Shingeki no Kyojin(Attack on Titan)

[Rocl]

goddamnit goofy

[Obsidian]

Didn't see anyone post it yet. New chapter is out.

[Rocl]

New chapter's out!

not a link, but this is the post that made me spend 5 minutes looking to read it !

[Salodin]

Didn't see anyone post it yet. New chapter is out.

It was mentioned already. You got me excited for nothing asshole.

[Obsidian]

My bad, haha. I skimmed the last couple pages after I got home from work and missed that it was already mentioned.

That anti-human gear looks pretty tight though.

[Kazen]

goddamnit goofy

Check his other videos... Goofy singing Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" is just wrong on so many levels.

[LinktheDeme]

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Just read the new thing. I don't think that eating a shifter would be what necessarily regains the humanity. It has to be quite a bit more than that, otherwise the titan that ate Eren should have regained his humanity, but instead he transformed into a titan and killed him. Theres got to be something more to it, an incorrect assessment as a whole, or Eren is the exception to the example. Otherwise he might have just wrote himself into a plot hole that he will try to get out of but I don't think so.

[Salodin]

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But the titan didn't eat Erin, he escaped by transforming (a surprise to him at the time). If you assume the person has to be digested then it still makes sense; unless you believe landing in stomach juices magically transfers powers instead.

[Insanecyclone]

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Subconscious of a titan might be to eat humans just to turn human again. If it's a shifter then they'll turn human again. Like Salodin said, Eren was never fully digested but his titan powers activated with the usual near death experience deal.

[LinktheDeme]

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But Titan's don't have a digestive system, that's why they just spit everything back up. Which makes me wonder if have any sort of acidic reaction inside their body because logically those acids should penetrate the skin rather quickly and in quite a few instance that has been proven not to be the case. Also if it was that would just passively always trigger this ability almost always so it just seems illogical in my mind. If they could just get this ability then it would have made far more sense for Annie to just eat eren at that point, but I guess it wasn't established he wasn't "the coordinate". She certainly could have used his abilities in addition to her own, but their goal might be completely different anywho.

I don't think it would apply to only shifters, because then Ymir wouldn't have been able to regain it. I've also been under the impression that the kid's weren't shifters when the kid was eaten otherwise they would have been able to defend themselves against Ymir, or someone in the village at least would have been able to harness it I would speculate.
I do think that a similar method was used with Eren and his father. I'm thinking there has to be some sort of emotional bond with the person as well if there is a missing factor. Although considering that they have to lose their humanity in order to become stronger Titans this whole system now seems like a seesaw if this is the case ._.

Ex. Oh hey you're just made into a titan, now you ate a human that's a shifter or special. Now you can become a shifter, well now that you're a shifter you need to lose your humanity to become a full titan which is where you were the first time except for now some reason you're stronger and your abilities unlock etc.

I'm really hoping theres a lot more to everything I suppose

[Salodin]

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You're thinking too hard dude. We don't know that they are missing a digestive system; what we do know is that even with their sole purpose to apparently be eating people, they never actually finish digesting them, and instead either poop out or vomit rainbow corpses. With what we know now, more then likely titans vomit out humans and actually digest shifters in order to try and turn back to normal (all of this done subconsciously). The type of juices in the stomach are irrelevant, like I said you're thinking too much. If it makes you feel better, your stomach doesn't actually have as much "juice" in it as was in the titans stomach that Eren was in; it was all probably for dramatic effect and even then it's still irrelevant.

They obviously didn't know that Eren was the coordinate, evident by Bertolt and Reiner being hella surprised when Eren accidentally sics the areas titans on Reiner. As for the Ymir thing, let me remind you that Eren more then likely gained his abilities from his dad (whom he later ate), but didn't know about it for many years later. It's not far fetched to believe that the same happened to child Reiner, Bertolt, and friends; that is, by chance a titan ate one of the kids and gained the ability to turn human again.

Also, I don't know what you mean by full titan. Why would any of them want to become a full titan? That means losing the ability to turn human again, and instead wandering the world with your only objective being to either eat people or kill other titans. Hardly desirable I'd say...lol.

[Milkster]

When could Eren have eaten his father? His father is still missing, we don't know if he's dead or alive. In his memories, his dad was injecting him with something.

[Salodin]

Edit: spoilered cause you could have made that comment as a non reader. This spoiler is from the arc after next, wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't until season 3 or 4.

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It was alluded to during the chapter where the squad was testing his transformation ability. It all took place during a flash back, where he transforms a few times in succession. I'm on phone or I'd find it for you, but he speaks as a titan in broken English, and you can kind of make out how he's responsible for his fathers death. It could all be a red herring, but I don't like to assume that when they so conveniently tell us otherwise.

[Rocl]

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it's chapter 53 (is that the right term lol?). he couldn't actually talk as a titan, they mentioned that titans didn't have the proper mouth shape to vocalize language or some shit. he was writing it out and yeah he remembered something about his father and went batshit crazy/sad. the only thing we know for sure is that Eren wrote "father had me" do something and then Eren couldn't write clearly anymore and struggled and gave up. i don't like the idea of the my dad made me eat him story, but the Eren actually killed his dad thing had been floating around for a while. i guess we'll know when we get to the basement EH

[Salodin]

Ah yes, ty for the correction.

more spoilersss

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And as I'm rereading the chapter, totally didn't catch them alluding to titans building the walls on page 12.

[LinktheDeme]

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You're thinking too hard dude. We don't know that they are missing a digestive system; what we do know is that even with their sole purpose to apparently be eating people, they never actually finish digesting them, and instead either poop out or vomit rainbow corpses. With what we know now, more then likely titans vomit out humans and actually digest shifters in order to try and turn back to normal (all of this done subconsciously). The type of juices in the stomach are irrelevant, like I said you're thinking too much. If it makes you feel better, your stomach doesn't actually have as much "juice" in it as was in the titans stomach that Eren was in; it was all probably for dramatic effect and even then it's still irrelevant.

They obviously didn't know that Eren was the coordinate, evident by Bertolt and Reiner being hella surprised when Eren accidentally sics the areas titans on Reiner. As for the Ymir thing, let me remind you that Eren more then likely gained his abilities from his dad (whom he later ate), but didn't know about it for many years later. It's not far fetched to believe that the same happened to child Reiner, Bertolt, and friends; that is, by chance a titan ate one of the kids and gained the ability to turn human again.

Also, I don't know what you mean by full titan. Why would any of them want to become a full titan? That means losing the ability to turn human again, and instead wandering the world with your only objective being to either eat people or kill other titans. Hardly desirable I'd say...lol.

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I think it's a rather safe assumption if the scientist girl said there's no digestive system then there isn't one although she couldnt make the connection to the spinal cord i suppose. I guess since all titans are naked and they've captured one they'd at the very least see a poop hole. I'm probably thinking too hard to apply logic to an anime though.

With regards to the stomach acid thing, it doesn't matter how much acid would be in there the acid it self would cause a burning sensation as it did with Eren or maybe it was his other wounds. Regardless though that should burn a lot of it was going to be digested

What I'm saying about Berthold and crew is that if they were shifters at the time or the other kid was a shifter he should have been able to at least fend off mindless Ymir like Eren did with other mindless titan's when he got eaten.

By full titan I'm referencing the fact that they made a big deal about him losing his humanity to fight annie becoming more titan in the process which allowed him to gain access to the fire abilities etc. That's what I meant by seesaw it's going backwards to go forwards and doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my mind.

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it's chapter 53 (is that the right term lol?). he couldn't actually talk as a titan, they mentioned that titans didn't have the proper mouth shape to vocalize language or some shit. he was writing it out and yeah he remembered something about his father and went batshit crazy/sad. the only thing we know for sure is that Eren wrote "father had me" do something and then Eren couldn't write clearly anymore and struggled and gave up. i don't like the idea of the my dad made me eat him story, but the Eren actually killed his dad thing had been floating around for a while. i guess we'll know when we get to the basement EH

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I wouldn't say that Titan's don't have the proper mouth's just his form doesn't, which could change or remain the same. The ape titan could definitely vocalize

[Milkster]

Eren wasn't eaten in the same way as Bret's friend by Ymir, his neck was bitten through as soon as she ate him. He was dead as a human and couldn't have transformed.

[Salodin]

Ok so you've read the manga lol. Guessing this is officially the manga thread any ways. And yeah, it makes sense that they didn't transform to protect their friend, the same way Eren never transformed when Arwin was getting bullied and Mikasa and himself ran to protect him. They just didn't know how to trigger it.

[Seha]

So much speculation..was I the only one to think "maybe they got it wrong"?

[Salodin]

I never assume a characters deductions are wrong, especially when they're considered the team leader/scientist lol. I just dont think I've ever seen it happen.