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Vengarr posted:Look at this loving panel: Nonono! After the wounded-puppy eyes! The intense bread eating eyes!!
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Which chapter has Sasha doing the "Potato Girl" routine? I've been trying to find it, without much success.
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Jun 12, 2013 00:10
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Yes! Thank you!! You know, I think she's making that face because she thinks she tricked him into believing it was half, when she only gave him about a fifth or a sixth of it.
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Jun 12, 2013 00:40
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So Hajime Isayama was asked to help promote a new romance manga by drawing a little advertisement illustration on the ... I guess it's a dust jacket? Guess what he drew. 
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Jun 23, 2013 14:49
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Pensive posted:Isayama is the best. Didn't anyone learn anything from when he was asked to draw "Mikasa in a bikini" for the front cover of a magazine? Knowing what was asked for makes seeing buffed up MMA fighter Mikasa standing next to generic waifish animé girl crack me up every time. 
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Jun 23, 2013 15:40
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Popo posted:Isayama is just great. Just looking at his rejected manga volume covers shows you how much he wants to make an MMA series starring Mikasa. I'm ready to bet anything that's what his next series will be in 5 years time. Where'd you find those?
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Jun 24, 2013 00:39
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Popo posted:Just reading through the manga on Batato at the end of random chapters. Oh man! Just imagine Mikasa vs. Natsuo from Teppu. 
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Jun 24, 2013 01:19
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About that-- I figure people default to the "Southern country accent" because most translations are done by Americans. I just wonder what'd it be like if most translators were British? What kind of accent would they use? Chav-speak? Geordie accents?
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Jun 27, 2013 14:10
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KittyEmpress posted:You will never find someone in Cali saying 'y'all', because they would be laughed at. What, you mean black people don't live in California?  Naw, I get what you mean. It's okay. 
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Jun 28, 2013 23:07
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Captain Invictus posted:You have no idea how good we have it with AOT. If this was Naruto or Bleach or something we'd still be in the training chapters. Or it would have gone horribly off the rails somehow. If this was Battle Angel Alita we'd still be in ZOTT! 
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Jul 1, 2013 14:14
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What would he rope onto? 
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Jul 7, 2013 19:01
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This will all end when they open the Imperial crypt at Shuwa and kill the sentient telepathic blob covered in scriptures that lives inside.
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Jul 8, 2013 14:05
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Shadow0 posted:Obviously, the human-titans are just titans that ate the Human Human fruit. There is an orangutan in a cage in there. Turns out, orangutan blood turns people into giants! Go figure! The monkey Titan is simply searching for its young.
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Jul 9, 2013 03:27
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What's more implausible to me is how they could've built a 50m wall around an area the size of Germany with a population of only about a million people, using 17th-early 19th century era technology.
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Jul 10, 2013 15:19
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ArchangeI posted:The question of constructing the walls has been answered, hasn't it? The walls consist of Titans. They shut down if they aren't exposed to sunlight Oh yes! That's right, I somehow had the most bizarre lapse of memory about that! Strange considering it's one of the more important points. Serves me right for posting right after I'd just woke up in the morning!
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Jul 10, 2013 18:09
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Shadow0 posted:I thought the Wall radii were set to be 33% each if I remember that one commercial break panel in the anime. It's in the manga somewhere, too. Is the "250 km" figure here the assumed radius of the outermost wall? Assuming it is, we can do some basic math to figure this out. A radius of 250 km gives us a circumference of about 1570 km. However, if we go by the statement that it is "about the size of Germany", the figure for Germany's border is 3621 km. Judging by the known height of the wall, 50 m, we can make an estimation of the size of the average Colossal titan. We see this in chapter 2. Assuming that the Colossal titan is about 57 m tall (let's just round up to 60 to make life easier) based on the height of his head in comparison to the height of the wall and the size of the various features, we can look at the length of his arms (again, in the shot from behind in chapter 2). We see that his arms are approximately 1/3rd of his height, or about 20 m long. So, assuming that the typical 50 m Colossal Titan has arms 1/3rd of its height, we get an average length of about 17 m. The average shoulder distance, again looking at the Colossal Titan's proportions, seems to be a little bit over half the length of the arms-- say about 10 m. Thus, were a Colossal Titan to stand with its arms out, he'd reach a total of 17 + 17 + 10 m = 44 m. Hence, given: 1,570,000 m of wall / 44 m per Titan = 35,682 titans. If we go by the "Germany" figure, it turns out to be: 82,295 titans. If we decide that the Titans were standing shoulder-to-shoulder, this figure becomes 157,000 and 362,100 titans, respectively. So, all in all, you'd need to turn somewhere between 35,000 to 350,000 people into Colossal titans in order to build the wall, depending on whether or not the Titans were standing shoulder-to-shoulder or sticking their arms out. This is potentially feasible for a human civilization numbering in the millions. It's not entirely inconceivable! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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Slime posted:You're seriously reaching. If titans in human form were very dense, it would have been noticed a long time ago. Nothing so far has shown them to be noticeably more dense than an ordinary human. If they inflated they'd still weight as much as a human, and thus be incredibly bad at stomping people on account of the weight of a human being distributed over a large surface area. This is one thing that never sat right with me, because if supposedly Titans are so light, how would Reiner and Bertolt have been able to bust holes in the wall? This would only make sense if human-transformed-titans could get extra mass from somewhere else (say, the ground, or the air around them) in order to account for the great momentum that they would need to be able to kick a hole in the wall or barrel through it like a cannonball. Which, following the chain of reasoning through to the end, would imply that human-transformed-titans are qualitatively different from normal titans.
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Suspicious Lump posted:drat it knew titans are humans. I just started reading again and just caught up. I think the creation/evolution of titans is something like: You sure can! According to Amazon.com, it's released up to Volume 5 in English. AnonSpore posted:The ability to become a titan is obviously governed by the concentration of midichlorians in your bloodstream And when undergoing transformation Titans gain extra mass by absorbing spiritrons from their surroundings.
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Jul 13, 2013 13:56
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I think that there's two origins for Titans. The "original" titans, like the Ape Titan, are invaders from outer space, or from an alternate dimension of some sort. And then there's "human-created titans" like Eren and the like, who were developed sometime after the original titans appeared, possibly based on original titan DNA, as a way of combating or controlling "titanification".
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Jul 14, 2013 17:31
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Reading this manga, was anyone else somewhat reminded of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game? Training of children and young teens to be child-soldiers, the omnipresent (supposedly) mindless enemy, Armin kind of reminds me of Bean. It's not really that great of a comparison, but the themes are kind of reminiscent.
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Jul 15, 2013 14:41
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What if Mikasa is actually like a human-sized "Titan" of sorts? Kind of like one of those humanoid Cylons (or perhaps more aptly, Replicants) that are in many ways physically superior to, but indistinguishable from a real human. It'd be  as hell, but so is the idea of "pilotable" Titans, and that idea was executed rather well.
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Captain Invictus posted:Why, her being a cyborg isn't so far-fetched. She already fairly resembles another well-known cyborg who uses extremely sharp unconventional swords to defeat foes much larger than her. Why, soon enough she'll be sprouting Titan Blades from her arms instead of using those pesky exacto-swords. It all fits, you see! Eren's father is actually Desty Nova. The basement is full of failed human/titan hybrid monstrosities, forever clamoring for release from their eternal torment. We are all doomed.  v- That was me, I think.  -v
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Prison Warden posted:The fact that people ever thought Hanji was a dude is actually baffling to me. Yeah, I always thought it was really cool and progressive to have the freaky/brilliant mad-scientist type character be a woman. Way to break the mold!
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Aug 4, 2013 06:13
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Genocyber posted:Oh yeah, I remember that scene now. And since I binged through the manga, I was a bit confused since there it's hinted he's gay, but recent stuff suggests he's straight. I like your idea that it's part of his split personality thing. Obviously Reiner's into dudes when he's human, and a ladies' man when he's a titan! 
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Hajime Isayama was asked to draw Mikasa as an idol. "Everyone!! Are we all having fun??!" 
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TheKingofSprings posted:Hajime Isayama was asked to draw a cover for some manga and made a joke out of it, right? Anyone know the context behind/have an image of that cove available? Ah yes, that. It was this. He was asked to help promote a new romance manga by drawing a little advertisement illustration on the dust jacket. Apparently the author was a friend of his. EDIT: Some fanart someone drew of the titans.  DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Aug 7, 2013 04:57
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To be fair, bumping your shin on something like that really does hurt something awful!
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Attack on Ti T-ON. Looks like they got a different artist entirely to draw this fake preview. Also, Idol-Mikasa jump-kicking never fails to bring a smile to my face.
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In my mind, I'd always chalked up Bertholdt and Reiner's motivation as being some plan they hatched as kids, thinking it'd be a pretty sweet/hilarious thing to do. Also, that Titans were caused by aliens dicking around with humanity for unknown reasons, and that the Titans and humans are locked into some kind of cycle on a scale much longer than 100 years. Basically everything is just one hosed-up, massive game designed solely to produce human suffering.
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Ytlaya posted:I've mentioned this before, but everything about the way at least Reiner has been presented has seemed to point towards his character (and presumably by proxy Bertholdt) being reasonable and sympathetic, so I'm still expecting some sort of understandable motive behind his/Bertholdt's actions. It may be hard to imagine such an action being excusable, but (as I've also mentioned before) far more civilians have been killed in actual real-world wars by the side that we retrospectively consider the right/morally justified one. I don't believe him! He and Bert managed to keep the fact that they're titans from their comrades, and even inflict unimaginable suffering on their fellow humans (if they truly are, in fact, humans). I think that the "breakdown" that Bert has in this chapter is just an act, or another facade of some sort, or he himself is being deceived. Though, rereading it, he does seem to have a heart-to-heart talk with Ymir before the others arrived, so perhaps the third option is likelier. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Reiner's been kinda bad at hiding his emotions and he's had multiple previous conflicts with himself, so I don't think at least he is lying, and I think the last option, that of themselves being deceived, is the most likely one. It's not like that doesn't happen in actual war all the time or anything, soldiers being deceived into doing horrible things for "the greater good" or what-have-you! Yeah, I don't think any of them will be able to get away with the "I was just following orders" defense. They are culpable, and whatever their assertions otherwise, they still made the decision to genocide thousands of people. That aside, I found myself reflecting upon how easily I came to the idea that they could possibly not be humans at all, working for some sort of faction outside the wall. It occured to me that, had the writer been American, it'd have easily become a "War on Terror" allegory, with people raising suspicions and accusing each other -- "Anyone could be a Secret Titan!!  "
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SirDan3k posted:It's a military state that created a religion to help suppress knowledge it's safe to say they gave everything pretty well locked down. We don't even know if anybody but the wall cult/inner circle was around for the walls to be built it might have been a case of "Oh hey titans, whelp good thing we have built this convenient titian-proof walled area come on in. Why'd we build it? Oops looks like your paperwork was misfiled you'll have to wait outside the wall until we clear that up." This is making me imagine a Titan-themed version of that new game Papers, Please?.
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AxeBreaker posted:Hah, all the SnK Doujin that on Batoto right now are Ymir/Christa Shojo Ai: Hey, now that you mentioned it, I had the idea the other day of drawing a short story about a plucky little town of folks who are "left behind" to defend themselves when Wall Maria is evacuated. Would anyone in this thread be interested in seeing that?
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What if it turns out that there's a really  old man living peacefully out in the forest somewhere and they learn from him that Titans will stop trying to catch you and eat you once you stop caring about them so much?
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I bet Hajime Isayama is just rolling with all of these spinoffs and other stuff and thinks it's all completely hilarious.
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Aug 28, 2013 03:30
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JosephWongKS posted:Admittedly, she's already got a knack for causing people to deify her. Now she just needs to find a way to use her worshippers to gain her power. So Historia is basically Buggy from One Piece.
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JosephWongKS posted:I wonder when it'll be Mikasa's turn for some character development. She'll become more and more of a murdergoddess and less and less human during the upcoming 13-volume tournament arc.
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 I'm gonna be the Titan King!! "My treasure? It's yours if you want it. I left it all in one basement." 
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Mary Annette posted:Add me to the list of "People Eating Their Words About Armin". I actually agree with the decision to redraw his face. The original is just a bit too over the top, it crosses the line into farce. The published version is a bit more restrained, which makes it just the right amount of creepy.
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Genocyber posted:
Yeah, this is probably one of the most egregious examples of the "Girl is twisting such that you can see her boobs and rear end at the same time" pose, AKA the Hawkeye Initiative pose, I've ever seen. Also, I love that Connie's playing the tambourine. It's so fitting.
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