'Attack on Titan' Reveals its New Queen

Attack on Titan's third season has had a major goal of setting a new status quo for the series as [...]

By Nick Valdez

Attack on Titan's third season has had a major goal of setting a new status quo for the series as the Survey Corps learned of the major political trickery going on and helped to overthrow the previous government.

In its place, a new royalty was crowned as Historia Reiss, original heir to the throne, took her official place as queen of the country.

Earlier in the season fans learned that Historia's past involved her changing her name to Christa after her mother (who never showed her any affection, and didn't want to have her in the first place) was killed by the Anti-Personnel Squad. The Reiss family was originally the family in line to the throne, but the memories of the citizens had been changed and threw everything into question.

After unseating the former king and royalty in charge through a military coup, Historia was left with the huge responsibility of being in charge now. To get the citizens to accept her, she joined the battle against her father turned disgusting Titan, and even dealt the killing blow.

The fact that she dealt a killing blow in front of so many people helped the citizens accept her as the new Queen, since she's a hero, but the problems won't stop for her there. Te road to her new Queendom was arduous, and she even had to discard her past as a member of the Reiss family. But Historia's growth through the season indicates that not only will she be up to this new challenge, but she will exceed expectations.

Attack on Titan was originally created by Hajime Isayama for Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009. The series has since been collected into 23 volumes as of 2017, and it's set in a world where the last remnants of humanity live within a walled city in order to escape the danger of the Titans, a race of giants monsters that eats humans. The lead character, Eren Yeager, ends up joining the military with his two childhood friends Mikasa and Armin after the Titans break through the wall and attack his hometown.

Now Eren, Mikasa, and Armin must survive in a world where they not only have the Titans to fear, but the very humans they are trying to save. You can currently find the series streaming on Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Saturday nights on Adult Swim's Toonami block.

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