after 59 episodes and 8 ovas, I’d like to say #ThankYouWitStudio for a job very well done
whatever path Attack on Titan may take in the future, we’ll always be thankful to the long hours you’ve spent just to deliver to us scenes, producing backgrounds and shots and perfecting human mechanism and emotions that have us on the edge of our seats and never fail to leave us speechless.
I wanted to tell you about a post that left me somewhat sad. The owner of the post criticized a scene from Hange and mainly the voice actress Park Romi in a very hateful way saying:
“I wish she actually read the manga and undestood the character or at least she stopped trying so hard to sound like she smoked 20 packs of cigarrettes”
I just found it very sad that that person despite being a Hange stan could not see the incredible performance of Park Romi and the dedication and love she has towards Hange.
So I wanted to do an appreciation post for Hange’s voice and the amazing Park Romi.
Park Romi was asked at the 2015 Otakon at the Baltimore convention Center in Baltimore :
Fan:of all the characters of aot, is there someone you want to trade places with?
Romi-san: of all the characters? Hange. (with her hand on her heart) Hange Zoe. I love her. Hange zoe! (She was speaking in english btw)
One of my first favorite things about Hange was their voice.
I understood right away why Park Romi was chosen to voice Hange. Miss Romi is a seiyuu who has worked in the industry since 1995. In her career, most of her characters are strong and powerful women outside the typical stereotypes of Japanese voice actresses (tender, sweet, high-pitched voices).
Characters like Nana Osaki (Nana) Teresa (Claymore) Pakunoda (hunter x hunter) Alma (Radiant) They represent Miss Romi’s career very well.
But one of the things that I like the most about Miss Romi being chosen for Hange is the great presence of male characters in her filmography. Edward Elric (FMA) Toshiro Hitsugaya (Bleach) Tao Ren (Shaman king) Ganta Igarashi (Deadman wonderland)
Park Romi’s deep, low, husky and elegant voice not only demonstrates Hange’s maturity and intelligence but also contributes even better to the free interpretation of Hange’s gender.
(Also I personally find husky voices very attractive)
I have seen many people say that they don’t like Hange’s voice in the original language because it “sounds like an older woman” And I try to be respectful cause it’s their opinion, but it really pissed me off. I don’t see people complaining of how most woman in anime sound like 12 year old kids
Anyway, just appreciate the seiyuus’s performances. Many suffer from anxiety and health problems, all in order to do their job well and also for us to enjoy our anime. Isayama is present during the recordings and chose many of the actors. Please, appreciate all this work and be respectful.
Like nobody cares but I felt like I had to do this.
these are my goodbye words to the manga of snk:
(Sorry for my ingles)
I have my own little personal thoughts about the final chapter, I’m still trying to process the information and recover from the emotional shock I felt while reading it. I am so confused I’m not sure what I feel right now
But nothing changes how grateful I am to Isayama for all these years.
I love snk so much. I knew that no matter how the ending was shown, that was not going to change.
I really had a great time all these years, especially meeting Hange was something very meaningful to me. I’m crying I’m so sad and I wish it had lasted longer…
But anyway my favorite moments of the chapter were my three babies, I mean I knew I was going to cry but damn … Mikasa, Armin and Eren
that will be really hard to watch in the anime
(And I miss them ALL already)
this manga save me and I’m lucky to be able to say that I was part of this when it wasn’t over yet :’)
Thank you so much for all these years, thank you so much to the levihan and Hange fandom for share most of the experience with me
Thank you to Isayama for being a genius and to the little me who decided to watch snk and got so excited about the first episode that she watched it twice in a row
(What a weirdo)
Also another uninteresting little thing I probably won’t post for a while, it’s not like I do it often either but I’m just saying
Sorry for using panels from the manga but honestly in my opinion this episode was not my favorite (I loved it of course, but it’s not my favorite) I am a bit in a bad mood for some parts that were excluded or that were not appreciated so much. I know probably nobody cares except me. I’m not complaining, I’m giving my opinion so I hope no one comes to bother me in the comments :)
Anyway
It will always amazed me how I can love Hange more and more.
I mean, is that even possible ??
When I read this in the manga I was so touched by how big Hange’s heart is.
She knew who those children were and yet her first thought was to stop the whole situation.
In the anime you can’t appreciate it that much but Hange was the first person to reach out to help Falco
She didn’t have to be so attentive to him, so worried about him but she was because that’s just how Hange is
Even when Nicolo told her that it was surely too late, Hange stepped forward and began themself, despite being the commander to try to save Falco, to bathe him!!
I just … love her so much. Every episode I am so proud of her
all of you snk fandom after seeing this arc you are not allowed to ignore Hange anymore! YOU CAN’T
For me this is the moment when everything stops being the same.
Not when Eren leaves paradise.
It’s when Sasha takes her last breath and everything starts getting more dark in the world of snk
When this happened in the manga I spent days feeling sad.
Sasha had the purest heart of all
It’s hard when a character as loving and warm-hearted as Sasha dies in such a cold and violent way.
It’s difficult to let go of a character that you, as a reader, feel so close.
Because Sasha was from the beginning a character that somehow I felt like I wanted to protect and one of the things I love most about snk is Sasha and Connie’s relationships. I am so grateful to see in an anime a soulmate relationship between a girl and a boy with no romance in between and It breaks my heart to think of Connie
But the story must go on…
And at the end I’m actually really thankful that it was Gabi. A kid victim of war. A kid who lost her friends in front of her eyes and who saw her home being destroyed.
Sasha’s death was a necessary death. Despite being unfair and cruel and heartbreaking, this had to happen…
