Board Thread:Manga/@comment-171.99.228.49-20160131022420/@comment-39349959-20200511141135

Penguinluver1431 wrote: Kowys wrote: Have you read the Attack on Titan: Lost Girls manga yet?

Annie is a more complex character than you see on the surface. She went on her final mission to capture Eren with a heavy heart, and only killed all those Survey Corps soldiers in self-defense (watch the anime again, she was only going for Eren, it's the Survey Corps who were after her blood).

Annie decided to spare Armin and Jean's lives even though she could have killed them easily during the mission, and when tasked to take Marco's 3DMG back in Trost, she did so very reluctantly and only after much persuasion from Reiner.

I think the reason why people hate her so much is because the entire series of events in AoT is being portrayed from the eyes of walled humanity. Our protagonists see her as an evil titan shifter who wishes to destroy all that they hold dear, when in truth, all poor Annie wants is to retrieve the Coordinate and return home to be reunited with her father again. Lost Girls has the same problem as the Marley arc did...it failed to make me sympathize with the villains and did a poor job of trying to make them worthy of empathy. I still despised Annie after Lost Girls because she shows no indication of ever changing or, better yet, of ever admitting she is a monster.

In Lost-Girls I don't think the author wanted to make her nice but rather that we can understand her attitude. Chapters 95-97 of the Marley arc have the same purpose with Reiner.

This does not justify their crimes. For example, what they did to Marco is very cruel and Jean is right to never forgive that.

However, this shows that they are not the only ones responsible. Their parents put pressure on them to become Paradise Killers so they are also responsible for it, right?