Eren Yeager

Eren Yeager
Attack on Titan character
Eren as depicted in the Attack on Titan anime
First appearance	Attack on Titan chapter 1: "To You, 2,000 Years from Now"
Created by	Hajime Isayama
Voiced by	Japanese Yūki Kaji English Bryce Papenbrook
Portrayed by	Haruma Miura
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Aliases	Eren Jaeger (Funimation dub)
Species	Human, Titan Shifter
Relatives	Kalura Yeager (mother) Grisha Yeager (father) Mikasa Ackerman (adoptive sister) Zeke Yeager (half-brother)

Eren Yeager (Japanese: エレン・イェーガー, Hepburn: Eren Yēgā^?), spelled Eren Jaeger in the Funimation dub, is a fictional character appearing as the protagonist from the manga series Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama. Eren is a teenager who swears revenge on enormous creatures known as Titans that devoured his mother. In order to defeat the Titans, Eren, alongside his childhood friends Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert, enlist in the Military and join the Survey Corps—an elite group of soldiers who fight Titans outside the walls. As the story progresses it is revealed Eren has the power of becoming a Titan which mankind uses to their advantage to defeat their enemies.

In the anime adaptation of the series, Eren has been voiced by Yūki Kaji in Japanese and Bryce Papenbrook in English. In the live-action film adaptations, he is portrayed by Haruma Miura. Critical reception to Eren's character has been mixed, though his actions across the story have led to shocks and praises. Eren has also been popular within the Attack on Titan fanbase and anime in general.

Author Hajime Isayama created Eren to be "an ordinary youngster who gets paralyzed with fear when he sees a titan" rather than a stereotypical hotheaded protagonist often seen in shonen manga. He also stated that Eren's wish to go outside the city's walls is similar to his own when he was a child: He lived in a rural Japanese town surrounded by mountains. 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. The character's Titan form's physique was modeled after middleweight mixed martial artist Yushin Okami. Japanese actor Yūki Kaji commented on how it was important that he should voice Eren's Titan form because he believes it is an extension of the character. He had a meal with Isayama after he visited the recording studio and the manga artist told him he found Eren quite a difficult character but complimented Kaji by saying "You know Eren already", which gave him confidence. Eren's characterization was briefly altered for the English dub of the series making him self-reflective and eloquent in some scenes.