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Does Anyone Else Watch Attack on Titan?
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2022-04-14 at 2:51 AM UTC
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2022-04-14 at 8:45 AM UTCwatch the rest, it really opens up, kind of like westworld
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2022-04-14 at 9:01 AM UTC
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2022-04-14 at 9:08 AM UTClol
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2022-04-14 at 10:05 PM UTCmade a few cyberpunk rooms
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2022-04-15 at 12:36 AM UTC
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2022-04-15 at 7:30 AM UTC
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2022-04-15 at 7:46 AM UTCIn the first season of AoT I thought one of the most interesting things was the depth of tactics they had to use to fight a kind of threat that doesn't exist in the real world
from trying to clear that room where they didn't have access to anti-titan weapons, to the scouting formations and the way Erwin uses them for to lay traps, to new tech they develop to adapt to specific threats
On Erwin, I am
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2022-04-15 at 1 PM UTCNever actually sat down to watch it besides maybe an episode or 2
I saw most of that live action movie they made about it - it was meh at best but the cartoon is better
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2022-04-15 at 1:25 PM UTCdon't watch the live action stuff
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2022-04-21 at 4:44 AM UTC
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2022-06-17 at 10:30 AM UTC
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2022-06-17 at 12:12 PM UTCJapanese in anime: I must kill large swaths of people to avenge someone I had a tepid emotional connection with
Japanese in real life: I've never been on a date with a girl and both my penis and my wrists are absolutely miniscule -
2023-03-06 at 4:56 AM UTCfirst episode of the 'last' part just came out, downloading it now, knowing how the manga ended I think it'd probably be better to have ended it after the last major plot point
moral of the story: if you're going to genocide someone, do it all the way -
2023-03-06 at 5:35 AM UTC
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2023-03-06 at 6:25 AM UTCI watch anime with cute girls
in fact one invited me to watch this with her, I think I'm down -
2023-03-06 at 7:32 AM UTCI already posted a warning but HARD SPOILERS after this post
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2023-03-06 at 7:32 AM UTCIn the beginning, we're introduced to Eren and Mikasa, two kids growing up in a walled city which they assume to be the last bastion of humanity on the planet after giant, dickless 'Titans' killed and ate everyone else. After a century of living like this, with small groups of 'scouts' occasionally trying to explore the outside world (but ultimately being driven back inside the walls), unusual new types of Titans start smashing down the walls and letting the others in, leading to Eren's mother being eaten and him vowing to wipe them out. Eren, Mikasa and other survivors join the 'cadet corp' to be trained and eventually enlist in the military in order to fight the Titans.
As the story goes on, it's revealed that the people of the walled city are all of a specific race, and that their King brought them there to that island a century ago in order to isolate them from the rest of the world. They, the Eldians, possess a strange trait that allows them to be 'transformed' into Titans by consuming the spinal fluid of another Titan - the Titans that constantly attack them were their own people, cruelly transformed into monsters and sent against the city walls by their longtime racial enemies. In addition to the 'pure' Titans, the mindless monsters that attack humans on sight, there are also seven Titans that can be controlled by a person at will - two of which were the ones that initially kicked holes in the walls to let the mindless eaters in, and one of which Eren inherits.
King Fritz originally brought the bulk of his people to the island as 'penance', as regardless of intent, the power of the Titans had been used for war for almost a millennia. The Eldians left in the rest of the world were kept in ghettos as the lowest possible caste and were constantly taught that they were the source of the world's problems, their children blamed for holocausts that never actually happened. In actuality the Eldians were, for most of their history, used as slaves and weapons by Marleyan warlords.
Because Eldians are the only people who can inherit Titan powers (specifically the kind that can be controlled), their children are enrolled in the Marleyan military with the promise that their families can gain increased status and privilege should their children be chosen to 'become' a Titan. These child soldiers inevitably become severely damaged over the course of their service and all of them end up questioning their motives and themselves, if not losing their minds completely.
Eren, interestingly enough, doesn't really change at all - in the beginning he's depicted as the typical shonen hero who wants to protect his friends and kill the bad guys before they can hurt anyone else, a simple, zero-sum us-vs-them game. By the end the parties to the conflict - now his people, the Eldians and the 'bad guys', the Marleyans, have changed but the equation has not. The 'bad guys' still want to keep 'his people' locked inside the walls while slowly crushing them, and the only solution he has to ensure his peoples' freedom is to kill all of his enemies, regardless of who they are.
In the end, Eren begins obliterating the world outside the walls in order to ensure his peoples' survival, but leaves them the free will to try to stop him if they so wish. He apparently has two outcomes in mind - one, he kills all of his peoples' enemies. Two, his friends kill him and stop the world from being stomped to death, ensuring that the rest of the world embraces the Eldians as saviours and putting an end to the ill will they've garnered, leading to a lasting peace.
In the manga (the anime hasn't quite finished yet), his friends succeed in killing him and he reveals that what he had done was in large part due to his feelings and complicated relationship with Mikasa (gay). He's buried under a tree, and the last frame of the manga shows the tree overlooking the walled city some unspecified time later, with the city being bombed and the bombers engaged by SAMs (at the time of the story most of the world was using WWI-era technology).
So the moral of the story is, if you're going to genocide someone, do it properly. If you cuck and leave some of them standing they will come back and fuck your shit up later.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2023-03-06 at 8:10 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra In the beginning, we're introduced to Eren and Mikasa, two kids growing up in a walled city which they assume to be the last bastion of humanity on the planet after giant, dickless 'Titans' killed and ate everyone else. After a century of living like this, with small groups of 'scouts' occasionally trying to explore the outside world (but ultimately being driven back inside the walls), unusual new types of Titans start smashing down the walls and letting the others in, leading to Eren's mother being eaten and him vowing to wipe them out. Eren, Mikasa and other survivors join the 'cadet corp' to be trained and eventually enlist in the military in order to fight the Titans.
As the story goes on, it's revealed that the people of the walled city are all of a specific race, and that their King brought them there to that island a century ago in order to isolate them from the rest of the world. They, the Eldians, possess a strange trait that allows them to be 'transformed' into Titans by consuming the spinal fluid of another Titan - the Titans that constantly attack them were their own people, cruelly transformed into monsters and sent against the city walls by their longtime racial enemies. In addition to the 'pure' Titans, the mindless monsters that attack humans on sight, there are also seven Titans that can be controlled by a person at will - two of which were the ones that initially kicked holes in the walls to let the mindless eaters in, and one of which Eren inherits.
King Fritz originally brought the bulk of his people to the island as 'penance', as regardless of intent, the power of the Titans had been used for war for almost a millennia. The Eldians left in the rest of the world were kept in ghettos as the lowest possible caste and were constantly taught that they were the source of the world's problems, their children blamed for holocausts that never actually happened. In actuality the Eldians were, for most of their history, used as slaves and weapons by Marleyan warlords.
Because Eldians are the only people who can inherit Titan powers (specifically the kind that can be controlled), their children are enrolled in the Marleyan military with the promise that their families can gain increased status and privilege should their children be chosen to 'become' a Titan. These child soldiers inevitably become severely damaged over the course of their service and all of them end up questioning their motives and themselves, if not losing their minds completely.
Eren, interestingly enough, doesn't really change at all - in the beginning he's depicted as the typical shonen hero who wants to protect his friends and kill the bad guys before they can hurt anyone else, a simple, zero-sum us-vs-them game. By the end the parties to the conflict - now his people, the Eldians and the 'bad guys', the Marleyans, have changed but the equation has not. The 'bad guys' still want to keep 'his people' locked inside the walls while slowly crushing them, and the only solution he has to ensure his peoples' freedom is to kill all of his enemies, regardless of who they are.
In the end, Eren begins obliterating the world outside the walls in order to ensure his peoples' survival, but leaves them the free will to try to stop him if they so wish. He apparently has two outcomes in mind - one, he kills all of his peoples' enemies. Two, his friends kill him and stop the world from being stomped to death, ensuring that the rest of the world embraces the Eldians as saviours and putting an end to the ill will they've garnered, leading to a lasting peace.
In the manga (the anime hasn't quite finished yet), his friends succeed in killing him and he reveals that what he had done was in large part due to his feelings and complicated relationship with Mikasa (gay). He's buried under a tree, and the last frame of the manga shows the tree overlooking the walled city some unspecified time later, with the city being bombed and the bombers engaged by SAMs (at the time of the story most of the world was using WWI-era technology).
So the moral of the story is, if you're going to genocide someone, do it properly. If you cuck and leave some of them standing they will come back and fuck your shit up later.
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2023-03-06 at 8:27 AM UTCyeah I think that was the original plan; they even discuss it as a possibility before fighting him. it just seems weird for the ending to be written like that, like they needed to find a way to say "but remember kids, fascism and demographic warfare are BAD", after they're more or less presented as the only option for survival
