Hello and welcome to another edition of Attack on Titan catchup, this time looking at season 1 episode 8, The Hunters. The episode did not get off to the best of starts for the team as not only did the Titans escape, they took Eran too. After that great battle that really drew you in with Eran kicking butt it was a shame that he couldn’t have came out victorious. Elsewhere wall Trost was equally quiet and was filled with boisterous soldiers who had clearly never had to get their hands dirty. “You seem eager to be eaten alive” was the perfect response to them and you often see people like this in real life. You think to yourselves that if you had ever have had to deal with a situation like what you aretalking about, you wouldn’t be talking about it like that.

We got a “classic Eran” flashback of Eran taking on a group of bullies even though he was outnumbered. I don’t really know how useful the flashback actually was as we already knew that Eran did stuff like this and it didn’t really add any new layers to his character. What it did do was give us a wider view and understanding of what the guards and the military had to deal with before the Titans came. They didn’t care about the public brawling and just laughed and cheered them on. They ended up getting into a fight with the shopkeeper who was annoyed at them for not doing their jobs properly. It just demonstrated how awfully unequipped and untrained they were to initially deal with a problem on the scale of the Titans. No wonder they got slaughtered.

We ended with Eran waking up with no arms. It is never good to wake up with less limbs than you had before you went to sleep. I think he can grow them back but he wont be fighting for a while. I’m not sure if his kidnappers actually want to fight him though as surely they would have just killed him…I guess I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 6.75/10