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A review by inhonoredglory
Attack on Titan, Volume 2 by Hajime Isayama
5.0
The pacing definitely got better with this volume than the last. One of the first things I loved about this SNK (when I watched it first in the anime) was the realistic and honest portrayal of grief. Both Armin and Mikasa's suicidal heroism here is in direct reaction to their sorrow:
Since I watched the anime, not much was new, but I did love seeing some extra bits with Jean, contemplating how he, like so many SNK characters, was also enslaved to some dream, some vision from someone else, that gave his life meaning.
Spoiler
Armin wishing he and Eren had died together and trying to give up his ODM gas to Mikasa. Mikasa going out in a blaze of glory, relinquishing to peacefully dying at the hands of a titan: thinking it was good life, full of cruelty and beauty.Since I watched the anime, not much was new, but I did love seeing some extra bits with Jean, contemplating how he, like so many SNK characters, was also enslaved to some dream, some vision from someone else, that gave his life meaning.