Attack on Titan has a new set of OVAs this time focused on Annie Leonhart & Mikasa Ackerman. Acting as a prequel to the original series as well as a “what if?” story, the new three-part OVA reveals new information of Annie’s time prior to joining the Survey Corps & certain scenes during her joining as well an imagined alternative universe where Mikasa, Eren, and Armin never joined the Survey Corps.

Attack on Titan: Lost Girls is a 2017 anime spinoff of Attack on Titan, it is produced by Wit Studio & Production I.G. It is currently available exclusively via limited edition copies of Attack on Titan volumes 24-26.

Annie’s past is unveiled in Attack on Titan: Lost Girls.

Originally launched last December, Lost Girls is based on the light novel spinoff exploring Annie and Mikasa of the same name. The first two episodes of the anime adaptation take heavy focus on Annie Leonhart before and sometime during her joining of the Survey Corps. Whereas the third episode focuses on Mikasa contemplating a life with Eren after the Survey Corps gets shut down and Wall Sina is sealed.

Annie seemingly spends most of her time as a makeshift detective in Lost Girls while thinking of her true “mission”.

THE GOOD: Attack on Titan: Lost Girls provides a great deal of depth into fan-favorite Annie Leonhart’s past and character with a storyline based solely on her. As it unravels her history we eventually get into a more present timeline and she’s hired to find someone’s “missing” daughter while also investigating a new street drug known as coderoin. In the Mikasa story, Mikasa imagines what life would be like for her and Eren had her parents lived & she & Eren not joined the Survey Corps after struggling to come to terms with eventual death. Coming to realize that Eren’s death would occur regardless of what she or anyone else chooses to do she finally accepts it and decides to stand by his side until the end.

Annie, like Reiner suffers from mental anxiety while living a double life.

THE BAD: While Annie’s story provides some much needed background information on the character the Mikasa story felt rather pointless and unwarranted. I’d have preferred the series be completely focused on Annie rather than what seemed like a shoehorned Mikasa “what if?” storyline.

The first two acts of Lost Girls are excellently done, but a weak third act holds it back.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: For it’s first two episodes Attack on Titan: Lost Girls is exactly the type of quality you’d expect from a piece of work with the Attack on Titan branding, however the misplaced third episode just feels like more of an excuse to include Mikasa than a necessity and because of this “Lost Girls” overall quality is slightly effected. Otaku Dome gives Attack on Titan: Lost Girls an 80 out of 100.