![]() ![]() And animation like this is hard to resist.īut Attack on Titan has even more going for it than a gorgeous aesthetic: namely, the world’s creepiest giant zombies. ![]() The dark themes combined with the struggle for existence are a winning combination. Attack on Titan is bloody, even gory, and personal trauma gets handed out like candy. With episode titles like “A Dim Light in the Darkness of Despair,” the anime doesn’t pull its punches. Its popular opening credits give you both the intensity of the series and the basic concept: humans using sophisticated pulley systems to fight giant zombie babies, set to gorgeous animation and a killer soundtrack. ![]() While it’s difficult to sum up SnK without giving away plot spoilers, one word seems to return again and again in the reactions of people who watch it for the first time: intense.Įverything is big in SnK: the monsters, the action sequences, the drama, the battles, the music. But it’s the anime that really brings Isayama’s world to life: a historical society loosely based on 19th-century European culture, threatened by bizarrely grotesque, larger-than-life monsters-who may be more like humanity than anyone realizes. The series has garnered widespread critical acclaim, and has spawned several games, a live-action movie in production, and a recently-announced sequel. Since the anime adaptation premiered in April, a massive English-language fandom has discovered the show, which is currently airing its first season on Crunchyroll. ![]() It was an instant hit when it debuted in 2011, and has since sold over 20 million volumes. Shingeki no Kyojin, known in English as Attack on Titan, is a manga by Japanese artist Hajime Isayama. In that odd trick the universe sometimes has of creating a quality series and then giving that series an enormous audience, the year’s most bizarre and beautiful anime is also one of its most popular. ![]()
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