I was apprehensive of all the “feminist” excitement for Attack on Titan going in, having heard the same people sing the praises of other shounen (teenage-boy-targeted) series whose women existed primarily in relation to men, or all had narrow, feminine-coded interests that usually afforded them less plot importance than the guys going off to fight.
And particularly, it’s the wide variety of female characters.Ī lot of boy-centered fiction, I’ve found, gets extra credit simply for having non-useless women at all. It’s the characters, and their relationships with one another. But I don’t think the plot twists are the real reason the show is as popular as it is - as excited as I am to find out more about the true nature of titans and how much the Powers That Be know that they’re not telling our hero(in)es. Several of the voice actors, when asked about researching their roles, mentioned planning to watch one or two episodes at a time, and finding themselves marathoning it all night. The plot operates using the Arabian Nights formula: resolving one ongoing plot in the middle of an episode/chapter only to introduce a new one at the end, keeping viewers constantly hungry for more. I started watching the actual anime this winter, and even though I already knew everything that was going to happen, I still couldn’t look away. And, like everyone else, I very quickly got hooked. But I finally decided to at least check out the manga, the comics that served as the source for the anime, and which the first season (which wrapped up last summer) faithfully followed. I was relatively late on the Attack on Titan train, since the way it was discussed on the Internet - as a sort of anime Walking Dead - didn’t interest me much (I’ve never been hugely into survival horror).
ATTACK ON TITAN ABRIDGE FREE
Jean wants to join the Military Police so he can lead a comfortable life in the interior, free from harm Sasha and Connie want to bring glory to their poor, starving villages and cocky Ymir and kind-hearted Krista seem to have eyes and concerns only for each other. Fast-forward a few episodes, and after Eren, Mikasa and Armin have lost their families and fled their district, they’re found training to fight titans as part of the state’s paramilitary force, along with a colorful cast of other teen cadets who each have their own unique personalities and motivations. They live in relative peace until the wall is broken open by the gigantic Colossal Titan, and suddenly titans are threatening human territory for the first time in a century. Let’s start with some summary: Attack on Titan tells of a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has (literally) walled itself away from the threat of humongous, cannibalistic humanoids: the titular “titans.” Living near the outermost wall are feisty protagonist Eren Yaeger his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman, the strongest fighter in town who keeps Eren out of trouble and their geeky buddy Armin Arlert, who reads and dreams of the world beyond the walls. Before getting to their comments, though, I’ll talk about why I love Attack on Titan, and why I’ve been planning for a long time on starting up my anime column with an article on this super-popular series. Anime Boston’s panel featured the actors for several of the main characters - Mike McFarland (ADR director, and voice actor for Jean Kirschstein), Josh Grelle (voice actor for Armin Arlert), Trina Nishimura (Mikasa Ackerman) and Matt Mercer (Captain Levi) - as well as the announcement of the actor, Bryce Papenbrook, playing main character Eren Yaeger, to the excited screams of hundreds of eager fans. That all hung in the air during the premiere and Q&A session that followed.
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