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Scyrous

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  1. Fantastic trailer honestly. It gives away virtually nothing, unlike most trailers these days where you can almost guess what the entire plot is going to be. Also interesting how they spend the first 55 seconds on Tony.

     

    Poster is awesome too. As the title reveal at the end of the trailer would suggest, the logo is actually being rebuild, rather than disintegrating (hinting at the un-doing of the snap).

  2. 2 hours ago, Cassanova said:

    I'm reluctant to start the manga so that everything in the anime is new, but these breaks are killing me....

    Anyone know many "seasons" the manga is ahead?

    Season 3 covers chapters 51-90 in total, with the second half of S3 covering chapter 70-90 (roughly).

     

    The manga is currently at chapter 110, so assuming 20 chapters = 1 cour, the manga is give or take 12 episodes ahead. Though by the time S3 part 2 ends (in 8 months or so, thus 8 chapters), it’ll be closer to 16-18 episodes ahead.

     

    I was in the same boat as you, and honestly I suggest you just read it. No need to worry about spoilers anymore, plus you get to re-experience the story in its animated form regardless. Everything will still feel fairly new. You never know how chapters will be adapted, what the voice acting or music will be like, the animations... etc. It’s an entirely different experience.

  3. 11 minutes ago, cinnamox said:

    Because why going for fast pacing if their plan was for a split season right from the start anyways?

    The decision to rearrange events and improve overall pacing (based on the general negative public opinion of this arc in the manga) is completely unrelated to previous or future cours and seasons. You're grasping at straws here.

     

    14 minutes ago, cinnamox said:

    And quite frankly cutting out important details and passing over interesting nuances was disrespectful to the original content and the audience.

    As I told you months ago, the very creator of this 'original content' made and/or approved the changes himself.

    Judging by the fact that you somehow stopped at chapter 90 (right after RTS, the most universally acclaimed arc of the entire manga so far), I have a feeling you never cared much about AoT in the first place.

    It's an adaptation. Not a direct copy. Unimportant things are going to get cut. And perhaps some of the more 'important things' were cut for specific reasons, such as revealing them at a later date. There's been plenty of instances where we got to see events from future manga chapters that the anime ''shouldn't'' even have shown yet. These changes are made for a reason.

     

    Besides, Isayama considers the anime to be the final version of the story anyways, so what you feel is 'disrespect' is meaningless in the end.

     

    16 minutes ago, cinnamox said:

    Despite the fact that season 3 is already completely done, which becomes quite apparent at the end of Ep49

    This has to be a bad joke.

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  4. Found a great comment on Reddit that I'm gonna post here because I'm getting tired of people saying ''but the manga is different reeeeeeeeeee''.

     

    Credit to /u/jblakk. Post contains minor references to the manga.

    Spoiler

    I ask you this. How does the "decision" for change seem weird or confuse you if the main objective was to fix the initial reaction of first time viewers? They made the pace faster and less stilted, that is neither better or worse objectively speaking. It is just different. A difference that is proven to create a better fan reception.

     

    The anime onlies (which is the only unbiased interpretation of the anime arc) reaction is at the same consistent love and support of the series as the previous seasons. Compare that to the manga where this arc was polarizing to put it lightly. The perception was at about a 60/40 approval rating at estimate and is a far worse ratio in comparison to the other arcs.

     

    Screw hindsight, screw reareads, and screw the monthly release excuse. The fact of the matter is when that arc was showcased initially, there was a huge separation of opinions of the arc as a whole. That was the initial reaction and that is all we can go off of on the school of thought on why the change happened.

     

    People will use the monthly release of the manga as a reasoning for people not liking the arc, but even the Marley arc had a higher approval rating. In fact, in season 2 after the amazing first episode, the Sasha episode and episode 3 had a lower approval rating where a lot of people claimed that AoT lost it's spunk. It wasn't until the Ymir reveal and then the RB reveal happened where things started to pick up and AoTs momentum was back in good form like seaosn 1 was. That is proof the anime onlies have a specific taste and needs on how they want the narrative to be paced.

     

    With that being said, there have been changes, there have been losses, SOME development was loss as well, but if this arc was adapted faithfully it would be far more detrimental to the momentum and fan perception of this new season. We can make this assumption based off of the affirmentioned incidents where the fan perception has dropped.

     

    From a business standpoint and from a pacing standpoint the decision to make such changes makes sense. The loss of a slap, a character who was great but inconsequential, and abs are minor casualties in the big picture of things and it is dissengenuine to create this narrative that these changes are some how baffling or weird considering why they chose to do it and the episode constraints they dealt with.

     

    I say all of this even before mentioning the fact that people are basically critiquing something that isn't even finished yet. I hope I don't have to explain why that is a nonsensical thing to do. You don't critique a painting before its last paint brush stroke do you?

     

    As manga readers we HAVE to remember and understand that our viewpoint is biased and cherry picked. We know what is going to happen, we know how things did happen. For those who don't watch the episodes for what they are and look at them through a meta lense and try to check off things you want to see you will never be able to gauge and enjoy the episodes at the same objective and unbiased perspective as someone coming in fresh. You are prejudging the show when you look at it from that lense. Prejudging leads to prejudice and I hope we all know the flaws of a prejudicial mindset.

     

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Pi7on said:

    The characters seem slightly older, especially Eren, and this makes it feel like time has passed for them too, I like it.

    I agree. While S3 starts right where S2 left off, I can imagine all of the characters are exhausted, especially Eren (having suffered a mental breakdown) and Mikasa (her ribs being crushed by a titan). So while virtually no time has passed, the ‘older’ character designs do fit their current mental/physical state a lot better.

     

    Edit: got a new piece of unrelated info for you all. Looks like the ending theme for the first cour is called Requiem der Morgenröte, by Linked Horizon.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, cinnamox said:

    Well, I definitely want to believe that this season is gonna cover two arcs. Is there an official statement by the producers themselves somewhere?
    I just hope that the producers won't cut out too much material just to make these two arcs somehow fit into one limited ~24 episode season.
    I don't know how much Isayama has been involved, but it's just hard to believe that this is going to work out in a satisfying way.
    Surely the first episode has been specially prepared in this way to get you pumped for the new season, so there's still room for neglected content to be fully implemented later on. There were some very important aspects that you just cannot remove like that.

    No, but all the promotional material and interviews seem to indicate it will cover two arcs. Do you really expect it’s gonna take something like 22-25 eps to cover one single arc? No freaking way, especially not with the current arc. As I said: season 3 is gonna be two arcs. Unless some kind of miracle happens and it’s gonna be 3 arcs, but I highly doubt it. Next arc is action-heavy which generally allows for faster pacing, so first cour might be 13 eps and second cour 12 eps. You get the idea.

     

    Last season was one cour and covered one single arc as well, and they actually had to add some filler to make it 12 eps (most notably ep02 and a lot of Ymir/Christa backstory), as stated by one of the staff members in an interview. Can’t remember if it was Isayama or the director who said it...

     

    Believe what you want, but with only ep01 released so far, obviously it’s best to wait and see before complaining about certain pages that were skipped (for now, maybe).

     

    On-topic: I liked ep01 a lot. Character designs were slightly altered to look closer to the manga. Kenny’s introduction was pretty solid.

  7. 8 hours ago, Koby said:

    It picks up several years later with no explanation and is based on events that didn't happen in the anime and could not have happened based on what happened in root a because they decided to not follow the manga but then decide to jump back to the manga timeline with re. Basically re: assumes you're a manga reader and if you're not, it tosses a huge middle finger in your face and doesn't try to ease the discomfort.

    Well put. No point in watching a series if you don’t know what the f*ck is going on. I stopped watching :re after ep08 I believe and I have no desire to ever continue it. I don’t care enough about the franchise to read the manga just so I can understand the anime. That’s dumb.

  8. 3 hours ago, cinnamox said:

    I had to go back to the source material and wow, a lot has been skipped. Probably because this is a pilot episode to rile up the audience.

    I wonder if you can interpret into the first seconds that the season is actually going to end 'there', but I'm not really sure about that...
    There's just not enough space to work with. I can see three scenarios:
    1) They skip a lot and somehow cram two arcs into this season

    2) They adapt this one arc only with about 21 episodes (referring to the BD and DVD release dates from official website)
    3) They extend this season with a couple more episodes (idk, 26~28) and adapt two arcs and make them good

    As said before, Isayama was involved in changing the order of many story beats to improve the pacing and whatnot. And some of the more irrelevant/pointless parts have been skipped entirely, plus some elements were changed altogether.

     

    7 episodes doesn’t mean it’s gonna be ~21 episodes. The amount of episodes per volume can definitely be different for a few of them, resulting in a total of 22, 24 or maybe 25 episodes. You get the idea: it’s not set in stone. We don’t really know yet. Either way, the current arc and next arc are going to be covered. 100%. As for how the pacing is gonna be, even manga readers don’t know. But you can be sure all the changes are done to improve the experience and overall story. After all, most of these changes are coming from Isayama himself. His involvement with the anime basically turns it into a revised/final version of the AoT story, rather than a direct adaptation. Which can only be a good thing if you ask me. The current arc received some pacing complaints and I’m glad Isayama is improving that aspect atleast.

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  9. 6 hours ago, kitkat said:

    New opening of Attack on Titan sucks. There's a lot skipped from the manga, but isayama said he'll make some changes since he regretted this arc (uprising arc).

    I wouldn’t say it sucks. Definitely not ‘bombastic’ compared to the previous three OPs, but it fits the mood of the arc very well (lots of politics and worldbuilding, not as much titan action - this is the point where AoT enters seinen territory, basically). As for the song itself, it’s okay. Nothing particularly interesting but not bad either. Beautiful visuals though.

     

    I reckon the second cour’s OP will be a lot more intense, given the arc it will be covering (and potentially by Linked Horizon again). It will blow you away.

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  10. 58 minutes ago, CyborgIcarus29 said:

    So they won't delay airing the episodes like the previous season? I stopped following the dub last season after the 6th episode because I couldn't avoid all the spoilers from sub watchers. I'm gonna be really upset if they don't release the dub shortly after the sub version airs. 

    They will. Usual gap between sub and dub is 2-4 weeks. I believe for season 2 last year it was three weeks. Maybe two.

    So, either watch it sub-only, both sub and dub, or watch dub-only and try to avoid spoilers at all costs. :P

     

    Alternatively, you could start reading the manga. I was spoiled the contents of S2 as well, so I decided to read the manga and experience everything fresh.

    Luckily for me, I barely remember anything of the arc(s) season 3 is going to adapt, so any spoiler is basically just a reminder for me. :D

  11. 1 hour ago, manc4life said:

    I just recently found out that this season will have 24 episodes. i was planning to wait for the BDs to start with this is but i dont think i can wait that long.

    Everything seems to be pointing in that direction, but keep in mind there’s no official news yet. To save myself from disappointment I’m just gonna assume it’s one cour for now. :P

     

    But yes, I agree. Absolutely not worth waiting for. The Wakanim encodes last year looked great, very close to BD encodes in fact.

  12. 8 hours ago, NeutralHatred said:

    I will be SimulDubbing this using GJM's release. Probably just use the BD release since it is out and completed.

    I highly doubt Magical Girl Raising Project will be an actual simuldub. The show aired in 2016, so what's there to wait for on a weekly basis? Absolutely nothing.

    Most likely, Funimation will just release the dubbed versions of episode 1 and 2 on FunimationNOW and the remaining episodes once the USBD is released. Like they did with a ton of previous shows that weren't simuldubbed either (Re:Zero, Testament S1, upcoming Testament S2, etc).

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