Ataque a los titanes: Lost Girls, vol. 2

漫画 進撃の巨人 LOST GIRLS / Attack on Titan: Lost Girls Manga #2

by Hiroshi Seko (writer), Ryosuke Fuji (illustrator), Hajime Isayama (original creator)

En la segunda parte de esta miniserie centrada en los personajes femeninos de Ataque a los titanes, nos trasladamos al momento en el que el espíritu de Mikasa regresa a la vida cálida y tranquila en el bosque y al encuentro con el niño que cambió su mundo. Esta es la historia de la ilusión que forjó un fuerte vínculo entre Eren y Mikasa cuando tenían nueve años.

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Horror, Fiction, Shonen, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2016

Reviews

[Kelly⁷ · Rating 5 out of 5]

First thing firsts, MIKASA ACKERMAN IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE I WILL SACRIFICE ANYTHING IF THAT'S WHAT SHE NEEDS. (Very Eren of me)

I have already watched the OVA but it's really different from the manga, first I have a theory. The man she encounters at the festival is in fact Eren or symbolizes Eren. Mikasa has to kill him in order to see him again (the full circle story "see you later, Eren") and as he says, his life is just doing that trick over and over again. Which to me, just nails this theory.

Second thing, MIKASA AND ANNIE COULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST OF FRIEND AND THEY KNOW IT, WE KNOW IT, ISAYAMA, LET ME HAVE IT!
They literally are the best.

[Sara Saif · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was disorienting and weird. And if it wasn't all in a dream, it would have made me angry.

[Saraí Elvir · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a cruel world. And yet...so beautiful....

[Radwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mikasa has to be the most pivotal character in AOT after Eren, and this volume focuses on her childhood when she first got to meet Eren as a dream she has after she has fallen in their first battle. It delves deeper in her love and attachment to Eren. And I loved it.

[Jaime]

I'm sad to hear that this is the last volume in the series, especially considering that this series only has two volumes total. I wanted highlights of all the Attack on Titan ladies. Where's Sasha and Hange? Or Christa and Ymir? It would have been great.

But I definitely enjoyed this volume more than Annie's. It had more importance to it, showing why Mikasa cares for Eren so much. Why she's so worried. I was so confused about the part where "Eren" died though? Both at the beginning (before the flashbacks start) and after Armin and him crashed the airplane. He isn't dead? (I think the volume is supposed to "take place" when Eren first turns into a titan, before they realize he didn't get eaten. But the airplane thing is never resolved. Also, this is the first time they've discussed airplanes in the series ever... so ?? I had no clue they knew what those were?)

The last chapter was the most interesting, though, when Miksas talks to Annie. It's almost like Mikasa suspects something, but she doesn't know what yet. It was interesting, and I kind of wish there were more volumes coming to play off of that moment.

Mikasa is a wonderful character, so it was interesting to see her as a little girl, especially since she was timid and weak. I like that she's become such a strong character.

[Mads · Rating 5 out of 5]

i will never get over the fact that even in mikasa’s dreams, she imagines herself being hurt.

[Alexandra Elend Wolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

“I can’t stop Eren. I don’t think anyone can. All I can do is keep my promise to him.”

While the first volume of this spin-off manga was centered around Annie, this second volume is all about Mikasa.

It certainly was a fun, nuanced look into the character, putting her in a different light that helps reveal other aspects of her personality that perhaps get buried in the main series. Even if the setting was a but unique.

Honestly, I feel like I learned more about Eren than I truly did about Mikasa; which is not a bad thing, just not exactly what I was expecting to get based on the cover.

Really, the take is psychological and interesting, and allowed me to see some things more clearly, even if they were not particularly revelatory in nature.

“This world is so cruel. And yet, so beautiful.”

[oscar⭒ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this second volume even more than the first. We can say that this volume contains a falshback, a very important memory of Mikasa. The memory of how her friendship with Eren began, how she met Armin, as well as an important memory of her family. What I regretted is that from this volume we learn more about Eren's character and characterisation than about Mikasa, who was ‘supposed’ to be the main character in this volume dedicated to her.

[Rodrigo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apenas aporta nada nuevo a la historia de Mikasa sueña con una vida que pudo tener y como conoció a Eren, pero poco más.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was quite good, it details how Mikasa and Eren became friend when Dr Yaeger came to check on her pregnant mother every 10 days, their encounter and talk about life, them playing, bonding, witnessing some weird incidents and then them having to move to Shingashina and her and Eren getting into some weird fights, him trying to leave in a place with Armin and her encounter with a hypnotist who wanted to make her into a murderer and then her eventual fate and waking up the first time she saw Eren as a titan and another one-off story focusing on her meeting with Annie. Its such a great book and like shows how complex Mikasa is and how she became that and her love for Eren is just next level, if the world turns against him, she will turn against the world for her beloved, just epic!!

[Seth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Instead of Mikasa's actual backstory, we get weird, non-canon backstory through a dreamlike flashback, many parts of which just reiterate what we already knew from the main series. Then there's a short interaction between Mikasa and Annie that creates a plot hole: we learn that Mikasa had suspicions about Annie, and moreover, knew about Annie's blade ring before the mission to capture Annie. But then why didn't she warn the Survey Corps that Annie might try to use the blade ring, and why did it take her by surprise when that actually happened?

[Lidia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mikasa Ackerman is really a very misunderstanded character but she has a beauty, gentle and innocent heart that condraticts her harsh and pokerface exterior. This manga revolves around her and this story is a new insign in her character as always as "what if" scenario on how she met Eren and how in the end she must accept that Eren's destiny was always to die. I totally love the complexity and realistic characters of AoT but Mikasa has and will always have a part in my heart

[Aitor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Me sabe mal ponerle esa puntuación, pero a falta de medias estrellas, me tengo que decantar por lo negativo a causa del último tercio del tomo. Hasta ese momento, no está nada mal: un poco de trasfondo para Eren y Mikasa con tal ahondar en la personalidad de esta última antes de su papel en la actualidad de la serie. Ahora bien, tengo la sensación de que nada es canónico porque ni Mikasa tiene un hermano (juraría) ni lo del hipnotizador parece real. Sea o no diegético, ahí es donde empiezan mis problemas: la trama se cierra con una estupidez increíble solo para llevar a Mikasa a un punto concreto en el que, todavía, no está. De hecho, me gusta que antes se la muestre con una botella de cristal rota para indicar que está dispuesta a todo para proteger a Eren, pero que no termine usándola. Si eso se hubiera conectado con la trama canónica de los secuestradores o el momento del tomo 2 en que decide luchar, lo habría entendido. El caso es que no lo hace; en su lugar, se inventa una inverosímil excusa argumental que conecta con un capítulo final intrascendente. ¿Sirve para mostrar que Mikasa ya sospechaba de Annie? Pues vale, nada nuevo. Parece un pobre intento de juntar las tramas de ambos tomos, pero se pierde tanto en su guion como en su intencionalidad. Me quedo de lejos con el primer volumen de este spin-off. Y, ahora, volvemos por fin a la trama principal.

[Liliana · Rating 4 out of 5]

En este volumen vemos a Mikasa en la parte en la que ella piensa en morir al saber que Eren murió, en ese momento imagina su vida de manera diferente, que el que llegó a su puerta era Grisha Yeager y no los esclavistas que mataron a sus padres pero con un descenlace trágico y vuelve a la realidad. Es así, que decide no rendirse para recordar a Eren y es ahí cuando aparece por primera vez el titán de ataque.

Me gustó imaginar otra realidad en la que los padres de Mikasa no morían pero me dio dio pena que se desmantelara el cuerpo de exploración que es fundamental en la historia, bastante bueno.

[Gema]

Se recrea en un momento del anime que me emocionó muchísimo y que considero uno de los mejores, aunque da una visión alternativa de algo que ocurrió en el pasado. Me ha parecido muy metafórico y ahonda en los sentimientos de Mikasa Ackerman, lo cual siempre es bienvenido.

[Weronika · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5/5 ⭐
Historia z ważnym morałem - jak piękny i jednocześnie brutalny jest świat, a także że przeznaczenia niektórych ludzi nie da się zmienić, bo zawsze znajdą sposób, aby spełnić swój cel. Minus za, że po serii głównej postać Mikasy i jej przywiązanie do Erena mnie irytuje. 😅

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contains spoilers for Attack on Titan!

Lost Girls is a set of two side stories that take place during two crucial moments during the first major story arc of the main series. It doesn't go too far in the overall story, but it will spoil two big reveals for people that haven't read or watched the series at all yet.

The first story revolves around Annie Lionheart, who (spoiler: is the female titan that killed many of Eren's comrades and tried to capture him) and is grieving because of her failure to fulfill the duty given to her by her father to bring Eren back to her hometown alive. It takes place right before her assault on the city of Trost when she's hiding out in the military police lounge after her first attempt to capture Eren ended in failure. We get to see her mental and emotional state in a new light. She was treated as nothing more than a tool for war her entire life and she has a great deal of trauma weighing down on her. With a guilty conscience and a heavy heart, Annie decides to play the role of an obedient soldier for the sake of easing herself from the guilt of killing hundreds of innocent people and knowing she will soon have to kill many more in her next attempt to capture Eren. She takes on odd jobs around the city such as stopping an illegal drug trafficking gang, finding a lost girl, solving a murder mystery and minor favors for her acquaintances in the military police.

It's a rather laid back side story, but it really drives home the fact that Annie is the victim of a vicious war built on years of prejudice and she's dealing with a major identity crisis. It's a reminder that there are no heroes in Attack on Titan. Everyone is a victim of circumstance and the oppressed can become the oppressors at any moment. It humanizes a character that has done some very controversial things and definitely made me care about her and her personal struggles a lot more.

The second story revolves around Mikasa and takes place much earlier in the story after (spoiler: Eren is eaten by a titan and Mikasa almost gets herself killed after pushing her odm gear beyond its limits during a fit of grief and falls unconscious after hitting her head on concrete) and it's told through a dream sequence. The dream sequence cleverly combines Mikasa's real memories with a new what-if scenario that explores what could've happened if Dr. Yeager arrived to her home in time before a group of sex slave traffickers broke into her house and killed her father and pregnant mother. In this scenario, we see her and Eren more like siblings, her baby brother that never had the chance to be born and we also got to explore the bloomings of Eren's early philosophy that would end up turning him into what he is in the final arc. It makes you rethink Mikasa's feeling toward Eren and it also reveals that the signs of who Eren would later become were already right in front of us, we just didn't know it yet.

I'm glad I waited so long to read this because even though this takes place fairly early in the main story, there's a lot of foreshadowing and clues sprinkled throughout it that you would only pick up on if you've read into the final arc of the main series. A lot of shocking, terrible and depressing things happen to Eren, Mikasa and Annie during the final arc of the main series and there's good use of tragic foreshadowing in both side stories that are much more impactful to me now then if I had read this a few years ago. As I said in my review of the main series, Attack on Titan has some incredible levels of re-readability.

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[S · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shingeki no Kyojin meets Life is Strange. 🦋

We are shown a look at what life could have been for Mikasa, had the traumatic experiences of her childhood never happened. Yes, as a huge Mikasa fan and absolute trash for Eremika, I cried. I’m glad I waited until after I’d caught up with the manga before reading this volume, because there is so much foreshadowing and clues here about the final arc and post-timeskip development of Mikasa and Eren to sink your teeth into.

There is a short chapter with Mikasa and Annie at the end of the volume that ties the Lost Girls manga into the main story and it absolutely broke my heart. It’s nice to see how much these two fierce, lonely, somewhat tragic characters have changed over the course of the entire manga.

[Rolando Marono · Rating 3 out of 5]

Esta serie corta de dos números, aunque no aporta nada a la historia en general, si ayuda a construir dos personajes muy importantes que fueron un poco relegados en la historia original. Sabemos que Annie es el titán mujer pero una vez que es derrotada no vuelve a salir y su personaje interesante queda en el olvido. Lo mismo sucede con Mikasa, es quizá la mejor mata titanes después de Levi, pero en el manga original es relegada a ser la guarda espaldas de Eren.
En este tomo exploramos un poco los sucesos que llevan a Mikasa a conocer y proteger a Eren. Si bien no nos aporta cosas que no supiéramos, al ver la perspectiva de Mikasa, podemos entender mejor sus motivaciones.
El manga se llama Lost Girls y creo que en este segundo tomo se explora más el significado de eso, lo que significa estar perdido y lo que eso significa para Mikasa. Al estar protegiendo a Eren, se olvida de quién es y eso es algo que de ninguna manera mencionaban en el manga original.
Lo mejor del manga es el último capítulo donde vemos un encuentro interesante entre Annie y Mikasa. Explica quizá mejor algunos de los sucesos del enfrentamiento final entre los protagonistas y Annie.

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Alors la note ne juge pas du dessin ni de la qualité d'écriture. C'est juste qu'un rêve c'est inutile, ce volume n'apporte strictement rien à l'univers de SNK. Dommage, on aurait pu étoffer le lore plutot que de perdre son temps sur un délire suite à une chute dans le tome 4 quoi. Après on peut toujours avancer que ça montre que Mikasa avait déjà un aperçu du côté sombre d'Eren mais elle l'a vu débiter des mecs à la hache donc bon c'est pas la révélation du siècle. Donc non, aucun intérêt comparé au premier tome qui apportait du lore au personnage d'Annie.

[Titis Wardhana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awalnya kesel kenapa Mikasa jadi vol. 2, tapi pas baca ya bisa dimengertilah. Ratingnya subjektif secara gw fans beratnya Mikasa ^0^. Beda sama kisahnya Annie. Di sini kisahnya Mikasa antara nyata dan tidak (apa sih :p).

Dan artwork spin-off 2 volume ini (lagi-lagi) lebih bagus dari manga aslinya

[rosa ୨ৎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es bonito haber visto que hubiera pasado ese día cuando Eren y Mikasa se iban a conocer por primera vez y los padres de Mikasa no hubieran muerto. Pero como en Shingeki no Kyojin, los personajes tienen que pasar por situaciones traumáticas sin importar el rumbo de la historia.
Eren simboliza mucho para Mikasa, significa tanto para ella que nunca se rindió.

Me entristece si es que realmente la mamá de Mikasa estuviera embarazada, hubiera cambiado muchísimo si tuviera un hermano. La primera vez que lo leí, creí que estaba esperando un bebé la señora Ackerman y estuve pensando mucho cuando retome el anime, ahora que se que no es completamente canon, me deja pensando mucho.

[Yaiza · Rating 3 out of 5]

3'4 ESTRELLAS.
Esta guay conocer un poco más a Mikasa, pero tampoco es un material muy revelador que digamos..

[ami · Rating 5 out of 5]

fucking amazing god. even tho it is a bit different than the anime i really love this version !!

[Ro · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best.

[Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

The writing is part 2 isn’t quite as good as part one but it’s still interesting to see into Mikasa’s motivations and parts of her past.

[Ece · Rating 3 out of 5]

son sayfaya kadar sevmedim sonra daha mantıklı oldu ama ilk kısım annienin bölümü daha iyi

[autumninbooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,75 💫

[sophia · Rating 4 out of 5]

i do wish that less of this had been a dream, but little mikasa, eren, and armin are just so cute that i don’t mind it too much. i love them all so much.

[Maral · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just lost the it.So it was interesting to see her and Annie interact it was like Annie’s book was about establishing her as a character and exploring her backstory and Mikasas story is about foreshadowing the ending and seeing how it the alternative to the story.The interaction and relationship between the two character is honestly underrated.Seeing the chapter it’s like Milasa always knew that there was something dangerous about Annie and that Annie didn’t wanna go any of what she had to.It was interesting knowing that Mikasa was going to be a big sister.And good point in that there really was nothing that could’ve stopped Erens mind.The alternative reality wasn’t fun. it was interesting seeing Mikasa mind and opinion about her being a murder. And the whole thing with Grisha implying that Mikasa coup save Eren from the ‘the great power ‘ was awesome because in both reality’s she couldn’t but in the real she ended it being the end of it all.