Sonpi-Chan
Loyal Codger
Hi everyone! I haven’t made a thread here in…well, forever.
Anyway, I wanted to start a topic to talk about a series y’all probably know (and are possibly sick of): Attack on Titan. Because I have no one to chat with it about personally. None of my friends watch or read it; this has left me to spazz about it all by my lonesome with the occasional passing fan, like at the bookstore last week. I don’t know if a thread has been made for the topic already. It probably has but I took a quick peek and I didn’t see one (not including the threads discussing just first watching it).
I want to discuss about the series in general—the anime, the manga, the spin-offs—all of it!
Everything from:
- • The characters
• The story
• The art
• What you like and don’t like
• What you love
• What you hate
• Your favorite ships
• Crack ideas and theories
Be respectful please: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unfortunately I’m aware that fans and the various series’ fandoms can be frightening and downright terrifying—I know. I’ve been bitten by more than just a few (probably why I’ve shied away from this forum for so long). But please be respectful of everyone in this thread that decides to show up! I don’t care if you don’t like a pairing they mentioned, or a theory they have, or whatever. That’s fine for you to not like it but you don’t have to be a jerk about it. Everyone likes what they like, just respect that! We’re all fans (to some degree) here and we should all understand and accept each other’s feelings and not bash each other because they don’t like what we like or because they have a different opinion. Let’s just discuss the series.
I don’t mind spoilers or discussing things that happen later in the series. But let’s, for the sake of others, label them and put them in spoiler tags. Okay?
For those that don't know how to use spoiler tags, you do it like this:
[spoiler] (whatever you'd like to say here) [/spoiler]
I know I can’t force people to use spoiler tags. So be warned that throughout the thread that there are spoilers!
How I got into the series: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxThat said. I guess I’ll attempt to start a discussion of this topic.
Originally when Attack on Titan came out, I didn’t understand everyone’s obsession with it. My tumblr dashboard was suddenly overflowing with pictures and things I didn’t understand and my dA was beginning to look the same way. The anime and manga didn’t look interesting to me at all. So I utterly ignored it, as this is the kind of series I don’t typically watch (I’m strangely picky and weird about my anime and manga). But as the series began to further and I was exposed to it more whether I liked it or not, I eventually caved. I told myself: “Fine. I’m going to watch a few episodes and see what everyone is SO excited about! Jeez.”
Three to four episodes later? I’m in love.
At the time I believe the series was only ten or so episodes in. Once I marathoned the rest of them, I ran to find the manga as I couldn’t wait a week for the next episode to come out through the streaming. So for two nights I read the Attack on Titan manga and just utterly immersed myself into it. Everything I had been seeing on tumblr and dA finally started to make sense and I found the fans of this series in particular were magnificent. The art and the stories that were showing up on my dashboard were spectacular. I think that’s what really settled it for me, even if I liked the idea of the story in general once I learned more about it.
So that’s how I got into the series personally. What about the rest of y’all?
I’m curious as to how you got into it and all that other jazz.
My favorite female character: Annie Leonhardt
My favorite male character: I can’t really say. I have too many I like to pick a favorite.
Uhm. I guess that’s all I really have to say at the moment. I don’t want to scare too many off with making this more of a novel than it already is. Orz.
