I have watched the entire 13 episodes thus far, including the waste of a time recap episode 13.5. I honestly can't wait for more. The story is so original and enticing! It's been a while since I watched a good anime, so I am really excited for this.
Even through the entire 13 episodes, we only understand that the Titans seem to sprout from one singular direction, which is always from the south of the Wall. They're humanoid abominations, with deformed body parts and varying in sizes and types. They move slowly, of dull wit and live only to eat humans. They don't have genitals nor digestive systems so reproduction seems unlikely and they regurgitate the eaten humans into a ball of goo and continuing eating; repeating the process. It so sick yet fascinating. After so many years under their tyranny, thus far we only know that they can generate from severed limbs (yes, even growing an entire new head!), resistant to pain and slicing off some flesh at the back of their neck seem to finish them for good. They vary in sizes, the smallest being about 2 - 3 meters tall and the largest Titan (called the Behemoth/Colossal Titan), which appeared recently, is about 60 meters. "Abnormal" Titans (what an oxymoron as if they're aren't abnormal enough!) are those who posses super speed, have some intelligence and chase their prey, contrary from their clueless, slow-paced and singular minded counterparts. I kid you not there is a Titan that jumps to hunt for humans.
The people in the Wall have never seen humanity outside of their own, well, walls, right? They're the only humans that they know and knowledge of the outside world is banned altogether. I think...the people inside the walls...are part of an extensive human experiment. Yes...the Wall Dwellers (as I call them) are all LAB RATS. The Titans are all abominations of humanoid appearance because they ARE humans that have been experimented on. Probably someone out there is attempting to make super soldiers but each time it goes awry. So whoever's manufacturing them, keeps making one after the other until he/she gets the 'perfect' Titan that is capable of some amount of intelligence. Population of humanity always dwindles extensively whenever the Titans make an appearance as they do nothing but eat, eat and eat the humans.
Eating while they're still warm ensures their taste.
If you watched the anime, you'd know that there was a 100-year hiatus without any sighting of Titans until the Behemoth Titan appeared out of thin air - literally - and humanity had yet another gruesome hell. The massive hole made by the Behemoth Titan unleashed a great many conventional Titans that wiped the entire population by 20%.
The Behemoth Titan makes it's first and impressionable entrance.
Or maybe he just wants to play hide and seek.
Or maybe he just wants to play hide and seek.
I think there was a 100-year hiatus because whoever's been unleashing the Titans was a) working on a more advanced level of Titans (a Titan called Armoured Titan appeared soon after alongside with the Behemoth Titan, so yes the Wall Dwellers were exposed to a nightmare of the most hideous nature, as if the singular-minded Titans weren't nerve-wrecking enough) and b) give time for the Wall Dwellers to repopulate into a larger number to be experimented on. I came to conclusion 'b' after hearing the Wall Dwellers calling themselves 'livestock' on numerous occasion. It seemed like a clue to me. That's what you do with a livestock right? Breed them into a large number enough so you can slaughter them for mass by-products.
It's a double win situation for whoever's behind the creation of the Titans.
And the sad part is, the Wall Dwellers were made to live under a farce that they're a bunch of terrorized community, made to live with a farce of an organized nation with their short-living Titan hunters just to keep them occupied. It's all a big conspiracy.
There were many hints throughout the anime thus far that pointed in this direction. This had been going on for a very long time and I think the main character's (Eren Jaeger) father has something to do with it.
Isn't it curious that the Titans only appear from one singular direction? Isn't that clue enough that there is a nest or a factory that's producing these Titans? Gee, I dunno, they could build a giant aircraft or something to investigate or something of the source of the Titan production.
I have an important finals tomorrow, I still have 8 more chapters to cover and here I am writing a conspiracy theory for an anime.
God help me.
1 comment:
I don't think it's that there has been a hiatus of titan activity for a hundred years. The titans only appeared a hundred or so years ago, after which the wall was built and since which time no titan has ever managed to breach it. In that time, there have still been titans, but their damage was limited to the heavy casualties incurred by the Recon forces outside. Then, out of the blue, two titans appear that have the unprecedented power of destroying the wall, and everything changes.
Although I like the theory of humans being literal livestock, I don't think Eren And Friends were born in the period between meals, so to speak. The titans were only around for about a hundred years, and what happened to the humans just recently was for the first time.
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