Jex
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It's called self-control.
You can really taste the salt.
It tastes like tears.
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Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) |OT| MMA Ultra(spider)man (NO MANGA SPOILERS)
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It's called self-control.
You can really taste the salt.
It tastes like tears.
BassForever
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Attack on Titan has to have some of the most wasted potential since Naruto
Even, after seeing what happened to Eren? I had to find out how that battle ended and who survived.
YianGaruga
Banned
They even managed to copy the animation quality of the show, amazing.
This was my thought exactly when I saw the ending. The weak point has the pilot. Does that mean the Titans are bioweapons? (anti-WMD themes are kinda a trope unto themselves in anime 
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)While I quite like the manga, this is pretty damn spot on, it just takes a little while before it becomes really obvious.
Naruto had potential?
Part 1 was fantastic.
Part 2 is LOL.
Crash Station
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Every shounen series has potential. Even Inuyasha. Problem is more often than not, it's squandered.
I'm surprised people haven't acquired the skill to read the telltale signs after all these years.
All the cool kids have started apparently
AlimNassor
Banned
A scam? What the hell are you talking about? This is like saying Bleach was a scam because the early chapters were more slice of life then action. No shock everyone will soon hate this show and call it generic shounen. I don't see it as generic, but, I guess you have an odd definition of generic.
Pretty much this with some exceptions. Part 2 had some very interesting arcs in it, but the pacing is garbage (this includes the awfulness of the manga pacing.
Hey! Inuyasha had some potential that was quickly destroyed.
I really enjoyed Bleach through the Soul Society arc. I hear bad things about the future arcs, but I want to give them a try. I got through all of Inuyasha, so I can get through Bleach.
SUPARSTARX
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Just finished episode 8. What issue/chapter does it pick up in the manga? Kinda wanna read ahead.
Also, I love how trollish some of the faces are on the titans. Especially kawaii anime eyes.
Also, I love how trollish some of the faces are on the titans. Especially kawaii anime eyes.
BIGWORM
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That makes sense, I suppose. As far as the weak spot on the Titans:
Noticing where Eren's "human" form (?) emerged from within the Titan, the weak spot is virtually the same spot, so when one slashes at that spot, they killed the human. I'm not sure if Eren grew to be his own Titan, or confiscated and morphed the Titan that ate him in Ep. 5.
Even though I powered through 3-8 in one sitting, Ep. 5 rocks me for days, seemed like.
BIGWORM
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Also, as far as why the Titans are targeting humans:
That still doesn't explain Titans not having any reproductive organs, though. I'm not sure where to go with that one...
It could be a form of human evolution, if all Titans are controlled by humans. I mean, why else would Titans be able to survive for 100 years, and aggressively and solely eat humans, and not any other animals?
That still doesn't explain Titans not having any reproductive organs, though. I'm not sure where to go with that one...
Was this posted? Eren, Mikasa, and Conny singing the opening.
piratepwnsninja
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Awesome.
Yeah, I don't know what people are suddenly hating about this show, but even my wife is into it (the show, not the hating.) And she's never really been into anime before.
TheBryanJZX90
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For me personally, I haven't been interested in a generic shounen plot like "14-year-old boy saves the world because of his hard work ethic and a secret untapped ability" after the tenth time or so I saw it. I was initially attracted to this show because of it's seeming ability to subvert the tropes common to the genre, like
. But, if the episode 8 revelation plays out in the next couple episodes like it seems it's going to, I'm going to lose interest pretty fast.
killing off that 14-year-old kid in the fifth episode
Arrowgigantic
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I think it's pretty safe to say that based on what's happened so far, the series is not very interested in going in any expected directions.
I at least want to see if there's a titan inside the neck of the colossal titan, which has a person inside its neck in turn, LOL
And maybe there's a happy little capuchin monkey inside the person's neck.
FlashbladeGAF
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They can have all the stills they want as long as they animate the Titan battles.
Some anime productions have low budgets, so they sacrifice animation in some parts to put in others.
When there is a major Titan battle done in stills only then I'll complain.
But if sacrificing dialogue animation scenes gets me more of this...
...then continue.
Hopefully this gets successful enough to allow Season 2 to have a bigger budget which allows them to animate both without sacrificing the animation for the battle scenes
Some anime productions have low budgets, so they sacrifice animation in some parts to put in others.
When there is a major Titan battle done in stills only then I'll complain.
But if sacrificing dialogue animation scenes gets me more of this...
(not enough time to find epic gifs)
...then continue.
Hopefully this gets successful enough to allow Season 2 to have a bigger budget which allows them to animate both without sacrificing the animation for the battle scenes
I believe the bigger problem is time rather than budget.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Do remember that most of the "haters" are people who have read the manga and have seen how the story will advance.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm not saying that you must hate it either.
Just that most of the complaints about wasted potential are more about the manga than the anime from what I've seen in this thread.I still think that it's a pretty interesting read with a few stumbles here and there.
Bleach isn't a scam, it's a violation of humanitarian rights.
Where were you when Guilty Crown saved anime?
Drafting the bill for a NATO invasion into Production IG to overthrow the regime.
Lies, you loved it as much as the rest of us! Especially the Dark Shu era.
Wut? Guilty Crown is garbage. I dropped it after 12 episodes!
Ah man, you missed the best parts! Darth Shu, annoying people dying, dumb ass plot twists, nonsensical characters/motivations, attempted rape, it had it all!
Winterfang
Banned
Ouch.
You forgot the prostitution that sent everyone into a rage.
This. Believe me people some of the hate is very justified. You'll see. . .lol. But honestly I'm really enjoying this adaptation more than the manga.
TryHardShounen
Banned
I just get annoyed by the angst and psycho faces.
FlashbladeGAF
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Time and man power is factored into the budget
but it's justified, given the world and the situation.
I'm one of those who followed the manga yet I still love the series.
No worries, the story isn't as bad as some ppl here seems to wants it out to be. Berserk took worse direction than this series has sometimes and it still turns out great.
Winterfang
Banned
Alright lets get this out of the way.
Naruto = Bleach>One Piece.
Naruto = Bleach>One Piece.
Not always. Sometimes you just want to have something fast, and you have the money to pay for it, but the outcome suffers because you're not willing to wait.
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