>no other anime/manga reached this level of movement sinceWhat was it about AOT that caused such a huge following, even from normiesI miss it
>>283916590why does it matter when SAO brvtally mogs this tryhard trash
>>283916590Frieren
>>283916590It was good. Real fucking good. Thats about it.
>>283916632I think SnK had more hype on this site at least
>has topped everything>has yet to be topped
>>283916932I miss it. There will never be another manga where people are analyzing every line of dialogue to figure out what it's foreshadowing.
>waaah waaah the ending is badthe journey to that ending was a straight constant flow of 10/10.judging the entire thing by the last 2 chapters is a serious brainlet take
>>283917173Braindead shingeki fan, it was a "journey" of cheap miatery boxes. Isayama needed a conclusion to all of them and to his one dimenisonal characters but he isnt a good writer thats why the ending is bad. Also, the series is a blatant copy of muv-luv, is not like he is a genius writer; he is a genius thief
>>283916590It is a shounen with shock-value. Normies like it because is not very "anime". Honestly after that ending im not surprised no one talks about this piece of shit
>>283916590>>>/r/eddit
Contrarians itt
>>283916590SnK is a series of tragedies. What other shounen authors don't seem to understand is that the most interesting quality of entertainment is the internal and external conflict of a character.Power-level bullshit, lore-faggotry and fancy fighting scenes are just filler for the next conflict. The realism of the characters also helped. Virtually almost every character had a detestable or pity-able side that made them feel alive.Other Japanese authors don't take character flaws seriously.
>>283917238>Normies like it because is not very "anime"maybe thats why it was good.
>edgelord gore>mystery boxes every season>nazi/jew allegory, but vague enough so that japanese nationalists and western racists can reinterpret it to fit their ideologies, so everyone can like itThat's pretty much it. And before some retard tries to make out that it's actually "based", the editor was a literal korean and they all have massive victim complexes about how the japs civilized their feudal country.
>>283917338If you don't like anime feel free to go back to /co/
>>283917238>Normies like it because is not very "anime". What you mean is children's entertainment. While SnK possesses qualities of a shounen, its emphasis on the conflicts of human nature enables it as a drama.
>>283917376you know one medium can take aspects of another right?thats what AOT did and is clearly better for italso what >>283917324 said. The characters felt human, noone was evil just for evils sake
>>283916590racism
>>283917435You're not making any sense, shounen is not a genre it's a demographic. a drama can be a shounen, whether snk is a battle shounen or drama it doesn't matter it's still intended for 14 year olds like you.
Normalfags lovr shonen because they are mentally kids
>>283917453>and is clearly better for itNot really. It's edgelord trash that was the main appeal. It's already less culturally significant than death note and eva. No one cares about it now, it's fotm, it failed.
>>283917484This
>>283917493>if I throw enough buzzwords, I'll be right>evanobody who isnt an anime fan knows what that is. I have normie friends who know about AOT. Fuck I know 40 year olds at the gym who know about it
>>283917519What words do you have a problem with? All the words there seem relevant and descriptive to the post.>who isnt an anime fan knows what that is. Maybe modern zoomers wouldn't know but it was pretty well known twenty years ago since it got a dub and aired on western television. People know about snk because it was fotm, in ten years no one will care.
>>283917519Eva is way more popular and culturally significant, is not a competition is a fact
>>283917538>twenty years agoancient history, get with the times gramps. Check the calendar, its 2025
>>283916932>still instantly start hearing the song in my headChills
>>283917562And in ten years from now no one will care about snk due to the atrocious ending. But death note will be remembered and still liked by fujos and other mentally ill women everywhere.
>>283917562I've yet to meet anyone irl who knows what EVA is.
>>283917571Ouma, weren't you supposed to destroy the time machine?
>>283917576Because you're a normalfag
>>283917571>talking shit about the snk ending>forgetting there's a huge number of people shitting on the DN ending as well
>>283917576When i was 8 i didnt know about eva either
>>283917588nigga did you even follow the convo. The cultural effect of snk is so big because it appealed to more than just to established anime fans.
>>283917602>The cultural effect of snk is so bigDo you know what fotm means, "nigga"?
>>283917602Same with eva. What happens is that you started watching anime 4 years ago
>>283917591What's your point exactly?
>>283917639I started watching anime at like 4 or 5 with Captain Tsubasa.but you do you queen
>>283917620If you think snk is just a simple fotm, you probably haven't been outside in 10 years
>>283917453>The characters felt human, noone was evil just for evils sakeIt's not just evilness. A well-written character in a drama must have universally dislikeable qualities.The average shounen writer tends to avoid the second category for not just the protagonist, but almost every one of their characters, except for the villain, if they're supposed to be unlikeable.In their duty to give their creations flaws, they make sure that their flaws do not make them lose appeal to general audiences. They treat flaws more like "weaknesses", e.g. "This very powerful girl can kill you in one swoop but she is shy and socially anxious".SnK is not immune to this, but it does a much better job than most fotm shounenslop.
>>283917663Yeah most people watched some dub of a popular show when they were kids
>normies
>>283917675You act like the 2010s wasn't full of FOTM media like SnK and GoT, both of which started off promising and both of which blew it with a retarded ending caused by hack writers not doing their fucking jobs that cratered interest in the series and made them culturally irrelevant.
>>283917675Maybe you think it's got some really deep and well written plot, but that doesn't change the fact that its culturally relevance has been on a huge decline.
>>283917686>NO THAT DOESNT COUNT
>>283917711That's right it doesn't count. You seem to think that you're a long time anime fan because you happened to a watch a dub when you were a kid. Most people did that. It doesn't mean anything.
>>283917728>YOU STARTED WATCHING ANIME LAST YEAR>no I didnt>THAT DOESNT COUNT BECAUSE IT WAS A DUBBED SHOWreally grasping at straws there nigga
>>283917728Well by that logic there's no true long time anime fans
>>283917702 (Me)Also OPM and Keijo!!!!. I genuinely forgot those shows existed. Point being there were a few shows that were genuine cultural touchpoints that had some effect on the larger anime sphere like Kill La Kill due to it being executed in a clean, concise and elegant manner. And then there's shit like SnK and OPM, which could've done the same but didn't due to fuckups in the production of the show.
>>283917737This all caps posting is really revealing how you've lost your temper after being made fun of for being such a retard. A dub is not an anime it's basically a cartoon. You had no involvement in the western anime community until a two or three years ago, that's why you think snk is anything other than fotm that's already forgotten about.
>>283917749There are forty year olds on this board who've been watching subbed anime since they were teenagers. You should stop projecting your age.
>>283917773Your right sorryI just disagree with you on snk
>>283916590the action was real good, I've yet to experience such a blood-pumping action series again
>>283917786Well keep that thought and then review it in ten years' time.
>>283917762>A dub is not an anime it's basically a cartoonwho decided that?Back then anime wasnt widespread and if you are ESL you cant really watch subbed until you're fluent in english.I watch Zenki and detective conan in german because I was fluent in that before I was in english. Neither are my native language. lets move the goalpost higher then. You're not an anime fan if you dont watch it in japanese without subs
>>283917832>watched
