Attack on Titan Anime: SIE SIND KARTOFFELN UND WIR SIND DIE JÄGER

Trailer for the second half of Season 3:

…And now I'm worried. The animation looks… kinda weak? Or maybe that's just me…

It looks fine to me, the only part that might look off is the background of the scenes and that likely wouldn't quite matter as they aren't the focal point of them.

Overall though this looks good

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So we have an exact date now. April… 28. They're really pushing it back as much as they can.

Huh… Apparently Season 3 Part 2 will only have ten episodes…? If they intend to adapt all the way to volume 22, they will have to squeeze the hell out of this…

After waiting forfuckingever, episode 13 is finally out! And any worries I had were quickly eased. The tension is wonderfully managed and the animation more polished than in the trailer.

The only hiccups are those goofy split-screen shots at the end, and probably the worst opening in the series so far (except for the last 20 seconds). Even the ending pales compared to Akatsuki no Requiem.

Oh, the season is starting back up?

Yep, it was announced for April 28.

The recap from the beginning reused stuff from season 1, right? 'Cause I recognize the thick outline.

And holy shit I forgot how good the soundtrack is. I love Sawano's work but I considered SnK's OST inferior to his work on Kill la Kill and Re Creators. But then the vocal remix of "Attack on Titan" played and I got massive goosebumps.

Edited by JRads47 on Apr 28th 2019 at 12:25:04 PM

Episode 14… was surprisingly quiet? I didn't remember this much tactical pondering. Though I did remember Erwin's moral pondering. Anyway, it was all worth it for the last 5 minutes. Sorry, Reiner, you're shit out of luck.

On the negative side… some animation hiccups are becoming apparent. Nothing awful, but it's noticeable, and the next episode preview seems to confirm it.

Now how much time before that finger gun titan becomes a new meme?

Episode 15, where some early lines from Season 1 take a whole new meaning. Where we remember that Annie exists. And where Berthold grows a spine at the worst moment.

Man those expressions from Annie are heartbreaking… and man that colossal CGI is ugly. >.>

Yeah, the CGI is decidedly uneven on this show, and when it fails it fails BIG!

It's weird because most of it is fairly decent and unnoticeable, but with the Colossal Titan they just… can't get it right. It looked perfectly fine in 2D back in season 1, and it doesn't seem particularly hard to animate, so I have no idea why they insist on doing it CG.

Edited by Lyendith on May 13th 2019 at 3:04:13 PM

Probably to save on money

Which makes no sense considering how big Snk is

Money might not be the only problem, considering they had to split Season 3 into two… I assume localized CG is less time consuming?

Anyway, episode 16! "Welp, we're all fucked so we might as well go out with a bang. Who's coming with me?" You really don't want to be a hero in this series…

Ah, this was a perfect adaption of some of my favorite chapters of the manga. And you can see some of the places that 6-month production gap was put to good use.

Yep, that Levi rampage was satisfying as hell. It was all so well done…

…Although seeing the whole thing animated makes you realize that Berthold took his sweet time to reach the wall. >.> I know the Colossal is slow, but with its gigantic strides I'm surprised it took him like twenty minutes.

Just chalk it up to us seeing things that are happening simultaneously at different points.

I'll take that explanation.

Episode 18 was… whew. "It's not about what you play, it's about what you don't play", they say… I've rarely seen the absence of music be used as effectively as in this episode. Even knowing how things would unfold, it still hit me hard.

Sorry not sorry Bert.

That was really well done, and the mostly silence really was a part of it.

That silence actually worked really well to sell the sadness of that whole scene and I never seen that done before.

I do kind of feel bad for Bert here but well, he did some really horrible stuff so he still deserves this.

Edited by Wispy on Jun 3rd 2019 at 12:26:31 PM

…You know, when I learned part 2 would only be 10 episodes I was worried, but this is all remarkably paced actually. Here we have a slow episode that does a good job at building up the reveal, with little flashbacks and discreet but effective music.

And I love the music in the post-credit scene. <3

I know I was like "Wait, there's still too much left for the episode for it to be over" and then we got post-credit scene. The music was a good touch, it was juuust different enough to give the feeling of being somewhere/somewhen completely new.

The pacing this season has been so good.

Woah, I just finished binging the third season and... the first half was not great, honestly, the pacing was pretty bad and it was clear that they were trying to get that storyarc out of the way so they could focus on the following one.

Then they did focus on the following one, and they did an awesome job. The last four/five episodes are top-tier, emotional, perfectly paced and animated.

Eeh, I found the first half pretty well-paced actually. It's less that they were "getting it out of the way" and more that they tried to make the uprising arc more digestable, considering how dialogue-heavy it was in the manga. To me they mostly succeeded.