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Her having her children lead to the lives of many people, including hers to be born and Mikasa thanks her for that. The whole deal with Mikasa and OG Ymir is that I think Mikasa tries to again, find the good in OG Ymir’s suffering. To actually address the pages, here’s the general points and my thoughts: So why is Eren any different than all of the other mass murderers in the cast?īecause all of the big murderers in the cast get empathy and moments where characters try to understand them, no? The importance of individual perspective and what these characters individually think and how they view themselves seems to be one of the most important aspects of the story.īecause ultimately one of the most important thematic threads of the story seems to be understanding different perspectives.

#Aot 139 serial#

I make connections to what the story was trying to do with Reiner, Kenny, Bert, Erwin or Annie because they were also serial killers/murderers the story took effort in humanising.

This shift happened in Marley, 40 chapters or so ago.īut this is just what *my* mind leads me to and makes connections with based on the information I have absorbed from the story.Īnd it’s not just that, too. To me if you think about it, what the story is saying is pretty obvious the moment Eren became the antagonist. Months/years-long breaks between material also assist in not really considering anything else but that one chapter in that one month.Īnd it just so happens art is also a very individual emotional experience, so “monkey brain” just fully kicks in, too. They don’t go to reread the previous chapter or arc just in case they might’ve missed something. In that sense I think people read the words “thank you” Armin says to Eren and nothing else around it or just find the phrasing to be strange. Most of those complaints I’ve felt are very bad faith, but if I believe in the good and intelligence of humanity for once, maybe it really is that awkward prose that confuses and offends people, not the desire to be morally superior over a comic. The thing with AoT is that I think these moments of visual storytelling are like a less dense and complex version of Ikuhara’s storytelling, but they have the same elements.Ī lot of context-dependent information in relatively few panels is in 122 and 139, that’s why I think people get the sense the story is excusing Eren, for example. The reason why I have yet to go back to those stories is because they are so very dense and you really just need to be in a certain mindset to watch them.ĪoT Chapter 122 and now these new pages are 100% visual storytelling.ĪoT Chapter 122 in particular is still one of my favourite manga chapters ever because of how it portrayed a character’s perspective with very limited dialog. Almost all of the dialog in those stories seems to matter and to need as much of the context as possible to understand.Īnd to me a story which asks you to engage and put things together for yourself is what I look for in art and I think is art. I’ve seen 12 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena and a little bit of Yurikuma Arashi and I think you really need to completely engage with those stories to get what is going on.

#Aot 139 full#

I think Kunihiko Ikuhara’s works were my first exposure to this element of the internet in full force they’re some of the lowest-rated stories in some of the typical websites where anime is discussed and they’re all mostly very reliant on metaphor and visual storytelling. (Or in general, considering how much misinformation is out there.) The extra pages for chapter 139 seem to be pretty much finally out!Īnd they’re a bunch panels relying on visual storytelling which need to be put in context by the reader/you need to maybe think about it for 10 seconds instead of 2, something I’ve learned the internet does not like in storytelling.