Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) Episode 19

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Bite/The 57th Expedition, Part 3 - Attack On Titan, Season 1 (Original Japanese Version)

"Bite/The 57th Expedition, Part 3"

09/02/2013

I am back from a day's worth of loading up on food with family. It was a great holiday, but let's get back into Attack on Titan. I'm dying to get caught up with the currently airing episodes.

*Spoiler*

My reaction to most of the episode was, Why?! Why keep running?! Eren spends most of the episode ticked off that they keep leaving their comrades to die without helping them. Captain Levi will not stop, and he won't explain why he won't stop either. I think the fact that he won't explain why they can't stop is what frustrates Eren the most. Ultimately, they keep running, and then...

Flashback Time. No anime is complete without flashback episodes.

We see that during the time Eren spent training with Levi's squad, they discovered a way to stop Eren in Titan form without killing him, by maiming him and cutting him out of the nape of the Titan neck. So, the good news is in theory they could stop a rampaging Titan Eren. The bad news? He could very well kill the entire Levi squad. The human-Titans are much stronger and more intelligent than your average Titans.

During the flashback you get more Hange experiments. She is just plain odd. She loves her experiments too much, as I've said before. We do learn something useful though, Eren couldn't simply transform at will when told to. It seems as if he needs a clear goal as well as the self-inflicted harm. Eren finds this out by accidentally partially transforming during mealtime. Levi has some real killers on his squad. They almost kill Eren. Thankfully Levi saved him. Finally, they all apologize to Eren though. It has to be hard to be in their shoes. This is very new territory for them.

Back to the present.

Why didn't they stop running? Well, to lead the female Titan into a trap, of course. Erwin had it set up the whole time, and Levi must have known about it as well. I think Levi was the only one though, from everyone else's reactions. The real question though is how Erwin knew this would happen. This was no coincidence. We finally discover the reason for the whole expedition. What will happen now that the Titan is caught?

Preview: They attempt to reveal her identity, but....?!

Stay tuned.