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Shingeki no Kyojin
"Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind." -MAL |
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Episode 6
Spoiler: show I have to mention here that the subtitles I use seem to at least occasionally forget that the names in the show are German - so Sasha Braus turns into Sasha Blouse (similar pronounciation, totally different word and meaning). Not sure if it counts, but the OP has some German lyrics as well: "Sie sind das Essen und wir sind die Jaeger!" right at the beginning, if I'm not mistaken. No idea why German influence was picked for this series, though I actually really like it.
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05-12-2013, 08:44 PM | #3 |
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My thoughts on Episode 1
My thoughts on Episode 2 My thoughts on Episode 3 My thoughts on Episode 4 My thoughts on Episode 5 ---------------------------------- post about Titan/giant/Eoten dakimakura ---------------------------------- Episode 06: So ... Spoiler: show
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05-12-2013, 10:09 PM | #4 |
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Alright kids we're taking over this here thread!
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Some observations
Eren - voiced by Ouma Shuu, that guy from No.6 among other things. The king of wusses! Hannes - voiced by Leorio, ACDC! The next guy who talks - that bullfrog villain from Yes PreCure 5!.
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The first episode kind of pissed me off. I don't like Eren, I hope he gets eaten, loud mouth whiner who isn't making babies with his live-in girlfriend Mikasa. I presume she's his bride to be because they have different names and he never refers to "our parents", simply "my parents".
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Episode 3 was pretty annoying. I didn't like the moe comic relief moments. I think this is the wrong kind of show for that, since the titans eating people is funny enough as-is.
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You guys bring up a good point that I'd somehow missed: Episode 01's 50-foot wall scaler and Episode 02's 50-foot wall tackler are two different giants. The first one is bald while the second one has gray hair. Not sure why I failed to compute that this difference in appearance suggests that they're two separate individuals.
Episode 06 stuff: Spoiler: show Kind of anxious that you two are deciding to pull another Psycho-Pass and watch this series together. I don't think it did you or the series any favors last time, and I worry that that's going to be the case again. Then again, the only difference between what you did and what we all do here -- watch indivudually and then post -- is that we influence each other half an hour later at the level of the forum rather than instantaneously at the level of AIM. *shrug*
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The humans represent evidence of torture at Guantanamo Bay. The titans eating the humans is symbolic of the Bush Administration hiding the evidence!
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The three walls are the three branches of government. The titans' attacks represent the Bush administration's attempts to topple our very structure!
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Apparently the manga is ten volumes long and is ongoing while the anime is slated for 25 episodes. (I had thought it 13. Damn. ^^; Was hoping for closure sooner.) I don't know whether the manga is wrapping up soon and the anime plans to end the same way or whether the manga has no plans of stopping soon and the anime will either a) end in the middle or b) end with a made-for-TV ending. I'm hoping the manga's planning to wrap up soon and the anime will end the same way.
Going to make a little list of unresolved mysteries: Spoiler: show Feel free to suggest more. I'm actually surprised by how large the list grew as I wrote it. At the beginning I thought I was only going to list six or seven things.
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Sure, that's always possible. And that's covered by Letter A. ^_^; Whether a second season comes along or not, ending in the middle is ending in the middle. And I'm saying I don't want that. I'd much rather we knock this thing out of the park in one sitting.
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If you want to sincerely speculate along with us as we watch it, then I'd encourage you not to read the manga yet. If you'd prefer to read ahead, by all means go for it, but please be mindful of what you write about here. (We don't really appreciate any leading hints from people who have read ahead. We like figuring things out completely for ourselves.) There are people here who go with both approaches, depending on the series. For Shingeki no Kyojin, I believe no one has read ahead. I believe the lists are currently as follows:
Watching & Haven't Read Ahead:
--- I'm not sure if deoxys is watching or not. The same goes for other visitors of the Anime forum. But I'm pretty sure that of the people I've listed, none of them have read ahead. This isn't always the case though. For example, kaisap112 and Doppleganger have read ahead for Aku no Hana. Doppleganger had also read ahead for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. (Well, "read it back when a new anime adaptation seemed unlikely" is more like it.) So it just depends on the series. For this one, I think you'd be in a pretty lonely camp if you read ahead since, from the look of things, everyone wants to watch this one without any foreknowledge.
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