Given the cyclical nature of manga production and anime seasons, the fandom chatter around Titan’s themes comes and goes. And the message of Attack on Titan appears to have Anti-Semitic and pro-fascist leanings.
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The series, published monthly in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in Japan, is now in its final arc, but there seems to be no end to the wider franchise in sight.īut as with any long-running manga, the closer you get to its endgame, the easier it is to see what the message of the series really is. There was an original comics anthology by Western talent, featuring creators like Scott Snyder, Gail Simone and Ronald Wimberly an original YA novel, Garrison Girl, by Rachel Aaron and even a crossover with Marvel in which the Avengers, Spider-Man, and the Guardians of the Galaxy fought Titans in New York City (a story devised by Isayama, with art by Gerardo Sandaval and a script by Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B.
And while that fever has died off from its circa 2014 high point, the series still has plenty of devoted followers who snap up every single video game, spin-off, and parody manga. While aimed at a slightly older audience than the Big Three manga/anime of the early 2000s - Bleach, Naruto and One Piece - Attack on Titan made many more anime fans out of casual watchers, arriving as it did at the crest of the YA dystopian fiction wave in the West. In particular, the major twist of the series, as well as what’s been occurring since then, has drawn some uncomfortable parallels to global anti-Semitism, far-right Japanese politics, and Isayama’s own personal politics. Ditto Adult Swim, which licensed Funimation’s Attack on Titan dub for its Saturday night Toonami block (a revival of the beloved after-school anime block) and saw its fortunes rise so highly that Adult Swim was able to help produce two follow-up seasons to the legendary anime FLCL.īut recent events within the manga have given readers pause.
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Similarly, without rights to the anime - which concludes its third season this month - Netflix certainly wouldn’t have become a big enough player in the anime market to license all of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Without Hajime Isayama’s dystopian series and its massive, global fan base, Crunchyroll would’ve remained a curiosity instead of the global streaming powerhouse and anime production partner it has become. The modern manga and anime industries would not exist without Attack on Titan.
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