Attack on Titan

[🇯🇵] 進撃の巨人

Synopsis:

Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of titans.
Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
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Main Characters:

Armin Arlert

🇯🇵 アルミン・アルレルト

Character ID: 46494

About Character and Role:

Height: 163 cm (5'4")
Weight: 55 kg (121 lbs)
Position: 104th Trainees Squad, Scouting Legion
Graduation Rank: Outside the top 10

Eren's best friend, he is physically and emotionally weak. Even though lacking in actual combat, Armin is a genius on theoretical courses and can make plans even under extreme pressure. Even so, Armin kept on thinking that he is weak. He himself does not notice the things he does for Eren and Mikasa, and believes himself to be completely incompetent and hates himself for having to rely on Eren and Mikasa.
He later inherits the Colossal Titan by eating Bertolt Hoover

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Note: Armin Arlert is the official English translation by Kodansha.

Eren Yeager

🇯🇵 エレン・イェーガー

Character ID: 40882

About Character and Role:

Height: 170 cm (5'7"), 183 cm (6'0")
Position: 104th Trainees Squad, Scouting Legion
Graduation Rank: 5th

Eren is Shingeki no Kyojin's protagonist. His adoptive sister, Mikasa, notes on numerous occasions that he acts on impulse without thinking things through, and she often pulls/carries/throws him when he starts fighting with others to protect him from himself. Along with Mikasa, he tends to spend his free time with their mutual friend, Armin. His father is a doctor (who is well respected by Hannes and potentially many more) whilst his mother is a housewife. When Eren was a child, he saved Mikasa from being sold off when he visited her home with his father. Three men—killers of her parents—were in her house, and he killed two of them—one by slitting his throat and the other by charging at with a quickly assembled spear. Mikasa herself killed the third man after Eren urged her to fight whilst the man strangled Eren. After this, he gave Mikasa his scarf and Eren's father adopted Mikasa into their family. Later, when the colossal titan broke through Wall Maria the debris from this attack scattered and hurtled towards his home. He could only watch on as his mother—trapped under the rubble of their house—was eaten by a titan. This event lit the fire of revenge within Eren that he would kill every giant and not live a life cowering in fear. Sometime after this—before the time skip that jumped a few years ahead, to when he became a soldier—his father injected him with something. It's unknown what at this time but it turns out, because of the injection, Eren can utilize the ability to transform into a titan himself (which explains how his limbs were able to regenerate) with side effects of high fever and massive stamina drain. It is later revealed that Eren has both the Attack Titan and the Founding Titan. Eren later inherits the Warhammer Titan as well. In manga chapter 138, Eren is killed by Mikasa.

Mikasa Ackerman

🇯🇵 ミカサ・アッカーマン

Character ID: 40881

About Character and Role:

Height: 170 cm (5'7")
Position: 104th Training Corps, Scouting Legion
Graduation Rank: 1st

Mikasa is Eren's adoptive sister and mutual childhood friend of 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. Jäger 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. Jäger welcomed her into their family. Because of Eren's heroics and this gesture, she feels she owes her life to the Jägers. She continues to wear Eren's scarf from that day into adulthood, and they are inseparable.

Mikasa kills Eren in chapter 138.