JosephSaber40 said:In This topic I would like to compare between the masterpiece BB vs the trash AoT I may reopen this topic in the anime topics when the anime finishes airing the fandom becomes more active once again, I feel that BB succeeds in everything AoT has failed in.
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Build up
In BB the story was preparing for Hank to discover the atrocities about his brother-in-law Walter while AoT was preparing for Eren to learn how he should trust in himself and decisions, while chasing Annie he chose to follow the orders of his comrades and leaders and that led to all his friends being killed by Annie Eren learned that his decision matters a lot, in S4 we can see him trusting in himself where he forces his friends to follow him and attack Libero and we can see him organizing a complete coup against the MPs talking over Paradise by himself, later in the final chapter it's revealed that all this is a facade and he was actually a slave to Ymir where he was following a predetermined path where he knows past, present and future till the moment of his death and the outcome of events in this world can't be changed no matter what choices and decisions he chose and he was following Ymir blindly regardless of the outcome he said he doesn't know why he did what he did and he doesn't know what will happen after his death ????
Duty over personal interests
In BB Hank was determined to arrest his brother-in-law to bring him to justice regardless of the family bond between them, despite his retirement, he didn't care how his nephew will react he didn't care whether he'll lose his job in the police department or what he was so focused on his duty and responsibility as a DEA agent
in AoT Eren spared the lives of his friends he gave up on his duty to protect paradise he stopped at 80% and left the remaining 20% to destroy Paradise later on and left the island in a losing battle against the world
Hank valued his duty as a DEA agent over his family, career and above anything else, while Eren valued his useless friends over his duty to the people of the island.
Condemning the main antagonist of the story
in BB Walter was condemned and hated by everyone in the story everyone hated him, his wife, son, sister and brother in laws and Jessie everyone told him to go to hell and die.
in AoT Eren was thanked and mourned by his fellow friends, the same people who tried to stop him 🤡🤡🤡🤡, why nobody knows ignoring the horrors and atrocities he committed to make matter worse Armin pretended to be the hero who killed him, so they publicly and proudly claim to be the hero who killed him while mourning Eren secretly 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Character Consequences
in BB every character face numerous consequences for their involvement in corruption, killings and crimes, most notably Todd
In AoT the warriors don't face consequences, all of the characters get away with what they did, more specifically Annie who killed half the Levi squad and Peak who participated in the massacre of Ragako village, Annie and Peak happily reunited with their fathers 🤡🤡🤡🤡
character conclusion
in BB Hank died a DEA agent true to his duty till death telling the corrupted drug dealers to go to hell
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in AoT the warriors lived as useless ambassadors with no real influence on the world affairs, described by Annie as Poor weak little things, not only that they lived under military supervision, to put that in mind in AnR ending if Eren completed the rumbling Eren would have returned to rule Paradise as its one true king and the warriors dying true to their principles of refusing genocide instead of living as a hypocrites or useless ambassadors.
Character development
Walter started as a lovely schoolteacher and ended up as a crazy drug dealer who's doing this for just entertainment.
in AoT Eren started as a person with strong sense of duty seeking to protect his people and avenge his mother to a useless simp who killed his mother he engaged his people in a losing battle against the entire world without even titan powers to protect them, he ignored the fate of the island and all he cared about is Mikasa not finding another man after his death 🤢🤮
Themes and overall message
BB has some clear themes, it's a case study that shows how the life of crime and corruption can impact one's life and endanger those who are close to him, I mean we can see how Walt's family was ruined gradually throughout the 5 seasons of the story, Flynn had to endure the family problems of his parents, Hank got killed, the relationship between Marie and Skyler has been severely damaged and scarred, Skyler was involved in an affair, Jessie is the same case because his criminal activities cost him all his girlfriends Jean and Andrea
In AoT the story is very contradictory nobody understands what the story is trying to tell take for a small example Gruger that tells Grisha to do his best to prevent history from repeating itself again while ending defenders justify the trash finale by stating that Yams tried to portray how history repeats itself 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Story conclusion
BB had a good conclusion with Walt's death it's tightly written from start to finish, each season introduces new things and themes and the series was getting better with each season with S5 being the best season, in AoT the rumbling Arc was weak boring and sometimes redundant to previous arcs, lastly the 8 extra pages prepares for a sequel this disgusting 🤢🤮 a sequel just confirms that Yams was pretty much forced by his editors to ruin his series that would shame ending defenders even more whom I won't be able to respect if that 💩 happens, the sequel is being denied right now but pretty much like many previous interviews and statements by Yams I won't be surprised if those current statements got retconned and a sequel was to be announced next year when the anime finishes airing.
lastly if we apply the same writing concepts of AoT ending to Gus' story, I believe that we would be slapped by contradictory and illogical events, like Gus giving the Hector the order to kill Max🤡🤡🤡🤡, and all his grief and desire for revenge were just a facade and lies, and he secretly was loyal to Don Eladio, and such illogical contradictory writing like that would suck horribly 🤢🤮
BB just clears AoT it succeeds where AoT fails and Hank is everything that Eren and Armin should have been, Eren should value his duty above his personal ego and kill his own friends for the sake of Paradise survival and Armin should be just like Hank punching Eren for his crimes instead he punches him for hearting Mikasa 🤡🤡🤡🤡
There is no excuse for 139 it's top tier trash specifically when BB exists.
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