Attack on Titan Griefing Thread - >tfw even your VA thinks that you're a loser

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

I thought it was fine that Sasha died frankly, and it was more impactful that she died there than in the forest. She was the only character that COULD die and not mess up the overall storyline or her own arc (like Marco she didn't have one), but still had some emotional weight and importance to them. Someone emotionally valuable on their side needed to die during that arc, and I like that it was a sucker punch at the end. That was fine but all that shit with her own family forgiving and accepting Gabi in an instant and that part where the girl Sasha saved sees Gabi as Sasha for a moment was unbelievably stupid. I was really looking forward to the facade breaking and then we got Sasha's dad's dumbass forest speech. Gabi didn't need to die or be forgiven, it just needed to be... anything but that. Then she got the winning shot against Floch what the hell? If anyone specifically had to have it it should have been Jean since they're basically alternate timeline versions of of each other.

imo she's overhated but she's super annoying and her character arc takes way too fucking long for something you know the exact endpoint of the moment she's introduced.

Falco confessing to her was adorable though not gonna lie. Falco/Gabi is somehow the most fleshed out and best realized romance in the manga what the hell.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

At this point I expect the manga to end something like this:

With Reiner finally in the afterlife, finally at peace only to be brought back to life by someone.

 

[Bowiotronic]

I dont know what's the big deal about killing sasha since I'm pretty sure this series started kinda like "gee I wonder who's gonna die this episode" and I'm pretty sure one of the reasons it got popular was for that very fact, I can understand people having favourites but I'd always leave it to the author to do whatever the fuck he wants with the characters, I think Sasha should have died back when the series was on a death of the week basis.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I thought it was fine that Sasha died frankly, and it was more impactful that she died there than in the forest. She was the only character that COULD die and not mess up the overall storyline or her own arc (like Marco she didn't have one), but still had some emotional weight and importance to them. Someone emotionally valuable on their side needed to die during that arc, and I like that it was a sucker punch at the end. That was fine but all that shit with her own family forgiving and accepting Gabi in an instant and that part where the girl Sasha saved sees Gabi as Sasha for a moment was unbelievably stupid. I was really looking forward to the facade breaking and then we got Sasha's dad's dumbass forest speech. Gabi didn't need to die or be forgiven, it just needed to be... anything but that. Then she got the winning shot against Floch what the hell? If anyone specifically had to have it it should have been Jean since they're basically alternate timeline versions of of each other.

imo she's overhated but she's super annoying and her character arc takes way too fucking long for something you know the exact endpoint of the moment she's introduced.

Falco confessing to her was adorable though not gonna lie. Falco/Gabi is somehow the most fleshed out and best realized romance in the manga what the hell.

Honestly I get what Iseyama was trying to do with the Gabi and Sasha comparisons but it was really stupid since it would've worked better if there was more subtlety rather than the girl Sasha saved seeing Gabi as Sasha. With the forgiven part, I feel like Gabi should've had a similar redemption arc to Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist where the people whose lives she impacted by murdering a loved one don't necessarily forgive her but won't hold a grudge over it since there are bigger issues at play. I also definitely agree that her arc just drags out for too long (I doubt it but I hope the anime condenses it a bit). Though I thought Mikasa was the one who ended up killing Floch.

 

[Secret Asshole]

I dont know what's the big deal about killing sasha since I'm pretty sure this series started kinda like "gee I wonder who's gonna die this episode" and I'm pretty sure one of the reasons it got popular was for that very fact, I can understand people having favourites but I'd always leave it to the author to do whatever the fuck he wants with the characters, I think Sasha should have died back when the series was on a death of the week basis.

Its because Sasha was one of the brighter characters in the dark manga, so when she went it took something out and was seen as more of an 'edgelord move' since NO COMIC RELIEF ALLOWED IN MY MANGA

 

[Bowiotronic]

I agree with this statement

edgelord move' since NO COMIC RELIEF ALLOWED IN MY MANGA

I also have to thank people pointing GoT avengers and that other influence on Isayama's work since I knew something was about pretty much since they presented the church in Paradis, but could not point my finger to it, all the historia and political stuff stinked to GoT to me but I didnt perceive the avengers or other stuff

 

[FaramirG]

I thought it was fine that Sasha died frankly, and it was more impactful that she died there than in the forest. She was the only character that COULD die and not mess up the overall storyline or her own arc (like Marco she didn't have one), but still had some emotional weight and importance to them. Someone emotionally valuable on their side needed to die during that arc, and I like that it was a sucker punch at the end. That was fine but all that shit with her own family forgiving and accepting Gabi in an instant and that part where the girl Sasha saved sees Gabi as Sasha for a moment was unbelievably stupid. I was really looking forward to the facade breaking and then we got Sasha's dad's dumbass forest speech. Gabi didn't need to die or be forgiven, it just needed to be... anything but that. Then she got the winning shot against Floch what the hell? If anyone specifically had to have it it should have been Jean since they're basically alternate timeline versions of of each other.

imo she's overhated but she's super annoying and her character arc takes way too fucking long for something you know the exact endpoint of the moment she's introduced.

Falco confessing to her was adorable though not gonna lie. Falco/Gabi is somehow the most fleshed out and best realized romance in the manga what the hell.

Well considering that the other "romances" in this series all involve mass murder, one-sided pining, and/or genetic engineering-based slavery, the bar has been set pretty low.

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

I dont know what's the big deal about killing sasha since I'm pretty sure this series started kinda like "gee I wonder who's gonna die this episode" and I'm pretty sure one of the reasons it got popular was for that very fact, I can understand people having favourites but I'd always leave it to the author to do whatever the fuck he wants with the characters, I think Sasha should have died back when the series was on a death of the week basis.

She was a likeable character who the audience had two thirds of the series to grow to like, killed off by a hamfisted tragic backstory character jammed into the story shortly beforehand, with no time to become developed or compelling. It could have worked, but the execution falls flat. I get the feeling that a good amount of the pacing of the manga probably worked a lot better when you had a month in between each release. For people who start reading later on and catch up rapidly, the story comes across as kind of convoluted. At least, that's how it was for me. I read up until the uprising arc and lost interest until around halfway through this year.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Well considering that the other "romances" in this series all involve mass murder, one-sided pining, and/or genetic engineering-based slavery, the bar has been set pretty low.

Oh God. This is the worst manga for romance ever, especially considering its all about strong emotions. Love has never been particularly one of them. And all of the 'romance' has been pretty autistic. If you told me Historia was pregnant through Titan Magic PATHS, I'd fucking believe it.

Because nobody in this manga fucks.

She was a likeable character who the audience had two thirds of the series to grow to like, killed off by a hamfisted tragic backstory character jammed into the story shortly beforehand, with no time to become developed or compelling. It could have worked, but the execution falls flat. I get the feeling that a good amount of the pacing of the manga probably worked a lot better when you had a month in between each release. For people who start reading later on and catch up rapidly, the story comes across as kind of convoluted. At least, that's how it was for me. I read up until the uprising arc and lost interest until around halfway through this year.

Much like everything in AoT, Isayama wanted her dead so she died. I don't think he thought of it much, she always had a death flag. Whether

The major problem when you read all at once is you immediately see Isayama playing for time with the vast amount of filler and just pointless shit. The pacing is off because there's no real plan. He wanted his WWII fanfic, so he uses the time-skip. Then he watches GoT and includes that in his WWII story. So the pacing becomes jarring, because he's constantly switching modes. You've got filler chapters playing for time and then the story jerks in another direction.

Instead of being a smooth, natural curve, AoT's pacing is a slow straight line that suddenly and jarringly becomes a right angle. The right angle continues, becoming a straight line, before it jerks into another right angle.

I mean, the pacing is off because he is constantly altering what it is. One minute, its a war story. The next minute, its Game of Thrones with its time bending shit, the next minute its the Avengers. Its schizophrenic.

I'm not saying a story can't change its focus or genre. But it can't do it as many times as AoT has and survive as a consistent or coherent narrative. Stories typically do only one switch. Because its hard to keep the audience invested in what you are telling. AoT splits off constantly, from one thing to another.

Isayama doesn't know what he wants it to be, and just takes flavor of the month pop-culture elements and jams them in. And it shows.

I mean, I don't see how you could take Eren getting his goddamn head blown off and Zeke catching it like a baseball fucking hilarious. There's so much shit like that too in this 'edgy' manga, it basically trips into parody unintentionally.

And I am dying to see how this ends. I want to know if its a fake out or boring. I'm going to bet on boring because it feels like he saw Endgame the two weeks before drawing the panel and rushed to finish it.

 

[Uncle June]

The only romance in the series was between Armin and the guy molesting him.

 

[Permuto]

Technically yes, even the lovey-dovey dead couple from the first season weren't that handsy with each other.

Edit for double posting:
The only thing that I can say I enjoyed with Attack on Titan is that it hasn't attracted a lot of woke people, I almost never stumble across sjw woke fanart of it and most of the sperging comes from generic shipping war/fujoshi faggotry and the Jeagerists vs normie fans. The whole "Eldians are both jews/nazi germans" and WW2 themes ironically made it too problematic for sjws to enjoy (at least out in the open).

 

[Gar For Archer]

I started re-watching from the beginning with some friends, and man is season 1 kinda rough in retrospect. AoT was one of the first anime I'd actually watched so I didn't have much of a reference point for it at the time. I feel like this is another case like Demon Slayer where its insane popularity comes entirely from its admittedly pretty good animation, because holy fuck are the characters just so bland and uninteresting. In retrospect, it's kind of funny to me that the main reason the initial twist that Bertolt, Reiner and Annie are titan shifters works is because there's so many useless jobbers introduced in the first couple episodes that you don't really question when a few of them are conspicuously missing.

Was the manga popular before the anime released, or was it also like Demon Slayer where it was practically unknown until the anime adaptation came out?

 

[KID NAMED SCHWARMAPUNK]

So I've been binge reading this thread and damn.....
What a waste.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I started re-watching from the beginning with some friends, and man is season 1 kinda rough in retrospect. AoT was one of the first anime I'd actually watched so I didn't have much of a reference point for it at the time. I feel like this is another case like Demon Slayer where its insane popularity comes entirely from its admittedly pretty good animation, because holy fuck are the characters just so bland and uninteresting. In retrospect, it's kind of funny to me that the main reason the initial twist that Bertolt, Reiner and Annie are titan shifters works is because there's so many useless jobbers introduced in the first couple episodes that you don't really question when a few of them are conspicuously missing.

Was the manga popular before the anime released, or was it also like Demon Slayer where it was practically unknown until the anime adaptation came out?

I think the manga was really popular in Japan and it got popular in the west for being dark along with essentially being a zombie story since when the AOT anime came out, the West was in a zombie crave and IIRC Funimation advertised it as "Japanese Walking Dead".

 

[Stoneheart]

The anime is just frustrating. the last few Episodes are just clipshows of random Shit... also the badly designed characters make it hard to understand who you are watching right now...

 

[Secret Asshole]

The anime is just frustrating. the last few Episodes are just clipshows of random Shit... also the badly designed characters make it hard to understand who you are watching right now...

That's what the manga art is like, fucking lol. So its technically accurate.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Shit... also the badly designed characters make it hard to understand who you are watching right now...

Real talk, in the manga there were times when I thought Floch was Armin, and Jean was Erwin.

 

[Stoneheart]

That's what the manga art is like, fucking lol. So its technically accurate.

Thats Studio change made it real bad...

 

[Secret Asshole]

Well, if you want to cheap out on the art, you've got a good defense when you say it is 'authentic to the manga'.

 

[KID NAMED SCHWARMAPUNK]

All this rage and shit posting aside. We can all agree that The soundtrack will always be straight bangers.
What's you favourite?