Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening

A feature compiled from an anime series. This part covers the second season, and the event begins not outside the walls but inside one: a giant is found within a wall, and that makes everything told for years disputable. There is a siege. A small squad is trapped in an old fortress with no ammunition and giants outside. Then the narrative arrives at its real matter: inside the corps, among people who have fought together for years, there is an enemy. The scene in which that comes out is one of the most discussed moments in the series. Two soldiers say who they are, and they do it not in a battle but in the middle of an ordinary conversation. From there the film goes into a long engagement. There is a chase through a forest, the loss of the squad and an attempt at rescue. What the narrative is interested in is not monsters but sides: its question is who counts as human and what the thing called the enemy actually is. The side line is the relationship between Ymir and Christa and whether a promise will be kept. Because of the compilation some transitions are abrupt; the narrative ties together sections taken from the series and the new material is limited. Tetsuro Araki directed. Who it is for: anyone following the series and anyone who likes action animation. Who it is not for: anyone who has not seen the first film; the narrative continues directly and introduces no one.