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venuscruel · 9 months

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Happy aruani day

It's been three years since the confession in the famous boat scene!

#aruaniversary #aruani #armin arlert #annie leonhart #snk 131 #aot 131 #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin

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ourmondobongo · 1 year

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THEY INCLUDED THE DEATH OF ZEKE'S GRANDPARENTS

OMFG

CHILLSSSSS

#SNK 131 #spoilers

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cadriox · 1 month

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“I wished for it to all be wiped away.”

#snk #aot #attack on titan #armin arlert #shingeki no kyojin #eremin #eren yeager #eren jaeger #erearu #for 5k followers thank u on twt!!!#took me so long to finish this art for no reason I was just too lazy #131 aot kinda slay

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nanaba · 4 months

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top of the world by carpenters | chapter 131: the rumbling | chapter 84: midnight sun | chapter 73: the town where everything began | chapter 139: towards the tree on that hill

#no way isayama wasnt listening to this when he drew 131 #eremin #attack on titan #aot #snk #shingeki no kyojin #eren jaeger #armin arlert #eren yeager #eacomps

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jeanandthedreamofhorses · 2 years

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Interview with Isayama at the Hita SNK Museum

Several months ago I visited the official SNK Museum in Isayama’s hometown of Hita. You can see everything else about it here, but the most interesting part for me was a recorded interview with Isayama. I didn’t film it because I didn’t have time and didn’t know if it was allowed, but I did write notes to keep the content fresh in my memory.

My record of Isayama’s comments is in bold; the rest is context and my own thoughts.

Growing Up in Oyama

Hita is part of Oita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. Oyama, where Isayama grew up, is a part of Hita today, but during his childhood it was an independent town. It’s an area surrounded by mountains, and its name literally means ‘big mountain’. Here’s a picture by the dam for reference:

When asked what it was like growing up there, Isayama commented on the sense of seclusion that came from these mountain borders. He said that, while Oyama seemed big to him, he was vaguely aware there were bigger cities out there, like Hita. He knew that past that was Fukuoka (the biggest city in Kyushu), and that past that was the sea – and beyond there, even more places.

It was intriguing to me that, for the young Isayama, the edge of his known world was Kyushu. He didn’t even mention the rest of Japan: it was equally as foreign to him as other countries. Oyama’s large mountains seem directly analogous to the Walls, cutting off its people from the rest of Japan just as the Walls cut Paradis off from the world. Young Isayama was in a similar state of ignorance to what lies beyond as the Paradis Eldians. And just as they believed themselves the entirety of humanity, so did Oyama seem a world unto itself to Isayama.

The way Isayama spoke about the outside world, it felt to me as though he had struggled to wrap his head around it. Perhaps he had felt curiosity, like the young Armin; but perhaps he had also felt fear at the enormity of a world so far beyond what he knew. I say this because all this reminded me of Eren pointing across the ocean in Chapter 90.

He was so disappointed that the edge of the ocean was not the edge of the world, like he had always thought, and so overwhelmed by the presence of so much complex human life on the other side. It enervates him to the point he admits, in Chapter 131, to wanting to just wipe it all clean.

I wonder if Isayama felt something similar in regard to a wider world existing beyond Kyushu. He did say in another interview that he had often wanted the world to “go to hell”, and fantasised about living in a world without people: just like Eren had wanted the outside world to be uninhabited.

–Would you say part of you wished the world would be destroyed?

Isayama: What, like, “Screw the world, let it all go to hell”? Yeah, I used to really think that quite a bit — like, I’d wonder what it would be like to live in a world without people, like in I Am Legend.

While this was Isayama’s unique experience in Oyama, I wonder if this attitude is something felt by many Japanese people. The country famously cut itself off from the world for two hundred odd years just like Paradis, and to this day the idea that the Japanese are fundamentally different from the other peoples of the world is propagated in Japanese schools and media: a kind of ‘Japanese exceptionalism’. The consequence is an insular attitude among many Japanese people, where Japan feels also a ‘world unto itself’; even though it incorporates culture from around the world, it does so in a uniquely Japanese fashion.

So, the perspective of Eren and the Paradis Eldians may resonate across Japanese culture as a whole. The potential of this attitude to result in ultranationalism and extremism, as it did in Japan in the 30s, is also portrayed in the manga through the behaviour of many Jaegerists.

What Is SNK about?

If he were to put it in a sentence, he wanted to tell a story about someone who starts as a victim but ends up as an aggressor. He thought it would be interesting for this person to become a monster just like the one that attacked him.

This was very interesting. Not only had this been Isayama’s plan from the start, but it also confirms it’s at the core of SNK’s purpose as a story.

How Does He Feel about the Museum?

Isayama thinks manga is about showing everyone the most embarrassing sides of yourself. So, while he’s very embarrassed for stuff like his childhood drawings to be on display, he thinks it’s a good thing.

This is the first time I’ve seen it phrased this way, but I think this attitude to storytelling is one I share. Putting all your vulnerabilities, all the thoughts you’re too afraid to say directly, to the forefront. This attitude is evident in Isayama’s dedication to portraying human weakness as well as courage: Carla calling out ‘don’t go’ after telling Eren to run being the quintessential example (I’m sure this was mentioned in another interview, but I can’t find it - sorry).

Perhaps one of the ‘embarrassing sides’ of himself Isayama showed us was his childhood feelings about the outside world?

Isayama’s Drawing Methods

Sometimes he draws a panel he thinks is no good, so he cuts it out and redoes it. But in cases where the assistants have already gone to the trouble of toning these rejects, he can’t bear to throw them away. Instead, he sticks drawing paper on the other side of them and presses them against a light-box, so he can trace the old outline for his second attempt. He then erases the pencil lines, inks them, and has them toned.

I just thought this was wholesome.

I don’t know if you can find the interview online, but if you’re in Japan, please check out the museum! It’s well worth it.

#shingeki no kyojin #snk meta #eren jaeger #eren yeager #hajime isayama #interview #snk spoilers #aot spoilers #history #japanese culture

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ereh-snk · 2 years

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This is how I feel about SNK’s ending

I don’t hate SNK, in fact I still like SNK from chapter 1 to chapter 131, but the ending just really felt like it’s from a completely different manga and I can’t reconcile it with the rest.

I won’t be watching the Final Season part III aside from the adaptation of chapter 131.

As for this blog I’ll queuing up posts as inspiration strikes. Posts will be sporadic.

#My posts

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infier-no · 11 months

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129 130 131

¿te gusta el anime?

mencanta

¿anime favorito?

snk y evangelion

yyyyy mi recomendación sería que vieran Mob psycho 100

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rougekithes · 1 year

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Huh do i wanna watch an hour long snk episode?

I kind of wanto to for the ch. 131 adaptation but i also dont care about the rest

#rouge: chit chat #i wish i still cared #but i really dont

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jinruihokankeikaku · 1 year

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initial take after watching the Japanese sub: New SNK special is...good. Really good. Much more visually spectacular (even in meh-resolution on the site I watched on) than the first two parts of Season 4, basically on par with Seasons 2 & 3. The tone was really strong, as expected - the opening sequence of the Rumbling are appropriately bleak (although of course the most infamous images from Chapter 131 are replaced with a blood-splatter and discretion cut - there was no way they were going to air that in color.)

Soundtrack choices were solid, too - two insert songs, an excerpt from Bauklötze for Hanji's last stand and the Alliance's escape, and one from Splinter Wolf for the closing sequence of the Alliance catching up to Eren & Zeke. (Presumably they're saving the main theme and Vogel im Kafig for this fall, lol.)

#snk spoilers

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alysiusart · 4 years

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