Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[Ryllharu]

I just wanted to point out that Hannes (the old drunkard that Eren and Mikasa always knew) has the Garrison badge in one shot, then Scouting Legion badge, then the Garrison badge, then back to the Scouting Legion badge, all while they discuss that he's been made a captain of the Garrison.

It's also interesting to note that while some people above have complained that the shiny lip gloss makes Mikasa look like a model (same with Krista for that matter), Mikasa also sits like one. She always puts her feet together, pushed to the side with her hands in her lap like a refined and delicate lady. It is very weird.

I also like Sasha, but I think of all the non-Mikasa characters, I like Annie the best.

[shinta|hikari]

Why the hell is Mikasa not there when things go crazy? I wanna see the skills of a genius as soon as possible.

The humour in this show is amazing. While the contrast to the general atmosphere helps, it really is just well timed and delivered.

[Y]

I just wanted to point out that Hannes (the old drunkard that Eren and Mikasa always knew) has the Garrison badge in one shot, then Scouting Legion badge, then the Garrison badge, then back to the Scouting Legion badge, all while they discuss that he's been made a captain of the Garrison.

Yeah they fucked that up, not to mention a lot of characters were "off-model" this episode.

I guess they're just following in the footsteps of the manga by making an ugly ass anime.

[KrayZ33]

Aww man, that epsiode was fun to watch, it feels like Eren is just the right amount of badass - above average skills, yet not a prodigy, hard working type and so far he is able to stand his ground when it matters

the music was freaking epic again.
and I really like the animation so far

[Killa-Eyez]

Good stuff. Want more.

It seems the anime is pretty keen on time jumps. Hope that ends now as few details are given and my curiosity keeps growing.

The seriousness/comic relief contrast are both remarkably at their extremes but pretty well thought out, luckily. It makes for an interesting watch, seeing as how traumatizing the occurring events are. Question is though how well it's development -to the point it stays realistic- will progress.

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Lol. Which is scarier, Titans or this dude.

Annie VS Mikasa

o.O

[Buffalobiian]

gg - Episode 05

[Archangel]

I'm sorry but that was hilarious to me, it was so obvious they were all going to get ass raped when they were all patting themselves in the back for all the titans they were gonna kill. Didn't expect what was seemingly going to be the main character to die so fast though, wonder if he'll pull through.

[lelouch]

He's obviously not going to die - there's still the whole deal with the key and the stuff his dad injected into him. Maybe he was injected with titan blood to regenerate, and the episode will end with him slashing his way out of the belly of the beast.

[Buffalobiian]

He's obviously not going to die - there's still the whole deal with the key and the stuff his dad injected into him. Maybe he was injected with titan blood to regenerate, and the episode will end with him slashing his way out of the belly of the beast.

Hmm, good point.

At one point I wondered if the Titans reproduce by eating humans.. but perhaps not.

[lelouch]

Yeah glad they killed off Thomas, too. He was getting annoying and looked too similar to Reiner Braun.

Thomas: "You can't beat the titans!"
Titan: "Not with that attitude you can't! nom nom nom."

[MFauli]

W
T
F

I saw Thomas being eaten and was like "alright, destorying putting a stark stop to the happy atmosphere from moments ago". But then everybody kept dying. omg

Really hope that Eren manages to cut himself out of the titan´s belly. I´d normally hate such bullshit-saves, but ... I like Eren :/ And neither Mikasa nor Armin are charismatic enough to take over as the main protagonist. God damn! Was tearing up again when Eren switched places with Armin. Those warped, despaired eyes of Eren ... ugh.

Between this show and children getting killed in HXH, anime has become rather depressing lol.

[Y]

My favorite part of the episode is that the badass scene from the trailers of Eren heroically charging into battle, lavishly animated and burning with righteous fury, leads directly into him getting chomped on and most of his team being brutally murdered thanks to his hasty attack. No, wait, it was the Titan that out of nowhere had giant anime eyes. No, it was Pixis obviously losing on purpose to the lord and then chugging his wine the second the news came in of the Titan attack and telling him to go be fat somewhere else. No wait, it was the titan stuck under the fallen barricade near the breach in the wall, wriggling around like a trapped insect.

Attack On Budget continued, slightly abated. A hilariously bad copypaste crowd, some still frames, but other than that a good looking and pretty fun episode. Also some minor censorship all around, but some of it can be attributed to a change in style - in the manga, Eren and his crew getting busted seemed very slow to me, as a poster on SA put it like a waking nightmare. Here it all happens lightning-fast, with little time spent lingering on it.

[David75]

Nice entertainment.
But I now have mixed feelings.
Eren survives with some trick, and I'll gripe. He's really dead, and I wonder on what basis that anime will hold as has been stated earlier.
When he lost half his left leg, I had wishfull thinking that with proper gear you would still be able to use that spider like device since you mainly need your arms... except bouncing off wall. But even then, we know of carbon blades that are very efficient... just not in a late medieval like setting.
Then he lost his right arm when swallowed. In fact I even wonder how he was able to save Armin at all, that part was utter bullshit.

So back to Eren making it alive:
It was nightmare. Well usual storytelling bullshit.
The injection was for body regeneration: bullshit that might fit into the setting. Particularly if that technology is derived from a previous failed attempt that created the Titans in the first place...

So now, Eren has to make it out alive from his nightmare... or from that Titan's belly.
Piercing his way out with his left hand blade when he lost that much blood and is probably suffering like Hell... or even is out cold from those very severe injuries?
Being able to pierce the back of the neck, but from inside the throat and have the Titan pop like a buble and he falls several meters?
Have Armin pop the Titan for him?

Regarding intelligence, yes those Titans have some intelligence.
They can organise their hordes for attack with specialised types.
They are also able to set traps, Eren lost a leg to such a trap.
And yes, that Giant among Titans really did target the canons and didn't care attacking Eren at all.

[Belial]

Well that was unexpected ... brutal as always, and at least we got some explanation on the titans, they are basically hot giant zombie vampires with only one weak spot at the back of the neck

[MFauli]

Since David mentioned the trap-aspect. That´s actually really stupid. That giant the laid on the ground, waiting for Eren to fly over him. Wat. How many recon squads have they sent out for the Titans to develops such strategies, lol.

Also, the "they can regenerate even after their head is blown off" and "they only eat humans, but haven´t been able to do so for 100 years, yet they´re still there" for me confirms that all of this is either a god-like alien´s experiment OR it´s something spiritual, like, this world is actually hell and the people there are punished. Or Eren is actually a real world-otaku, lying in coma and having this dream, lol. Or maybe Sword Art Online 2.0 :>

[David75]

Belial, your avatar reminds us of another cripled MC that beats unbeatable monsters easily.

Since David mentioned the trap-aspect. That´s actually really stupid. That giant the laid on the ground, waiting for Eren to fly over him. Wat. How many recon squads have they sent out for the Titans to develops such strategies, lol.

Also, the "they can regenerate even after their head is blown off" and "they only eat humans, but haven´t been able to do so for 100 years, yet they´re still there" for me confirms that all of this is either a god-like alien´s experiment OR it´s something spiritual, like, this world is actually hell and the people there are punished. Or Eren is actually a real world-otaku, lying in coma and having this dream, lol. Or maybe Sword Art Online 2.0 :>

Or there's a mastermind organisation behing all of that, I would not be surprised if they told us those Titans are weapons sent from another human group/nation.

[lelouch]

Or there's a mastermind organisation behing all of that, I would not be surprised if they told us those Titans are weapons sent from another human group/nation.

Maybe the fire nation?

[Kraco]

Regarding intelligence, yes those Titans have some intelligence.
They can organise their hordes for attack with specialised types.
They are also able to set traps, Eren lost a leg to such a trap.
And yes, that Giant among Titans really did target the canons and didn't care attacking Eren at all.

You are extrapolating far too much. The normal titans simply wander in when the wall is breached, seeking humans to kill. The colossal one can kick a gate in and sweep cannons, but that's more or less it, based on what we have seen. It's battery life is also extremely limited. The trap was no trap. Eren was blindly flying forward, paying no attention to his surroundings whatsoever, along a very long road with high visibility. Any random titan would notice him and naturally try to snatch him out of the air. And there were many titans around.

I got a feeling from this episode that Eren is a huge liability. He forgot their whole training the moment he lost his cool and got his whole team annihilated. He's the main character, so he has to survive, and ironically enough it's no doubt only his single-minded and idiotic obsession of killing titans (with his lack of skills but bigger than a titan ego) that will allow him to move forward despite the knowledge he's the reason his team was killed without achieving anything at all. A normal man would be full of regret, but this guy, I reckon, will shrug his shoulders and dream of killing another titan.

[Buffalobiian]

Attack On Budget continued, slightly abated. A hilariously bad copypaste crowd, some still frames, but other than that a good looking and pretty fun episode. Also some minor censorship all around, but some of it can be attributed to a change in style - in the manga, Eren and his crew getting busted seemed very slow to me, as a poster on SA put it like a waking nightmare. Here it all happens lightning-fast, with little time spent lingering on it.

Agreeing with pretty much all of this, and it made it difficult for me to enjoy this episode. Eren's crew died so fast that I didn't even invest enough feelings into them for their deaths to be meaningful. The "timeskip" to saving Armin was BS as David pointed out too. How on earth did that happen? The first 3 episodes of this anime were nice, but now it's hard to get me pumping. Everything just seems so... bland. Maybe if they bothered to animate this "waking nightmare" Y speaks of then I would have felt more emotional. And what's SA?

On the intelligence note, the Titans crossed the pitfall traps at the gate with some type of bridge - was the bridge theirs or were the humans stupid enough to leave it lying there?

I don't read the manga or readers' hype about this, so I'm basically watching this as-is. It's above-average entertaining, but Valvrave's already overtaken it in the Weekly Anticipation factor.

[lelouch]

Everything just seems so... bland.

...if this show is bland to you, I fear to ever meet you in person. o.O

As others have said, I don't think the mini-titans were setting traps. To my understanding, they were kind of just thumping around and Eren & Co's lack of awareness is what got them fucked harder than a filipino hooker.