#partly because this game is shorter and doesn't have as many choices

[midnightwind]

I miss the epilogue celebration party from the other games, and seeing what each decision branched out to be at the end, and the little hints at the companions' lives after it all ends....

[killerskillercaptain]

And btw do you know that 99% of men hate levi just cause we women like him? They even claim that floch is more useful than him and that levi's strength doesn't make sense! They are talking about that 24/7 in anime groups saying that we women ruined aot by liking Levi way too much

Dear anon, those two questions are complementary, so i'm answering them in one shot.

To be honest, if at the start of the manga Levi wasn't here to please the fangirls, he quickly became that sort of totem, and it is confirmed by two things : fan polls and Isayama's interviews.

Levi was always popular in the character popularity polls, then there was Isayama who said in an interview that he gradually made Levi in a way that would be appealing, also saying that when he came up with the character, he knew he got something, and something that was going to be popular among a specific category of fangirls, so the "fanservice" is partly true if we refer to the author himself, but I think he did it in a subtle well-manoeuvered way, since Levi is actually a really good character, not just here for decoration.

Even if Levi didn't have a bit of fanservice component in its creational process, he sure does now, he's extremely popular among girls and women, and we can't ignore how a lot of official art and goodies are clearly fanservice, and that's just the anime game.

Now about men saying women ruin snk with the Levi adoration, well, you know, i'm old enough to have witnessed these allegations many times and in different fandoms. The problem i have with this type of statement is that, if the fangirling is all the men witness, then they get annoyed and don't see the rest. Men think that if a woman simps for a character and only shows her love/obsession for the character, then she "misses the whole point" of the work or is not capable of grasping the complexity and depth and basically the whole point of the series.

Well i disagree with that, and we, the Levi lovers on tumblr, are a living proof of that. We're here to fantasize, squeal and write self indulging fanfics but we're also capable of coming up with meta analysis and deep introspection about the profundity of the character and what drives his actions, choices and such. Because everyone knows a well-written character when they see one, be it men or women.

We can scream in high-pitched voices when we see Levi's abs on a new official art, AND we can appreciate his character's writing. We can write a particularly graphic work of fiction about him taking us in every way possible AND we can debate for hours about the complex connections of Levi to Kenny, Mikasa, Erwin, Hange, how his past shaped his present, what he fights for, why as a character he ignites in us this respect, admiration and affection. Women just show affection differently and with more expression, maybe. It's not always one or the other, it can be both, we can both use our brains to appreciate the story and our imagination to fuel our fantasies.

I'll add that Levi Ackerman, of all characters, isn't logically the hottest character or the character that a girl or woman would call "dreamy", in case men forgot : Levi is shorter than them all, not necessarily on the pretty side, make metaphorical representations about poop all the time, is brutal, stoic, and expressionless, a former thug, poor, and i could go on.

So why we love him to death ? His personality, charisma and overall persona ! What's not to respect about this kind of love ? We love the character for who he is and what he reflects.

Another thing i'd like to add is that it's pretty hypocritical from men to blame us for such a thing, since they also simp hard for some female characters in video games, movies, anime and such, and it's not always for any underlying reasons than their bodies, some do know how to appreciate female characters with who are well-written and who add to the story, but men also do what they blame women for, they just aren't as expressive as us and they don't necessarily go and write thousands words fanfics or hang in forums to say why or how much they love said character, they express it their own way.

Like in Star Wars, some men really do appreciate Princess Lea as a character and what she brings to the story, while at the same time obsessing over her in that little outfit she was wearing with Boba Fett, so why can't we do the same ?

The fangirls who ruin it (for everyone not just men) aren't necessarily the majority, and they are doing their own thing in their corner, but the fangirls who actually sit and watch the anime or read the manga with an appreciation for the intellectual and art work exist, and they have the right to go on their laptops and write a 5k fanfiction about their beloved.