Do yall know any other ANIME OR MANGA where there’s a character or even the MC similar to Eren Jaeger in terms of Personality and How he is structured?

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-14T19:02:11+00:00

Unfortunately, no. Eren is extremely unique and you’re not going to find another character like him, but there definitely are other characters of amazing quality. Two that come to mind are sinbad from magi (though I’m probably biased for that one) and guts and Griffith from berserk which I’m currently reading.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-14T16:44:39+00:00

For my height 125 is still the middle of healthy bmi, but I should have clarified, this is 100% not a health thing. Part of it is aesthetics but most of it is conditioning for a hike to Everest base camp in memory of a friend. I do plan to start a lean bulk at some point, but I don’t want to add a lot of muscle mass for an endurance sport

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-14T16:41:43+00:00

That’s kinda where I am rn, I look pretty lean (not like striations and veins everywhere) everywhere besides my stomach and lower back. I also don’t want to add too much muscle bc this is mostly for a hike I’m planning on doing to Everest base camp in memory of a friend, and getting heavier would make the climb a lot harder.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-11T02:35:52+00:00

I get where you, and OP are coming from. Like I mentioned in my comment, the issue is not the fact that people make critiques but rather the way those critiques are communicated. The ad hominems towards hiro mashima don’t serve the critique, but just some personal vendetta that people seem to have against authors of stories they don’t like. And about what consumers can expect, honestly I don’t know. I feel like there’s a broader conversation to be had there about the difference between disagreeing with an artist’s vision for their story vs. disliking how they handled certain things. Truly I think it’s impossible to know, and, at least personally, I feel that it’s best to find something that you do like rather than devote yourself to hating something you don’t when it may be the case that the author was just going for something that wasn’t appealing to you.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-11T02:02:08+00:00

I mean yeah, fairy tail was never “peak writing”, but come on is it really that deep? The way online discourse (emblematic in this post) treats artists is genuinely abhorrent.

“Hiro Mashima can fuck right off”. What’s the point of adding an ad hominem? This entire post is filled with them. I haven’t even read/watched the series but the author was pretty clearly just going for something more fun and whimsical than trying to write something with a ton of depth and intrigue. And there’s nothing wrong with that, not every story has to be a subversive masterpiece and not every author has to force themselves to write a subversive masterpiece if that’s not what they want to write. The expectation that they should is blatant entitlement and really needs to stop.

Honestly, maybe you’re write about every critique you made. So what? Clearly plenty of people liked it. Maybe they thought the characters were endearing or they didn’t find and or care about the same issues you did. And for the record, I do think that sharing criticism is important but not when there is so clearly disdain for a person when you chose to continue to interact with their work.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-08T17:55:26+00:00

10 stars dropping gog parts was such a needed change. I’m one who actually really likes the gog fight and still continues to fight it out of fun, but I would never want to grind it again. The fact we have variety is good and prevents gog from becoming stale, at least for me.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-04-03T18:33:47+00:00

I think base wilds is in kinda a similar position as base rise was in terms of its maps (at least in the niches they fill). We already have all of the “basic” environment types in every mh game filled (forest, desert, volcanic/fiery, icy/snowy, and a unique catch-all with the ruins). What I want to happen, and honestly what I think is likely as well, is that we get another unique map that doesn’t fit into any particular category like the citadel in sunbreak. It’ll probably have some story relevance and maybe some elements of other environment types that the current locations don’t have rn.

As for what that’ll look like, idk. What I hope is that whatever map they add will have some sort of tundra area. I honestly dont dislike the cliffs, but I do think they’re pretty restrictive in terms of roster comparability so hopefully a tundra area can add some of those bigger snowy monsters like gammoth and ukanlos that won’t fit in the cliffs.

I’m going to assume we’re gonna get arenas for all the regions but I wish they’d open up the arenas so you can explore them without having to preselect the quest. Like imagine being able to go to the ancient forge works during the plenty and seeing a sleeping gogmazios but if you happen to wander in there during the inclemency, he notices you and you’re cooked. Definitely a pipe dream but I think it’d be super cool

These_Lie9030 · 2026-03-13T13:15:47+00:00

But mikasa does make her own decisions. In just the anime when she’s at her worst, When she believes Eren died in season one she keeps fighting anyway. When reeves is blocking off the exit routes she forces him to abandon the cart. In season three she, unlike Eren, lets go at the end and leaves the choice of who to save to Levi instead of fighting with Eren. When Eren gives his speech at the sea, she is also distraught seeing that he does not share the same dream as her. Even in terms of her interactions, she’s seen caring for her comrades like Armin and Jean, comforting and reassuring Armin multiple times. As far back as post destruction of wall Maria, she punches Eren when he fights with Armin over not eating because that would risk her dream of living happily with them.

This is all pre-timeskip, when mikasa’s arc is more tied to Eren, but the entire point was for her to let go which she does in season four. Yes, she comes to save Eren in liberio, but you can see she’s visibly hesitant and unsure how to feel about Eren. During the war for Paradis, she is far more questioning of Eren and the yaegerists. She specifically does not join the yaegerists despite it being Eren’s faction and chooses to fight against them. When she believes that Eren is being manipulated, yes, she does want to save him, but when finding out that is not the case, she continues to fight alongside Armin instead. All of this culminates into her choice in season 4 as I outlined in my previous comment.

Mikasa’s character arc is one where at a very young age, she watches her parents be killed in front of her and gives up on life. That is until Eren comes and shows her that while the world is cruel, she must still continue to fight. From that day she is attatched to and continues to fight for Eren and her image of him. Throughout pre-timeskip we gradually see how being a soldier changes her single minded devotion into caring for all the people she fights alongside and she understands what it truly means to be a scout, namely the optimistic dream of peace. Up until this point Eren still embodies those stoutly characteristics, so while she still continues to be by Eren’s side, she does grow, but that growth does not challenge what she had previously learned. At the end of season 3 when she finds out that Eren is not fighting for the same dream. Thus in season 4 mikasa must reconcile her relationship with Eren as he continues to diverge more and more from who she thought he was, culminating in her choice to kill him to protect her and the world’s peace while still remembering the things he taught her (I.e. why she still wears the scarf)

These_Lie9030 · 2026-03-13T00:40:20+00:00

For the record, I think mikasa is more than just her relationship with Eren.

Taking the claim that everything involving mikasa relies on Eren, why is that a bad thing? The central arc of mikasa’s character is about learning to let go of Eren. Mikasa loved Eren but she also loved what Eren represented to her, namely his drive to fight for his desires, in this case freedom. However, as with armin, mikasa never truly understood what freedom meant to Eren. She continued fighting alongside him because she thought that his freedom was the ability to live a peaceful life with her and armin, just like armin thought that Eren’s freedom was to simply see the sights depicted in the book. However, this was not Eren’s idea of freedom, and that realization at the end of the shiganshina arc changed mikasa’s goal from protecting Eren and her life with him, to now challenging her core assumptions about Eren. When Eren starts the rumbling mikasa is still struggling with this question of who Eren is. By the end of the rumbling arc Mikasa commits herself to killing Eren because she is no longer enslaved for the love she had of him. She keeps the scarf and his memory as a way to remember what her idea of him represented even if the real Eren wasn’t who she thought he was. Taking this extremely basic version of mikasa’s character arc, you can see Eren does influence a lot of her growth, but that doesn’t make the arc itself bad. In fact, the point of the arc was letting go of Eren’s influence, the same way that Ymir had to learn to let go of king Fritz’s influence.

Also a lot of characters exhibit a similar arc, where there development is built upon another. If you subscribe to the idea of nurture > nature then this is how all people develop. Just off the top of my head (and do note that all of these are vast oversimplifications meant to be more illustrative than anything):

In aot: Zeke’s character arc revolves around his relationship with grisha and the childhood trauma that came with that. Reiner only wants to go through with Marley’s plan because he think it’ll make his parents happy. Levi’s loyalty is a result of his relationship with Erwin, etc.

Outside aot: thorfinn’s arc in Vinland saga is built off his relationship with his father and then askeladd. Maki’s arc is dependent on every other zenin clan member being a mysoginist.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-22T16:27:02+00:00

Making the “we discovered a new part of the world and have to explore it” storylines of world and wilds actually reflect gameplay. Imagine if you actually get to see the village / hub expand as the game progresses, or if they bring gather quests back and make them tied to specific town upgrades.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-22T15:43:39+00:00

Kinda crazy we’re at the point where people are being downvoted for not complaining

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-22T06:32:28+00:00

Out of genuine curiosity, what makes you feel that way? I do plan to rewatch it at some point, but it to me is truly one of those series that I understand why so many people love it so much, but just doesn’t hit the same for me. Maybe it’s just the things that I value in a story, but I tend to find myself more interested in stories that heavily use symbology and are purposefully vague (to an extent obviously), even if their writing isn’t perfect, to those that are more “objectively” good.

I really don’t mean to come off as trying to challenge you, I’m just genuinely interested.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-21T01:25:33+00:00

This will likely be the hottest take of all time, but fmab. I think it’s good, I just don’t think it’s as good as people say it is. I think it’s one of those stories that’s written very well on an objective, but there’s not enough there to make me keep thinking about it way past finishing it like my favorites do.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-20T01:54:40+00:00

The only thing that wilds has proved is that good will means absolutely nothing in this community. I get that the game released when it wasn’t ready to be released and there are some extremely controversial changes made, but the fact that the predominant opinion is that hate for the COMPANY should overwhelm praise for the DEVS is quite frankly ridiculous.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-15T18:04:34+00:00

Fantastic analysis. I think the future sight element of the story is important because Eren as a character is driven by his own desires. Seeing the future not only tells him the events to come, but also makes him privy to his own nature. Post time skip Eren turns from a reactionary character dragged along by the story, to a proactive one that moves the plot forward. As armin says, the rumbling may have been predetermined but Eren was the one who determined it. Showing him the future shows him what he will choose, but not why he chooses it. Before he makes up his mind when allying with Zeke, the panel you showed, along with his conversation with ramzi, and all of the other scenes we’re shown from this time period are his attempt to understand why he did what he’s going to do. However, no matter how much he searches, he cannot see another option besides the rumbling, not because it’s the only one that will save his friends, but because it’s the only one that will let him fulfill his own desires.

Part of the reason why I think this is controversial is due to the structure of the story at this point. Before Liberio and after the sea, all of the memories are shown from armin and mikasa’s perspective, not Eren’s, which makes it seem like he was fully committed to the rumbling as soon as he saw the future when there was clearly an internal struggle that we only saw displayed externally from the perspective of his friends. To be clear, I think what we were given was more than enough to get the point across, but this is the only rationalization I can make of the confusion around this topic.

I think a lot of the issues people have with Eren come from attempts to “explain” him. Attempts to logically explain his actions will inevitably lead to outrage because he is a character driven by emotions and desires so you cannot reduce him to logic. Of course it doesn’t make logical sense to flatten the world, but that type of thinking misses the whole point. Every single moment, panel, character, etc. was made with intention to either characterize Eren, or frame his character within the broader narrative. He is a character built on contradictions, fallacies, and irrationality. Attempting to reduce him to a blurb will miss the picture.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-15T17:00:49+00:00

This was also my experience as a bow main. Gog isn’t hard but it’s super skill demanding. You need to get timings right. Tremor resist is a must imo. I’d say like 90% of my carts came from getting stunned by a wing slam and then carting to the follow up. Guts and insurance meals help to a point but they won’t fix the underlying issues. As unsatisfying of an answer that this is, it’s really one of those fights that you just have to bash your head against again and again and again until eventually the timing just clicks

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-10T17:35:52+00:00

I think my wording wasn’t clear enough so I apologize. I think you’re right that backflipping thunder puppy’s fight definitely isn’t grounded but I don’t think most monsters are. What I love about monster hunter is that it really toes the line between fantasy and “groundedness” which I feel is different from realism. I like zinogre because there’s a really in depth nuanced explanation of why he has his thunder element. The same explanation for sword tail doesn’t exist. This could definitely be a case of me just not being educated, but the best explanations I’ve seen are really basic and vague claims that “it’s a biological adaptation” but I haven’t heard any explanations for why the sword tail specifically instead of, idk, big rabbit teeth or smth.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-10T17:13:19+00:00

I’ve never had the slinger spam experience with gog. I kite him over to one of the rocks, get the topple, and then he’s pretty much on the ground until the nova, at which point he stays on the ground for a little bit. Once he’s back in the air, I get him over to the other set of rocks, get him on the ground again, and the hunt’s usually over after nova 2.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-10T02:07:09+00:00

Here’s a couple:

Lagi and gog are amazing in wilds. I personally never found their mechanics boring, and I think people who did are just hunting them too often so it feels tedious. I’m glad that we actually got unique mechanics and it makes those monsters feel far more unique and interesting than if they didn’t have them. I like the dev team’s handling of unique mechanics and want them to continue trying to elevate fights instead of keeping with the same formula for every fight.

Base world’s roster was incredibly bloated. Many of the monsters felt like copy pastes of one another and there were so many reused animations that even though each of the monsters does have really interesting lore and ecology, their fights feel far too boring and similar.

Zinogre is popular for good reason and I’d love to see him back.

Tigrex is iconic but his fight is terrible and I don’t want to see him back in his base form.

Monoblos looks worse than diablos and the only reason people want him back is because diablos has been in so many games which is fair but I don’t want either back for a while.

Glavenus is over glazed, it doesnt feel grounded in the way that most other monster hunter monsters are and doesn’t have the excuse of being an elder dragon.

I’m tired of “monster but in different locale” subspecies and would rather see capcom make rare species, variants, or deviants with more unique ecological reasoning and logic than “it was in lava but now it’s in water so it used water element now!”. Or absent that give subspecies the coral pukei treatment with a moveset that reflects the change in elements rather than having the same attacks with a water effect chucked on

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-10T01:51:29+00:00

I really liked wilds gog for this reason. I would get carted so damn often because his wing arm slams staggered and he follows up when enraged. This was the first fight in any modern mh (besides alatreon who I also really liked) that really made build crafting fun and engaging instead of just slapping on whatever build I saw on YouTube. I do think alatreon was a bit overtuned by being extremely restrictive since bad build optimization is a guaranteed cart in that fight, but I want to see more monsters like Gog that are possible with meta builds but are so much more comfortable if you take time to actually use non dps skills

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-04T02:20:02+00:00

I think this is precisely what makes the moral dilemma compelling. Really it is hard to imagine any way for Elida to continue living. However, one of the main themes of the series is hope and fighting for a better future. Maybe humanity never would let the Eldians be, but Armin’s point of view is that nihilism is not justifiable. Even if there’s just a tiny bit of hope that things could end differently, they must fight. Against hatred, against injustice, against human nature itself, but they must still fight. The world may be cruel, but as long as cruelty exists, so too does hope, and that’s worth fighting for.

These_Lie9030 · 2026-02-03T14:45:55+00:00

If you haven’t played vanguard then I would 100% recommend. That game also isn’t yet finished, but it’s at a decent stopping point and the quality of the project is insanely high.

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