The soldiers are in disarray after discovering a Titan within the wall, suspecting that some of them actually protect humans from outside Titans trying to break in. When a Bigfoot-like Titan starts an attack on the outside walls, Ymir transforms into a Titan and battles the invading Titans. The other Scouts help her in the battle. Soldiers Reiner and Bertholdt reveal to Eren that they can transform into the Armored and Colossal Titan. The two kidnap Eren, and Ymir initially supports them, but the Scouts are able to save Eren and bring him back home. Eren also discovers a new power of coordination: to command other Titans to attack each other.
Two great sequences of suspense: in episode 2.2, Sasha arrives at a desolate house in the forest and finds a small Titan eating a woman on the floor, and everything goes wrong. Sasha tries to kill the Titan by hitting it in the head with an axe, but to no avail, since the monster is too strong. So Sasha takes a girl in the house and wants to escape with her from the scene of horror, but their horse flees. And the Titan then chases after them. In episode 2.5, while inside the walls, a small Titan appears from behind the door and bites at Reiner’s arm, but the latter then simply places the Titan on his back, climbs up the stairs, goes to a window, and then a soldier cuts off the monster’s jaw, thereby allowing Reiner to throw the Titan out of the window. There are also other good moments of Greek battle pathos, but they rarely connect as a whole and feel rather bloody chaotic and random at times, since the action is often rushed and, it seems, at times as if either the human soldiers are just plowing through a mass of Titans, or vice-versa. The storyline needed more versatility, and even this 2nd season of the “Attack on Titan” anime suffers from the same problems from season 1, namely being narratively confusing and sophisticatedly miniscule, since the motivations of certain characters (Reiner) are unknown at this stage, and thus the viewers again need to wait for the next season until a lot of plot points are properly explained. The sense for the epic can be felt occasionally, mostly in the contrast between the giant Titans and small humans who try to surpass them through their spirit and ingenuity, yet the story is still not completely as developed as it could have been, and a lot of characters are forgettable.
Grade:++
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