Shingeki no Kyojin Chapter 53 Discussion

WhiteWing13 said:
Why is no one talking about the girl who was brushing her hair--Geographia?

keragamming said:


Yea I think it;s someone from Eren past... it could even been his real mother?

WhiteWing13 said:


Real mother? But he closely resembles Carla too... Unless she IS Carla, and Carla was actually a runaway noble! And that's how Grisha became aware of the conspiracies and decided to develop the titan shifting formula!

Geographia? I'm lost here, what page was that in the manga?

The only problem I have with this is that those images were supposed to be Eren's lost memories, and that image was clearly from the perspective of Geographia looking in a mirror!

WhiteWing13 said:


You said that her name was Geographia in the rough translation, but that wasn't there in the final version. My question still stands though: Why is Eren seeing the memory from the perspective of that high born girl who clearly resembles him?

Perhaps Eren's mom was in fact a runaway noble, and Eren can somehow see some of her memories because he's descended from her, like in Assassin's Creed.

WhiteWing13 said:
Maybe she's the daughter of the king, and Eren will turn out to be a member of the royal family somehow... Lol, just a crack theory, and speaking of which...

I don't know why, but my mind keeps on going to Eren has a sister who will turn out to be a psychopath and thus be a rival for his affection with Mikasa, or he crossdressed in the past. Or it's just his mom.

The most-likely answer is that it's Eren's mom and he actually has noble blood.

mandroid said:
OK, WHERE THE FUCK DID U READ G E O G R A P H I A ???!?!?!?!?!

Fiji said:
Wow. It seems Eren has recalled "memories" and the girl looks like Carla, Eren's mom.

I think that Grisha may have used Carla's blood in the titan formula since Carla might have the powers of the titan but doesn't know it? Or Grisha has the powers to transform that it needed the blood of a loved one (opposite sex) for the titan power to be transferred? Something like that lol.

As this series progress, more and more questions appear than what is getting answered.

Anyways, some truth about the Titan power is revealed... and Jean and with ARMIN this time dressed as Historia. Heck yeah.

yadayada said:
Eren: "Basically the whole reconquest of Wall Maria is totally impossible, Because I can't manage to get hard..." *Everyone stares at Eren in silence. Levi:"Yep, it's exactly like that".

LOL at the amount of erectile dysfunction jokes this chapter!

Eren finally gets some freedom and what do ya know, he gets kidnapped again. Our MC really is having some bad luck lately..

Glad to see we're finding more about the military and what their points of the story are. Erwin doing some recon near the end, can't figure out if that was some government building or a church he was walking into.

keragamming said:


lol Jean and armin were the ones that got kidnapped.

AnnieZoe said:
Does squad levi know where jean and armin currently are?? Levi said some like, the situation isnt bad...

IchigoHollowfi said:
So Eren can't harden. Damn.

Those (Eren) abs...I can't.... ♥____♥

Jean cosplayed as Eren again. Lmao. XD

Mikasa worried about Levi's leg.
I can hear the LevixMikasa fangirls screaming in the background.
Really, guys? =_=

Another month of waiting. >_<

Heiwajima_Mayu said:


Actually, I think Levi was refering to his leg there, at least it's how I understood it.

Anyway, it was an interesting chapter, some rather unexpected things happened and now we have a mystery more. Though that's SnK for you xD

Really love the fact heichou is always so blunt. Also, it made me laugh when Hanji interrupted his speech and he looked annoyed xD

Also, I couldn't understand so well (and it's minor, but it's still bugging me for some reason), but why was Levi looking at the woman with the baby that way? Did she have to do something with the ambush which helped him notice or he was simply pitying her current situation. (I think it's the latter, but I'd like to confirm.)

Excited to see what's going to happen next ^^
Hope Jean and Armin are going to be ok and that we find out something more from Historia soon.

bakaryanno said:
just read the chapter at link removed This chapter was particularly frustrating to read not because of the translations, but because it seems as though for ever one answer we get, we're left with twice as many questions..

The part that really kind of gets me is the flashback of the girl looking in the mirror. If the vantage point is Eren seeing a reflection of himself as that girl (who shares similar facial features with him), does this have something to do with the 'memories' his father had told him about in the basement? Or could this also reference a reincarnation event/time loop theory?

The government that controls the central military police (who killed pastor nick) appear to desperately want to capture Eren and Historia. Bert/Annie/Reiner also share this core objective but for a different faction (the warriors/outsiders). I guess only time will tell who the true antagonists of snk really are.

Before Eren starts to go berserk in his titan form, he scribbles that he did something to his father and becomes extremely depressed. Could this possibly hint towards the idea that Eren ate his own father Grisha (either unknowingly or was asked to)? Earlier it's mentioned that a key event is required for titans to transform back to their human state (such as Ymir eating Berwick, who may or may not have been a shifter to begin with). Could this also apply to Eren (if he even had an initial transformation state following his injection), and was this how he was able to regain his human form? The hole in this theory is that Eren himself was also eaten and nothing happened then--though you could argue that he was swallowed whole/wasn't killed in the process, the titan that ate him wasn't a special titan/shifter, or at this point hadn't awoken his shifting powers.

I think something that will help answer these questions revolves around Eren and Ymir's titans, who are noticeably different from Reiner/Bert/Annie's. The backstory behind Ymir's initial transformation and her eventual return to human form is left rather vague and unclear, but I feel as though it will become very important later (as with Eren's abilities). Historia, another important figure, hasn't revealed anything so far, but perhaps she might tell Eren something now that they're alone in private?

WhiteWing13 said:
Why is no one talking about the girl who was brushing her hair--Geographia?

Jotaro_Kujo said:
Cross-dressing Armin is the highlight. I liked the chapter, but it basically added new mysteries on top of a shitload of existing ones without answering anything. God I wished this manga was biweekly.

On another note, it seems that this chapter makes the anime inconsistent as hell in terms of characterization (among other things), since here it's shown that Erwin and Nile were fellow trainees who are on respectful terms with one another, while the anime portrayed a more hostile relationship. I wonder how the anime team is going to reconcile that in the future..