♪ (punk rock music) ♪
(speaking Japanese)
- Oh, it's Attack on Titan.
- Season two! Season two!
- YEAH! Attack on Titan 2! Woo!
I can't wait for the second season, dude.
- Okay, I have an idea of what this is.
(speaking Japanese)
- What the [bleep]?
It's Bigfoot!
- What is that?!
- Awww!
-I remember I reacted to this forever ago and I've never watched it.
- I know everyone's been waiting for season two, though,
so everyone's super excited and stuff.
- Oh shoot!
Oh my god, it's getting so intense.
- Aww!
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- Oh snap.
(speaking Japanese)
- Titans have been protecting them from other Titans?
- What?
(speaking Japanese)
- I didn't know about that.
I don't know about that one, dude.
- It's so scary, though.
Like, the visuals are so creepy.
- They always seem to make the Titans look even more creepy.
(speaking Japanese)
- "Secret of the walls"?
(speaking Japanese)
- I'm so lost.
(speaking Japanese)
- Ooh, dang.
- Oh my god, though, like, I was not prepared for this.
(snarling)
- Oh my god! I'm so excited.
- Oh!
- Shit! Oh my god! Oh, he dead.
Oh, bam. Ooh.
- Brah, lit! Dude, that was cool.
- People were talking about people betraying others
and I'm just like, whoa, whoa, whoa!
I'm so in shock and awe that there's even going to be
a season two that I wasn't even paying attention
to the trailer.
- That was really awesome.
It was like-- that was a bad ass trailer.
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- (FBE) Okay, so that was the trailer for season two
of the anime Attack on Titan. - Yes, yes.
If you haven't already, go watch the first season.
- It took them long enough, honestly. It's been four years, damn.
- (FBE) So tell us what you know about Attack on Titan.
- Uh, Attack on Titan is an anime that got pretty popular a while back.
- There was a city and Titans-- like, I think they feed on the people.
- They're trying to fight off the Titans and seal off wherever they're coming from.
- And then, one time, the wall [bleep]...
♪ (muzak) ♪
- But then the Titans...
♪ (muzak) ♪
And it's a great show, but I think people get distracted
because it's in a different language.
- (FBE) So when you see this trailer, how does the new season look?
- Intense. It makes it look just as good as the last one.
- It looks really good.
They look way stronger than they were.
- Very confusing because it says that there were Titans
protecting us the entire time and it's like: Beast Titan!
- Looks like crazy action, like last season,
and then there's the story.
It just seems like it's going to be taking some crazy turns.
- (FBE) So have you been looking forward to season two at all?
- I didn't finish season one, so, like, no.
- I didn't even think there was going to be one.
- After I watched the first season, I was like, oh man,
is there going to be a season two?
Because I hope so, because this is amazing.
- Ever since I just binge watched the first season,
and then they started pushing back the date for the second season,
it just kept getting pushed back and I was like,
so we're never going to get it.
It's just going to be the anime where we only get one season.
- You have no idea how excited I am for season two.
I was so hyped I forgot to check the day of when it comes out,
so I don't even know when season two comes out.
- (FBE) So the first season of the show received a ton of hype,
with many people calling it one of the best animes of all time.
- Oh yeah, it was that good.
- For me, I don't think it's one of the best animes,
but I think it just depends on who you are.
- (FBE) It got fairly mainstream compared to a lot of other animes,
and for some anime fans, they've expressed annoyance
that everyone's talking about the show as if it was the best of all time
when, according to many, it's not really the best anime out there.
So why do you think this bothers fans so much
when something like this gets so much big attention?
- Um, I think it's just, you know, there's always the people that are like,
"Oh, I liked them first, so your opinion is invalidated,"
and they probably also just hate everything mainstream.
- I think it's because anime is their little baby,
so it's like, "No, don't put it into the mainstream.
It's my little baby."
- Seeing everyone flock to one thing just because it's popular
and then say it's the best might make you annoyed
if you've seen a lot of other stuff that's better and maybe doesn't get
as much attention.
- Anime is it's own kind of genre, and so-- genres have their own fans,
and so when people who aren't really fans of that genre
come in and go, "This is the best," it's like, but you haven't
experienced the rest.
- They hate the bandwagon effect.
They feel like they have a certain sense of entitlement
to a certain thing and when you see people that don't really watch anime too much
actually kind of hype only one up, it's like, well, what about
these other great shows that you're missing,
you know what I mean?
It's like you can't really talk about something
if you don't really know the whole side of it.
- (FBE) Well, the first season of Attack on Titan
came out back in 2013. - Oh, shoot!
That was a long time ago.
- What the heck? One season, four years?
- Well, it better be [bleep] awesome.
- (FBE) Do you think that the long delay
and all of this hype hurts the show's chance of success
in any way? - No.
There are so many people who don't watch anime at all
who love Attack on Titan.
- They're bringing back stuff that's interesting, you know?
They made the trailer good, it got me hyped again,
so I'm sure it will get other people hyped again.
- There's always overhype.
Like, literally, this being one of the best animes,
everyone is going to expect season two to be one of the best season twos.
- Just because of the hype, it could potentially ruin
the outcome of the show because people are hyping it up so much,
people are going to get overhyped and like, "Aw, it's not what I expected.
I thought it would be so much cooler."
- They kind of hurt themselves in a way
because if it doesn't exceed people's expectations,
they're going to be pissed for waiting.
That's what happens.
If you wait too long, the hype's going to die down
and then it's going to come back and everyone's going to get super excited,
like, "Oh, I remember how good this was, you know,"
and they're stuck on the idea of how good it was.
- It could either build up season two and have it be one of the best seasons,
or if you can completely screw it up-- because season one
was already amazing-- and have season two
be a mediocre kind of season, so I feel like it could hurt
because people are expecting so much
and their expectation level's like this,
and you might deliver something that's like that.
- (FBE) So, finally, tell everyone why you think anime,
as a whole, is something worth checking out.
- I mean, cartoons in general are amazing,
so adult cartoons-- you can't beat that.
- Some of these animes have the best writing you'll find anywhere.
I'm talking anything.
Like, better than Walking Dead, better than Game of Thrones.
Like, what-- Death Note, dude, I've never seen a show
written that good in my life.
- I'm not a big anime fan, but the animes that I have watched,
or took interest in, are very, very entertaining to watch
and they have a good storyline.
So don't knock it just because it's a cartoon,
and you too grown.
- It has really great shows,
and I feel like a lot of times, when you look at western cartoons,
they're designed for children,
that shouldn't impair your enjoyment of anime
because there are some really, really great shows
that a lot of times are swept under the rug
because people think they're, like, just for children,
but they can be really amazing.
- Anime is so good, first of all.
Second of all, it's not a nerdy thing, okay?
I don't care what you say about it because there's a lot of people
out there who are like, "Ooh, no, that's a weird thing."
It's so good.
You need to watch a bunch of them.
Just get into it. Crunchy Roll is great.
You can just watch it.
Watch it with the ads, watch it without-- it's so good!
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- I'll see you guys later.
I gotta go binge watch season one again
because I'm so excited!
- Hey, what's up everybody, it's Dallen here from FBE.
Thanks so much for watching this episode of Teens React.
Now, are you as excited as I am for season two of Attack on Titan?
Then go ahead and let us know in the comments.
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