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StrawHat_ said: Don't really see why Annie would be a ''great villain''. How the hell can you even say she's a good villain if we don't know any of her motives yet? By emotions she produces in me. There are many kinds of villains. Pure evil, motivated villains, good guys turned bad etc. And than there are these kinds of villains whose motivations you don't know but simply feel angry at the villain for what he has done, whether it was some evil deed, killing a person you liked or something else. Annie falls in the last category. I don't know why she wanted to take Eren, maybe so they could live happy titan life somewhere far in the forest with small titan children all around. Maybe to take him to others (my guess is there are more of human titans around). I don't know any of that. What I do know is she killed humans in most gruesome of ways, splattering them, toying with them (did you see how she swinged poor guy around after catching his rope?). She was brutal, ruthless. And than we come to the part with Levi's squad. Petra was first shown few seconds after Hange and Levi, immediately establishing her as one of the characters. Besides Mikasa almost no other female character got any development up to that point. Sasha was comedic relief, Annie was coldblooded bitch (as was proven later) and only Petra was down to ground character people could actually like and she was far from useless in a fight. And then she got crushed to the tree by Annie. As well as the rest of the team. I mentioned Petra especially since people liked her way more than anyone else that died up to this point in the show. So not only did she betray humanity (she may be titan, but she acted human up to that point), she didn't even have any remorse doing it. Those tears after failing to capture Eren weren't for humans, I'm sure of that. She enjoyed killing them, that is why I hate her. And that's what makes her great villain, we don't know her motives, but she did things. No words, no threats, actual deeds. She killed liked characters, she massacred unknown characters in gruesome way. She was made to be hated. And she fulfills that role perfectly. |
| The on'y thing in the episode was kind of off was how did they know it was annie? They knew it was someone from the original group but that was all. How did they link to her? |
lexxieo said: You'll get your answer in the next episode.The on'y thing in the episode was kind of off was how did they know it was annie? They knew it was someone from the original group but that was all. How did they link to her? |
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stAtic91 said: lexxieo said: You'll get your answer in the next episode.The on'y thing in the episode was kind of off was how did they know it was annie? They knew it was someone from the original group but that was all. How did they link to her? It's just kind of weird, Leaving that gap then answering it later. |
| Poor Marlo Suspicions on Annie being a Titan has always been obvious before, but I didn't think she was one this episode Until she stopped at the entrance of the underground Annie had some nice screen time indeed The one getting out of Annie's hand is suspicious as well now It was a very nice setup for the coming 2 finales |
| Wahhh i did have my suspicions but honestly did not expect that :O i wonder how the last two episodes are gonna be like? <-- havn't read the manga yet coz the anime is that good! :3 |
| LOL I thought the female titan was his mom |
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| Was waiting for that cold smirk from Annie but suddenly she blushes and starts laughing... wat |
| i hate every manga reader that could stop spoiling about annie, with the appearense of the FT. |
toutoune134 said: How come she's wearing a cloak again? That's disappointing. She looks great without one.Since I wanted to know who was the soldier fighting the female titan in episode 24's preview, I watched it frame by frame to find that it's simply Mikasa. http://i.imgur.com/FMVhON9.jpg |
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| I wonder what Annie's going to do? Stay and fight or try and hide/escape? I mean she just transformed in a city full of soldiers and gave away her identity, she might get overwhelmed. |
| Annie's reaction was rather unnatural imo. |
| Annie's reaction was wonderful. Shows the emotion conflict she's going through. That's why I like this anime. Compared to others, its characters are multi-faceted. |
| What the FUCK it finally happened. Thanks to google images I knew it was her around ep 12 or so, which pissed me off so much. But omg dat FACE. I was shocked, terrified and turned on all at the same time. The build up didn't make it that obvious it was her, but from the very first scene of her waking up it was clear what was about to happen. I do like the ambush though, i think the whole last scene played out very well. Still, the face and her laugh shocked the hell out of me. Damn |
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| Wait, so people think that her blushing and laugh is r34 bait? Also, accusing Attack on Titan of pandering? This is how it starts :V |
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JusticeSoulTuna said: Wait, so people think that her blushing and laugh is r34 bait? Also, accusing Attack on Titan of pandering? This is how it starts :V You had to mention that..... rule didn't you? Because of that dam site I will never see Optimus Prime in the same way ever again, I swear trolls disguising their links back in the day, nasty little f*ckers |
| Annie's laugh...So cute. *.* |
| ^ I rest my case. JusticeSoulTuna said: Wait, so people think that her blushing and laugh is r34 bait? Also, accusing Attack on Titan of pandering? This is how it starts :V The hell if I know what "r34" is referring to - probably some 4chan rubbish - but Shingeki's anime has been sexualised to pander more to males from very near the beginning. Mikasa having sparkly eyes was the first warning, which was swiftly followed by military girls with sixpacks, at a bootcamp, making sure to wear glossy lipstick--the killer blow. The manga art leaves little room for 'kawaii~!' bullshit to appeal to otaku (Mikasa's pupils are black; empty), so the anime team compromised by making the females into bishoujos. As for the laugh, the only reactions to it I've seen have been the 'WTF!?' variety due to how out of character and place it was and the "kawaii~!" kind that generates sales because Annie looks turned on/like she's one of those people that can have random orgasms in normal situations. Thus, it failed unless the intent was to get people in lust with Annie to buy the discs. A poor imitation of DN's highest/lowest point. |
| I was not even close to knowing who the female titan was, so finding out who it was only brings up more questions.. |
 Behold of my awesomeness~ controversial and/or sensitive topics likely devolve into the same repetitive, derogatory, abusive, and harassing comments can no longer be posted. But my feels. |
AironicallyHuman said: ^ I rest my case. JusticeSoulTuna said: Wait, so people think that her blushing and laugh is r34 bait? Also, accusing Attack on Titan of pandering? This is how it starts :V The hell if I know what "r34" is referring to - probably some 4chan rubbish - but Shingeki's anime has been sexualised to pander more to males from very near the beginning. Mikasa having sparkly eyes was the first warning, which was swiftly followed by military girls with sixpacks, at a bootcamp, making sure to wear glossy lipstick--the killer blow. The manga art leaves little room for 'kawaii~!' bullshit to appeal to otaku (Mikasa's pupils are black; empty), so the anime team compromised by making the females into bishoujos. As for the laugh, the only reactions to it I've seen have been the 'WTF!?' variety due to how out of character and place it was and the "kawaii~!" kind that generates sales because Annie looks turned on/like she's one of those people that can have random orgasms in normal situations. Thus, it failed unless the intent was to get people in lust with Annie to buy the discs. A poor imitation of DN's highest/lowest point. Haha. pretty interesting analysis you got there. To be fair, there's nothing wrong with the girls being pretty, else they'd be more plain than they already are. Alot of the guys are handsome, so going out of their way to make plain or ugly girls doesn't make any sense. I thought that SnK would make all those uptight social justice people happy that there aren't any sexualized chicks, but if pretty hair and nice eyes is bad then that's just nitpicking surely, unless you're kidding. If you're not, fair enough. And 'r34' is 'rule 34', so while its conception had something to do with 4chan it's its own thing. I'm sure you can look it up ;) Although real talk, the fact that I'm even defending the girls in Snk proves that i was right by saying 'this is how it starts' :p |
JusticeSoulTunaSep 15, 2013 10:15 AM
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| OMG this ep was toatally amazingg!!! i dont wanna wait for another week :( |
Uproller said: Annie's reaction was rather unnatural imo. I feel that Her evil grin before she went to bite herself was what I was expecting initially. Her laugh threw me off because it didn't really fit the situation or the character, it was about as far out of left field as it can get. Maybe she's bipolar? But there have been literally no signs of that being the case. It looked pretty uncomfortable... that might be what they were going for though I'm not one to keep nitpicking on something as insignificant but I still found it odd |
| seriously, how did the townsfolk manage to swarm Annie while she was in the middle of biting herself? What speed man |
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| Really epic episode. Just wondering, anyone know the OST that plays when they are on the stairs? It's such a good track. I can watch that scene over and over again. |
gedata said: seriously, how did the townsfolk manage to swarm Annie while she was in the middle of biting herself? What speed man Obviously it was the fat guy who did the somersault off the roof. He was fucking intimaditing. I would've also hesitated in her position |
| I saw a lot of complaints on Tumblr about Annie's reaction when she got found out, but eh. I thought it was pretty well-done and helped portray how Annie really wasn't in the right state of mind. Can't wait until next episode! |
DarkCyclone said: Uproller said: Annie's reaction was rather unnatural imo. I feel that Her evil grin before she went to bite herself was what I was expecting initially. Her laugh threw me off because it didn't really fit the situation or the character, it was about as far out of left field as it can get. Maybe she's bipolar? But there have been literally no signs of that being the case. It looked pretty uncomfortable... that might be what they were going for though I'm not one to keep nitpicking on something as insignificant but I still found it odd In the manga she didn't laught like that, she do a joker grin and open her eyes wide before she get swarmed by the Recon Corp. I too think is was out of place, it's not like Annie to laugh like that. |
| Forever Berserk |
Alfonse said: Track 9 on the first OST: 凸】♀】♂】←巨人 / Kyojin ShinkouJust wondering, anyone know the OST that plays when they are on the stairs? It's such a good track. |
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TBSM said: DarkCyclone said: Uproller said: Annie's reaction was rather unnatural imo. I feel that Her evil grin before she went to bite herself was what I was expecting initially. Her laugh threw me off because it didn't really fit the situation or the character, it was about as far out of left field as it can get. Maybe she's bipolar? But there have been literally no signs of that being the case. It looked pretty uncomfortable... that might be what they were going for though I'm not one to keep nitpicking on something as insignificant but I still found it odd In the manga she didn't laught like that, she do a joker grin and open her eyes wide before she get swarmed by the Recon Corp. I too think is was out of place, it's not like Annie to laugh like that. I think that was the whole point. She's been found out, her plans are exposed, and there's nothing she can do to convince herself otherwise. Because of that she snaps, and honestly the laugh threw me off. The joker grin in the manga is also completely out of her character because she never once smiled in the anime before. I don't see how a laugh is any different. It was supposed to throw the viewer off-guard and I think it managed to do that well. |
| Apparently there is again quite a bit of anime original content in this episode? |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
stAtic91 said: Alfonse said: Track 9 on the first OST: 凸】♀】♂】←巨人 / Kyojin ShinkouJust wondering, anyone know the OST that plays when they are on the stairs? It's such a good track. Thank you! |
| Yay more characters are introduced |
| Actually, I think her reaction was way more unique. I mean really, if she did a maniacal laugh and tilted her head back everybody'd be saying that Attack on Titan just did a typical bad guy laugh and criticize AoT as being generic for no reason. You're probably thinking that it wouldn't happen, but people already nitpick a lot with Attack on Titan despite how unique it's been so far; someone here told me the girls are sexualized cause they're pretty :p So to be fair, whilst the laugh was weird, perverse and unexpected, it was also symbolic: it was shocking, out of the blue, out of character. Annie being the female titan and having fooled them all shows that there's a lot of this character that we don't understand. I mean, think of how out of place her saying that she's scared of dark places cause she's a 'weak girl'; she'd already given off this impression that she's unstable and/or psychotic and finally discovering her secret and seeing that laugh is the summit of all of her actions. Also, her very predatory like face before she tried to transform was quite menacing and out of character, seemed almost titan-like. I do understand that people didn't like it cause it wasn't like the manga and it seemed 'out of character' for Annie herself. But tbh we know next to nothing about Annie, her background or her purpose. And considering all she's done, a weird perverted laugh is the least disturbing thing she's done. That's what I think anyway. |
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| Annie's laugh and the way she said Armin right after was actually so cute. I can't even front lol The guy in the apron jumping off the roofs before he caught Annie was going HAM LMAO |
256k said: For those who say that that laught its non canon and its all invention of the director... Ahem.. http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/isayamahazime/imgs/f/2/f2a48d8d.jpg Posted by Isayama in his blog, it was supposed to be one of the scenes of that chapter, but in the end he didnt included it, later he regret for not include more scenes like this, so in the anime it was included, and he says that he's so happy Sorry guys ;) What I find telling - assuming your translation of what was said is legit - is that he DIDN'T go with Annie laughing after considering it. He's fine with his second option getting the light of day in an adaptation of his work (no doubt more so due to the director + Kira's laugh) but he obviously didn't think it looked right to have not gone with it. *shrug* For the record, I always thought how Annie was drawn when she showed her fangs/smirked looked... off. So, with the above in mind, that probably means the author struggled with Annie's face in that scene. BUT, given how her character has/d always been depicted (even during the stair scene right before; when she said she was afraid but kept a straight face), showing as little emotion as possible is what fit her character. I would've been okish if her 'all bets are off' face had been the one with the crazed laughter... intsead, we got sparkly eyes, flushed cheeks and the sunlight highlighting THAT FUCKING LIPSTICK. It was like seeing a clusterfuck of 'NOES', all at once. And, no: never did I say a woman being sexy is a bad thing. It's an unrealistic thing for every female in a fictional military that takes itself seriously to be wank-worthy, but that wasn't the fucking point. The point was that sex sells and the anime relied on this whilst the manga didn't. If it was just the eyes showing more emotion, fine, but it was always hard to shrug off that girls/women set on turning their bodies into weapons to fight wars against giants would wake up and apply make-up before getting into push-ups and whatever. PLEASE! |
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