Wasn't expecting a full jujitsu breakdown of Erin vs Reiner. Jon was in his bag this episode.

Commentating Erin and Reiner's fight like it's a UFC fight was genuinely really entertaining lol, great stuff

Best reaction Ive seen of Reiner vs. Eren just for the grappling breakdown

Thank you for the analysis. Apparently, Iseyama is a huge fan of MMA which is why these fight scenes try to be realistic. Thanks also for fixing those first few S2 videos so they can be seen in Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

This reaction is exactly what Isayama had in mind when making these fights

Nah the grappling breakdown between these two Titans was fantastic.

The extra jujitsu commentary was amazing and entertaining

Seeing you point out just how logical and accurate every move of this fight is has given me a new-found respect and appreciation for Isayama's attention to detail in this show.

This is probably the best reaction I’ve ever seen to this episode

This really is such a good reaction!! I love your analysis and commentary, and your pure excitement for the show to go into your interest!

You and the author Isayama share a passion and it's awesome to watch you enjoy it

Knowing your jiu-jitsu background, I KNEW since the first day of you reacting AOT you would love ep 2x7 👏

Didn't know anything about BJJ so the extra commentary is appreciated I didn't realise that the technique shown was accurate as well.

Seeing JD nerd out about MA is something i’m all here for, absolutely amazing stuff my guy

I'm from Brasil and i loved the fact that you are a black belt. I trained muay thai for a few years, but never jiu jitsu. After that i got a little more curious to learn jiu jitsu, after all i'm a small man, so grappling would come in handy against bigger treats

This reaction DEFINITELY needs as many views as possible. Easily the best reaction to it I've seen across any channel. I learned quite a bit from your "geeking out" too, so thanks! 😀

One of the few times I appreciate the pauses. I’ve never seen anyone actually break down these moves. When I watched this episode when it came out I was nerding out as well but not many people understood why. I tried to explain to my friends but they’re not into combat sports so they didn’t really care but you my friend are someone that gets it!

Lmfao this is awesome getting a breakdown of their fighting! Definitely one of a kind reaction! I never knew any of this before and am sure excited to learn! I love seeing your enthusiasm to seeing the moves !! Awesome video!

This video should go viral, prob the best reaction and breakdown to this episode period.

I want to make you happy! When you talk about how well the plot world is built, you haven't seen even twenty percent of what you have to learn and connect with each other. Each subsequent season will be better than the previous one and each time there will be new secrets and new discoveries that will take the plot to incredible levels! This show is incredible! I don't get tired of repeating it. Thanks for great reaction 🙏🔥

I've watched reactors that comment on the music, the visuals, the plot. Respectively so, but you're breakdown of the grapple techniques is absolutely fascinating, and a unique twist to the "Reacting Scene" (for a lack of better words). Also really interesting to know the faithfulness of the art when depicting the techniques is really there and care was taken with its portrayal.

I've never fully appreciated this episode until now.

Dude, I loved the combat breakdown!!! I'm so glad you decided to nerd out about your passion, it was wonderfully informative and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it going forward. Thank you for the lesson!

This was such a good reaction and breakdown. Best ive seen of this episode

Genuinely the most incredible reaction to this episode I’ve witnessed, you’re making me want to get into bjj after this🙏🙏

I have just stumbled across your content and by god am I loving it. As someone who has practiced Judo from a young age, it's great to see someone else appreciating the care and detail put into these fight scenes to not only make them entertaining, but accurate and relatable. I will definitely be binging your channel and coming back for future posts!

The voice acting is phenomenal, you literally feel the pain in Erens voice as he screams "you danm traitors"

14:00 You gotta understand, this is a moment for Hanji that's just pure heaven. A titan that can listen to her and respond with an answer. Even if it's just an affirmative nod and grunt

Hearing that this fight is anatomically correct, and broken down like this... Just adds more to my love of this show. And also, thank you @JD for doing so. Much appreciated. ^.^

hands down my favorite reaction of this episode from any reactor. I loved the grappling aspects of this ep so much when I saw it, super cool to hear you go in depth into it with your experience. Cheers boss, gained a sub

I know next to nothing about martial arts, so it was super interesting to hear your commentary on the fight!

I love your reaction episodes so much because of videos like this, I’m completely serious when I say I don’t think I’ve ever seen a reactor more engaged with or knowledgeable of the material they’re reacting to. I appreciate very much that you pause and try to take in and understand everything that’s happening, instead of blowing through every episode to push out mediocre content.

Nobody really commenting about this Jon but this is the main reason why the manga has a lot more details that anime didnt. The manga actually shown more of Annie and Eren's training life and where she taught him some of these crazy combat moves and eventually their very close relationship towards each other. in the anime Eren and Annie looks like distant friends but in the manga, they are so close that Mikasa actually one time suspected Annie has some feelings towards Eren and asking her to not get in the way. It is also the reason why Eren couldnt actually kill Annie in the end of season 1 because Eren sees Annie as his mentor, teacher and very close training friend! Im actually not scared saying Eren and Annie actually fell for each other for few moments in the manga!

I love when you talk about direction and the construction of scenes! That’s why I initially started following your reactions. I’m super duper enthralled by this show because it’s truly a masterpiece. It’s a story that is saying something important as becomes more and more clear with every episode, and it is truly art. I come from a more literary background so I understand the elements of storytelling, themes, motifs, character arcs, etc., and I love analyzing the show from that aspect, but I have far less understanding (close to zero) of how movement and cameras and shots can be used since I’m a book girl lol. So I love the insight into how all the film techniques are being used to build tension and add to the scenes! Please continue to add these tidbits of knowledge to future reactions :) I don’t know if this is something you reserve for patreon or something but I also wouldn’t mind 1-2 min after the reaction to give a summary of your impression. Please keep these coming, thanks for making them!

Watching this right after I left my BJJ class is perfect timing!

Love love love! this reaction seeing you nerd out to the martial arts and enjoy the scene in such detail.

Also noticed that only annie knew these techniques, and the military didnt . That makes sense , since the military wont graple titans , but annie would

Love your breakdown insight on the technical aspect of the episode! I’ve watched so many youtubers react to AOT but you are the first to explain jujitsu! Thank you!

Yes!! Please more commentary and post reaction discussion like this please. They’ve been pretty short.

As a fresh JiuJitsu white belt with less than 3 months experience under my belt, congrats on the black belt man, that makes you all the more cooler to me.

More of this please! Loved the detailed commentary to the entire episode. And it gave me even more appreciation for the show.

This scene changed the high bar for fight scenes in anime

I've NEVER seen an analysis of this episode on this level.

7:42 he punched Eren so hard back into a flashback.

Jon thank you for giving us the awesome insight on the fight this episode, i’ve seen dozens of reactions to this ep but this has to have been my favorite of them all 🗣️🔥

You should always commentate this much, it’s great

I've watched your channels for years, and you just keep improving with incredible content like this! Your insight into the mixed martial arts adds so much, and your history as a journalist shines through in reactions like this. Bravo, Jon.

Quite possibly the most informative reaction I’ve seen for AOT period. 😂

this is why I love rewatching attack on titan with reactors like you man, that jujitsu explanation was incredible and very interesting, I just suscribed to your channel because I know the rest of this show/anime its just my favorite

I LOVE how much you LOVE this show Jon. Keep killing it

jon really went full hange on us with the grappling analysis and im here for it

Loved the commentary and passion in the analysis!!

Jon hearing your insight into the fight was wonderful. I am loving watching you react to this incredible show, but I just want to say how much I appreciate your videos, both your music and tv reactions. You are the best reaction creator I’ve ever watched and it’s a pleasure watching your videos. Thank you.

Loving the longer discussions during the reaction

Best reaction I've seen for this episode, keep it up JD you're killing it!

Great reaction! Your insight really took it to another level. Might start doing some jiu jitsu after this😅

You have just shown me a new way to watch these fights again. you are hands down one of the best music and show reactors we will ever have in our life time JD!

not sure if any other reactor can add the analysis of the fight like you did, but i havent seen any do it. this was a great reaction, fantastic to see so much understanding and a breakdown like that

Incredible reaction, love your passion! You've got a new fan for sure

Three episodes in the same week, let's go 💪💪💪 Keep like this ✌✌✌ Prepare for you make crazy 😄😄😄

i absolutely LOVE this for you bro, so cool to see a BJJ master appreciate all this

Anime world building is really in different level indeed

This was an awesome reaction. Seeing you in your element and giving excited explanations to the moves made this all the more enjoyable. Keep doing what you're doing 🔥🔥🔥

Tell me. Tell me! Tell mee!!!! Tell me allll Jon!!! I love all this information from you Jon. Your fandom is at a all time high

Surprisingly, there are no people who understand both Attack on Titan and martial arts. So I'm happy. The actual title of this episode is "打・投・極".

I appreciated the knowledge Jon. Best reactor on the platform for sure

Love your reactions man✌️

This was so fun to watch with the commentary, improved my appreciation of the animation immensely

By far best reaction for this episode and believe me on this i have watched a lot of reactions

Jon absolutely loving your reaction and knowledge about the fighting. I know nothing about that so it was very cool to have even more flare added to AOT thank you!!!!!!

I didnt knew that u are a black belt in jujitsu but I was extremely affascinated on how u loved the scene and how u explained it ❤

amazing reaction man, love the energy!

wishing u all the best brother

Great commentary 👌🏾 👏🏽 👍🏽

This was sooo neat your expertise in martial arts and commentating along with the Eren and Reiner fight!!!

Knowing how much you love MMA fighting, I was waiting for you to get to this episode. I had a feeling you were gonna geek out about everything happening lol

I dont know shit about Martial Arts so I was excited to see your reaction to this. Loved the analysis!

really appreciate you explaining the fighting scenes cos I actually never paid attention this much on this scene in particular

Even more stuff to already amazing episodes

ive seen a couple reactors react to this show and i have to say this was the best one yet. the breakdown of the moves was great

Isayama is a big UFC fan so...yeah he definetly enjoyed drawing this lol

the author of this anime is an mma fan also if you didnt notice it yet the design of armored titan is based of from brock lesnar and eren's titan is also based on a japanese mma fighter i forgot the name though

Loving these AoT reactions, Jon. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts when you finally get caught up. Great show

Love you nerding out about Jujitsu in this

This episode ooozed passion and I loved every second of it!! Smiling and laughing out of sheer joy the whole time 🎉 love the series, excited for every ep to come

Definitely the top reaction to this episode that I've seen, as many others have said. Coming from someone that has seen upwards of 15 reactions to this show/episode. Well done

Absolutely loved this reaction and you nerding out😂😂

A little bit of world building in one piece dayum, it’s probably one of the best world building ever (manga)

This was an extremely cool thing to watch. I seem to remember that the creator based the design of Erens Titan form on an MMA fighter but I don’t remember who.

I really appreciate the talk about world building in this type of media.

Reiner was also confirmed to be designed to look like Brock Lesnar, Isayama loves MMA.

Amazing insight, I fucking love this ❤️❤️

As a huge fan of aot that has seem almost every aot reaction, this is one of the best reactions I’ve seen for this important moment in the series. Your point of view on the plot and the production is very satisfying for people like us watching reactions bc we really like the anime. Great job 👏

Loved the BJJ insight. I like anime reaction channels because I like seeing peoples perceptions of the genre get blown out of the water. AoT is a masterpiece of storytelling and perspective that transcends individual genres. I never get tired of people watching this episode and realising that they are watching a masterpiece.

keep doing this in the future with other fights!

Did you see that splitsecond scene where they showed Eren grabbing the thumb to properly get the armbar? Thats some high level stuff right there

Not sure if someone already said it but the creator is a huge MMA fan and modeled Reiner after Brock Lesnar and Eren after Yushin Okami (their Titan forms), hence the realism in the grappling

look carefully at all the openings and endings :)

The BGM when colossal titan was falling 🔥🔥

You can tell Isayama loves MMA whenever titans fight one another in CQC, lol