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You should reread the part where Mikasa when she was just a kid crushes the handle of the knife with just her bare hand and breaks the wooden plank on the floor simply by sprinting.
That's humanly impossible, especially for someone who most likely weights less than 40kg. If this isn't just a rule of cool (which I don't exclude) then there's something very strange with her. In the same page where she crushes the handle you also see what supposedly is her brain... strange huh? Then you have the fact that Mikasa is physically stronger than everyone else in her squad. There's one point where they comment that Eren is the strongest in hand-to-hand combat after Mikasa. This is different from Annie which wins because of her training, she says it herself that she isn't actually strong. Mikasa on the other hand is simply strong.
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2013-04-25, 09:16 | Link #24 | |
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As for her being stronger than everybody else in hand to hand combat, I don't think it's impossible. Tons of frail looking heroines in fiction can effortlessly kick the butt of men twice their own size, so it's reasonable for Mikasa who is actually pretty buff (dem abs) to be able to do the same. Maybe I'm just in denial. I just love regular humans who can fight on par with superpowered humans/monsters/demons/whatever through sheer willpower and badassness so I'd be disappointed if Mikasa turned out not to be one of them. Her being special would actually make her less special in my eyes. At least I'll still have Rivaille.
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2013-04-25, 09:20 | Link #25 | |
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assuming that whatever injection Eren's father gave to him can engineer human to become a titan and... especially since Eren always getting his ass kicked everytime he encounters new enemy
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2013-04-25, 09:46 | Link #26 | |
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And I'm not outright denying that it might be just the usual overdramatized surge of adrenaline-driven strength that you often see in shounen manga. Perhaps it is.
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2013-04-25, 13:56 | Link #27 | |
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It's either the biggest red herring in the story, or there's something special about her.
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2013-04-25, 14:10 | Link #29 |
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The closest we have is that Mikasa herself acknowledges Rivaille's skill/speed during their fight to retrieve Eren from Titan Annie's mouth. The translation I read of Mikasa's speech during that fight had her describe Rivaille as "impossibly fast" (or something along that line)
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2013-04-25, 18:10 | Link #30 |
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I've always been under the impression Rivaille (Levi? This is really bugging me) is far stronger than Mikasa. He can take titans down effortlessly and he was incredible against Annie. He uses moves nobody else uses. Even Mikasa herself was impressed. I'm sure she'll surpass him with time, but at the moment she's probably "only" at veteran level. She still needs more experience before she can call herself the strongest human in the legion.
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2013-04-25, 18:32 | Link #31 |
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I think it is pretty likely that Mikasa does have some sort of special ability beyond mere physical conditioning, based on page 33 of Volume 2. I am pretty confident that this "mark of her clan" will be brought up again at some point in the future, possibly being revealed as a source of power. With everything else that has been very subtly foreshadowed through seemingly throwaway scenes and dialog, I will be shocked if this doesn't become relevant in some way.
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2013-04-25, 18:52 | Link #32 | |
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But would Rivaille win against Mikasa in an arm wrestle match? I'm more than certain that he wouldn't. For the same reason we can't really be sure about who won that hand-to-hand match between Mikasa and Annie. Mikasa is undoubtedly stronger when it comes to physical power, but Annie knows techniques that allow her to use the enemy's strength to her own advantage. In other words "skill" and "strength" are two separate things.
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It also doesn't look like they want to cram in as much story as possible and ep2 demonstrates that. From a creative standpoint it makes sense to end the season with a cliffhanger/foreshadowing and imo there's none as glorious and menacing as the scouting legion riding into the plains at the end of chapter 21. That's not to say your deductions are without merits, but the Female Titan arc is quite long so I don't think they'll be able to cover the whole of it with what's left of the 24-5 episodes lest they risk cutting it off midway or condensing the Trost arc either of which is not something I'd like to see happening. |
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2013-04-26, 14:00 | Link #36 | |
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Even if we assume that the pace slows to a crawl of 1 chapter per episode all the way to the end (which would be a really bad thing especially for action heavy chapters where several of them can easily fit into a single episode), ep5-25 = 21 episodes. With 7 chapters already accounted for, that would bring us up to chapter 28. Since there are a few chapters which are simply pure action with a small amount of dialogue and actual character interaction, getting to chapter 30-34 (or even more if they decide to move faster) within 25 episodes is really easy. They'll probably be able to fit more original content not in the manga along the way too. |
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2013-04-27, 10:32 | Link #37 |
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I wanted to answer to this post
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...4&postcount=32 But then I realized it would be spoilerish no matter what I said, I'll do it here. In a word: Armin If there's anyone that Annie has a weak spot for, that's Armin. Don't you think so?
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That would be weird though, Annie and Armin have barely had any interaction with each other. Annie probably only spared Armin because he was Eren's friend (well either that or she spared Armin for the same reason Mikasa couldn't kill Reiner and Bertholdt).
I really think if there's anyone Annie has a weakspot for, it's Eren, the only time I think Annie has been shown to smile was when she offered to teach Eren more about hand to hand combat. There's also the flashback in the latest chapter where she grappled Eren for quite some time until Mikasa threw Reiner at them, at that point **** got real because Mikasa looked really pissed. |
2013-04-27, 11:14 | Link #39 |
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Annie and Armin........never really thought about it. Did they have any interactions besides the whole trying to capture Annie incident?
And I think Annie would have spared Mikasa or even Jean or Sasha if they were in a similar situation to Armin when they first met her in titan form. |
2013-04-27, 11:20 | Link #40 |
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So you think the whole "If you refuse to help me you'll be a bad person to me" didn't have any effect at all on Annie?
I thought that Armin said so because he knew it would have worked if it was specifically about himself.
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