Mikasa Ackerman

Mikasa Ackerman is one of the main characters from the Attack on Titan series.
== Charactah Account ==
Mikasa is the adoptive sister of Eren and mutual childhood friend of Armin. A former resident of the rural outskirts of Shinganshina in the interior of Wall Maria, Mikasa is adopted by Dr. Grisha Yeager after her mother and father are murdered by human traffickers. Mikasa hides her emotions but cares deeply for Eren — never hesitating to cry with tears of joy or despair depending on what happens to him. She shares an unbreakable bond with Eren following events in their past, and his mother requesting that she protect him made her even more overly protective of him than she was beforehand. She is very physically strong and physically skilled. Her dream in life is to live a peaceful life in the walls with Eren. She enrolls in military training, ranking 1st on her class, and later joins the Survey Corps because Eren does. Noticeable even during her training days, Mikasa comes to be known as an exceedingly capable and swift soldier, and a force to be reckoned with on her own.
Discovering several traitors hiding in their midst, Mikasa reaffirms her mission to protect Eren. With Humanity's Strongest sidelined by an injury, she is forced to step up and take to the front lines to protect Eren. While facing the traitors, she realizes her own attachment to comrades may impede her mission and is deeply shaken by her failure. This leads to her becoming more ruthless, even willing to cut down her own comrades if they should prove an obstacle. She is promoted into the second incarnation of the Special Operations Squad, and appears to have become Levi's new second in command.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Attack on Skytree
* Attack on Titan
* Attack on Titan Movie 1: Crimson Bow and Arrow
* Attack on Titan Movie 2: Wings of Freedom
* Attack on Titan OVA
* Attack on Titan Picture Drama
* Attack on Titan Season 2
* Attack on Titan Season 2 Movie: The Roar of Awakening
* Attack on Titan Season 3
* Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2
* Attack on Titan: Chronicle
* Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
* Attack on Titan: Since That Day
* Attack on Titan: The Final Season
* Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2
* Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 3
=== Light Novels ===
* Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
=== Manga ===
* Attack on Titan
* Attack on Titan: High School
* Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
* Spoof on Titan
=== Video Games ===
* 300 Heroes
* Attack on Titan
* Attack on Titan 2
* Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle
* Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates
* Attack on Titan Tribute
* Attack on Titan: Escape from Certain Death
* Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains
* Attack on Titan: Jiyuu e no Houkou
* Attack on Titan: Tactics
* Attack on Titan: Team Battle
* Full Bokko Heroes X
* Granblue Fantasy
* Star Ocean Anamnesis
* The Alchemist Code
* Valkyrie Connect
== Trivia ==
* Mikasa ranked third in the First Character Popularity Poll.
** Mikasa ranked seventh in the Second Character Popularity Poll.
** Mikasa tied with Bertolt Hoover for sixth in the Third Character Popularity Poll.
** Mikasa ranked fifth in the Fourth Character Popularity Poll.
* Hajime Isayama based Mikasa's physical design off of a woman he met while working a part-time job before starting his manga career. Specifically, he claims to have gotten the ideas for Mikasa's scarf, hairstyle, eyes and eyebrows from the woman. He has also noted that he originally intended for Mikasa to be a Westerner like the rest of the series' cast and only decided to make her part-Asian after seeing the woman.
* Mikasa's name is taken from the battleship Mikasa, a unique pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and served as a flagship during the Russo-Japanese War. Isayama, supposedly named Mikasa after this vessel due to his belief that series' with female characters named after famous warships come to be successful.
* Mikasa's surname is derived from the Yiddish cognate of German name "Ackermann" ("Ackerman" in Yiddish) meaning "one who works the fields."
* Mikasa is the heaviest known female character in the series, weighing 68 kg.
* Mikasa's blood type is AB.
* Mikasa shares the same birthday with Falco Grice.
* According to an interview with Isayama, Mikasa will opt to not wear her scarf if it is too hot out.
* According to Isayama, if the 104th Training Corps had an arm wrestling competition, Mikasa would place first.
* In a Volume 11 sideart, Isayama portrayed several characters transformed into Titans. Mikasa took the form of a masculine, heavily muscled Titan.
* Mikasa is one of the Attack on Titan characters who were made into Nendoroid figures, along with Eren, Hange, Erwin, Levi, and the Colossus Titan. A Nendoroid playset of the Attack on Titan setting was also made.
* In the game Age of Gunslingers Online, a special Titan Mode was made as a tribute to the series. It features Elsa, an NPC modeled after Mikasa who is voiced by Yui Ishikawa. A trailer of this mode can be viewed here. A special skin for the Blade Class is also available for purchase.
* In Attack on Titan ANSWERS, Hajime Isayama stated that "[Mikasa, Levi, and Kenny] are all part of the same Ackerman bloodline. However, their reasons for protecting their respective counterparts do not have anything to do with the bloodline itself—it is just their nature."
* In The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XXV," several other incarnations from other animated franchises of the family are shown, each one with a respective theme. In the anime theme, each of the family members were depicted as a specific anime character. Lisa portrayed Mikasa, with her traditional hairstyle and military outfit using the vertical maneuvering equipment.
* Metalcore band Veil of Maya made a song called "Mikasa" which is based on this character.
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== External Links ==
* Mikasa Ackerman at Attack on Titan Wiki
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