The Attack on Titan anime became a major hit when a debut back in 2013 but did
you know? The story you know now is actually based on a one-shot story from
way back in 2006. There are some similarities to the story you know but
today let's check out the major differences! The attack on Titan anime
starts off by showing you how humans have locked themselves behind walls for
over a hundred years. Before that Titans had completely wiped out the rest of the
human race. The premise of the original story was similar but it did have some
important key differences or extra info. There the Titans were pretty much the
result of some experiment by some religious and scientific groups. It was
all part of this grand project that was titled the "Mankind destruction operation".
Looks like some people just want to see the world burn! The Titans you know in
Attack on Titan all have pretty distinct look, On top of just being massive,
they're also immortal. This immortality trait did exist in the original story
but their appearances were pretty different. These giant creatures look
like demons or some zombies. Every single mindless Titan also looked the same.
which didn't really resemble humans. You might even say that their design was
generic looking. Their sole purpose of functioning as this human killing
machine still remained though. Attack on Titan is famous for it's three huge
walls that serve to protect the last of humanity. The funny part about this is
that originally there were no walls at all. Instead they had a much more nature
friendly solution. The remaining humans have built their homes behind a circle
of giant trees. Yup trees! Mother Nature was protecting them.
This whole village situation really reminds me of that other series that
features Boruto's dad! Attack on titan shows you the lives of everyone that
resembles this European setting from a distant past. They don't have iPhones,
Facebook, or anything like the Internet. It was just awful!
However the original story seems to have taken place in a more modern setting. You
can see the main character fixing a radio at his house. Later on you could
also see that the village has a broadcast system. Once again it just
can't help but remind if some early stuff from Naruto.
The colossal Titan has easily become the face of attack on Titan.
Unfortunately this behemoth was not in the original but it did feature this
huge Titan that got killed right away. After that happened all these smaller
Titans quickly started running over and eating the body. They were after that
delicious Titan meat. The interesting part to notice here is how they
mentioned that Titans in this world got bigger due to cannibalism. This is pretty
different from what's known in the Attack on Titan anime especially
considering who and what the colossal Titan really is. Another difference with
the original story has to do with their village. The original story has everyone
living behind three walls. This holds whatever is left of humanity. The older
story here mentions at one point that they wanted to abandon their village,
that they should quickly head over to the next one. In other words there's a
lot of other similar villages hiding from Titans. This actually reminds me a
lot of what you saw from Kabaneri of the Iron fortress where they use trains to
escape to other villages to run away from the Kabaneri zombies. Titans are
pretty dangerous but you are familiar with the only way to take them out. Just
aim for the freaking back of the neck! If only it was that easy in the original story.
Titans here instead have a different weakness. Somewhere within all their
bodies they have this hidden nucleus. Simply destroy it and that'll kill them
permanently. Good luck finding it! You might have seen a similar weakness
from that alien from one punch man. Unsurprisingly Eren, Mikasa, and non of
other main cast existed. The story followed the main character and his
little intern. This guy actually reminded me of a mix between Sasuke and Itachi,
and sorry I keep on mentioning the narrative similarities but it's really
hard not to notice. But anyway this story actually did have Eren's berserk Titan.
It this was something that the main character had access to. After he pretty
much died in battle where he got half eaten, he suddenly transformed into it.
Just makes you think back to Eren. It seems that he got off easy.
Alright so to fight some Titans you gotta have some specialized weapons. If
you're Levi you're often using that beyblade technique along with the 3d
maneuver gear. The original story seems to have some version of the blades too
but that's it. Where is a freaking 3d maneuver gear? I don't see it anywhere!
The interesting part about this is that humans are still somehow able to fight
against titans. It looks like humans in this wold might be somewhat enhanced
since you see them jumping or moving in ways as if they actually had a 3d
maneuver gear but they don't. Maybe there are just ninjas. One of the biggest
changes to the Titan lore has to be this. The original story had Titans who
were known to be shapeshifter, sound familiar?
For these shapeshifters it doesn't seem like they were anything special compared
to the current shifters you know. At any point a Titan could possibly hide away in
human form. There was even this Titan who took the appearance of the main
character's father who had died 10 years back. As for the actual berserk Titan
shifter once again there's another callback to a certain series when it
comes to controlling your own demon. They mention how pure-hearted humans would
not be absorbed by their Titan and instead dominated. This is what happened
when the berserk Titan appeared. Oh and the owner of this Titan ended up
dying by the end of this one-shot. All of this stuff does make you wonder how many
of these ideas might be reused or are currently in used by the main attack on
Titan series? What do you think? Hey guys thanks for watching! If you enjoyed and I
hope that you did please give this a colossal thumbs up and subscribe! We're
almost at a hundred thousand. I am pretty busy trying to put on more attack on
Titan content including theories but I also want to get stuff out there that
doesn't include spoilers for you. A lot of upcoming stuff is also not
limited to attack on Titan but more info on that soon! So definitely subscribe and
I'll see you guys later