'Attack On Titan' Gives Glimpse Into Levi's Dark Past

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/31/attack-on-titan-levi-ackerman-past-backstory-anime/

Eren Jaeger may be the main protagonist of Attack on Titan, but he hasn’t monopolized fans — not by a long shot. Characters such as Mikasa have become favorites, and few have become as popular as Captain Levi. So, you can see why the team behind Attack on Titan felt it was time to tease Levi’s past.

Just... don’t expect the story to be a sweet on. This is Attack on Titan after all.

Young Levi pic.twitter.com/l2Od9d3SPd

— Attack on Titan Wiki (@AoTWiki) July 31, 2018

As the episode continued, fans were teased just a bit about Kenny’s ties with Levi. The older man confirmed he cared for the Survey Corps superior when Levi was a child. Kenny reminisced about how the pair believed there wasn’t anything more to life than their slum, but they found out otherwise as time went on.

Of course, no concrete details about those years were given, but fans were shown a few images of Levi during that time. One of those sequences showed an emaciated Levi sitting by a wall, and the kid looked starved. With both eyes sunken in, Levi seemed to be at death’s doorstep, but Kenny appeared to help the boy as a younger version of the soldier could be seen standing before Levi. The flashback then showed a pre-teen Levi wielding a knife in a back alley alone, leading fans to believe it was Kenny who taught Levi the ropes of fighting.

For those unfamiliar with Attack on Titan, the series was originally created by Hajime Isayama. Starting its run in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009, the series has been collected into 23 volumes as of 2017. It's set in a world where the last remnants of humanity live within a walled city in order to escape the danger of the Titans, a race of giants monsters that eats humans. Eren Yeager joins the military with his two childhood friends Mikasa and Armin after the Titans break through the wall and attack his hometown.

If you're curious about the series, Attack on Titan can be found in Japanese with English subtitles alongside the series' release in Japan on Crunchyroll and Hulu. Funimation has confirmed the new season's English simuldub will begin in August before it airs on Toonami.

Did you expect Levi to have come up from such harsh conditions? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!

Happy Birthday Mina Ashido From My Hero Academia

Mina Ashido (芦あし戸ど三み奈な Ashido Mina) is a student at U.A. High School training to become a Pro Hero.

1. Appearance

• Mina's skin is tinted a pink color due to her acid quirk. Her eyes are dark with yellow irises. She has unruly, short pink hair with yellow horns protruding from her head. She is of medium height and set more broadly than some of her other female classmates. During school hours she wears the normal female school uniform.

• Her hero suit consists of a purple and turquoise camouflage skintight bodysuit and a tan vest with white fur on the collar. She wears a white mask as well. The boots are custom made to allow her to secrete acid from her feet to slide around.

Abilities

• Enhanced Reflexes: Mina has the best reflexes out of the girls and almost all people in Class 1-A. She was capable of easily dodging Yuga Aoyama's energy attacks. Later melting several balls launched toward her at high speed with precise flicks.

• Dancing Talent: Mina is extremely skilled at dancing, being capable of pulling breakdance moves with little effort. She can also teach an amateur into becoming a decent dancer in little time.

Quirk

• Acid (酸 San): Mina's Quirk allows her to shoot out a corrosive liquid from within her body and can control the degree of solubility, as well as its viscosity. She can use it offensively but has shown utility as well such as melting handholds for herself to climb with. She is also known to secrete the acid from her feet in order to slide around.

Super Moves

• Acid Veil (アシッドベール Ashiddobēru): Mina's special move. By maximizing her acid's solubility and viscosity, Mina creates a gelatinous acid wall that blocks incoming projectiles. Mina's Acid Veil was strong enough to block hardened balls (which were stronger than concrete) with ease.

Stats

• Power - 3/5 C
• Speed - 4/5 B
• Technique - 5/5 A
• Intelligence - 1/5 E
• Cooperativeness - 4/5 B

Equipment

• Acidproof Shoes: Mina wears special shoes that have holes in their soles, that let Mina secrete acid from her feet. The shoes are not damaged by the acid. Mina can use this to slide across the ground on her acid.

U.A. Sports Festival Arc

• Team Bakugo vs. Team Monoma: Win
• Yuga Aoyama vs. Mina Ashido: Win
• Mina Ashido vs. Fumikage Tokoyami: Lose

Final Exams Arc

• Denki Kaminari & Mina Ashido vs. Nezu: Lose

Trivia

• Mina's design during the preliminary stages of the series was relatively similar to her final design, albeit with a lankier physique. This design also possessed longer, more elaborate horns, visible blushes on her cheeks and slightly longer hair.
  • Because the twisted horns were considered difficult to draw, this design was eventually dropped, with the current Mina design having smaller, simpler horns.
• Mina's known U.A. data is as follows:
  • Mina is student No. 2 in Class 1-A.
  • Ranked 9th during Shota Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.
  • Ranked in the Top 8 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
  • Ranks 19th in Class 1-A's midterm grades.
• Mina's surname name "Ashido" is almost homophonous to the Japanese pronunciation of "acid" (アシッド ashiddo). The first kanji in her given name, "三" ("three"), can be read as "san", which is also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for "acid" (酸).
• Mina's initial choice of her hero name, Alien Queen, is a direct reference to Ridley Scott's movie Alien, where the titular creature of the film is an extraterrestrial being that possesses acidic blood.
• Mina's favorite foods are natto and okra. She also likes dancing.
• In My Hero Academia Official Character Book Ultra Archive, Mina's profile mistakenly lists her birthday as July 15.

'My Hero Academia' Teases A Huge Todoroki Family Secret

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/30/my-hero-academia-todoroki-brother-/

When it comes to My Hero Academia, fans are beyond invested with the students in Class 1-A. Heroes like Izuku Midoriya are clear favorites, but Shoto Todoroki is right on up there. So, you can see why the series’ latest chapter got the fandom buzzing over the boy’s family.

So, you’ve been warned! There are spoilers for the latest chapter of My Hero Academia below!

Thanks to Weekly Shonen Jump and Viz Media, chapter 192 of My Hero Academia is here to wow. The big update shows the aftermath of Endeavor’s destructive battle with High-End, but his grisly injuries aren’t the crux of this chapter.

No, that meaty section is all thanks to Natsu and his surprising name-drop of his older brother.

At long last, readers were given a big update about the mysterious Todoroki. Fans are told the boy’s name when Natsu finally confronts his father about his abusive behavior, and the outraged boy hints that something terrible happened to his older brother Touya.

“You completely neglected us and left us to listen to Mom screaming and Shoto crying. Not to mention what happened to big bro Touya,” Natsu says, confirming something real bad must have gone down with his brother.

“You going off and beating some strong villains doesn’t make all that just disappear, dammit!”

So far, there are no details about Touya out aside from his name, but fans have their own theories about the boy. In fact, one of the biggest rumors regarding Touya is that the eldest Todoroki sibling might be Dabi, one of the League of Villains’ top members. The fiery villain seems to have some sort of connection with Endeavor, and his shadowed past might tie him closer to Shoto than the boy may know.

For those unfamiliar with the My Hero Academia juggernaut, the series was created by Kohei Horikoshi and has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014. The story follows Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a world where everyone has super powers but he was born without them. Dreaming to become a superhero anyway, he's eventually scouted by the world's best hero All Might and enrolls in a school for professional heroes. The series has been collected into 15 volumes so far, and has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release since 2015.

Do you think Touya could really be Dabi? What could be the story behind this eldest Todoroki? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!

'Attack on Titan' Reveals Levi's Full Name

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/30/attack-on-titan-anime-levi-ackerman-full-name-reveal/

Attack on Titan is used to groundbreaking reveals, but fans are never prepared for the big moments. All of its big Titan revelations have caught fans by surprise, and the anime pulled that move again with its latest episode.

However, it seems like Levi was on the receiving end of this big reveal. So, you’ve been warned! Spoilers for Attack on Titan episode 39 lie below!

For those who tuned into the anime’s latest episode, they know it was a big one to watch. The release began with Captain Levi on the run from Kenny the Ripper, and things only got worse from there. After Eren and Historia are captured by the mercenary, the soldiers go into hiding to escape Kenny, and the episode’s final moments stunned with a big name-drop.

Yes, at long last, fans have learned Levi’s full name. So, that is Captain Levi Ackerman to you.

According to the latest episode, Levi hails from a truly gifted clan in the Attack on Titan universe. The fearsome soldier is not only related to Kenny the Ripper, but he shares blood with Mikasa as well. As is, the anime has yet to detail just how the trio are all interrelated, but one thing is for certain; If you are born an Ackerman, then you are born to be a skilled fighter.

For manga readers, this big reveal slips a bit sooner than they would expect. While the anime has yet to inform Levi about his heritage, readers didn’t find out about it in the manga until Kenny’s final fight with Levi. Now, that added piece of information is out for everyone to read into, and fans are going to be watching Levi real close as season three progresses.

For those unfamiliar with Attack on Titan, the series was originally created by Hajime Isayama. Starting its run in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009, the series has been collected into 23 volumes as of 2017. It's set in a world where the last remnants of humanity live within a walled city in order to escape the danger of the Titans, a race of giants monsters that eats humans. Eren Yeager joins the military with his two childhood friends Mikasa and Armin after the Titans break through the wall and attack his hometown.

If you're curious about the series, Attack on Titan can be found in Japanese with English subtitles alongside the series' release in Japan on Crunchyroll and Hulu. Funimation has confirmed the new season's English simuldub will begin in August before it airs on Toonami.

Did you already put together Levi's surname? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!

Did 'My Hero Academia' Just Drop A Big 'Naruto' Reference?

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/30/my-hero-academia-anime-naruto-reference-ninja/

These days, My Hero Academia is bigger than ever, and fans have taken notice. Franchises like Naruto may have ruled the shonen scape once, but Izuku Midoriya is starting to get in on that action. So, it is only natural for My Hero Academia to pay homage to the series that came before it.

However, fans really didn’t expect for the new episode of My Hero Academia to welcome in a hoard of ninjas.

es, you heard right.My Hero Academia has its own brand of ninja, and they look mighty familiar. Season 3 introduced the character as the brand-new ‘Provisional Hero License Exam’ arc gets underway. As most of Class 1-A fights as a team, Shoto Todoroki found himself cornered by a group of students attending a Hero Academy that teaches them to become ninja.

THIS WHOLE SCENE WITH TODOROKI IS NOT IN THE MANGA RIGHT? CUZ IT WAS SO AWESOME OMG pic.twitter.com/Nu3DihlP8G

— ☆オードリーAudrey☆ (@aitaikimochii) July 28, 2018

So, if this sounds familiar to you, then you are probably a fan of Naruto. Also, when you account for these kids’ obvious ninja headbands, it is easy to put one and one together.

Naturally, Todoroki is poised to brush the ninja away, but the color coordinated gang are not so easy to beat. When their leader reveals their size-centric Quirk, Todoroki realizes his fight will be way harder than he realizes. Much like Sasuke Uchiha, the half-and-half hero is ready to pull the loner schtick, but there is no Naruto here to back Todoroki up. Right now, Izuku is pretty busy on his own, so it will come down to the hero-in-training to take down these ninjas or fail trying.

For those unfamiliar with the My Hero Academia juggernaut, the series was created by Kohei Horikoshi and has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014. The story follows Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a world where everyone has super powers but he was born without them. Dreaming to become a superhero anyway, he's eventually scouted by the world's best hero All Might and enrolls in a school for professional heroes. The series has been collected into 15 volumes so far, and has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release since 2015.

Did Naruto come to mind after seeing these Hero Students in action? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!

Happy Birthday To Hanta Sero From My Hero Academia

Hanta Sero (瀬呂せろ範太はんた Sero Hanta) is a student at U.A. High School training to become a Pro Hero.

Appearance

• Hanta is a tall, lean young man with dark hair with spiked ends. He has black, almond shaped eyes and very large teeth that usually dominate his grin. According to Katsuki Bakugo and Midnight, Hanta has a plain face. His elbows have the shape of cylindrical tape dispensers, from which he fires his Tape Quirk from.

• His hero costume consists of a black full body suit with white designs across his mid-torso. The sleeves are left short so Hanta can effectively use his Quirk. He has white bands around his waist and thighs and sports white boots with an orange trim. His sleeves end with a matching orange trim and he has two orange shoulder pads shaped like his elbows. He completes his outfit with a helmet similar to that used by motorcycle drivers.

Personality

• Hanta is a very friendly person and has proven to be one of the more sociable members of Class 1-A. He can be loud and showy at times, often trying to impress his peers with his Quirk. Oftentimes, Sero is the only person to call his classmates out when they are acting crazy. He is quite humorous and often takes part in making jokes with his classmates. However, when push comes to shove, Hanta is a brave hero in training who wishes to prosper on his own while helping others do the same. 

Abilities

Quirk

• Tape (テープ Tēpu): Hanta's Quirk allows him to eject cellophane tape like material from his elbows, as well as retract it. It appears to be somewhat sturdier than regular tape. His Quirk allows him to wrap up people like rope, use it to swing large distances and get up to high places, create traps that can capture people, and he can also make both sides sticky. He has also displayed the ability to fire off multiple strands of tape from his elbows at the same time. Overusing his Quirk dries out his skin and seems to cause him a certain level of pain.

Stats

• Power - 1/5 E
• Speed - 4/5 B
• Technique - 4/5 B
• Intelligence - 3/5 C
• Cooperativeness - 5/5 A

Battle & Events

U.A. Sports Festival Arc

• U.A. Sports Festival/First Year Stage
  • Team Bakugo vs. Team Monoma: Win
  • Shoto Todoroki vs. Hanta Sero: Lose

Final Exams Arc

• Minoru Mineta & Hanta Sero vs. Midnight: Win (However Hanta still fails the exam since he felt asleep directly after the beginning of the exam.)

Trivia

• Hanta's known U.A. data is as follows:
  • Student No. 13 in Class 1-A.
  • Ranked 15th during the Quirk Apprehension Test.
  • Ranked 17th in Class 1-A's Grades.
  • Ranked in the Top 16 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
• Hanta's name is a pun on "セロハンテープ" (serohantēpu) meaning "cellophane tape".
• Hanta likes oranges, soy beans, and other foods that look healthy.
• Hanta's abilities resemble those of Marvel's Spider-Man, with his tape being used for similar purposes as Spider-Man's webs.

Fans Are Loving 'My Hero Academia's Deadly New Best Girl

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/28/my-hero-academia-camie-anime-season-3-react-sexy-deadly/

My Hero Academia continues to debut brand new characters and abilities as Midoriya and the others find themselves against rival hero schools in the Provisional Hero License Exam, but one new addition has already stood out from the pack.

Due to her sexy, yet deadly assault on Midoriya, fans haven't be able to stop talking about Shiketsu High School's Camie Utsushimi ever since she made her big, nude debut.

Along with her nude presence, her strange behavior around Midoriya set off a number of red flags. But given that her attack on Midoriya here ended without a complete explanation as to why Camie is so interested in him, fans can do nothing but just appreciate the new favorite coming for the best girl crown.

My Hero Academia has plenty of great characters, and even with many already being many fans' favorites. But this goes to show just how big the world of the series is, and that there is a favorite for every type of fan.

For those unfamiliar with the My Hero Academia juggernaut, the series was created by Kohei Horikoshi and has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014. The story follows Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a world where everyone has super powers but he was born without them. Dreaming to become a superhero anyway, he's eventually scouted by the world's best hero All Might and enrolls in a school for professional heroes. The series has been collected into 15 volumes so far, and has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release since 2015.

My Hero Academia's first movie, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, is scheduled to open August 3 in Japan and later in the U.S theaters this Fall. The film recently premiered at Anime Expo 2018 to heaps of praise from those in attendance. The film will cover a story not seen in the original manga with series creator Horikoshi noting that, "Of course the movie will be filled with Class A’s great efforts, that character’s past that hasn’t been in the manga yet, flashy action scenes, and much more." The film also previously revealed its first key visual depicting a character fans have never seen before, and a trailer revealing an All Might in his prime.

“Camie” is pretty creepy tbh pic.twitter.com/PcqfHDVZZX

— ☆オードリーAudrey☆ (@aitaikimochii) July 28, 2018

Camie shootin her shot 😳 pic.twitter.com/ChS3f6OQJq

— Momo ✨ (@CreationalMomo) July 28, 2018

Y'all basic humans that was not my friend Camie

Camie is a pure, innocent and airhead girl

And her quirk is illusion not metamorphosis

Do your homework anime only fans pic.twitter.com/zq45sBDAe2

— ʏᴏᴀʀᴀsʜɪ ɪɴᴀsᴀ (@NightStxrm) July 28, 2018

My Hero Academia 3 episode 16 , Is that Hentai ?😌 pic.twitter.com/eDARLWR7NR

— Chibinaroath (@naaaroath) July 28, 2018

I never want episodes of My Hero Academia to end. :( But I'm really enjoying seeing the quirks of students from all these different schools. The scenes with Camie, though; God bless anime.

— Matthew Kirby (@Semperscio) July 28, 2018

'Attack On Titan' Creator Addresses Season 3's Quicker Pace

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/28/attack-on-titan-creator-season-3-quicker-pace/

Season 3 of Attack on Titan started with a bang, and the series' creator says that the break-neck pace won't stop any time soon.

Attack on Titan was created by Hajime Isayama, who continues to write and illustrate the manga. After the anime's explosive season 3 premiere, Isayama published a blog post explaining why it may appear to fans that the show's plot is moving at a faster pace than they expected.

The simple answer is that Isayama is not a big fan of his own work between volumes 13 and 16 of the original manga, which the show is now adapting.

"Honestly, it's like I was out of gas," he wrote, according to a translation by Anime News Network. Isayama felt that the part of the story the anime is now tackling was too slow in its original form, so he worked with scriptwriter Hiroshi Seko and director Tetsuro Araki to speed it up.

"I requested that we reform it into a suitable scale for the role of the story," he explained. He called this a more "idealized" version of the same epic tale.

Seko has worked with Isayama on his hit series many times before. In addition to writing the scripts for the anime's previous seasons, he wrote the novel Attack on Titan: Lost Girls and the accompanying OVA. As for Araki, he is the chief director on the anime series.

Isayama thanked them, as well as the cast and the entire production staff for helping him liven up his story. The anime adaptation is a rare chance for a creator like Isayama to revise his own work in a way.

The result has been tremendous, as Attack on Titan season 3 exceeded all expectations. The series was finally able to unseat My Hero Academia from its throne at the top of the "popular" list on Crunchroll -- a feat that was starting to seem impossible. It got a massive response from fans around the world on social media, as Crunchyroll, Funimation and Hulu are simulcasting the subtitled version.

The English dubbed version is on the way as well. It will reportedly air in the U.S. starting on Aug. 18 on Adult Swim, as part of the network's Toonami block. Even in the first episode, it is clear how this season will expand the world and the perspective of Attack on Titan. Rather than closely following Eren, Arwin and Mikasa, the series is shifting to put Captain Levi and Historia at the forefront.

'Attack on Titan' Synopsis Teases Levi's Big Battle With Kenny

Link: http://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/27/attack-on-titan-episode-39-synopsis-levi-kenny-battle-anime/

Attack on Titan fans have been hooked to the series' third season after its premiere because the end teased a huge battle between a fierce Levi and a mysterious man named Kenny.

And as teased, the two are going to clash in a big way according to the synopsis of the next episode. Episode 39 of Attack on Titan is titled "Pain," and the synopsis reads as such:

"A carriage carrying Ellen and Historia was attacked, and the two were kidnapped. A mysterious man standing up in front of Levi tries to follow. Looking at his face, Levi screams "Kenny." It seems to Levi the two have a relationship in the past. Their battle was about taking away the opponent's life."

Fans have already witnessed how deadly this Kenny is as his different maneuver gear featured guns that brutally murdered two members of the Survey Corps right in front of Levi. Levi could only respond with rage, so their past coming out during an intense battle will definitely be one fans want to see.

But like much of Attack on Titan, each battle does have its consequence as the title of the episode "Pain" seems to be teasing some traumatic events for the Survey Corps before episode's end. It's only just begun this season.

If you're curious about the series Attack on Titan can be found in Japanese with English subtitles alongside the series' release in Japan on Crunchyroll and Hulu. If you're curious about an English dub release of the series, Funimation has confirmed the simuldub will begin in August. There will also be yet another opportunity to watch along with the English dub when it begins airing as part of Adult Swim's Toonami block too.

But if you have yet to see it for yourself, the first episode of the season originally premiered during Anime Expo and a limited run in theaters to great response as well. Here's what Comicbook.com's Megan Peters had to say about the first episode in her review:

"If you can get through the premiere's slow opening, Attack on Titan rewards fans with plenty of action at the end thanks to Captain Levi. Season Three has a lead-in worthy of the Survey Scouts, but its second episode has some serious responsibility to follow through on the action promised by the premiere's ringing cliffhanger."

For those unfamiliar with Attack on Titan, the series was originally created by Hajime Isayama. Starting its run in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009, the series has been collected into 23 volumes as of 2017. It's set in a world where the last remnants of humanity live within a walled city in order to escape the danger of the Titans, a race of giants monsters that eats humans. Eren Yeager joins the military with his two childhood friends Mikasa and Armin after the Titans break through the wall and attack his hometown.