THE OLD GUARD DIES... || GERMAN watches Attack on Titan 4x22 - BLIND REACT-ANALYSIS
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- So sad, yet so dense, absolutely stellar writing again! =)
Happy day to you! =)
#attackontitan #reaction #blindreaction
Patreon: / storieswithstyle
Discord: / discord
Twitter: / haroldkebba1
Horror Stories: • The Ebrugh Reports
Instagram: / scaredwithstyle
Intro Song: Wir sind wir (Paul van Dyk & Peter Heppner)
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
I do not own any of the rights to Attack on Titan.
CHECK OUT MY NEW STORY - THE WATERS THAT HATED: ruclips.net/video/-jU7iSWU2fI/видео.html
If you want to support my content, consider joining me on patreon for earlier access:
www.patreon.com/storieswithstyle
Also, check out my free horror audio book, read by the great viidith22:
ruclips.net/video/DkI7dbbB3Fo/видео.html
Am happy Annie iş back keep going king your the best ❤
I love how consistent you are in trashing Floch, keep going mate
I hated him till the very end xD
😆
@@storieswithstyle me too, but such a well-written antagonist nonetheless
I think some kind of funereal bagpipes played when Pyxis and the others became titans because that was their death, and thanks to the Ymir we met first, we know that life as a pure titan is a nightmare. I think the music is cathartic because they're freeing them from that hell. And it's all done within a single song because pure titans are no longer the indomitable threat they once were because humanity within the walls had progressed and struggled. I still dont love when more pop kind of songs play at dramatic scenes, just like when that song played the first time back in season 2, but i do think that's what it's meant to convey.
33:33 Gaby, I love when she is protecting Kaya and sasha’s family, her character development is amazing
You are one if not the most argumentative reactors for Attack on Titan, very easy to misunderstand for certain part of the fanbase but still a breath of fresh air to see whether we agree or disagree👍👍
I believe they played Barricades because they are doing the same thing they were doing in season two(when we first heard the song Barricades) they were fighting titans, fighting their former comrades. We also learned Titans were former humans in season two. I personally didn't find the music heroic in this scene like it was intended in season 2, I found it very bittersweet and I believe that was the intention.
For me it was just "shonen music because badassary". Also, the people they fight WITH are the problem. it is as if they suddenly randomly started fighting a horde of titans with Reiner and Bert in 2x7 after the reveal (exaggeerating a bit here). =D
@@storieswithstyle I definitely think the fact that this is a show that I started watching when I was in middle school and finished in my junior year of highschool plays a part in the bittersweetness of the music choice.
44:31 i think what niccolo said right there is the core message of attack on titan
Attack on titan is a message to move away from violence and understand each other, it does not intend for us to be jaegerists or the alliance -AOT information cards:
"Even if Titans disappear, the fear will not. Even if the number of people decreases, conflicts will not. Someone must wish for it someday. There should be a world where we can join hands, respect and talk to each other. The future is just around the corner"
I agree with you here my friend
And yet, Social Media show us people did not understood it like that...
AOT is a cautionary tale
Yeah and most people missed the point and saw it as yet another dumb anime. I guess it's natural though, when something is so perfect, stupid hateful people will not understand it. And the world is full of such people
34:02 yup she looks like sasha, I am crying now
The music is Barricades - fits the action scene, but more appropriately, the lyrics directly deal with the price of one’s soul, knowing one must kill, especially their former comrades
exatamente
For me the sound was def too hopeful, didnot fit the situation. It fit so much better in s2 =(
@@storieswithstyle I think it almost punctuates the situation more because they have to table their sadness for after they use their now impeccably honed titan-killing skills… and then you saw how miserable Jean looked afterwards
aber das ist natürlich nur meine Meinung
@@storieswithstyle That's intentional. The scene is basically them being scouts that fight titans again, only this time with the knowledge of what titans really are.
It's both a callback to past seasons as well as a way to put the events of said seasons in perspective.
I am so happy to see my man LEVI ACKERMAN alive, he is my hero, my saviour, he is the last man standing
Wrong mate, Thaw is for Annie, not Levi’s return
levi is still drowning xD
@@storieswithstyle 🥲
I interpreted the music as a kind of celebration of the passing of the guard. The young people are all who are left and the scene is proof that they are capable. Like it’s sad that pixies has died but it’s because of his generation that we have the strength to do what needs to be done.
But… they don‘t 😂
I agree with you here my friend
@@storieswithstylekeep going king your the best iş amzing episode and şad one too
Barricades is not an hopeful music, it's a goodbye in honor to those who sacrifice. It's the last goodbye to old Attack on titan, old generation of people, and all sacrifices they made. But i get you that the tone is not exactly in match with what it means.
38:05 I love Kaya when she is protecting Gaby, it is another turning point
My take about the choice of music during the fight against titans is that they wanted to do a call back to the first seasons where they were fighting titans.
Maybe they tried to create a contrast between the fact that now we know they're killing people and how heroic it seemed in season 1 and 2.
I agree with you, if they made a melancholic version of it we would still have the callback and the right mood for the scene.
In the end it was the anime director choice (and maybe a bit Isayama as he did take part in the anime supervision here and there)
Yeah, I feel like this is an extremely good explaination
Sadly, even in that case this is not a good choice i would say.
You cant really create a contrast cause these Titans we know from the start and are turned now
Old Titans were killed just as Titans and later we came to know at least who most of them were before
The Emotional value is not the same. Personally i think they just wanted to do a Callback from Old OST and choose a bad scene to do so
41:07 Mr Brauss is super awesome, love him
54:08 yeah very cool Mikasa shot
49:10 another jean’s development as a character, he is the next captain for sure
Heard you say a couple of times during reactions that you’re “excited for the rewatch”. Is that something you’d put up on RUclips/Patreon? Either way, it’s a really awesome experience 👍
I plan on doing livestream watchparties on youtube. =)
Yay!!!!!
@@storieswithstyleYAAAAY
I have a theory that people who appreciate Gabi's writing in the story also understand AOT as a whole.
That might indeed be. Gabi to me is one of the best characters ever written and I can not wait to dive into hate videos! :D
50:22 rest in power Commander Pyxis, Neil, and everyone
Tbh I don’t know why they play Barricades here
I love how much you love Gabi. She gets a lot of hate from fans who simply can't forgive her for killing Sasha, but as soon as that episode hit, I immediately knew we were about to see one of the best character arcs ever. It was obvious that she was being set up as a parallel for Eren and the only reason to make her so hateable early on was to redeem her later. That said, even though I knew what direction her character was going in, I was still blown away by how well it was executed.
This and Children of the Forest are two of my favourite episodes because of how they progress Gabi's character.
the song is about having the strength and courage to overcome any obstacle so we can one day be free. In that moment, they had to kill all those titans that were their comrades, they could have done nothing and gotten eaten. But they chose to move forward and do the hard thing that needed to be done. That's why i think they chose that song
58:35 I am with Gaby, I love her question: why he can’t just destroy all the military bases?
Because the militaries can be rebuilt, and as technology advances titans will eventually become obsolete.
Also Eren will be dead by that time and Historia's kids will have had to eat her and each other to pass on the founding titan.
There are other reasons to but that's getting into spolers.
I disagree. Destroying the military bases would have been the most sensible thing. Especially just destroying Marleys, as they had then had problems with the rest of th eworld. Involving the others to unite against Edlia was just Eren wanting an excuse to kill everyone, after all.
@@storieswithstyle I agree, it was just an excuse for Eren. But from a logic point of view, Carljohan is right. Military can be rebuilt, the Founder will need to be passed down, to assure that Marley will never attack again, and for that you need to sacrifice Historia and her childs. No matter what Eren wanted, it's a fact. But it will be the original plan from Armin, who wanted Eren to use the Rumbling as a deterrant, to take time to built weaponery, so that they don't have to use the Rumbling anymore. And to work, it need Historia to be a titan, and an inheritor for Eren's titan, who will be cursed by its power again. It's the better choice for everyone, but it's not for Historia's childs... No matter what, children will be sacrificed in the process. There are no perfect solution in this. It's up to people to choose what they value the most.
@@storieswithstyle no, willy declared war on paradis, and he had every nation gathered there that rallied before him, eren attack AFTER the declaration.
Yes, it is TRUE that eren also wanted to kill everyone. But The world also decided to end paradis, that is also a FACT.
@@amampathak I am really not going into this for the 1000x time, as I have before. No disrespect to you, i am just tired of typong the same thing again. I will do a more in depth discussion. but Eren and Zeke made Willy do it., That was literally Zekes plan in 4x02.
12:14 Gaby looks like Eren here, when she tied her hair just like eren, the other girl that looks like eren is Isabel, Levi’s friend, Tbh, I don’t know why they look like gender-swapped eren
25:52 no, don’t sacrifice falco, I love him, he is just an innocent kid
That song played in s2, when they hated titans, not knowing who there are. Right now, they realised it, and having the same soundtrack back, which was about fighting titans, it' s mega good here. :)
There's a channel that did the math for how big the walls are, the titans size, world size and estimated the time it'd take to flatten the world. It wasn't long. At. All. Every second would be precious.
I saw another calculation that showed it would not be enough titans. I think it is just suspension of disbelief :)
@@storieswithstyle It will not be enough in one line. But if you see the world as a lawn, the Rumbling is like a mower. To cover the entire surface, it will go back and forth like a lawn mower, until the entire surface is cut. But the mower in question is huge. The Rumbling can cover the width of the African continent in one time. If the Rumbling start at the top and walk to the down, the titan line will use the narrowness of the width to cover everything in one time.
44:30 agree, even if the world outside’s gone the devils are still there
10:40 i havent seen anyone answer this in the comments, but as far as i'm aware, we just call them "harvesters", i.e a "grain harvester" "corn harvester"
I see, thank you =)
Omg!! The music made me cry a lot and it still does whenever I listen to it because I can picture Pixis in my head. Of course you can interpret it in your own way, but that doesn't mean the scene and the soundtack have the same effect in everybody.
That is true. =) For me it was just random shonen music, but I am glad it landed better for you. I so wanted to be ssad for pycis but the music jsut ruined my experience. =(
I just found another foreshadowing just now. In no regrets, Levi said he decided when and where Erwin dies. And later ,he did fulfill his promise ,asked Erwin to die without going to basement. That he did choose. Amazing foreshadowing.
35:11 absolutely, Gaby is the positive person of eren
Nice thing about Nicolo using out the forest from Sasha father worlds, its they all protect Gabi when the soldiers asks about the anti titan rifle: oposit when the other slaved villagers pointed fingers on little Ymir (and ran to the forest).
55:11 so sad Onyakopon deserves better
I love how you took a sec to realize that Annie's back - seeing the ring, then yelping in joy.
Gabi taking care of Reiner after he passes out from complete exhaustion is sweet, my favourite moment ❤
47:59 Love Keith, he is old but stillbadass
--
Spoiler
Sorry he can’t be the next prime bc he died😢
I only finished till Children of Dune, haven’t yet started God Emperor of Dune and the other 2 books, can’t wait to read the rest of books
I have finished all safe the last, Really liked them, but they are all so different that it is a bit jarring :D
Don't think ur too reaching lol literally everyone here is obsessed w. the beauty of the dialogues in aot. Ur one of the only one reacting that goes really into depth. Thaw is a literal masterpiece just how they concluded that part of Gabi/Sasha Storyline. When i first saw Gabi confessing that she's the devil in couldnt but cry. Gabi fr is the mirrored plotversion of Eren Jaeger coming out of the deepest dark just to change for the better. Aot resembles humanity and doesnt ignore any brutal fact or tries to utterly search for fanservice. It's just raw.
I agree with you here my friend l fell şad for gabi and Reiner but yes your ritht here
A little false information here. The Founder can control Ackermanns, it can't just manipulate their memories. But erase their power, as controling their will, is possible, in theory. It's even the Founder who made the Ackermanns, by activating some titan's power in human form. Remember Ackermanns are titan in human size ... They have their strength, and fight experiences from past generations.
The "friendly" music is because they are putting them to rest, Pixis came to terms with that, and when the time came he relaxed a bit just before hand. He knew his students and soldiers would do what needs to be done so the song is a sense of duty. Its sad but there is not time to be sad and sad music is slow. They need up beat, action packed shots and a rhythm to match just the imagery. The sense of duty comes from recalling Pixis, the growth between time when the last saw him as young kids.
Slow sad music is not the choice here. Just try to make it fit. You can't, 100% you wont be able to.
Nah, butting people to rest is not this action heavy. ZThis was "look how cool we are", even though the lyrics might have fit. if I could have heard the lyrics better, perhaps, but like this it was just unfitting "look we are shonen-fighting"
for the amount of time the show has been around, for how much of a masterpeice it is, you think they would just "f*ck up" this one thing right at the end? 3000 frames of animation for 20 mins. They dont just say "aaahh throw this song in" and wing it, it was very thought out like everything in the show. Not some throw-away music or scene.
Attack on Titan doesn't "look cool" for reasons like that.
It follows some anime tropes, but this is not one of those times.
Freeing music for freeing Pixis. Its a sign of respect they don't hesitate and they teamed up quickly and just got the job done. That whole scene they were trying to get ready to go to Eren but had to do this first, its a time sensitive moment and so faster music was needed.
I still suggest just opening two tabs and try to fit music to that scene that is sad and slow. It just don't match up.
@@storieswithstyle
"Wouldn't it be nice to take a walk on some pure white sand
Gaze at the horizon
Without living in fear?
Wouldn't be sweet to watch the sun curve down meets the waves?
And taste the ocean spray
*And realize we'd been living as slaves*
We've got to learn to get back, get back
*But is it worth the price of our soul?*
You know you had to kill her, kill her!
Oh, my dirty hands, it never fades
And if we get out, get out
I'll think about the price of our soul
We've got to learn to live free, live free
We'll live a life without barricades
How long I haven't seen the light
Shine through in my life
*Lost everything, family, confusion on the way*
Someone tries to talk to me
And signpost the righteous road
My animal inside
Can now be tamed to go
Over the wall
We've got to learn to get back, get back
But is it worth the price of our soul?
You know you had to kill her, kill her!
Oh my dirty hands, it never fades
And if we get out, get out
I'll think about the price of our soul
We've got to learn to live free, live free
We'll live a life without barricades"
One of the Barricades to living free, is the situation they are all in. Having to lay their comrades to rest, their own morality was about to get in the way of putting Pixis out of his misery for a second there, but the sense of duty was stronger and again, they have 0 time to be all sad and emo about this. They have to kill the titans and get moving, they are trying to show this being a time sensitive moment. Keep pushing forward, even if its over the bodies of your ranking officers, again the reason that is "ok" is because those officers knew what would happen, they knew that once they turn their own soldiers would have to stop them, its their DUTY.
I still suggest that you look up a sad AoT track, and try to make it fit, no fancy editing just open two different tabs and play them at the same time. I tried some, it doesn't fit the animation. Also it just feels like, WAY too much sad stuff considering the last few episodes. Its been nothing but sad orchestral for a while. The show runners probably felt that it was all way too depressing and emo so they changed the pace.
I think it's contrasting, like how you pick contrasting colors its just contrasting music style. Changes everything.
Don't get me wrong, I get where you are coming from, but why does every single death have to be played off with sad music? can no one be put to rest with mutual understanding and respect?
this was "freeing" music, and they "freed" Pixies. That's how I feel.
I interpreted the heroic music as signifying the resolve to continue on. After everything that’s happened, they could give up, they could let the world continue on its course, but at the end of the day, they are still who they are, and have seen and done too much. They can’t sit idly by, so no matter how painful to kill their former comrades. they take action to save those who can still be saved. Which is a microcosm for the remainder of the series.
They can not sit idly by but just fight together with the people that tunred said comrades? And it is never briought up again either? I don't know, did really not fit because of who they were fightign WITH in my mind. Without Jaegerists it might have been better :D
59:11 annie’s back can’t wait to shee female titan in action
Love how Keith Shadis took off the mantle of the 'Bystander' in this episode and risks his life to save the misguided cadets who have fallen into hatred, saving them from 'wandering in the forest' so to say (as Mr. Braus put it).
Nicholo saying we have to 'escape the forest' is a continuation of what Mr. Braus said in S4 ep 13. That the world is one gigantic forest that came into existence from the mistakes of adults and that it is the adults responsibility to keep the children out of the forest (stop repeating the cycle). It is definitely one of the most essential themes in the story and is beautifully done here as well.
The music...I think its just as simple as.. its a battle. A sad one but a necessary one. Not everyone sees this scene as deeply.. so you need to put in a cool action scene to keep some viewers attention.
I agree with you here my friend
the lyrics are sad, the music of battle is like a way to sacriface the alies
@nagatoleonhart4727 the duality of the song fits the scene well but only us weebs are looking up the lyrics.
Regarding your question about sacrificing Falco, while I think most of us have someone we'd like to bring back, I think there are several counterarguments to be made from both a logical and emotional perspective. Within the context of this story you'd be damning them to 13 years as a titan shifter, after which they'd again die, possibly to be eaten by someone else. And even without that stipulation how do you think that person would feel about being brought back at the cost of someone else's life, an innocent even?
That being said Connie's impulsive actions are entirely understandable.
Yes bur killing kid iş too far tho to me but l agree with you here
Apple seed for sure would be a good decision too i think even though it's the thematic soudtrack for berthold. It's just how aot's soundtracks work they start with chords in season1 that evolve for the characters they're written for. Barricades was a bit out of the box mostly bc the soundtracks they have are linked to season1 characters while as Barricades is a completely unique theme only accuring in season2 episode 12 showing the scouts being slaughtered but making they're way out due to eren setting them "free". These fighting scenes and the topic of relief are linked to the new generation of scouts(and sadly yaegerists) that overtake and now kill the last normal titans to exist in a hommage to the first seasons. Ur indeed not wrong that other music would also fit, but it's more that the reaction can't really go into depth on the sountrack storyline. @storieswithstyle
Nice to see a reactor bring up the Golden Path to try making sense of Erin.
Time (or Leto) will tell if this was a good take or not.
Yeah, there are a lot of parallels. =)
20:10 Mappa did mikasa dirty, she was much prettier when WIT did the animation, but here she looks like a female version of Levi
I am not saying Levi isn’t good looking or sth, of course he is a good looking man, but Mikasa looks like a male here, her face features are more masculine,
Where is Arifumi Imai? I need him back and draw Mikasa correctly just like younger mikasa
I mean imo she looks as pretty as she used to be with more realistic proportions. Her features were more stereotypically exaggerated in the beginning and shifted a lot (pink lips, massive eyes, nonexistent nose) to make her distinct and ‘anime pretty’ but with a more consistent artstyle in S4, I like it more. In reality men and womens faces look more similar than one would expect, and also especially considering the fact that she IS very masculine due to her role in the story and her cutting her hair for tactical reasons. We see at the end she looks very beautiful and feminine when she wears a dress.
I think the music is there because this scene is a callback to season 1.
The manga fans have redone scenes from season 4 because they really wanted classic ost from season 1 right there. (Eren and reiner in the declaration of war but with the betrayal ost when reiner reveals he is a titan)
Also I have seen many fans be really happy when listening to classic ost reused in the scenes that are meant to represent parallels to season 1.
I guess this choice was for the fans. They literally would have redone this scene just to put that music... Again.
So I don't mind. Ruins the moment, but brings back memories to this same moment in season 1. Another parallel. The author loves to do them. And the fans crave for them 😅.
I don't need a s1 reminder, I am so ounsure why that is important :D I guess I was not their target, though :D
@@storieswithstyle yeah you're not the target , most people loved it.
I would say the only logical explanation as to how the wall titans are able to cover the whole world is if the world that AOT is set in doesn't have the same map as real life. In fact, I would argue that AOT's land mass is much smaller. I think it was intentional that the anime omitted the world map that was shown in the manga and only focused on Marley and Paradis island. In my mind, AOT sets in a world where there is only one continent where the biggest nation is Marley, while other nations are significantly smaller and occupy the periphery of the continent down south.
10:49 They are called "combines."
Haha. Seeing you get so hyped for Annie was wholesome. Been waiting for that. PS. I vote yes for the character vids.
Mr brauss the most honest man in aot. Id love to see a character dive on him.
I completely agree on the music part
If they wanted to use barricades they could have used an emotional version of it
I think they just wanted to make us feel that
Oh this is like from early season you know ? Like humans vs titans , simple story
And because of this I think they missed that these titans aren’t bad people lol
They aren’t even yeagarists
They are good old survey corps people who were also against the rumbling
To me, the choice of music for the fight against the pure titans scene illustrates something that's been true since season 1 but most of us failed to realize: This show is actually a tragedy disguised as an action show. Because all the titans they fought back then were people too, we just didn't know it yet. It also illustrates how far our main cast has come by showing how easily they can handle the titans now compared to the Trost fight.
As for Kaya and Gabi, that is indeed one of the best arcs in the entire show, and it does illustrate one very important thing.
The real reason they are able to repair their friendship isn't because Gabi saved Kaya, it's because they both admitted their faults and wrongdoings.
Because that is something that has to happen for it to become possible for people to work through their differences and problems.
If neither side admits fault you end up with mutual dislike, if one side admits fault but the other one does not, that only creates resentment (the eldian restorationists that Grisha belonged to are a perfect example of the latter).
Both sides have to do it or nothing will change.
Conversely, if both sides do admit fault (and means it), and also committs to actually trying to do something to atone/fix the problem, then the only thing that matters from that point onwards is discussing solutions.
The scene that best illustrates this concept is the "stew scene" a little bit further ahead.
Also, Eren would have turned the pure titans back into people if he could, remember when he saw Zeke about to scream, he tried to stop him.
Yeah, ithink Isayama hid the "solution" in the background, like the flowers and I love that.
I do not think Eren would have turned them back. He probably saw it and that is why he did not change it, to ensure the rumbling suceeds. had the old guards lived, Eldia might have stopped him sooner or not at all, leaving only ruins to come back to.
Also, in Trost Mikasa was already mowing titans down with no problem. I never feared for hear being eaten really. :D I think the gripe I had is also not who they are fighting against but Wwho the are fighting WITH. :D The poeple that indeed did turn people into titans :D
@@storieswithstyle Yea the main thing is the illustration about the story being a tragedy in disguise.
Because that's the image I get in my head when I see that scene with that music.
I agree with your perspective on King Fritz. But I think what Jean meant to say is that the people currently living on paradis island, didn't commit the atrocities. Because they were still labelled as devils, Eren took matter to his own hands. Also, Kaya (the girl sasha saved) asked the same question to gabi. That her mom was not alive thousands of years ago. Why should she be held responsible for something so far back and she had nothing to do with.
Enjoying your reactions. Keep it up🔥
Yeah, that is the problem I spoke about, I knew more than Jean and it was difficult to go back into not knowing :D
Kaya seeing a silhouette of Sasha when Gabi saves her is so well done, hits you in the feels every time. Very interesting Gabi is your fav character she gets a lot of hate, but she’s a great character with perhaps the best character development in the entire show.
家族思いのナイルさんが巨人になり家族を襲うことになるなんて…😢
28:00 The first person that comes to mind is my brother
I like your criticism of the choice of the music where they slaughtered all the remaining titans. Indeed the music director made the wrong choice there,
Like what Jordan Peterson once said:"there's a bit of Hitler in everyone".
Yeah, he is right on many psychological things :D
Have you gone live to discuss it with the viewers or not yet?
Not yet, after movies. Some of my opinions have changed on the episodes after everything, especially 4x23-27 :)
49:25 I thought the exact same thing from this episode until the very end some songs feel heavily misplaced, like they put some epic background song on something that shouldn't be epic at all imo, but more something that is rather sad or dark (im also thinking about the last scene of the anime where they show the new eldian army fully going down the fascism road and I will always think the mood of the music they used was weird)
Yeah, it was one of the two only moments in the show that felt like "this is anime" and took me out. =(
@@storieswithstyle that last scene music was requested by the author and his reasoning for it is actually brilliant (and it did what he intended from what I saw in most reactions)
While that scene is dark, He wanted it to feel epic and vengeful (eren is also killing soldiers here and no civilians yet).. he wanted people to be in eren's shoes and sheer for him.. so they absolutely get betrayed in the next episode by feeling that for eren.. as you can see in special 1 the music was dark and tragic and eren was killing innocents so now even if you were in eren's side (most ppl were) you will feel shit about it and regret it (this is a summary of his reasoning for depicting that scene like that.. I mean the only reason eren's mom getting eaten being shown again in that scene is to boost the support for eren temporarily)
I think they tried to show their bravery for finally taking action and inspiring the new scouts...? I also think it was a little tone deaf, could've definitely been handled better. I felt really awkward seeing pyxis with that music blasting in the background.
Yes, agreed. If it had been normal scouts, i would have somehow understood it. But they were part of the poeple (even though not directly) that TURNED ALL OF THEM. Why are people ignoring that :D
26:42 I think it's Conny's character, Conny is a simple person, I'm not saying that he's stupid, he just -comparing to the others- doesn't think enough in some situations, though he was called stupid by sasha that one time, i'd say he's less smart than the others and judges things emotionally. (totally not trying to offense, I love him)
That is true, makes him more grounded. =) He basically survived because he befriended eren :D
I like that you stopped to think who the Titans of the Wall were as people. It's even more frigged up when you think about the numbers. At the beginning of season 1, the population is probably near its highest count. In that context, the 100,000+ who died (if I'm remembering how many died in the operation to "retake" wall Maria) represented a significant amount of the population within the walls. So I think it's safe to say the population of the people in the walls was on the order of 1 million at most. Yet, there are apparently tens of millions of colossal titans. That leads to the disturbing conclusion that the people King Fritz led to Paradis were "lucky" if they had their memories wiped and got to start over. If those numbers are right, the majority of the people that King Fritz brought to the island were turned into living prisoners as Wall Titans, which I think number at least 500,000 (according to various web site estimates). Carl Fritz was Frigged Up.
the doubt about...
Why didn’t eren turned pixis and others or even connies mom back to human ?
The reason is pretty simple
Eren convinced ymir by saying he will destroy THE WHOLE WORLD
He didn’t said outside world or anything
Ymir doesn’t care about eldians or marleyans, as a child she suffered because of BOTH of them
56:03 you making the same face as Onyankopon lol
anyone who sees through Flochs BS is alright in my book :)))) thanks SWS
For your idea to make charactervideos - I would recommend you to make a Tierlist in the Tierlistmaker. You can just drop down any character and discuss it .
i have to disagree with your opinion on apple seed being played in that scene. apple seed has usually only been played in the context of reiner and bertholdt or their battle against the scouts and so the track has lyrics that thematically fit with bertholdts/marlos storylines: "apples drop beside the tree, old man please remember me" (referring to the man who hung himself after talking to bertholdt) "steady we ride watching scenes playing out from our past, like the smell of her hair" (probably referring to marlo remembering hitch one last time before his death).
its for this reason that i dont think the track would really fit in this scene as it thematically has nothing to do with the context.
i can understand your criticism that barricades feels a little too epic, however i feel thats more subjective, as to me the song is energetic sure, but in a way thats very bittersweet and tragic. the lyrics themselves basically talk about being stuck in a cycle of bloodshed in hopes of becoming free, which perfectly fits the scene: "you know you had to kill her, oh my dirty hands it never fades".
13:38 lol, cabin
wait a minute... if even can make Eldians infertile why didn't didn't he just take away their titan powers? That way the main reason for the discrimination is gone? Like sure it would still continue for a while but after a few generations things would probably mellow out
I asked myself the same thing and thought it was a plothole, but it will be explained :)
Was wondering if you’d react to the Songs of AOT when you finish the anime?
Yes, definitely. Also the lyrics and stuff =)
something quick
3 walls
Maria 900km diameter - 282.600 titans
Rose lets say 600km - 188.400 titans
Sina 300km (or 350 as radius is 450) 94.200 titans
Borderline cities idk but not too much more so as the number is already too big not much diference
Around 565.200 titans
I think colossal wide (shoulders) is 10m
So 565.200 titans multiplied by 10 (meters wide) 5.652.000m wide is the rumbling. 56.520km
Earth is 40.075km diameter
Yes it is enough to turn it into potato harvest field.
22:47 Yes. He was born in this world, 100 years removed form the cycle of hate but the world brought them right back in.
In this fantasy world, the stakes are clear cut. We started this show with Eren and watched him grow up, we are basically on his side the whole show, even when he murders two adults to save Mikasa. Now he has to kill a couple nations to save Armin and Mikasa and so many more islanders who BTW up until recently had no memory of the outside world for 100 years, they don't even understand what a "nation" is, its a line in the show. They had no idea they can turn into titans, and the world still hates them for that fact. It's the world that has continued a cycle of hate for 100yr and brought basically, Sweden into WW2, by threatening to clip the balls of every Swedish male if they don't become slaves immediately.
Two times, Eren tried peace talks, he let Tybur finish delcaring war on the Island, then Eren attacked... by definition its self defense. Before you go crying about how genocide is not self-defense look down....
In the real world, there are no such ultimatums (I do kinda count the Mutual Destruction Pact though) Peace in the real world is far more achievable, also there isn't a race of people who can blow up into giants violently, and then start eating people at random around them.
Imagine if the Jewish peoples were the subject of Ymir? Guess the world might have joined Germany maybe?
What if The Taliban could blow up into man eating giants? 9/11 would be very different.
But we don't live in that world so yes, killing lots of people = bad all the time
For this show.... Team Eren all the way, f*ck Floch though. If he did a light rumble, still gives Marley and other countries to time to advance their tech and then they just come over and kill everyone on the Island. And for the rest of time they would abuse the same Eldians on the main land they have been, feeding kids to dogs, keeping them in zones with armbands, AND they would reflect that the "Island Devils" trying to kill us just means more "sin" committed by this race and "you guys are this race so you also are responsible you monsters"... see how that works? back to square 1. If they don't decide to keep the Eldian race around they will just kill them all. So... what? like numbers mean anything? 1 life or a thousand, its still the death of someone, someones MOTHER maybe?
"Is it me, or is the world that is wrong?" Grisha after watching the man who fed his sister to dogs lie to his family's face about her death. Its the world, in this fantasy setting. That is all.
I don't understand how you feel that Floch is a piece of shit, but Gabi is alright. Personally, Gabi is my most hated character in all of manga and anime. And if we're only talking about attack on titan, Gabi is my most hated, and Floch only comes second at a good distance. In all manga and anime, my second most hated character after Gabi is Ikari Shinji (hak tuah).
I did get over that for about 4 hours now in the reactions. So typing my answer down would not do it justice :)
Do you also hate the ending of AOT? If you do, I am beginning to see a correlation.
I agree, Gabi is such a good character, I don't know why but my first watch through I thoroughly hated her from beginning to end but after my second I really started to appreciate her.
Tbh I have a problem with mappa music choices sometimes but I thought barricades was cool here
I'll admit, I was really shocked when you were so angry at the music lol. In my opinion, Barricades is the perfect song to represent the meaning and message of this scene.
I usually really love how much insight you give into so much of the scenes in this series, but I honestly think you misinterpreted the meaning of this entire sequence and missed the point.
From my interpretation, Pyxis, Nile, and the rest of the Old Guard represented the ineffective old system of politics on Paradis. And although they changed their ways in the end and tried their best to help fight Eren and the Jagerists, they still represented the shackles that kept the Military system down and prevented them from effectively stopping Eren before all this could happen. Even when they did the coup d'état in Season 3 and usurped the false king, they still couldn't agree on anything and couldn't do what needed to be done to stop Eren in Season 4.
Even after the coup, the system stayed basically the same.
In short, their deaths represent the shackles being broken and the Scouts and the rest of the Military now being able to operate unhindered by the old ways. This scene represents the passing of the torch from the old leaders like Pyxis and Nile to the new leaders like Armin and Jean.
If you go back to the moment where they see Pyxis as a titan, and everyone seems horrified and saddened for a moment, the music slows down and become a softer piano plays as Armin has a look of sadness on his face as he remembers everything Pyxis did for them to help them in a flashback.
But Jean quickly steps in front of Armin and takes the center of the screen, and he tells everyone to jump into action. In my opinion, this shows how Jean is different from the Old Guard, and why he's the perfect person to take up the mantle as one of the new leaders.
Pyxis was very wise and smart, but his leadership just wasn't going to help The Military anymore. They needed someone new with new ideas and a new approach.
This is a strong parallel to when Levi chose to save Armin over Erwin in Season 3 for the same reasons. Erwin was an incredible leader and an amazing tactician, and his style of leadership was exactly what The Scouts needed during Season 1 & 2. But eventually, when the Beast Titan arrived and shattered everything the Paradisians thought they knew about the world and the Titans, his ways started to become less effective. His final plan and the suicide charge were the last things he could do to help the Scouts, because his tactics weren't as effective against the new enemy. That's why Levi chose Armin, because he (and Hange too) was the person who could fight this new enemy better than Erwin ever could. Armin's plans and his sacrifice of being burned by Bertholdt were what allowed the Scouts to defeat the Colossal Titan.
These two scenes represent the same thing.
Erwin's final plan helped to defeat the Beast Titan, but only Armin could defeat the Colossal. Exactly how Pyxis's wisdom helped our main characters by being their ally and convincing The Military to let Eren live and experiment with his power; but only Jean can lead The Military into fighting Eren and the Jaegerists.
This is why the music makes sense to me, because when Armin kills Pyxis he says: "Commander, we've made it this far all thanks to you." And the music swells and becomes more heroic again as the metaphorical torch is passed.
It's sad that the Old Guard had to die, but there's no time to mourn in this warzone, our main characters have to act quickly and will have to mourn later.
The heroic music is the theme of the New Guard breaking the old chains, taking up the mantle and leading our allies to victory.
I apologize if I repeated myself a lot here.... lol. I just wanted to get my point across as best as I could.
If you *still* disagree with me and think the music didn't fit, that's totally fine! I just wanted to share my perspective of this scene.
I think the problem was the music itself, not even its lyrics. It was just heroic stuff while killing allies together with the people that turned said allies into titans. It is like sayiing "Hey, we heroically put down our dogs that we lived with for 20 year because John gave them rabis on purpose, but it is so heroic because we finally can fight together with John again" :D
I agree with you about the song. I think it was used here for some typical epic shonen anime effect, to give people something to "enjoy" in these low action episodes. People can justify it however they want, the show just became a hollywood movie during that scene and I hate it, it's so cringe! just like I hate Levi's rap song (even though I like actual rap music). It. doesn't. fit. There are better ways to do it.
I think your comment really puts my irks down a lot better than I was able to express. It really felt like "random shonen badassary" :D
25:57 what the heck connie, why? Please shutup
Pixis gave Eren the idea for the rumbling when they first talked season 1. maybe episode 6?
Note what Eren says to Pixis...
Simbolisms aside, i think they just wanted to bring back some of the Old Titan Fights OST as a callback...
But man they picked a very bad scene to do this
🔥
❤
you are the only person I've ever heard complain about barricades, I find myself watching less and less of these because you get so angry and then rant about it, we get it, you don't like it, move on? you complained about it for 4 minutes, not really looking toward the finale cuz I know you'll have problems with music in there too :/ it is heroic, yes, they're also killing comrades, but they're also the strongest soldiers in the walls, they're saving a lot of people, its meant to be a heroic sacrifice. we haven't had our team fighting titans for a long time, it's a callback. and its very obvious no one in the show is being hopeful or trying to look cool while doing it, idk
I di dhave no problems with the finale, actually, I think. But 25-28 let me down a lot as we,, so you might skip those. Barricaseds was to happy and sucked here, sorry. It was just memberberries. I don't give a shit that they fight together again, it was meaningless. For example, Mikasa fights with Louise, yey. Does she care about Louise? No. It was jsut fanbait.
I like every scene u watched Floch action. It's like 😵🤢
There will be more soon :D
The music "Barricades" was used cause Attack on Titan normally has about 2 vocal tracks play during the show each season, and Mappa sucks ass so they just reused old ones cause they didn't re-hire Sawano.
🎉
Ah yes, let's cheer for Annie, a muss murderer who kills so she can go back to her daddy not caring for anybody else ( except maybe Armin ) , but Floch the guy who wants to save his country from destruction? Nah fuck him. You may not like him because he does unncecessary actions like beating shadis and becomes cocky to the point of annoyance but criticising him for his actions to avoid annihilation of his comrades is just showing people's double standards.
Annie changed for the better, Floch for the worst. How do people skip that part? Also, Floch had noone he cared about and did it for his ego, to be a hero "like Erwin". Annie had personal reasons, which were in the end love. I seriously can not understand how these two are even comparable other than on the most surface level analysis...?
@@storieswithstyle Annie changed? When? How? What? Saying things Floch is doing the things he does for his own ego is ridiculously wrong. After the trauma of almost dying in the charge he becomes extremist in a way that he thinks " to destroy our enemies, we must be ruthless as them " . Annie and Floch are both bad people but I'd say Floch is more sympathetic for wanting to defend his country than Annie who did things for her own selfish reasons.
@@adamturek210 Well, Floch is a N**zi, I do not see how that is sympathetic. At least Annie shows remorse, eevn during her onslaught in season 1, something Floch never does. Add to taht that Annie was still almost a child and floch is like 18 When he goes off. In the end, Floch wants to destroy the world for his short-sighted worldview and Annie decides to stake her life to safe it. I simply can not see how you can even come close to compare them?
@@storieswithstyle Thay may have been kids at the start ( which still doesn't change what they did ) but later there is no excuse for their actions. The next episode pretty much explains why I have no sympathy for annie specifically.
@@adamturek210 Just out of curiosity, do you have any sympathy for Eren?