The manga is still ongoing dude.
And a lot of the questions are still up in the air.
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Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) |OT| MMA Ultra(spider)man (NO MANGA SPOILERS)
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The manga is still ongoing dude.
And a lot of the questions are still up in the air.
Yup, he should have no hesitation to kill Annie. It's not like he knew her and fostered a friendship (or a strong comradely) over a three-to-four year period during their military training. Nope, he's just a whiny little prick. Suck it up, Eren!
His reaction was appropriate.
Indeed, shut up and get in the titan Eren!
Not to mention that he is one of those characters whose righteous morals and believes are set in stone, so when it comes to killing someone who he believed was a dependable comrade he is going to hesitate.
There are 49 chapters out right now. The anime will end at chapter 33.
We'll see something next year.
BassForever
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We'll probably just get a 12-13 episode season next year if we get one at all. Personally I hope they wait til 2015 to air the next season.
BizzyBum
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Is there a place I can read the manga or is it Japanese only?
Not sure I would even want to since I would know what happens for the future shows. Would make it less exciting...
BassForever
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They plan to have all volumes of the manga released by the end of this year, you can pre-order/order them though Crunchy Roll or Amazon. If you don't want to wait for official English releases you'd have to read fan scanlations. And before you ask about the later from manga gaf thread
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BizzyBum
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I'll just wait for the anime.
I'm new to this so next up will be Death Note.
As for AoT, I really enjoy it. I love how everything is so over dramatic. Like, I can't imagine watching a live action movie/show where everyone is constantly screaming, but it just works so well here. Is it just the way the Japanese language sounds that makes it so awesome? lol
I'm new to this so next up will be Death Note.
As for AoT, I really enjoy it. I love how everything is so over dramatic. Like, I can't imagine watching a live action movie/show where everyone is constantly screaming, but it just works so well here. Is it just the way the Japanese language sounds that makes it so awesome? lol
The anime is better than the Manga due to it getting more emotional. But the Manga is still really, really good.
Oh you like overdramatic? Death Note is PERFECT for you.
Just..don't watch S2.The only apparent plothole I've been able to find in this show is how Erwin set up that trap in the forest. He didn't yet know about the female-type, and those spike guns would have been useless against the colossal or armored titans.
I thought it might look like that.
I assume they were going to go deeper inside the tunnel.
I thought it might look like that.
There was a scene (possibly?) cut from the manga if that helps, someone quoted me a few posts above yours. Eren's indecision was also way stretched out from what it was in the manga, where he transforms right after Mikasa says "It's a cruel world".
I assume they were going to go deeper inside the tunnel.
I'm not accusing you of spoiling anything, and I don't think this is a particularly big deal, but I think it's too early to say anything was cut out. The anime and the manga haven't always done things in the same order, so I think it's probably better to refrain from direct comparisons that hint at potential future events.
Crash Station
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Shounen stuff is generally hammy as hell.
SwiftDeath
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Sigh probably less so as it was semi-spoiled by someone earlier in this thread
I guess I'll try to forget it/ignore it
Which chapter is that?
Hellsing321
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Yeah...it will be hard to not to read the manga after next week eps, that's for sure.
)Appropriate to you perhaps but friendship is over as soon as you kill scores of my comrades including new friends I've made. He seemed to have completely forgotten what set him off and made him turn into a titan and fight her the first time. She's shown no consideration for human life and even then when he's being a little bitch she's striking blows to the tunnel that could potentially kill his two besties in the world. Sorry but he's being a bitch of Shinji proportions.
tensuke
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He hasn't forgotten, in fact remembering makes it harder for him now that he knows it's Annie. Before, he didn't know who it was, so the fact that she killed his comrades made it easier for him to fight her. But now that he knows it's Annie, he hesitates because this is someone he has known for a few years and is supposed to trust, and Armin/Mikasa had no hard evidence it was her in the first place, and he didn't want to believe it could be her. But he finds out it is, and that makes the decision harder. Yeah, it should be easy regardless because of how many people she's killed, and the fact that she could kill Armin/Mikasa/anyone else while he's deliberating, but there's a lot more going on internally that gives him hesitation. Not the least of which, I'm sure, includes the fact that human or titan, Annie has always been superior in combat to him, which could possibly psych him out a bit too. But mostly that he has to fight the idea that Annie is against humanity.
And she has shown some consideration to human life, she spared Armin, which was kind of big. I have to agree about the Shinji comparisons though lol, it may just be exaggerated for the anime but he may as well be Shinji Jaeger.
I mean holy fuck, why are you talking about the manga? If you've read it, then yay for you, but don't come to the anime thread and tell spoilers (yes, that is a spoiler what you just said).
Maybe everyone who even mentions manga should be banned
The Silver
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People need to go rewatch Eva if they think Eren is anywhere near Shinji.
It's not like he was straight up refusing to fight, he almost bit his damn hand off. It's just the mechanics of his titan transformation means he needs a 100% clear head/rage mode before he can do it.
Eren hates titans probably more than everyone in the series, he's damn near insane in his hatred, to find out that a fellow human being and someone he trusts at that could actually be on the side of those monsters is obviously going to fuck with his head. Is it really that surprising that he has some deep seated reservations that stuck in his mind, and even then it only lasted a few minutes.
It's not like he was straight up refusing to fight, he almost bit his damn hand off. It's just the mechanics of his titan transformation means he needs a 100% clear head/rage mode before he can do it.
Eren hates titans probably more than everyone in the series, he's damn near insane in his hatred, to find out that a fellow human being and someone he trusts at that could actually be on the side of those monsters is obviously going to fuck with his head. Is it really that surprising that he has some deep seated reservations that stuck in his mind, and even then it only lasted a few minutes.
I just read it and this is totally true, Eren looks normal. What a mess adaptation at this chapter.
Aside for the action.
lmao I quoted no spoilers. Just hyping the finale. I bet we'll get some anime-specific stuff too
Yeah... Do thread-bans exist on neogaf? It'd be an easy way to deal with this without being overly harsh.
The problem is that every time someone posts about the manga we get 10 posts of people arguing back and forth about it. This thread is for talking about the anime, let's just talk about it.
Reminds me of those game of thrones threads (people hinting at stuff/hyping episodes got really bad towards the end of season 3).
Reminds me of those game of thrones threads (people hinting at stuff/hyping episodes got really bad towards the end of season 3).
Dusk Soldier
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He did figure out that the colossal and armored titans were shifters, and that they had possibly infiltrated the recon corps.
However, I don't believe the colossal titan can walk, and since the armored titan likely doesn't have the stamina to do all the running that Annie did, he probably hypothesized that there would be more shifters, and that they would send someone else to take Eren.
Yup, I dunno why anyone thinks he was being weak. Dude was biting his hand like a mofo.
Of course Eren has none of the issues Shinji had if you look well enough, but the comparison works at first glance because they both stop to ponder stuff while their friends and comrades are in danger.
Eren wasn't all "I musn't run away!", and he did try to transform superficially, but we know deep down he still wasn't sure about what he should do, which is why his transformation attempts failed. The fact he suddenly decided to go for it after being left a few minutes to chill under some rubble with nothing happening at all (other than the "sometimes we do what we must" line from Armin and Mikasa) was kind of awkward, in my opinion
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Well, he kind of did go catatonic after his mother died, with the whole Mikasa force-feeding him
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Eren does have a force of will completely unlike Shinji's, though. I mean, he got into a titan's mouth after having his left leg bitten off to save Armin, got his right hand bitten afterwards (was that a Fullmetal Alchemist reference?) and still managed to survive long enough to activate his titan powers for the first time while inside the titan's stomach. Ha nearly always plays the determinator trope to a T, which is why some of his mental breakdowns seem like cop-outs (the events leading up to Levi's team curbstomp battle did make sense, though).
chickdigger802
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caught up. its ok fun... but can they freshen it up a bit? It's getting a bit too repetitive and i usually enjoy my endless shounen.
It's either,
1) new guys introduced with backstories, 50/50 chance of being blonde short hair. Gets killed off by some titan in 2 eps.
2) people being emo and rich people being rich or shounen people being shounen.
3) cool sweet spiderman samurai action... then everyone gets eaten anyways.
which all leads to ...
4) nothing ever really happening.
It's like the author is stalling to get past a writer's block.
It's either,
1) new guys introduced with backstories, 50/50 chance of being blonde short hair. Gets killed off by some titan in 2 eps.
2) people being emo and rich people being rich or shounen people being shounen.
3) cool sweet spiderman samurai action... then everyone gets eaten anyways.
which all leads to ...
4) nothing ever really happening.
It's like the author is stalling to get past a writer's block.
I always love the shocked reactions when Eren transforms. You know that shit is about to go down.
No worries though, Annies got this.
#TeamAnnie
BassForever
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It's not like the anime team can really do much with what the mangaka has already written. It doesn't help that the anime's pacing can be kind of whack compared to the manga. You'll have things like the first episode which covers 1.5 chapters of the manga in a well paced episode, then you'll have episodes like this weeks where half of the episode is made up filler written by the anime team. I know "it's the anime and things can be different" but from what I've seen many peoples complaints about the story come from anime only scenes.
For those who wish to know what part of this weeks episode was filler
All the action scenes everyone's raving about after Mikasa and Armin split up is filler. In the manga they split and then Eren mans up and transforms. The scene of Erwin talking to the MP police kind of happens in the manga, only it's one page of the MP police guy saying "what are you guys up to there can't be a titan in the walls"
Eren is literally Bruce Banner/Hulk.
chickdigger802
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well filler action is usually fine for adaptions (more often then not, give the animators more freedom to do what they want instead of struggle to match action panels).
And i'm more digging at the mangaka for the pacing issues.
Things just get less awesome and tense every time you do the same stuff until you just wish they'd use stock footage and save their already low budget for the random 'slide show' moments this show has.
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