Attack on Titan Episode 8 “I Hear a Heartbeat” Teaser Images and Character Skill Chart

I know you’re going to be excited for this episode. Because guess what?

Moe Titan is BACK!

There’s also a little Sasha time.

And Titan Face time

Eren tries to compete, but I know he’s not going to eat me after I see this, so it’s not as effective

You go your entire life thinking you’ll never cheer at what looks like a baby getting punted, and, yet, here we are.

You can check out more images at Yaraon. They contain some more of the serious pictures.

Also, an interesting chart came from a different Yaraon post.

Bertholt got a job as a sticker guard after being a soldier proved too strenuous.

Yes, but what I was actually talking about was the skill chart.

Someone in the Titan thread who found this before I did was nice enough to translate the skill heptagon. Clockwise from the top:

Evaluation
Intelligence
Cooperation
Weight
Height
Initiative
Combat

The images of the characters are the ones used for their profiles on Shingeki.tv. The Yaraon post mentioned is as having come from an “Official Guide Book,” though I don’t know anything about the guidebook, so I can’t tell you where the figures come from, but it’s interesting all the same. I didn’t think of Ymir having such high initiative. Sasha’s chart probably would have come off better if there’d been one for appetite. I like how Armin and Eren have almost inverted Combat and Intelligence. Connie got the short stick with his shape looking like a smaller version of Eren’s with him only having the edge in Cooperation. Don’t worry, dude. I’m still pulling for you.

Attack on Titan Episode 8 “I Hear a Heartbeat” Preview Images and Synopsis

Despite the pictures, I’m pretty sure this episode isn’t about Marco.

Mikasa is saved by the strange, rouge titan. Armin, Connie, and she meet up. Because Mikasa doesn’t want to abandon Armin, he comes up with the plan to raid the building where the resupply team is under siege by titans. Connie carries him while Mikasa provides cover. Meanwhile, Jean and his unit also make their way to the same building. All together, form a plan to gather the supplies necessary to get out of this battleground and survive.

Crew has a few new kids this time. Screenplay this time is by Noboru Takagi, the Series Composer and Storyboarder for most of the episodes of Baccano! Storyboard is by Tomohiro Hirata. We’ve got a whole host of Directors and Animation Directors this time. The Directors are Tatsuya Minamikawa, Satoshi Kikuchi, a guy I had trouble finding any info on because he’s doesn’t have a ton of credits but who does have a direction credit on an episode of Hachiken: Eight Dogs of the East, and Ezaki Shinpei back from episode 5. Animation directors are Satoshi Kikuchi again, he actually has more experience in this field having done a few shows including Blood+, Ayumu Yamada from back in episode 2, and Hitomi Hasegawa, a key animator from last episode and on the OP.

(Images from Shingeki.tv. © Hajime Isayama, Kodansha, Production I.G., WIT Studio, and the Shingeki no Kyojin Production Committee.)