Attack on Titan Second Half Teaser Images, and Blu-ray 2 Cover with Distributor Bonus

There probably can be teaser images for Titan 13.5 , but they would be old images regardless. Instead, we’ve got some teaser images for when we’ll pick up in the next half. Most of them are dramatic face shots, but it does have maybe my favorite non-Titan face image so far.

If I didn’t know better, I’d like to think this was just Rivaille having some fun.

Mikasa is not amused by this or her recent meth addiction.

You can see more faces over at Yaraon. We’ve also got a few more pictures from other parts. The cover art for the Vol. 2 blu-rays are out.

They should all follow this pattern of character sweeping around on 3D Gear, though I will be happy if there is one with a nondescript person getting smacked away by a titan, gruesome as that might be for something you’ll keep on your shelf. Along with this, we’ve also got the preorder bonus that comes with the disc itself. Vol. 1 had the big item of the Vol. 0 special manga. This time the big item is a drama CD: “Sasha’s Furious Cooking Battle Compilation!!” Locked in one place, stuck without food, Sasha must stand up against the lack of meat! If that isn’t translated, a great sadness will wash over the fandom.

They may be able to keep their spirits up with HMV’s distributor bonus, though. Like with JoJo, every distributor gets their own special bonus for if you buy a disc or all the discs from them. HMV typically does box set container sleeves, and this is no different.

Christa is wearing a full on shirt because it would ruin everyone’s image of her if we found out she was also super jacked.

(Blu-ray and HMV bonus image from Shingeki.tv. © Hajime Isayama, Kodansha, The Attack on Titan Production Committee, and HMV.)

Attack on Titan Episode 12 “Scar” Preview Images and Synopsis

Just after going titan, the first person to feel Eren’s wrath is Mikasa. Though she is able to dodge, his uncontrollable state puts a halt to whatever plans there were for using his power to reclaim Trost District. After his lashing out, Eren suddenly stops moving, but a group of 3 titans is approaching. The field commander is at a loss. What will everyone do? Protect Eren and hope he comes around, or deal with the threat he poses before it gets any worse?

Script is being passed back to Noboru Takagi from episode 8. Storyboards are by a very interesting person. The credit is Sakomi Yajima, but from what I can find on ja.wiki, that’s a pseudonym used by Masayuki Miyaji, a storyboarder for things like King Gainer but probably more notable as an assistant director on Spirited Away. Direction is handled by Shintaro Itoga, episode director for a handful of things including ROBOTICS;NOTES, s-CRY-ed and what I think was one of the bad AD Police shows. We’ve got another team working on the animation direction. First up is Satonobu Kikuchi, moving up from his Assistant Animation Director job in the last episode. Second is Kyohei Tezuka who you’ll remember as an AD on episodes 2 and 7. Finally, Takaai Chiba, also back from episode 7, but more notably is the Titan animation director. Pulling in the person whose job it is to make the titans themselves move well bodes well for the action portion of this episode.

(Images from Shingeki.tv. © Hajime Isayama, Kodansha, Production I.G., WIT Studio, and The Attack on Titan Production Committee.)

There’s a new “Training Corps” on the previous week’s episode page. It’s about Sasha and food.

Panel 1
Off-screen Drill Sergeant: I will forgive anyone who decides to leave now.
Sasha (Thought): That means…

Panel 2
Sasha Fantasy: That means the crime of stealing that meat doesn’t count!

Panel 3
Sasha Fantasy: But if the Trost Recovery is successful, there might be even more meat to recover!

Panel 4
Sasha: A- but… Uuuuu
Jean: It’s not like Sasha to be so troubled…

The person I asked for help with the translation is super busy right now, so I’m still waiting a bit before we grab these and put them on a reader site. Shouldn’t be too much longer now, though.