Attack On Titans ( Shingeki no Kyojin )

A Dim Light in the Darkness of Despair: Humanity Rises Again

Drill Instructor Keith Shadis begins inspecting the new recruits by verbally insulting and intimidating the weak ones. When Sasha Brause is caught eating a potato, she is punished to run around the camp. An exhausted Sasha is later taken back to bed by Ymir and Christa Lenz. Eren has a rivalry with Jean Kirstein, whom Eren finds cowardly since Jean wants to join the Military Police simply because their only job is to maintain civil order within the inner city walls. The recruits begin training on the 3-D Maneuver Gear by maintaining their balance while suspended in the air. Eren has trouble balancing his Gear, so he asks Reiner Braun and Bertholdt Huber for help. As they give Eren advice, both of them reveal that they came from a town that was not warned of the Titans' attack. Despite surviving, Reiner wants to go back to their hometown. Bertholdt, on the other hand, was traumatized by the Titans and wants to join the Military Police to avoid them. The next day, Eren tries the Maneuver Gear again and succeeds for a few seconds before falling once more. Much to everyone's surprise, Keith discovers that Eren's Gear was actually defective, and after equipping another recruit's working Gear, he proves to indeed have the aptitude to use it. The fact that Eren could maintain his balance even for a few seconds with a faulty Gear impresses Keith and the other recruits. Proud of the recruits who succeeded, Keith furthers their training with the Maneuver Gear. Five years since Wall Maria fell, the time for the recruits' graduation approaches. While training in hand-to-hand combat with Reiner and Annie Leonhardt, Eren learns that many among his peers are just honing their abilities to earn a place in the Military Police and avoid confronting the Titans at all. Jean claims that confronting the Titans is pointless, as mankind has never won a battle against them. Despite this, Eren remains dead set on joining the Recon Corps. On the day of graduation, Christa, Sasha, Conny Springer, Marco Bott, Jean, Eren, Annie, Bertholdt, Reiner, and Mikasa become the top ten recruits of their class. Despite the fact that the top ten are allowed to join the Military Police, Eren joins the Recon Corps as he has always intended, with Armin and Mikasa to watch over him. Later Sasha, Conny, and some of the other recruits follow their example and join the Recon Corps as well, after being inspired by Eren's speech to have mankind freed of the Titans. They are assigned to the District of Trost, one of the cities near Wall Rosé, and are taken by surprise when the Colossus Titan appears before them and breaks through the gate, leaving the city unprotected. Once Eren regains his composure, he takes command and orders a counterattack, climbing back to the top of the wall to have his revenge against the Titan.