Attack on Titan: Lost Girls

Summary

Following the novel of the same name, the "Shingeki no Kyojin: Lost Girls" manga expands on the stories of Mikasa Ackerman and Annie Leonhart through three original tales that explore their past and motivations, offering additional insight into their characters before and during their time in the military.

Synopsis

The manga "Shingeki no Kyojin: Lost Girls" serves as a spin-off, adapting the novel of the same name. It presents an original storyline focusing on Mikasa Ackerman and Annie Leonhart, delving into their experiences and perspectives. The narrative unfolds across three distinct parts. The first story, "Wall Sheena, Goodbye," centers on Annie Leonhart as she undertakes a mission to locate a missing girl in Stohess District, encountering criminal activity and various challenges in her search. The second story, "Lost in the Cruel World," takes a different approach, placing Mikasa Ackerman in an alternate reality where the Titans never attacked the Walls and her family was spared. In this alternate world, she interacts with Eren Yeager, gaining a new understanding of his aspirations. The third and final part, "Lost Girls," provides a glimpse into Mikasa and Annie's training and their motivations for joining the military, showcasing a shared moment between the two characters that provides further character development. Overall, the manga provides supplementary material to the main "Attack on Titan" storyline, expanding upon the character development of Mikasa and Annie in unique and compelling ways.

Characters

Mikasa Ackerman

Age: 15, >! 19 (after time skip) Birthdate: February 10 Height: 170 cm (5'7") -> 176 cm (5'9") Weight: 68 kg (150 lbs) -> 70 kg (154 lbs) Position: 104th Trainees Squad, Scouting Legion Graduation rank: 1st Mikasa is Eren's childhood friend, along with Armin. Mikasa shares an unbreakable bond with Eren following events in their past, and rushes to protect him whenever he is in danger. Mikasa possesses impressive fighting skill and strength even as a child. As a teen, Mikasa is considered a genius among all the army trainees and is incredibly skilled at combat and agility. She constantly worries for Eren's well-being and lives to protect him. >! When Mikasa was younger, her parents were murdered and she was taken hostage to be sold into slavery. Eren managed to find her and killed two of the three kidnappers by catching them off guard, despite only being a child. The third kidnapper discovered the scene and began strangling Eren while holding him in the air. Mikasa, trembling, grabbed Eren's knife from the floor. In that split second, Mikasa came to terms with the cruelty of the world, gaining perfect control of her own body and using that strength to kill the kidnapper in a single strike through the heart—killing him to save Eren. >! >! In the aftermath of this trauma, Mikasa asked Dr. Yeager where she could possibly go from here. She was cold and had no place left to call home. Eren gave Mikasa his red scarf and Dr. Yeager welcomed her into their family. Because of Eren's heroics and this gesture, she feels she owes her life to the Yeagers. She continues to wear Eren's scarf from that day into adulthood, and they are inseparable. >! In the end she is the one to kill Eren, saving the world.

Annie Leonhart

Age: 16 >! 20 (after time skip) Birthday: March 22 Height: 153 cm (5') Weight: 54 kg (119 lbs) Affiliations: 104th Trainees Squad, Military Police Graduation Rank: 4th Ranked 4th of the trainee class. A stoic girl, her father trained her in hand-to-hand combat. She's a solitary type, and solidarity doesn't come to her easily. She joined the Military Police under the reason that she only wishes "to survive." >! Annie is a Titan-shifter, and as such, it was revealed that she is the Female Titan who killed most of the Scouting Legion members during their 57th expedition. Annie was part of a group of Titan-shifters that initially aimed to wipe out the humans inhabiting the walls until the revelation of Eren's capability to transform into a Titan forced them to change their plans on capturing him instead. She is also the culprit behind the killings of the two captive Titans that Hange was researching. >! >! As the Female Titan, she had attempted to kidnap Eren on numerous occasions, with the two even engaging in hand-to-hand combat in their Titan forms. She aims to capture Eren with the supposed goal of bringing him "somewhere." When she was suspected by Armin to be the Female Titan, the Scouting Legion had set up a trap to capture and interrogate her, though she was able to see through their plot which resulted in her attempting to escape. Mikasa and Eren manage to stop her from escaping, and when the soldiers tried to bring her out of her Titan form, reminded of her father, she wrapped herself inside a hard crystal thus making the soldiers unable to obtain any information from her. >! >! Though she is affiliated with Bertolt and Reiner, she tends to isolate herself from her fellow Titan-shifters. Despite her callousness and brutality in physical combat, she has shown genuine concern and respect towards her past classmates, notably Eren and Armin. Despite her seeming disinterest toward her own combat skills, Eren has deduced that she has a great fondness for it, as evidenced by her showing interest in further teaching him her techniques. As the Female Titan, she has the unique ability to generate a hard crystalline substance to protect/cover specific parts of her body. (Source: Wikipedia) Note: Annie Leonhart is the official English translation by Kodansha.

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