MOD EDIT:

Brazil said: The thread title has been edited to be a little less loaded.



Attack on Titan definitely has a lot of analogies to the Jewish people's plight and World War II in general, and while that might be an issue in an of itself, it's a bit of a stretch to paint the manga as anti-semitic without question.



The previous thread title gave no room for discussion or interpretation, and people who are familiar with the manga and disagreed with the thread's initial premise were being unfairly hostilized by some who aren't readers and had only the information provided by the OP to go on. That's not a very fair way to foster discussion. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

In the last arc of Attack on Titan, it's revealed that the outside world still exists, that humanity isn't extinct, and that the people we've followed have had their memories of the outside world erased after they lost a war against the people they were oppressing and fled to an island.It's also revealed that the people in the manga are from a race of people that used to rule the world and are the only people that can turn into Titans. These people are... The Jews.They are not called Jews directly, but uhhhhhhh, it's not fucking subtle at all. The series is drowning in "Jews in Nazi Germany" imagery and it's a WW2 story now.I'm annoyed because:A): Jews have a reason to be oppressed in the Attack on Titan world because they were brutal oppressors in the past and can turn into horrible monstersB): Right after the main characters (who are obviously coded as Jewish) arrive in Attack on Titan's Germany, they start committing war crimes for almost no reason.I don't like Attack on Titan trying to steal Jewish imagery like this while also having their coded Jewish protagonists having a reason to be discriminated against and then immediately doing war crimes for no reason. Jews in Nazi Germany were hated because of bigots in Germany, not out of a desire for revenge against Jews being violent and oppressing Aryans or something.Quit stealing historical imagery and then trying to make your fictional world grey when the history was not grey at all, fiction writers.