A lot of the Titan anime was building to this arc, and a lot of this arc was building to this episode. This is one of the powerful ones emotionally and action wise. It’s a good experience. But talking about why would be spoilery as fuck, so let’s just have fun with goofy faces like normal.
Dude, what the fuck am I doing in this forest?
Ok, you’re ok. You just need to get back home.
Gross! A soldier touched my foot!
All right, just a quick left here and I-
Dude, what the fuck is your problem!?
Come on, man. Just put a big ole smile on your face like me!
I’m launching straight into titan faces because they’re pretty good this time.
Mostly because this titan has a crustache.
“Supporting the weight of this all on my neck was a bad idea”
The best titan faces are the ones where you’re not sure if it’s intentional or an animation error
“Wait, I wanna be in the picture too!”
There are other interesting titan faces, but they’re actually used effectively to be unsettling. You can check out the rest at Yaraon, but there’s a significant spoiler. It’s a disturbing image, and I like it because it’s done very well. Actually, I’ll just let Sasha emote for me.
Since the preview and synopsis from Shingeki.tv came out so late, I’m just going to roll these two together.
The plan to reclaim Trost has been laid out under the command of Pixis. We’re going to have Eren go Titan and plug the hole leaking wild titans into Trost with a big boulder. Titans come into the district by the second, so this plan has to start immediately. Eren is under confident about his newfound powers, but his determination, and hatred of titans, is high. He will go and fight while shouldering everyone’s hopes.
The holder of our hopes and dreams or the future!
Some dumb faces are natural, but when they aren’t, Pixis makes sure to help them along
“What? Were you going to eat this?”
“Really hope no one I liked was on that roof”
Seeing a lot of polarized opinions on this episode, especially in conjunction with the last two. I haven’t seen it yet, but my understanding is there’s a lot of non-manga filler, which may be troubling in the future when it comes time for anime only endings. Regardless, if you’re on the negative side this time, now you’ll know who to stay clear of in the future. Screenplay is once again Hiroshi Seko. Storyboards are Minoru Ohara back from episodes 3 and 6. Directed this time by Kiyoshi Fukumoto back from episode 3 and with a long list of director credits. Tons of animation directors this time, six in total. I had heard a rumor that the recent episodes have been low key due to staff exhaustion, so I’m not sure if this is pulling out the stops or patching together the crew. #1: Teruhiko Yamazaki with a good mix of AD, such as Bleach and one of the AT Votoms movies, and key animation, such as Majestic Prince and Bakemonogatari. #2: Miyazaki Satomi, AD and key animation for several episodes so far. #3: Koizumi Hatsue back from episode 9. #4: Daisuke Saito from episodes 4 and 9. #5: Satoshi Sakai, largely key animation, such as Death Note and Code Geass S1, but has some AD, like Guilty Crown. Lastly, #6: Hiroshi Tatezaki back from episode 4.
I take it you’ve probably seen this by now. It has hundreds of thousands of views at time of writing, and the first trailer made has millions. This was the second trailer released for Shingeki no Kyojin AKA Advance of the Giants but officially translated for the new anime as Attack on Titan. It’s being done by Wit Studio and Production I.G. It is gorgeous looking in that trailer and you can take that to be full preview of the show.
Oh, did I say “gorgeous?” I meant “terrifying.” I don’t scare easily. Most horror just flows past me with me wondering why people are scared of or even unnerved by quote “nightmare fuel” moments or designs. But that grinning face and the way that that specific titan, and probably all titans by extension, stopped to dig a person out of rubble to just to eat them gives me a moments pause.
He’s so happy to be eating you
Shingeki no Kyojin is a manga currently running in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine and published by Kodansha both in Japan and in their USA magazine written by manga first timer Hajime Isayama. 107 years ago, for whatever reason, titans, giant monsters that look much like humans, appeared and started eating all the humans. The few remaining people managed to group together into a walled off city that keeps the titans out. We follow the story of a young boy named Eren Jaeger, who believes that humanity essentially lives in a glorified cage and yearns to break from the hold titans have on humanity to reclaim the outside world, who lives in this city as the titans finally break in and start destroying everything and eating everyone. It is supposed to be extremely well written with well done characters and genuinely creepy monster design. I’ve never read it and only heard about it when this trailer got posted somewhere a little while ago. The plot synopsis is from a cursory glance around the internet and what I got out of the first episode.
What initially drew me this show is how attractive the animation is. The drawing quality is high, the motion during action sequences is really solid, and the CG, while I’m still not a fan, has good textures and is not too prevalent and is not used for the titans, at least not in a way I noticed or felt was significant. If this was show with giant humanoid robots made today, you’d never see the end of the CG titans. Production I.G blew the intro episode out of the water, and I can only hope that it stays this way.
I want to know how this guy got away only losing an eye
I’ll be keeping up with this show. These images come from Yaraon, the same place I always got teaser images for JoJo’s. I don’t know if I’ll keep up with the show in the same way with posting the teaser shots here, partially because I don’t know anything about this show in advance like with JoJo’s and partially because the subs for this episode were out almost immediately by the time I saw these pictures. Keep it in mind, though. We may be seeing more horrible giant maws in our future.
Now stay perfectly still…
And don’t blink.
Yeah yeah, Hanji’s terrifying. Then what happened?
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