Differences between the Anime and the Manga - Episode 26

The episode was written by Yasuko Kobayashi.

Usually the episodes have more filler scenes than deleted scenes, though this one had much more scenes that are deleted. Red squares are the lines that were not in the anime.

Deleted:

Few lines from Hanji and Pastor Nick when Hanji found out that there’s a Titan in the wall.

*No heart-beats from Hanji in the anime as well.*

Thoughts:

This is just the beginning of missing dialogue between Hanji and Pastor Nick…

Changed:

It’s Hanji in the manga who says to Pastor Nick how they’ll start the actual repair on the wall after sunset. But in the anime it’s a random SC soldier saying it to Erwin.

Added:

SC soldier to Erwin: What are we supposed to make of this, Sir? I never imagined there where Titans in the walls…

Erwin: No one did. There were only people who knew, and people who didn’t.

Thoughts:

That’s a cool line from Erwin.

Changed:

This page from the manga doesn’t exist in the anime:

And instead, we got the following conversation between Hitch and Marlowe:

Marlowe: What’s the deal?! We just fought a Titan here, why are they keeping us in the dark?

Hitch: Business as usual. But what’s scummiest of all…is that there’s no “official” reason why all these people died.

Thoughts:

Marlowe’s reaction in the manga feels much more natural. But, they also changed Marlowe a little bit in ep23, so I guess this is how anime-Marlowe would react…Also, they didn’t mention Annie in the anime.

Changed:

There’s corpses all over the place when Marlowe and Hitch are talking, while there are no corpses around them in the manga.



Thoughts:

That’s because they screwed up ep25. In the manga the casualties were minimal, while in the anime the whole town was on fire, and there’s blood and corpses everywhere. More about this once I get to ep25.

Deleted:

I’ll post the conversation between Hanji and Nick from the manga. You don’t have to read it, just pay attention to how much of their conversation was deleted (red squares = deleted):

Thoughts:

God damn it Kobayashi…The episode had to end with Mike dying, but since she thought that the episode had to have an Eremika filler that lasts more than a minute, some stuff had to be deleted. We already lacked the cruel Hanji in s1 where they mainly focused on her ‘mad scientist’ part of the character, and this scene was perfect to fully show how fearsome she can be. There are so many wise stuff that Hanji said that’s missing, and the conversation is also important for Pastor Nick’s character, and the monarchy (wall religion) in general. It’s my favorite Hanji scene from the manga, and ¾ from it is missing in the anime…

Added:

There’s an added scene of Thomas (the guy that Mike send to tell everyone the news), running on a horse and saying: Hurry! Inform Commander Erwin! Hurry! There are Titans inside Wall Rose!

Thoughts:

That’s the kind of small filler that is perfectly fine to include. We already knew that Mike send him to spread the news about the Titans, so showing us few extra seconds of this guy trying to get to Erwin as soon as possible is obviously ok.

Added:

There’s some sort of flashback starting at 08:00 that lasts for several seconds. It’s starts rewinding everything to 12 hours earlier, but there are some scenes that are yet to happen:

Thoughts:

I’m guessing this is just added to confuse people like me who were pausing this sequence frame by frame to see what the hell is in the flashback, and this has nothing to do with some time-travel memories…

Edit:

Someone pointed out to me that this all basically happens during those 12h. It took a long time for Thomas to reach Erwin, and by the time Erwin and others found out, all of this has already happened. So just ignore my previous thoughts.

Deleted:

There are also deleted lines from Connie and Reiner.



Thoughts:

Reiner’s “We’re soldiers” is one of those lines that don’t seem important when read first time, but than once you learn that he created his soldier-persona, and re-read it, you’re like “Holy shit, he was in his soldier-mode in here.”

Small Change:

In the manga Sasha looks so worried when she realized that the Titans are coming from the direction of Connie’s village. But anime didn’t exactly capture her reaction and the horror on her face as shown in the manga:

Thoughts:

I mean, it’s nothing big, it looks similar, but…In the manga, just from her reaction, you could tell how much she cares for Connie, and we couldn’t really tell that in the anime.

Deleted:

A line from Nanaba.

Deleted:

Mike’s sniffing.

Thoughts:

Ok, whoever did this should be put in prison. You can’t delete Mike’s sniffing and expect that there won’t be any consequences.

Deleted:

Nanaba’s dialogue with Mike

Deleted:

More of their dialogue:

Thoughts:

Well they’ll have more lines later on, it’s not like they’re gonna die soon…Oh, wait.

Deleted:

Part of Mike’s speech to everyone:

Deleted:

Some Connie’s and Reiner’s lines:

Thoughts:

Connie knew that he’s acting on his feelings, but still asked Mike for a permission to go to his village, and Mike allowed him. It showed us that Mike had a big heart, and acting upon your own feelings is actually normal even for a soldier…*cough* ch84 *cough*.

Added:

Mike slicing up some Titans.

Thoughts:

Epic!

Changed:

The flashback that Eren gets from ch50 about his Mom is happening right now…And while Carla is pissed in the manga, she is very calm in the anime:

Thoughts:

It made sense that Eren would remember something like that in ch50 once he saw the Smiling Titan. In ch50 he had this flashback, than a flashback of Smiling Titan eating his Mom. But in this episode, he just dreamed it for no particular reason, and he wakes up in front of Mikasa, making it seem like he remembered it because of what his Mom has said to him about how he needs to be there for Mikasa, too. There’s even a strong focus on Eren’s reaction to those words, that’s not in the manga. Carla is also miss-characterized as she’s not calm in the manga at all. She’s pissed because Eren always gets into fights. Eren screams in ch50 when the Smiling Titan is eating Hannes-san “Mom…I’m still just…a boy who can’t do anything!!” I think ch50 is the perfect place for Eren to have this flashback of Carla, so I’m confused why it’s been randomly put here.

Added:

Eremika moment

*Mikasa sleeping in the sitting position, after sewing her scarf…Eren wakes up, she drops her scarf, and Eren picks it up.*

Mikasa; That’s…

Eren: It fell. You gotta be tired. Go get some sleep.

Mikasa: Sorry. I’m fine.

Eren: That thing’s seen better days. I’ll get you a new one if I see any in our supplies.

*Armin barges in*

Armin: Eren! Mikasa! This is really bad! The Titans! They’re inside Wall Rose!

Thoughts:

First of all, Mikasa is sewing her scarf like some moe-waifu, what the heck?! Ok, so in the manga, Armin and Jean leave for the meeting and Mikasa is left alone with Eren, while he’s sleeping. The next EMA scene we see is when they’re traveling with Hanji, Levi, and Pastor Nick. Putting some filler in-between is fine, but what the hell did I just saw?

In the manga, when they’re traveling in the carriage, Eren was still tired to stand up, because of his fight against Annie:

So him even waking up and easily walking is contradicting the cannon stuff. If they have at least talked about the Wall Titans, or Annie, or anything story-wise, but a whole minute for a scarf scene?! I mean, this is just a forced head-cannon scene from Kobayashi/Araki. What would make much more sense is Mikasa simply sleeping in a chair besides Eren’s bad, Armin barging in with the news, than both of them waking Eren up, telling him that they need to hurry cause he needs to close the hole in the wall.

And I don’t even know what to think about the conversation Eren and Mikasa had…And Armin was used as a cock-blocker for Eremika. Awful filler in my opinion.



Added:

Levi and Erwin talk.

Levi: Ugh. Those damn Titans never give us a break.

Erwin: Can you go?

Levi: Not like there’s much choice.

Thomas: It was wise to have Section Commander Mike watch the 104th. I believe he can handle the situation.

Erwin: Yes. let’s hope so.

Thoughts:

Cool filler. Though Levi’s response… In the manga he didn’t go with EMA and Hanji to the front lines, and he didn’t fight in the CoT arc. They already made him fight in ep25, even though he was injured. Well not fight, but he did get Eren out of his Titan. So now I’m wondering…does this mean they’ll make some Levi fillers and include him more in this arc cause he’s just so popular as a character?

Deleted:

Mike’s line.

Overal thoughts:

Not the worst script written by Kobayashi, not the best one either. But I’d rather if we didn’t have EMA at all this episode, if that meant we got the full conversation between Hanji and Pastor Nick, and the full conversation between Mike and Nanaba. Or a 20-30sec filler with EMA would be enough. That’s me, I don’t like when cannon things are deleted to make room for some head-cannons. There will certainly be episodes where fillers will be added, but this one could have gone without fillers. Episode 26 covered around 25-30 pages of ch34, and the entire ch35, so it covered about 1.7 chapters. Not every episode will cover that much. The director of the episode was Hiroyuki Tanaka, and the animation was pretty amazing.

So for me, the best part of the episode was Mike’s action scene, while the worst was Eremika filler.