Considering that a month ago the anime was still rolling along, I almost forgot in the rush that the next chapter coming would be just as emotionally shocking probably as the end of the first season of Attack on Titan anime.
As the above title nicely sums up, the very Titan that 5 years ago shattered their world personally for Eren and Mikasa, has suddenly come back into their lives. They are surrounded by chaos as Erwin gambled and lead a horde of Titans down on Reiner and Bertholdt.
The Recon Corps is being shredded but the Armored Titan is also not doing well. Mikasa has recovered Eren but now faces the nightmare that started it all for them.
Almost poetically, Hans intervenes yet again to save Eren and Mikasa from the same Titan. He shows his training has given him far more nerve than before, but as is always true away from the Walls or the giant trees, the 3D Gear is not as powerful against them.
Eren is begging Mikasa to untie him so he can save Hans and stop the monster he most personally wants to wipe from this earth.
Meanwhile, Christa (aka Historia) makes her choice about Ymir despite Connie's warning. Instead of choosing sides between Titans and humanity, she simply chooses to fight beside Ymir. Given all that has gone on between them and the harrowing journey thus far, I can see where she is coming from even if it seems foolish to her comrades.
Ymir herself questions her motives and chances, but then the horror of the chaos begins to emerge. Erwin watches in pain and horror at the loss of his arm as his people are being ripped asunder. The Armored Titan is weathering the storm and making his way back to Eren.
Eren and Mikasa once again watch as the Titan rips Hans in two, almost the reverse of the move it did to Eren's mother so long ago. Feeling powerless and helpless, Eren rages at his unpredictable power as a Titan.
Mikasa sees how things will unfold and tells Eren a truth she never told him before it would seem. She softens her eyes and thanks him from the bottom of her heart for wrapping her in his scarf those years ago and being by her side since.
A final wall falls in Eren's heart as he cries tears but instead of giving in, he does what we know Eren to do, rise to fight! He will not let Mikasa go, even as Armin and Jean fight for their lives, Eren faces the Titan alone and as a human.
Suddenly, as he strikes what would normally be a pathetic blow, energy sparks in Ymir, Reiner, and Bertholdt as Eren seems to suddenly have a partial transformation around his face. The Titans all around them suddenly converge and rip apart the one Eren faced.
Reiner rails against what has been revealed to the Recon Corps, but while Ymir confirms the frantic need to capture Eren is this new skill, it is not explained exactly what he did. However Reiner implies that it was once in the possession of his group by his choice of words.
As all the Titans fight the enemy Eren selected, the rest of the humans are suddenly free and alive. Even as Reiner turns as the Armored Titan, Eren threatens them and again the spark occurs and all the Titans turn as one horde at his command.
Erwin pulls his tattered forces together and with Eren they begin a retreat. However, despite wanting to be with Christa, Ymir turns back as her own Titan form to save Bertholdt from being eaten and we are left with a deeper mystery. What is Eren exactly? He is more than just a human that can become a Titan and Reiner and the other Titan-humans know what it is and once possessed it.
First however is a glance at a young trio of Armin, Mikasa, and Eren play fighting with an intoxicated Hans from before Wall Maria fell. Now that all the Titans we know of are revealed with one enemy left to learn about, what will next issue bring us?
As always this series is just amazing and even when you think it is all starting to come together, it reveals another layer!
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