Attack on Titan’s greatest romance culminated in a gross act of love — I wouldn’t have it any other way

The last thingAttack on Titan can be accused of is being a romance. Love exists in the margins of the series, and it rarely survives long enough to blossom in the show’s ultra-violent story. Outside of the star-crossed lovers Armin Arlert and Annie Leonhart, nearlyeverypairing is marked by tragedy. But the darkest romance of them all is the complicated bond between Eren Yeager and Mikasa Ackerman, which begins in the anime’s very first moments and reaches its disturbing climax in the series finale.