before I say anything else this will
contain spoilers from both the anime and
the manga attack on Titan or as the
original Japanese title goes shingeki no
Kyojin yes I am totally Japanese as you
can hear from my flawless pronunciations
much like my English character shared
the shark that shared of Danish vanish
pronounced soo Asians yeah attack on
Titan was created by Hajime isayama and
was first published in 2009 the manga
has since grown into 14 volumes with two
spin-off light novels and three spin-off
manga series as well but of course the
reason most of you even know about it is
because of the extremely successful and
popular anime by the same name Hajime
isayama has said in an interview that he
had previously planned to end the series
in a very dramatic way by supposedly
killing off all or most of the main
characters he compared it to the very
extreme ending of the movie the mist but
after the release of the anime and the
series subsequent boost in popularity he
didn't want to slam the fans with such a
traumatic conclusion I'm sure George
will follow the same path right right
it's also been said that the manga will
end within three to four years the
enormous walls that surrounds and
protects humanity was in the beginning
supposed to be some kind of forest or a
tree line but the idea was abandoned
later on because the solid walls seemed
much more realistic and capable of
stopping the Titans Easter Jam has also
mentioned that the idea for the walls in
the first place was because he grew up
in a room in a rural in a rural in a
rural rural helveta rural Japanese town
surrounded by huge mountains the idea
for the Titans themselves came to sajama
when he encountered a drunk customer
while working at an internet cafe he was
inspired by the inability to communicate
with him even though the person was of
the same species at that moment he
realized that the scariest and most
familiar animal in the world is actually
humans he also realized that if you make
it in 25 stories tall and make them
dance like Muppets on passage all the
while having a completely ridiculous
facial expression you will have
nightmares for eternity so yeah I think
he did well on that part oh when they
also like balls don't make it gay are
many two of the main characters in the
series were actually based on characters
from the movie Watchmen Levi was based
on Rorschach and Irvin was based on
Ozymandias Doc Pyxis was modeled after a
general in the Imperial Japanese Army
there's also an interesting thing about
the character han Jie Tsui because no
one really knows what gender she or he
is in the anime she's voiced by a female
and as such most would agree that she is
indeed a female but in the manga which
is after all the source material it's
not so clear as there is little to no
use of gender pronouns such as he and
she what confuses the situation even
more though is that it's a German said
the tundish gender is not important to
the story telling and so we wanted to
give his readers the freedom to come up
with her own interpretations so it seems
that her
or his gender is left up to the reader
and will potentially never be revealed a
direct translation of the Japanese title
for the series would be something like
advancing Giants and if you think about
it
attack on Titan doesn't really make much
sense they aren't really attacking
anyone especially not a Titan they are
attacking the Titans and they are being
attacked by the Titans and tried to
defend themselves yeah yeah I said tried
yeah okay yeah the reason it got the
name attack on Titan in the end is
because the sajama actually picked it
himself and to his credit it does sound
an awful lot better than the
alternatives rule 34 I've talked about
this a few times before and I can't
really say that I'm surprised this time
either in case you don't know who 34 is
a generally accepted internet rule that
states that pornography and sexually
related material exists for any
conceivable subject and attack on Titan
is no exception yeah but it isn't that
some dudes somewhere has made some
sexualized fan art or something no no
there's actual pretty high budget
pornography yeah with some creepy ass
[ __ ] Titans I might add they even
have like actual costumes built a small
village and even special effects because
you know what would porn be without
special effects just yes regular porn I
guess earlier this year the attack on
Titan manga took the number one spot
from the extremely popular manga series
one piece attack on titan sold over 8.3
million copies while one piece sold 4.9
million it's the first manga in five
years to claim the top spot from one
piece and it only further proves how
insanely popular the series has become
in
a few years in Chapter 57 of the manga
there's a sort of hidden sexual message
on a piece of paper on one of the panels
you have to flip the text upside down
and even though it's written quite
sloppy you can still make it out if you
can read Japanese that is but I'm
included in his translation you know
just in case only a few months ago it
was revealed that attack on Titan would
get not one but two live-action
adaptations both of which will be
released next year you can already view
a sort of preview in the form of all
commercial with a few live-action Titans
in it actually the special effects team
that made the Titans for the commercial
will also do the effects for the two
movies even more exciting though is that
earlier this month season 2 of the anime
was officially announced completely
unsurprising of course given a fresh
successor popularity but still it's
official now however an official release
date has not yet been given
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