Hello everyone and welcome to another Attack on Titan catchup post, this time with 1×6, The World the Girl Saw. We were left on one hell of a cliffhanger and although we more or less followed straight on, the lack of direct follow up (or the fact that he wasn’t revealed to have actually survived) really took me by surprise. So is Eran actually dead? If that is the case then I genuinely can’t believe it. I thought that he was our protagonist? Well, we were left with a crying Armin as things continued to be pretty measurable as he seemed to be the only survivor of the squad. It’s hard to imagine how he is going to pick himself back up and recover from this. This was a really depressing opening to an episode really, even for Attack on Titan.

We cut to some very aggressive merchant trying to get one of the most over-sized wagons I have ever seen through the city gates, which were blocking everyone else’s way out. I presume that it was full of food but he wasn’t being very positive in his encouragement. Insulting people is not how you are going to get them to move something for you. The situation was interrupted by Mikasa who was chasing a Titan which was doing one of the weirdest and unintentionally amusing runs that I have ever seen. She took it down with ease and seemed willing to kill the merchant too if he didn’t let the people through. At leas the merchant had some sense about him and decided to let them through.

We then cut to one of the most depressing flashback stories I have ever seen as we found out that Mikasa and Eran were not actually brother and sister by blood. The creators thought that this show isn’t miserable enough so they decided to add kidnapping and human trafficking to the mix. The single sequence that made me smile where the parents tried to avoid the awkward “where do babies come from?” question was cut short when Eran’s father suddenly found the parents brutally murdered. Seeing it happen slightly out of sequence made it all the more shocking, and then sad as you knew what was coming.

Eran went crazy and murdered two of the three kidnappers, showing the almost overpowering moral compass was with him from a very young age. He seemed to lose control though, stabbing one of the guys a lot more times than he needed to. Mikasa did then kill the final one to save Eran after she realised the world is a cruel place and people and animals kill each other all the time. Like I said, not the most cheerful of episodes. We ended the flashback with Eran completely failing to put a scarf properly onto another person, and ended the episode with Mikasa still not knowing about what happened to Eran. Will she find out in the next episode? I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 6.8/10