Anime/Manga ► Shingeki no Kyojin [Attack on Titan]

[Zul]

D'aww, was hoping to hear the beast titan's voice. It's nice to see him though, he looks a lot better here than in the game.

 

[Xickin]

That was a nice chapter, but its definitely the prelude to what the series has always been about, freedom.

 

[Muke]

WOW, for a Japanese singer, she actually has some great German skills. Not perfect, far from it, the songs has wrong word order at some points, weird usage of articles, grammar mistakes, half sentences and so on. but wow, it's really impressive comparing it to other German anime OSTs.

[video=youtube;h_YM96zS3-8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_YM96zS3-8&feature=youtu.be&t=1m40s[/video]

Here's a native German covering the song, as a comparison:
[video=youtube;4rCShDrMpl8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rCShDrMpl8[/video]

 

[Xickin]

I just finished reading Lost Girls 2, and I gotta say it was really fucking with me. I didn't realize it was "that" kind of story until like half way through. At first I thought, "Poetic License?" but then I was like "the author is really taking liberties with this gap in-between". But that ending was sublime.

 

[Xickin]

SEASON 2 MOTHAFUCKERS!!! I really did enjoy the sheer absurdity and epicness of the opening. Also, how the hell could I have forgotten about the dinosaur arc!? When the Beast Titan patrolled Wall Sina with his Plesiosaurus! Loved that part!

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

I still think that the first op is the best but damn this new one was pretty rad too. I am looking forward to seeing Mikasa' stare of doom being animated, it will be glorious. I am only at vol 12 so those... what looked like dinosaurs with Beast Titan have me quite puzzled.

Vol 13 of the Finnish version of SNK will be released this month so I am pretty excited!

 

[catcake]

Hmm, it's been way too long and I don't care about the series anymore. Dropped the manga after it got way too ridiculous and weird, but I guess I could check out the second season if I hear good things about it. The first season had a great soundtrack so hopefully this too will deliver at least that.

 

[Xickin]

THAT-FUCKING-AIR-DROP-DOH!!!

That may have been the single-greatest moment in manga history; who's with me?

 

[Xickin]

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So I'm unsure, is Ymir dead? Or did that other guy just do what Historia did to Eren and just read his memories? Also, I LOVE that Armin is a Colossal!!!

 

[VoidGear.]

Hmm, it's been way too long and I don't care about the series anymore. Dropped the manga after it got way too ridiculous and weird, but I guess I could check out the second season if I hear good things about it. The first season had a great soundtrack so hopefully this too will deliver at least that.

Yeah, kinda me. It lost me a bit with all the flashback stories sadly. Kinda didn't like them much.

 

[Xickin]

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1. So I'm starting to wonder if at some point the plot point of: "We can stack titan powers? Let's put em all together and see what happens!"
2. I love that the author is very down to earth, like, people die for no good reason or explanation sometimes without fulfilling their full potential. But damn I'm going to miss Ymir!

 

[Recon]

OK, lack of Season 2 comments in this tread is disappointing. THIS. SEASON. IS. LITTTTTTTTTTT. 3 episodes in and can't get enough.

 

[Recon]

Reiner is such a piece of shit lmao

 

[Xickin]

Woah! That new episode revealed WAY more to the plot than the manga ever did that early on! I truly hope with that we don't get a compressed piece of shit in an attempt to wrap it all up in one more season.

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

Woah! That new episode revealed WAY more to the plot than the manga ever did that early on! I truly hope with that we don't get a compressed piece of shit in an attempt to wrap it all up in one more season.

I have a question relating to this. So I have been thinking of watching the second season even thou I am reading the manga at the moment. Vol 14 got released in Finnish today, and I am really close to the point where I stopped reading online. As you say that the anime has been having a lot more plot than the manga had, I am afraid that I`ll spoil myself I start to watch the anime. Do you think they could spoil stuff about what happens after vol 14? I think the begin of vol 15 was the farthest I ever read.

 

[Xickin]

Do you think they could spoil stuff about what happens after vol 14? I think the begin of vol 15 was the farthest I ever read.

I truly don't know. It was a character's background that kind of got spoiled and some name bombs got dropped in the last episode, which did not come to light until VERY recently (like, past 4, maybe 5 months?). I mean, it didn't SAY anything relating to their environment (which would have just RUINED one of the show's biggest mysteries in one fell swoop (if you only watch the anime)) but it definitely showed their life.

At this point though, we're still in vol 12 territory. The stuff they touched on though I think would've come from vol 22. Sooooooooooo yeah, bit of a jump (40 months (over 3 years), but whatever)

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About the new chapter, I don't know what it is, but I am 1000% in on some of the Nine Titans fighting for Nazis in a war to control the world. The reason I love it though is because Titans aren't the dominant species on earth like we previously thought, and that mankind's technology has just about caught up to them.
Anyway, I digress. I'm digging Reiner's background story, especially knowing that he is at the moment the least qualified among his group of friends to possess Titan power (despite being 2nd in the Training Crop) and that little bit Isayama gave where Eren and Reiner are both looking up at the sky at the same time while Eren is having an iconic moment to the story that we've already seen was just awesome.

 

[Zero Sora]

I not 100% what you're talking with regards to being spoiled. I don't understand what you mean by saying the anime is revealing more than the manga did when it's revealing the same things and the same points in the story.

Krista, Ymir's flashback, Reiner, Bertholdt, the mini flashblacks to their friend being eaten, it's all the same as it was in the manga.

 

[Xickin]

I not 100% what you're talking with regards to being spoiled. I don't understand what you mean by saying the anime is revealing more than the manga did when it's revealing the same things and the same points in the story.

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1. The fact that Ymir was treated as a goddess and betrayed by her own people 2. She could clearly be seen along with her subjects being placed along a wall and turned into a titan with her followers (showing that she came from outside the walls) 3. There are potentially people outside the walls still alive 4. Yeah, they showed her eating someone like in the manga, but they also showed her transforming back after eating said person, giving some more info on how Titan power works (which shouldn't be revealed until like vol 14)

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

Hmm, just to be sure I think I am gonna stick with the manga. I am so close to the point where I stopped reading, so soon all will be a new territory when it comes to the plot. Man I am so excited.

 

[Xickin]

You, sir, are in for a treat. I will warn you though that I think it's pretty stale from vol 13-parts of vol 15, but afterwards it's like WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
Do me a favor, if and when you get to chapter 85, let me know what you thought via Visitor Message.