Attack on Titan · Story arc
Clash of the Titans
Titans appear inside Wall Rose with no breach. At Utgard Ymir reveals herself as a shifter; on the Walls Reiner and Bertolt confess to being the Armored and Colossal Titans and kidnap Eren and Ymir.
Ragako is empty and a Titan unable to move lies in Connie's house. The Beast watches from afar. Erwin leads a rescue expedition towards the Forest of Giant Trees; Eren uses the Coordinate for the first time striking the Titan that killed his mother. Hannes dies; Ymir chooses to go with Reiner and Bertolt.
- Position
- Arc 8 of 14
- Saga
- Within the Walls
- Period
- Year 850
- Canon status
- Canon
- Manga
- 35-50
- Anime
- ep. 26-37
Arc events(7)
- Ymir becomes human againYear 845The Titan that devours Marcel is Ymir, a Marleyan girl used by a cult as a fake "reincarnation" of Ymir Fritz and then exiled: after sixty years as a pure Titan, she becomes human again with the power of the Jaw.
- Ragako, emptyYear 850Titans appear inside Wall Rose with no breach at all. Connie rushes to his village: Ragako is empty, and lying on his house is a Titan unable to move that greets him with his mother's face.
- Mike and the Beast TitanYear 850Mike Zacharias stays behind to buy time for his men. A furry Titan that speaks — the Beast — asks him what the mobility gear is, then orders the Titans to devour him.
- The night at UtgardYear 850Besieged in the castle, the unarmed recruits and Nanaba and Gelgar's soldiers hold out against the Titans. To save Krista, Ymir transforms into a Titan in front of everyone and fights until she collapses.
- Reiner and Bertolt reveal themselvesYear 850On the Walls, as if talking about the weather, Reiner confesses to Eren that he is the Armored Titan and Bertolt the Colossal. Mikasa wounds them, but they transform: after a fight with Eren, they kidnap him and Ymir.
- Eren's rescueYear 850Erwin leads the Survey Corps and the Military Police to the Forest of Giant Trees, where Reiner and Bertolt wait for nightfall. In the melee he loses his right arm; then he drags a horde of Titans onto the Armored to free Eren.
- The Smiling Titan and the CoordinateYear 850The Smiling Titan that devoured Carla reappears and devours Hannes before Eren and Mikasa's eyes. In despair, Eren strikes the Titan's fist and awakens the Coordinate for the first time: the Titans obey him and swarm the enemy.