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Maybe she felt like it was better to have children than devote her life to revenge, who knows.
And maybe until Eren gave her the choice of free will, she felt like she had no alternative but to do what the royal blood was telling her.
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Eren telling her that he could end it all, that she was a person and not a slave or a god, was essentially the first time anyone had ever really given her the permission to make her own choice. AoT is constantly dealing with the concept of free will. Ymir is finally shown with human eyes and cries when she's finally able to act of her free will to try and end her own suffering.
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I have a hard time understanding how people stomach the horrible pacing of a lot of wildly popular shows. Especially shounen, where nothing can happen without having a pause to be internally narrated, explained, reacted to, and re-explained by every single character in the scene, one at a time, before cutting away to a flashback or something else.
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But I'm not reading One Piece currently because I got so frustrated with the pacing
I was this close to dropping the show during the Eren Moves A Boulder For Two Hours arc.
Yeah I think there wasn't a lot of manga material available at the time, so AoT's first season got a bit "decompressed" to fill up the air time.
We taking DS anime or DS manga? Because I think the anime so far is actually better paced than the manga (in general I think it's adaption elevates what's a pretty mediocre shonen into something that while not going to break the medium wise open... It's pretty good!)
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I actually like the flashbacks. They help explain what the deal is with these antagonists or new characters in a way that's relevant to what's currently happening and tend to be the lead-in to the big clash of the arc.
AoT s2 I hated because of constant flashbacks to characters who weren't around anymore. So I stopped watching about halfway through.
Recently a friend sat me down and we caught up, and the second half of S2 is much better, and has plot progression? Nice!
S3 is just all bangers, probably the best season
S4 was a bit jarring due to the new look, but I got used to it quick. I do hate the CG titans tho my god. I haven't started the second half (the new batch of episodes) but I found the story still very engaging
If you quit the m Something can be super duper long in a way that still has good pacing. Much of One Piece isn't. There's absolutely great content in it. But also a ton of stuff that is filler. Not in the "covering characters and arcs I don't like" sense of filler, but in the "putting sawdust in the sausage to give it bulk" sense. It's stuff that's literally nothing.
I watched like 600 episodes of OP before I finally gave up on it. I'm not gonna pick it up until (if) the story finishes and they produce a "Brotherhood" version of it. If it ends up being 600 episodes again, but with actual stuff in it, I'll watch it.
I tried to watch bits of these recent episodes people are crowing about, and... man. Things would go into perma-slowmo for like three to four minutes straight just so a dude could explain that he was still a demon, and demons are immune to headbutts, but wait, he was not immune to that attack, so it must not have been just a headbutt and it must have been something else. Aha, time for a quick flashback to explain that it was something else, and that something else was something that a demon was not immune to. Now to the girl standing on the sideline to yell at him that his opponent is just a human, and demons are immune to human things. Now here comes a dude from the other sideline, back into ultra-slowmo so he can internally explain that he's using his special attack, but he already used his special attack before, and his special attack is hard capped at only two uses per day, so since because he already used his special attack twice, he cannot use his special attack again if his special attack does not work, so his special attack has to work and he has to try really hard to make sure that his special attack works.
I mean, I would also not be surprised if the manga's pacing was worse than that, but... oi. Shounen is not for me.
some of the best adapted arcs DO get the anime to pad things out in a good way, like the very intense Impel Down or Marineford arcs getting a little more time to point the camera at secondary characters who the manga simply didn't have breathing room to fully explore since Luffy was SO non-stop busy. that's more the exception than the rule though
I would love a DBZ Kai supercut of just the parts that move the story along though, by and large episodes could be cut down to half or third length and lose nothing. Maybe I should give the manga another try, my problem is that I find the start kind of dull, not helped by having already seen it twice at this point (alone and with partner).
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Like, AoT came out a million years ago when I was but a wee lad and it was pretty good so I was like, "Sure, I'll watch season 2."
Then roughly a fucking decade passed of nothing and I forgot everything that happened in Season 1.
Then season 2 came out and I was like, "I guess I'll try it."
But I had forgotten most of the shit from Season 1 and Season 2 just felt kind of really boring so I stopped watching halfway.
Then another decade passed and season 3 was released and I basically wasn't interested until clips started surfacing on YouTube and people were like "This is so awesome!"
And so now I'm back for the spectacle but I have no idea what the fuck is even happening.
They even had to change studios but it feels to me the same passion is there, to tell the story of the manga and not take liberties. I think that's why Season 2 felt so rough, it did have some padding but they tried to atleast make it relevant to the story.
In the end, wading through 4 seasons across 10 years is my preference over the looming tedium of trying to watch One Piece (or even Naruto at this point)