Recaps

Yago rescued the pointed-eared Titan and discovered Eren inside its nape, alive despite everyone believing he had died. After the group retreated to the wall, Garrison soldiers blocked their way, leaving Eren’s fate in human hands.

• Reiner, Bertholdt, and Armin argued that the pointed-eared Titan should be saved, while Jean questioned helping a Titan.
• Yago killed the Titans attacking the pointed-eared Titan and cut open its nape as a human began emerging.
• Yago recognized the person from the Titan as Eren, and Mikasa and Armin rejoiced when they confirmed he was alive.
• Reiner privately recognized Eren as a lost titan power, while cadets and soldiers reacted to Eren with fear and murderous suspicion.
• Yago, Mikasa, Armin, and the others retreated with the unconscious Eren to the wall, where Garrison soldiers blocked their way.

Eren awakened surrounded by the Garrison, who threatened to execute him for being able to transform into a Titan. Yago pleaded for Eren’s life, and the chapter ended with Armin stepping forward to persuade the Garrison after Eren and his friends placed their trust in him.

• Eren awakened and declared that he would drive out every Titan, while Kitz Werman demanded to know whether he was human or Titan.
• Yago defended Eren, promised to take responsibility for him, and urged Kitz to give Eren a chance to explain.
• Rico called for Eren and his companions to be executed, but Mitabi warned Kitz that Mikasa was a valuable soldier.
• Eren revealed that his father had said the answers were in the basement and insisted that he needed to go to Shiganshina District.
• Armin urged Eren not to act recklessly and promised to persuade the Garrison to make use of his Titan Power.
• Yago and Mikasa encouraged Eren to trust Armin, and Armin stepped forward to face the Garrison.

As Commander Pyxis launched the plan to reclaim Trost District, Yago set out to protect Eren while the soldiers struggled with their fear. After finding Thomas and Ili dead, Yago renewed his resolve to make the operation succeed.

• Commander Pyxis stopped Kitz from firing on Eren and ordered the soldiers to retake Trost District.
• Yago climbed the wall, spoke with Annie, and left for his separate combat unit when the signal flare began the operation.
• Yago operated alone as the main force drew Titans away from Eren, who transformed to move the boulder toward the breach.
• Yago found the mangled bodies of Thomas and Ili and vowed that they would not have died in vain.

After Eren regained control of the Pointed-Ear Titan, the soldiers resumed the operation to carry the boulder to Trost's breach. Yago, overwhelmed in human form, transformed into his seventeen-meter Titan and fought off nearby Titans while the defense around Eren remained under heavy pressure.

• Yago drew Titans away from Eren by exposing his hand, killed thirteen Titans, then ran out of blades and was buried beneath a group of Titans.
• Eren regained his senses, lifted a massive boulder, and began advancing toward the breach as Ian ordered the soldiers to protect him.
• Rico signaled that the operation was continuing, and Jean led the trainees in drawing Titans away from Eren.
• Yago transformed into his seventeen-meter Titan, roared to attract nearby Titans, and attacked them with punches and throws.
• Annie dodged a Titan while worrying about Yago, and Mark went after a Titan pursuing Jean after Jean's gear failed.
• Rico ordered her squad to request support from Mitabi's squad as Titans continued attacking and Eren approached the breach.

Eren and the Garrison soldiers fought through the Titans to seal Trost's breach, aided by Yago's Red-Eyed Titan. After the operation succeeded, Yago allowed the Titans to devour him, while Eren remained trapped in his Titan body and the soldiers faced another threat.

• Rico and Ian led the soldiers protecting Eren as Mitabi's squad sacrificed themselves to lure Titans away.
• Yago arrived as the Red-Eyed Titan, drew the Titans' attention, and slaughtered many of them while Eren continued carrying the boulder.
• Mikasa, Rico, and the remaining soldiers cleared Eren's path, and Eren sealed the breach with the boulder.
• Rico fired a yellow signal flare to announce the operation's success, and Yago let the Titans devour him after seeing Eren succeed.
• Mikasa and Armin tried to free the unconscious Eren from his Titan body as nearby Titans approached.
• Commander Pyxis saw the signal flare, ordered the rescue of the Elite Squad and the elimination of Trost's Titans, and learned that the Survey Corps had returned.

After the battle to reclaim Trost District, Yago escaped the Titans, reunited with Annie and his friends, and helped collect the dead. The victory came at a heavy cost, and the chapter ended with Yago noticing something in a dark corner as Annie and Reiner discussed taking Eren.

• Yago's damaged Omni-Directional Mobility Gear left him stranded, but the returning Survey Corps rescued him from a Titan.
• Yago learned that Mark had lost his right leg while saving Jean, then rode Annie's Omni-Directional Mobility Gear back to Wall Rose.
• The Garrison Regiment and Survey Corps eliminated the Titans remaining in Trost District, ending the battle with more than two hundred soldiers dead and nearly a thousand wounded.
• Yago collected Thomas's and Ili's bodies and reported their identities to the Garrison soldier recording the dead.
• Annie apologized while Reiner told her to focus on planning how to take Eren, and Yago sensed something in a dark corner.

After Jean announced that he would join the Survey Corps, Yago watched Eren face a military hearing and questioned how humanity would treat anyone with Titan powers. A child’s gratitude renewed Yago’s resolve as he returned to the barracks after Eren’s verdict had been decided.

• After the soldiers’ bodies were cremated, Jean declared that he would join the Survey Corps, and Yago warned him not to decide out of guilt.
• Military police arrived to bring Eren before a hearing, while news of his Titan power stirred public debate and Carla worried for him.
• Military police summoned Mikasa and Armin as witnesses, and Yago considered how Eren’s treatment might affect his own secret Titan power.
• A boy named Alex praised Yago as a soldier and said he wanted to drive Titans away, easing Yago’s uncertainty.
• Yago returned to the barracks after hearing that the final verdict in Eren’s trial had been decided.

Yago overheard Ymir reveal Christa’s true name and Reiner plan to kill the Survey Corps’ captured Titans, but chose not to expose his comrades. The next morning, the Titans had been killed and the cadets were questioned; Yago declared he would join the Survey Corps, while Annie remained conflicted.

• Ymir confronted Christa about her past as Historia Reiss, then said she would join the Survey Corps too.
• Yago overheard Reiner ask Bertholdt to help kill the captured Titans, but decided to trust them and stay silent.
• The cadets were summoned for an investigation after the two captured Titans were killed, and Yago told the Military Police his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear had not been used.
• Annie asked whether Yago would join the Survey Corps, and he confirmed that he would.
• The other cadets considered their choices as Annie struggled with the thought of Yago joining the Survey Corps.

At the regiment selection, Commander Erwin revealed that Eren’s basement might hold the secret to the Titans and bluntly warned recruits about the Survey Corps’ high death rate. Nearly thirty cadets, including Yago, stayed and were accepted, and Erwin called Yago aside to talk.

• Representatives from the Garrison Regiment and Military Police Brigade gave speeches before Commander Erwin invited the cadets to join the Survey Corps.
• Erwin announced that Eren’s basement in Shiganshina might contain a secret about the Titans and described the Survey Corps’ plans and expected casualties.
• More than half the cadets left, while Jean, Reiner, Bertholdt, Connie, Sasha, Christa, Ymir, Mikasa, Armin, Annie, and Yago remained.
• Erwin accepted the nearly thirty cadets as Survey Corps recruits and ordered them to assemble at headquarters the following afternoon.
• As Yago was leaving, Erwin called him over and asked to speak with him.

After reconnecting with Erwin and returning home, Yago worried about the danger facing his family after Eren’s identity became public. He arranged to seek help moving them closer to the Capital, then left to begin his service in the Survey Corps.

• Erwin told Yago that Vig Boos’s sacrifice was remembered, then explained to Levi why he had revealed Eren’s secret and ordered him to keep watch over Eren.
• Yago returned home to Lucia and reassured Carla that Eren, Mikasa, and Armin were with the Survey Corps.
• Yago learned that someone had thrown a stone through the kitchen window because Carla was Eren’s mother, and he proposed moving Lucia and Carla to the Capital.
• Yago wrote to Lisa Vald asking for help relocating his family and spent the night sleeping on the roof after contemplating his new future.
• Yago ate breakfast with Mikasa and Armin, said goodbye to Lucia and Carla, and set out to join the Survey Corps.

Eren adjusted to life in the Survey Corps while Yago and thirty-one other recruits officially joined. The recruits began preparatory training for an expedition, and Mikasa worried about Eren under Levi Squad’s watch.

• Eren recalled how Commander Erwin secured his place in the Survey Corps after Captain Levi beat him at his trial, and how he was assigned to Levi Squad.
• Oluo asked Eren whether his classmates wanted to join the Survey Corps, and Juda mentioned that Yago had killed twenty-one Titans in Trost District.
• Yago arrived without a uniform because the Survey Corps had not prepared enough, then watched Nile’s horse Charlotte bite Nile’s headscarf.
• Nile announced that the recruits would start preparatory training for an expedition beyond the walls, with formal training beginning the next day.
• Mikasa worried about Eren being watched by Levi Squad, while Yago asked the recruits for a spare uniform and Annie decided to keep hers.
• Thirty-two new recruits officially joined the Survey Corps.

Yago learned how the Survey Corps' Long-Distance Scouting Formation worked while worrying over Annie's sudden withdrawal from him. After the recruits reunited with Eren and received their uniforms, Annie continued to keep her distance from Yago.

• Nile explained the Long-Distance Scouting Formation and told the recruits where they would be positioned on the expedition.
• Yago took Annie's hand to comfort her, but Annie pushed it away and resolved to keep her distance so she would not involve him in her mission.
• After class, Annie left without Yago, and she walked away from him again when he tried to approach her among the recruits.
• Yago joined Eren and the others, who discussed which recruits had enlisted in the Survey Corps and Military Police Brigade.
• Nile called the recruits to collect their uniforms, and they put on their Survey Corps cloaks.

Before the 57th Expedition Beyond the Walls, Yago realized he loved Annie and confessed to her at the Trost gate. Annie gave no answer before the Scouts prepared to depart.

• During the final scouting drill, Nile praised Yago’s fighting skills and urged him to confess his feelings to Annie before the dangerous expedition.
• Yago searched for Annie at dinner, while Annie sat alone on the headquarters rooftop and examined two rings.
• Jean urged Eren to live up to humanity’s hopes, and Yago watched as the recruits prepared for the expedition.
• At the gate, Yago stopped Annie and told her he liked her, then asked her to consider going out with him; Annie blushed but did not reply.
• After the Garrison announced that the Titans outside the Walls had been cleared, Erwin ordered the troops to prepare.

During the Survey Corps’ fifty-seventh expedition, the formation encountered more Titans than expected, and Annie attacked an Abnormal Titan in the right wing. Yago killed another Abnormal Titan threatening Nile’s unit, while signals from the right warned of a larger attack.

• Commander Erwin led the Survey Corps through the gate and ordered the troops to form the Long-Distance Scouting Formation beyond the ruined district.
• Yago spotted Titans approaching but trusted the covering squad to handle them as the main force advanced.
• Annie left her horse to attack an Abnormal Titan, and Squad Leader Qiluo fired a warning flare when more than twenty Titans charged toward his unit.
• Yago used his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to evade an Abnormal Titan’s strike and cut its nape.
• Yago rejoined Captain Nile’s unit, and they noticed signal flares rising from the right.

Yago rushed to aid the right-flank scouting unit after spotting signals of a Titan attack, but arrived to learn Annie had been swallowed by the Female Titan. Grieving and carrying Annie’s ring and remains, he rode off alone to pursue the Female Titan.

• Nile ordered Heath and the Elite Combat Squad to reinforce the right flank, but Yago rode ahead when he learned the unit was in danger.
• Yago encountered a blond Female Titan leading a group of Titans; she abruptly changed direction, and he fired a red signal flare before continuing toward the right flank.
• Qiluo and his Scouts defeated the remaining Titans and told Yago that the Female Titan had swallowed Annie, leaving only her severed arm.
• Yago took Annie’s ring, wrapped her arm in the bloodstained cloak, and rode off in pursuit of the Female Titan.
• Heath arrived with the Elite Combat Squad, while Nile worried that Yago had gone after the Female Titan alone.

Yago pursued the Female Titan toward the Giant Tree Forest while Armin deduced that she was a human shifter targeting Eren. The Female Titan survived an ambush and continued toward the forest, leaving Yago wondering why she had not attacked the Scouts herself.

• Yago saw Black Signal Flares and charged toward the formation’s center, suspecting that the Female Titan was a human shifter heading for headquarters.
• Jean saved Armin from a Titan, and Armin concluded that the Female Titan was deliberately searching for Eren.
• Armin, Jean, Bertholdt, and Reiner lured pursuing Titans toward the Giant Tree Forest as the Levi Squad received orders to enter it.
• Aito and Zoe ambushed the Female Titan, but her hardened nape broke Aito’s blades and she injured both Scouts before continuing toward the forest.
• Yago learned that the Female Titan had not attacked Scouts directly and began to suspect why she was using the Titans following her.

Erwin's ambush trapped the Female Titan in the Giant Tree Forest, but she escaped her restraints and raced toward Eren. As a lightning bolt descended in front of Eren, Yago was also pursuing the Female Titan, seeking revenge for Annie.

• Erwin split the Survey Corps into three groups and ordered the center squads and wagon escorts into the Giant Tree Forest while the other units went around it.
• After a black flare signaled that the Female Titan had entered the forest, Yago borrowed Armin's horse and raced after her, determined to avenge Annie.
• The Female Titan attacked the soldiers pursuing the Levi Squad, and Levi told Eren that the squad's mission was to protect him.
• Erwin's concealed troops fired steel-cabled anchors into the Female Titan and pinned her in place, but she tore free and launched a figure from her nape toward Eren.
• Erwin shouted for the soldiers to protect Eren as a dazzling bolt of yellow lightning descended in front of him.

The Survey Corps pursued the Female Titan after she captured Eren and bit off his legs, while her roar summoned abnormal Titans to obstruct them. Levi and Mikasa failed to breach her crystal-protected nape, but Yago blinded her and confronted her as she crashed into a tree.

• The Female Titan seized Eren, bit off both his legs, and fled as Oluo and Juda were injured trying to stop her.
• Erwin ordered the Scouts to pursue the Female Titan, and Levi left Petra and Eld to care for the wounded while Mikasa raced after Eren.
• The Female Titan roared and summoned a horde of abnormal Titans, so Erwin sent some squads to hold them off while the others continued the chase.
• Levi and Mikasa attacked the Female Titan, but their blades broke against the crystal protecting her nape, and Levi urged Mikasa to help immobilize her.
• Yago blinded the Female Titan with a strike to her eyes, causing her to crash into a tree, then leaped down and faced her.

Yago helped Mikasa and Levi recover Eren from the Female Titan, then refused to retreat and stabbed himself in the heart to transform. He became the seventeen-meter Fate Titan and charged the Female Titan as Levi and Mikasa withdrew with Eren.

• Yago, Mikasa, and Levi found Eren inside the Female Titan’s mouth, and Yago caught him after she hurled him away.
• A Scout reported Erwin’s order to retreat because many Titans, including Abnormal Titans, were approaching.
• Yago refused Levi’s order to retreat and asked Mikasa to take care of his mother if he did not return.
• Yago stabbed himself in the heart with his broken blade, triggering a transformation that revealed he was a Titan.
• Yago transformed into the seventeen-meter Fate Titan and charged the Female Titan while Levi and Mikasa escaped with Eren.

Yago’s Fate Titan savagely attacked Annie’s Female Titan, then was overwhelmed by a swarm of Titans. After Annie emerged from her nape and was nearly eaten, Yago regained enough strength to save her and flee through the forest.

• Yago’s Fate Titan smashed the Female Titan’s head, tore off her arm, and repeatedly stomped and punched her while Yago raged inside.
• More than thirty Titans swarmed the Fate Titan, tearing off both arms and leaving him badly wounded as other Titans attacked the motionless Female Titan.
• Annie emerged from the Female Titan’s nape, and Yago briefly regained his awareness when he saw her pale blue eyes.
• A five-meter Titan seized Annie and bit her arm, but Yago’s Fate Titan surged up and knocked the Titan away.
• The armless Fate Titan took Annie into his mouth and ran into the forest with several Titans pursuing them.

Yago survived the battle with Annie, while Erwin and Levi learned that Yago could transform into a Titan and focused on protecting Eren. As the Survey Corps withdrew, four recruits, including Yago and Annie, were listed as missing, and Bertholdt panicked while Reiner stared at Christa.

• Yago rested in a tree with the unconscious Annie in his arms as Titans devoured the fading remains of his Titan body and her bitten-off arm began to regenerate.
• Levi told Erwin that Yago could transform into a Titan, and Erwin ordered the Survey Corps to retreat and prioritize Eren's protection.
• Mikasa told Armin that Yago was the Red-Eyed Titan, then checked on the still-unconscious Eren as his legs regenerated.
• Erwin told Hange, Levi, and Mike that the King had ordered the Survey Corps to bring Eren to the Capital, and Mike reported four missing recruits.
• Erwin saw that Juan Ojeda, Javier Calleja, Yago Norman, and Annie Leonhardt were listed as missing.
• Bertholdt worried that Annie had failed and Eren had returned, while Reiner stared at Christa as she helped the logistics squad.

Yago, an Eldian orphan surviving on the streets of Marley’s internment zone, met Annie Leonhardt after she rescued him from Gray and his lackeys. Annie walked away after giving Yago her name, leaving him eager to follow her.

• Yago stole and ate a baker’s black bread, then wandered to the internment zone’s guarded exit and wondered about the world outside.
• Yago found Gray and two other children bullying Annie Leonhardt and demanding her money, so he confronted them.
• Gray and his lackeys beat Yago and pinned him down, but Annie knocked Gray unconscious and quickly defeated the others.
• Yago praised Annie’s fighting and asked her to teach him, but she told him not to follow her.
• Annie gave Yago her name, and he called after her with his own.

Annie endured her father’s harsh training while Yago watched and tried to get close to her. After Yago started delivering desserts for work, he met Dr. Ebson, a Marleyan scientist who showed interest in him.

• Annie threatened Yago for following her, but later let him watch her train and shared desserts with him.
• Annie’s father, Mr. Leonhardt, pushed her to crack a wooden post and demanded she crack two the next day.
• When Yago asked about becoming a Warrior, Annie said orphans were not accepted, then offered to teach him a roundhouse kick.
• Toss Leonhardt watched Annie and Yago together and privately questioned his resolve.
• Yago fell while delivering pastries, spilling them onto a Marleyan man’s trousers, but the man introduced himself as Dr. Ebson and asked about Yago’s parents.

Annie and Yago grew close over three years as he brought her sweets and encouraged her before the Warrior candidate selection. Meanwhile, Yago continued assisting Doctor Ebson in a basement laboratory, where Ebson's unsettling behavior hinted at a change in his experiments.

• Annie missed Yago during his absence, then listened as he described working for Doctor Ebson and visiting places outside the Eldia Internment Zone.
• Yago told Annie that Doctor Ebson had given him the surname Norman, and the two grew closer over the next three years.
• Yago gave Annie a ring engraved with both their names and apologized for being unable to watch her Warrior candidate selection.
• Yago joined other Eldian orphans in Doctor Ebson's basement laboratory, where Elusa bound them to their beds before the usual blood draws.
• Doctor Ebson smiled strangely and declared that science was the ultimate answer.

Dr. Ebson injected Eldian orphans with black liquid in a failed attempt to awaken Titan Power, and Yago was the sole child whose transformation appeared to stabilize. Yago escaped briefly before Ebson injected him again; afterward, Ebson left with his father while the orphans’ bodies were sent toward the island of devils, and Annie hurried home with news for Yago.

• Dr. Ebson injected the orphans, whose bodies convulsed and burned as they died, until only Yago remained alive.
• Yago broke free, stabbed Ebson with a scalpel, and tried to escape, but Ebson caught him and forced another syringe of black liquid into his arm.
• Ebson’s father ordered him to abandon his Titan Power research and prepare to meet the head of the Tybur Family, then Ebson left with him.
• Bill arranged for servants to remove the orphans’ bodies, including Yago’s, from the basement.
• Annie returned home wearing her Warrior candidate armband and a ring, eager to share her news with Yago.
• Bill watched as a ship carrying the orphans’ bodies sailed away from the harbor.