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fandomsecrets2014-03-02 03:43 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-03-02 03:43 pm
[ SECRET POST #2616 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2616 ⌋
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 063 secrets from Secret Submission Post #374.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Re: Stuff you used to love but now can't stand?
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.
Re: Stuff you used to love but now can't stand?
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.
Re: Stuff you used to love but now can't stand?
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.
Re: Stuff you used to love but now can't stand?
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.