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A review by lanceylance
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall 1 by Ryo Suzukaze
4.0
This was not expecting when I picked this up from the library--- literally. Because I'm stupid, and wasn't paying attention, I got this, instead of the original SNK #1 that I was planning to read. That aside, this was not what I expected from an SNK spinoff.
[SPOILERS IN THIS PARAGRAPH ONLY] The story of this manga series is of a boy who was born from a titan, grew up in a cage, was sold to an aristocratic family as a "punching bag", and something happened with the daughter of said family. But let's go back. This kid was born from a dead mom, into titan bile. That's a pretty crappy way to come into a pretty crappy world. You would hope for people to help this child grow up happily and as normally as possible- so of course that's not what happened. He was treated as a sideshow freak his whole life, and spent it all in a cage. Then he got bought by a man who wanted to get his son a punching bag. But his daughter was kind enough, and had enough compassion to teach this pathetic boy how to speak. They begin to plan to escape together.
[NO MORE SPOILERS] I really enjoyed this first manga, and I have already read 2-6. I can dig it. I recommend this to fans of the SNK series who want to know more about before our favorite characters enter the picture. This series takes place 55 years before the fall of the outermost wall.
I will say, sometimes it feels the story is beginning to get a bit predictable- but your predictions can be wrong. Keep that in mind. That's all! Thanks for reading!
[SPOILERS IN THIS PARAGRAPH ONLY] The story of this manga series is of a boy who was born from a titan, grew up in a cage, was sold to an aristocratic family as a "punching bag", and something happened with the daughter of said family. But let's go back. This kid was born from a dead mom, into titan bile. That's a pretty crappy way to come into a pretty crappy world. You would hope for people to help this child grow up happily and as normally as possible- so of course that's not what happened. He was treated as a sideshow freak his whole life, and spent it all in a cage. Then he got bought by a man who wanted to get his son a punching bag. But his daughter was kind enough, and had enough compassion to teach this pathetic boy how to speak. They begin to plan to escape together.
[NO MORE SPOILERS] I really enjoyed this first manga, and I have already read 2-6. I can dig it. I recommend this to fans of the SNK series who want to know more about before our favorite characters enter the picture. This series takes place 55 years before the fall of the outermost wall.
I will say, sometimes it feels the story is beginning to get a bit predictable- but your predictions can be wrong. Keep that in mind. That's all! Thanks for reading!