The Original Sin of Bleach - The Sun is Dead

(A thread) The revelation of the Soul King lore in the TYBW anime opened my eyes to the full story of Bleach happening both in macro- and microcosm
Ichigo's life is the story of the life and death of the universe, as if the creation of Man is the eternal present retelling of Creation itself

Fave part about #BleachTYBW lore is how much Kubo recontextualizes everything with Ep 28
Yhwach does feel like a Zanpakuto Spirit in relation to his dad, who divided an infinite ocean world of chaos while Yhwach cries as Zangetsu does for Ichigo
Helpless to stop the Original Sin
The first time we meet Zangetsu, his name was erased by Ichibe
This might not even be the name Yhwach but possibly Yhwach's birth name as Reio's godly son
The black on incarnate Yhwach is Ichibe's doing, erasing his name and meddling in reincarnation by making him a human

Attack on Titan
The Final Season
Part 1
The Rewatch Thread

After WIT staff and Araki brought AoT into a wider world
MAPPA staff under Yuichiro Hayashi's direction take on the pressure and challenge of adapting the post-timeskip content and a stronger discourse on war
#AoTVincent Today is the 2nd anniversary of the Final Season
A big day for me
I will be making a live-tweet series per season but as the anniversary of the season that basically immersed me into the anime online community, I needed to skip to this point
#AoTVincent

https://twitter.com/vincent5126/status/1463019688548466691?s=20&t=91jnXUpSw1_V7eLLgpHe4g

Episode 374: The Shooting Star Project (Zero Mix)
7/10
The calm after the storm
A dark atmosphere gathers in Soul Society after the dust settles
While bright light is a hollow hole for the bereaved who witness the apathetic Squad Zero claim Ichigo for their plans
#BleachVincent Episode 374 adapts:
Chapter 515: Relics
Chapter 516: Squad Zero (pages 2-6, 9-17)
Chapter 517: The Stairway to Heaven
Chapter 518: The Shooting Star Project (Zero Mix) (pages 1-10, 12-16)
Chapter 519: Hot, Hot, Heat
515 title page
While fast, not much was skipped
#BleachVincent

Bleach Episode 373: Born in the Dark
9.5/10
A turmoil-filled conclusion to the first Wandenreich invasion, mired with a heavy weight of loss and uncertainty
Soul Society beyond repair, its image of protection and Ichigo's confidence broken like his Bankai
#BleachVincent Episode 373 adapts:
Chapter 511: Die Standing
Chapter 512: The Stand Ablaze
Chapter 513: The Dark Moon Stroke
Chapter 514: Born in the Dark
The extensions of the anime not only improve pacing but enrich the material of 511 and 514 to a surprising degree
#BleachVincent

The Beast Titan: All Men, Imitations of Apes

(A thread)

Contains manga spoilers The start of Season 2 centers on Zeke Yeager, whose presence changed the entire story in more ways than one
The thread title is based on a quote from Bleach Volume 48: GOD IS DEAD and shares a thematic parallel to the subtle commentary of the quote and the volume’s figure, Aizen

Freedom is Death: The Memory of Faye Yeager

(A thread)

Warning: Manga spoilers ahead Attack on Titan explores freedom as unbound, undefined existence, where Walls of humans do not decide our birthright
Eren’s exercise of freedom, from trampling on oppressors to trampling the rest for a childhood impossibility, reveals every shade of truth about our primal desires

Being and Food - Children of the Forest and the Hunt for Freedom

(A thread on Chapter 111: Children of the Forest) The month of July is a shared birth month for two people, Niccolo on the 23rd and Sasha on the 26th and the two were a hidden love story within a war story that seems so minor in the grand scheme of things yet may hold the most fundamental secret to the themes of Attack on Titan.

Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
Three stories written by AoT scriptwriter Hiroshi Seko released on December 9, 2014 with a manga adaptation that ran from August 9, 2015 to May 9, 2016 drawn by Ryōsuke Fuji and OVAs released on 2017-2018 before and during Season 3
Volume 1
#AoTVincent Ending: Call your name <Gv>
A female cover of the song sung by Gemie and composed by Hiroyuki Sawano
This mostly has shots of Season 1 events from Annie’s perspective, including her entry into the Walls with the Warriors (great shot btw)
#AoTVincent

For me, Disney's choice to make Frollo into a judge instead of a cleric is quite fitting for the story of the adaptation
It not only shows abuse of state power and its control over religious narratives but also makes the church/deacon his conscience
Bec both are the same in a way The deacon's appearances are tied to two characters: Frollo and Esmeralda
Frollo is the man he condemns, Hunchback showing that the true enemy of God, faith and Christianity is the egoist vainglorious zealot (Frollo is always stuck in his duty robes, even if he is secular)

The Military Police Brigade and the Inherent Escapism of Legitimized Violence

(A Thread) The Military Police Brigade is founded on one idea established in the anime-only introduction to the group in Episode 14
"People are irresponsible"
The Military enforce order, being given the power to choose for them
But the problem is it lets them choose how humans must be human

Episode 48: Bystander
11/10
Definitive version

Attack on Titan's core message gains full meaning in a seemingly fruitless conversation with a bystander
Above all, it shows the ordinary has the answer to life's mysteries, be it Titans or humans
Hence this arc matters
#AoTVincent Episode 48 adapts:
Chapter 70: A Dream I Once Had (pages 1-17, 26-41)
Chapter 71: Bystander
As expected, some sections were trimmed but this time for better pacing while others were moved around
Like Friends, this episode is quite high quality in art and storyboards
#AoTVincent

The Ordinary is Beauty: Why Dot Pixis is the Model Commander

(A Thread on the Garrison) September 13th is the birthday of Dot Pixis and I find it a fitting discussion to look at what makes him the model commander of Attack on Titan’s military, which all began with his first scene that encompassed all that Pixis is, does and becomes.
(Sorry for the delay btw)

Grisha Yeager: Love and Responsibility

(A thread on Episode 79: Memories of the Future) With a new life as the Attack Titan
Grisha seeks retake the Founder from the Reiss who have not helped the Eldians in Marley
But he was a Restorationist no more
Empty of hate
Grisha held his sins and losses in his fingerless hands, the responsibility for the freedom he wanted

The Female Titan: The Cornered Girl of the Forest

(A Thread) This is Part 1 of a series on the Nine Titans, finding meaning in their design, powers and role, all tied to the Founder Ymir
The Female Titan is arguably the most personal, representing her femininity and vulnerability and the person she was
This could arguably be her base form

The Red Flags of Yeagerism: How Fascism Corrupts Our Shingeki

This thread covers the red flags Isayama has left to warn us of the rise of fascism in Attack on Titan, which reflects the past and our present

Throughout the thread, we will define fascism by example Ep 82 shows a fully formed picture of the Yeagerists, fulfilling every red flag since Ep 67
We see how fascism corrupts the dedication of one’s heart into an ultranationalist commitment that only leads people to a politics of eternal warfare
Where individual freedom is forgotten

I commend every animator who did work in S3Ep10
I know everyone loved the photorealistic burning Yoshiwara
But Uzui's charge at Gyutaro stood out the most to me
Combined ufotable's heavy special effects with great choreography, diverse art styles and overall spectacular animation This episode reminded me why I heavily value special effects guys like Sakai
I do agree that Demon Slayer's impressive animation banks on sfx and CGI, those are not detriments but a norm that show how far we have come
But this episode really combines all that into an art form

Having analyzed Vinland Saga's Canute, I do kinda get why the Resurrection did not strengthen his faith
Or anyone's
On one level, the Church back then probably did not fully transmit its hopeful message of restoration, thus not predestining us to damnation

https://twitter.com/vincent5126/status/1413017444831043586?s=20&t=D09HBhdQrqC8gX7_DAmvJw

On another level, as I laid out in previous tweets
Canute could not imagine what Resurrection hope is
In the Gospels, Jesus did not transform the human body into something else when he rose
Instead, it was elevated to what it was meant for before the Fall of Man

MHA S5 Episode 22: Sad Man's Parade
Now we have a well-directed episode
The simplistic backgrounds or bad art are lessened and we got more animation
What dominates the episode is Twice's voice acting
You could really feel his struggle all around up until he lets loose later On the animation
I think CGI Doubles works here somewhat and it is not overused or bad
It was fine
This episode also has a more dynamic camera
Also the early part of the Re-Destro fight was fun to watch
The fact Shiggy and the rest were Doubles in the Tower was easy to track too

Ymir Fritz - The Lost Girl of Humanity
The one who was never meant to be fully understood
The one who could only find herself when she finally moved forward
The one trapped in a matrix of slavery that sums up the nature of dehumanization in Attack on Titan
A devil, a slave, a god It is sheer brilliance for Attack on Titan to have its monsters be giants
Norse myth speaks of Armin's sights similar to the Nine Realms
And well you can see why it was also brutally ingenious for Isayama to deconstruct the creation of those Realms
In the butchering of one girl

Happy Birthday to the guy who made some of my favorite OST ever
T-KT, XL-TT, 0sk, Call of Silence, Eye Water and more

https://twitter.com/AoTWiki/status/1436706471723642883

Oh and this shit that makes me cry with its lyrics alone
Maybe my favorite AoT track ever

https://twitter.com/Music_AoT/status/1304875954540486656?s=20