So i realized many reasons why attack on titan is almost eerily similar to ww2
People watch the show bc it looks cool, has action (err.. and violence obviously), reels them in, has interesting character etc. yea
But i kind of noticed this from the beginning but didn’t sink in until i finally deeply thought, and then looked up other’s perspectives on it
I came up with a lot of reasons.. actually..
Notice: I watched up to the part where Hanji was studying a titan, then Annie of the survey corps was suspected of spying on the research. I stopped there and never watched the rest of it mainly bc i was busy and stuff like this. Later i read the rest of the context of the story about the Elridans and the what is it called…Mayrans or whatever I forgot their class name but basically the titans
- it’s essentially an apocalypse in the past, NOT the future. There are no phones or robots and the houses are all old and made of bricks and clearly the people wear clothes from older times. It’s clearly a show that’s time period is set in the past so that’s an immeidate hint that it’s historical from the beginning
- there are titans. They look like giant, demonized cyclops and they are Physically in SCALE giants compared to the people in the towns. And.. why? Because their entire purpose in the show is to eat the people in the town. Which already had me terrified from the beginning. Imagining a giant, scary, toothy smile coming from my window with two beady eyes looking right at me and then a hand crashing through my roof and picking me up and… chomp… god it was so fucking scary as a concept, i literally believed attack on titan was probably somewhere in the horror genre of anime for a while
- the titans cannot talk and are basically… clearly… have no idea what they’re doing. They’re not capable of thought or reason. They just want to eat people (and the reason why is not explicitly or clearly explained)
- eren’s mother is eaten. I realize this was a trauma for him because i mean obviously it was. But i didn’t finish watching so I didn’t see eren become a complete psychopath. I did generally observe people labeling him as the “kill the titans” “i want to kill all the titans” guy, via images,, memes,,, and stuff and obviously his resentment of the death of his mother
I mean duh your innocent, hardworking mother who you love dearly and takes care of you//is your only safety net gets eaten by a giant stranger of course you’re gonna be fucking angry at the rest of these.. strangers.. like them who eat people
Then i realized—- these are not strangers. The titans are Jews
I mean..
- Hitler hated jews bc they were “different”.. ugly or whatnot. He wanted blonde eyes blue hair——— DAMN I ALWAYS SAY THAT OK OOPS. (Funny moment of this post). Blonde hair, blue eyes and stuff. I mean the only phsyical trait of Jewish people i actually notice is that they often have somewhat bigger noses, but okay. Other than that they are completely beautiful and natural and have NOTHING like faces that are “ugly” to the EXTENT of the titans— clearly the titans are a huge exaggeration of “ugly” (even if they were this way in appearance. they wouldn’t be giant bc that’s impossible and then they wouldn’t “eat people”?? They’d most likely be shunned from their communities and told they would never be in a relationship or marry or whatever bc of their physical abnormalities)
- also the titans make “ugly” into “scary”. Think about that. Someone that is giant, maybe ugly is the wrong word but like clearly demonic and deformed to the point where it reminds you of paranormal activity horror creatures (uhh no i TOTALLY havent been watching—- err never mind sorry ahahaaaaaaa)
- so like, ugly, scary, giant, diet consisting of literal human beings. Clearly they are the ones to be feared. Yes. But then you remember that they are MUTE characters. They can’t talk or say anything, so… that already makes them silent, different, unable to understand… it’s cruel to say “retarded” but that’s kind of what the titans are dumbed down to. Also the way some of them walk, with their arms folded? Running and skipping like that? That’s… clearly abnormal
- then Eren being put into the survey corps which was clearly a military force, the reveal that the titans don’t actually DIGEST the human flesh as their food and energy but literally just spit them up/poop them out in some sort of gooey ball of traumatized human beings (and then those people are actually still alive somehow.. shiver) (maybe it represents the regular innocent German people who got so fucked by WW2 that they just kinda… flopped, fled, got killed by Hitler’s supporters or just generally were ignored or hated? Because.. they’re alive in that ball of Titan saliva and just scared and staring out at the violence in front of them and desperately wishing they could be dead, so the pain would go away? Like my god. And the titans were the ones that originally… you know.. ate them and then just left them there? Am i the only one who sees a connection? Like ignorance? The Germans also suffering from them being brainwashed into a scary reality?)
- historically, to be fair the germans never wanted to actually commit genocide to a whole population in concentration camps? Hilter was known to be an excellent public speaker and also excellent at mind numbing people with his speeches? Almost hypnotizing people to believe these things about Jews…?
Fun facts about hitler
- he wanted to be an artist
- he had a dog? I think?
- he had serious mental issues
- he might have been rejected from art school and had a not good past
- how he became a psychopath evil ruler responsible for the systematic killing of a generation of people, or what his brain looked like, how he would become such a crazy person is.. unknown. We’ll never know why
- he killed himself at the end and then.. basically, all his followers were punished by law instead (way to avoid the consequences man and abandon your uhh, people)
Ok…moving on
The Germans were also extremely shameful after the war had ended? As they looked back they felt terrible, scared of the cruel and terrible inhumane killings of the innocent people who were Jews,, a lot of them women, children, disabled people, and poor men who couldn’t do anything? Poor both financially and literaly speaking.. also in poverty
They were like what monsters did we become? Oh my god fuck we can never do this again.. and they changed. They were probably the main country who didn’t Deny the fact that they had done something terrible (which is actually really respectable, considering america denies literally everything we’ve done…. god i’m ashamed to be american, oof)
Ok final thoughts bc it’s 7AM and i’m tired and want to go back to bed lol (might continue this later to analyze this more)
- the arms bands (which i read about) (nazi Germany logo looking pretty similar like it was altered to the story) (honestly i’m curious about this and i want to understand that part better)
- the giant titan (overlord) (guarding the outside world)
- the three built walls around the town/city to keep the titans out (eerily the same as the concentration camps, which were incredibly hard to access.. they were cut off from the rest of the world. they were living in a bubble away from society. too similar to the walls to the point where it becomes clearly obvious and freakishly realistic)
- eren becoming a titan himself (to “stop” the monster one becomes a monster himself)
Oh man.. i’m sorry i have to go back to bed and rest AHAHA my brain hurts
Final thoughts
- i don’t hate AOT, i just don’t really feel comfortable with this concept. I wouldn’t not finish watching it but i might be too scardey cat to be honest bc this show gets more gore-ish as it goes on and… and i generally don’t really watch violent shows, cartoons, films in general, only when i’m really curious, and maybe horror for me is more interesting if it’s you know, psychological horror. Slasher films? Hell no. Can’t watch that stuff Oi vey
- i guess it’s just, you know, not for me? But i don’t have much of an opinion.. i mean if you like it, that’s fine! Just.. don’t hate Jewish people, they’re not actually like that, ok
- i understand the author didn’t want it to be realistic to the history but it just is, symbols everywhere. So um i have no idea of the authors intent, so (hopefully he understands the sides of this deeply without going straight to hating jews and at least acknowledges that this whole war was, basically, genocide) (also themes of Koreans being taken over by Japan— nationalism not just in Europe)
- (also i know the author is Japanese it’s an anime so like duh) (why can’t we call them Japanese cartoons? They’re just cartoons! perhaps not as , um, goofy as Spongebob - actually never mind, Osomatsu-san is the Spongebob of anime) (tee hee) :-)
- i remember when i used to ship Eren and Levi wooooo (not judging the weird past me ok it was a little.. ridiculous but they’re fictional characters so whatever) (hey I shipped Levi and Hanji too! yes.)
- my dad is not religious at all but he is partly Jewish (family history)
- i would not want to show this to him, i would feel bad 💦
Ok goodbye
