Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Attack on Titan catchup post, this time looking at season 2 episode 5, Historia. After leaving things on quite the cliffhanger I was left waiting for answers. When we saw the whole flashback in the mountains I thought they were just not going to adress it. It took me a moment to realise that it was actually set in the past so the episode could have been a tad more helpful in establishing the time frames of episodes.

What we got from it was actually some good dialogue between Ymir and Christa and it actually made me like Ymir a bit more. This was good as I have been critical of her previously. She accused Christa of wanting to die a heroic but selfish death and I liked the little origin story they tied in for Christa. It gave us a bit more detail into her motivations and what drives her. She is actually becoming quite an effective sympathetic character.

We did eventually get to see Ymir kick some Titan butt as she seemed very much in control. She had done a good bit of damage before the other scouts arrived and of course Eran got his hits in. I have grown to enjoy his fiery temper as it isn’t the main focus of the show any more. With things becoming a bit more ensemble based, it has benefited him as too much of his “attitude” really started to put me off him (I would like to see a bit more Mikasa though as she is my favourite character and is being under-utilised in my opinion).

DD Rating: 8/10