Don't fall asleep while you're reading this in bed, you'll break your nose! But at least you'll be entertained while your nose is healing... Before the fall, and before the trials of "the Titan's son" Kyklo, a young smith by the name of Angel Aaltonen grappled with the giants as only a craftsman could...

First off, the characters. Literally all of them. I had a couple of favourites, (Sasha, Connie, Marco and Jean) but overall I understood where people were coming from and why they acted the way they did even when they didn’t have a POV. We also have the female Titan on a ramage. Our characters are trying to figure out what that is all about. While they were doing that, you could see them start to wonder if there were more people out there like Eren. Do more people have the ability to turn into Titans? Again, this sense of the unknown comes across so well. Then, we also have the big reveal about the wall. This makes our characters start to wonder what else their government and military leaders are keeping from them. After all, they are the ones putting their lives on the line. This bit of information is enough to sway the course of events. It makes them also reexamine everything that they thought they knew about the world. However, this didn’t last for too long because we are once again thrown into the face of action. Again, I am sure this will come up again. It’s too big of a reveal for it not to come up. The Colossal Titan, like all the Nine Titans, was brought into the world after the death of Ymir Fritz. In the 1,700 years following her death, the Colossal Titan was held in the possession of one or several of the warring Eldian houses subservient to the Founding Titan. After these seventeen centuries when Karl Fritz, the 145th King of the Fritz family, abandoned the conflicts of Eldia and relocated to Paradis Island, the Colossal Titan was taken by the nation of Marley during the Great Titan War. [11] Story follows a young boy and his best friends who inhabit a small enclosed area on earth. They have never seen the outside world, the Titans had appeared and wiped out almost all mankind. Not much is known about them, their only chance of survival was to remain inside the gates where they are safe; that is, until the largest Titan they've ever seen shows up and busts down the wall! From Vol 3 things definitely start tilting sideways. Eren is a titan..or can transform into one. Ok. So can others apparently too. This society is incredibly corrupt from top to bottom and it is astonishing the titans have not finished them off. There are...titans in the walls??This first bundle of volumes sets things up a little more like a standard story. Eren is our protag, Mikasa is a loyal friend/love interest, and a coterie of friends and rivals exist to push Eren and "make him be stronger" or whatever. Our threats are identified and seem fairly clear, all that's left is to see what Eren's personal growth looks like and who will get off'd in our hero's long march. I don’t really know how explain this point, but I enjoyed how real this story felt. Humanity isn’t perfect and Isayama doesn’t try to pretend like it is. The way that he wrote the story and the characters a certain way really helped show that. The Gantz fighters wage invisible war against a series of increasingly bizarre and deadly alien monstrosities, whose source and purpose are a frightening mystery. For those drawn in by the hypnotic spirals of Uzumaki, this is your moment. Start coloring every single one of the spirals yourself!

The world is very dark. I like how the dark undertone of the art shows us just how dark and dangerous this world is. While reading, I kept thinking about how the grey and scribbles showed us how much we don’t know. When the characters are out hunting Titans and not knowing where they are, the artwork allows you to see that. The blurred edges and lines give the same view that the characters are seeing. You are there with them. The darkness and the unknown give you this experience of being in the world with the characters. Plus, the characters’ facial expressions and actions add more. While I am still new to manga, I have not seen too many graphic novels in general display this kind of emotion on the characters. The author truly is showing you their fear and unity without words. Now, we do see this through the spoken parts as well. However, it is through the characters’ actions that we see most of it. No one is really safe. Yes, there's a set amount of characters who are there that probably won't die right away. BUT the risk of death, watching others getting killed, it's terrifying. Not to mention the action is both vicieral and brutal. Having Eren go head to head with these titans is amazing. But watching a titan vs a titan? Oh so good. Explore the macabre mind of Japan’s master of horror, Junji Ito, in this chilling adult coloring book. Necromancy, space action, and dark humor collide in this wildly creative new series from the creator of Dorohedoro!Incredibly inconsistent art - motion is often beautifully whirling and thrilling but figures just having a conversation look weirdly proportioned. A long nadir for AOT begins with these volumes. This is the point in the story where reveals are thrown at us without the grounding to properly contextualize them, either in their own right or as part of the author's slight of hand. So we can't even be properly fooled, if that makes sense, because alot of these plot reveals come so out of left field, so randomly, as to be awkward. After destroying the harbor, the Colossal Titan steps on all the ships to ensure that they have been completely destroyed. Armin then emerges from the Titan's nape and looks down at the carnage caused by the transformation, and flies up using his anti-personnel omni-directional mobility gear to a nearby Scout Regiment airship. [6]

The way that this universe was created and organized with all the different military corps and battle strategies was super interesting to read about, so I’m excited for more of that to come.After being put through years of brutal military training, Eren and his friends are prepared to lay their lives on the line to exterminate every last titan in the world and bring freedom to humanity once more. But Eren doesn’t yet realize that he isn’t prepared for the many horrors that lie beyond the walls he grew up in. There’s more than just titans out there that want him and his friends dead. Started this series because my wife has watched the show about three times now and the zeitgeist is at a fever pitch. I've written at length for singular volumes of other manga series, yet I feel like I don't really want to write about five books at once, and so I guess this will be terribly brief for a review of mine.

This series owns my soul and lives in my mind rent free and I would give my heart for these characters. It fills me with joy to see a manga artist improve as much as Mr. Isayama has because while I'll have to wince through the first few issues at least it will slowly change for the better and the story, characters, and action will always keep me pulled in. Reiener, Ymir, Christa, and others are trapped in this tower at night. Now, Titans are not supposed to be able to move at night. They camped there because they were supposed to be safe. This is not the case. The battle sequence that followed ranks right up there with some of the best fantasy battles out there. It’s intense, it’s dangerous, and you don’t know who is going to make it out in one piece. It gives you the fear and worries that you want to come along with a battle. You don’t know who is going to make it out. You don’t know if any of them are going to make it out. You don’t know what is going on. After all, what is happening does not fit in with what we and the characters know about the world.

Conclusion

I give this book five colossal titans out of five :D Sasha is the best character ever, especially because of this: In the year 845, the nation of Marley sent out Bertholdt, Reiner Braun, Annie Leonhart, and Marcel Galliard across the sea to Paradis Island as the start of the Paradis Island Operation. [3] Story [ ] The Fall of Shiganshina arc [ ] The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Kenta Maeda has a baseball glove designed after the Colossus Titan. [19]