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All right, fine. Schick, the razor company, is teaming up with Titan to bring you licensed razors. Because in AoT, you use swords. And swords are sharp like razors. Also, possibly because Shingeki no Kyojin and Schick would start with the same sound. Yes. According to the official website, they’re supposed to start coming out early next month or in about a week. Yes.
ಠ_ಠThis was inevitable. Rather, a Titan Abridged was inevitable. In fact, that probably already existed before this video came out a few hours ago, but that there’s one being done by Team Four Star as headed by Takahata is better. You can judge it entirely on the strength of Sasha eating the potato, and that scene was good. Makes me happy to know “Sasha the Potato Girl” has become ubiquitous, which it probably did a long time ago without me noticing until now. Also, Reiner.
I don’t know if this going to end up like Hellsing Abridged and be an occasional thing just done when everyone feels like doing it or if it’s going to be a regular thing. I guess we’ll find out.
Getting manga is easy. You could type “read [title]” into your URL bar right now and hit fifteen or so sites dedicated to that manga specifically on a slow day, but then you have to tangle with translation choice, and getting manga in good English is hard. Who gives us a faithful representation of the source material while also speaking in English that actually sounds like a person talking and not the result of someone rubbing the original manuscript and a Japanese/English dictionary together hoping for a miracle? It’s tough for story heavy series like Titan because subtleties in language can have drastic effects. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen speculation circling because of a line not everyone could agree on the language for. You make due, though, because you have to get your story fast, on time, and in line with the newest material because no one wants to speculate on things we learned the answers to months ago.
Not to worry, though. Crunchy is on the case with their new partnership program with Kodansha manga, “Crunchyroll Manga.” Crunchy will be bringing you same day translation for 12 popular Kodansha series including the aforementioned Attack on Titan. I’ve been avoiding talking about the manga because I didn’t want to ruin the fun for anyone who didn’t jump straight on after the series started, but if you liked the series and have been skittish about trying it out, you will now have an official channel with professional translators that can bring you a quality product on time. Good deal, I’d say.
Crunchyroll Manga will begin service on October 30th, this Wednesday. Keep an eye on it, and maybe check out a few of those other series too. I’ve heard good things about Space Brothers.
Did you enjoy the Titan 4koma series done in that ChimiChara art style? I guess they must have gotten pretty popular with all the repostings and translations because one of the bonus features on the most recent BDs, Vol. 4, is what’s essentially the updated anime version. It’s not animated versions of the comics themselves, though. They’re a series of whole new skits with whole new tiny gags.
The gags themselves are honestly pretty straightforward anime humor, Eren walks in on the girls and Mikasa specifically changing and gets violenced, there’s a climactic rock-paper-scissors showdown over who gets the last pudding at dinner, but there’s a certain small charm to it because of how Titan is. Mikasa and Ymir fighting for the honor of their respective waifus and Ymir and Christa sitting up in their room talking about boys has honest levity because it’s nice to see the characters do things that won’t eventually be part of someone horribly dying. It’s like Sasha and Connie passed around some of their charm to all the other characters so they could live happily for a moment. At least until the Colossus Titan shows up and eats everyone like a big, fat jerk.
The video is currently untranslated and resting on a Chinese video site. I’d love to embed it, but I can’t read enough to tell if that’s even an option, so you’ll have to make due with the link in the picture or this one. Let’s hope this gets properly brought over when Funimation gets these State side.
Jean, you’re going too fast!
“So this is what it feels like. A plot device…”
Another set of Titan episodes up for the redraw table before they’re ready for the big blu-ray show. Most of the corrections you’re going to see are like these: facial corrections to tweak the ones that just didn’t look quite right. Most of them aren’t as drastic as the one with Jean, though you’ll still get ones of Eren being shifted to look angry and determined instead of getting ready to cut a bitch.
You still get a few like this where the two are totally disconnected. There’s a whole sequence before the lift gun fight where the TV version just has huge blanks where the BD version has the characters’ faces. They’re fewer and far between, though, and a lot of the corrections that aren’t faces are coloring or just adding a little detail.
You can check out the whole list of corrections over on Yaraon. They also have a bonus cosplay photo shoot with someone as the Female Titan and a guy tweeting about his 3D gear prop. Actually, these are presented as the bonus, so you’ll have to go look down the page.
It shouldn’t be too surprising, but the final episode preview pictures and synopsis on the Titan Anime site was quite late in actually being posted. It’s not a big deal since that episode was pre-screened in theaters, but the delay meant the delay of our 4koma. Well, not anymore. The final Titan 4koma is up and in the danbooru translation collection. As of writing, the translation itself isn’t up yet, but it should be soon. Now you can read the whole gag series start to finish.
Pretty sure Levi’s underwear there says “Humanity’s Strongest”
But if that’s not enough of the goofy side of Titan for you, the fans are here to help. Another in the long line of Titan Tweet Trends is fan comics. Not an abnormal one, so there’s plenty to go around.
And, yes, there are tons of comics about Eren and Levi’s manzai act. This is actually Part 1 of a 3 Part Series. Where did you even get that little cactus, Eren?
As would follow, they’re all in Japanese, but a lot of them are like this one where the text is really light or non-existent, and you can grasp what’s going on just with the images. It can get pretty fun.
You can check out the whole collection over on Naver. Fair warning that there may be some post anime spoilers. It may be worse if you can read Japanese, but I only noticed one or two that would be a problem otherwise, and you’ll have to do some good inference. Still, fair warning.
In the wake of Titan season one ending, Titan cosplay pictures seem to have exploded in popularity. Some of them are a bit older, but a lot of new albums are popping up, and they’re really impressive. Normal people costumes aren’t too bad save the 3D gear, but when I say “Titan” cosplay, I don’t necessarily only mean Attack on Titan cosplay.
“I’m hoping he’ll take after his old man.”
“As a biking champion!”
It’s really impressive how well come of these manage to do the eyes.
And sometimes it’s kinda terrifying
Not to say there aren’t plenty of really good human character costumes as well.
Bread is one of the easier parts of the Sasha costume to get
And, as you’ll likely be at a convention while doing it, big bags of trash for Maid Time Levi aren’t too hard either.
And that’s just a small fraction of all the albums that have popped up because this update is really tall now. You can check out tons more for every character, titans and all, on Naver here, here, and here.
It’s a hanger. Products are fun, huh? SC Mart created a small series of Titan character based clothes hangers in case you ever wanted to be freaked the hell out when sleepily pulling clothes out of your closet in the morning. Eren maybe not, and even the Mikasa one might not weird you out, but the Colossus Titan version is a little less wholesome. But having an Eren you can hang clothes on does have its advantages.
They’re, unfortunately, already gone. The price was at somewhere around $50 cut down to a less absurd ~$20, but that’s probably why they’re all gone. If you’re interested, you can keep an eye on their availability through the Amazon pages above or this one.
(Thanks to Yaraon for the story and the picture of Tea Time Eren.)
Little girl!
I think you might want to get out of here!
You can see the rest over at Yaraon, though I would be wary if you haven’t seen the episode yet. If you have, I would especially if you didn’t watch to the end of the credits. I’m actually going to link the relevant .gif because the animation is hilarious, but you should watch the episode in its entirety before looking.
See you guys in December for Ilse’s Journal!
Almost to the end of our Titan anime roller coaster, at least until Ilse’s Journal comes out in December and whenever they’ll likely make the next season. Couple of things to round out as we approach the end, all compliments of various Naver digs. First up:
Someone was nice enough to compile the episode special artist end cards. There are some gaps, as there isn’t a string starting until episode 9, and there’s one for episodes 1, 5, and 7. I don’t remember if end cards weren’t a specific thing until then or not, but these are most of them up to episode 21. This one is probably my favorite just due to the stylized look. There’s also that creepy one of Mikasa’s butt drawn by Naminiku ATK, the guy who did the art for the Blu-ray visual novels. So, yeah, be wary I guess.
I’ve compiled them all into an Imgur album, as the Naver gallery has something else that could be not spoiler safe if you can read katakana, but if you’re willing to risk it, it’s right here.
If you look at the fighting throughout Titan, it’s pretty clear that Isayama is a big MMA fan. There’s also that Mikasa regularly appears doing MMA stuff, so someone put together a comparison of various action moments against things from UFC and similar. There are similar poses like what you see there, and there’s also comparisons to various fighters that may have been used for character and titan design. It’s kinda cool to see things like that.
This one also contains a manga thing, and it’s way worse and way more blatant, on the first page. I’m linking the second page to cover, but I think this is interesting enough to show despite that. Just enter carefully if you’re only watching the show and haven’t kept up with the manga. Second page here.
But let’s close on something that’s fun for the whole titan family. The last gallery is a huge collection of all the big time Pixiv artist Titan fan arts. Some of them are more serious single character portraits or environment things, and some of them are awesome fun pictures like the above. The pictures will take you to themselves, but I’ll also link you to the artist. This one was drawn by KiyaKiya.
Artist: yamako
A little Slapstick is always good. Eren getting kicked is also always good.
Artist: sine-eang
And this just amuses me to no end. If you were dating Eren Jaeger, via dating sim at least, what faces would he make as you progressed in your relationship from simple acquaintances to flushed, teenage love? Well, you might have to spend some time in the hospital after the giant fist in your face, but you’d know your relationship is going well.
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