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So I finally started watching Shingeki no Kyojin! It is just as good as everyone says. If you can deal with absolutely-no-happy-endings shows, and some gore, I would definitely recommend it.
The first thing I heard about this manga was the artist's refusal to draw the main lady, Mikasa, in a sexy sexy bikini for a magazine cover, instead depicting her (in a sports bra) like this. A good sign, right?
Mikasa is 100% the best, as expected. ♥ (SO GREAT, seriously. SHE IS AMAZING.) I was not expecting to like the main dude, Erin, but instead of turning out to be your usual Mr Shounen Main Character Dude, he turned out to be the kind of person who is good at exactly two things: one, speech-making; and two, disregarding personal safety, good tactics, and any kind of actual thought in favour of killing the fuck out of anything he regards as a monster.
(note that fighting does not appear on this list. this is because he kinda sucks at it and without Mikasa would have been dead within a week.)
It's really interesting to have this kind of a guy as a main character, because he has what you would think of as typical shounen-manga goals (kill monsters, save people) but it's made clear that he is absolutely ptsd-ed to hell and back -- though possibly he was this kind of person all along -- and that his pursuit of these goals is not exactly noble or admirable. It's really fascinating to watch him, because he draws people in with his determined face and encouraging speeches and then you realize that he doesn't care that much about teambuilding or saving the world or anything like that, he just wants to kill every single Titan, every last one, and keep his last remaining family alive.
...which is really interesting! I keep using that word, and I keep talking about the main dude more than I mean to, but yeah. I didn't think I'd like him at all, and I didn't at first, but then I gradually realized that he was absolutely fucking nuts and I was like oh. huh. this dude is not as boring as i thought.
Also, I hear that the ladies who showed up a couple episodes ago are actually canonically girlfriends? YAY. \o/
The first thing I heard about this manga was the artist's refusal to draw the main lady, Mikasa, in a sexy sexy bikini for a magazine cover, instead depicting her (in a sports bra) like this. A good sign, right?
Mikasa is 100% the best, as expected. ♥ (SO GREAT, seriously. SHE IS AMAZING.) I was not expecting to like the main dude, Erin, but instead of turning out to be your usual Mr Shounen Main Character Dude, he turned out to be the kind of person who is good at exactly two things: one, speech-making; and two, disregarding personal safety, good tactics, and any kind of actual thought in favour of killing the fuck out of anything he regards as a monster.
(note that fighting does not appear on this list. this is because he kinda sucks at it and without Mikasa would have been dead within a week.)
It's really interesting to have this kind of a guy as a main character, because he has what you would think of as typical shounen-manga goals (kill monsters, save people) but it's made clear that he is absolutely ptsd-ed to hell and back -- though possibly he was this kind of person all along -- and that his pursuit of these goals is not exactly noble or admirable. It's really fascinating to watch him, because he draws people in with his determined face and encouraging speeches and then you realize that he doesn't care that much about teambuilding or saving the world or anything like that, he just wants to kill every single Titan, every last one, and keep his last remaining family alive.
...which is really interesting! I keep using that word, and I keep talking about the main dude more than I mean to, but yeah. I didn't think I'd like him at all, and I didn't at first, but then I gradually realized that he was absolutely fucking nuts and I was like oh. huh. this dude is not as boring as i thought.
Also, I hear that the ladies who showed up a couple episodes ago are actually canonically girlfriends? YAY. \o/
