Isayama describes Eren's personality as an emotional complex. Talking more about Eren's rivalries, Isayama instead compared him with Luke Skywalker from Star Wars as he finds fitting how both characters have an inner conflict with their darker personas. Another major scene for Eren's arc involved how he realized his powers are not good due to how he was manipulated by his father Grisha and thought he should not live due to this guilt, especially when realizing he killed his own father as a child. In later chapters when confronting Annie, Isayama wanted to give Eren more responsibility by making him suffer the powerlessness of his allies being killed by the traitor. Despite initial issues in understanding Eren, Isayama noted that the character reminded him more and more of himself afterwards, though he still found Eren hard to write. While initially thinking about Annie, Isayama noted that there was no such rivalry between themselves and instead thought that Eren needed to overcome something to become stronger. Originally, Isayama was asked by his editor who Eren's rival in the manga was. Isayama originally intended for Eren to have known all along that he was a Titan. The character's Titan form's physique was modeled after middleweight mixed martial artist Yushin Okami. In retrospect, Isayama believes Eren fits the type of narrative he wrote for Attack on Titan, something that Isayama managed to relate with. One day, he wanted to go beyond the mountains, which reflected in the town surrounded by walls in the manga where Eren lived in the series' beginning. When he was a child: He lived in a rural Japanese town surrounded by mountains. He also stated that Eren's wish to go outside the city's walls is similar to his own. As a result, he was not given unit warrior talent in comparison to other members from the series. He did that in order to give fellow character Armin more determination as Eren relied on him order to clear him of the military's accusation that he was an enemy to mankind.
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Early in the series when Eren is revealed to be a Titan shifter, Isayama thinks he wrote him calmer than his original depiction. His retaliation against such pressures triggered all this fury, which led to a major introduction to the core of his traits. Isayama describes his personality as that of a child who uses rage as his motivation as a result of his weakness and failure to save his mother from the Titans. His voice actors were praised for their portrayals of the character.Īuthor Hajime Isayama created Eren to be "an ordinary youngster who gets paralyzed with fear when his blue eyes see a titan" rather than a stereotypical hotheaded protagonist often seen in shonen manga.
Nevertheless, the character has typically proven popular within the Attack on Titan fanbase. Reception has become more positive in later arcs of the manga and anime as he becomes a more ambiguous rather than heroic character. Positive comments focused on the character's ideals and newfound powers as a Titan as well as his character arc. In the live-action film adaptations, he is portrayed by Haruma Miura.Ĭritical reception to Eren was initially polarized, finding him too antagonistic and harsh for his age. Both of these actors found difficulties in employing different types of voices based on how Eren grows up across the narrative. In the anime adaptation of the series, Eren has been voiced by Yūki Kaji in Japanese and Bryce Papenbrook in English.
Isayama created Eren with the idea of a character whose fears and dreams were relatable but often clashed with his own darkness, resulting into multiple changes to his characterization. He has also appeared in other related media including anime and video games. As the story progresses, Eren gains the power of becoming a Titan later identified as "Attack Titan" ( 進撃の巨人, Shingeki no Kyojin). In order to defeat the Titans, Eren enlists in the Military and joins the Survey Corps-an elite group of soldiers who fight Titans outside the walls and also study the physiology of Titans in order to know what they are fighting. Eren is a teenager who swears revenge on enormous creatures known as Titans that devoured his mother and destroyed his town in the Shiganshina district in Wall Maria. Eren as depicted in the Attack on Titan mangaĪttack on Titan chapter 1: "To You, 2,000 Years from Now" (2009)Īttack on Titan chapter 139: "Toward the Tree on That Hill" (2021)Įren Yeager ( Japanese: エレン・イェーガー, Hepburn: Eren Yēgā), named Eren Jaeger (German: Jaeger/Jäger, "Hunter") in the subtitled and dubbed versions of the anime, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Attack on Titan manga series created by Hajime Isayama.