Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan (Manga Discussion)

Eren: "So we're stuck here huh"

Reiner: "You wanna shoot the shit?"

Eren: "Aight"

Beautiful.

This one is also good besides one part.

Edited by MadSkillz on Feb 23rd 2021 at 6:32:14 AM

I should be worried that I got every single reference and meme there.

@Ninety From both of them? O.o

Well if you're serious, can you tell me what they're referencing with all the marching girls with horns in the second video? It's been bugging me.

Kanna from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, popular for being a heckin adorable dragon loli.

So I missed a lot of pages since this morning and can't be assed to read all of them but based on the first few doesn't look like anyone answered Ninety's question:

My inference based on what limited info we have is that that's precisely what the deal is with the Ackermans. Zeke mentioned early in the Marley arc that they are the result of titan-related expirements, and Grandpa Ackerman when talking to Kenny specified the Ackerman and Asian clans as being of bloodlines that king could not control with the Founding titan, hence their persecution, in other words, they are a different race than the rest of Paradis.

Now, Levi and Mikasa appeared in Paths, yes, but Levi's mom conceived him while working at a brothel; and we know from Reiner being half-Marleyan that you don't need full blooded Eldian to be a subject of Ymir. Which leaves the more complicated case of Mikasa, with whom we have to surmise that while she is half-Ackerman and half-Hizuruan, her dad likely had an Eldian (or partially-Eldian) parent given how few Ackermans were left by the time he and Levi's generation(s) were born (her dad probably being around ten years older than Levi, given Levi was in his early 30s when Mikasa was 15).

Unless I read a poor translation, or there's been info released since saying the Ackerman clan is Eldian, in which case the above is of course bunk.

Edited by TheAirman on Feb 23rd 2021 at 8:48:43 AM

I like how the final OP has just become "The Genocide song"

If we're posting videos, here's a nice fan video. Not a meme, just some super cool stuff.

I am patiently waiting for the ending in one and half months but at the same time, I am worried that Isayama might have written himself into a corner with the story's main moral dilemma. If Eren is stopped, it is quite difficult to see how Eldians will not face the wrath of the survivors of the Rumbling without some major asspull. Still, I am hoping he would pull this off to stick the landing and amaze his audience once again.

Honestly though, the story heading this way was not within my expectation. I predicted that the final third of the story was going to be World War Titan with Paradis allying with Marley's enemies but nope...

Edited by Ulf_Jarl on Feb 23rd 2021 at 8:43:22 AM

Random thought - the Best Titan is probably pretty hard to use and plan for. Unlike the others in which there could be variations between users but still the same general design and power, with the Beast someone's titan form could be based of a totally different animal than their predecessor. In that case, even past memories wouldn't necessarily be of any real help in getting use to it.

Edited by LSBK on Feb 24th 2021 at 2:21:16 PM

I feel Eren would have some kind of apex dinosur if he used it.

In regards to Zeke.

I never liked Zeke from the very start as the first we sadistically ordered a extremely cruel death for Mike with the three Titans fighting over his body as they eat him alive.

Sure Zeke has done small scale shit in comparable to Eren but that moment still stands out to me as completely awful and that was our very first impression of him and we very well know he tried to have multiple Titans eat Levi too back in Shingshina.

Edited by Wispy on Feb 24th 2021 at 12:34:09 PM

Full version of the S4 OP. Lyrics are partly depressing and partly nonsensical. Still a banger.

I put an translation for the Japanese part of the song in the anime thread but I might as well put it here as I can talk more about it here anyway.

Our way home has disappeared

The sunset is reversed

The chimes rang leave school

Gradually getting worse

You said "I don't want to end my way home"

Just cry as much as you want for now

Step on the shadow of others when you leave school

Flowers run over by the train

I can't say "Bloom again next year"

I think the last three lines are talking about the Rumbling? It certainly sounds like it. There is a few allusions to it in the song. One thing I think we can all agree about is Attack on Titan has a really good soundtrack in general.

Edited by Wispy on Feb 24th 2021 at 7:26:04 AM

Yeah that opening is great. I discovered it through the MS paint version wispy just posted a couple days ago and it's really balls to the wall for an anime opening.

Also, Eren holding a beer to Reiner and asking "Tatakae ?" is one of my favorite things of recent memory.

Its either that or him T-Posing over him to assert dominance.

The video has closed captions with the lyrics, FYI.

So this apparently is an official image from Wit Studio.◊ Hits a tad hard to know that 13 of those are dead, and one (or 2) more may be as well.

happy times au when

Hah.

13 dead. One person who wants to die, but literally can't.

Oh Reiner.

Nobody between Levi and Hitch is alive anymore.

That was a really good point brought up way back, about the intermixing of Eldians and Marleyans. Like, no matter how hard miscegenation is prevented, both by cultural taboo and rule of law, you gonna get people that do it. Even if occurance is supe rare, they've had plenty of time for a good portion of the population to get "tainted" blood so to speak. I really am curious if Isayama will have some twist up his sleeve involving that. Or maybe he just never bothered showing a normal person being injected with Titan spinal fluid because he thought it would be pointless. We will see.

It can be detected with blood tests. We know from Kiyomi that they're currently finding Subjects of Ymir around the world who they missed rounding up beforehand and also from Annie that when the child of a Marleyan's blood test pop up as having Eldian blood they get tossed into the Internment Zone and left to be raised by whoever there takes them in.