FUNimation has spent a part of this summer looking at new ways to engage with fans online and to make that more personal pitch and approach to getting them to support various releases, which is a good thing overall. The latest is the second personal approach touch by having voice actor Matthew Mercer, who plays Levi in Attack on Titan, to remind fans that there’s about two weeks left until the second set hits on September 23rd, 2014. This follows up the route used a couple of weeks back with series director Mike McFarland doing the same approach. For fans of the actor, it’s also a welcome, if brief, chance to see the person behind the voice rather than just the character and the voice. The release brings episodes fourteen through twenty-five to DVD/BD as well as a lot of extras, with two episodes getting commentaries, the show at Anime Expo, the clean opening and closings, an eyecatch gallery and more installments of the chibi theater.
Plot concept: Eren Jaeger vowed to rid mankind of the bloodthirsty giants who devoured his mother and destroyed his city. Now, after discovering that he has the ability to turn into a Titan, the world Eren promised to protect looks at him like he is the monster.
Narrowly avoiding execution, Eren’s fate is entrusted to the Scout Regiment where he must prove capable of following orders. But on an expedition outside the wall, a unique female Titan appears and cuts through the Scouts, leaving a trail of carnage and splintered bones behind her and making it difficult for Eren to control his rage. As it becomes obvious that a traitor is sabotaging the Regiment from within, Eren must ask himself who humanity’s true enemy really is.
