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| Everyone uses this Picture..... -_- |
Idea; One hundred years ago the world was attack by giant, humanoid creatures that are now known of as "Titans". These Titans have forced mankind into the dark ages once more, but only worse. Humans live in villages within concentric walls, The inner most circle harboring the richest most elite {snobby} of mankind and of course the King.
There are three walls, Maria, Rose and Sina. When the Anime begins an unusually large Titan breaks a hole in Wall Maria and all hell breaks loose.
Thoughts; I wasn't so sure about watching this show, Figured there was no way it could live up to all the hype floating around the Anime community. Was I correct? Yea.
Not saying it's not enjoyable to watch, The battles are rather entertaining to watch and it's kind of amusing to see how the Titans play with their food. There hasn't really been any heartbreaking moments yet, which is rather odd. Well, The part where the girl is giving CPR to her half-a-man lover was a bit sad.... Nothing major though.
Anyways, I kind of wish they didn't make it so obvious who the Armored Titan and even the Colossal Titan are. It hasn't been said yet in the show, but really... First time I saw Reiner in episode three it was like.. Derp. Then it's not much of a jump to assume the other guy was also a Titan. Of course they throw you off a little with the whole thing about their village being attacked, but yea... Oh well.
The Enemies...
Titans - Deformed, giant, humanoid type creatures that just showed up one day. All that I've seen so far are the male-ish Titans, but I am sure there's some females coming along. They tend to be 3 to 15 Meters tall, with the occasional 60 meter freak.
They seem to have no real purpose in life other then to kill and eat humans, which they don't even digest. They just hock them back up every now and then in strange, nasty ball forms. They don't seem all that bright either, most the time only making grunting noises or screaming... They are just screwed up.
The only way to kill them is to slice open the back of the Titans neck, just were it meets the spine. This is the area that Eren comes out of after he transforms into a Titan so one can assume the Titans may all have human counter parts. Or at least some of them do..
Who we have...
Eren Yeager- Hey, you can turn into a Titan. I would have never guessed it. Heh. Anyway, When it all starts out he's living with his mother, father and adopted sister Mikasa within the Wall Maria. Going on about how he wanted to join the Survey Squad and just being an annoying teenager.
All of this ends quite quickly however when a huge Titan knocks a hole in the Wall and lets a bunch of smaller yet still terrifying Titans in. His father having just left for another part of the country was safe{?}, but the house fell down on his mother after being hit by Titan debris and that is where she died. Eaten by a Titan.
The Titans pretty much destroy his town and all the refugee's are forced back to Wall Rose, not having enough resources to keep so many people alive a lot of the adults are sent out on a suicide mission to attempt to take Wall Maria back.
Fast Forward a little and Eren starts his training to hopefully destroy all the Titans... Well. On his graduation day even further into the future Wall Rose is attacked by the Titans. During the battle Eren is eaten nearly whole {minus an arm and a leg} by one of the Titans and inside his stomach something, probably his rage and determination triggers his sleeping giant. Litterally, he transforms into a Titan inside the Titan and just goes apeshit on all the surrounding Titans.
At first most the humans are afraid of him and are even going to kill him after he transformed back into a normal human, but Commander Pixis shows up just in time to hault the execution so that they may use Eren to seal the hole in Wall Rose.
After a few hiccups Eren controls his Titan form, seals the wall and...ends up arrested again. There ya have it...
Mikasa Ackerman- Eren's adopted sister and crazy ass protector, this woman is actually rather frightening, Maybe even more so then the Titans themselves.
A day when Eren's father Dr. Yeager was going to visit Mikasa's parents a group of banditss attacked Mikasa's house and killed her mother and father. Their intent was actually to enslave Mikasa's mother, but she put up too much of a fight. Seem's Mikasa's mother was one of or the last Asian female to be had and that would make her fetch quite a price on the slave market.
Deciding Mikasa would have to do, they took her instead. When Dr. Yeager shows up at the house with a young Eren and finds the dead bodies of Mikasa's parents. Eren just happens on the cabin Mikasa is being held in after getting lost in the forest and kills two of her kidnappers. Mikasa kills the third.. and since then she's been a strong, scary little girl/woman.
It's pretty obvious that she loves Eren, doubt he actually realizes this though... She's one of the best fighters coming out of training and maybe even one of the best the humans even have. She certainly has a knack for killing them.
Armin Arlet - The physically useless genius character, many of these types of shows have them and this one is no exception. Eren's best friend, his parents are long dead and the grandpa he was living with died after Wall Maria fell and they sent the old man into battle to die.
His grandfathers death seems to be what fueled him to get as far as he has. Graduating academically at the top of the class he's the one that devised the plan to seal the hole. Well, with a little help but... face it.. the kid did most of the brain-work.
Episode Rundown...
1 and 2 - Introduction and all, Titans attack Eren's town Shiganshina it naturally falls and all the refugee's end up at Wall Rose. Too many people are there and too little food to be had forces the government to have the adults choose either to go into battle against the Titans or work the Farms. Armin's grandpa dies.
3 and 4 - Training, Lots of Training and a time skip to graduation. Five or Six Years? Lots of new people are introduced, none really important enough too write about yet. Eren starts off shaky, Armin is still a bit of a weakling and Mikasa just kicks ass. The Colossal Titan attacks and here we go again..
5 thru 13 - Everyone gets to fight the Titans again, more human eating and lots of chickenshits trying to run away. Eren gets eaten, Armin has a bit of a breakdown and Mikasa just kicks ass. She even proves to be scary to the asshole adults who think their stuff is worth every ones lives.
Eren turns into a Titan after he's eaten, saves Mikasa basically on accident since she is having a bit of a breakdown after hearing he's dead. He's not dead he's just huge...and naked... I'm going to love reading their explanation on just how the Titan is "made". At the moment it's just Poof it's here, Poof it's gone.
All looks lost till Pixis shows up and decides to use Eren to pick up a giant boulder and fix the hole in the wall. First victory against the Titans, Yey! Wall Rose is safe for now.
What are they going to do with Eren? hehe
13.5 - Recap episode.
Random- There's a big thing about something in the basement back at Eren's original house. His father said he'd show him what was in the basement when he got back from his walkabout, but since the Titans destroyed their town before he got back it was never revealed. Now, they gotta go find what's in that basement...
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| Always Hungry! |
Favorite Character so Far is; Potato Girl. She's eating a hot Potato when you first see her, while they are in line with their new training instructor. He makes her run laps until she can't move basically.. She's always after food it's like she's insatiable.
