Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, Vol. 2
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Average rating4.3
Kuklo had spent his entire life in cages, feared and hated as "the Titan's son." Then he met Sharle Inocencio, a young girl who defied her father and brother to care for and educate the abused boy in secret -- and plot his escape from the dungeon, and her escape from her betrothal. But the night they've dreamed of brings new horrors with it, and Kuklo becomes obsessed with proving that he is not the monster everyone has always assumed him to be. That means meeting a Titan for himself, in person ...!
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3 primary books漫画 進撃の巨人 Before the Fall / Attack on Titan: Before the Fall Manga
漫画 進撃の巨人 Before the Fall / Attack on Titan: Before the Fall Manga is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Satoshi Shiki.
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I am in agony, I hated every second of this, I hate this show and this manga... but I'm so glad to have experienced it <3
The first volume was very promising, but this issue seals the deal. Mikasa is one of the best female characters in the genre (certainly my favourite), and this volume is all Mikasa! It's almost too bad that Eren comes back. This series would have been so groundbreaking if the first issue's classic ambitious, foolhardy young male protagonist ends up being eaten, and the series instead ends up being an action series starring an unstoppable young woman who sees titans as just a more obvious type of monster.
In this issue the world of the titans and the complexity of the characters' situation really opens up, and you start to see the depth of what this series can be. I watched some of the show before reading this series, so I know the twists are coming up, but it's really fun the second time around and just as gripping.
Story
This is the part of the series that really started to suck me in. While Eren can be a bit frustrating at time, I absolutely love Mikasa. She might be my new favorite female character in all of Japanese fiction.
We get a lot of depth added to both her and Eren and the nature of their bond in this one. We're also presented with a new wrinkle to the Titan problem which is left unresolved in the anime and a large part of why I decided I had to start reading the manga itself.
Overall I think this volume is a little more interesting than the first and if you enjoyed that one, you should like this one.
Artwork
The artwork here is once again uneven. I'm not sure if this is true of all manga or is just the case in this series, but the action can be really hard to follow.
I like the way the characters are drawn and you can really see that in full color version of the Anime series, but can be lacking in many panels of the manga.
Overall though I'm enjoying the story too much to care about it though.
