Thursday, September 8, 2016
ATTACK ON TITAN CHARACTERS
Mikasa is Eren's adopted sister who is taken in by his family. She is a quiet and withdrawn girl and maintains a stoic expression, except when Eren is in danger. When Mikasa's parents were killed by slave traders, she went into shock until Eren saves her and motivates her to fight back. As a result, she is very protective of Eren, and follows him wherever she can in joining the military and its related divisions and squads. She is the last-known person of Asian descent residing in the Walls. She graduates at the top of the cadet class, and is regarded by officers as an unprecedented genius and prodigy, easily worth a hundred men in battle.
Armin is Eren's childhood friend who joins him in the Scouts to order to make a meaningful difference in the world, and to fulfill his dream of seeing the outside world. He initially has an inferiority complex, believing he barely passed the combat graduation exam (but was top of the class academically), and whining that he hates being cowardly and having to rely on friends all the time. However as the story progresses he gains confidence in himself and his abilities when he realizes that he can use his brain. Despite his self-perceived shortcomings, he vigorously defends Eren when the Military wanted to fire cannons at them, and brings Eren out of his feral Titan state following the latter's second full transformation where he attacks Mikasa, Armin convinces Eren to overcome his hesitation to fight Annie. In the military, he impresses the higher-ups by deducing the human identity of the Female Titan.
104th TRAINING CORPS
Reiner Braun (ライナー・ブラウン Rainā Buraun)
Ranked second of the trainee class, Reiner is described as strong as an ox, and able to earn the trust of his comrades. He and Bertolt hail from a mountain village southeast of Wall Maria when it was attacked by Titans. His initial reason for fighting is so he can return to his home town. It is revealed that he is the Armored Titan (鎧の巨人 Yoroi no Kyojin) a 15-meter (49 ft) Titan who at the start of the series destroyed the inner gate of Shiganshina that allowed Titans to breach Wall Maria. The Survey Corps defeat Reiner in a later battle at Shinganshina using an armor-piercing "Thunder Spear"
Ranked third in the class, Bertholt is described as having potential and able to master every skill he has been taught, but lacks drive and initiative. He is also from a mountain village southeast of Wall Maria. He is later revealed to be the Colossus Titan (超大型巨人 Chō-ōgata Kyojin, alt. "Colossal Titan"), a 60-meter (200 ft) Titan with a physical appearance resembling a skinless humanoid; who appears in the opening storyline to breach Shiganshina, and years later, takes out the cannon artillery on top of the wall of Trost. One of his specialties is releasing hot steam to protect himself and repel his opponents.Reiner hints that Bertolt is in love with Annie. In a later battle at Shinganshina, he is captured by Eren, left to be eaten by Armin, who was injected with the Titan Serum to have the former regain his human form.
A small-statured girl who is described as skilled in combat, and a realist who tends to be a loner. During cadet training, she teaches Eren some of her melee skills that she learned from her father. Having placed fourth in her class, she joins the Military Police, where she is regarded as being the quiet girl. She is ultimately revealed to be the Female Titan (女型の巨人 Megata no Kyojin), a 14-meter (46 ft) Titan with an unprecedented feminine body structure, able to harden her skin and regenerate her body parts during fights.. She ambushes the 57th expedition to Wall Maria, destroying Levi's special operations squad, and captures Eren briefly. However, she is outed during the Stohess District storyline after Armin determined that she killed captured Titans Sonny and Bean and presented Marco's equipment at the interrogation. Following her defeat, Annie encases herself in crystal to prevent further probing as to her motives, which originate from her father's wishes to treat the world as their enemy.
A hot-headed guy who speaks his mind, he plans to join the Military Police in order to live safely within Wall Sheena. He and Eren have opposing ideals; Jean thinks Eren is suicidal for wanting to be on the front line, while Eren thinks Jean is cowardly. He graduates sixth in the class. In the battle at Trost, when he leads a group to retreat to the supply house, he is shaken up that his decisions have led to the deaths of some of his comrades. After his close friend Marco dies, he joins the Survey Corps. Isayama said that Jean is his favorite character because he says what he thinks.
Ranked seventh of the trainee class, Marco is from the Jinae District, and is close friends with Armin and Jean. He wants to join the Military Police so he can serve King Fritz. However, he is killed during the battle of Trost. Annie uses his gear to cover up her killing of Sonny and Bean. In later chapters, it is revealed he was stripped of his gear by Annie, Reiner and Bertolt and left to die after he overheard them discussing their plans.
Connie hails from the Ragako District of Wall Rose. He sports a buzz cut,and has an outgoing and upbeat personality, trying his best to keep his teammates pumped up, not shying away from encounters with Titans. His training instructor describes him as having a good sense of balance and effective at the vertical maneuvering equipment, but has a slow mind and makes strategic mistakes. Having ranked eighth in his class, he initially plans to join the Military Police, but changes his mind after hearing Eren's speech, and eventually joins the Survey Corps.
Sasha is a hunter from the mountain Dauper District. Her hair styled in a ponytail. She is noted as having remarkable instincts, but issues with structure. She loves food, and was once nicknamed "Potato Girl" (芋女 Imo Onna) because she was eating one during a military drill. She joins the military after getting into an argument with her father when he told her they had to give up their traditional lifestyle of hunting in the forest in favor of farming to support the large number of refugees moving to the area after the fall of Wall Maria.
A petite girl who is described as friendly, warm-hearted, and popular to the point where her peers regard her as a goddess or an angel, and want to marry her.. Her true identity is Historia Reiss (ヒストリア・レイス Hisutoria Reisu), the illegitimate child of Rod Reiss, she was raised by her mother at a farm where she only interacted with her once, during which her mother pushed her away and wished she had the courage to kill her. After the fall of Wall Maria, she is introduced to her father Rod Reiss, but when a group of men surround them, and her mother is killed. Rod convinces the men to spare her and let her live among the refugees, where she assumes the name Christa Lenz, which came from a book she had read. She later joins the 10th Corps where she ranked tenth in her trainee class, and participated in the defense of Trost in the year 850. When Ymir sacrifices herself to save her at Castle Utgard, caring for her friend even after revealing herself to be Titan, Krista reveals her true identity as Historia.
A member of the 104th graduating class and a close friend of Krista. She stays distant from her other training classmates and is harsh and critical. It is also hinted that she held back her abilities so that Krista could place tenth in the training corps standings. When the Titans attack Castle Utgard, Ymir transforms into a 7-meter (23 ft) chimpanzee-like Titan that is nimble enough to face several larger ones with her speed, claws, and teeth. Prior to the events in the series, Ymir had stolen the power to become a Titan from a group connected to Reiner and Bertolt, and had spent sixty years as a Titan outside the walls. When she ate a Titan Shifter named Marcel during the attack on Wall Maria, she was able to transform back to a human and infiltrated the city, where she met Krista. When she and Eren are later captured by Reiner and Bertolt, she allies with the latter two as long as they agree to keep Krista safe.
Darius is the commander-in-chief of the military. He first appears at Eren's tribunal where he assigns Eren to the Survey Corps.After it was shown that the nobles would abandon the people of Wall Rose should it be breached by Titans, he pledges to support Erwin's plan to overthrow the monarchy.
The instructor who is in charge of the training of the 104th Corp recruits. His face and head are cleanly shaven except for a patch of beard beneath his chin. Before the fall of Wall Maria in the year 845, he became the 12th Commander of the Survey Corps, which had struggled to establish a base beyond the Walls with no success. He then became the first commander to pass his position to a successor (Erwin) without dying. He was close friends with Eren's parents.
Garrison Regiment
A Garrison soldier who saves Eren and Mikasa during the attack on Shiganshina, While Eren finishes cadet training, Hannes becomes a Garrison squad leader. He seeks to repay a debt to the Yeager Family for saving his own wife and family from a deadly disease. Hannes assisted Mikasa and the other Survey Corps in rescuing Eren from Reiner and Bertolt. He would later die fighting the Titan that ate Eren's mother. Isayama said that Hannes and the Garrison Soldiers in volume 1 resemble him the most as they sit around and drink booze.
Dot Pixis is the highest-ranking commander of the Southern Territory. He is sometimes viewed as eccentric. Upon learning about the breach at Trost, he and his men stop Captain Woerman from shooting Eren after the latter is revealed to be able to transform into a Titan, He then mobilizes his soldiers in a mission to protect Eren during the latter's attempt to seal the wall. He appears later in the series to support Erwin's plan to overthrow the monarchy.
Survey Corps
Commander of the Survey Corps, who led the last mission before the fall of Wall Maria. After learning of a mole among the military ranks, he leads the 57th expedition with the secret objective of exposing and capturing the person, hiding the information from even his most trusted subordinates. When Eren is kidnapped by Bertolt and Reiner, he leads a team to rescue him, having his right arm eaten by a Titan in the occasion. Once realizing that their efforts against the Titans are being hindered by the Royalty, he gathers allies to stage a revolution and overthrow it. Erwin then leads an expedition to Shinganshina to seal the breach on Wall Maria, where he and his forces face a combined attack of the Beast Titan, the Armored Titan and the Colossal Titan. After Erwin is mortally wounded while confronting the Beast Titan, Levi attempts to inject him with the Titan Serum in order to save his life, but he refuses, believing that saving Armin's life is more important instead, and passes away soon after peacefully.
Hange is a squad leader in the Survey Corps and a scientist who studies the Titans. Hange shows little fear when interacting with them, and is thus ecstatic when initially meeting Eren. Hange had a strong hatred against Titans until the discovery of Ilse Langnar's notebook provided some new insight into how the Titans may be able to think. Hange also provides the special weapons they use, such as a barrel that fires multiple grappling hooks to capture Titans alive. After Erwin steps down, Hange becomes commander of the Survey Corps in his stead.
A Survey Corps squad leader who has a peculiar habit of snorting and sniffing people when he meets them for the first time. His strength is second to Levi among the Survey Corps squad leaders. When Wall Rosé is breached by the Titans he uses himself as a decoy to distract the Titans and allow his fellow soldiers to escape by single-handedly engaging nine Titans simultaneously in battle. He kills five of the Titans, but encounters the Beast Titan, the first of its kind to speak in a language, before being eaten by the remaining Titans.
Ilse was on the Survey Corps' 34th expedition. She had been taking detailed notes of her experiences outside the Walls, including her encounter with a Titan who reached out to her in reverence, thinking that she was "Lady Ymir", but then went berserk and ate her.
Thomas is a member of the Survey Corps. He carries the news of the Titans breaching Wall Rose to Erwin and some of the citizens.
A member of the Survey Corps, Nanaba has short blond hair. She first appears during the 57th Expedition where she leads Krista's team in the forest used to ambush the Female Titan. She has some supporting roles in the Stohess storyline, and leads part of the squad when the Titans have breached Wall Rose. She is eaten by the Titans when the latter invade Castle Utgard.
Special Operations Squad
Eld Jinn (エルド・ジン Erudo Jin, alt. "Eld Gin")
Deputy leader of the Survey Corps Special Ops, he has 14 Titan kills and 32 assists. He has a calm demeanor. After the Female Titan is initially devoured, he leads the Squad to protect Eren in their retreat but when the Female Titan reappears, he has the Squad attack her, but she bites his head off and spits it out.
Oluo Bozado (オルオ・ボザド Oruo Bozado, alt. "Oruo Bozad")
Bozado is a soldier who is introduced with 39 Titan kills and 9 assists. He is depicted as arrogant and boastful, although there is a running gag that whenever he is bragging while on his horse, he literally bites his tongue. Despite helping disable the regenerated Female Titan, he is eventually killed by one of her roundhouse kicks.
Petra is a skilled and experienced fighter, introduced with having killed 58 Titans (10 solo, 48 assists). She too is killed by the regenerated Female Titan, after trying to flee and getting kicked into a tree. Levi later learns from her father that she had feelings for him.
Günther is a soldier who has logged 47 Titan kills, 7 solo. On the 57th expedition to the lands outside the wall, he is killed during the retreat in the forest by a scout who transforms into the Female Titan.
Military Police Brigade
Commander of the Military Police Brigade. During Eren's tribunal, Nile pleaded the side that Eren should be handed to the Military Police Brigade for examination and then executed, believing Eren's presence in the populace would cause a civil war. When Eren called him a coward, he wanted Eren to be shot, but Levi stopped him. When the Female Titan suddenly appeared within Wall Sina, Nile angrily demands an explanation from Erwin, suspecting he is planning a coup. But after learning about Erwin's plans, he decides to help by ordering the Military Police to assist the Survey Corps in capturing the Female Titan.
Marlowe is introduced during the Raid of Stohess District storyline as a Military Police member who is given a bit of leadership responsibility. He is aware of the corruption in the organization and desires to reform it, although that draws some criticism from Annie. In the anime series, his name is Marlo Sand (マルロ・サンドMaruro Sando), and tries to demonstrate his leadership in a different way; he tries to stand up against two corrupt superiors who are selling guns to black marketers, where Annie then encourages Marlowe to keep gathering his strength.
Marlowe's female comrade in the Military Police, she likes to poke fun of Marlowe.
One of the nicer members of Military Police who is kind to Annie.
Djel Sanes (ジェル・サネス Jeru Sanesu)
A member of the brigade's interior first squad, he is introduced when he informs the Survey Corps that Minister Nick was killed by a robber. Hange determines that Sanes and his partner had tortured and murdered Nick given that his fist had its skin ripped off.
OTHER CHARACTERS:
Father of Eren and foster father of Mikasa. He is a renowned medical doctor who was well respected in the District of Shiganshina after he saved the village from a mysterious viral epidemic by developing vaccines. He also provides a medical house call service to the people of Shiganshina and to various towns in addition to having a network of contacts within the Corps of the Shiganshina district. Thought to have gone into hiding after the fall of Wall Maria, Grisha revealed himself to be a Titan Shifter during the chaos and used his transformed state to attack and devour Freida Reiss to take the Coordinate from the Reiss Family as he wiped most of them out. Grisha later turns Eren into an Original Titan so he can have his son eat him and become a Titan Shifter himself. Before his death, Grisha tells Eren that he hid a secret, which he refers to as the "truth", in the basement of their family home.
Mother of Eren and foster mother of Mikasa. She was in opposition to Eren's decision to join the Survey Corps and tried to get Mikasa to change his mind. When her town is attacked, she becomes trapped under the Yeager family home from debris of Wall Maria. Eren and Mikasa try to save her, although her lower body was already crushed and she entrusted them to Hannes to save. As they flee, Eren looked on as she is picked up by a nearby Titan and eaten.
Nick is a religious leader who heads a church that believes that the Walls are sacred, and refuses any modifications to be done to the Walls. During the incident in Stohess where his church is trashed by Eren and the Female Titan's fight, it is revealed that he knew Titans reside in the walls and that they are activated by sunlight, but refuses to disclose any further information. After he is captured by the Survey Corps, Nick experiences first hand the suffering of the families forced to evacuate because of the suspected breach of Wall Rosé. While he refuses to reveal any secrets he knows of the Walls, Nick suggests that the Survey Corps talk to Historia about it since her birth family holds the knowledge they seek. He is transferred to the Survey Corps barracks, but is later found dead, having been tortured by the Military Police Brigade.
Rod Reiss (ロッド・レイス Roddo Reisu)
The father of Historia Reiss, Rod's family have been power behind the throne in Wall Sina for many generations with each head of the family bestowed the power of the Coordinator. When Historia was born, Rod send her and her mother to live on a land he leased to the latter's parents. But when his entire family was slaughtered by Grisha Yeager when he stole the Coordinate during the Wall Maria incident, upset that Grinsha has unsettled the status quo, Rod attempts to bring Historia to live with him as he intended to use her to restore order. But the Wall Cult, unware of his true intentions, sent Kenny Ackerman to kill Historia with Rod convincing the soldier to let her join the Survey Corps under the alias of Krista Lenz. Reunited with his daughter, Rod reveals to Eren the truth of how his father made him a Titan before convincing Historia to eat Eren. But when Historia refuses, Rod is forced to transform himself into a massive Abnormal Titan that burns continuously and threatens the Orvud District. After being heavily crippled by the Levi Squad and Eren using a cache of barrels filled with gunpowder, Rod is killed when Historia personally makes the death blow. In his final moments, Rod transmits some of his memories into his daughter to better understand the situation that would soon come with his death.
A merchant who was first seen trying to flee with his packages intact when the Titans breached Wall Rose. However, a menacing threat from Mikasa forced Reeves to move his cart from the tunnel to let the villagers escape to the safety of Wall Sheena. He appears later when his group tries to kidnap Eren and Krista, but is foiled by the Survey Corps. He agrees to Levi's terms to support the Survey Corps in their rebellion against the King.
However, Dimo is killed by Captain Ackerman when he sees through their plan and realize that he was working with them.
Frieda Reiss (フリーダ・レイス Furīda Reisu)
A woman who has appeared in Eren's dream, Freida is later revealed Historia's older half-sister who was a kind-hearted person. She originally obtained the Coordinate at age fifteen from her uncle Uri Reiss, gaining the power to assume Titan form, manipulate memories, and endowed with the collective knowledge of human history. Frieda also taught Historia to read and be a kind person, later erasing herself for her half sister's memory when she wanted to be like her. As Frieda was inexperienced in controlling Titans, she was killed and eaten by Grisha Yeager during the fall of Wall Maria when she and her family took refuge in a church. Rod covered up her death to make it appear to be the work of bandits. As a previous Coordinate holder, Freida's memories were passed on Grisha and then Eren who eventually learned her identity.
Captain Kenny Ackerman (ケニー・アッカーマン隊長 Kenī Akkāman-taichō)
Serving directly under the Reiss family after being brought into their services by Rod's younger brother Uri, whom he respected, Kenny leads a unit whose Vertical Maneuvering Equipment is designed for killing humans. Kenny was the also the man who killed Historia's mother sometime after the Wall Maria incident. In the past, his family was despised out of fear since they descended from people who objected to the Reiss family's vision, Kenny was once known as Kenny the Ripper (切り裂きケニー Kirisaki Kenī) and killed Military Police officials before meeting Uri whom was to assassinate before following him when spared after seeing his power first hand. He is related to Mikasa's father and the uncle of Levi, becoming his guardian after his younger prostitute sister Kuchel left the child on the streets.
