This article involves spoilers for the eighth episode of the fourth season of "Attack on Titan". If you haven't watched it yet, don't read it.
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Yes, Sasha is dead.
For the animation party, this is undoubtedly a critical blow, because Sasha appeared in the first season and accompanied us for eight years, but she still failed to accompany us to the end.
The same is true for the comic party. Although I knew she would die in 2018, I couldn't help crying when I saw this scene in the animation. After all, Sasha is so innocent and kind, but She didn't get what she deserved.
Although he is also a soldier of the Survey Corps, Sasha is very different from the others.
To say what is different, many people may say that she is a foodie.
So let's take a closer look, why is she a foodie?
Because she was born in the mountains south of the Wall of Rose, far from the town, her people lived by hunting.
However, after the Wall of Maria was destroyed, outsiders came to the Wall of Rose to snatch land and food, causing her to not even have enough to eat at a young age.
She hasn't had a full meal for a long time, so all she thinks about is eating every day.
At one point, she was criticized by her father for trying to eat the bacon that she had kept at home for the winter.
The reason for others to join the army is to kill all the giants or save the world, but the purpose of Sasha joining the army is to retake the forest, so that the tribe can become hunters again, and on the other hand, to take back the Wall of Maria, so as to be able to herd cattle. Sheep.
What is the purpose of herding cattle and sheep, to eat meat.
In other words, if it wasn't for the conspiracy of the Marais, if it wasn't for the war, she would never have gone to the army, and she would never have died.
She might not even be a foodie, because without the war, no one would come to snatch their land and food, and she wouldn't be a foodie if she wasn't short of food.
As at the heart of all great comedies is tragedy, so is Sasha.
The character of Sasha's "foodie" is funny on the surface, but in fact, it is based on happiness and sadness, and the core is very tragic.
We live in a peaceful age, not necessarily rich and rich, but at least we have enough food and clothing. We may never understand that Sasha's greatest wish before her death is to eat meat.
On the first day of joining the Corps, the instructors gave the recruits a threatening baptism.
The others were too frightened to move, but Sasha was still eating sweet potatoes leisurely, which is the origin of her nickname "Sweet Potato Girl".
When I watched "Attack on Titan" for the first time, I thought to myself that she must be the kind of god with strong fighting power, so she has the capital to ignore the instructor and eat sweet potatoes on her own.
I thought she was a king, but it turned out to be a bronze.
She is not a great god, nor does she ignore the instructor because of her strength, she is just a fool.
The instructor asked her why she was eating sweet potatoes at this time, and she honestly said that it was not delicious because it was cold, so she should eat it now.
The instructors were left speechless by her. She didn't even know what the instructor meant. She thought that the instructor wanted to eat it too, but she even gave half of it to the instructor, and gave the big half to herself and the small half to the instructor. Confused face.
You are not Hanhan, you are Tie Hanhan.
The instructor ordered her to run until she died, but she didn't respond.
Seeing that she didn't respond, the instructor punished her for not allowing her to eat, and she immediately became desperate.
I was pissed off by her.
No one dared to disobey the instructor's order, but Herista, that is, Hesteria, ate a piece of bread for her, and she instantly felt that the other party was a god.
You see, she is so easily satisfied.
A piece of bread is enough, if there is meat, wouldn't it be crazy?
That's right, once she saw the meat really crazy, we'll talk about that later.
Allen didn't know that the belt of his three-dimensional mobile device was broken, thinking that he was not talented enough to enter the corps, so he could only go to open up the land.
Mikasa said, if you go to open up the land, I will follow you.
Mikasa didn't know that Ellen had left long ago, and now Sasha is sitting next to her.
Knowing that Mikasa is going to open up the land, Sasha's first reaction turned out to be, so I can take this bread, right?
You see, food is always on her mind.
Mikasa picked up the bread, Sasha naively thought that Mikasa was going to give it to herself, but Mikasa picked up the bread and put it in her mouth.
Sasha: Give you a look and see for yourself.
Sasha was healed and her scars were forgotten. She stole meat from the officer's granary just after graduation.
So long, long time later, when Allen brought everyone back to find the instructor, she didn't dare to sit down, probably because she was afraid that the instructor would scold her for stealing meat back then.
However, she did not eat alone, but distributed the meat to everyone.
In order to wish for the recapture of the Wall of Maria, the Corps ate meat very rarely.
Why do you feel like I'm familiar with your actions?
Sasha didn't care about anything, picked up a whole piece of meat and gnawed it, leaving nothing for others, so that Connie had to strangle her neck.
Jean snatched the meat, but Sasha even bit him.
Marlow said that the Survey Corps couldn't even eat meat, and Sasha gave him a punch.
Mikasa asked Connie to get Sasha, and Sasha...
At first she was satisfied with a piece of bread, but she went crazy when she saw the meat.
Everyone had no choice but to tie her up and cover her mouth with a cloth.
Then Alan and Connie went to dinner, completely ignoring Sasha's feelings.
In the end, Levi told everyone to go to bed, and everyone dispersed, completely forgetting Sasha's existence, which was too bad.
Don't look at Sasha as a fool, in fact, there is still some strength. In the 104th training corps, she is the 9th.
And when the super giant appeared, Samuel fell off the city wall, and it was Sasha who saved her.
She belongs to the type who is usually carefree, but will not lose the chain at critical moments.
We watch season four and then go back and watch seasons one, two, and three, and it's a very different feeling than when we first watched season one for the first time.
When I watched the first season for the first time, I thought Sasha was a funny and funny person. After watching the fourth season, and then looking back at the first, second, and third seasons, we will find that Sasha is a tragic character.
What is commendable is that as a tragic character, she is not lost at all, but shows optimism, sunshine, positive energy, and always transmits positive energy to others.
For example, when the giants invaded for the second time, the seniors were almost wiped out, Aaron was also eaten, everyone's gas was almost used up, and the gas supply station was also surrounded by giants.
Most people lost confidence, and some even committed suicide, and it was Sasha who encouraged everyone to cheer up.
If Ellen, Levi, and Mikasa encouraged everyone to cheer up, you would think it was too normal, but it's too rare for someone like Sasha who is afraid of death to encourage everyone.
You say she's not afraid, she's more afraid than anyone else, but she doesn't show it, but burns herself like a candle to bring light to others.
Why she was afraid? The most direct evidence is that when everyone went to the gas supply station to kill the giant, their plan was to slash the back of the giant's neck with seven people at the same time.
The other six were successful, but she was the only one who went awry.
It wasn't over yet, she was scared by the giant and apologized.
So, she is the most afraid of giants, but she is also willing to encourage others when everyone is desperate.
Sasha didn't hack the giant to death. Her first reaction was not to run for her life, but to apologize to the giant.
She said, "I'm really sorry for attacking you from behind."
You see, she is so kind.
Once, a soldier couldn't take it anymore, he said, "It turns out that my job is to fight until I am eaten by giants. Instead of being eaten, I might as well kill myself now."
Marco said to him, look at Sasha, she's been through what she's been through and still looks like a noble warrior.
Everyone called Sasha "Sweet Potato Girl", but it was so rare that someone praised her, and Sasha felt embarrassed instantly.
You see, she would be embarrassed to even be praised, how simple she is.
She has been like this all her life, kind, simple, innocent, and optimistic, sunny, and positive at the same time.
She's so good, she really shouldn't die.
When Irwin recruited new recruits for the Survey Corps, he said that 60% of the survey corps had died in the past four years, and this year's recruits would also participate in the survey outside the walls a month later, and the death rate would be about 30%.
After hearing this, most of the people left, but Sasha didn't.
She saw the people around her leaving one by one, and she wanted to leave too. She still said in her heart that she was so scared and wanted to go back to the village, but she finally chose to stay.
To know that her grade is 9th, she is eligible to join the gendarmerie regiment.
Countless people broke their heads and wanted to join the Gendarmerie Corps, and they would eat better and be safer than the Survey Corps, but she gave up her qualifications to go to the Gendarmerie Corps and chose the Survey Corps.
Because she said at the beginning that as long as the land is taken back, cattle and sheep can be raised.
She didn't just talk about it, she also took action.
Her father once told her that those who did not fulfill their obligations naturally did not have the reason to accept favors.
It seemed that she had already kept this sentence firmly in her heart.
It's true that most of the time she thinks about eating, but instead of sitting there waiting for someone to feed her, she wants to create with her own hands.
It is true that she is a foodie, but she is also determined to be a foodie who is responsible, responsible, and has enough food and clothing by herself.
Once she saw a giant eating a woman, while the woman's daughter was sitting there stupidly.
Sasha is very timid and weak in combat (compared to Ellen and the others), but in order to save the little girl, she fought the giant alone and almost died. Fortunately, she shot the giant's eyes blind in time.
Later, Sasha met her father.
Father said, you fought giants for that girl, Sasha, you have grown up.
Sasha suddenly realizes that she has become a better version of herself without knowing it.
Although she is also afraid, she also transmits positive energy to others.
Although she is not as strong as Ellen, she is willing to risk her life to save a little girl.
The Marais say that the Eldians are all demons, but Sasha is really an angel.
Finally, humans recaptured the Wall of Maria.
The Survey Corps came to the beach, and Sasha, Connie, and Jean had fun at the beach.
They naively thought the worst was over, but what they didn't know was that the worst was yet to come.
After all the hardships and finally survived, Sasha would have been lifelong friends with Connie and Jean, especially with Connie, but they still didn't make it to the end.
During the first survey outside the wall, a large group of people went out, but when they came back, there were not many.
Although Connie survived, he still had lingering fears, he said, how long can I live?
Sasha comforted him and said, in short, we are alive now, aren't we?
Connie said, only for now.
Sasha said, isn't it good, because we are still alive.
In fact, Sasha is more afraid than Connie, but she still tries to help Connie out of the shadows, probably this is why Connie likes Sasha so much, and this kind of love has gone beyond love and has risen to family affection.
At the gas supply station, Sasha didn't kill the giant, and apologized to the giant. Afterwards, Sasha said that she had no face to see everyone, and Connie said to her, "I will laugh at you slowly later, and the most important thing now is to evacuate quickly." , and then pulled Sasha away.
Sasha is optimistic most of the time, and she passes her optimism to those around her.
But she is an ordinary person after all, and she also has moments of weakness, and then Connie will come to encourage her.
Each of us is intact in body and incomplete in soul. So you need to find someone who just fills the missing part of your soul.
Maybe Connie is the part of Sasha's soul that is missing, and Sasha is the part of her soul that Connie is missing.
The same is true for the eighth episode of the fourth season, let's say, when will the fight end?
Connie hugged Jean and Sasha and said, in short, we survived again.
This sentence is exactly what Sasha said to him at the beginning. Although it is not the original words, the meaning is the same.
Sasha didn't say anything, but silently held Connie's hand, which was more than a thousand words.
In the 104th training corps, Sasha and Connie are the 9th and 8th respectively. They are stronger than other soldiers, but they are basically the bottom of the protagonist regiment.
But why do so many people like Sasha and Connie?
The reason is simple, because no one in Attack on Titan came closer to failure than they did.
Allen needless to say, ordinary people can win the lottery if they inherit a kind of giant power. He is also the host of the attacking giant, the ancestor giant, and the warhammer giant.
There is also Levi who can kill a group of giants by himself, and Mikasa who is enough to match 100 soldiers, and that was many years ago...
Sasha and Connie are not the protagonists, they are just supporting roles, they have no giant power, no royal blood, they have nothing, they are the closest to ordinary people in this large group of protagonists and villains, which is why they have attracted countless netizens. Reason for resonance.
The gap between Sasha and Mikasa is too big, and the gap between Connie and Alan is too big, so only they understand each other the most, so Connie said they were like unrelated twins, so when Sasha died At the time, Connie was the saddest.
(Actually, I am sad.)
When Sasha first appeared, she ate sweet potatoes in front of the instructor, and she also said "Can you eat?" in the last appearance.
Before she died, she said two sentences. The first sentence was whether the rice was ready, and the other sentence was that she wanted to eat meat.
She just wants to eat, what's wrong with her?
I remembered the first season again. The instructor ordered her to run to death, but she didn't respond. Instead, the instructor ordered her not to eat, and she was completely desperate.
Then, Hesteria gave her a piece of bread to eat, and she regarded him as a god.
Alan's ideal is too grand, he wants to save the entire Eldia;
Amin has a very difficult task on his shoulders, because he can't let others feel that saving him was a wrong decision in the first place.
Reiner was brainwashed, used, and forced to kill his own compatriots since he was a child.
As for Sasha, she is too easily satisfied, as long as she can eat a full meal, it is enough for her.
Compared with Ellen, Amin and others, her ideals are too trivial. Why can't this world even accommodate such ordinary people with such small aspirations?
Sasha doesn't have much of a role, but she left a lasting impression on us.
She is by no means an unimportant character, on the contrary, after the eighth episode aired, everyone was in tears.
Some people accused Jia Bi, and even cursed her to get the lunch earlier; some felt sorry for Sasha, and felt that she should not have died, at least not by a child.
After the eighth episode aired, netizens were all accusing Jia Bi, or feeling sorry for Sasha, or accusing Jia Bi and feeling sorry for Sasha again.
The fundamental reason why Sasha's death made everyone react so strongly and made so many people feel uneasy is that this character is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
So let's get to the bottom of it, why is the role of Sasha so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people?
Because Isayama is so powerful, he can not only make the protagonist very plump, but also the supporting roles can be made flesh and blood.
So at the end of the day, Isayama put so much effort into shaping Sasha and making us fall in love with her. After we fell in love with her, he painted her to death again. You are too cruel.
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