I found the main character brash, whiny, and annoying, and the fact that he's prone to shouting and going nuts didn't endear him to me at all. The other characters were practically faceless/nameless to me and completely forgettable, except for Mikasa (thanks, FREEBIRD.) She's a badass and should be the real main character, and I suspect this will be the case with the way things end up, and I'm completely ok with that. There was no moment when something wasn't happening and when I was not thoroughly entertained and with my nerves shot, I mean, it's barely the beginning and there are already some nice plot twists. 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.

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Formulaic? Crude? Amateurish? Appalling? Yes, definitely, all of the above. Make no mistake, this series falls squarely into the trash category. Not tongue-in-cheek-I-am-actually-so-above-this pseudo trash, but just plain trash. I mean, this guy tries hard but simply isn't the most gifted of artists. And yet - somehow - he has been able to capture the imagination of millions around the world with this story centered around an eerie mystery: Who are those "titans" that have nearly wiped out humanity? Where do they come from? What do they want? Apart from eating human beings, that is. Our hero is the perpetually constipated Some Guy who wants to join the ineffectual Something Corps who go out and get eaten by the Titans sooner rather than live as well as they can inside the large walls before getting eaten later. To combat the Titans, the humans have developed grappling hooks and spears that don’t work - this is set in the future! Epps, De'Angelo (December 30, 2019). "10 Best New Manga Comic Books Of The Decade". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022 . Retrieved March 27, 2022. Ressler, Karen (December 30, 2014). "Spoof on Titan 4-Panel Manga Ends". Anime News Network . Retrieved April 1, 2015. 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.

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It´s one of the most graphic and dark mangas I´ve read so far, Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul, and a little bit of Full Metal Alchemist are dark fantasy too, but this one is especially disturbing because of the amazing quality of the art. So maybe not for everyone, but for special people like me, who are into darkness and invite gore, torture, and human suffering in their already struggling souls to feed them with the screams of the dying, a great entertainment. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 3, 2018). "Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series - October 2018". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on June 29, 2019 . Retrieved May 31, 2022. Zeke, the Beast Titan, rescues Reiner and flees, while the few survivors of the Survey Corps clash between saving Erwin or Armin, who are both on the brink of death. Levi, who has the authority to use the single dose of Titan serum given to him by Kenny, initially wishes to save Erwin but ultimately chooses Armin so that Erwin can rest in peace. Armin transforms into a Titan and eats Bertolt, in the process recovering his human form and inheriting the power of the Colossus Titan, while Erwin passes away. With Shiganshina secured, Eren and the others recover his father's diaries which reveal that mankind beyond the walls has not been wiped out by Titans as the government had led them to believe, but is thriving instead. Grisha's writing explains that all those within the walls are of a race known as Eldians, of whom most are the 'Subjects of Ymir' capable of transforming into Titans, and are oppressed outside the walls by a nation called Marley in retribution for having once allegedly dominated the world using the Titans. Grisha had lived in an Eldian ghetto in Marley; he married Dina Fritz, a woman secretly descended from the same Eldian royalty as the royal family within the walls. Together they tried to stage a rebellion against Marley, but they and their companions were betrayed by Grisha and Dina's son, Zeke, whom Grisha had attempted to use as a double agent by placing him in the Marleyan "Warrior" program of Eldian Titans.

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in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013 . Retrieved November 11, 2013. We don't have to go out-side the walls for our whole life. We can eat, sleep and survive just fine here... but isn't that like being a caged animal?" It also introduces some very interesting philosophical ideas that I love and made me stop and think for a moment, which I love, trying to figure out my own views on the matter.Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. September 9, 2009. Archived from the original on February 24, 2020 . Retrieved February 24, 2020.