Attack On Titan: Lost Girls
Attack On Titan: Lost Girls
File: Attack on Titan Lost Girls, volume 1.jpgDescription: The cover of the Attack on Titan: Lost Girls novel.
What Is It?
The 2014 Japanese anime OVA (original video animation) Attack On Titan: Lost Girls.
Annie Lost Girls OVA Trailer (english sub) – Attack on Titan
Annie Lost Girls OVA PART 2 Trailer (english sub) – Shingeky No Kyojin/Attack on Titan
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Hi,
Have you watched Mikasa's lost girl ova? If yes, then:
What are your thoughts on the mirror man that confronts her? Aot is over but I still can't help but wonder what or who the mirror man was, what do you think?
Thank you
You know, I haven't seen "Lost Girls", lol. I need to get around to actually watching the OVA's. The only one I've watched is "No Regrets". So unfortunately, I can't answer your question.
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Lost Girls manga vs. anime shifts Annie's character:
In the anime, Annie was already in uniform even on her day off, bored and looking for a way to take her mind off the next day's mission. She goes on her own to help with Carly's case, but the manga progresses differently.
Annie loafs in aimless tension until she sees this confrontation between Marlowe and the other MPs. Just like Annie's identity was "Warrior", Marlowe’s whole identity is “Police Officer”, --unlike her, it's something that he chose for himself, because it’s something he believes will make the world a better place. Deep down, Annie wants to emulate that and live like one assured of her own role in this world; someone who knows they are a “good guy” with a purpose. (It’s amazing the influence someone can have just by existing purposefully.)
Earlier in the manga, Annie broke her silence to confront Marlowe on his ideas for the Military Police. She knows what he's about, and although they disagreed, the exchange created enough rapport that Annie shockingly offered to fight with him after his confrontation with the officers who had sold police equipment to the black market.
Now, with the guilt she's accumulated amidst realizing her "enemies" are just as human as she, she goes robotically through her mission even as her own path and identity have become muddied. In that moment on the docks, she was already ready to risk everything to throw in with someone who had a clear vision and a powerful sense of ideals.
This was a split-second scene, and sure, it wasn’t necessary to the flow of the story as a whole…the anime changed it and the story still progressed. But life is a collection of split-second scenes, and we often don't know until they pass the importance that they really held. In this case, this split-second shows a different shade of Annie.
This manga Annie is more sympathetic. She wants to be “good”; she wants to live, even just for a day, as somebody who knows who and what she is and wants that person to be a good one. She’s inspired by the sense of identity she sees in Marlowe and wants to, as she said, “play soldier”--live a fantasy that she has no secrets and can fulfill the duty she feels to the people around her.
People follow people who lead with conviction and purpose. This is an important theme in Attack on Titan--and in real life--with its dark side being shown in the final season. “Shingeki” does not mean attack; it means “advance” or “charge” and is usually used in the context of an attack. Because of Japanese grammar, “Shingeki No Kyojin” (Lit. Advance/charge + possessive + Titan) can mean either “Advance/charge (at) a Titan” OR, the pun in the title-drop chapter with the Owl, “The Advancing/Charging Titan”. Whether figuratively or literally, who advances? Who charges? The one with a plan, a reason, a dream.
Annie prepares to follow Marlowe because of the security he holds in his vision. Levi follows Erwin for the same reason; Eren and Zeke both pull radicalized followings by the same principle. Someone who can make someone feel safe; someone who can make someone feel like their lives have meaning; these are the people we want to follow and to emulate. One thing season 4 did well is showing how our “enemies” are often thus due to manipulation via the same appeals to our driving forces of humanity (omissions made for people like Zackly who just want power and pain; that’s a different case). Changing that content here (and also in A Choice with No Regrets, more on that later) is too bad.
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I don't think we appreciate how lucky we were getting Lost Girls
Giving a side character that's only around for around 20% of the entire series her own two-episode special with a nuanced depiction of her character isn't something that just happens
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