Needs more apocalypse
With that music Iām totally for the apocalypse.
PD: You are already dead.
Soā¦ my house has been debatingā¦ is Attack on Titan set in the future, the past, or somewhere that isnāt earth? The technology, architecture, and even some of the clothing strikes me as 15th-16th century central Europe, except with some things like the gear they use, especially since they work on compressed gas.
Anyone know? Or have an educated guess? Or an uneducated guess? Or random speculation?
Easy explanation: PLOT-tech!ā¢
PLOT-tech!ā¢ allows you to use any technology imaginable in any historical setting:
- Medieval mechas.
- Steampunk.
- Retrofuturism.
- Swords in the present/future.
- Giant robots all around.
- Invincible katana steel.
- Nudity based force fields.
- Giant buildings that should not be able to flight but do so.
Disregard all in-deep explanations!
ALL YOUR NEEDS ARE COVERED BY PLOT-tech!ā¢
Seeā¦ itās this stuff that can make being an historian a bit of a pain. My instinct, after years of study, is to place things historically and then, well, as you say,
yup, 80s/early 90s Jpop is great
Iād guess itās like Bastard, where itās the future but an apocalyptic weapon reduced civilization to a medieval technology.
Thatās what I was thinking. The appearance of the titans so decimated humanity, that 100 years later, they are knocked back a few centuriesā¦ assuming a progressive view of history, natch.
BTW - I havenāt heard of Bastard? Any good? We just started watching Gargantia this week.
Pretty sure itās set in Anime-land, which, judging by the architecture, must be a suburb of Disneyland. Iāve been watching Sora no Wota, which also takes place there - a vaguely medieval European town with modern technology when needed, and Shinto shrines for some reason. Signs are printed in English, German, French, or whatever comes to hand - but never Kanji.
Bastard is at itās best as a comedy, overall it hasnāt aged as well as some of itās counterparts.
As far as medieval anime go itās mostly down to Berserk, Slayer and Records of Lodoss Wars.
One thing I thought was interesting about Attack was the fact that Mikasa is the only person whoās clearly Japanese. Everyone else is European (at least from their names, one would assume that).
Iāve seen a couple of other animes set in something resembling Germany - one my daughter watched as a younger kid, A Little Snow Fairy, Sugar, set in a German village (they even sent people to some small town to copy it) and Moonphase, which begins in modern Germany in a castle. Seems like there was another one we saw too, but Iām blanking now.
Is Sora no Wota worth seeing? Always looking for new series to watch with the family.
Iāve heard of Berserk, but not the other two. Iāll have to check them out at some point.
Iām impressed. Itās starts off like K-on in the army, but halfway through, the war comes to town.
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AoT makes my head hurt. Tryingā¦soā¦ hardā¦ to suspendā¦ beliefā¦
Not really spoilers - but if you want to know nothing, stop reading.
I mean, they have these amazing, basically magic 3DMG systems, but all their other tech is from the 1500s. Cannons? Muzzle loaders? I mean even back then they had some serious exploding shells and mortars. They should be able to make cannons that would turn the smaller ones to hamburger. You would think they would have at least WWI capable artillery, which would make short work of all but the most powerful titans.
Ok, so somehow they forgot how to gun. How do they fill those air tanks? Assuming they could make alloys strong enough to keep say 3000psi of air in a tank, how are they going to fill those tanks? They would need at least a basic type of engine, which I donāt think I have seen yet. There are no cars. The boats use some sort of pulley system.
They have like the worst evacuation scheme ever. Why are there not tunnels under all the towns? They could hide there and flee at night, or have the tunnels connect between the walls. Since they donāt eat cows or crops, they could even farm in that ālostā ring, or even outside the walls if they had a look out for the farms and quick evac tunnels. They even mention an underground city or something at the end - but it was abandoned???
WHY is everyone a freaking cowards that joins the military. They join just so they can get on the royal guard? Go be a farmer or a merchant and you wonāt have to fight titans either. Its like someone joining the SEALs and then not want to shoot people and jump out of air planes. I guess I can understand some people suffering from shock afterwards, but before hand, when they are young, dumb, and gun-ho, they should all be chomping at the bit to kill Titans. But nearly every one is a complete wuss.
Finally, WHY are they so bad fighting the titans? I can think of several ways to systematically take them out. Lure one or two back at a time to an ambush. In the open fields you can set up trip wires, devise some sort of bolo system, use the 3DMG to do an AT-AT type maneuver to tie up their feet. Hunt them at night when most of them are slow. And again, cart mounted canons. Even if they canāt kill them, they could blind or damage them enough to make them easier to kill.
Also WHY have they not gone to the basement? I would have bee-lined it there the first I found out about it.
That said, I finally watched the first season and I am hooked.
Not SURE she is Japanese, but she is supposed to be one of the last Asians left.
I was first introduced to anime while living in Scotland in the mid nineties. They came in the form of a dozen or so of VHS tapes owned by a friend of mine with titles such as Ninja Scroll, Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in the Shell, Fist of the North Star, and others I canāt remember.
At the beginning of most of those tapes was a short (1 to 2 minutes) series of clips (from those anime) advertising the distributor (I assume) set to some pseudo heavy metal riff. Now I associate anime with that music even though I havenāt heard it sinceā¦
Iāve tried to find it since then but all the ads I found (some almost identical) had a different sound track. Itās possible that version was unique to Scotland or the UK (I moved to the US shortly after) and thatās why Iāve been unable to find itā¦
I try, I promise! I think itās a great animeā¦ but I canāt help myself!!!
Thatās what I thought, too. Iām not a military historian, but thatās my sense of things. Plus, you see people in the center city who are dressed from that era (early modern European).
In the show they actually call her āorientalā, which is outmoded terminology, of course. But I assumed Japanese, because Mikasa is a Japanese name, as far as I can tell. Doesnāt sound Korean or Chinese or Vietnamese to me. Not that Iām an expert by any means.
I think they tried, but they got caught by the female titan (who is you know who).
But the whole not going after them at night, I donāt understand that either. Except that they donāt have means of lighting their way other than fire. No flashlights, floodlights, no electric lighting in cities, etc. It would make warfare doing tricky stuff hard.
As for the ringed cities (and number of people left), you donāt get a sense of how much land is left, and how big the settlement is. Given the miles then went when they left the second wall to go to the basement, it seemed like a days ride to the city that Eren was from, at least, but with a huge contingent, and a pretty complicated way of traveling to minimize casualties (before they knew about the female titan).
Was it this, perhaps?
Holy Guacamole!!
Thatās definitely it, though my memory made it sound a little more epicā¦
And of course it isnāt Japanese. (Swiss ā¦ interesting ā¦ )
Aww, mentions frontier without the original Macross
How about this?:
It looks like they got it right.
