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Yeah SnK got old fast when the boring as shit shounen tropes showed up in force.

House. It's over now, but boy did that ever turn from a great show into a steaming pile.

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I dropped SnK the moment I found out that the protag and other humans could turn into giants. Just nope.

I dropped it when I heard the author backed out of the everyone dies ending.

I just about noped when it turned out that Eren wasn't dead and could turn into a titan. It had seemed like such a brilliant GRRM tier fakeout "oh, so you thought he was the protagonist, did you?" which would have made sense given how badly underdeveloped and one-dimensional he was as a character compared to many of the rest. Mikasa would carry on his vengeance (being much better equipped to do so with her prowess) and have to learn to live without him as her focus, and Armin would discover his father's secret and the secret of the titans (again being much better equipped to do so) and have to learn to live without his protection.

Needless to say I was really disappointed that that wasn't what happened, but I was willing to give it a shot... ...until everyone started to turning into fucking titans. You're a titan? I'm a titan? Everyone's a titan!

It's so horribly shounen-tastic in the worst possible way. (You have sharingan? I have sharingan! Everyone has sharingan!) Oh boy yet more shounen power creep. And more Eren. And chapters were absolutely nothing happens (because the author didn't plan for the series to get this popular/has absolutely no idea where he's going with it now). Booooooooooooooooooooooooo.

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Eren dying would have been much better than what we ended up getting. I could put up with him, but him dying would have made for a much more interesting story.

But Eren and humans turning into Titans? Fuck no. There was an interesting story to be tokd with humans fisghting the titans and while it is cliche, it was much more preferable to them turning into titans. Like, the only reason I got into this series was for the human/titan conflict.

Eren dying would have been much better than what we ended up getting.

The crazy thing is, the people I know who still like the series agree with this. What a missed opportunity.

Well, I think both ideas are pretty cool.

Eren dying as proof that being a hot-head protagonist means shit-all in this series? Harsh but awesome. Armin and Mikasa stepping up as protagonists in his stead? Also cool. Fuck, I like the idea just so Mikasa can stop having Eren as the centre of her universe and goddamn grow up.

But I totally disagree with you about humans turning into titans was a bad thing. I LOVE this idea. It turned a typical humans-under-siege-by-whatever into a tense conspiracy-thriller that seemed more analogous to terrorist sleeper cells than your typical zombie-like story.

Not to mention the amount of questions it raises. How did so many people turn into titans? Why can some of them switch back and forth but others can't? Why are there titans in the walls? Why are titans driven to kill humans? I can't wait to find out.

I can't wait to find out

And wait you will!

It's going the drawn out, suddenly popular shounen route where nothing happens in chapter after chapter and hints are constantly teased with no real resolution for months or years. I.e., the artist has a following he never expected, and now instead of the original contract the publishing company is going to bleed it dry for every last drop.

And as with Naruto, sure, maybe I'll pick it up when it's finished in 15 years and I can flip past the bullshit filler.

No offense, but how could you possibly know that? It's only got 54 chapters, which isn't hugely long for a manga series of this type, and the characters are already deciding to overthrow the government. That's a pretty quick plot progression, considering.

Besides, not EVERY shounen manga goes on forever. Fullmetal Alchemist became hugely popular and it finished in 108 chapters. Sure, Isayama isn't as good a storyteller as Arakawa, and his writing has dragged in recent chapters, but the story is going somewhere. Just because it's in the shounen genre doesn't automatically mean it's going to have 500+ chapters.

but how could you possibly know that

Because it's happened so many times before with shounen manga I've seen that became explosively popular when they clearly weren't predicted to be o____o The same thing happens to Western TV shows, at times (Prison Break being one of the most striking examples - they had originally only had half a season written, because they expected to be cancelled - when they weren't they managed to salvage the rest of the season but where the old "ending" was supposed to happen is brutally obvious, and the rest of the seasons were pure dreck because they had no idea where they were going with it.)

In contrast, Arakawa pretty clearly had some semblance of a long plot arc ready from the beginning and her publisher expected FMA to be a completed story, not a Naruto or One Piece-esque phenomenon they'll bleed until it dies.

So, I don't "know" it will happen, but I sure can "predict" that it will based on past experience and how the story/pacing/development has changed as the manga has become more popular. Don't get be wrong - I'd love to be wrong. But I'm still not touching it until it's over. Every other time it's been a mistake. I'll wait until the stove has cooled down again before I burn my hand this time.

I will watch the earlier eppies but I can't stomach the later ones, and I want to fuck Hugh Laurie about a million times.

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