Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

**MFauli** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Usual anime trend would put Eren as team leader though due to his passion, with Mikasa following him with great skill and even greater devotion, leaving someone like Armin to deal with strategy and Jean to lead the city defence/administration.

i wonder whats the plan now, anyway. if i was erwin, i´d go with a small team to retrieve whatever´s inside the base of eren´s house. what was the plan of this failed mission anyhow? finding out about the human titan? just go with a group of 2-3 people that you´re sure are on your side and get to eren´s house!

btw, WHEN is the soundtrack for this anime being released? it´s soooo fantastic, damn. Whenever the music kicks in, i get hyped for that Wii U-game that´s getting music from the same composer. And thinking back, even Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii, the de-facto prequel to the upcoming game, had similiar themes as Shingeki no Kyojin (won´t spoiler since you should play for yourselves :P). so good.

***Buffalobiian*** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 02:55 AM

Originally Posted by MFauli

if i was erwin, i´d go with a small team to retrieve whatever´s inside the base of eren´s house. what was the plan of this failed mission anyhow? finding out about the human titan?

That's the mission objective. The higher-ups knew that as well and approved it. Going to Eren's house to fulfil the "bait" objective won't help them out in this case. If Erwin wasn't summoned the way he was, perhaps he could have sent a small squad out after they entered the walls (so that they can go out covertly).

It might not be as easy as we think though, because they can't fight on normal ground and the house seems to be ages away. If intelligent titans are actually around and looking for them (since they let the news out), then a small squad could be swamped by numbers.

Originally Posted by MFauli

btw, WHEN is the soundtrack for this anime being released?

Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

[Shin-S] Shingeki no Kyojin Original Soundtrack (FLAC) [Various].zip
[Shin-S] Shingeki no Kyojin Original Soundtrack [Various].zip

***David75*** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 04:51 AM

They lost everything except some intel:
4 MIA. Among them is the female titan...

The return of the legion was quite nice in that you could start to understand how it must feel to come back alive as a commander when you failed and lost so many of your troops.

I was a little surprised Petra was almost depicted as green recruit. Maybe I didn't understand well that she survived for 5 years in the most deadly corp. She only died because she met quite a monster among Titans.

For some reason, I felt like Mikasa would be Levi's replacement in the future. Maybe the ankle sprain, showing his body can't follow his awesome skills. It's hard to tell how old he is, but I guess like in any highly demanding sports, around 30-35 you start to get lots of injuries because you compensate for a decline in physical abilities.

***Buffalobiian*** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by David

They lost everything except some intel:
4 MIA. Among them is the female titan...

If our guess is right and the titan is Annie, she's not one of the 4 MIA. She's in the Military Police.

Originally Posted by David

Maybe the ankle sprain, showing his body can't follow his awesome skills.

I'd like him to stick around longer. The ankle sprain (at first I thought it was a broken leg) was totally Mikasa's fault, since he had to dive in to save her. That move was outside of his calculations.

Following the "why wouldn't you crush the female titan" and "tears" idea, he may have also noticed that the female titan had regained her eyesight by then but didn't pursue. Perhaps she couldn't, who knows.

The whole eye thing highlights how important it is to bail after you get your objective though. Tricks can happen. Erwin got screwed over because he didn't know the titan could summon, while the Slayer squad died because they didn't know F.titan could accelerate the regen of one eye. These two groups lost while trying to reach their primary objective so it couldn't be helped, but Levi would be a failure if he lost his/Mikasa's life while being greedy.

***David75*** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 07:54 AM

Even if the FT is not in the legion, doors do not open easily in that closed space story.
So there should be a list of who enters and who goes out the walls. Unless she's working for an insider group and has other ways out.

**shinta|hikari** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 08:48 AM

Dammit Mikasa, why can't I hate you even after you pull some dumb ass green shit like that even after being explicitly told not to by the best soldier in the world? Moreover it even injured mankind's most powerful warrior (who is certainly not fucking Eren who needed to be saved again, again, again, again...).

Levi is fantastic. Certainly the best character in the show so far excluding Mikasa, who wins because she is absurdly cute.

***Buffalobiian*** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by MFauli

edit: @Buff: Im waiting for a "hotter" Mikasa figurine :P One with more of dat cleavage. :>

You sure she's got the boobs to pull it off though?

edit: oh, and the other thing..

F.Titan could raise her arm to hit Mikasa, but didn't use it to prevent Levi's rescue when he was in her mouth? Strange.. maybe it worked out better in the manga panels that may have portrayed the rescue being faster than it seemed.

**shinta|hikari** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 09:23 AM

Yes, the slice and rescue did indeed happen in a short moment. The anime just slowed it down a bit so people can see what was happening. You can see the titan's arm slowly drooping down after Levi rescued Eren. That means everything happened before it could react. Looking at Levi's speed, it is certainly possible.

***Kraco*** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

F.Titan could raise her arm to hit Mikasa, but didn't use it to prevent Levi's rescue when he was in her mouth? Strange.. maybe it worked out better in the manga panels that may have portrayed the rescue being faster than it seemed.

It might be the titan was already running on fumes and didn't have any juice left after trying to hit Mikasa. The fact it didn't chase after them suggests as much as well. In that sense they might have been able to defeat it, but all in all after losing so many men due to underestimating the enemy, Levi's decision was undoubtly the correct one.

**shinta|hikari** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 09:55 AM

The skin hardening thing is simply OP. The titan can just harden the skin on its nape and it would be safe.

**lelouch** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by shinta|hikari

The skin hardening thing is simply OP. The titan can just harden the skin on its nape and it would be safe.

It could require an immense amount of chakra.

**shinta|hikari** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 07:53 PM

Didn't seem like it. The titan was using it non-stop while it was trapped, but it still managed to get eaten, escape, reform, do it again in the battle against the elite squad, then still manage to beat Eren in titan form.

**DarthEnderX** · Sun, 09-08-2013, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by David75

Even if the FT is not in the legion, doors do not open easily in that closed space story.
So there should be a list of who enters and who goes out the walls.

I would think that with maneuver gear she could just climb over the wall in a place where there's no city and little in the way of guard patrols.

***Kraco*** · Mon, 09-09-2013, 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by DarthEnderX

I would think that with maneuver gear she could just climb over the wall in a place where there's no city and little in the way of guard patrols.

That doesn't still remove the fact she would be counted missing during the day. Unless she has a superior officer who's a part of the conspiracy and can formally assign her some cover mission to explain her absence. Military tends to closely follow each and every member of its force. A vacation during these times seems unlikely as well.

**lelouch** · Mon, 09-09-2013, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Kraco

That doesn't still remove the fact she would be counted missing during the day. Unless she has a superior officer who's a part of the conspiracy and can formally assign her some cover mission to explain her absence. Military tends to closely follow each and every member of its force. A vacation during these times seems unlikely as well.

Sick day.

**DarthEnderX** · Mon, 09-09-2013, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by lelouch

Sick day.

That would work if they weren't specifically LOOKING for anyone who couldn't be accounted for.

If they go "Okay, so who wasn't accounted for on the day of the female titan attack?" "Well, everyone was here except this person who was out sick." That's a huge red flag.

***Kraco*** · Tue, 09-10-2013, 02:08 AM

Hmm... That might work - if we were talking about career officers or other senior personnel. That is, the sort of people who live in their own houses and come to work every morning like normal people. However, it would do little good to rookies who are forced to live in the barracks. Furthermore, we are talking about the military police here; I would assume they keep all the closer watch on the new recruits.

Under such circumstances you wouldn't be sick unless a doctor admits you are sick, and then you spend the day(s) in the hospital. If you go missing from there, it's no different from going missing from the barracks, or it might be even worse if they think the sickness was a faked one.

**Archangel** · Thu, 09-12-2013, 05:30 PM

**DarthEnderX** · Thu, 09-12-2013, 10:22 PM

I think you might be overestimating how fascinating the comparison is...

**DarthEnderX** · Sat, 09-14-2013, 08:02 PM

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