Outside of the food jokes early on with Sasha, AoT is definitely not a comedy. Shit gets dark, and man it stays dark.
There's still occasional humorous dialogue. Even when they were in the miserable situation in Trost when they had to get the supplies from the room full of titans, there was still Reiner telling Connie to try shoving a sword up a titan's ass as their other weak point, and someone warning him those might be his last words ... which now that I think about it, is more sad than funny, but in the scene it's the kind of thing you laugh at knowing they might all be going to their deaths.
But there aren't cheesy one-liners and stupid shit. Some of the stuff that is funny is really only funny because everything around it is so dark, but it works.[DOUBLEPOST=1394765057,1394764806][/DOUBLEPOST]
Mikasa is being voiced by the same person who was Lan Fan in FMA:Brotherhood and Mizune in Soul Eater. Haven't found the clip of that yet.
If they do shove the corny one-liners in every chance they get it will ruin the show. The humor, and the tone used, in the original version is dark and more like a way to lighten up the situation so the characters wouldn't seem inhuman. The feeling I got from the clip yesterday was more like "YAY this is fun!!"
Exactly. The last time it was fun was when the squad was training, pre-Trost, and Connie, Sasha, the others were zipping around on the 3D maneuver gear fighting wooden titans as the final part of their assessment.
Levi, Hanji--they know better. Hanji has an eccentric approach, but she's not gleeful about killing titans. They got her all wrong. Levi's been traumatized from losing people and has shut down in a lot of ways. There's no way to make killing titans enjoyable to him.
Mikasa clip:
Fucking awful. The quavering voice doesn't even match the animation or facial expressions. There's an obvious dead look in her eyes--did they even show the images to the voice acting director?