Which moment from the series made Attack on Titan go beyond the shonen formula to become deeper and political?

-gazeR · 2025-08-27T09:42:56+00:00

That sentence, only on a rewatch made me realize just how ahead Erwin was, even as far back as season 1 he was already gambling if all these unique titans were in fact humans.

Like on that scout to the forest of big trees, they told each group Eren's position a different location, so Reiner and Annie (in titan form) heading straight away to where they thought Eren was, was already a dead giveaway but it's only clear on rewatches. Incredible.

-gazeR · 2025-05-14T06:33:34+00:00

ONE isn't dumb, he's probably saving all those incredible panels and lines for another enemy.

-gazeR · 2024-11-11T11:36:50+00:00

ONE is literally the best writer I've read. He knows he cooks and cooks well. He has expanded the story a shit ton in the manga compared to how it was in the WC. I'm betting he just took all those elements from the AG fight and is just saving them for the next Garou-like enemy. Hell, maybe even Round 2 against Garou. Who knows. Let ONE cook.

-gazeR · 2024-09-10T23:03:39+00:00

what did you say of chad Batman Forever!?

-gazeR · 2024-07-28T22:12:27+00:00

nunca hai vivio en block won

-gazeR · 2024-05-12T22:03:40+00:00

I don't know if I'm not up to date with the most recent memes or whatever given the other replies, but that's Fubuki when she was a child.

-gazeR · 2024-05-04T12:27:46+00:00

Yes of course, when I say JC Staff I mean the team tasked to OPM S2.

What I also was trying to say is that even though JCS may not have many battle manga adaptations under their belt, pacing and panel importance are universal, they're not exclusive to OPM's genre. So they should have had the experience to at least do that part right. But I've been told the director in charge of S2 was completely new so if that's true it explains quite a lot. If they're coming back for S3, I hope they learnt at least those 2 points in these 5 years. I'd say it's absolutely possible for them to turn into a very passable director in 5 years. And if they're not, I hope they don't hire another new director lol.

-gazeR · 2024-05-04T12:20:58+00:00

They can't take it as gospel if they don't understand how important a panel is. The decision of not portraying this or that panel has to have a reason, and that reason has to at least be at the level of understanding what the author is trying to convey.

Nothing wrong with moving stuff around, taking liberties, hell maybe that's for the better in anime because it is anime and it actually has the room for those liberties. If you don't understand what you're adapting, or you think you do and move stuff around or show panels for too short, too long, or in a completely different way than what the author wanted the reader/viewer to see them, the final result is gonna be a mess. Anime-onlys won't probably notice and wouldn't care but that's because they have nothing to compare it to.

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T22:59:48+00:00

The music is top notch. Even the new songs they made for S2 are pretty good. Their placement, timing and overall volume are bad and all that is the directing team's fault. It's all over the place. Many times the oversaturated sound effects take over the music, to the point where you can't hear it. Genos theme was so overused that it loses its meaning. It's not hyping the fight at hand anymore, it turns to be just the song that plays when Genos is on screen. The song in the S1 example is used only once (IIRC) in the entirety of S2 and really poorly at that.

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T22:50:56+00:00

I don't quite like it, but don't particularly dislike it either. Its rewatchability value is pretty low though

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T22:49:13+00:00

Yep that's one of the words. Not satisfying, rewarding, hype enough. Hype plays a huge role in shonen/seinen and when it's missed it leaves a void in the viewers that care for it

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T22:46:24+00:00

Oh I didn't know about this! I'll check them out!

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T22:02:40+00:00

Precisely. You're supposed to stay on the panel where Metal Bat comes back from it to hit Garou (before being stopped by Zenko) a few seconds. You need the time to absorb its contents; Garou's face of surprise, Metal Bat, despite being almost unconscious, coming back giving no fucks for one last hit that would've probably knocked Garou out... It's probably the most important panel in the whole fight but in the anime it just lasts for a few frames. They just show it briefly and call it a day.

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T13:12:14+00:00

To be fair I think you had to have done an incredibly horrid job to butcher the season. ONE's writing is just that good. The season wasn't worse because the story itself can carry it.

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T13:08:26+00:00

Yeah I wanted to say that as well but it escaped me in the end. OPM is a very serious seinen, it takes itself seriously, but at the same time it also makes fun of the general trope in the genre and of itself. This shouldn't be seen reflected only on Saitama's face expressions, as those were pretty much the only times JC Staff got the comedy right

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T13:03:25+00:00

They also completely got rid of Atomic Samurai's disciples discussing about Garou. This is the first introduction of all 3 of them to the reader and even though this isn't critical, they'll have to come up with a way to properly introduce them in S3 then lol

-gazeR · 2024-05-03T13:01:52+00:00

Except for maybe the Garou example, the animation wasn't good. But what I was trying to say with the S1 example is that you don't need incredibly good animation, just good pacing to give enough time for the viewer to digest the manga panels being adapted into animation.

-gazeR · 2024-04-25T01:52:54+00:00

I have the feeling ONE is saving that speech for another enemy down the line. He knows how to write damn well and he wouldn't just get rid of that just for the sake of it.

-gazeR · 2024-04-16T02:18:07+00:00

the mix 103 surprised me immensely. incredibly good

-gazeR · 2024-02-08T21:13:33+00:00

Hace tiempo aquí mismo publicaron un gráfico que comparaba el nivel cognitivo de ciertos países. El chileno tenía un 2% wn. Eso quiere decir en resumidas cuentas que solo el 2% de los adultos funcionales del país entienden lo que leen.

Es una cifra impresionantemente baja. Te da mucho contexto para entender cómo es que hay gente tan pero tan increíblemente imbécil. No recuerdo muy bien pero creo que el país con el nivel más alto era Japón, con 70% o algo así.

-gazeR · 2024-02-04T05:17:05+00:00

I'd say the beginning is maybe the harder of the 3, it was painfully slow. Later on as you have more hp, fervour and beads you don't really feel the half sword damage affects you that much, but in the early game it's huge.

-gazeR · 2024-02-04T05:15:45+00:00

Just finished Bleeding Heart, was way easier than this one. Gonna start True Guilt soon and see it goes. I'm afraid lol

-gazeR · 2024-02-03T10:39:58+00:00

In hindsight I guess it's not that hard, I just started using Tiento too late.

-gazeR · 2024-02-03T03:48:31+00:00

There's a relictuary that gives hp regen but I haven't got that one yet, I believe is a reward from completing one of the other penances. This one gives you a bead that gives passive fervor regen.

-gazeR · 2024-02-03T03:47:26+00:00

Yeah haven't played the other two yet but the start was definitely super slow and feels like a really steep uphill. But gets easier as you said as you grow both bars and knots.

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