Attack on Titan is great.
Is this just going to be like Marvel Zombie then?
Is this a Jo Jo reference?I... wait... what?
Honestly, I have never seen Attack on Titan, mainly because it (or at least the manga,) isn't finished yet. When it comes to works of fiction that are supposed to be finite stories, (like most anime and manga,) I tend to wait until it's over and done with before plunging in, so that I don't have to wait for who knows how long after I start it to finish it up. Works such as most comics, as well as some TV shows (like Doctor Who,) are instead ongoing works that are likely to never truly end, so I just go and watch them anyway.
The point is, I have never seen or read Attack On Titan, and because of that, a crossover such as this just seems... bizarre, to put it mildly.
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Like Marvel Manga Verse? (And speaking of which, Chuck Austen wrote a Ghostrider special for it. Make of that what you will.)
edited 3rd Nov '14 1:43:22 PM by kkhohoho
This seems really, really unfair to the Attack on Titan setting. Tell Spider-Man what the average person knows about the setting and hand him a length of rebar and he'll become a one man Titan genocide, at least until the special titans come out.
Ah, but to make it an entertaining story, they'll probably futz with power levels a little, make Spidey forget how strong and agile he's supposed to be. That'll be fine. Maybe something from the Marvel Universe will interact with the titans and make them even more dangerous.
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Basically. Instead of incorporating the distinct storytelling and cultural sensibilities that make manga what it is and creating a genuinely japanese version of marvel superheroes, they just went with the most stereotypical perceptions of japan imaginable (ninjas, hulk becoming godzilla, etc) and creating something pretty terrible in the process.
what they should have done is just gotten actual japanese artists to do work for them and given them free reign.
edited 3rd Nov '14 1:54:26 PM by wehrmacht
I wouldn't really compare this to Mangaverse. This is an actual Japanese property that presumably is going to have actually Japanese people involved in some capacity (if nothing else someone had to sign off on this over there).
Mangaverse was a bunch of Americans (a lot of them who were already adults) trying to do what their idea of anime was despite clearly not having seen much of it.
...I'm pretty sure the Marvel Universe would collectively stomp all over the Titans, but I don't read/watch Attack on Titan so I could be wrong.
But on the other hand, imagine Survey Corpsmen trying to take on Galactus!
Yeeeeah. THAT got your attention, didn't it?
Power levels in comic books vary vastly anyway. That's why we have The Worf Effect.
While I agree the Titans would definitely not be the insane near unstoppable monsters they are in their source material when put against the Marvel Universe, I think it's pretty harsh to assume right away they would be a nuisance at best. I mean, Titans essentially are giant zombies, and as such they can still cause a crisis by swarming in cities and devouring civilians. Now of course that would raise the question of why wouldn't the army be able to take them done, what with them having much more advanced weapons and tech than people in the AoT universe...
edited 3rd Nov '14 3:29:16 PM by Theokal3
There's also the rather horrifying possibility that scientists like Reed Richards would rather study a Titan than try to fight them off. He'd be fascinated by how childlike their behavior would seem to someone unaware of the Titans' true nature, and somehow wind up creating more Shifters somehow.
And there's a horrifying thought for you; Marvel Superheroes becoming Titans and their powers carrying over.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56813
I've never seen Attack On Titan. Is it good?