

Viewers living in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland may watch the anime legally at Crunchyroll and Hulu as of 30 October 2013, they can also read the manga on Crunchyroll. Yasuko Kobayashi served as head screenwriter, Tet surō Araki as director and later chief director for the second season, and Hiroyuki Sawano composed the series' music.

The anime adaptation of the series premiered on April 5, 2013. were in negotiations to create another adaptation, with one of the key producers behind Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them set to handle the project, and Andy Muschietti currently attached to direct. In early 2017, it would be revealed that Warner Bros. Bloody Monday star Haruma Miura plays the lead role of Eren, while model-turned-actress Kiko Mizuhara (Mikasa), Kanata Hongo (Armin), Satomi Ishihara (Hanji), Nanami Sakuraba (Sasha), and Takahiro Miura (Jean) round out the main cast. Plans arose for a live-action film adaptation planned for a 2014 release, and after a bout of Creative Differences between the director and the screenwriter (amongst other issues), the film had a 2015 release in two parts. The success of both anime and manga launched a franchise ranging from video games to light novels to fragrances and coffee mugs. The manga consistently sold in the top two every month and new volumes were being surpassed only by a certain best selling manga of all time.

After the premiere of the anime adaptation (which became exceptionally popular in its own right), sales of the manga boosted exponentially, which has made Titan the most popular new anime/manga and surpassing many established franchises. Years later, the trio decide to join the Survey Corps, a military branch dedicated to making excursions into the outside world to fight the Titans, and research ways to defeat them once and for all - and Eren, with vengeful and murderous intent in his heart, vows to kill every last Titan on Earth.įrom its relatively modest beginning, the manga managed to become the 11th-highest seller of all time in 2011. Among those who escaped from the ensuing massacre were three children: Eren Yeager, an aggressive boy Mikasa Ackerman, his quiet adoptive sister and Armin Arlert, Eren's bookish best friend. Those facts held true until the day a colossal Titan smashed a hole in the perimeter wall of the southern village of Shiganshina, which allowed its smaller kin to wander inside and wreak havoc.

The two races have locked one another into a stalemate: the Titans cannot breach the walls, and humanity cannot venture outside the walls without risking heavy losses. For more than a hundred years, the last remnants of humanity have lived in a kingdom surrounded by walls designed to protect them from a powerful race of man-eating giants known as Titans.
