Item: Attack On Titan 2
Rating: 4.00
Author: celinenyx

by Hajime Isayama

For one hundred years, what's left of mankind has lived in the city on earth, protected by walls that tower over ravenous giants known as the Titans. Untouched by the Titans for a century, humanity has become complacent. But Eren Jaeger has had had enough. While his fellow citizens are content to hide, Jaeger has the passion to take action to not only protect the city, but to learn what the Titans actually are. But on his first mission he comes face to face with horrors beyond his imagination and secrets from his own past that could shift the tides of war.

I can't win if I don't fight

Humanity is under attack from the titans, gigantic man-eating monsters. They seem humanoid, but show no intelligence. They only hunger for human flesh.

Attack on Titan is pretty damn brutal, and this second volume continues that tradition. Our eager cadets from the first volume are faced with their first real crisis - one that can be fatal to many, or all of them. Misaka, one of the main characters, gets more attention in this volume. We learn more about her past, and how she can seem so calm under threat of death. The dialogue was a bit heavy-handed or stilted in some places. This might be due to translation; it's impossible for me to tell whether it does work in Japanese.

Action-packed and pretty damn depressing.

Attack On Titan 2 (Attack on Titan)

by Hajime Isayama

Reviewed by celinenyx on Jun 3, 2018

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