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Ugh, can you believe it’s actually the latter half of November? I can’t! Where does all the time go? Here in Tokyo we’re doing the ‘back-to-normal’ thingy even as Covid-19 cases are rising nationwide. But no one seems to be panicking because Japan (with total deaths still under the 2,000 mark, making it 2 per 100K people) doesn’t have it half

[Warning: Contains spoilers.] The Biplane Has Landed Finally we find out where Zeke is! Historia is about to give birth. Hizuru is being stampeded upon. Countless people are dying, including newborn babies. Horror and mayhem, death and destruction everywhere. The Marleyan military is sorry for its sins, but alas, the repentance might just be too late. Let’s have a closer look: Zeke On the

Ah, November, at last! So glad the previous month is over. For the first time in three years I finally succeeded in completing a Sober October 31-day dry run, thanks to a bunch of supportive friends. Since I started drinking in college I couldn’t let go of the bottle, and have been drinking daily as a matter of course. But

Warning: Contains spoilers. Talk is Cheap Thank the gods (whoever they are) for giving us an Eren scene in this chapter, even if it’s only kid Eren with his eyes gouged out, like a character in a B-grade horror film. Kid Eren is better than no Eren at all, and he’s laid down the rules once and for all: talk will get

Tokyo Nights “Well, as long as Levi dies a satisfying death, I’ll be happy,” her friend replied. Levi had been her favourite character since he came flying out of nowhere and atop a titan he just he killed looks back and says 「オイ・・・ガキ共・・・これは・・・どういう状況だ」(“Yo brats, what’s going on here?”). “I’m sure he’ll fulfill his promise to Erwin,” Karina said with plenty of confidence. Why

Girls Like You The terrible thing that happened was, somehow, Tetsuya’s then girlfriend Satoko Watanabe found out about their one-time tryst. He was promptly dumped. “I planned to propose to her after college, once I get a job with a good company,” he’d told Karina. Satchan was the love of his life, he’d told her, weeping like it was the end of

Secrets Their bowls empty, Asuka wipes her hands with a wet paper towel and ventures, “So, can I finally hear the story about your Hange keychain?” “Oh, this? There’s nothing to tell. Just a doodad I got from somewhere.” “Where?” “I forgot. It was years ago.” Liar liar pants on fire, Asuka thought, sighing. Another week passes. Since the two young women work in different departments

Read the Introduction The Office Whinger “Why wasn’t Hange given a childhood backstory? How could such an important character be killed off without a proper backstory?” Karina whined. “Isayama-sensei is tired of drawing and just wants to finish everything ASAP, is what I think,” Asuka replied. She glanced at her friend as they walked down the carpeted corridor of their Tokyo office. “Told

Warning: Contains spoilers Farewell, Dear Hange Hange’s death is the main event in this chapter, and I feel I should write about that first and foremost. But as someone who absolutely adores Hange and has them up on my list of favourite characters in the manga, I don’t think a few paragraphs in a chapter review will do them justice. I’ll write

Do you like canned coffee? I don’t. But there’s a way to make me buy them: slap on some AoT drawings and off I go to pay at the cashier’s😂 Asahi Inryou has collaborated with Attack on Titan on a series of canned coffee drinks: Wonda Morning Shot (red can, sweet with lots of caffeine) and Wonda Kin no Bitou (gold

How to Dock a Boat Present day Paradis, two and a half years after the war with Marley “I’m gonna teach you a simple method for bringing your boat alongside a dock or bulkhead,” Jean told Philip. “Doesn’t matter whether you’re docking a big or small boat: the principles are the same.” Philip gripped the boat wheel, eyes fixed on the dock. Jean

Joy of Baking Present day Paradis, two years after the war with Marley “My favorite thing about homemade mince pies is that you can customise the filling to suit your own taste,” Mikasa told Philip. “Your dad loves vine fruit, but I prefer apricots and cranberries. Lily likes figs, while Len likes ginger and nuts. We’ll make a little bit of everything,

Warning: PG-13. Contains depictions of violence. The Saddest Day Ten months ago “Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked for life, is what they say,” the girl turned her head away from Mikasa, looked out the small barred window high up on the wall. She went on, “Quite ironic, don’t you think, Colonel?” Mikasa didn’t know what to say, had no words of reassurance to offer.

Prince Eren Present day Paradis, a year and a half after the war with Marley “Hard to rank, there’s not just one,” Philip told Prince Eren. “You can tell me the top three,” the prince offered as a compromise. They were at the royal palace, playing between their school lessons. Princess Ymir was away with Queen Historia and Armin Arlert on a diplomatic mission

The Truth and Nothing But (Continued, six months after the war with Marley, before Philip met Mikasa) Philip sat inside the broom closet at the police station. “Stay here, just for an hour,” the policeman told him, handing him a biscuit and a flask of water. Jean was nowhere to be seen. The boy looked around the closet. Well, it wasn’t exactly a closet,

Liars and Outliers (Continued, six months after the war with Marley) “I didn’t mean to kill my father,” the boy explained. “I aimed for his shoulder and threw the knife, but it ended up in his neck…” The whole story had come out by then. His father had an argument one night with a woman, his sister-in-law. That made her Philip’s aunt. The

Live Cargo Six months after the war with Marley ended “Saw that little stowaway making a beeline for the police station,” a sailor told Jean as he alighted from the gangplank. Jean nodded his head in acknowledgement, but was wondering, why in the world was that kid heading for the police? Did something happen on the ship that he hadn’t been made aware