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Eren is an amazing character

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This is basically a random analysis chapter and comments are much appreciated. Enjoy!

I think it's obvious that I LOVE Attack on Titan. Like, I have a serious, unhealthy obsession with it and it's not one of those obsessions that fades away as time passes, either. If anything, my obsession is constantly growing as I read over the chapters again and reach a deeper understanding of the story.

Attack on Titan started off with basic, underdeveloped characters but, over time, these characters have become more and more complex. Whether it be Reiner, Connie or Mikasa; each character is unique and beautifully crafted and intertwined with other characters to create the main plot. This, combined with the amazing world building, is what makes snk my favourite manga series of all time.

Above all other characters, our protagonist, Eren Yeager, is definitely the best written. There are many different ways of looking at him and the progress in his character overtime is undoubtedly stunning. You can hate him or love him but it's impossible to deny that the story would be nowhere near as good without him as the protagonist.

What makes him so amazing is that he started off as our simple Shounen protagonist, with a seemingly inspirational determination. Back then, the story did seem like a simple Shounen, so what was wrong with being a protagonist like Asuta, Izuku Midoriya and many others?

The problem was that Eren's world was cruel. It was a more Seinen world, rather than a Shounen one. Eren's Shounen mentality just didn't fit in. It's almost like Eren's character is meant to be a criticism of the typical Shounen protagonist, conveying the flaws in this 'inspirational' mentality and showing that determination could not solve everything.

We can see how Eren's mentality is driving him crazy as early as his first battle. After being eaten by a titan, he is confused as to why things didn't work out.

Eren is incapable of understanding why he failed because in his mind, he didn't see failure as a possibility. Unlike the shounen worlds that Eren should belong in, the world of snk is cruel and much more realistic. After this, Eren is faced with the truth of his cruel world, time and time again and his shounen mentality constantly fails. We can outwardly see that this is driving him crazy, through his laughs and facial expressions.

During the Female Titan arc, Eren learns to go with what he thinks is best. He blames the death of the Levi squad on the fact that he put his trust in them. In other words, he decides that it's best to always act on his own initiative.