Dazz

Name: Dazz

Gender: Male

Birthday: September 22

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 64 kg

Affiliations: 104th Training Corps → Garrison Regiment → Survey Corps

Voice Actor (anime): Shuhei Takubo

Dazz is a graduate of the 104th Training Corps and a background soldier who nonetheless leaves a surprisingly strong impression.

He is easily recognized by his pronounced nasolabial folds and perpetually anxious, almost exhausted expression.

Although he talks big and often tries to put on a brave front, Dazz is mentally fragile and highly susceptible to fear.

His character arc revolves around his struggle between cowardice and a stubborn, buried resolve to protect others, especially his family.

Dazz is characterized by loud bluster on the outside and intense anxiety on the inside.

He panics easily, breaks down under pressure, and is especially terrified of Titans to the point of physical sickness.

During battles, he has been shown crying, screaming, and even attempting to flee or commit suicide to escape his fear.

Despite this, he is not purely cowardly: he can be persuaded, moved by speeches or friends, and sometimes forces himself to stand and fight.

In spin-off game material, he openly admits he is a coward but insists he will fight if it means protecting his family.

This mix of self-awareness, fear, and stubbornness gives him more depth than his brief appearances might suggest.

Dazz is a young man who looks older than his actual age because of his deep facial lines and tired demeanor.

He has a worn, somewhat “middle-aged” face that contrasts with the more youthful looks of many of his peers.

His most notable feature is the distinct set of laugh lines on his cheeks, which gives him a permanent worried look.

Even after the four-year time skip to the Marley arc in the story, his listed height and weight remain unchanged, adding to the joke that he already looked like an “old man” from the start.

Dazz first appears during the omni-directional mobility gear training of the 104th Training Corps.

At that time, when Eren Yeager struggled to balance with the gear, Dazz mocked him and joined the others in laughing at his failure.

During training, Dazz already shows signs of poor physical management and low endurance.

In a snow march exercise, he pushed himself beyond his limits purely to chase a good evaluation, even though his condition was not suited for it.

He failed to keep up with the group during this snowy training and ended up nearly dying in the cold.

He was only saved because Ymir and Krista Lenz (Historia’s training-corps alias) helped him, dragging him back and keeping him alive.

When the Colossal Titan appears and the operation to retake the Trost District is about to begin, Dazz collapses under the pressure.

He is overwhelmed by despair, crying and screaming before the mission even starts, clearly not ready for real combat.

Once the Titans begin attacking, his terror intensifies.

He witnesses comrades being eaten right in front of him, and the horror pushes him to a breaking point.

At one point, Dazz decides he would rather die on his own terms than be devoured by a Titan, and he tries to take his own life.

Marco Bott intervenes, talks him down, and prevents his suicide, allowing Dazz to survive that moment of extreme panic.

During the Trost District defense, Dazz attempts to desert his post due to his fear of the Titans.

However, he hears the speech given by Commander Dot Pixis, which urges the soldiers to stand together and fight for humanity’s survival.

Pixis’s words are enough to stop Dazz from fleeing, and he decides to remain and participate in the defense of Trost.

Even though he is terrified, this moment shows that he can still be influenced by leadership and a sense of duty.

In the anime adaptation, this fear is emphasized even more.

Before he even joins the battle, he repeatedly vomits from anxiety and dread, highlighting just how badly he handles frontline combat.

After graduating from the 104th Training Corps, Dazz initially joins the Garrison Regiment.

This fits his character: the Garrison focuses on defending the Walls rather than going on dangerous expeditions outside.

Later, by the time of the Marley arc, it is revealed that he has transferred to the Survey Corps.

He has thus moved into a much more perilous branch, indicating that his life and convictions have evolved in ways not fully shown on-page.

For a long stretch in the original manga and anime, Dazz simply disappears from the narrative without explanation.

Because of this fade-out, his status — whether he survived or not — remained unclear to readers and viewers.

Four years after the events at Trost, during the Marley arc set in the year 854, Dazz unexpectedly returns.

By this time, he is a member of the Survey Corps and has joined the faction that supports Eren Yeager.

He becomes one of the Yeagerists, led by Floch Forster, a radical group that backs Eren’s extreme plan to use the Founding Titan.

Dazz is seen stationed at the harbor, where he and Samuel Linke-Jackson are assigned to guard a flying boat.

Following Floch’s orders, Dazz and Samuel plant explosives on the flying boat to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Their mission is to ensure that no one can use the aircraft to interfere with Eren’s actions.

When Armin Arlert and Connie Springer approach them, they try to convince Dazz and Samuel that they are on the same side.

Armin and Connie claim that they support Eren and just want to use the flying boat to help him.

Dazz initially believes them and agrees to remove the detonator from the explosives, thinking they still share the same goal.

He even voices his own doubts and hopes, telling them that he always thought they might try to stop Eren’s massacre, even if it meant opposing an entire enemy nation.

This line reveals that Dazz, who has known them since their training days, sensed that Armin and Connie were not fully aligned with Eren’s brutal methods.

Despite being a Yeagerist himself, he still recognizes the moral conflict in his former comrades.

However, their deception is soon exposed, and Dazz realizes that Armin and Connie actually intend to stop Eren and prevent the genocide.

Feeling betrayed and desperate, he points his gun at Armin, ready to shoot to protect what he believes is necessary.

Before he can follow through, Connie acts first.

Connie seizes Samuel’s gun and, in a panic and conflict of his own, shoots Dazz, killing him.

Dazz’s death is portrayed as a tragic moment of former comrades turning on each other.

He dies torn between his fear, his loyalty to the Yeagerists, and his dim but present awareness that what they are doing might be wrong.

Despite relatively limited screen time in the main story, Dazz has more presence than many background characters.

He has a fair number of lines and memorable scenes, which has made him stand out among the supporting cast.

In the game Attack on Titan 2, Dazz appears as a playable character.

This is notable, as not all minor characters receive this treatment, showing that he has a modest but real fan presence.

In the game’s storyline, after joining the Garrison Regiment, he often appears in missions alongside the player character.

He may accompany the protagonist on assignments or be dispatched ahead of others, such as being sent in advance to help rescue Sasha Blouse’s village.

During the game’s daily-life segments, Dazz opens up about his motives for enlisting.

He explains that he joined the military “for his family,” wanting to protect them from the threat of the Titans.

He freely admits that he is cowardly and that both he and others see him that way.

However, he adds that when it comes to safeguarding his family, he is willing to fight regardless of his fear.

These game interactions flesh out his motivations and hint at why he might later go so far as to switch from the Garrison to the Survey Corps and then join the Yeagerists.

Even in an alternate or parallel continuity, they offer a plausible emotional basis for the choices he makes in the main story.

Dazz has unusually deep facial lines for someone his age, which often leads fans to joke that he looks like a middle-aged man.

The fact that his official height and weight remain unchanged even four years later in the Marley arc only fuels this “already an old man” impression.

Although he is a side character, Dazz has more dialogue and distinct moments than many extras in Attack on Titan.

His combination of visible fear, messy emotions, and small acts of resolve makes him strangely memorable despite his limited role.