A review by jiang
Attack on Titan, Volume 1 by Hajime Isayama

to be honest, i was never really much of a fan of the first few episodes of attack on titan so the first few chapters were expectedly underwhelming to me. the pacing of the manga and the anime are very different and that surprised me a lot. i thought it would resemble the anime’s timeline but it immeadiately skipped to graduation day.

if i were reading this with no prior knowledge about the anime i wouldn’t be interested in the characters at all. i would have stayed and read this for the world building. im glad that the anime gave the characters distinctive personalities.