Recaps

Jean took a shortcut during a training run and got lost in the forest, where Mark joined him while searching for him. Yago led a search party, and Eren eventually found both trainees; Jean and Mark returned to face Keith’s punishment.

• Jean slipped away from the training group to take a shortcut, but lost his way in the forest.
• After the trainees reached their destination, a recruit told Yago that Mark and Jean were missing, so Yago organized a search party.
• Mark found Jean while looking for him, and the two spent the night lost together, reaffirming their friendship and their shared dream of joining the Military Police Brigade.
• Eren found Jean and Mark with a torch, and Keith reprimanded them and sentenced them to a month of toilet cleaning.

Yago led Squad Two through wilderness march training, where he helped the cadets endure the desert heat and hunted rabbits for dinner. After Ili cooked a meal for the squad, Mikasa sensed that something was wrong, leaving Yago unaware of what might lie ahead.

• Instructor Keith warned the cadets that the wilderness march was a battle and stressed the need to stay alert.
• Yago led Squad Two toward its rendezvous with Mark's squad, and the boys gave their jackets to struggling girls to shield them from the sun.
• Yago chose a forest clearing for camp, then used his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to kill two rabbits.
• Ili cooked the rabbits into soup, and the cadets ate it; Mikasa told Yago she had a bad feeling.
• Yago asked Ili about his past dream of becoming a chef, but Ili declined to explain why he had joined the Training Corps.

Yago caught two arms-smuggling thieves stealing the cadets’ Omni-Directional Mobility Gear and stopped them with help from Annie. After learning their accomplices were attacking Mark’s Class, he led a rescue party into the forest.

• Yago woke as two thieves tried to steal Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, then broke one thief’s wrist and threw the other to the ground.
• One thief took Bertholdt hostage at gunpoint, forcing Yago to release his captive.
• Yago told Bertholdt to duck and struck the armed thief with a stone, while Annie cut down the other thief’s gun hand; a shot grazed Yago’s neck.
• Annie checked on Yago, and he warned the cadets that the thieves’ accomplices were targeting Mark’s Class.
• Yago organized the cadets into groups and led Squad 2, including Mikasa and Annie, into the forest to help Mark’s Class.

Yago and Class Two found Mark’s Class cornered by thieves who had taken Christa hostage. Yago and his classmates rescued them, and the authorities arrested the thieves and uncovered a larger gang.

• Yago’s search party spotted a green flare near Odru and hurried toward it.
• Eren, Armin, and the others faced armed thieves who demanded their Omni-Directional Mobility Gear while holding Christa hostage.
• Yago had Bertholdt shoot the lead thief’s knife hand, then subdued four thieves as Class Two disarmed the rest.
• Mikasa checked on Eren, Annie checked on Yago, and Ymir fussed over Christa after the trainees were safe.
• The Garrison Regiment and Military Police Brigade arrested the thieves and learned of a larger gang; the Garrison squad leader recognized Yago.

After Yago fell ill, he confronted a mysterious girl and a gigantic Titan in a vision, then awoke with steaming, healing hands and clues about his lost past. He was left wondering who he had been and how to explain his soaked blanket without revealing his Titan Power.

• Annie asked Armin why Yago had missed class, and Armin told her he was resting in the dorm after going to the infirmary.
• Annie returned to her seat, unfolded two drawings from her notebook, and wondered whether to bring Yago something.
• While Yago lay in bed, he entered a desert vision and approached a pillar of light guarded by a barrier, where he saw a little girl piling up sand.
• The girl became a towering Titan, and a whisper warned Yago that fate could not be changed; Yago shouted back, making the vision disappear.
• Yago saw a figure in a white lab coat call him Norman and describe him as a perfect creation meant to make Marley regret its actions.
• Yago awoke with steaming hands that healed their wounds, wondered about his past and Marley, and worried that others would think he had wet the bed.

During winter training, Yago separated from the cadets as his body began reacting to the Titan Power. When an avalanche rushed toward him, he transformed into the Yago Titan but was buried beneath the snow.

• Yago deliberately fell behind the squad during the winter march, while Eren and Armin assumed he would meet Thomas at the rear.
• In the blizzard, Reiner urged Annie to search the Royal Capital for information and implied that Yago could be harmed; Annie agreed to try once more.
• Yago hid in the woods as the squad moved on, then felt the Titan Power surging through his body and collapsed beneath a tree.
• Christa dragged the injured Daz on a stretcher through the storm, and Ymir stayed with her despite urging her to abandon him.
• Yago awoke as an avalanche thundered down the slope, transformed into the Yago Titan, and was swallowed by the snow.

Ymir confronted Christa about her hidden identity and her apparent wish to die while trying to save Daz, then left her in a snowbank. Yago returned to camp carrying Christa, who had seen him emerge from a Titan but was told she had merely knocked herself unconscious.

• Ymir accused Christa of wanting to die and revealed that she knew Christa was the nobleman's illegitimate daughter living under a new identity.
• Ymir urged Christa to choose to live, then tossed her into a snowbank and went to deal with Daz at the cliff.
• Christa saw a Titan emerge from the snow, screamed, and knocked herself out by running into a tree.
• Yago emerged from the Titan's nape, found Christa unconscious, and carried her back to camp while claiming he had simply found her in the snow.
• Ymir rushed to take Christa from Yago, while the others gathered around them and Annie watched Yago intently.

After a year of training, Yago encountered Survey Corps logistics squad leader Scott and joined him on a trip to Wall Sina to inspect damaged Omni-Directional Mobility Gear. Hearing about Levi’s achievements made Yago eager to challenge him, while Levi remained unaware of Yago’s plans and ordered his squad to clean again.

• Yago met Scott while shopping with Lucia, and Scott explained that he was taking damaged Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to Wall Sina.
• Lucia agreed to let Yago travel with Scott and the two Survey Corps soldiers, who hoped the top cadet might join their corps.
• Yago examined the damaged gear during the journey and ate the Survey Corps’ rations at noon.
• Yago asked Scott about Levi, and Scott warned him not to mention the captain’s height before describing Levi’s feats against Titans.
• Yago privately resolved to surpass Levi if he joined the Survey Corps, while Levi sneezed at headquarters and made Petra and the others clean a room again.

Yago studied Omni-Directional Mobility Gear with researcher Lynch Seda and learned about its history while visiting a research estate in Wall Sina. After leaving with a rotating mechanism and a better understanding of his broken gear, Yago spotted a dessert shop and decided to go inside, thinking of someone who had eaten all the cakes at a picnic.

• Yago stayed at the Omni-Directional Mobility Gear research estate while Scott went to a Survey Corps meeting, and Lynch Seda showed him the equipment.
• Lynch explained the gear's components and history, including its role in humanity's first Titan kill by Kuklo.
• Yago found two blade handles in the discarded equipment and asked Lynch to make him a rotating mechanism.
• Yago learned where his own Omni-Directional Mobility Gear was damaged, then left the estate with the mechanism.
• Yago noticed a dessert shop across the street and decided to visit after recalling someone who had eaten all the sponge cakes at a picnic.

Yago spotted Annie following Kenny Ackerman and hurried after her, only to find her trapped in a fight with the dangerous man. As Kenny advanced on the injured Annie, Yago appeared at the alley entrance.

• Yago recognized Annie following a suspicious man and chased after her.
• Annie confronted Kenny in a dead-end alley after he caught her tailing him.
• Kenny fired at Annie, then dodged her attacks and dislocated her wrist when he struck back.
• Annie reset her wrist and prepared to use the power she feared would expose her identity.
• Yago arrived at the alley and called out to Annie while facing Kenny Ackerman.

Yago protected Annie from Kenny, who suspected Yago was an Ackerman and nearly drew his guns before Scott arrived with Survey Corps soldiers. After Kenny vanished, Yago and Annie returned home, where Yago wondered about her secrets and his possible connection to the Ackermans.

• Yago stepped between Annie and Kenny, fought back against Kenny's attacks, and tried to conceal his Titan abilities while Annie prepared to defend him.
• Kenny suspected Yago had Ackerman blood and hesitated to kill him, but reached for his guns as Yago and Annie braced to reveal their powers.
• Scott arrived with two Survey Corps soldiers, and Kenny disappeared while they helped Yago and Annie leave.
• In the carriage, Annie admitted she was keeping a secret from Yago but said she could not reveal it yet.
• Yago gave Annie a fresh basket of sweets and brought the damaged sweets home for Eren, Armin, and Mikasa, wondering whether Mikasa was special because she was an Ackerman.

In their third year of training, Yago and the 104th Cadet Corps prepared for graduation as Yago reaffirmed his intention to join the Survey Corps. The chapter ended with Instructor Keith looking forward to the cadets’ future.

• Yago watched the cadets train and demonstrated his skill with his custom leg-mounted blades, while Instructor Keith worried about his plan to join the Survey Corps.
• Annie challenged Yago to spar, then told him about a simulated attack exercise in Trost that Commander Pyxis would observe.
• Yago encouraged Annie to impress Pyxis, though Annie privately feared Yago’s Survey Corps plans would put his life at risk.
• After Sasha and Connie teased them for slacking off, Yago and Annie returned to training, and Yago rapidly cut down the Titan models Jean was targeting.
• Eren struggled to free his blade from a Titan model as Mikasa stayed near him, while Armin talked with Mina and Reiner searched for Christa.
• Instructor Keith watched the cadets and reflected that it was time for the 104th Cadet Corps to move forward.

During the 104th Cadet Corps’ simulated Titan attack in Trost, Yago led Squad 27 in an impressive assault while Commander Pyxis watched in a drunken stupor. The exercise continued as Keith noticed Squad 21 abandoning its rear-guard post, and Pyxis set out to inspect the cadets.

• Instructor Keith briefed the 104th Cadet Corps on the Trost exercise, which Pyxis would observe.
• Yago, Thomas, and Bertholdt joined Squad 27, and the cadets traveled into Trost before preparing for the drill.
• After a green flare began the exercise, Yago led Squad 27 off a tower to attack the Titan models.
• Keith watched Yago, Thomas, and Bertholdt perform well, then spotted Squad 21 abandoning its rear-guard post.
• Miniko woke Pyxis and tried to stop him drinking, but Pyxis ignored her and spoke with Keith.
• Keith praised the cadets, and Pyxis agreed to go inspect their performance.

Jean and Sasha settled their dispute over stolen training points with a cooking contest judged by Commander Pyxis, while Pyxis privately questioned Yago about his unexplained past. Jean won the contest and reconciled with Sasha, but Yago remained troubled by the sense that he was under suspicion.

• Jean challenged Sasha to compete for more points in training, but Pyxis intervened and ordered them to settle their rivalry with a cooking contest.
• Pyxis took Yago for a walk along Wall Rose and confronted him about the Garrison Regiment finding no record of him in Shiganshina before the Survey Corps returned.
• Pyxis said he had wanted to meet the person Erwin took an interest in, leaving Yago shaken by the commander's scrutiny.
• Sasha's group served wild boar at the contest, but Pyxis declared Jean the winner after tasting his omelet.
• Jean helped the disappointed Sasha up, resolving their misunderstanding, while Yago remained worried.

The 104th Cadet Corps graduated, and the top ten cadets were given the choice to join the Military Police Brigade. As the cadets celebrated, Yago brooded over his mysterious origins and the chapter ended with three figures slipping through the darkness.

• Keith reviewed the 104th Cadet Corps roster, which ranked Yago Norman first and Mikasa Ackerman second.
• At the graduation ceremony, the instructors explained the three military branches and reserved the Military Police Brigade choice for the top ten cadets.
• Eren resolved to join the Survey Corps, Mikasa intended to follow him, and Jean looked forward to joining the Military Police Brigade.
• Yago reaffirmed his intention to join the Survey Corps while questioning his Titan power, his memories, and the white-coated figure who had called him a failure.
• The cadets celebrated their graduation with food and alcohol, while three figures quietly slipped through the darkness.

Reiner decided that he and Bertholdt would breach Wall Rose to draw out the Founding Titan, while Annie reluctantly let them proceed. Later, Annie joined Yago, Eren, Mikasa, and Armin in choosing the Survey Corps, leaving the group poised to join forces despite the danger ahead.

• Reiner announced that he and Bertholdt would breach Wall Rose, and Bertholdt agreed despite his fear while Annie refused to endorse the plan.
• Annie told Reiner she would help only if they abandoned the mission and left when it yielded nothing, then walked away.
• Annie met Yago outside the mess hall, and he revealed through his thoughts that he had fallen for her.
• Eren came outside in tears, followed by Mikasa and Armin, and Armin and Mikasa declared they would join the Survey Corps.
• Yago reminded Eren of his promise to look after him, and Eren and Annie also chose to join the Survey Corps.

On the eve of graduation, Yago completed an equipment inventory with Ili and watched the Survey Corps depart on its fifty-sixth expedition. With the Survey Corps beyond the walls, Reiner urged Bertholdt to attack, and Bertholdt transformed in a flash of lightning.

• Yago and Ili were assigned to inventory Garrison Regiment training equipment while their fellow cadets maintained the wall's cannons.
• Annie asked Yago about his assignment and seemed relieved he would not be on the wall; Ili then told Yago that he had joined the Training Corps to avenge his father, but had abandoned that goal after the noble's estate was destroyed.
• Yago and Ili watched Commander Erwin, Levi, and the Survey Corps leave for their fifty-sixth expedition beyond the walls.
• Yago and Ili finished the inventory with Hannes and left the Garrison base with their records.
• Reiner urged Bertholdt to seize the Survey Corps' absence to attack, and Bertholdt leaped from the wall and transformed in a burst of lightning.

Yago and Ili witnessed the Colossal Titan breach Trost District, plunging the city into chaos. As the cadets prepared to defend Wall Rose, Yago searched for Annie and found her class.

• Yago and Ili saw the Colossal Titan appear over Trost District and watched it destroy the wall’s fixed cannons before vanishing.
• The breach sent civilians fleeing, while the Garrison Regiment’s advance unit charged the Titans and was wiped out.
• Yago equipped himself and worried that the Armored Titan might appear and breach Wall Rose.
• Kitz Werman ordered the Training Corps to support the Garrison Regiment and defend Wall Rose as the Titans entered Trost District.
• Yago searched the panicked cadets for Annie and found Class 27 gathered around a corner.

Yago was reassigned from the 34th Class to a Garrison squad tasked with rescuing Duke Vald’s daughter, Lisa, from a tower near the breach. After the squad fought through Titans and lost a soldier, Yago reached the tower, where Lisa appeared and apologized for her steward’s behavior.

• Yago handed command of the 34th Class to Thomas and left to join Yuwen’s Garrison squad.
• Yuwen told the squad to rescue Lisa, Duke Vald’s only daughter, from a tower surrounded by Titans.
• After a signal drew many Titans away, Yuwen’s squad advanced, and Yago killed five Titans.
• A Titan caught a Garrison soldier, and Yuwen stopped the others from attempting a rescue as the Titan killed him.
• The squad reached the tower, where Steward Rosen berated them for arriving late and complained about the Titans.
• Lisa emerged from the darkness and apologized to the soldiers, asking Rosen not to make things difficult for them.

Yago and the Garrison soldiers escorted Lisa out of the tower, but two Abnormal Titans ambushed them and devastated the rescue party. After Steward Rosen died protecting Lisa, Yago saved her from being eaten and prepared to fight the Titan.

• Lisa thanked the soldiers who rescued her and changed into practical clothes before leaving with them and Steward Rosen, who insisted they bring the carriages of valuables.
• Yuwen sent Niki and three soldiers to attack two approaching Titans, but an Abnormal Titan ambushed and killed all four.
• A second Abnormal Titan attacked the group, killing another soldier and leaving only Yago, Yuwen, and one male soldier alive.
• Yuwen ordered the survivors to flee as the Titans attacked the carriages and scattered the attendants.
• Steward Rosen hurled Lisa toward a nearby house to save her, but the Titan crushed him and then seized Lisa.
• Yago severed the Titan's hand, caught Lisa as she fell, and set her on a rooftop before readying his blades to fight.

Yago killed an Abnormal Titan, rescued Lisa Vald, and helped clear a dispute at Wall Rose’s inner gate. He then left to find the 34th Class and Annie, while Lisa promised to repay him.

• Yago dodged the Abnormal Titan’s attacks, wounded its eyes, replaced his worn blades, and killed it with a strike to its nape.
• Yago carried Lisa toward Wall Rose’s inner gate, where he found civilians still waiting to evacuate and a Titan’s corpse nearby.
• Yago discovered Mikasa threatening merchant chairman Dimo Liebus over his attempt to move his goods through the gate first.
• Lisa persuaded Dimo to let the civilians pass, and Yago declined an invitation to join the rear guard so he could find his class.
• Mikasa asked Yago to protect Eren if he found him, and Lisa learned his name and promised the Vald Family would repay him.

Yago searched the battlefield for the supply unit and encountered the Abnormal Titan that had attacked his squad. After transforming into the Fate Titan and defeating it and many other Titans, he recovered a hidden set of Omni-Directional Mobility Gear and headed for the supply depot.

• Yago found squad leader Yuwen's mangled body and realized the Abnormal Titan was nearby.
• The Abnormal Titan attacked Yago, but his worn blades failed and he ran out of gas.
• Yago transformed into the Fate Titan, crushed the Abnormal Titan's head, and finished it by stomping its nape.
• Yago defeated nearly forty Titans, including several Abnormals, then avoided approaching the supply depot while still transformed.
• Yago returned to a wooden house, retrieved his repaired Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, cleaned away the marks and Titan residue, and set off for the supply depot.

With the retreat underway, the cadets in Trost District found themselves trapped without enough gas to reach Wall Rose, while Titans surrounded the supply depot. As morale collapsed, Reiner began acting erratically, Annie hid her distress, and Armin blamed himself, leaving the cadets without a clear way forward.

• Yago headed toward the supply depot to find out why no supply soldiers were in sight and how the 34th Class was faring.
• Jean, Mark, Connie, and the other cadets realized they lacked the gas to reach Wall Rose, while more than twenty Titans surrounded the supply depot.
• Connie urged the cadets to attack the depot, but Jean and Mark warned that the assault would likely cost many lives and consume their remaining gas.
• Jean thought of Eren as someone who would charge into danger, while Sasha tried to rally the others and Armin sat curled up beside Mina.
• Bertholdt questioned whether their actions were right as Reiner babbled between calling himself a warrior and a soldier, then suggested they wait until the others gathered at Wall Rose.
• Annie secretly struggled with tears, while Armin blamed himself and rejected Mina's attempt to encourage him.

Yago found Naik, Milius, and other survivors trapped by Titans, then led an assault to retake the supply station so they could replenish their gas. After killing fourteen Titans and drawing others away, he reached the tower and was shocked by what he saw there.

• Yago learned from Naik and Milius that Thomas and Ili had been killed, while the whereabouts of the other cadets remained unknown.
• Yago rallied the stranded cadets and Garrison soldiers, then led them toward the supply station to break through the Titans and refill their gas.
• Yago killed Titans along the route and told Naik to lead the others across while he lured the Titans away from the station.
• Yago encountered Mikasa, Armin, and Connie, then turned back to fight the Titans chasing him as the others headed for the supply station.
• After killing three more Titans, Yago reached the tower above the supply station and was shocked by what he saw.

Yago reached the supply station and learned that Eren, Maddie, Thomas, and Ili had died during the retreat, while Armin and Mina had survived. After the cadets followed Armin’s plan to eliminate the Titans inside and replenish their gas, Yago and Mikasa watched the exhausted pointy-eared Titan outside, suspecting it concealed a secret.

• Yago found Annie safe at the supply station, then learned from Armin how Eren and Maddie had been eaten and Thomas and Ili had died.
• Yago comforted Armin and embraced Annie, while Armin devised a plan to draw Titans to the lift and kill them from the rafters.
• The cadets and Garrison soldiers used flintlocks to distract the Titans, then attacked; Mikasa saved Sasha when she lost her blades.
• The group eliminated the Titans inside the supply station and replenished their gas as the pointy-eared Titan weakened outside.
• Yago prepared to approach the pointy-eared Titan, but Mikasa joined him, saying she wanted to uncover its secret.