Attack on Titan (there's a live-action?)

[Kamen_Kaiju]

I saw the anime of Attack on Titan on Netflix,..it's actually really good. Interesting story and good artwork.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyd1ibaGOr0[/ame]

Basically the story is 100 years ago a race of beings called Titans appeared on Earth and started eating people. Titans are huge on average,..3-4 stories,..and they regenerate so they're hard to kill. Some Titans are enormous,..5-6 times bigger than the average Titan. And some are really creepy looking with big eyes and giant smiles.

For 100 years what's left of humanity has hidden behind a 3-tier circle of Great Walls,..in peace.

The story starts out when that peace is destroyed by an attack from the Titans. It's gruesome, (I mentioned they eat people? Alive and screaming?)

Anyway it was an interesting story. I thought it was a movie and I was just in the mood to watch some Anime one night and ended up catching this,...then realized I was hooked through 25 episodes. It's a good story though so I didn't mind. Lots of twists and turns.

So today I read something posted here that reminded me of a quote in the TV Show about how, "life is cruel,..and beautiful." So in MLP fashion I tried looking for that video clip to post,....when I found this...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InF16sp7J0M[/ame]


The nerd in me just did 2 backflips and a cartwheel.

Live-Action? Monstrous people-eating Titans? The team of Killers in the "3d Mobility System" <---worst name ever) flying around and killing Titans?

Yes Please!!!


Figured I'd make a post about it. Maybe someone here would like the tv show or the movie.

Haven't seen the movie yet so can't say if it's good. But the trailer looks good and everything in the trailer is right out of the Anime,..so,...I can't it imagine it sucks or anything.

So if you have time and feel like watching some really well done Anime,...but don't usually like "typical" Anime,...you may really dig this gruesome drama/action story. ..or the live-action version.

 

[bildozr]

AoT kinda suffered from the same thing Fullmetal Alchemist did. They started producing before the source material was written. So there's a lot of filler and pacing is kinda off.

That being said the live action got a huge "meh" reaction.

But like anything, I prefer to watch a movie and ignore critics so take it for what it's worth.

 

[parts]

Dam terrorists again..

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

idk, I didn't get into FMA.

I'm actually ridiculously picky about Anime. I love Anime,...yet dislike about 99% of it.

lots of teen drama and romance crap. ...but the artwork and animation style is so good compared to our.... "cartoons."

I want Giant Robots blowing stuff up, tbh.

...or the classics like Ghost in the Shell, Robotech,... Akira.

 

[bildozr]

idk, I didn't get into FMA.

I'm actually ridiculously picky about Anime. I love Anime,...yet dislike about 99% of it.

Brotherhood is the remake. Which is significantly better, considering it came out after all the source material was done. I don't know if you had the chance to see or compare.

But yeah, I agree. There's so many good stories that people shrug off because it's anime.

A lot of it is crap, but there's a bunch of good ones. Like Death Note, I binged the hell out of death note.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Death Note is another one I've had a friend tell me for years I should watch.

..Anime is such a tricky genre. Because the stories and art that are good are REALLY FRIKKING GOOD!

..but there's been so many times I watched a movie that had great art but the story sucked,...or didn't go anywhere and then it was just over. ..WTF?

..took a while to realize a lot of Japanese movies can be like that. More like, "A Day in the Life" instead of, "Plot, rising action, suspense, climax, epilogue"....which is how almost all our movies in the US are made. Predictable story paths.

Sometimes you watch a Japanese film and you're like, "where is this story going?".....then the credits roll.

 

[bildozr]

Very suspenseful. Totally worth the watch. Only like 25 episodes.

Cowboy Bebop, FMA Brotherhood, and Death Note are my favorites.

 

[SteveGangi]

AoT is a series I got hooked on, and I am looking forward to the live action version to see how they do.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Watched the Live-Action one last night.

parts of it were cool, really cool. But I can understand why some fans of the Anime hated the movie. They changed some things and rushed others. They pretty much entirely skipped "Bootcamp" and showed it in a couple flashbacks.

The Titan scenes were great though. Much gorier than the Anime. More disturbing because they're like giant smiling r*tards eating people,...which is just...disturbing as hell for some reason.

I think if I hadn't seen the anime the movie wouldn't make a whole lot of sense and the ending would confuse the hell out of me.

But I've seen the Anime so it didn't and I liked the movie.

The 'good' Titan at the end (if you see the Anime you know who I mean) was really cool looking in CGI/Live-Action. Just smashing faces and beating the snot out of the other Titans.

And the Colossus Titan looked really cool in CGI. Just enormous.

 

[JimmyT]

The original Fullmetal Alchemist actually overtook the manga and the producers of the anime had to come up with the story line themselves, which is why it has a completely different plot from about half way through. Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star and Gundam Wing were my favorites growing up, but I MUCH prefer to read the manga versions nowadays.

There's loads of incredible manga that never got anime adaptations, plus not having to slug through pointless filler as well.

Gantz and Beserk are probably right up your street Mal, if you're not alrready aware of them.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Never really read Manga or knew anyone into them. Read a couple Ninja themed ones found when I was a kid but that's about it.

 

[firesgt911]

Where did you find the live action AoT? Netflix? Amazon Prime? Hulu?

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

*cough;cough*

 

[JimmyT]

Never really read Manga or knew anyone into them. Read a couple Ninja themed ones found when I was a kid but that's about it.

Beserk and Gantz both got Anime adaptions, I've not seen either but if they're anything like the mangas, they're worth checking out.

I never used to read manga either. I think I started reading it when I got bored of fillers and the slow pacing in (I forget which show. Maybe FMA) and wanted to skip ahead a bit.
In weekly serializations, like the big three Shounen Jump titles, the manga is usually years ahead of the anime, which is why I never went back.

Other main reasons I prefer it being: better pacing, no fillers, no anime production teams taking liberties with the plot so the canon tends to make more sense in longer serializations, the art style in the manga is usually much nicer than the anime, no f*cking J-pop music video start/end credits (the only anime music I actually like is soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop), constant weekly serializations is much better than waiting for seasons of anime, there are literally hundreds of great manga that never get anime adaptations because they're not mainstream enough.

They're worth it just for skipping filler though. When I was around 10-11 years old, I used to watch DBZ like most of my freinds, and I remember the Namek saga taking the whole summer holiday and most of the first term to get through in anime form. It's 30-40 mins of reading in the manga. That's how much filler there is.