Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime Isayama

Sorry, got a bit muddled for a second there. Of course, now I've mentioned that second point I'm sure we'll later discover that young man protagonist Kuklo is actually Levi's great-grandfather, thereby explaining the ease with which the latter slays Titans in the present day using the boiling Titan-born blood in his veins as he utilises Titanshout to send them to Sovngarde. We're in Wall Sheena with a closer look at the city's hedonistic society than ever before, and all the characters appear to be of their own creation rather than relatives of ones we know in the original story. A wise choice is veering the narrative and characters - at least for the moment - almost completely away from anything connected to the main thrusts of vanilla Attack on Titan. The young man just happens to have been caesareaned from his mother's womb inside a ball of Titan puke, and the naive girl just happens to be part of the aristocratic family that's imprisoned the young man and beaten him senseless for two of the fifteen years of his life he didn't spend imprisoned in a slave market.ĭespite the tonal difference (not to mention artist and writer), Before the Fall is still an interesting story. In contrast to the mothership series being a big, high concept battle between outlandish giants and dudes with bungee cords strapped to their backs, Before the Fall is a much smaller, more intimate tale (once you get past the opening chapter, of course) concerning a young man and a naive girl. That may seem disingenuous given the thumping great title on the cover, but this is not Attack on Titan per se. Do not come into this expecting Attack on Titan.

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime Isayama