ghostmartyr: MANGA SPOILERS Sometimes the anime drawing things out works really, really well. In th

ghostmartyr:

MANGA SPOILERS

Sometimes the anime drawing things out works really, really well.

In the manga, the above exchange is a single panel, framed in such a way that it’s almost a throwaway conclusion to Historia and Hange’s conversation. The focus of the scene is on Ymir’s situation, and besides reading subtext into ellipses, Historia’s own history is reserved for a later day.

In the anime, everything takes just a little more time. Pauses that your eyes flit over become tangible seconds of material.

For the first time in five years, someone calls Historia by her name. And it hasn’t fully bloomed as a storyline, but the seeds of that significance are everywhere in the extra moment it takes Historia to respond to Hange.

It’s nice to meet Historia Reiss.

Historia has yet to have the pleasure.