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[Bauglir]

No, they have those, too. I'm pretty sure it's specifically mentioned during the classroom scene, and you see them occasionally among the hordes.

[Sirus]

Eh? My impression was that all of the titans appeared male, which is why the Female Titan (note again the "the") received so much attention.
_{Well that and the fact that she murdered the hell out of tons of people...}

[Furtuka]

And here it is!

[Leafsnail]

The Female Titan got a lot of attention because she

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- could run faster than a horse
- seemed to be capable of carrying out complex plans and co-ordinating other titans
- had incredibly fast reaction times that rendered her nigh-invulnerable
- was suspected to be some kind of weird undercover agent
- clearly had a lot of intel value if captured
- had no skin, like the other aberrant titans

The generic female titans are a bit more androgynous but they are there.

[Zangi]

The Female Titan got a lot of attention because she

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- could run faster than a horse
- seemed to be capable of carrying out complex plans and co-ordinating other titans
- had incredibly fast reaction times that rendered her nigh-invulnerable
- was suspected to be some kind of weird undercover agent
- clearly had a lot of intel value if captured
- had no skin, like the other aberrant titans

The generic female titans are a bit more androgynous but they are there.

The Female Titan has a feminine physique. 
As for the female fodder type being simply androgynous in looks, yea, I can go along with that.

[Flying Dice]

It's not really that surprising, given that (IIRC) the only gender-specific feature we see on the normals are the titans with thick beards.

[Leafsnail]

The Female Titan got a lot of attention because she

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- could run faster than a horse
- seemed to be capable of carrying out complex plans and co-ordinating other titans
- had incredibly fast reaction times that rendered her nigh-invulnerable
- was suspected to be some kind of weird undercover agent
- clearly had a lot of intel value if captured
- had no skin, like the other aberrant titans

The generic female titans are a bit more androgynous but they are there.

The Female Titan has a feminine physique. 
As for the female fodder type being simply androgynous in looks, yea, I can go along with that.

I think the same applies for the other abberants, they look a lot more toned and masculine than the fairly podgy grunts.

[Reelya]

I really am lovin' on some Symphogear. There's nothing much that fun coming out in this season so far. Symphogear 3 is greenlit, though no dates yet.

This scene (youtube) just about sums it up

Chris is the best antagonist, and here's a list of some of her "special attacks". See if you can spot the theme ...

Billion Maiden
Mega Deth Party
Nirvana Gedon
Giga Zeppelin
Red Hot Blaze
Queen's Inferno

[Hawkfrost]

Eh? My impression was that all of the titans appeared male, which is why the Female Titan (note again the "the") received so much attention.
_{Well that and the fact that she murdered the hell out of tons of people...}

In the manga they mention that there is about a 5% rate of female titans, so they are a bit of a rarity regardless. They call the Female Type Titan that because, well, I guess she's the only significant female abnormal yet seen.

[Reelya]

To tell the truth, I didn't really like the way the plot unfolded in SnK. "Human tenacity vs. Inhuman Threat" hooked me, then it turned into basically a superpower show. That disappointed me, I feel the premise would have been a lot stronger without the quasi-magical stuff.

Contrast that to Shinsekai Yori, a show I liked a whole lot better: both that and SnK have a post-apocalyptic setting with quasi-magical powers,  but in Shinsekai Yori the powers are integral to the plot: remove the powers and every other main plot point no longer makes sense.

I didn't feel like the SnK plot of humans vs giants needed the powers as a main plot point. It felt like the writer didn't know where to go with the core concept so the powers concept is tacked on top of the "land of the giants" concept.

[Vector]

To tell the truth, I didn't really like the way the plot unfolded in SnK. "Human tenacity vs. Inhuman Threat" hooked me, then it turned into basically a superpower show. That disappointed me, I feel the premise would have been a lot stronger without the quasi-magical stuff.

This.

Dragonball was great at being Dragonball.  We don't also need Eren Jaeger to go Super Saiyan and solve all of his problems.

[Sirus]

Have you read the manga, by any chance? Being able to go Super Saiyan actually seems to cause more problems than it solves, when it works at all.

[Vector]

I have, though not for a few months.

If they're doing a full deconstruction then I guess that's pretty cool, but I'm kind of tired of deconstructions without attached reconstructions at this point.  So, I'm going to keep reading for sure... just saying that I really liked the "squad" angle of it, without the power level race situation attached.

[Sirus]

Oh, I agree. I'm just saying its not like Eren can super-charge at will and effortlessly slaughter Titans. He still ends up relying on the other characters frequently and quite a few of them are better than he is in normal form.

[Bauglir]

This seems relevant. I posted it before the series was quite over, IIRC, but it's still mostly true (although I've cut a piece that I've been convinced is debatable). A little rambly, but oh well.

Spoiler: Pretty Spoilery (click to show/hide)

Undermining of expectations, basically. When I started, I thought I was getting into a Humanity, Fuck Yeah sort of story. For lack of a better word, there's an aesthetic to humans fighting against something so much larger than themselves, and with the Titan-shifting thing becoming so integral to the plot, it's looking like that's going to fall by the wayside in favor of ever-more powerful supermonsters. I had kind of expected that whatever Eren's dad did was going to result in super-soldieriness - Titan-style regeneration, sure. Maybe some super strength or enhanced reflexes. That's actually what I thought was going on with those sequences where time slows down, like when he uses Annie's leg-kicking move against Jean, or when child Mikasa stabbed that dude or present-Mikasa dodged that Titan's attack when she thought Eren was dead during the battle of Trost. I mention that because I had also kind of thought that Mikasa had a similar deal going, with different strengths, a significantly cooler head, and more self-control and experience, which would hopefully allow her to remain a major character without getting overshadowed by Eren in this hypothetical.*

There's that, and this Titan-shifting thing and, in particular, the way the Annie-Titan keeps demonstrating new abilities apparently pulled out of her metaphorical ass whenever it's most convenient for foiling the protagonists. Increasing power as the series progresses isn't a problem, in itself. I mean, I liked Gurren Lagann, and you don't get power ramp much more blatant than that. It's just that when it's done casually as a way of negating any progress that's happened so far, it starts to grate. We don't really need so many episodes demonstrating Grave New Threats in this. The Attack on Trost arc did a fine job of providing motivation, and a Titan with human-level intelligence (doesn't have to actually be a human, even) is a perfectly adequate way of escalating without overdoing it. There was already the implication of it with the wall-breakers, so it'd be a neat way of making that reveal. It just feels like all that's been accomplished is getting a bunch of vaguely interesting people killed.

*I'd gotten on a bit of a tangent on this point, but I will say that one thing I like about the way things have turned out is that Mikasa's skill and strength appear to be entirely due to her own willpower and inherent badassitude, not something she got as a prototype for whatever Eren's dad was working on (which I'd suspected since it seemed implied that he'd seen her before the kidnapping-murder visit). It's a nice silver lining that she's responsible for her own awesomeness, and she's going to retain a hopefully unique place in the story.

All that said, it's a fantastic series and I haven't been gripped by anything quite as strongly in a very, very long time.

I still need to read the manga.