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Fandom rambling
Jun. 5th, 2013 04:59 amIn which I ramble on about Attack on Titan, and how amazing it is. Massive spoilers to the current chapter of the manga will abound, so beware.
These characters, man. These characters. Many of them have very typical roles that you would expect from a shonen series:
Eren is the hot-blooded hero that DOES NOT KNOW WHEN TO GIVE UP and runs on pure determination.
Mikasa is the Emotionless Girl devoted sidekick.
Armin is the smart, physically weak best friend.
Jean is the cynical rival!
Reiner is the awesome older brother type that everyone admires.
Bertholdt is the mousy, nervous guy.
Annie is the Ice Queen slowly warming up to the hero.
Sasha and Conny are the plucky comic relief duo.
Christa is the adorable sweet girl.
.....and then they DECONSTRUCT THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING.
( Read more... )
Death and sacrifice are major themes of the series, due to the very nature of it. So are issues about selfishness, and human nature. We see this question represented with the Scouting Legion, who risk everything for the sake of even the smallest possible gain....versus the Military Police, who are considered a place where people go to take it easy, and live a comfortable life without ever having to worry about actually using the skills they honed in training. That only the Top 10 from every class may apply only drives home the dissonance, since that means the cream of the crop are sitting on their asses doing nothing.
It also handles gender amazingly well. Women are everywhere, and because of the nature of the society in which they live, treated pretty much as equals. We still see women in dresses or skirts doing typical housewifely things, but we also have just as many female soldiers as male ones. How they dress or wear their hair doesn’t have a thing to do with whether or not they are awesome. Mikasa and Sasha both wear skirts when out of uniform, while Ymir and Annie wears pants. It also handles sexuality very casually, with Ymir and Reiner being very non-stereotypical and really not reliant about their sexuality as a part of their characters. Well, Ymir does have some of it tied into her characterization....but primarily because she ends up falling in love.
And oh, oh the storytelling. There are so many layers, and so many things that have different meaning a second time around. ( Read more... ) A lot of fans apparently found the big reveal out of the blue, though the hints are there from the very beginning. We just didn’t know what we were seeing at the time.
TLDR: GOD YOU NEED TO GET INTO THIS SERIES. The manga is amazing. The anime is also being amazing.
Bonus: Awesome, spoiler-free random LEVI AND HANJI BEING AMAZING.
These characters, man. These characters. Many of them have very typical roles that you would expect from a shonen series:
Eren is the hot-blooded hero that DOES NOT KNOW WHEN TO GIVE UP and runs on pure determination.
Mikasa is the Emotionless Girl devoted sidekick.
Armin is the smart, physically weak best friend.
Jean is the cynical rival!
Reiner is the awesome older brother type that everyone admires.
Bertholdt is the mousy, nervous guy.
Annie is the Ice Queen slowly warming up to the hero.
Sasha and Conny are the plucky comic relief duo.
Christa is the adorable sweet girl.
.....and then they DECONSTRUCT THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING.
( Read more... )
Death and sacrifice are major themes of the series, due to the very nature of it. So are issues about selfishness, and human nature. We see this question represented with the Scouting Legion, who risk everything for the sake of even the smallest possible gain....versus the Military Police, who are considered a place where people go to take it easy, and live a comfortable life without ever having to worry about actually using the skills they honed in training. That only the Top 10 from every class may apply only drives home the dissonance, since that means the cream of the crop are sitting on their asses doing nothing.
It also handles gender amazingly well. Women are everywhere, and because of the nature of the society in which they live, treated pretty much as equals. We still see women in dresses or skirts doing typical housewifely things, but we also have just as many female soldiers as male ones. How they dress or wear their hair doesn’t have a thing to do with whether or not they are awesome. Mikasa and Sasha both wear skirts when out of uniform, while Ymir and Annie wears pants. It also handles sexuality very casually, with Ymir and Reiner being very non-stereotypical and really not reliant about their sexuality as a part of their characters. Well, Ymir does have some of it tied into her characterization....but primarily because she ends up falling in love.
And oh, oh the storytelling. There are so many layers, and so many things that have different meaning a second time around. ( Read more... ) A lot of fans apparently found the big reveal out of the blue, though the hints are there from the very beginning. We just didn’t know what we were seeing at the time.
TLDR: GOD YOU NEED TO GET INTO THIS SERIES. The manga is amazing. The anime is also being amazing.
Bonus: Awesome, spoiler-free random LEVI AND HANJI BEING AMAZING.
