Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin?, lit. "Advancing Giants") is a Japanese
manga series written and illustrated by
Hajime Isayama. The series began serialization in
Kodansha's
Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 12
tankōbon
volumes as of December 9, 2013. It is set in a world where humanity
lives inside cities surrounded by enormous walls due to the Titans,
gigantic humanoid creatures who devour humans seemingly without reason.
The story centers on Eren Yeager, his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman,
and their friend Armin Arlert, whose lives are changed forever after the
appearance of a Colossus Titan brings about the destruction of their
home town and the death of Eren's mother. Vowing revenge and to reclaim
the world from the Titans, Eren, Mikasa and Armin enlist in the Military
and join the Survey Corps—an elite group of soldiers who fight Titans
outside the walls.
A spin-off
light novel
series began in December 2011, and has received a manga adaptation. Two
additional spin-off manga series are also being serialized, and a
television
anime adaptation produced by
Wit Studio and
Production I.G aired in Japan on
MBS between April and September 2013. Four video game adaptations developed by
Nitroplus
staffers in collaboration with Production I.G were announced to be
released as bonus content for the third and sixth volumes of the
Blu-ray Disc release of the anime, with another game developed by
Spike Chunsoft for the
Nintendo 3DS. A live action film adaptation is also in production and set to premiere in 2015.
[1] Attack on Titan and all three spin-off manga are published in North America by
Kodansha Comics USA, while the novels will be published by
Vertical. The anime has been licensed by
Funimation for North America, by
Manga Entertainment for the United Kingdom, and by
Madman Entertainment for Australasia.
Attack on Titan has become a commercial success, with over 36
million volumes in circulation as of April 2014. The release of the
anime also saw a boost in the series' popularity, with it having
received critical acclaim for its atmosphere and story. Although it also
gained fame in neighboring Asian countries, the series' themes have
been a subject of controversy
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