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[BT]

I can actually imagine it happening because stuff like giving your life to a good cause or whatever.

But that's the point of the anime. You know, reality being ever so slightly different from ours. Kind of have to do it. Without that feel and theme you wouldn't feel as much of the feels.

[Suikama]

attack on titan tumblr edition

oh no the titans are attacking better complain about it online

[commandercool]

its an anime

about a war

of course there's gonna be military themes

were these articles written by tumblr

There's a difference between being about a war and glorifying war and the military. Again, not really convinced that's the case, but I suppose an argument could be made (and it has been).

And here's some articles. They're not written by Tumblr, but they are notably written by China which is probably similarly bad. Alarmism or not, it's something at least a few people are talking about and I thought it was kind of interesting.

[Drake]

It's pretty definitely the opposite. Nobody in the show wants to join the people who strive towards change because there's an incredibly high chance they'll be fucking eaten alive. Most people who join the academy want to either join the police (which is constantly mentioned to be an idyllic and praised position of high status and easy living for no good reason) or the garrison, that we already know is basically meant to make the population feel secure about the walls being properly guarded and only become super relevant in emergencies that require the people to get the hell out. The people in the recon corps may be regarded as heroes to some extent, but it's pretty clear that it's just a childlike sort of "aren't those guys so cool" that disappears as people ignore all of the deaths and grow up into "why has no progress been made isn't that your jobs" complaints (well before the Colossal appeared).

If anything it's complaining how people can slip their way into certain jobs and then sit around doing nothing while getting tons of praise and living life in luxury, whereas the people who actually do all the shit behind the scenes are always just ignored and complained about.

[BT]

An argument can be made that the story makes us favor the "heroes" who put their lives on the line, just as you're demonstrating now.

But, what I meant earlier is that it's to be expected. It's easy to understand why sacrifices are necessary in a world overrun by giants. The motivations behind wanting to serve your country and whatever are different - had the show promoted nationalism-like pride in any way, they'd have a point. Nothing wrong with glorifying the entire human race, though.

[Drake]

I only wrote it that way as a response to saying the military was being glorified. I don't think it is, since it portrays the majority of the military wanting to do normal jobs while the few that demand change end up dying and being quite the opposite of glorified. They play themselves up as heroic to motivate themselves, but everyone knows it's a happy facade.

Anyways the characters make it pretty clear that everyone understands why someone would want to join the police or the garrison (rather than the recon corps) and that the fear of the Titans is completely rational.

[commandercool]

The way the scenario is constructed the humans certainly don't have much of another choice. You could say that it's only that way because the author has chosen to frame it in a way that makes military power seem like the only option, or you could make the case that he wrote it that way because it's intense and interesting.

I do kind of wish there was a little more to the science side of the story, with more focus being put on research into finding other ways to kill the titans, but we did get a little of that and may get more eventually. Seems like with as dangerous up close and as easy to manipulate as the titans are some sort of chemical weapon would be the safest, fastest way to kill them. I think it was established that they don't have to breathe, but they seem to most of the time anyway. They're probably immune to all forms of poison because that's more narratively interesting. Titans are OP. :derp:

[Suikama]

new chapterrr

Spoiler:

shit is getting real

[gammaraptor]

new chapterrr

Spoiler:

shit is getting real

Finally, I've been waiting for a long time

Spoiler:

It's getting real, spoiler did not dissapoint

[Sagus]

new chapterrr

Spoiler:

shit is getting real

Spoiler:

my fucking god irvin are you HIGH how the fuck is bringing a titan army going to help???

I mean sure, they weren't making any progress in taking Eren out of Reiner's neck, but I fail to see how they are going to do that now that there is also a swarm of titans trying to kill everything

They might force Reiner to concentrate on hardening his skin on other parts of his body, which maybe requires him to unharden other parts, which will eventually lead to him unhardening the part where he's keeping Eren, but really, Irvin has no way of knowing that, so I still have no clue what the hell he was thinking.

ugh why do these chapters take so long to come out

[Suikama]

Spoiler:

my fucking god irvin are you HIGH how the fuck is bringing a titan army going to help???

I mean sure, they weren't making any progress in taking Eren out of Reiner's neck, but I fail to see how they are going to do that now that there is also a swarm of titans trying to kill everything

They might force Reiner to concentrate on hardening his skin on other parts of his body, which maybe requires him to unharden other parts, which will eventually lead to him unhardening the part where he's keeping Eren, but really, Irvin has no way of knowing that, so I still have no clue what the hell he was thinking.

ugh why do these chapters take so long to come out

except

Spoiler:

he does know that titan kids can be forced out by being swarmed by other titans from when they fought annie

[Imosa]

I do kind of wish there was a little more to the science side of the story, with more focus being put on research into finding other ways to kill the titans, but we did get a little of that and may get more eventually. Seems like with as dangerous up close and as easy to manipulate as the titans are some sort of chemical weapon would be the safest, fastest way to kill them. I think it was established that they don't have to breathe, but they seem to most of the time anyway. They're probably immune to all forms of poison because that's more narratively interesting. Titans are OP. :derp:

This, I was saying from the beginning that if they can lift a person in full gear up to a titan's neck I feel like they can find a more efficient way of killing these things. In this last episode we saw this guy slide behind a titan and take out its ankle before another guy cut its neck. This seems so much more reasonable. Like, don't feel you need to kill these things in one attack, give it some time.
Chemical weapons. I guess you could at least blind them.

So I'm hesitant to talk about something but this post suggest people watching the anime already know this.

Spoiler:

Do we know that Reiner is the Armored Titan? How? I wanted to look at the hair and google images suggested I look at Reiner... it also suggested Akihiko, so maybe its still a toss up. Also, I think its pretty clear at this point. The guys head was still smoking when he saved Armin.

[Suikama]

are you asking to be spoiled? :derp:

[Imosa]

are you asking to be spoiled? :derp:

I think I've already been spoiled. I'm asking if anime viewers had reasonable cause to suspect it, prior to this episode which I think made it clear.

[Suikama]

well i already know because i read the manga and the anime is following it pretty closely :v

but yeah there are little clues left here and there like

Spoiler:

hair and also which character is focused on when a certain titan is mentioned. I forgot if the anime did this but there were things like that in the manga.

[Imosa]

well i already know because i read the manga and the anime is following it pretty closely :v

but yeah there are little clues left here and there like

Spoiler:

hair and also which character is focused on when a certain titan is mentioned. I forgot if the anime did this but there were things like that in the manga.

Oh that second one is BS.

Spoiler:

Armored Titan does differ a lot more from his person then Female Titan.

I can see why the anime would want to keep people in the dark and now create some dramatic irony, but the inconsistency is annoying.

[Suikama]

Oh that second one is BS.

Spoiler:

Armored Titan does differ a lot more from his person then Female Titan.

I can see why the anime would want to keep people in the dark and now create some dramatic irony, but the inconsistency is annoying.

second one

[Imosa]

second one

This thing:

Spoiler:

which character is focused on when a certain titan is mentioned

.

[Suikama]

by that i meant like

Spoiler:

if a character is saying something like DAMN THAT ARMORED TITAN then that panel would show Reiner

[Imosa]

by that i meant like

Spoiler:

if a character is saying something like DAMN THAT ARMORED TITAN then that panel would show Reiner

Right. Its my opinion that the plot shouldn't be conveyed by a mechanism which the characters themselves can't take advantage of, in this case,

Spoiler:

the camera

. I feel like we're being to liberal with the spoiler tags.

On second thought. I'm probably the guy who WOULD think spoiler tags are used to liberally seeing as I have no trouble spoiling things for myself.

[Suikama]

Right. Its my opinion that the plot shouldn't be conveyed by a mechanism which the characters themselves can't take advantage of, in this case,

Spoiler:

the camera

. I feel like we're being to liberal with the spoiler tags.

well there's also stuff like how in the last episode

Spoiler:

armin was talking about his titan theory to reiner

[Sagus]

except

Spoiler:

he does know that titan kids can be forced out by being swarmed by other titans from when they fought annie

Spoiler:

You mean, making their human forms separete from their titan forms? Sure, it'll free Eren, but there's still a gigantic number of titans around. They might've been at an impasse before, but at least they weren't in that much danger (Mikasa could easily kill Ymir, Berthold can't transform without crushing Reiner and Eren, and Reiner can't really do much with his joints hardened). They'd have plenty of time to figure something. Now they'll have to find a way to escape the veritable forest of titans swarming them. Someone will definitely die here (outside of redshirts, who'll die in droves as usual).

[Suikama]

Spoiler:

we also already know he doesnt care about sacrificing people :V

[Sagus]

Spoiler:

we also already know he doesnt care about sacrificing people :V

...true enough =P

[Suikama]

maybe thats why he sniffs people

if you stink then you get sacrificed :v

wait no im thinking of the wrong guy

he probably sacrifices the smelly ones anyways though

[Suikama]

ATTACK ON TITAN GAME

MADE BY FUCKING SPIKE CHUNSOFT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[BT]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

Does that say 2013.

[commandercool]

ATTACK ON TITAN GAME

MADE BY FUCKING SPIKE CHUNSOFT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh shiiiit! Regretting buying my 3DS less now.

[An Odd Sea Slug]

Well played, Denny's. Well played.

"Wait, should we rename the Grand Slam to the Colossal Titan?" (paraphrase)

[Zirene]

This show will now hold a special place in my heart, it will forever be the show that got my DAD into anime. I figured he would like it since he really likes the fantasy and sci fi genres, he's always been a big Star Trek fan. I was home for a few days and didn't have my computer with me so I downloaded Crunchyroll on my dad's PS3 and started from the beginning and we watched 12 episodes that night till about 3 in the morning and caught all the way up the next night. In his words "Now I get why you watch this stuff all the time." We watched Madoka Magica after that (I don't think he liked that one nearly as much) and Gatchaman Crowds. Attack on Titan, I am forever grateful.