With a lot of exposition bombs being dropped in Season three Part two, Attack on Titan's anime is finally giving fans some answers that they take been waiting for. Speaking of which, this list includes spoilers for both the anime and manga! You have been warned.

One attribute of the anime that is praised is its dedication to following the manga. Fans have posted images of the manga adjacent to gifs from the anime to show how perfectly the show mirrors the book pages. However, there are some differences that fans have caught. Here is what we have plant.

10 Sasha Plays A Larger Role In The Anime

Attack On Titan Sasha

Sasha speedily won her manner into the hearts of fans with her "potato daughter" scene in Season 1. During the events of Season two in the manga, though, Sasha is non present.

Due to her popularity in the anime's opening flavour, those working on the anime decided to go on her around. In fact, Sasha was almost killed off in volume 9 of the manga according to an interview with Isayama's editor. This was the reason Sasha was absent-minded for the Clash of the Titans arc. However, the anime managed to go on her involved.

nine Annie's Laugh Was Cutting From The Manga

One of the well-nigh memorable moments of the series is Annie's creepy and shocking express mirth as a reaction to being outed every bit the Female Titan. Some fans still debate why she laughed. Was she but relieved that the true cat was out of the pocketbook? Or, was she just a scrap nuts at this bespeak? Whatever the example was, information technology merely made her seem all the more scary and unpredictable.

However, in the manga, she did not accept the epic laugh. Isayama originally sketched a similar moment in the manga, merely ultimately opted to leave it out. He ended up regretting the decision and turned to the anime to brand amends.

8 Anime Shows Training Earlier

One of the larger differences betwixt the evidence and manga is that the manga takes a less linear path to the story. In the manga, the story jumps from niggling Mikasa, Eren, and Armin escaping the titan attack that killed Eren'south mom to suddenly graduating from war machine school. We do get flashbacks later down the line. In the anime, the training is all shown in a linear fashion.

The anime obviously took the less confusing route. Information technology also made sure nosotros were more attached and familiar with the characters before throwing them into a tragic titan boxing.

7 Eren Never Got The Upper Hand On Annie In The Manga

In the anime during Annie and Eren's epic concluding titan fight, Eren slowly gets the upper paw on her until she crystallizes. In the manga, though, this is not quite how the fight goes. Instead, Annie utterly rules the fight and Eren does not get any taste of victory. It'south not until Mikasa steps in and so the entire Survey Corp tries to take Annie out when Annie crystallizes.

So while this fight was unlike, the first one betwixt titan Eren and Annie remained pretty similar betwixt the manga and anime. It may accept changed just to show Eren developing as a fighter.

half-dozen The Trio's Personalities Are A Petty Different

While there are differences in the personalities of Mikasa, Eren, and Armin between the anime and manga, they are rather small. In the manga, Mikasa interacts with more characters and Armin is less submissive. Eren is driven more by his shared dream with Armin to experience freedom rather than solely a desire to kill all titans.

Due to this, a common critique by manga fans is that Eren, Mikasa, and Armin are as well simplified in the anime. Fans have noted that the anime makes Eren seem too angry, Armin likewise submissive, and Mikasa too obsessed with Eren. At present, in all fairness, all three characters have grown with each passing season.

v Berserk Eren Does Not Be In The Manga

This difference is tied to why Eren was able to gain the upper paw against the Female Titan in the anime and not in the manga. The key to his overpowering Annie was going into some stage called "Berserk Manner." In that form, he was literary on fire and got a burst of energy and ability.

In the manga, this never occurs. Manga fans have typically disliked this alter, as it threw a monkey wrench into Eren'southward established powers. Also, a trend in the manga is that Eren'south anger often works against him, as the story is mostly about tactics in battle. Consequently, it seemed to exist a strange choice when the anime let him get stronger out of but being mad enough.

4 The Anime Cuts Some Of Armin's Scenes

Small-scale manga scenes and lines centering on Armin take not shown upwards in the anime. In that location are others where Armin is replaced with a different graphic symbol. For instance, in the flavor i finale, Mikasa pulls Eren out of his titan grade. In the manga, that was actually Armin.

Similar a lot of the changes, manga fans were unhappy with this 1 as well. The anime'due south changes put a far larger focus on Mikasa and Eren's relationship, sometimes at the price of Armin and Eren's relationship.

iii Less Religious Fanatics In The Manga

In the very kickoff two episodes of the anime, we see glimpses of priests speaking loudly to the public almost the walls' sacred nature and that they should non be defiled. They are definitely shown as fanatics also, going equally far as ignoring people in demand and the titans effectually them so they can speak in verses.

These tidbits of religion are not shown at the beginning of the manga. The anime likely added these scenes because they knew from later on chapters that there were religious beliefs based on the city walls. They might have added them early to brand the breaking of the walls even more catastrophic.

ii Carla'southward Death Is More than Graphic In The Manga

Attack On Titan Carla Yeager

Near would think the anime would be more graphic than the manga. In the case of Carla'due south death inAttack on Titan, it was the manga that went the extra mile. In the anime, the titan kills Carla earlier eating her. Its big hands block the killing action and we do non see the whole unfortunate process.

In the manga, though, we see information technology squeeze poor Carla to decease and watch it eat with Carla's legs dangling out of its mouth and everything. Yikes.

one Ymir's Backstory Is Revealed Earlier In The Anime

For those that did non read the manga, Ymir's backstory was very confusing. We did non even so know anything about the society beyond the walls. We did not know that people were turned into titans for punishment in that society. Despite not having any exposition for the club Ymir came from, the anime went alee and had Ymir's story get told.

In the manga, her backstory was not revealed for a long time. Fans have theorized that this is so Ymir's love for Historia would make more sense in the evidence.

Side by side: The ten Near Vicious Bleach Fights, Ranked

Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a... One-Shots' Creative Teams Announced

Read Side by side

Most The Author

Allison Stalberg (106 Articles Published)

More From Allison Stalberg