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I think MAL has the time wrong at 20 minute per episode since it's less than 4 minutes... but lol @ this special. Chobi Mikasa and that Titan's head ahahaha
This reminded me of fun version of Accel World special that aired awhile ago.
Two so-so stories about the trio in training. Not so funny to me. Some jokes also look a bit tired (does it have to end with the trio in kyojin's stomach every single time?) Animation-wise, a bit better than SAO special but that is not saying too much. At least the character design looks cute enough.
So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old?
I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them?
I wonder how long people would put up with this.
As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series.
Eren and his "I gotta kill all titans" is a running gag for sure.
Anyone noticed the guy who was smirking by seeing Eren, also known as the so-called "adorable background guy" on tumblr? Now, I know more about his personality xD
Mikasa was hilarious in this episode, she always makes me laugh. Those "Eh" and that blush. That punch xD
Don't let the fanboys get to you, mate. I also find AOT to be boring as grass. I'd like to drop it but I figure I've already watched 19 episodes, might as well go for the gold.
That, and plus I still have to say the series has really good music. It's sad that that's the only thing still really keeping me glued to it. The unlikable characters & the lol-worthy plot aren't doing a thing for me.
Romedbaumann said: I dropped the main series, but this was surprisingly enjoyable.
are you trolling LOL
I am not. I sent a pm to the first person who asked, why.
I can send it to you as well, if you want...
just post it here before more people ask, and it would also help you receive more people's opinions on your throughts lol
Well, I didn't really want to do, since it has nothing to do with the discussion of this episode, but if you insist.
There aren't really any spoilers inside for anyone who is up to date with the series, but it is quite a long text, which is why I put spoiler tags.
1.) This is supposed to be quite dark and serious, but the design of the titans is completely contradicting. I can neither keep a straight face when I see something like that (http://0-gate.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/weird-titan-1024x575.png) nor can I take what I see seriously.
2.) This is more annoying and completely unnecessary than bad, but the massive amount of recaps.
The average episode has about a minute of recap at the beginning of the episodes. In some, this can take up to nearly 3 minutes. Taking out the opening and ending you're left with 18 minutes content per episode instead of the normal 20-21.
On top of that, they felt like those aren't enough. They had to make a whole recap episode halfway through because they thought something like, "well, we've shown them the exact same scene three times already, better make it a fourth time, so they won't forget".
Still, I'd say fair enough, if they would at least include a lot of plot in those 18 minutes. Some episodes maybe feel like a lot happened, but if you look back at it. About three sentences would be sufficient to sum it up. The pace is incredibly slow.
They reuse some of the scenes as well, but that's not really a massive problem.
4.) Generally the characters are clichéd cardboard cutouts. Eren is a simple guy who at the beginning isn't really good at anything, but he has lost his mother when the titans attacked and therefore he is going to kill them all...
Mikasa is the typical overprotective childhood friend. She got her life saved once by Eren and now that she's stronger than him, she does everything she can for him (Like I haven't seen that one in a thousand other anime).
Armin is the mental head of the group (Cause you need someone with a brain, right?)
Some of the side characters are a bit interesting (e.g. Levi, Erwin and especially Eren's dad), but that's all.
5.) The series is already 18 episodes (at the time of writing, which equals the point in time when I dropped SnK) in, and it has quite a few plot holes which don't seem to be explained in the near future.
The main things are obviously, how the titans even came to earth, but I'd assume that this is going to be adressed at a different point in time. Another thing which bugs me though, is how the hell those giant walls came into existence. They're obviously not made by humans (We're in a sort of medieval setting here and to build such walls would take centuries.)
How are they going to explain that?
Where they built by god? Then why did he do that exactly there? I don't recall exactly how many people there are, living inside those walls, but I think something around the 10 million mark. There surely were places where you could've safed more people than there.
Did they just appear out of nowhere? Well, that would be a lame excuse.
What are the objectives of the titans? Especially the giant red one. If he can just appear out of nowhere and destroy everything, why doesn't he just extinguish humanity? Is this some sort of "He wants to give them a chance to prove themselves" thing like in DS2?
That were the first things that came to mind. There are some more reasons, but those were the most important.
This sure was of high quality, while still funny and having the nice chibi art in it! Pretty nice in general, looking forward for more if there will be any more!
Who knew arguing inside a titan could be so adorable. xD; For a second I thought it was cute that Mikasa was worried about anyone who wasn't Eren, alas it wasn't to be!