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Ugh, I'm watching season 2 as a group with friends, and they decided to wait until all 12 episodes are out, because that's how we watched the first season, and they don't want the suspense of not being able to go to the next episode immediately. I've read up to chapter 70 of the manga (the end of the Uprising arc. And it is loving killing me not being able to see their reactions to this part of the story. The ending of this episode is one of the best  moments in the whole drat series.Thank you, Goons, for providing me with some reactions. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to lurking and keeping my mouth shut so I don't accidentally spoil anything that I know.
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HenryEx posted:Count me in as another one who really enjoys reading the posts in this thread. Please keep going. Same! I haven't caught up to the manga, but I've read up to the end of the next arc, and even though I still don't know things this thread is speculating on now, I'm keeping my mouth shut, even when I'd just be referring to things that happened in season 1, because I don't want to accidentally spoil anything for anyone.
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Captain Invictus posted:You should catch up and join us in the manga thread. Thanks! I believe it, but it's still amazing to hear, since the series is already so amazing. In my Old Age For An Anime Viewer (32), I gotten to be a bit of a professional translation snob, so I'm gonna go with buying about a volume a month instead of going to read the scanlated mangas. This season's gotten me all fired up to continue on; I just got so burned out after being on the edge of my seat at the end of each month only to feel like the plot was inching along.
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I read the manga straight after I finished with Season 1 of the anime. In the anime thread, people had speculated about Reiner being the Colossal Titan. I read through these chapters on the edge of my seat, like, "Is he, or isn't he?!" and decided that he wasn't after he punched the titan in the face, incorrectly assuming he would just turn into a titan instead of get that near death. I didn't even THINK about the colossal titan. So when Reiner revealed that he was the Colossal Titan and Bertholdt was the Colossal Titan, I had the craziest sensation of both "Oh, I guessed wrong, he really is the titan" and "WHAT THE gently caress HE'S THE TITAN?" at once. Catalina fucked around with this message at 02:33 on May 7, 2017 |
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Btw, for the informal poll, I'm a manga reader, but only up to the end of the arc after this one, which is chapter 69 (2015)/90 (current) as it was incredibly painful to get to really good cliffhangers and be on the edge of my seat for a month at a time. I'm planning to buy the next volume tomorrow and continue on. 
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Kytrarewn posted:Huh... the linked manga chapter there (Ch15, pp.9-10) is another interesting bit of subterfuge by the author of this thing. On the one hand, you show off all the characters who had seen true horror on the battle field... and then you completely make people forget about it with the "ImoOnna Incident"). I went back and read the manga from the beginning after finishing season 1 of the anime, and I really hope you end up reading the manga from the beginning like I did. With each arc that I've read, the early scenes have layered double, triple, and more meanings. For instance, in that iconic scene of The Colossal Titan looking over the wall, the first time you see it and you're like, "Holy poo poo, what is that titan?" At the end of season 1, you look and you're like, "Holy poo poo, that's a mega-titan most likely controlled by a human", and after this episode, you look at it like, Holy poo poo, that's Reiner and Bertholdt, and they're loving CHILD SOLDIERS acting under orders." Watching season 1 with friends, there are times I've had to cover my mouth with my hand during fairly innocuous looking scenes, so as not to give away that something was amiss. There are things I can't mention here, and I know people who are further along in the manga can see even more. I think there was a guy in the manga thread who was watching with friends paused right on Bertholdt's face when his friend asked, "But where has the colossal Titan been all this time?" Also, while the anime is an incredibly good adaption (and my preferred one), there are some scenes that are manga only. Most notably, the training arc was paced very differently in the manga. The part where Eren got eaten was chapter 5 and episode 5, but in the manga, the training arc took place afterwards in a flashback, and was much longer, with more detail. Annie and Eren's relationship was more nuanced, with her being someone who trained him in hand-to-hand combat on a more regular basis., making Eren's horrified realization that the Female Titan had the same fighting style as Annie even better. And of course the bonus chapter between chapter 18 and chapter 19, Ilse's notebook, in volume 4, was made into OVA, ending very obscure for the average anime user to know existed, much less to find.
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God drat it, I should have known this was going to happen if I broke down and watched the new opening and ending. You can't just have the Beast Titan running with a bunch of whales and dinosaurs and what-not and NOT have me want to know what that's signifying. Brilliant bastards. PS to anime-only users: I cannot overstate how much you should protect yourself by not googling ANYTHING. EVER. Not even a minor character's name. Finding the right volume of manga on Amazon, there were giant loving spoilers on the pictures of even the covers of the volumes, one of which made me really mad, as it was the first picture that popped up when you searched for attack on titan manga.
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Kytrarewn posted:Are these ebooks something that can be read on a mobile device? Or pretty much just PC/10" tablet or give up? The most economical way is to pay for a month of Crunchyroll and read all the manga volumes you want. I've been able to access that from my internet browser on my PC, and they also have an android and ios app. The ones I've been reading are ones from amazon at aproximately $8 a volume, and can be accessed by any device that can use a Kindle app...I've used android, PC, and ios for Kindle before. Also, I've caught up with the manga now. I can say that even after 92 chapters...it's so good I ended up binge reading 23 chapters in a row. Also, in a series that slowly reveals information and leaves you on cliffhangers that end up raising 5 questions for every one they answer, I have never, NEVER been disappointed by a revelation.
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Mordaedil posted:Bertholdt almost biting his hand is almost certainly someone trolling the reddit thread, sorry to tell you guys. Just stick to what you find in the thread inside of the thread. The problem of group internet discussion is, it might be, it might not be. I've read thorough the manga thread to see reactions to scenes like this, and people were noticing and speculating on Bertoldt desperately biting his hand before Chapter 42 - Warrior even came out.
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Freakazoid_ posted:At least that bodes well to where this series is going: Eren shoving his titan foot up every other titan's rear end. Reiner's greatest mistake will be teaching The Survey Corps the Titans' secret second weakness... 
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It makes me really happy that more and more people are hearing that there's a season 2 now, and coming back to watch.  The advertising was so abysmal; I've even seen people who thought it was an April Fool's joke!
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Hommando posted:I want to know who won the fight between Mikasa and Annie. In each magazine a chapter is published in, the author, Hajime Isayama, does a Q&A session with 3 questions each. A lot are really funny. This was his response about Annie and Mikasa's fight: Bessatsu Magazine 2014-02 posted:Q: Who won the Annie vs Mikasa fight in Vol. 11? I'll go put some of my favorites while I'm here... (It's sort of a meme within the Japanese community than in the early volumes of the manga, the art is so rough that it's hard to tell Reiner in Jean apart. I think someone even mentioned they were having that problem earlier in this thread.) Q: How bad is Hanji’s eyesight? A: Without her glasses, she won’t be able to tell Reiner and Jean apart. Q: Who is Mikasa’s best friend among the 104th girls? A: Armin. Q: I really like the Female Titan, so to achieve her figure, I’ve been working hard at strength training. Please tell me the three sizes of the Female Titan. A: B860 CM W660 CM H860 CM (That's apx. Bust 28ft, Waist 25.5ft, Hips 28ft) (And of course, the question that's been burning in all of our minds since the show began:) Q: Is it possible to go to the toilet while wearing the 3DMG? A: Yes. It was designed to make it possible. Catalina fucked around with this message at 03:38 on May 15, 2017 |
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Szmitten posted:Back in 2013/14 the author and editor projected 16-20 volumes but they admitted that it had been extended. The original potential end-point has passed but it's believed we're entering the final third/quarter now. Right. I believe I also read an interview saying that the story had expanded as when he started writing, he found he wanted to and could flesh out certain characters and their motivations (I believe one of the major examples he gave was Commander Erwin Smith). But the one thing that's been consistent since the story was first published is that the story is already planned out from beginning to ending. I'll post again if I find interviews again, but I agree with the sentiment that based on interviews, and based on where the manga is right now, it probably is in it's last 1/3rd or 1/4th.
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Ok, found them. 2014 - "According to manga editor Shintaro Kawakubo, the manga is finishing laying out its mysteries. He says he think it will take three or four years to address them all and wrap up the series." 2015 - Shintaro Kawakubo - "Specifically, there are about three years worth of manga chapters left. Since the manga started in 2009 and it has been 6 years, the comment is consistent with Isayama’s recent claim that the story is approximately “60% finished.” 2016 - Author Hajime Isayama - "Tankobon Volume 20 will be released on August 9th, and it will approach the climax of the story. So everyone: please keep reading until the epilogue." Sources are here: SPOILERS! ANIME-ONLY WATCHERS DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS BELOW! SPOILERS! http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/08/16-1/attack-on-titan-editor-estimates-years-left-on-the-series http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/09/05/editor-discusses-beginning-and-end-of-attack-on-titan http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/08/02-1/attack-on-titan-prepares-for-cimax-in-volume-20-manga-preview
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Gantolandon posted:And when push comes to shove, she has the least problem with trying to kill her former companions - something that even mass murderers such as Berthold, Reiner and Annie couldn't really bring themselves to. Wait was that all there was in the anime? Around this time in the manga, Mikasa has a moment where she's internally conflicted because she feels that killing them probably would have been the best thing to do, but her feelings of camaraderie with them as fellow soldiers made it so she couldn't finish the job. Also, I'll try not to white knight Mikasa too much here, because I get that she's really a hate her or love her character (with about half the loves are coming from a place of being attracted to her character), but I really like her as a character, because while she's nearly physically perfect, mentally and emotionally (which are Armin and Eren's biggest strengths), she is brittle, broken, and barely holding together. Her being insanely codependent on Eren is certainly a thing (and in my opinion, a very entertaining subversion of the "heroine who basically exists to prop up the hero"), but I give her a pass with flying colors because back when it seemed like Eren died, she dealt with her feelings of despair and be willing to live on without him, to the point of trying to take down a titan with a knife until either she died or the titan was dead. That was back when Armin's doubts about himself and his feelings that he shouldn't have been saved and Eren should have lived instead were mentally crippling him, and she immediately took Eren's role of reassuring him, saying something to the effect of "You're not useless to us. When we have time after we get through this, I'll let you know how." As for her general coldness and uncaring attitude, I agree with the sentiment that the things she's seen are so horrific, her physical coping mechanism has been for her brain to just shut down certain emotional processes, and she laser focuses on the feelings that she feels strongest. I read her as observing, reacting to, and caring about the things around her that would inspire feelings, but mostly only externally expressing the things that are most important to her. On a scale of 1 to 10, Sasha is like a 2 (she gave her her bread after accusing Sasha of putting the whole hall in chaos for farting!), and Eren is an 11. I don't deny that she's uh, kind of hard to read, and most of her spoken lines tend to revolve around Eren and the many, many threats to his safety and well being.
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Captain Invictus posted:Never Look Up Info For Attack On Titan Please listen to this man, listen to the internet when we tell you not to do this. While I was reading through the manga, a little bit later after minor character died, I figured it was safe to Google how to spell their name (never do this) and before I could get my eyes away from the first result, there was a giant spoiler in the THIRD WORD of the description of their character. Never look anything up. Please ask here, and let us manga readers help.
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Phobophilia posted:yeh right now we've gone into space and that might be a bit tricky for understand how we got there Yeah, and I can't believe they're going with that plot hole that's come with the Engrish in the title, what with them actually being on Neptune's moon of Triton, and not Saturn's moon of Titan.
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Terper posted:AHahahahahaha If you Google image search Moneky Trouble, Google's second suggested category of images is of basically everything related to Beast Titan that will be revealed with helpful keywords at related spoilers. (though hilariously, one of the related keywords is potatoes. You keep on keeping on, Sasha fans.) Never. Google. Anything. Related. To. Attack on Titan.
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CasinoV posted:I don't think they will skip it, but they might try and do it in 6 episodes instead of 12. That's what I'm thinking, too. Having read them recently in one shot, I think it would be possible to condense the third and fourth arcs into one 12-episode arc, and that would be a good idea, storytelling-wise. Especially since 1 episode is about 1.5 chapters of material, even with the extras the anime adds.That could also lead to the story wrapping up in probably 24 more episodes after that, given when the editor has said the story is set to end, so that there didn't have to be these huge gaps between anime seasons.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Seems like it. I've read to the latest chapter with an official English translation, and I've loved it all the way through. I would also say that the plot doesn't get convoluted, the world and plot have been planned from the beginning to make reveals the result of a hard won fight by the characters. If this season approximates to a fourth story arc, while there are flaws and material to argue about in the forth and fifth arcs (I'm in the camp of people who like them both, and think the flaws with pacing and storytelling people complain about are minor, especially when you can read all the chapters in a row and not have to wait a month in between), and people do, but the majority of people I've seen stick with the story and enjoy it. We're in approximately the start of the eighth story arc in the manga now which and everything is very , and starting in the seventh arc, I've barely seen anyone complain about the plot and consider ragequitting, if at all.Bascially, if I were to give it a numeric score from 1-10, with 10 being my score for this arc and the female titan arc, the absolute lowest score I would give any parts of the story would be a 7.5 (which would correspond to, say, having to watch another loving episode of that Trost battle), which would be the exception, not the norm. Tl;dr The next two arcs generate more complaints than other ones, but don't mistake that for a nosedive in quality. It's good all the way through, and in my opinion, the absolute opposite of convoluted.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Do the other two opening tracks have official full versions? I'm bad at searching for anime songs and only am finding bad fan mixes that just loop the show intros. Well you're just in luck because I'm a nerd who's been interneting anime mp3's since the late 90's, and love the music in this show..  Most anime shows have CD versions of tv openings and closings that are 3 minutes +, opposed to the 1:30 minutes a typical op/end is. There are full versions of all the Openings and endings of season 1, I'll post em here for anyone who wants them. Opening 1: Guren no Yumiya (also on Spotify): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7dCgtwX2c Opening 2: Jiyuu no Tsubasa (also on Spotify, oh God please consider listening to it because Youtube audio quality always makes me cry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hu446ApWaY Opening 1: Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai (Looks like this is an official upload, so the sound quality is very good): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Y92x4E-dQ Endings 2: Great Escape: (Also looks like an official Youtube upload) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2YSzzXb2I4
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Kyte posted:(Reposting here for those that don't follow the manga thread) Aw, darn, it's blocked for now. Thanks for posting though, I've been waiting for the full version, and I'm not currently following the manga thread because I try to hold out for the English official release, which is generally one week later than the fan translations, and people are too good at putting their heads together and correctly guessing what will happen, and I'd like the story to be a surprise.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Found this mirror that isn't blocked here in the US: https://youtu.be/mM9eplEO6JM Aw yeah, thank you!  I love this series, it makes me feel excited for my animes like I was 16 years old again. Also, the end credits, I can tell you that what will be answered this season will be jack and poo poo. They're even trolling us manga readers with some 10% of the content in the opening and ending, as we struggle to understand if Moneky Trouble is running with dinosaurs for a reason, or it's just there because it's awesome, or both.
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Saagonsa posted:Note that this contains every manga volume cover to date, so it has some mild spoilers Alternative spoiler nazi opinion: absolutely DO NOT click on that link. One of the manga covers actually made me very angry to see when I was buying volumes of manga, as I was 4 volumes behind, as it shows....well, it shows something that I wanted to experience happening through reading the story, not seeing it on a cover, as well as completely deflating the tension of one major scene in the story leading up to it. Most of the other covers are benign, but there are 3 that I would have been really irritated to see before getting to that point in the story. Here's a picture so no one has to click on that link if they don't want to! Ta-da!  Also, a friendly reminder to never google anything, ever. The poor poster earlier in this thread who googled something they thought they knew, and ended up comparing what they found out to Game of Thrones was absolutely correct. There's something that happened in this last episode, that I can think of like at least 5 amazing plot points nested within each other.  You anime-only guys have gotten so far, and I find the story and the way it unravels to be so amazing, I hope you get to experience it that way too.
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Freakazoid_ posted:I knew it had to be something, but now that Eren can control titans, I feel kinda robbed? Wanted something less tangible and shounen-y, but it does explain the military's intense desire to keep Eren on their side. They either knew, or were betting the house he was more than just a shifter. I felt exactly the same way at this reveal when I got to that part of the story (specifically, "Oh my God, are they really giving the main character Titan control powers that gets revealed just in time to bail everyone out? I thought this series was going better than this."), but I want to say that now the story has advanced, I don't feel that way any more. Certain things that seem stupid when they're introduced actually end up well-thought explanations. But I'm sorry you're feeling robbed right now, because I did, too.
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Raxivace posted:Thanks. New chapters come out at the beginning of the month, too, so people will start commenting on each chapter from the 1st - the 7th. Ok, quick poll out of interest: How many people after this season have decided to start reading the manga?
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Holy poo poo, I'm so ashamed of myself for laughing and laughing at this.
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Annointed posted:You don't even need to think too hard. Literally all their problems would go away if a Coordinator just ordered all the Titans everywhere to tear each other to pieces. Come to think of it, since a person with the Coordinate has the power to control titans, and chances are there would be a person more adept in controlling titans than Eren, and the walls are made of titans, does that mean a person, or persons long ago was powerful enough to control so many titans to build the walls? And for that matter what kind of threat would cause a person who had that much power to just huddle up like that? 
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO-qoV_-ew I love all of them, but S1's Guren no Yumiya has gotta be my favorite. The ending of the extended version of S2 JIyuu no Tsubasa from 3:45 to 5:28 is the best sounding part of any of them, though. Holy poo poo.) Speaking of foreshadowing in the songs, for a long time the top rated comment on the video of ED2 Great Esacape was, hilariously, "Boy Bertholdt sure looks mad at that wall. Hope he doesn't smash it." Incidentally, reading through the comments here, I was thinking that some people who were anime only would want to know if the basement would be answered in the season next year, so then they could decide if they wanted to hold out for the reveal in anime form. If it's not too spoilery for this thread, I can put a simple yes or no in a full line of spoiler text padded to hide if the answer is yes or no. Like this: This is an example. The extended length is to hide the answer. This is an example. Or you can PM me. Honestly, anyone can PM me to ask, "Will X be answered next season, Yes or No or Partially" for whatever they want if they're deciding to hold out to next year, or go ahead and read the manga.
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I'm watched maybe 5 anime shows in the last 8 years, since at 30 I've mostly outgrown it and find the prevelant fanservice on young characters to be the epitome of  (Attack on Titan I only picked up because I saw GIF's of the titans and figured it looked amazingly funny and horrifying enough that I could mute the anime teen drama - oh how wrong I was.) From my point of view, Puella Magi Madoka Magica (ignore that the trailer says it's of the movie, the first two movies were an adaption of the TV series.) is a very good pick. The TV series is a fully plotted out 12-episode story that starts off on the surface of a typical Sailor Moon-ish anime tale of a girl who's approached by a magical creature to become a magical warrior to fight evil, and then descends into a very dark and thoughtful deconstruction of what that would actually mean in terms of the psychological toil of having to be constantly in danger, having to battle for your life and still have to act day to day like you were just a normal middle school kid, why the hell any kind of being would think it would be the best idea to fight off earth destroying monsters would be to recruit a secret militia of emotionally fragile teenage girls with no combat experience, etc. It's a very different genre, but the similarities on Attack on Titan that make me like both of them are the fact that the story is well plotted out from the start, and when you watch all the way to the end, you can rewatch earlier episodes and catch many things that looked like one scene at first glance, but actually had something much deeper going on, like in AoT when you can watch Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie in the training arc. I also like that it takes some fairly typical tropes to the genre (Shoujo for Madoka Magica, Shonen for Attack on Titan) and adds a more realistic, darker aspect to the characters reacting events. I have not seen the movies yet, so I cannot comment on them. Be aware there is some Sailor Moon transformation level nudity in it, which I found uncomfortable, but not enough to quit the show over. Squidster posted:Everyone will probably recommend Full Metal Alchemist, which is a super popular show that deserves it's fame. Lots of great worldbuilding, fun characters, and despite being mostly cheerful it dips into some very dark themes. Either the original show or the remake, Brotherhood, are equally good. Seconding that recommendation and everything that was said. Also, I hate to be That Person, but if you're deciding between the two, The original Full Metal Alchemist (2003) was ran when the manga was incomplete, so part of the way through, the animation company decided to just go and write Squidster posted:You might also enjoy From The New World ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUFnHKtm-8I ), which is similar in the scope of it's worldbuilding. The central mystery of the setting is slowly revealed throughout, and is breathtaking in the scale of its horror. It unfortunately dips into some pretty gross teen drama at times, but the worldbuilding is fascinating. Catalina fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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E-flat posted:My favorite is one I didn't notice until now, happening from a whim to re-watch the training episodes.  I've never seen that scene knowing about Reiner, Beartoto, Annie, and Marcel. Good catch. Man, Reiner nearly hosed all three of them over by playfully joking around like this on his big brother persona on quite a few occasions, huh?Also, my friend group has finally found time to meet up and have everyone catch up on Attack on Titan to the same point, working around those pesky things like lives, jobs, and relationships! We're going to start at the Female Titan arc for the guy who's furthest behind. Wish me luck on keeping a straight face on scenes like this, everyone.
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ATP_Power posted:In brief: That's a lot of good stuff, honestly, and I agree there are quite a few things that adapt from the manga that leave me scratching my head, character development wise, I want to mention that two of those things were specific requests by the author to be put into the anime. From what I remember, being too lazy to source 4 year old interviews right now, Annie's laugh at being discovered was actually something in the original storyboard, but not put into the manga, a fact that Hajime Isayama regretted enough to request it be put in. He's described it as portraying the feeling of her being able to discard all of the secrets burdening her down and be a normal 15-year-old girl, her true self. Isayama has also said that a specific request for the anime was to make Eren's character more useless, and that he himself didn't fully realize Eren's complete character until after he had seen the anime and heard Yūki Kaji act as his voice, as Eren was the main character and more of a "slave to the story". The final Annie vs. Eren fight I got nothing, though. I saw the anime first so I like both of them, but I understand a lot of the dislike from manga fans. I'm disappointed myself that a lot of the reaction of the characters after the battle to regain Eren from Reiner and
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I'm not trying to single you out, Philip Rivers, it's not in the OP, but in the last thread we had a "no manga spoilers, not even in tags, take it to the manga discussion thread" rule, and it's been an unwritten rule for this thread.
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ATP_Power posted:That's true, but I still think that the anime's adaptation undercuts this narrative more than the manga version. In the show, Eren's rage gives him the strength to spook Annie into running, and Mikasa is perfectly positioned to finish her. I think that's true, and you've articulated a lot of things about differences in the presentation of the Eren vs. Annie fight that I feel too. Aspects of Annie's character interactions with Eren getting cut in the anime adaption are one of the few criticisms I have on the anime adaption, and I'm always going to be a bit sour about it. Especially when there were scenes added to fit the 26 episode, plot twist of Eren "dying" in the 5th episode format, that were less interesting or inspired. (The, "No Pixis come back and play chess with meeeeeeeeeee!" being the most egregious example) In general, I find the characters in the manga to be more mature, but a bit more flat and similar to each other; especially in this first half of the story. The anime ones are more interesting and varied, but they also have a lot of edge and maturity sanded off. Honestly at this point, I think I'm turning into a  "Both are really good and have different parallels in strengths and weaknesses in character development and storytelling, you should read and watch them both if you want to be a true anime connoisseur and get the full experience."
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:What do titans smell like? That actually has an answer. Bessatsu Magazine 2014-11 posted:Q: Mike smells all kinds of things, how does a titan smell like? (Mike Zacharias was the squad leader from the Survey Corps that got interrogated by Moneky Trouble and then killed) Also, hilariously, Bessatsu Magazine 2013-11 posted:Q: In vol. 5, Mike met Eren for the first time, and sniffed him. What did he think and felt after sniffing him?
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Hahahahaha, that fan-translated page is hilarious! It's already terrible, but were you reading it left-to-right, too? That would make it even worse, as manga is read right-to-left. If I recall correctly, the official translation is done by Kodansha Comics. Personally I buy the chapters on Amazon for $1.99 each, but the most inexpensive option is to go to Crunchyroll which has chapters 58 - 94 (latest, June 2017 chapter). The cost is $6.95 a month, and there's a free trial for new members here: https://www.crunchyroll.com/freetrial Most of what you can get for "free" is fan translations, and the quality of those is generally you get what you pay for.
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^^^^^ I'll read it left to right for maximum hilarity enjoyment. Hahahahahaha, that's a really funny situation. One that I'm sure most of us have been in. Here, I took some small screenshots from my copy of chapter 51 to show what the real translation looks like, to show a helpful comparison:   Catalina fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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