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growing up with a father like hers and then training in the warriors unit was a very harsh experience. annie is seen as an emotionless woman and yet she is the warrior that cries the most out of everyone.

she cried when they took eren from her, realising that she killed a big amount of people for nothing and that she couldn’t go back to her father because the mission wasn’t done yet.

annie is a very strong and independent woman and crying isn’t seen as a weakness in her eyes. annie cries, annie gets frustrated, annie gets mad.

also in this scene she feels SO upset that not only she is crying, but the titan itself. i think it reflects well enough how deep her pain is.

she cries when she gets defeated and realises that she needs to crystallise herself to survive: she doesn’t know if her comrades will save her or when she’ll have the occasion to get out safely. she thought she could finally go home and see her father, but her only wish (and reason to keep living) now looks so far.

Annie: "Or what, do you want me to get close to one of the men in the family and marry into it?"

Bertholdt: "NO, YOU CANT DO THAT"

(Later)

Annie: "Plus, I don't have the mind of charm it takes to seduce a man"

Bertholdt: "THATS NOT TRUE!

Annie: "...? Thanks?"

Flippin Bertholdt the anime did you so dirty ill never forgive them

Annie clearly loved her friends in the manga, she wanted to teach Eren how to fight and thinks about both the warriors and scouts in the boat scene.

They also reduced the impact of her seeing Bertholdt again free from Ymir's control.

Bertholdt even as a child was never confident, the anime made him seem like a sociable yet stoic child, when in the manga he was extremely emotional and underestimated his self worth/abilities.

His crush on Annie, his love for his friends, and his guilt/grief was also way more obvious in the manga.

Mikasa is way funnier in the manga, like genuinely look at her naturally being the funniest person in the room.

She also had much more of a character outside of Eren in the manga and their bond was way stronger. Genuinely so much of her character development got removed and replaced with her spamming the "Eren" dialouge option.

Her friendship with Armin was also reduced.

Marco isn't naive or a confident person in general, this boy can't take a compliment. For a character that dies so soon we 100% needed a scene of him interacting with characters other than Jean, so for the only scene of that being removed really takes away the impact of his death before season 3.

He is also very observant and was the one to get Eren and Armin to seek out Bertholdt and Reiner's help despite never meeting them before due to their high grades.