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The treatment of female characters in Shingeki no Kyojin, a thread.
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Shingeki no kyojin has a lot of interesting female characters, but the ending literally shit on all of them. Each of these characters are interesting in their own way, but how they& #39;re being portrayed at the end honestly disgust me.
Mikasa Ackerman - I like the concept of her being a tragic character. It has good potential, but it is horribly executed. Mikasa wasn& #39;t given an arc and was treated as a plot device at the end.
Her greatest contribution was to decapitate Eren& #39;s head and kiss it so that Ymir can be cured from her stockholm syndrome.
Just when you think she& #39;s going to move forward, she& #39;s not allowed to move on from her obsession to Eren right until the ending. Seeing her being chained to Eren& #39;s grave for 3 years mourning his death is pitiful.
What are we supposed to learn from her exactly? Accept a men& #39;s mistreatment because they love you and you should be miserable for the rest of your life?
Hange Zoë - during the first 3 season we love her because she was passionate about her job. She cared deeply for her friends, had a sense of humor, was dense but incredibly smart.
Then she was made into a commander, she wasn& #39;t fit for that position but instead of making her grow she was reduced to an incompetent leader who usually complains to her dead comrade about why he made her a commander.
Pre-timeskip ruined her and the potential was lost because Armin needs to be the better option.
Annie Leonhardt - she& #39;s the embodiment of survival and adaptation, praised from her skills and her personality. A great villain and an anti-hero of sort, cold-blooded but had a soft side into her. She did what she had to do because it must be done in order to survive.
Again, the time-skip ruined her. She was made irrelevant and reduced her to Armin& #39;s girl. I& #39;m getting angry now...
Pieck Finger - totally an underdeveloped character. She& #39;s loyal to Marley, her oppresor, just like what they expect her to be. It wouldn& #39;t really hurt to give her something right?
Oh wait she has a great ass when she crawls. F*CK that shit she& #39;s completely fan service.
Historia Reiss - personally my favorite, has an arc dedicated to her, mentally strong girl, was able to act against her own father, snap the protagonist out of her bullshit, has a great backstory that justified her personality, Krista being a facade was a beautifully done twist.
Again, the time-skip ruined her. She was sidelined for too long and was made to be a puppet head to the fascist at the end. Making the Royal Government arc absolutely useless.
A queen that got impregnated by a farmer, that is how the manga treated their female characters.
Ymir Fritz - a godlike being but a slave to a rapist king because she& #39;s in love with him. There& #39;s nothing more I can say about that.
Gabi is a male version of Eren but worse. Hitch is completely waifu fan service. Karina is a horrible mother who used her son for her benefits but is being portrayed as a good person because she apparently regrets being a horrible mother. Alma and Dina should learn from her.
