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Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) |OT| MMA Ultra(spider)man (NO MANGA SPOILERS)
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SwiftDeath
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For the third time?
Yes. I want it to become a recurring joke with the other characters panicking that he must have died this time.
jediyoshi
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SnK's been a real boon for the tight pants market. Though I imagine with one of the endcards being a full on shot of Mikasa's backside, it's probably what they were aiming for.
PeterVenkman
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Just caught up with this show yesterday. Man I really don't want to wait for a second season, this is why I usually don't watch ongoing shows. Are most people planning on watching the season finale and then just reading the manga?
I really want the story to pay off and I'm hoping the series keeps up this momentum.
I really want the story to pay off and I'm hoping the series keeps up this momentum.
Supermanisdead
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man, armin fucking sucks.
tensuke
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Yeah, they got SAO pretty quick, it only aired last year in Japan and they have the dub running now, so I don't think a dub next year is out of the question with SNK's popularity.
No worries though, Annies got this.
#TeamAnnie
I'm all caught up now and god I love Annie.
I don't think it's the secret of the titans or anything, I think it's the truth about the outside world.
Eren's dad offered to show him the basement after Eren told his parents he wanted to see the world outside and not live like cattle and blah blah. Wouldn't make sense for his dad to say "HEY CHECK OUT THIS TITAN SERUM" in response to that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the basement has a basement. The way his dad kept telling him to go to it while giving him the titan serum makes it seem very important.
jediyoshi
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It would make as much sense as a K-On season 3.
Sorry I don't watch much anime, I'm guessing that's a no?
I don't get the reference either, but yes there almost certainly will be a season 2. The anime is mega popular and the manga source material is some 17 chapters ahead of where the anime is going to end ( but moving much slower, so expect a delay).
I'm thinking about it. I would love to wait and have that first time viewer magic like I did for this season but I don't think I can wait.
Edag Plata
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So what does that mean for timing and how much has the anime covered so far?
Cosmonaut X
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I think with the final episode of the series we should be up to around book 8. Assuming a second series padded things out a bit and the manga does wrap up with book 20, I could see the anime running for two more series to cover all of the manga material.
Episode 24 ended exactly at chapter 32 and I imagine this upcoming finale will covers the entirety of chapter 33.
But the latest chapter is 49, so I don't think there are enough materials to make full season of 24 episodes yet.
Point is, the studio will be out of a job for a while unless they're doing odd OVA releases like the old HxH anime.
Permanently A
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how many manga chapters in a volume?
4 and sometimes 5.
I imagine the publishers will want to stretch it as long as possible, so expect 4 chapters per volume from now on.
Permanently A
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80 more chapters huh... well, at least there is an end in sight.
Uhh...33 chapters/months left to be exact (latest 3 chapters aren't collected in volume yet).
The heck is this from>
RiderKairuu
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When is the season finale??
It airs tomorrow. I can't wait!
I'm excited for the big showdown between Annie and Eren. Should be pretty epic. I just hope they end it where I think they will.
I'm sure there'll be a 2nd season, we'll just have to wait a year or more to get it. Hopefully by then they can just run seasons 2 and 3 back to back to finish out the story, if the mangaka wants to end his story sooner rather than later.
PeterVenkman
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Yeah I'm not sure if I can hold off. I don't think spoilers are a big issue, it'd be easy enough for me to avoid, but I'm just so damn interested at this point. Gotta get to that basement!
I also know nothing about manga length but the fact that he has a plan to end this story is a relief to me. I'd have hated a huge story that drags on forever.
Same here man, same here. I'll probably just go straight into the manga. Hopefully someone says what chapter to start on once the episode airs tomorrow.
RiderKairuu
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Damn and I just got caught up!
That's the costume they use to promote the series, the guys wearing it usually don't take it too seriously.
With these kind of shows the makers never seem willing to finish their work. The moolah is just too good.
I think he'll need more than this, but not much more. Good on him for not pulling a Wheel of Time.
Can I point you to kurahador's post that reads "Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama revealed that he aims to complete his manga in 20 book volumes."? I hate when series get dragged on forever, so I was really happy to read this.
Still, if there're 33 more chapters to go, that's still going to be one hell of a wait, even more so for people who want to watch the anime.
Really depends on if the author gets bored of it, only has ideas for it to a certain point before finishing it off, or have a set story they want to tell and no more. It's a stretch, but the situation could have been similar to the final manga story line of Bakuman where
the authors and their editor knows how short the story is but end up telling the publisher that it'll last longer and then break the news on down the line. Though, that was more on the anime end and not with the manga itself, if I remember correctly.
Publishers, on the other hand, want to keep a manga for as long as humanly possible if it's highly popular, drives up their sales, and increases their exposure though anime deals. Jump is probably very happy Oda has no plans on ending One Piece any time soon because he has a set story in mind, but I'd hate to be a part of the conversation where he knows the ending is coming and has to break the news to the editor/publisher.
Oh, I didn't notice that. I guess I'm just pessimistic. I've been waiting years for Berserk to end.
Crash Station
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That's interesting. Feels like it needs more time than that based on all the plot threads he needs to wrap up. Of course plans can change (One Piece was supposed to last 5 years), but I wasn't expecting approximate endpoint information either way.
Heh...it took 27 volumes for the title itself to make sense, I doubt the series even halfway done at this point.
Even 2 chapters of manga aren't enough to cover 1 episode of anime with the action ramps up in the later story.
At most, we'll get another full season (25), one short season (12) and one movie.
He said he wanted the story to end at 50 volumes or so, but at the rate he's working it might take 12 years
He said he wanted the story to end at 50 volumes or so, but at the rate he's working it might take 12 years
For a monthly release, it'd be going on for a very very long time. That's around 200-250 chapters in total, or around 16-20 years. Most of the monthly ones I've followed never go on that long. Maybe only for approximately 100-150 at most, except Skip Beat, which is just over 200 and is probably getting fairly close to the end thanks to some recent developments.
The only two scenes where I think she did anything worthwhile was when she gave Sasha some bread after she was forced to run all day as punishment, and when she brought some horses to Jean, Armin and Reiner; I loved that scene, since she was depicted as some kind of messiah, complete with sunbeams behind her, as Armin and Jean though "She's a goddess!" to themselves, while Reiner thought "I wanna marry her".
Besides that, I only remember seeing her a bit while everyone was struggling against the titans after Eren's "death", and she was also talking with other people on top of the giant trees while the recon corps was luring the female titan into their trap. I think the only secondary character that gets even less screentime than her is Ymir, her waifu.
meltingparappa
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PeterVenkman
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yeah unless it ends with something incredibly satisfying I think I'll be jumping in too. But man that art style. Bleugh. I also have waaaay more fun power watching shows with friends so maybe that'd be incentive to wait.
Soundtrack as I'm sure plenty of people have posted has kicked in at a ton of perfect moments. I'm rewatching a few episodes (I know, I just caught up) and it's nice that certain tracks stick out.
This is the first anime I've gotten into for quite some time.
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