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Wow. This story's been making some insane sales numbers (iirc some of those high volume sales are even from before the anime boosted sales exponentially). I wonder how SnK is doing as compared to Naruto and OP nowadays...
 

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Wow. This story's been making some insane sales numbers (iirc some of those high volume sales are even from before the anime boosted sales exponentially). I wonder how SnK is doing as compared to Naruto and OP nowadays...
SnK already surpassed Naruto. But, it is still long way to compare with One Piece ; it still sells like half of OP.
 

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Oh so it's definitely confirmed to have outsold Naruto overall then. I'd seen some confusing stats on that before...

Has anything even come close to selling at half of OP's level in the last several years? That's impressive.
 

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Oh so it's definitely confirmed to have outsold Naruto overall then. I'd seen some confusing stats on that before...
Well, if you follow the Oricon ranking regularly, then you should know how much SnK is selling lightly.

Has anything even come close to selling at half of OP's level in the last several years? That's impressive.
Most recent one is FMA.
 

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Guys! The first Blu-ray of Snk is out! The Pre-ordered version(or is it First Press?) was bundled with the Pilot Chapter of the manga.

Here's some images of the Pilot Chapter:




Source: shingekikyojin.net
 
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Guys! The first Blu-ray of Snk is out! The Pre-ordered version(or is it First Press?) was bundled with the Pilot Chapter of the manga.

Here's some images of the Pilot Chapter:




Source: shingekikyojin.net
Sooo soo many potential major spoilers just from the first page alone if Isayama were to reuse his ideas...

---------- Post added at 09:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:37 PM ----------

But I doubt it, of course :P
 

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Holy crap.

What with the religious organization seeming to play a large role in the canon manga, I wouldn't be surprised if that first page's exposition isn't very far off...
 

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Hey, what does it say? I'm curious. It's not like all of us could read Japanese here. XD
 

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Utsune would do a far better job on this than me, but here goes (since I already posted about this elsewhere thanks to your post, Yumpo)...

The first one, after the blurb (in the intro, Isayama expresses his embarrassment at his current level of drawing/inking ability) says...
人類は滅亡迎えていた
Humanity was facing its downfall.

100年前 地球環境に危険を覚えた宗教科学団体
100 years before, a religious sciences organization took the danger of environmental ruin to heart.

彼らがとった究極の自然保護活動が。。。
They activated their ultimate nature conservation strategy...

「人類駆逐計画」
"Human Extermination Plan"

In terms of story ideas I have to say the "environmental destruction" thing sounds cliché at first (some crude ideas in here and not just crude drawing) but it could be done well. Depending. When you think about what this story is focusing on (human extermination, lol...), I suppose it would just be a minor background detail anyway...

It does seem like the titans are fleshy gundams however, and we've yet to find out what's up with the religious organization in the canon manga, so these parts could be it. I didn't find much of interest in the rest of it except that on the third page, someone seems to be crying over the (dead?) body of someone who is being called "father." Could this be prototype Eren and his dad?
 
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But why would they want to exterminate humans?
 

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Because humanity was destroying the very planet they inhabited I s'pose
 

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Whoops, I just realized there was an actual term there (that I wasn't familiar with in Japanese before) that makes it make more sense: "nature conservation." I'll go fix that now!
 

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which is actually a very cute series, so if anyone could find the raws to chapter 2 and beyond, I wouldn't mind giving translating a go, but I don't see any point in translating just the above 2 out of nowhere for now (the plot is thin but it's still there...)
Odd that you can read Chinese but you didn't think of Tieba. It's practically my go to nowadays for everything outside of Naruto and OP.

2 + 3, 4, 5
 

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About the latest episode, I'm kind of rethinking stuff. I don't think it was just Annie who killed Sonny and Bean. I think Reiner and Bertolt were with her when she did them. When I reread that specific chapter in the manga, someone mentioned that it was supposedly be done by two or more people. Annie was just plain unlucky that she was beside Armin during the gear inspection while presenting Marco's gear, making her the primary suspect as the female type titan.

Besides that, I don't think their goal there, in the Survey Corp base, was to kill the two titans, but actually, to kidnap Eren. Eren, after all, is far more important to them that they would stop attacking the wall compared to two random titans being experimented at. If you think about it, why would they risk trying to kidnap Eren during the expedition? They should've at least tried kidnapping him before it.

But as they snuck around the base, they found out that Eren was actually well-guarded(Levi's Squad+Hange), so they couldn't take action. As they left(or doing recon work), they found Sonny and Bean, and decided to kill them because of course, you already know, information should always be kept hidden. Apparently though, RBA are not Armin or Erwin. They didn't think 3 steps ahead of the consequences. The Survey Corp had intensified it's guard around Eren after they killed Sonny and Bean. They just practically lost their chance to get him before the expedition. So they risk it during the expedition.

Just random theories on details though. XDD.
 
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Interesting, but personally I still think it was Annie, otherwise her having presented the stolen gear would be kind of pointless in terms of storyline exposition. She might have had Reiner or Bert (Bert crushes on her so I hope it was him, lol) with her at the time though, since it was mentioned two people supposedly did it. They never explained why it was thought to be two people unless I missed a mention that two people were actually spotted instead of one. (They could have though. I was only half-assedly listening today since I'm kind of tired, but I noticed the translators seemed to take a lot of unnecessary liberties with their translations in the version I watched. It all seemed like relatively minor things that were affected.) Anyway Annie's the "outside the walls expert" out of RBA, since she snuck out of training so many times to "interfere" with the Recon corps. (I love the red herrings in the ep btw-- in the Mike/Erwin scene, they made it seem like Erwin is up to something shady, and with Hange/Eren, they made it seem like she was the one "interfering" with their expeditions --she appeared right after they talked about Annie at dinner. I can't wait to see what anime-only folks start theorizing about, based on those false leads, lol...) I think that after messing so much with the Recon Corps, Annie knew she shouldn't be doing anything reckless. It's possible she went to the castle to "case" the place-- preparing for a future attack, but I think she has a more strategic mind than to just do a sudden random assault as soon as he arrives at his destination. RBA had a system when they went after Eren. They worked seamlessly undercover, honestly. They just happened to be outsmarted in the end because Erwin and Armin's minds are nothing to be trifled with.
 

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Interesting, but personally I still think it was Annie, otherwise her having presented the stolen gear would be kind of pointless in terms of storyline exposition. She might have had Reiner or Bert (Bert crushes on her so I hope it was him, lol) with her at the time though, since it was mentioned two people supposedly did it. They never explained why it was thought to be two people unless I missed a mention that two people were actually spotted instead of one. (They could have though. I was only half-assedly listening today since I'm kind of tired, but I noticed the translators seemed to take a lot of unnecessary liberties with their translations in the version I watched. It all seemed like relatively minor things that were affected.) Anyway Annie's the "outside the walls expert" out of RBA, since she snuck out of training so many times to "interfere" with the Recon corps. (I love the red herrings in the ep btw-- in the Mike/Erwin scene, they made it seem like Erwin is up to something shady, and with Hange/Eren, they made it seem like she was the one "interfering" with their expeditions --she appeared right after they talked about Annie at dinner. I can't wait to see what anime-only folks start theorizing about, based on those false leads, lol...) I think that after messing so much with the Recon Corps, Annie knew she shouldn't be doing anything reckless. It's possible she went to the castle to "case" the place-- preparing for a future attack, but I think she has a more strategic mind than to just do a sudden random assault as soon as he arrives at his destination. RBA had a system when they went after Eren. They worked seamlessly undercover, honestly. They just happened to be outsmarted in the end because Erwin and Armin's minds are nothing to be trifled with.
I haven't really watched the subs yet. I'll probably watch it tomorrow. No one spotted anyone who killed the two titans in the manga though. Most of the soldiers just assumed it. It's probably because you'd have to have a team of at least two to kill a single titan using the vertical maneuver gear unless you're Levi or Mikasa. Of course, I do think it's still Annie who did it, but I also think she at least had a partner to help her do it(Wow, I also think it's Bert too...XDD). Otherwise, I feel it's a bit pointless for the manga to mention that tidbit. Of course, unless the author intends to mention that Annie is almost on the same level as Oluo, Levi and Mikasa XDD.

It's still kind of just 'implied' that Annie was messing around with the Corp though. Practically only Levi implied it. Most of the Corp don't even recognize her, and at least none of the survivors, of 5 years before, said anything that would imply that they knew her, save for Levi.

Well...I kinda think Annie is actually quite a little bit reckless. XDD. She just went charging into the Forest of Giants so she could immediately get a hold of Eren, jumping in and cut that nape off of one titan to save Connie, and risking agreeing to help Armin 'escort' Eren, which she already had a feeling that it was a set-up. Also judging from the way she killed those Survey Corp soldiers, it looks like she's kind of okay messing around with them. T^T.

And when you mean as soon as "'he' arrives at 'his' destination", do you mean Eren? Or is it suppose to be 'she' and 'her'? Quite lost here XDDDDD.

Also, I don't remember that part with them talking about Annie in dinner before Hange arrived. Is that from the latest episode?

Anyway, in the anime....I really don't hear Hange speaking.....I hear Edward Elric speaking..........That Romi Paku's voice! XDDD
 
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Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

Some merchandise images :)



 

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That Shirt... LOVE IT!!!
If someone can link a site (even in japanese but with international ship) where to buy it, please...
 

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Lol that's some sweet merch <3
 

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I hope they will be purchasable in manga/anime conventions as soon as possible.
 
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