Personally, I was abit disappointed at first.
But the stuffs that comes after more than made up for it.
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Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) |OT| MMA Ultra(spider)man (NO MANGA SPOILERS)
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Personally, I was abit disappointed at first.
But the stuffs that comes after more than made up for it.
Oh yeah I love where the manga has gone.
But I can see so many people shouting foul when the first big change hits.
They actually use cannons whenever possible, they're all along the walls (remember how
the colossal titan specifically aimed for them?
The 3DMG is for situations where they have no cannons and have no choice but to get up close and personal with the titans, like when they're evacuating townsfolk.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I personally think that the latter stuff made it worst.
TheVampire
Banned
I think all it would take is just 1 Gundam or Evangelion robot and the Humans could beat every Titan with ease 
DualShadow
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Just watched the latest episode and just sat there with my mouth open for about half of it, wtf!
The events of the last 2 or 3 chapters feel like some of the best stuff to come out of the series.
Very general manga spoilers. Will hide anyway.
Bad guys being exposed and getting some comeuppance.
Eren manning up and applying his training and being effective.
Some incredibily badass action.
Eren manning up and applying his training and being effective.
Some incredibily badass action.
Crimsonlink
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Really got into this anime after watching the first few episodes. Thinking of getting into the manga.
Still have to watch episode 5 though.
Still have to watch episode 5 though.
TheVampire
Banned
I just had a good idea.
The humans should make hot air baloons (can they do that with their current tech?) and then BOMB THE SHIT out of the Titans from the sky.
The humans should make hot air baloons (can they do that with their current tech?) and then BOMB THE SHIT out of the Titans from the sky.
So that's your strategy for fighting urban warfare if the enemy invades your city? Bomb your own city? Gee, that sounds effective.
PorcellainThrill
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They should just blacken the sun.
So that's your strategy for fighting urban warfare if the enemy invades your city? Bomb your own city? Gee, that sounds effective.
Drop a bomb on their neck.
Yes, because dropping small explosives from a hot air balloon on a small area of a moving target is going to be so effective!
Yes, because dropping small explosives from a hot air balloon on a small area of a moving target is going to be so effective!
It can't be a worse strategy than what they are using right now.
"OK soldiers, the titans are here. Lets all jump straight into their mouths!"
Nothing is wrong with the actual strategy though, it's user error that's the problem. The equipment works, the actual plan is effective when executed well, but the people involved just lack l33t sk1llz.
Now this sounds like a good strategy.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Quickly scanning the Wikipedia page to inform my girlfriend if the manga was ongoing was a huge mistake. Just assholish huge spoilers right in the fucking synopsis. I mean come on. Really taken the surprise out of some stuff now
Crimsonlink
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Could the balloons even reach past 60 meters so that the colossus Titan doesn't just smack them out of the air?
Quickly scanning the Wikipedia page to inform my girlfriend if the manga was ongoing was a huge mistake. Just assholish huge spoilers right in the fucking synopsis. I mean come on. Really taken the surprise out of some stuff now
Haha that happend to me too. Only I read 1 spoiler (most likely a big one) and then I shut my browser to stop myself.
Someone should edit that synopsis.
Quickly scanning the Wikipedia page to inform my girlfriend if the manga was ongoing was a huge mistake. Just assholish huge spoilers right in the fucking synopsis. I mean come on. Really taken the surprise out of some stuff now
By now I have learned to avoid wiki, youtube, NeoGAF etc for all shows I am following unless I know for sure they won't contain spoilers.
And even in supposedly spoiler-free GAF threads there are always some people who just can't control their posting.
Donny Hayabusa
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Watched all 5 episodes in one sitting. OH BOY!!
Episode 5 Spoiler: If
Let's see where this show is going. I'm hooked.
Episode 5 Spoiler: If
Eren really is dead, i don't know what's going on... I was so hopeful that he would become this badass titan hunter
Let's see where this show is going. I'm hooked.
They live in a confined wall with limited food supply.
Any animals on sight would be considered food, not pets.
Well maybe if they'd had the idea when the Titan's first arrived they wouldn't be stuck behind a wall at all.
Crimsonlink
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They should just make Guns and start using the 3 D gear to maneuver around the back to shoot the weakspot. Add a bayonet at the end for a clean kill when they run out of bullets.
Dedication Through Light
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Ep5 anime spec:
hopefully it switches to Armin, hes been pretty underrated and getting some sort of anger and revenge to boost his skills to take out a titan or two would actually be pretty cool. Thomas did feel like it came from nowhere, one moment smiling and flying the next, in a month...
They had trenches on the inside around the gate.
Dedication Through Light
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Watched all 5 episodes in one sitting. OH BOY!!
Episode 5 Spoiler: IfEren really is dead, i don't know what's going on... I was so hopeful that he would become this badass titan hunter
Let's see where this show is going. I'm hooked.
Ep5
I was hoping for that so much, to finally see his five years of hard work finally pay off and slay a titan. I hope the events are basically just one bad dream, otherwise switch lead role to Armin.
PorcellainThrill
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Pigeons arent strong enough to carry explosives.
They should hide themselves under sheep and then sneakattack the titans when they are asleep.
Sho_Nuff82
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Looking at how that one titan jumped into the tower, I don't think a simple moat or trench would stop them. They are surprisingly agile for their size.
How are you going to dig a moat outside without getting eaten by titans?
SonicX_Zero
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Is it safe to hope that at some point this season we actually get to see some "decent" fights? I mean like how pros would actually deal with titans? or maybe next season perhaps?Nothing is wrong with the actual strategy though, it's user error that's the problem. The equipment works, the actual plan is effective when executed well, but the people involved just lack l33t sk1llz.
Dammit my mouse accidently hovered over the spoiler
Please tell me that the spoilers were prior to episode 5....especially the second one :'( WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!!
There are plenty of ridiculous titan-human fights in the 2nd cour.
TheVampire
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Ok ok so maybe the humans just need better fighting tactics with that 3d gear.
Maybe if one human distracts a titan while another human attacks its neck from behind.
So set it up so its like 2 humans per titan.
And what about using that wire in the 3dgear to trip them up or tie up their feet?
Maybe if one human distracts a titan while another human attacks its neck from behind.
So set it up so its like 2 humans per titan.
And what about using that wire in the 3dgear to trip them up or tie up their feet?
And here I was thinking I wouldn't see Game of Thrones spoilers in this thread while watching the first season. =(
SonicX_Zero
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By ridiculous do you mean
they actually put up a fight and not get decimated or do they just last longer than team Eren in ep.5?
Jesus fuck @ episode 5. Well, I think that the whole "far too stereotypical" critique is starting to loose ground. I doubt that anyone would have seen "that" coming. The fact that
made it all the more horrible and shocking. Glad to see more shows and books borrowing a page from Game of Thrones and its "lol plotarmour" attitude. Some general musings about the series (non manga reader):
- This is truthly the Japan's version of The Walking Dead. Both are about mankind facing extinction against an overwhelming foe, and you can truthly feel the sense of dread. Character tropes or not, I find it quite refreshing to see an anime were noone is safe, period.
- The human military and political system is utterly corrupt and broken, and this as much of a weakness as any crack on the wall, really. The whole "best trainees get inside the walls rather than fight titans" speaks volumes, not to mention the goverment's policy of "ignoring the outher world" trought banning books about it and refusing to kick its economy / society into a fully military mobilization gear. Lack of new development techniques against titans is disturbing too, seeing how the current ones simply doesn't cut it (pun intended)
- The goverment's priority should have been send an expeditionary force to seal the breached wall as soon as possible. Not a fighting army, but rather a fast, mobile taskforce with a demolition team: arrive to the wall breach, place charges and make it collapse unto itself thus trapping the titans between the 2 rings so while the trapped Titans would still possess a treath, they would be unable to get reinforcements from the outside world and could be decimated little by little. Yes, I am starting to think out strategies for defeating the titans already, God I am hopeless now
- I love the show's premise, for the Titans are far more terrifying and unsettling than any other fantasy enemy that I have ever seen. Rentless, mindless, impossible to demoralize, impossible to negotiate or talk with, not only they are massive and mighty but also agile and with a hint of intelligence as shown by the last episode, which made them even more terrifying than they already were. Bonus points for also being utterly incomprensible: at least you can make a rationale out of why aliens invade Earth, so to speak. IMHO, titans crap all over zombies and aliens as ultimate foes of mankind, really. Even if they would be confronted with modern weapons, we would have to employ a "scorched earth" policy in order to make it work, me thinks
- Gotta love how we are at chapter 5 and we have yet to see
And now, crackpot theories ahoy (manga readers feel free to laugh at me):
- This is probably going to be a story about mankind's failing down completely (I wholly expect Titans to reach the core sooner than latter) and then a small group of armymen trying to explore the outher ravaged world and attempting to put all the puzzle pieces together about what the hell happend with the world, Dark Souls style. More surviving and mystery solving than Titan-slaying, so to speak
- So the regerating organ is located at the beggining of the Titan's spine cord, hmmmm. It would explain why some titans do survive a direct cannon impact to their skulls.
- Titans were probably man-made biological weapons gone awry. I bet that there's some way to control them, and that they probably come from the same place / laboratory complex or whatsoever, thus making it (theoretically) possible to end them with one single stroke
- I think that Titans eat humans as a mean to reproduce theirselves trought DNA gathering and some kind of freaky bipartition a la starfish. It seems logical: they lack of visible genitals, they do not need humans for eating, and they seems to see it as some kind of pleasurable activity. Eat humans: gain biomass, DNA, elements needed for reproduction. Which would also imply a kind of snowball effect regarding the titan's invasion: the more you loose to them, the more there will be of them
I really, really would like for the story to work and revolve around the initial premise rather than drift into the usual shatter memories / philosophical babblering that anime series tends to devolve into (see also: Claymore). Some of you manga readers comments makes me feel uneasy in that regard :S more crazy fights, mistery solving and desperate survival, less shonen troupes, "past in the mist" and philosophical waxing, please
Eren's death was preceded with mutilation
- This is truthly the Japan's version of The Walking Dead. Both are about mankind facing extinction against an overwhelming foe, and you can truthly feel the sense of dread. Character tropes or not, I find it quite refreshing to see an anime were noone is safe, period.
- The human military and political system is utterly corrupt and broken, and this as much of a weakness as any crack on the wall, really. The whole "best trainees get inside the walls rather than fight titans" speaks volumes, not to mention the goverment's policy of "ignoring the outher world" trought banning books about it and refusing to kick its economy / society into a fully military mobilization gear. Lack of new development techniques against titans is disturbing too, seeing how the current ones simply doesn't cut it (pun intended)
- The goverment's priority should have been send an expeditionary force to seal the breached wall as soon as possible. Not a fighting army, but rather a fast, mobile taskforce with a demolition team: arrive to the wall breach, place charges and make it collapse unto itself thus trapping the titans between the 2 rings so while the trapped Titans would still possess a treath, they would be unable to get reinforcements from the outside world and could be decimated little by little. Yes, I am starting to think out strategies for defeating the titans already, God I am hopeless now
- I love the show's premise, for the Titans are far more terrifying and unsettling than any other fantasy enemy that I have ever seen. Rentless, mindless, impossible to demoralize, impossible to negotiate or talk with, not only they are massive and mighty but also agile and with a hint of intelligence as shown by the last episode, which made them even more terrifying than they already were. Bonus points for also being utterly incomprensible: at least you can make a rationale out of why aliens invade Earth, so to speak. IMHO, titans crap all over zombies and aliens as ultimate foes of mankind, really. Even if they would be confronted with modern weapons, we would have to employ a "scorched earth" policy in order to make it work, me thinks
- Gotta love how we are at chapter 5 and we have yet to see
one single Titan being offed outside the opening
And now, crackpot theories ahoy (manga readers feel free to laugh at me):
- This is probably going to be a story about mankind's failing down completely (I wholly expect Titans to reach the core sooner than latter) and then a small group of armymen trying to explore the outher ravaged world and attempting to put all the puzzle pieces together about what the hell happend with the world, Dark Souls style. More surviving and mystery solving than Titan-slaying, so to speak
- So the regerating organ is located at the beggining of the Titan's spine cord, hmmmm. It would explain why some titans do survive a direct cannon impact to their skulls.
- Titans were probably man-made biological weapons gone awry. I bet that there's some way to control them, and that they probably come from the same place / laboratory complex or whatsoever, thus making it (theoretically) possible to end them with one single stroke
- I think that Titans eat humans as a mean to reproduce theirselves trought DNA gathering and some kind of freaky bipartition a la starfish. It seems logical: they lack of visible genitals, they do not need humans for eating, and they seems to see it as some kind of pleasurable activity. Eat humans: gain biomass, DNA, elements needed for reproduction. Which would also imply a kind of snowball effect regarding the titan's invasion: the more you loose to them, the more there will be of them
I really, really would like for the story to work and revolve around the initial premise rather than drift into the usual shatter memories / philosophical babblering that anime series tends to devolve into (see also: Claymore). Some of you manga readers comments makes me feel uneasy in that regard :S more crazy fights, mistery solving and desperate survival, less shonen troupes, "past in the mist" and philosophical waxing, please
Yes. Even the next few episode should have some decent neck slicing if memory serves.
Lets just say
there's more to the titans than what we know so far (obviously) and you'll get to see how the elites fight.
There will be a point in the story where many people are going to cream themselves at the action (if it's well animated, of course). Dem spiderman antics never get tiring.
Speaking of which, why the hell haven't humans fled to an Island? They have boats. At the very least they should've become a pseudo-maritime race.
Lord Ghirahim
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People wondering who the main character is have obviously skipped the OP. Even the lyrics have "Jäger" in them. Twice. I doubt they're planning to change the OP so soon.
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