IT CATCHES UP TO YOU The world outside the Walls is vaster than Eren and his comrades could have ever imagined. Just beyond the shores of Paradis lies the country of Marley--home to Eren's mortal enemy Reiner. He may have returned home, hoping to consign "the Armor" to his past, but some things can't be so easily forgotten--and Reiner is about to be confronted by a certain someone he turned his back on...
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創 Isayama Hajime, born 1986) is a Japanese manga artist from Ōyama, Ōita. His first and currently ongoing serial, Attack on Titan, has sold over 22 million copies as of July 2013. He has mentioned Tsutomu Nihei, Ryōji Minagawa, Kentaro Miura, Hideki Arai and Tōru Mitsumine as artists he respects, but stated that the manga that had the biggest influence on him was ARMS.
Isayama es de esos escritores que antes de empezar con el trabajo de crear semejante historia se planteó muy seriamente cada pequeño detalle para poder plasmarlo a la perfección. La historia tiene un hilo conductor al que yo, por lo menos, no le veo ningún agujero o falla por nombrar. Que manera para hacer foreshadowing y tener todo perfectamente hilado.
Mi admiración total para este hombre. Y más ahora que se viene el desmadre y va a ser un caos que voy a disfrutar.
This volume wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. The Marley Arc just isn't super interesting to me. The story spent 22 volumes getting you to care about the characters in the Survey Corps then they threw in a time leap and switched the focus to a bunch of different characters - it's not a creative choice that I'm super fond of. I'm hoping that the story will start focusing on the Survey Corps crew again soon.
It’s amazing how I’m always equal parts confused and interested. We spend more time with the new characters in this volume (so we can like them and have them killed off perhaps? Possible). The ending really makes me want to read the next volume ASAP!
This volume was better than the previous one. I think Attack on Titan is the type of story which wont have a sane/happy ending. Bracing myself for the ultimate blow.
This one still lacked the oomph we've become accustomed to, but it was better than the previous volume. This one focused heavily on Reiner, with a lot of flashbacks. There was also some military talk and politics, without any real action. The ending was great though; it definitely made me hype to read the next one. Is shit about to hit the fan? Probably, but could this possibly be a friendly visit? Who knows. I guess we will find out soon enough. So without further ado, on to the next--Volume 25!
"Eren: How did things turn out this way? Ruined minds and body, people with no freedom left, people who have even lost themselves. What kind of person would want to go to war. If they knew they were going to end up like this?"
This was such a great volume and like continues the tale of what happened but this time focusing on Reinier and giving the backstory as to how they arrived in the eldian world and then their infiltration and what all lead to that and its kinda tragic and you feel for him and then the next part switches back to the present where the young kid Falco trying to prevent his crush Gabi from getting armored titan and trying to excel at her, we meet the Tybur family, the eldian family ruling Marley and its intriguing and it shows what they want the army to do and the representative of that family aka Wiley doing something with the world leaders, it gets into the whole politics but then Reinier meet Eren. Cool volume and sets the table for a whole load of things to appear soon!
This volume is not quite as awful as the last, but it is not much of an improvement either. All the flashbacks of secondary characters from the outside world finally start to catch up to the very first volume of the series. So we get to see the opening chapters from another perspective. A more boring perspective. A perspective I did not want or need.
And one of the trio of main characters finally gets to appear in the closing pages of the book. But it is a sad, broken version of the character that does not bode well for however many more volumes this series is dragged out.
Attack on Titan, your welcome is officially overstayed.
reiner is probably one of the most raw and complex character in aot. as all victims of propaganda and dogmatism ended up with, it comes as no surprise that he grew up as someone who despise the eldian race at the paradis island—just like gabi. his first grounded belief as a child was to be part of the selected warrior who would inherit a titan and make his mother proud as well as his father who he has yet to meet that, rather, ended devastatingly. his mother said that his father would be proud of him if becomes a warrior, but when he met his father, he was greeted with contempt. in that time, he realized that his mother was lying to him, and that left him in his first letdown.
the second time, which played a vital role that shaped his state while within the walls, was when marcel admitted that he was never supposed to be part of the warrior unit. the following day, marcel saved him from a titan. in a state of shock and probably guilt, he ran away. with the leader gone, he stepped up as one and to deflect his growing guilt, he developed a dissociative state whereas the one personality resembled marcel's.
all of the decisions that he made and the countless mistakes and mishaps that he had done within the walls makes him an anti-villain. it's not exactly in the same area but erwin and reiner both on the verge of wanting to end their lives by the ruthless choices they made.
anyway, i really like reiner's characterization here in this story arc. he went through the renowned stages of grief.
This volume mainly focuses on Reiner. We get information about his past and how he came to be the Armored Titan along with everything leading up to the destruction of Wall Maria from his POV.
Other than him, we watch Falco meet and do errands for “someone.” This leads up to the cliffhanger ending that has me reaching for the next volume already.
Mi è piaciuto un sacco vedere quello che già abbiamo letto e visto - come la distruzione di Wall Maria - ma dal punto di vista si Reiner (e degli altri). I nuovi cadetti ricordano tantissimo Eren, Mikasa e Armin e sinceramente li amo già dal volume precedente 😭
E il colpo di scena finale? Per tutto il tempo mi sono chiesta chi fosse quel tizio, perché di sicuro lo conoscevo, di sicuro Isayama ce lo ha già fatto incontrare e viene fuori che è… LUI??? Mi sono pure messa a fissarlo 😂 secondo me gli hanno cambiato i connotati fisici perché davvero non riesco a riconoscerlo 😂
اپدیت ۷ آبان ۴۰۰- پیشزمینههای متفاوت میتونه اهدافی کاملا مقابل هم رو با یک کلمه توصیف کنه. نجات بشریت. از زیباییهای اتک همین واقع بینیش در محیطی به شدت فانتزیه. انسانزدایی و نسلکشی یک قوم به جرم نیاکانشون اتفاق تکرار شدهای در جهان ما که خیلی خوب به یه دگرجهان منتقل شده. . [image error]
I feel so bad for Reiner. His mother basically feed him the idea that he had to become a warrior in order to be an honorary citizen of Marley. Ever since, he worked his way through his goal. Even when his father didn’t want him, he tried to do whatever he could. He’s loyal to Marley, despite not getting a “thank you for your work” in any way.
When they just got to Paradis, his friend Marcel got eaten by Ymir, and then he took the leader persona of his late friend among Bertolt and Annie, who were the remaining kids with a mission of getting back the founding titan from the island.
Now, in the present, he has to see Gabi and the other kids do the same he did when he was their age and its filling him with guilt and regret of the things he did. He even tried to kill himself before listening to Falco outside his room. I think that’s why he developed a PTSD or DID since we’ve seen him not knowing what he was supposed to do, getting black outs and basically living with a dual personality.
Reiner is one of my fav characters and I truly fear for his well-being.
Anyway, right in the end of the volume, we see an injured Eren living among the Eldians. So what does this mean?