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14thcommander) wrote2020-07-29 01:02 am
14thcommander) wrote2020-07-29 01:02 am
aot reread with chapter notes;
Ch1 - year 845. Characters intro. Walls are 50 meters. Confirmation of characters who question what's outside the walls called heretics. "Royal government policy says that even having an interest in going to the outside world is taboo." Example of swirly nonEarth writing.
Ch2 - Humanity supposedly eradicated 107 years ago. 5 years since the collapse of the wall (year 850), and EMA graduate from their military training and will soon choose their branch. "Even the biggest titans are less than 15 meters tall." Carla Jaeger's death scene is this chapter. First sighting of Annie. Info page on the reason for the hero towns.
Ch3 - the 104 disband with 350 graduates. Eren dishes out a sick burn to Jean ("Isn't the interior of your brain soft enough for you?"). Four years ago, 20% of humanity was sacrificed outside the walls. In spite of displaying contempt for Jean's cowardice as a reason for joining the MP, Eren encourages Mikasa to join the MP and Armin to become a technician, in accordance with his strengths. Guard post at walltop pictured. Eren displays quick thinking and combat chops when the colossal appears. Some great shots of the colossal. Info page on 3DMG.
Ch4 - 3DMG info page. Eren is quick-thinking here. Scouts were outside the wall on an expedition when the colossal attacked this time. Eren gives Mikasa a swift kick in the butt. Titan info is dished out - history, characteristics, regenerative ability. The squad dies and Eren gets eaten this chapter :{
Ch5 - First significant appearance of Ymir and Historia. There's that scene with the girl giving cpr to the upper half of a corpse. Great Mikasa moment. Mikasa backstory begins. Info page on the walls.
Ch6 - Mikasa backstory. Eren and Mikasa kill 3 adults between them. She breaks the fuckin floorboard lol. Artillery info pages.
Ch7 - that 1 scene where the soldier kills himself rather than be eaten. Shifter trio foreshadowing. "Were we taught to let one of our own fight alone?!" Great Mikasa moments. First appearance of titan Eren.
Ch8 - Cadets launch the attack on headquarters to refuel, Eren rampages around, good Jean moments. Titan info page.
Ch9 - Cadets finish the attack on hq to refuel. Eren pops out of the titan.
Ch9.5 - Great opening spread. Summary of the situation to date. Hange appears, teasing Levi - 1 page. Current status of the scouts explained.
Ch10 - Really disturbing sequence of Eren in the titan stomach. EMA almost get executed by their fellow humans but Eren partially transforms.
Ch11 - EMA almost get executed. Pixis arrives and settles the situation for the moment.
Ch12 - the plan to reclaim Trost is established, and at the end Eren starts to go batshit on Mikasa.
Ch13 - Eren is disoriented within his titan form. Mikasa goes to the face and tries to talk to him, Armin goes to the nape.
Ch14 - There's that scene with the squad running on the ground to draw off titans. Eren plugs the wall successfully. Levi appears.
Ch15 - Year 847. Flashback to beginning training. EMA are working the farms, and started training when they were 12. Eren and Jean meet, Ymir, Sasha and Historia meet, potato girl scene, first try on the 3DMG for trainees.
ch16 - Eren struggles more with training. He bashes his head on the ground in this chapter (it's adorable). Mikasa eats bread in front of Sasha. Bert and Reiner get backstory (important for later). Eren successfully stands in the gear. Training info page. Rlly cute chapter.
ch17 - Lots of Annie in this chapter; she explains her philosophy on soldiering to Eren and asks him pointed questions about the world. She installs herself as his teacher, as well. Also, an ultrahard steel info page. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch18 - Flashback to training, overview of 104's strengths/weaknesses. Then return to the present for cleanup in Trost. Jean has a flashback and decides to join the scouts. Eren wakes up from his coma and Levi and Erwin take responsibility for him.
ch18.5 - Ilse's notebook! Hange appears, 1 page.
ch19 - Eren stands in front of the military tribunal. Levi kicks the shit out of him as a demonstration of Eren's control. Hange appears! She releases Eren from his cell before the tribunal and tends to him a little at the end. ⭐⭐⭐ Also Pastor Nick appears lol
ch20 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five stars for big Hange content! She talks about Sawney and Bean, explains her attitude about titans to Eren, and spends all night telling him about her experiments. This is the first big character establishing moment we get for her. Sawney and Bean are dead at the end of the chapter 8(
ch21 - Inspection to find who killed Sawney and Bean. A good Annie moment where she discusses which branch to join. Erwin gives a speech. Our starring members of 104 join the scouts. Images of Hange by Erwin's side! The recruits ride outside the wall for the first time! Info page on horses. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐
ch22 - Great exposition on scout techniques actually (plains takedown! Very cool). The female titan makes her first appearance. We learn that she's wiped out some of the formation in a bleak scene at the end of the chapter. There's also that gag story with Hange being saved by a titan slkdgjskdg Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch23 - FABULOUS chapter. Armin, Jean, and Reiner engage Annie's female titan. There's that scene where she crouches over Armin and lifts his hood. Chilling!!!! Oh, and a goofy yeast info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch24 - Fantastic, chapter, one of the best of the whole series I think, with some of the most elegantly drawn fights and creative, beautiful carnage. Annie stomps, kicks, throws and squishes humans like they're bugs, and the poor, brave, incredibly doomed scouts just keep coming at her, with no idea what they're facing. This chapter is the home of that spinning-to-death scene. Scouts enter the forest at the end, so it's got good reference pages for the forest of giant trees (titan forest). Also includes a forest info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch25 - The scouts enter the woods. Eren agonizes watching his comrades die behind him, with Squad Levi riding on, doing nothing. Good meditation from Levi on the soldier's choice of whether or not to obey. Also beginning of a flashback to Hange beginning experiments on Eren, with an iconic line: "If there's something we don't know... we should find out. It's absolutely worth putting our lives on the line." Eren gets put down a well, bites his hands several times, but cannot transform. Then he gets a titan arm when he leans down to pick up a teaspoon. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch26 - Hange bursts into the crowd of panicking soldiers, touching Eren's transformed arm and defusing the tension at the same time. She sees the transformed arm holding a teaspoon. Then, Hange speculates on what this indicates about why Eren transforms when he does, as well as what this indicates for what titans were made for / where they come from... then we return to the race through the woods. Eren commits to trusting his comrades... and the moment of truth comes when the female titan is captured with restraint devices. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch27 - The site has a missing page. Anyway, it's a standoff in the woods as the scouts try to pry Annie out of her titan body, til Annie gets so scared she screams for the pure titans to come and devour her so she can struggle free! A nice Hange moment with her restraining Annie, and a restraint weapon info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐
ch28 - the scouts begin to head home. The female titan reappears, having sacrificed her first body to escape the scouts' hold. Squad Levi gives up their lives. Eren transforms into a titan, prepared to take the female titan on. There's also some great moments of conversation between Erwin and Hange, discussing one of her hypotheses and Erwin going a little further with it. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch29 - Eren and Annie have a short but incredibly brutal fight in their titan forms (Eren punches the ground so hard his arm literally breaks). Annie is afraid of him, but she wins, and bites Eren out of the nape to carry him away; Mikasa sees. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch30 - After a very eerie opening scene where Levi zooms through the trees, finding his dead squadmates one by one, he joins Mikasa in fighting to get Eren back from Annie. With their powers combined, they win! The scouts return to the walls, but the political situation is grim with all the losses they've sustained on this expedition, and how little they've learned... Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch31 - Annie sits up, bleary-eyed, in her bedroom. This chapter is all about her and shows her interactions with fellow MP Marlowe and also lots of stuff with Armin. It might be the best Annie chapter we get, as she shares her thoughts to Marlowe in a sort of manifesto and Armin manipulates (perhaps?) her with his "good person" speech. At the end, EMA accuse her of being the female titan (well, Eren is desperate to be wrong), and Annie prepares to transform. Military police info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch32 - Annie uses her barbed ring and transforms into a titan as scouts restrain her. EMA run underground (great page showing what happens to a human body when the blast of titan shifting takes place nearby). They debate what to do there, we get a really great flashback wherein Eren shows protectiveness/defensiveness towards Annie, and Eren simply cannot transform to battle Annie until Armin forces the issue by risking both his and Mikasa's life at the same time, forcing Eren's hand. EreAnnie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch33 - That scene with the wall cultists in the church having a sermon and then Annie falls through the roof and crushes them takes place. Pastor Nick is introduced here! Eren and Annie fight through the town. This chapter is one of those that makes the ship manifesto, because in spite of how hateful he was before, here as they battle Eren thinks about Annie and wonders what she's fighting for. He continues to wonder about her and see her as a person even though they're on opposite sides, and especially recalls her love of her hand to hand skills. At the end Annie is captured while she tries to scale the walls in her titan form, and some of the wall crumbles away, revealing a titan face inside. Annie gets an important flashback with her father. Hange has some brief appearances, commenting on the battle, keeping up with Annie and Eren as they fight, and appearing as the scouts carve Annie out of the nape of her titan form. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐
ch34 - FABULOUS Hange chapter, beginning with Hange stopping her soldier as he hammers futilely away at the crystal encasing Annie, BUILDING UP to Hange's confrontation with Pastor Nick where she almost drops him off the wall because Hange sees the titans in the walls and Nick's hiding valuable information, ENDING with her choosing to spare Nick's life. Then Erwin has to defend the scouts because they unilaterally executed the plan to capture Annie, THEN we move to where other scouts and the trainees are hanging out outside Wall Sina, and we get the false Wall Rose breach caused by Zeke transforming that town into titans. Annie content: ⭐ (we... see her and I'll allow it) Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (also, Mike and Nanaba appear, the trainees are seen playing chess, and bears are confirmed not extinct in the walls!)
ch35 - the recruits disperse to warn the surrounding area of the breach. Mike dies. Annie content: none (gonna discontinue this for now bc she's in the fucking crystal; I'll put her back in if she's mentioned) Hange content: none
ch36 - It's that chapter where SASHA FIGHTS A TITAN ON FOOT. It's badass tbh, a slow motion high tension fight. Good shit. Hange content: none
ch37 - Good Hange scenes at a couple points throughout! We open with Hange looking at a fragment of titan crystal from Annie, and she discusses Eren repairing the wall by hardening. We also have a mid-chapter Hange scene where she says she doesn't know the names of all of 104 yet, and the name "Ymir" is dropped and she looks startled. Attentive readers will realize this is from Ilse Langer's notebook: Hange has heard the name Ymir before and knows there's something special about it! She also has another small outburst at Nick... in the meantime, 104+scouts continues warning towns and looking for the wall breach. Connie finds his titan-transformed mom in his house... Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch38 - Connie's titan mom says welcome back. The scouts keep riding the wall, and eventually meet, not having found a breach. It's getting dark, so they take shelter in Castle Utgard, and are resting when the titans from Connie's town, who killed Mike, attack... this chapter has really good Ymir moments and one page of Hange saying they'll head to Utgard. Oh, and the beast appears again. AND a Mikasa idol joke page. Hange content: ⭐
ch39 - the trainees fight bravely to defend the interior of Utgard from the titans that have entered. The officers fight outside. Great scenes of the cadets cooperating, as well as senior scouts supporting each other. Unforch, the beast titan fucks up their line by bombarding them with horses and rocks from on top of the wall. Hange content: none
ch40 - Nanaba and Gelgar have their death scenes and it's really heartwrenching actually. Nanaba's last pages are especially rough. 104 confers on top of the tower, there's a flashback to winter survival training with Ymir and Historia, and really good Ymir/Historia ship material. Ymir reveals herself as a titan shifter and goes to fight for them. Hange content: none very solid chapter though
ch41 - Ymir fights the titans! She fights so hard, she collapses the tower. 104 escapes clinging to her hair/neck. Hange (rapping out orders) and reinforcements arrive in the last few pages just in time to save Ymir (who is struggling against multiple larger titans) and the rest. Historia reveals her true name. Hange content: ⭐
ch42 - 104+Hange+reinforcements withdraw to the top of the wall (nice shots of how they work with hoists and the 3DMG to do this. Historia pleads with Hange for Ymir's life, and Hange discusses the matter some, saying that even if Ymir is friendly and simple, the political situation might not be merciful regardless. Then we get confirmation that there isn't a hole in the wall. Hange says that in this case the group should return to Trost and stand by. Then Bert and Reiner have something important to tell Eren... we get a flashback to Hange discussing Annie's background check with EMA, and forming a plan just in case Bert and Reiner are titan shifters... and THEN we get the colossal and armored titan reveals: Bert and Reiner are indeed titan shifters, hated enemies of humanity. They want to take Eren away with them. Mikasa attacks on the spot, and Bert and Reiner shift into their titan forms. Eren takes on his titan shape to join in the battle. The fight is on! Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, a really nice chapter for her actually, showing leadership skill and planning with Moblit and EMA
ch43 - good angst from Mikasa at the beginning about her failure to kill Bert and Ernie. Hange takes command of the scouts to attack the colossal titan, and runs the fight from there! She decides when to attack and when to stand back and wait for the colossal to run out of juice, tells the scouts how to divide forces, and then leaps down to join the battle against the armored titan. Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, nice moments of courage and leadership from her!
ch44 - THIS CHAPTER IS REALLY FEEDING ME BECAUSE WE GET AN ANNIE FLASHBACK WITH MORE OF HER PUSHING HAND TO HAND TRAINING ON EREN LOL. She plays the weak maiden and ribs Eren more about manhandling her. I love it. It is an excellent flashback. Hange is also heavily present in the chapter, and she is the one who gets to realize that the armored titan will have weak points where his subdermal plates aren't solid! An important key to getting the advantage on Reiner at all! This is the moment where we get shoulder Hange for the first time on Eren too :3 and Eren himself is in good form in this chapter, agonizing over having to fight his friends again and strategizing against Reiner. Alas, on the last page, Bert drops down to do a brutal full body press on Eren in his colossal titan form, so the fight goes to them! Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, nice scenes for both of them in this chapter
ch45 - Erwin and Pixis have a strategy chat, and they both hear that Reiner, Bert, and Ymir were revealed as titans. Then we flash back to the wall. Hange et al got severely injured when Bert hit the ground and his titan body rapidly dissipated - that's why she's got burns and so on. Hannes has an encouraging talk with Mikasa and Armin. Reinforcements arrive, including Erwin and MP troops. Hange shares what she's been thinking about while waiting for reinforcements: Reiner and Bert will probably head to a local titan forest so they can shelter in the trees, recuperate, and wait til nightfall to move on. The last page shows Eren waking up in the titan forest (Hange predicted correctly!) with Ymir, Bert, and Reiner. Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch46 - Ymir, Reiner, Bert, and Eren have a very fraught chat in the titan forest. It's a pretty great one actually, full of foreshadowing; Ymir gets to be very smart and analytical, Eren gets to be terrifyingly angry, Bert is just kind of empty and sad, and we get a good look at how fractured and confused Reiner's psyche is. Hange content: none
ch47 - The curtains rise with Ymir, Bert, Reiner and Eren in the forest. They see scout flares in the distance and start leaving early (before sunset) - Eren has to be violently restrained, and that disturbing image of him biting his arm stumps comes from this chapter. We learn that Ymir roamed as a titan for ~60 years. Ymir starts to turn on Bert and Reiner while they move through the trees, realizing she'll never see Historia again. She assumes her titan form and goes back to meet the scouts (there's a cute scene with her and Connie here where he gets frustrated and fearlessly stomps on her titan's head). Ymir grabs Historia in her mouth and rushes off with her, rejoining Reiner, Eren, and Bert. Reiner assumes his armored titan form and Bert and Eren as humans and Ymir as a titan sit on his shoulders and begin to move away from the woods. The scouts pursue, a fight imminent. Hange content: none
ch48 -
Ch2 - Humanity supposedly eradicated 107 years ago. 5 years since the collapse of the wall (year 850), and EMA graduate from their military training and will soon choose their branch. "Even the biggest titans are less than 15 meters tall." Carla Jaeger's death scene is this chapter. First sighting of Annie. Info page on the reason for the hero towns.
Ch3 - the 104 disband with 350 graduates. Eren dishes out a sick burn to Jean ("Isn't the interior of your brain soft enough for you?"). Four years ago, 20% of humanity was sacrificed outside the walls. In spite of displaying contempt for Jean's cowardice as a reason for joining the MP, Eren encourages Mikasa to join the MP and Armin to become a technician, in accordance with his strengths. Guard post at walltop pictured. Eren displays quick thinking and combat chops when the colossal appears. Some great shots of the colossal. Info page on 3DMG.
Ch4 - 3DMG info page. Eren is quick-thinking here. Scouts were outside the wall on an expedition when the colossal attacked this time. Eren gives Mikasa a swift kick in the butt. Titan info is dished out - history, characteristics, regenerative ability. The squad dies and Eren gets eaten this chapter :{
Ch5 - First significant appearance of Ymir and Historia. There's that scene with the girl giving cpr to the upper half of a corpse. Great Mikasa moment. Mikasa backstory begins. Info page on the walls.
Ch6 - Mikasa backstory. Eren and Mikasa kill 3 adults between them. She breaks the fuckin floorboard lol. Artillery info pages.
Ch7 - that 1 scene where the soldier kills himself rather than be eaten. Shifter trio foreshadowing. "Were we taught to let one of our own fight alone?!" Great Mikasa moments. First appearance of titan Eren.
Ch8 - Cadets launch the attack on headquarters to refuel, Eren rampages around, good Jean moments. Titan info page.
Ch9 - Cadets finish the attack on hq to refuel. Eren pops out of the titan.
Ch9.5 - Great opening spread. Summary of the situation to date. Hange appears, teasing Levi - 1 page. Current status of the scouts explained.
Ch10 - Really disturbing sequence of Eren in the titan stomach. EMA almost get executed by their fellow humans but Eren partially transforms.
Ch11 - EMA almost get executed. Pixis arrives and settles the situation for the moment.
Ch12 - the plan to reclaim Trost is established, and at the end Eren starts to go batshit on Mikasa.
Ch13 - Eren is disoriented within his titan form. Mikasa goes to the face and tries to talk to him, Armin goes to the nape.
Ch14 - There's that scene with the squad running on the ground to draw off titans. Eren plugs the wall successfully. Levi appears.
Ch15 - Year 847. Flashback to beginning training. EMA are working the farms, and started training when they were 12. Eren and Jean meet, Ymir, Sasha and Historia meet, potato girl scene, first try on the 3DMG for trainees.
ch16 - Eren struggles more with training. He bashes his head on the ground in this chapter (it's adorable). Mikasa eats bread in front of Sasha. Bert and Reiner get backstory (important for later). Eren successfully stands in the gear. Training info page. Rlly cute chapter.
ch17 - Lots of Annie in this chapter; she explains her philosophy on soldiering to Eren and asks him pointed questions about the world. She installs herself as his teacher, as well. Also, an ultrahard steel info page. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch18 - Flashback to training, overview of 104's strengths/weaknesses. Then return to the present for cleanup in Trost. Jean has a flashback and decides to join the scouts. Eren wakes up from his coma and Levi and Erwin take responsibility for him.
ch18.5 - Ilse's notebook! Hange appears, 1 page.
ch19 - Eren stands in front of the military tribunal. Levi kicks the shit out of him as a demonstration of Eren's control. Hange appears! She releases Eren from his cell before the tribunal and tends to him a little at the end. ⭐⭐⭐ Also Pastor Nick appears lol
ch20 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five stars for big Hange content! She talks about Sawney and Bean, explains her attitude about titans to Eren, and spends all night telling him about her experiments. This is the first big character establishing moment we get for her. Sawney and Bean are dead at the end of the chapter 8(
ch21 - Inspection to find who killed Sawney and Bean. A good Annie moment where she discusses which branch to join. Erwin gives a speech. Our starring members of 104 join the scouts. Images of Hange by Erwin's side! The recruits ride outside the wall for the first time! Info page on horses. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐
ch22 - Great exposition on scout techniques actually (plains takedown! Very cool). The female titan makes her first appearance. We learn that she's wiped out some of the formation in a bleak scene at the end of the chapter. There's also that gag story with Hange being saved by a titan slkdgjskdg Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch23 - FABULOUS chapter. Armin, Jean, and Reiner engage Annie's female titan. There's that scene where she crouches over Armin and lifts his hood. Chilling!!!! Oh, and a goofy yeast info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch24 - Fantastic, chapter, one of the best of the whole series I think, with some of the most elegantly drawn fights and creative, beautiful carnage. Annie stomps, kicks, throws and squishes humans like they're bugs, and the poor, brave, incredibly doomed scouts just keep coming at her, with no idea what they're facing. This chapter is the home of that spinning-to-death scene. Scouts enter the forest at the end, so it's got good reference pages for the forest of giant trees (titan forest). Also includes a forest info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch25 - The scouts enter the woods. Eren agonizes watching his comrades die behind him, with Squad Levi riding on, doing nothing. Good meditation from Levi on the soldier's choice of whether or not to obey. Also beginning of a flashback to Hange beginning experiments on Eren, with an iconic line: "If there's something we don't know... we should find out. It's absolutely worth putting our lives on the line." Eren gets put down a well, bites his hands several times, but cannot transform. Then he gets a titan arm when he leans down to pick up a teaspoon. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch26 - Hange bursts into the crowd of panicking soldiers, touching Eren's transformed arm and defusing the tension at the same time. She sees the transformed arm holding a teaspoon. Then, Hange speculates on what this indicates about why Eren transforms when he does, as well as what this indicates for what titans were made for / where they come from... then we return to the race through the woods. Eren commits to trusting his comrades... and the moment of truth comes when the female titan is captured with restraint devices. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch27 - The site has a missing page. Anyway, it's a standoff in the woods as the scouts try to pry Annie out of her titan body, til Annie gets so scared she screams for the pure titans to come and devour her so she can struggle free! A nice Hange moment with her restraining Annie, and a restraint weapon info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐
ch28 - the scouts begin to head home. The female titan reappears, having sacrificed her first body to escape the scouts' hold. Squad Levi gives up their lives. Eren transforms into a titan, prepared to take the female titan on. There's also some great moments of conversation between Erwin and Hange, discussing one of her hypotheses and Erwin going a little further with it. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch29 - Eren and Annie have a short but incredibly brutal fight in their titan forms (Eren punches the ground so hard his arm literally breaks). Annie is afraid of him, but she wins, and bites Eren out of the nape to carry him away; Mikasa sees. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch30 - After a very eerie opening scene where Levi zooms through the trees, finding his dead squadmates one by one, he joins Mikasa in fighting to get Eren back from Annie. With their powers combined, they win! The scouts return to the walls, but the political situation is grim with all the losses they've sustained on this expedition, and how little they've learned... Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch31 - Annie sits up, bleary-eyed, in her bedroom. This chapter is all about her and shows her interactions with fellow MP Marlowe and also lots of stuff with Armin. It might be the best Annie chapter we get, as she shares her thoughts to Marlowe in a sort of manifesto and Armin manipulates (perhaps?) her with his "good person" speech. At the end, EMA accuse her of being the female titan (well, Eren is desperate to be wrong), and Annie prepares to transform. Military police info page. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch32 - Annie uses her barbed ring and transforms into a titan as scouts restrain her. EMA run underground (great page showing what happens to a human body when the blast of titan shifting takes place nearby). They debate what to do there, we get a really great flashback wherein Eren shows protectiveness/defensiveness towards Annie, and Eren simply cannot transform to battle Annie until Armin forces the issue by risking both his and Mikasa's life at the same time, forcing Eren's hand. EreAnnie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: none
ch33 - That scene with the wall cultists in the church having a sermon and then Annie falls through the roof and crushes them takes place. Pastor Nick is introduced here! Eren and Annie fight through the town. This chapter is one of those that makes the ship manifesto, because in spite of how hateful he was before, here as they battle Eren thinks about Annie and wonders what she's fighting for. He continues to wonder about her and see her as a person even though they're on opposite sides, and especially recalls her love of her hand to hand skills. At the end Annie is captured while she tries to scale the walls in her titan form, and some of the wall crumbles away, revealing a titan face inside. Annie gets an important flashback with her father. Hange has some brief appearances, commenting on the battle, keeping up with Annie and Eren as they fight, and appearing as the scouts carve Annie out of the nape of her titan form. Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐
ch34 - FABULOUS Hange chapter, beginning with Hange stopping her soldier as he hammers futilely away at the crystal encasing Annie, BUILDING UP to Hange's confrontation with Pastor Nick where she almost drops him off the wall because Hange sees the titans in the walls and Nick's hiding valuable information, ENDING with her choosing to spare Nick's life. Then Erwin has to defend the scouts because they unilaterally executed the plan to capture Annie, THEN we move to where other scouts and the trainees are hanging out outside Wall Sina, and we get the false Wall Rose breach caused by Zeke transforming that town into titans. Annie content: ⭐ (we... see her and I'll allow it) Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (also, Mike and Nanaba appear, the trainees are seen playing chess, and bears are confirmed not extinct in the walls!)
ch35 - the recruits disperse to warn the surrounding area of the breach. Mike dies. Annie content: none (gonna discontinue this for now bc she's in the fucking crystal; I'll put her back in if she's mentioned) Hange content: none
ch36 - It's that chapter where SASHA FIGHTS A TITAN ON FOOT. It's badass tbh, a slow motion high tension fight. Good shit. Hange content: none
ch37 - Good Hange scenes at a couple points throughout! We open with Hange looking at a fragment of titan crystal from Annie, and she discusses Eren repairing the wall by hardening. We also have a mid-chapter Hange scene where she says she doesn't know the names of all of 104 yet, and the name "Ymir" is dropped and she looks startled. Attentive readers will realize this is from Ilse Langer's notebook: Hange has heard the name Ymir before and knows there's something special about it! She also has another small outburst at Nick... in the meantime, 104+scouts continues warning towns and looking for the wall breach. Connie finds his titan-transformed mom in his house... Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch38 - Connie's titan mom says welcome back. The scouts keep riding the wall, and eventually meet, not having found a breach. It's getting dark, so they take shelter in Castle Utgard, and are resting when the titans from Connie's town, who killed Mike, attack... this chapter has really good Ymir moments and one page of Hange saying they'll head to Utgard. Oh, and the beast appears again. AND a Mikasa idol joke page. Hange content: ⭐
ch39 - the trainees fight bravely to defend the interior of Utgard from the titans that have entered. The officers fight outside. Great scenes of the cadets cooperating, as well as senior scouts supporting each other. Unforch, the beast titan fucks up their line by bombarding them with horses and rocks from on top of the wall. Hange content: none
ch40 - Nanaba and Gelgar have their death scenes and it's really heartwrenching actually. Nanaba's last pages are especially rough. 104 confers on top of the tower, there's a flashback to winter survival training with Ymir and Historia, and really good Ymir/Historia ship material. Ymir reveals herself as a titan shifter and goes to fight for them. Hange content: none very solid chapter though
ch41 - Ymir fights the titans! She fights so hard, she collapses the tower. 104 escapes clinging to her hair/neck. Hange (rapping out orders) and reinforcements arrive in the last few pages just in time to save Ymir (who is struggling against multiple larger titans) and the rest. Historia reveals her true name. Hange content: ⭐
ch42 - 104+Hange+reinforcements withdraw to the top of the wall (nice shots of how they work with hoists and the 3DMG to do this. Historia pleads with Hange for Ymir's life, and Hange discusses the matter some, saying that even if Ymir is friendly and simple, the political situation might not be merciful regardless. Then we get confirmation that there isn't a hole in the wall. Hange says that in this case the group should return to Trost and stand by. Then Bert and Reiner have something important to tell Eren... we get a flashback to Hange discussing Annie's background check with EMA, and forming a plan just in case Bert and Reiner are titan shifters... and THEN we get the colossal and armored titan reveals: Bert and Reiner are indeed titan shifters, hated enemies of humanity. They want to take Eren away with them. Mikasa attacks on the spot, and Bert and Reiner shift into their titan forms. Eren takes on his titan shape to join in the battle. The fight is on! Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, a really nice chapter for her actually, showing leadership skill and planning with Moblit and EMA
ch43 - good angst from Mikasa at the beginning about her failure to kill Bert and Ernie. Hange takes command of the scouts to attack the colossal titan, and runs the fight from there! She decides when to attack and when to stand back and wait for the colossal to run out of juice, tells the scouts how to divide forces, and then leaps down to join the battle against the armored titan. Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, nice moments of courage and leadership from her!
ch44 - THIS CHAPTER IS REALLY FEEDING ME BECAUSE WE GET AN ANNIE FLASHBACK WITH MORE OF HER PUSHING HAND TO HAND TRAINING ON EREN LOL. She plays the weak maiden and ribs Eren more about manhandling her. I love it. It is an excellent flashback. Hange is also heavily present in the chapter, and she is the one who gets to realize that the armored titan will have weak points where his subdermal plates aren't solid! An important key to getting the advantage on Reiner at all! This is the moment where we get shoulder Hange for the first time on Eren too :3 and Eren himself is in good form in this chapter, agonizing over having to fight his friends again and strategizing against Reiner. Alas, on the last page, Bert drops down to do a brutal full body press on Eren in his colossal titan form, so the fight goes to them! Annie content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, nice scenes for both of them in this chapter
ch45 - Erwin and Pixis have a strategy chat, and they both hear that Reiner, Bert, and Ymir were revealed as titans. Then we flash back to the wall. Hange et al got severely injured when Bert hit the ground and his titan body rapidly dissipated - that's why she's got burns and so on. Hannes has an encouraging talk with Mikasa and Armin. Reinforcements arrive, including Erwin and MP troops. Hange shares what she's been thinking about while waiting for reinforcements: Reiner and Bert will probably head to a local titan forest so they can shelter in the trees, recuperate, and wait til nightfall to move on. The last page shows Eren waking up in the titan forest (Hange predicted correctly!) with Ymir, Bert, and Reiner. Hange content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ch46 - Ymir, Reiner, Bert, and Eren have a very fraught chat in the titan forest. It's a pretty great one actually, full of foreshadowing; Ymir gets to be very smart and analytical, Eren gets to be terrifyingly angry, Bert is just kind of empty and sad, and we get a good look at how fractured and confused Reiner's psyche is. Hange content: none
ch47 - The curtains rise with Ymir, Bert, Reiner and Eren in the forest. They see scout flares in the distance and start leaving early (before sunset) - Eren has to be violently restrained, and that disturbing image of him biting his arm stumps comes from this chapter. We learn that Ymir roamed as a titan for ~60 years. Ymir starts to turn on Bert and Reiner while they move through the trees, realizing she'll never see Historia again. She assumes her titan form and goes back to meet the scouts (there's a cute scene with her and Connie here where he gets frustrated and fearlessly stomps on her titan's head). Ymir grabs Historia in her mouth and rushes off with her, rejoining Reiner, Eren, and Bert. Reiner assumes his armored titan form and Bert and Eren as humans and Ymir as a titan sit on his shoulders and begin to move away from the woods. The scouts pursue, a fight imminent. Hange content: none
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