A collection of all the countdown illustrations!! Some of these pieces are so goofy and I love them for that 😭. I don't usually post about SnK but it's been a pretty impactful anime in my life. It's probably the first anime I watched with interest? Genuinely such a great anime to start off with. I would probably say it's the best entry level show for peeps who're looking for intricate themes + action and emotion.
I hope they change up the ending a bit though! I don't mind the original incel Eren ending but like. It could have been better, right?
Here's the art! My fav piece would probably be the "6 Days Remaining" art because I love the concept of the AoT cast just filming the Rumbling like a parody movie. What's y'all's favorite illustration?
10 Days Remaining (this one is so sad poor eren 😭😭):
9 Days Remaining:
8 Days Remaining:
7 Days Remaining:
6 Days Remaining (my fav!!):
5 Days Remaining:
4 Days Remaining (painfully wholesome):
3 Days Remaining:
2 Days Remaining:
1 Day Remaining:
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Attack On Titan Final (Final?) Thoughts
With AoT now done done, I really want to give my final thoughts (season 4 part 27):
If it weren't for Attack on Titan, I would have never become as active talking about media online as I have.
I would have never met, talked to and followed cool people like @raelis1, @momtaku, @ghostmartyr, @tatakaeeren and many others, some who fell out of love with the series and some who yet love it in its (im)perfection.
(I actually started as an anon on @momtaku's blog.)
I currently have almost 1300 followers, most of who followed me for AoT.
For 10 years, the series has been an active, weekly/monthly/in general periodic part of my life and for all of the issues I take with it personally, I loved most of the time I followed this story.
I loved theorising about and analysing this delibrate (and less delibrate and flawed) mess.
It's a compelling and memorable first long-form story by a young author and I'd say you can do much much worse (but also much better) for your first outing.
And to think, I went into the first episode expecting to hate it because of an unfortunate encounter with a fan of the series. But from there I caught up with the anime and then the manga, followed by quickly getting endlessly fascinated by it – and from the start I was fascinated by what I considered the flaws of the series as much as the positives.
And since getting into the series, I really developed my taste: I truly love dark stuff with a heart buried within it. The definition of shock value differs so much from person to person, but to me AoT *generally* had a good balance of both.
It is a B-movie (horror) that also has sincere and complicated thoughts about humanity. It uses all the tropes in bad visual novels and manga aimed at teens and up, but sometimes also turns them upside down in really cool ways.
I think it ended up a slave to unfortunate tropes within its ilk of series, but only two stories have ever come close to make me invested like this one.
And for the most tl;dr version of my thoughts on the series, for probably the last time (might make this a yearly thing, might not; at some point I also want to finally redo my Favorite Character List from back when I started this blog):
I love it with all of its warts. I think the anime ending really solidified this very specific opinion about it I have.
All of the contradictions within this series' themes and characters are fascinating. And all of the straight-forward ideas powerful and burning fiercely.
Not new, not original, but to me absolutely still memorable and still meaningful.
And I have been saying this since season 1: I think the anime 100% ended up being better than the manga. If I'll ever be able to get a full version of the story, I'll be getting all of the anime.
(It's also better in case Isayama ever goes full trash person, but supporting the anime has its own issues.)
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