Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-30049797-20160924003216/@comment-5774380-20160924174611

Saltyhentai wrote:

isayama said himself the translation was false.

Now THAT's false information, because Isayama never said that and you just made it up.

However, the complaint may be valid. It's true that the official Kodansha USA translation of the guidebook says "adopted" (twice), but I just checked the original Japanese version and it contains the kanji for "引き取る" (Hikitora), which doesn't mean "adopted" but "taken in". For some reason Kodansha USA chose to translate it as "adopted", but it was probably a mistake. The fact that Mikasa didn't change her surname also suggests that she wasn't legally adopted.