THAT DAY... || GERMAN watches Attack on Titan 3x20 - BLIND REACT-ANALYSIS
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2024
- What did I just watch? This was probably the densest epsidoe of anything ever...
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Imagine being 23, and you wanted to try making manga, and then you do this… everything about how he created AoT is really interesting
Wasn't Isayama 19 when he started publishing SnK?
Idk why we're doing this stupid age-based success
@@aurorapaisley7453 Don't get me wrong. If a 50-year-old made SnK that would be wouldn't change anything, it would still be as great a story.
The point is just, the fact that a 19-year-old making this is hyper impressive.
Imagine everybody thinking your story is over when it's not finished yet. Smh
@@firstlast8085 What?
Don't feel bad about long-form analysis videos.
Almost all of my favorite react channels do this sort of thing and end up speaking for as long or longer than the thing they are reacting to goes for.
The audience yearns for the analysis!
The more advanced audiences at least. 😁
You should be encouraging this guy to get counseling, not praising him.
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@@Ason19bruh, why? Is analysing stories a bad thing now?
1:53:10 The monologue of major Gross in this scene is so incredibly multi-faceted and I feel like most people overlook its subversive implications. It just gives you a moment of perverse introspection into some of the thematic intricacies of the story, as well as into the very core of this show's entertainment value.
I find it interesting how they give us a pretty extensive shot of Gross staring directly at the camera, while he's explaining his philosophy. This, to me, is a clear indication that his little speech is partially directed at the viewer and it can mean a lot of things. For one, it puts into question peoples inclination towards violent and grotesque stories, such as attack on titan, which, to some degree, gained its massive popularity due to its darker nature and the use of violence and gore.
On the other hand, and more interestingly, it directly calls out people's self-righteousness and how blinded one can be by ideals and hatred. After the lengthy explanation and rationalization of his actions, Gross' monolgue culminates in "It would pain me if something like that happened to my sons. If only you weren't Eldians." He doesn't stand by his beliefs. He just applies a cruel idea of justice upon the group of people he deems as "bad". Bias and hypocrisy. The very core of discrimination. This show makes Gross look like the worst of the worst. Like the biggest scum on earth. And the audience feels it. The show lets us feel morally superior to him, it makes us think that his monologue doesnt make sense. Yet when Kruger pushes him off the wall, what do you think the common reaction is? Surprise, surprise! Catharsis! People cheer, they laugh, they mock Gross while he is being eaten alive. Without knowing, the audience is put in Gross' shoes, not feeling sympathy for a man that's being torn to shreds. Because we see him as "bad". That isn't to say that he isn't bad. But the point is that we initially feel disgusted by Gross' point of view, yet most people end up unknowingly sharing that same ideal when it just happens to affect the people THEY hate. Cause we love seeing the people we deem as "bad" suffer. Kruger's line "Was it really that interesting?" solidifies the statement. That question isn't meant for Grisha, it's meant for us. Because who are we to declare ourselves morally superior, when we, too, follow Gross' logic? After all, everyone, even Gross, thinks they are doing the right thing. Gross grew up in a nation that taught him all Eldians are devils. He TRULY believes that they are the worst of the worst. Just like our beliefs lead to us thinking HE is the worst of the worst. The show directly challenges the viewer and puts our very human nature into question. Cause everyone thinks they are right.
Or idk, that's how I saw it at least lol
I'd add to this the fact that most people get frustrated that we don't see Gross get slaughtered, solidifying your point even more.
Thank you! I was about to start writing a similar comment. :) Completely agree. Let me write a TLDR from my perspective:
The 4th wall break, that Gross does here 1:53:00, while stearing into the camera is so incredible. I feel like most people don't realise how they are in a way the same as Gross being a viewer of the show who enjoys watching the suffering of others (although fictional characters) for basically the same reasons that Gross lists. Being entertained by not only Gross's death but all other suffering that happens in the show.
Also FILMBuFF came to much of the same conclusion in his reaction. If you want to get more out of the show check out his reactions as well. ;)
I was looking for the "4th wall" comment just in case someone else hasn't posted it but you did it quite well. Every reactor falls for this scene without fail, and you can't really blame them. It's set up so well and really drives the point home that every character feels their hatred is justified.
You know it says something that I saw the 2-hour duration on this video and NOTHING in my brain thought anything was out of place.
Dude at this rate every season 4 episode will be 1 hour long AT LEAST 😭
He might go insane with it because this is the just the surface of it all
I was going to write the same thing 😁
Impressive that you still managed to get in bed by 9PM after such a lengthy reaction!
Fortunately my appointement was cancelled, so i could get some sleep after all :D
Dead on about the state of "normal" people in Germany at that time. As a parallel, my wife grew up in Communist Romania under the Ceaucescu regime. You would go about your daily routine of work, school, cook, sleep, like anybody else. The difference was that if you saw your neighbour acting a little suspicious, suddenly the other neighbours would whisper around, and that night you'd hear some noise next door, and the neighbour wasn't there in the morning. One sideways look was all it took for your "friends" to snitch on you to the government, and you would disappear in the middle of the night, forever. It was a police state, where every officer spying on you was in fact your friends, classmates, workmates, and even family.
dead on, according to the victors view. It wasnt really like that at all in Germany. Especially at the beginning. The truly harsh persecution and punishment came along during the war.
Pretending that everyone was suspicious and that a single call could get you disappearing, is in fact an overblown myth and more of a projection of soviet reality unto german reality.
This stuff happened, but only became really prevelant in the later stages of the war. This imagination that people describe is more fitting to Stalin Great Terror were truly everyone was suspicious for no reason.
but the reason for that is actually obvious. People (and you did it too) project the State of Bolshevism unto the Third Reich.
And no, i dont want to justify any crimes, or excuse anything or claim that no one was persecuted and everyone was happy - no thats not my point.
My point is, those things are far more nuanced in the reality of the third reich then most people want to believe.
@@TheBlackfall234 I'm talking about Romania in the 80's, not Germany in the 40's. It's a parallel, as I said. Keep in mind what I said isn't something I read in a book, it's a first person account. Perhaps you should take better stock of that.
@@aarondimoff5180 Yes, that is what I heard from the Soviet Union and also DDR (East Germany) in those times as well. really scary =(
I think of it as a reminder that the evil actions of those times were not the result of some top-down authoritative, demonic man forcing everyone to do evil. It was that the evil in every "normal" person's heart came to the surface, and was encouraged. Every individual citizen's moral failings culminated in the Third Reich.
@@storieswithstyle same happened here in Chile's right wing Pinochet regime back in the 70s. They used to encourage to snitch each other to alledgy fight against the "communist threat". Sometimes Pinochet's own police disguised as Regular people to spy on regular people. It was a trust crisis. People became very reluctant to talk to neighbors
The psychology and sociologically aspects to your tangent is so crucial. It is a hard thing to go into but I've read and taken multiple courses in university on how it works and how you mould a people as well as the rise of such movements. It's even more terrifying seeing the same thing happen again in the same fashion.
Also, Mrs. Storieswithstyle, this was a quick and efficient reaction video. For some reason UA-cam is mis portraying the length of the video.
The memory wipe setting inside the walls is likely criticism of the way that the Imperial Japanese military's exploits were systematically denied.
Effectively the Japanese people had no idea about the crudges that other people beyond the sea had with the Japanese.
Which mirrors the circumstances with the Eldians in Paradis.
-Since we are collecting a list of military-based criticism in AOT.
I appreciate you so much by giving so much depth into this
I'm gonna be honest, this was the reason i followed you until this episode. Yes, i wanted to have a German point of view at Eldia/Marley twist
Thank you
I don't think Zeke was brainwashed by the state necessarily. Grisha is at fault for deploying the same authoritarian teaching towards his son, like his father did before. And like Grisha rebelling against his father, it was the only possibility for Zeke to rebell against him, because Grisha didn't learn from his fathers mistake. I think the episode made that point very clear and showed the parallels between the two.
So I'd argue that it was Grishas teaching that ironically radicalized Zeke in the opposite direction rather than state indoctrination.
@@tx6723 Sure. I just think the episode did great showing the parallels, even cutting between Zeke and young Grisha, ignoring whats yet to come going forward.
The title of this episode is translated as "that day", same as the episode 1x02. However, in Japanese, they have two different names: 1x02 is "sono hi" and 3x20 is "ano hi". Both "sono" and "ano" mean "that", but "ano" implies a higher degree of distance.
In the manga, the corresponding chapter title was translated as "on that day", to distinguish it from "that day".
You nailed that reaction lad! You clearly took your time not to just binge out actionrich scenes but to reeeaaalllyyy translate the writers idea of the story to everyone that didnt get it until here.
This Ep is the densest stuff i know and many ppl rexommend to watch it at least 2 times. You dont need that. But you'll have fun with that :D.
1:52:50 the General looks the viewer of the show directly in the eye for a minute, yapping about how boring life can be and how humans tend to watch at brutal stuff to compensate. Most reactors fall into isayamas traps and tell that hes a psychopath and after, they cheer at the deaths of certain characters like berthold or the general here while you understand the message and just listen.
Even if the last Eps were told so brilliant with the whole Armin/Erwinplotline, this EP recontextualizes the whole story, plots every characters intentions and ideas while drastically expanding the worldbuilding in the most organic way possible. Aot really is different.
Respect for your sharp mind🫶🏽greetings from Muenster 🦅😎
I’m honestly so happy you’re alive and I’m glad you have loving parents and family :)
I have really bad ADHD (it heavily impacts my everyday life) and when you mentioned teaching people physics in a certain way that it doesn’t matter if they’re bad at math, I got so excited. I love physics (especially electricity and astronomy) but I had a teacher who had to keep up with 28 children and I didn’t now how to ask for help. But I’m slowly studying physics at my own pace now :) but I wish I had better guidance.
You were rooting for that Marleyan Sargent to the very end, your faith in him was huge hahaha
Sargent Major Gross is a true representation of Marley lol
Yes, he failed me miserably 😂that is the drawback of First assuming the best of people:D
@@storieswithstyle I am immensly happy about the fact that I can sense innate evil in people. It ensures I never try to get close to someone who will hurt me if given the chance.
I'm less happy about the reason why I'm able to sense it (my childhood is something I wouldn't wish on anyone), but I am glad that I have that ability now.
Not to justify any of what he or Marley did, but to an extend I can understand where their state of mind was coming from.
Other people all hated the Nazis for their shit too, and they didn't even live that long. Imagine they would've conquered the entire world and ruled for almost 2000 years with an iron fist, genociding people left and right, billions instead of millions dead. And then all of the sudden they have a change of heart and fuck off to some little enclave far away, wanting to be left in peace? There's no way the rest of the world who survived them would let that stand. At a certain point you stop seeing people like humans, you lose all empathy for them because of what they did and you view them as a collective pest.
He stops the video every few seconds, leaps to conclusions and is closed off to what the story is actually saying. So of course he missed that there was never any mystery that he did it
Oh my god a 2hr Reaction?!? Is it Christmas again?!! Also at this point of the story, I completely grasped that this is more complex than most anime I watched and yes it was complex before but this exact part is where I realized how much broad it it. And it answered so many questions why Frieda and Uri did not remove the curse of Titans. Titans was Never there to hurt eldians they are there to protect them (wall titans and intelligent titans) but somehow the Marley found a way to haunt them with what supposed to be their shield from the world. And it got so complex it's no longer about killing the Big Bad titan (Collosal Titan) which I tought was the boss but he turns out to be another disposable chess piece in this cruel reality. And I can't say I blame Zeke he was a kid who was given an Idea then suddenly his dad is drilling him ideologies that opposed what he knows and it wasn't put down nicely or gently. The look in his face while his parents that he supposed to feel safe with. It was a face of confusion and Anxiety and all he can do is sit there and listen to it. Truly a Masterpiece.
Ah, takes me back to being a teenager, reading books into the night and getting up for school on two hours of sleep.
Makes me feel like it was yesterday...
Because it was yesterday; I love my sleepschedule
I posted this somewhere else but this is my personal read on the Gross scene since Isayama is a big fan of metanarrarive stuff:
See Gross is actually a character designed to point out the hypocrisy in us, the viewers. He looks directly at the camera during his speech about how people (everyone) enjoys seeing violence because it's "interesting" - as we do in the show. Even his line "if only you werent Eldian" is the exact same logic we use to justify feeling satisfaction at deaths in the show - the only difference is Eldians are "our side" and Marleyans, in our case, are the ones we use that same justification on feeling the satisfaction of them dying. This is highlighted by most people's (me during my first watch included) joyous reaction to watching another human being, Gross, getting eaten alive. He took joy in watching Grisha's sister getting eaten by dogs because she was an Eldian, the enemy. And now, we are the ones watching a human get brutally devoured. But it's okay - because now it's someone not on our side. We're now the ones watching someone get ripped apart with joy. Attack on Titan has a recurring theme of finding justification after the fact for actions ultimately based on personal desire - such as the one for violence. It's like he said - people are interested in violence from the start and looking for it to happen (hence, continuing to watch a violent show) while hoping for a justification to make it acceptible to enjoy. The truth is, hate Gross as much as you want. But remember that he is a representation of you (obviously with the exception of actual in-world bigotry and murder but to me that's more part of the narrative and plot than that one meta moment) - further insinuated through the fact that for the most part he just watches violent acts like his sons dogs killing Fay and the titans from atop the wall like we, the audience, watch the show.
I have seen this case made before and I can see it applying to most people, but I never "celebrated" any death in the show, safe for perhaps Alma and Gross himself, as those are the only characters that were real "threats to humanity" till now. Celebrating for Gross's death had nothing to do with "sides" for me but rather that he was constructed as an element that was corrupt to the core. Still, I agree that there are clearly people out there who watch perhaps for a "us vs them" narrative, though I have not seen many (at least in the comments). I am really interested how most people ssee the story, though. =)
@storieswithstyle a lot of people may not have engaged with it that way, but in my opinion that's the perspective Isayama's writing is trying to point out in that scene considering the general audience is mainly shounen fans and attack on titan started out with a very angry and edgy protagonist and season 1 heavily focused on "cool" action scenes. It's more like he's trying to call out that audience as a whole in a way that suits the shows themes.
I see, I can imagine that a story like aot is not immediately clear, like that is definitely not shonen (I think?j
@storieswithstyle It was published in a shounen magazine and has a "shounen" main cast (as in their age groups match the demographic) and superficially (especially at the start) it resembles a shounen and can be watched as an action-shounen "revenge story" (and there is a large group within the fanbase of people who engage with it EXCLUSIVELY in that way that are pretty annoying - since they tend to vehemently deny or miss AoT's metanarrative and subversive elements and get hostile quickly to people who discuss them). The themes it deals with end up being very seinen (more of an adult audience lean). There's a few complexities when it comes to classifying it since, in Japan, these act both like a demographic but also a genre, and Attack on Titan itself is complex with how it deals with that. It has a lot of the tropes of a shounen and as I said - it was published in a shounen magazine - but it's clearly more interested in deconstructing shounen tropes and subverting them as well as incorporating more adult themes as time goes on. But to be honest, it's hard for me to tell if something subverting and commenting on said genre tropes should still be labelled as the genre that typically contains them. For simplicity's sake, it's easier just to say it's a "shounen."
Season 3 episode 16: emotional damage
Season 3 episode 17: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Season 3 episode 18: *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*
Season 3 episode 19: finally a little breather, phew......
Season 3 episode 20: *BRAIN DAMAGE*
Season 4 start: DEVASTATION
Great reaction. You nailed it. I loved the look of surprise you got when you discovered Dina Fritz's true identity, discovering that the terrible death in the first episode can be described as the most brutal catfight over a man in history.
On the other hand, two details to take into account:
- Firstly, you mention that Grisha suffers the same torture that Hange and Levi inflicted on the captain of the Interior Police, but in reality this is not the case. In Paradis it seems that they are content with removing the victim's nails; in Marley they cut off their fingers.
- Secondly, the sergeant major's explanation is more of a breaking of the fourth wall to address the viewers directly, and the viewers themselves prove that Gross is right because there is no one who can say that they have not enjoyed seeing that bastard being devoured alive by that little titan.
I for one stayed and watched this till the very end 😂❤ amazing reaction again u do not disappoint with your deep dissecting breakdowns of Aot
The shot of Grisha and Kruger sitting beside the road with the airship hangar in the background is quite a thematic shot.
Kruger is sitting in front of the airship hangar building, signifying that he exists within the system of society.
Meanwhile Grisha is in front of the airship, which represents flight and freedom as airships can pass over walls without restriction.
God I love these little things you pick up on many viewings later.
Also all of the Restorationists that get turned into Titans are the ones seen in Trost during the first arc of season 1. The only exception is Dina who is in Shinganshina in episode 1.
Really liked your thoughts on the Kruger and Kid Grisha underline tones of the power dynamic and messed up sense of cruelty in Kruger “being nice” in itself was. Stupendous reaction keep doing you friend!
I am happy that this episode had all the extra thoughts. Attack on Titan is one of the best anime for discussions and tangents so do not feel bad about having longer videos.
Thank you SO much for the insights and historical information.
18:00 This reminds me of a related fiction “Friedrich” by Hans Peter Richter. It also mentioned the youth club, and it really seems like an after school social activity, like a normal club except that it’s trying to shape ideology. Kids, teens attended because of whole bunch of different reasons, normal reasons exactly like peer pressure, they want to catch up on this fancy thing that other teens all participate in.
But to be honest I haven’t finished the book yet. It’s so hard to continue, there’s a feeling, like it’s a grief that I would never have experienced if I just live in a peaceful society and didn’t learn about, or more accurately try to empathise with history.
57:50 This scene really gives me chills. Historical revisionism based on belief omg that’s so sarcastic and scary😂.
Your apology for predicting an hour long video was the first time I checked the length 🤣
I think it is perfectly okay to analyze Attack On Titan by Isayama as we do with Shakespeares and other prominent authors in classes. The intricacies, the storytelling, the layering, the twists, the conflicts, the ideologies, the criticism, the symbolism, the reflection and the lessons to be learnt. It is as brilliant as any other great written piece in mankind history.
Thanks for 2hours video. Watched it fully. A beautiful analogy for modern events
The man who killed Grisha's sister looking directly at the audience was something intentional by the author. He's looking directly at us when he says that humans crave cruelty and violence, so when he gets eaten we don't even realise most of us are proving his point RIGHT by cheering for his gruesome death.
Please never stop these long form discussions, these are great to watch
I didnt notice this was a 2 hour video, but im grateful. Im hanging on to every word of the anecdotes you share, thank you so much for making this video. To me, this is a very important discussion
This is the best reaction and analysis of this episode I've ever seen. Take all the time you want, I love how in depth you immediately think.
Here in Australia we also have the USA meme about invading countries to get oil.
you are so incredible 😭 thank you for this video and for all the reviews!!
Amazing video man, I've never seen such an insightful reaction
Here to say that I stayed and watched the whole thing. I definitely appreciate your opinions and your thinking out loud. I've been binge watching your reactions and I'm almost caught up. I can't wait to watch them as soon as you upload them!
Eren is the son Grisha desire outside the wall while Zeke is the son he wanted inside the wall.
I agree with you here l fell şad for Eren and zeke my friend
holy shit, this reaction video was brilliant, 2 hours listening to someone so wise.
You put into words everything I thought watching and thinking about AoT
I watched the whole reaction, didnt get bored for a sec. You are amazing and i hope you still make long videos like this.
Very considerate on your side, I can tell the effort you are putting to pick the most precise terms to avoid ambiguity on your thoughts about the whole issue that otherwise would be misinterpreted a lot.
Thank you.
Dear SWS's wife: he totally did not stay up too late to make this video.
Really love your reaction! You're the most brilliant and thoughtful youtuber I believe. I would be willing to sit and listen to you all day if my teacher was you lol
Can't wait for you to see season 4. It takes the show to another level! This episode was just a taste of things to come.
He's already recorded at least the first half of season 4, so he's aware.
@@Aoitetsugakusha no he is only 2 or 3 episode into s4
Holy shit,Ive been waiting for this episode since i know you're a german😂
Was gonna watch this in two parts but then just thought.........what the heck! Finished it one.
Thank you SO MUCH for moving it to 23:00 instead of the midnight ❤ can’t wait!
Thank you for such an amazing reaction.
This is one of the best, most educated reactions on aot I've ever seen. Please i guarantee you, each episode of season 4 will be 2 hours long
Aot is the best story of all time.
I really enjoy every minute of this reaction ☺️
Твоя аналитика просто божественна. Когда я это смотрел первый раз, то было сложно все это понять с первого раза. Ты очень эрудированный человек. Надеюсь следующие серии выйдут как можно скорее)
Been waiting for you to reach this episode (and then after) since you have such introspective and in-depth analyses of the themes shown in this show. This show has so much to offer, so it's wonderful hearing it be dissected in so many ways. I'm really pleased you reacted to Attack on Titan because it truly is a masterpiece.
01:00:00 Man, that was a great theory, and the theme recognition was spot on
Finally finnished the reaction hehe. Great stuff man really ads something more than most reactors do even if it might feel a bit too long at times. Im really curious what you make of some specific character developements and themes that are along the line, which I wont spoil. But ye there is more dense stuff comming.
Nobody expected this 1:45:36 😱😱😱
This video was really something. Very great video 👍
I liked your comments about the same torture methods and cycles of authoritarianism repeating here. Mirroring 3x03 and what Djel Sannes talked about to Hange there.
Next in line. This role of ours... There is an order to it. And thus the world can never rid of it. Good luck, Hange.
His line could refer to all kinds of cycles, but I feel it is most applicable to authoritarian rule and oppression.
One of the best episodes and very informative.
This episode was really dense! If I remember correctly I only paused and rewinded a bit and took it in, but then after I rewatched it like 3 times to understand everything and theorize :D
Season 4 will blow his mind lmao - this is really good. Keep up!
Nice trivia: Eren said the exactly same words he said when he woke up in episode 1, I mean in Japanese, maybe the translation is a bit different because of context, but isn't "wrong".
All the best episodes that's I've waited for fking forever just keeps coming now.
Can't wait for mate reacts to next season now. You know he's going to go full into it.
Can’t wait for his reaction to 4x03, his mind’s gonna be blown.
So much stuff in this one episode because of how it flips the context of the entire show. Not sure there's anything I can point out that you didn't already catch, but in case no one else mentions it, one of the most memorable parts of the episode for me is the fourth wall breaking by Sergeant Gross, who looks directly into the camera the entire time he's spinning his justification for being cruel, like admonishing the audience for being less honest than he is about these "interesting" impulses.
Can't go wrong with the Socratic Method!
I really enjoy your insights, both about AoT and our own world. Keep up the good work!
What day is it again? I started watching this reaction and I'm not sure what time it is or where I am anymore. It's all blending together.
It's 2 hours sheeeesh I'm ready
01:41:52 I'd argue he's blaming himself right there when you have it paused. He's asking why they let someone like Grisha get involved. It's analogous to letting a fox into the hen-house - it's definitely the fox that caused the ensuing carnage, but you're the one that let it inside, and you deserve the blame.
Granted, implicit in that kind of blame acceptance is the declaration that Grisha is the fox who destroyed the hen-house. But that's basically an observed fact - he chose to enroll his son to become a Warrior, and he chose how to educate him in preparation.
been eagerly awaiting this but...2 hours?! What am I about to get into today lol
Imagine how much you will be enjoy if you start watch aot At the same time seasons published
this was a great reaction
I'm glad you got a such a great amount of sleep! Priorities ;)
Great reaction 💪💪💪
Get ready the episodes fnales of this season 👑👑👑
I'm so excited 😉😉😉
"Dead like me" with Mandy Potenkin is the show you were thinking of with the toilet seat.
I think cleansing vs assimilation is a fair point but i think its just simplified for the less analytical viewers
2 hour reaction video, Let's gooooo🥳
1:54:20 It was "Dead Like Me", it is one of the many great shows made by Bryan Fuller that got cancelled too soon, like "Wonderfalls" , "Pushing Daisies" and "Hannibal".
I feel behind on this series a bit but I've been waiting so long to see his reaction to the Marley stuff and to see this video was 2 hours long made my fucking day
this was a good movie 😂
I apologize for bringing current politics to the topic, but this is literally what the show was showing and what the discussion was about.
Imagine - watching the last episodes of season 3 and the beginning of 4th clearly on the day when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
And the trully horror for me, as a russian, was not only that people who seemed ordinary or even good yesterday were now thirsting for blood, without having a single reason other than imposed by the authorities. It was how easily people accepted even the most idiotic propaganda (sometimes cheaper than in cartoons), where every word and action created a contradiction, where all the lies and manipulations were absolutely in plain sight. But despite this, just 2 weeks after the start of the war, most of those in whom I saw doubt or even condemnation suddenly found reasons to believe the propaganda and support what was happening.
For me, this is a clear indicator that it is unbearable for people to live in doubt or with feelings of guilt and fear for long. Especially in such an authoritarian state, where almost no one believes in the effectiveness of protests and rallies, and expects that everything will somehow resolve itself, and even the most critical mistake or failure of propaganda, which was noticed and discussed everywhere a couple of days ago after less than a week is completely forgotten, verbally and there was none, and nothing is being summed up, nothing is being analyzed.
It feels like "we" also have our own memory-erasing putitan.
In Russia, we often say, "Children are not responsible for the sins of their fathers." We should judge people based on their actions, not because of where they were born or who their parents are.
1:14:50 hahahahah I’m still watching love the stories and thoughts
"It's so dense!" Season 4 has only 28 episodes + 2 specials to wrap up the whole story with the outside world. It will remain extremely dense.
u didn’t just cry 1:45:37 aw bless ur heart
Loved hearing ur thoughts btw
2 hours for one 30 minute episode?????? Holy shite
I have a "less than ideal" relationship with my parents. Both of them have done things I despise, and have qualities I hate.
I also have a younger brother whom I love.
Do I think he inherited my parent's sins? No I don't.
Do I blame him for the things my parents have done? No I don't.
The concept of "Inherited sin" is a fallacy in my eyes that is only ever used to assign non-existent guilt to someone whom you wish to hold an advantage againt.
I also think that the opposite is true as well. If you look at the son of a famous person and expect him to be just as good as his parent is at something, you're doing him a massive disservice because you are forcing him to constantly compare himself to his parent instead of trying to be his own person.
I also know from experience how bad it can get when you're told that you're special as a kid. Because if you're made to believe that you're special and that things should be easy for you, you are going to feel like a colossal failure whenever you don't succeed at something, and this can turn into a perfectionism complex where you legitimately don't consider something worth doing if you can't 100% guarantee success, since you know that if you fail, it will be one more thing to add to your baggage of unforgivable failures.
So in short, the idea of "inherited achievements" is just as bad as the idea of "inherited sin".
Both will screw you up really badly.
9:16 the moment that line sets in
Ur gonna love season 4
"Ok, I'm just gonna record a quick reaction before I go to bed..."
45:34
"I already suspect this is going to be the longest video ..."
The longest video So Far - Homer Simpson.
1:14:16
Ack! You missed the doll!
1:35:32
Different writing.
They don't explain it in the anime but it's reasonable to assume the canned fish was canned somewhere other than Marley. Maybe Zeke liked fish from this world's equivalent of Peru or Sweden. Annoyingly, Annie understood the writing too.
My like was for you destroying your sleep schedule 😂
That is why Aot is the goat anime.
I laughed so hard when you really hate that titan so much and can't wait for this moment
I can't believe how long this video is lol
JUST PEAK
Best reaction to this episode i've seen. Kudos! One of your anecdotes reminds me of when I had to explain "Catholic Guilt" to a friend. It's not the same, but I share your views on "inherited" guilt.
I love long videos
I specifically followed your channel and reaction specifically for this series. Because of the subject matter tackled here, and your unique and very valuable educated perspective on it. To confirm many of the complex messages Izayama (author) tried to convey. Now this is missed by many who do not know the history or culture but in true fashion, Izayama also managed to parallel Japanese aspects to the ones most western audiences would. A few examples: The Edo period where Japan was closed off to the world and no one was able to enter or leave, represented b the walls. The walls that society, mostly the older aging population which is the majority imposes on the younger generation, literally devouring their future. Represented by the walls as well as the titans. Another example that frequently comes up is the collective shame for ancestors from WW2. After Japan was taken over by the U.S and had its constitution changed, part of its reform was the collective shame due to the war and how that was carried out and is still carried out by society today, especially aging generations. Izayama not only critiqued society and the world in general but his own socoety and country especially those who will not step out if the way to let younger generations flourish. Manga and anime but more specifically manga is not just entertainment. From its beginnings it was government communication from scrolls in village squares by the samurai (the were like the feudal lord's police) later to become propaganda in war and then to have very clear parameters per genre and audience age range. In the case of shounen and seinen it was to reinforce Japanese values. Later evolving into this, with their own free expression. However Izayama was more of a critique a harsh one than encouragement. A more direct message rather than having it sanitized and this is why manga magazines would reject him until Kodansha took the chance. He was intentional in what he wrote.
I can listen to your perspective any time regarding painter Germany. Because it is a topic we must never ignore as a species. Whether be other regimes we must always be aware of how ideas spread and become a current, and sweep over every day people and what conditions allow for this to happen. Because it WILL happen again. We are not ineffable. The best we can do is keep humble keep compassionate and keep aware.
Have you seen the toys Zeke was playing with?
(Not just the monkey, but also the toys on the floor!)
31:50 Ymir eating fungus to obtain titan power? no that's the plot of Super Mario Brothers.
1:54:22 the show was called Dead Like Me
I don't know if this is verified, but Zeke name is supposed pronounced like the German word "Sieg".