ever looking like it promoted fascism? I haven't quite caught up after the basement reveal and flashback, but I seem to recall there being a whole storyline about monarchies and secret police being a bad thing and the heroes rebelling against them.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Was Attack on Titan ever looking like it promoted fascism? I haven't quite caught up after the basement reveal and flashback, but I seem to recall there being a whole storyline about monarchies and secret police being a bad thing and the heroes rebelling against them. It was about cool military dudes killing the Other with a theme song in German talking about violence, so some people assumed the worst. And then it turned out the Other were just people like the protagonist, we get an arc about how the totalitarian Military Police is bad while a free press is good, and characters turn to the camera to give speeches about how respecting people from different cultures is good. Then the military goes against its principles by hiding the truth from people, leading to a fascist takeover, and then the protagonists kill the fascists whose leader got beaten in a fight by a middle aged woman before showing how the cycle of hate just leads to innocent deaths. Also, the protagonists are revealed to be fantasy Jewish. Then other people ignored the themes and incredibly obvious messages to claim that the manga was fascist anyway, because that gets clicks.
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Its interesting the amount of people that have actually read Attack on Titan vs the people who have read a few blogs on it in here.
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Yeah AoT is preeeetty clearly not pro-facism. Just displaying facism doesn't mean it endorses facism, that's silly!
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grieving for Gandalf posted:but wasn't it something about how the mangaka had some affiliation that was damning? No? It's "Dot Pixis looks like some old Japanese war criminal" and "Hey he said comparing what Japan did to Korea to the Holocaust is... not comparable" At most he's nationalist, which was blown up to Imperialist, and that's it. No other damning connection as far as I can tell.
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Onmi posted:No? It's "Dot Pixis looks like some old Japanese war criminal" and "Hey he said comparing what Japan did to Korea to the Holocaust is... not comparable" At most he's nationalist, which was blown up to Imperialist, and that's it. No other damning connection as far as I can tell. that's good, then, the way this had gotten to me was I thought it became known he had some love for that era or was one of those Japanese people who is into WW2 German stuff
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serious gaylord posted:Its interesting the amount of people that have actually read Attack on Titan vs the people who have read a few blogs on it in here. Yeah, I fall firmly into the "haven't read it because it didn't look that interesting to me, but heard some pretty sus stuff" category. There's more manga in the world than minutes in the day, so I don't think there's anything wrong with saying you haven't read it but you've heard some bad poo poo incidentally. I mean, not sure how I feel about using goons as a trusted resource, but I'll update if people ask me about AoT to stop saying I heard it was weird and fascist.
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I have not read AoT, only watched a bit of the first season, and am not really interested in it, but from what I gather a lot of the “AoT is fash” takes took hold because the first season is very dogwhistley in a Starship Troopers sort of way, and because it took literal years for the parts of the manga where this gets turned on its head to be adapted, that sort of became the series‘ identity to the rest of the world.
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I read a bit past the basement after hearing about all the hubbub and noped the gently caress out forevermore.
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serious gaylord posted:Its interesting the amount of people that have actually read Attack on Titan vs the people who have read a few blogs on it in here. i read part of it and got bored
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AoT is mad good and it's a shame people use twitter takes to form their identity around
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AoT isn’t fascist for sure, but it did bore the ever loving poo poo out of me post-basement. This manga that’s about no superman in a post marvel civil war-esque society though? Sick af and deku would mangle Levi
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I think part of the appeal of MHA to me is just the setting. The series revolves around the idea of mutant powers basically but after decades of X-men and Marvel in general doing the "How would you handle some people actually having superpowers and supertech in a normal world", it's more interesting to me to see "Well, what if everyone had the X Gene expressed and it has been long enough for that to be totally normal?"
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this is also another reason why vigilantes is good, because it explores the parts of that setting that aren't either gated behind a seemingly endless high school campus or currently exploding
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Fabricated posted:I think part of the appeal of MHA to me is just the setting. And they have registration which is a death knell in marvel.
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Oxxidation posted:this is also another reason why vigilantes is good, because it explores the parts of that setting that aren't either gated behind a seemingly endless high school campus or currently exploding There really needs to be a Vigilantes anime one day (hell, if they wanted they could do it during the gap between seasons of the main series).
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Larryb posted:(hell, if they wanted they could do it during the gap between seasons of the main series).
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PMush Perfect posted:I've been hoping they'd do this for a while. Instead of filler arcs, spinoff arcs. That’s not a bad idea actually, just animate the side stuff between seasons so that way they won’t have to worry about catching up to the manga while still maintaining a steady stream of new content as opposed to having several month long gaps between shows.
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I personally hope vigilantes ENDS. An ending in the next little while would keep this a nice little self contained storyline, which would be ideal.
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If you're on Twitter/Tumblr/whatever I'd start muting tags. Edit: yeah. Absolutely mute tags if you post or read on a site where this stuff shows up and wait for official release. I'm not touching speed scans this week either. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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Not sure if there’s been any official word yet but it definitely feels like we’re in or approaching the final arc of Vigilantes at this point at least.
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Engage silent running, thread. Steady as she goes.
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Loving these spoilers, really excited to see if it's going where I think it's going
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PMush Perfect posted:Shame about all the fascism. I love when people say this, because it really shows you they haven't read it. You have the author almost getting the characters talk to the reader directly about how fascism is bad, yet still have people come away with thinking it's a story that promotes fascism because they don't understand the difference between showing fascism and endorsing it. I don't think there is anyway that Isayama could be more blatant about how awful he thinks fascism is if he tried. Asuron fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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Farg posted:Loving these spoilers, really excited to see if it's going where I think it's going 
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I do hope this arc doesn't end with Eri undoing all the consequences. It's felt a lot like the invasion of Pain arc in Naruto, which great and imo the last time Naruto was good, right up until the Talk no Jutsu mass revival. I think Hori is too good a writer to do that but it has happened before.
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