

Isayama has revealed that the story is planned far in advance and that he can even mark down in which specific volume a certain situation is going to happen although it is not properly fleshed out until he is working on it. His narrative puts much focus on the individual inner feelings of the characters. He said that he chose giants as the theme for its work because "they are kind of gross." His early drawings were rough, and he himself admitted that they were "amateurish" and felt that they were "short of the standard required for commercial works" but it has been noted that they have greatly improved over the years. When designing the Titans, he gets aid from a reference book for various human expressions as well as inspiration from real-life models such as Yushin Okami for Eren's Titan form, Brock Lesnar for the Armored Titan, or the anime's voice actors. His monthly schedule consists of one week for storyboard and three weeks for drawing.
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He was 23 years old and that was the first series he had ever published. He declined and instead took it to the Weekly Shōnen Magazine department at Kodansha, where it was accepted and began serialization in the first issue of its monthly spin-off Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in September 2009. Isayama first drew a 65-page draft of the story in 2006 and offered it to the Weekly Shōnen Jump department at Shueisha, but he was advised to modify his style and story to be more suitable for the magazine. George Wada, the producer of the anime, said that the concept of being isolated and overcoming a "Wall of Fear" was also inspired by the isolated and enclosed nature of the Japanese culture. He often desired to go beyond the mountains, which influenced Eren's wish to go beyond the Walls in the series. The scenery for the story was inspired by Isayama’s own hometown in the mountains. He also cited the visual novel Muv-Luv and the manga ARMS as primary influences for his work. This encounter led him to believe that “the most familiar and scary animal in the world is actually the human.” This idea is conveyed through the Titans: threatening beings which, despite their human-like appearances, lack any humanity.

Isayama said he was inspired by the man’s inability to communicate and reason even though they were of the same species. Hajime Isayama came up with the idea for the Titans when a drunk man grabbed his collar in an Internet cafe. Eren and the Survey Corps find themselves as the only remaining hope for their civilization, as they fight to uncover secrets from the past and stop the forces that want to bring about the destruction of mankind in the present and future.Ĭhapters and Volumes Main article: List of Attack on Titan chapters Main article: Story Arcs Development Eren vows revenge against the Titans and later enlists in the military branch Survey Corps, accompanied by both Mikasa and Armin.Īs the story progresses, more mysteries surrounding the true origin and nature of the Titans, as well as the lost history of the world are addressed, and the reader gradually discovers that the Titans may not be the real enemies. In the present, a boy named Eren Yeager, his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman, and their friend Armin Arlert, dream about seeing the world outside the Walls some day but their peace is abruptly interrupted when an unusual 60-meter tall Colossus Titan and an Armored Titan breach the outermost Wall, and Eren sees his mother dying in the resulting devastation. In order to protect themselves from this threat, the few survivors built three concentric Walls, called Maria, Rose, and Sheena, and encased themselves in this limited territory, forgetting everything about the outside world and the history before the building of the Walls. Roughly a century before the beginning of the series, a mysterious race of giant, man-eating humanoids, known as "Titans", suddenly appeared and nearly exterminated humanity. In this way, the title can refer to both the advancing threat of the Titans or to a single attacking Titan. The literal translation of the title is "Advancing Giant(s)" or "Attacking Giant(s)", with giants being Titans in the context of the series. The original Japanese title, " Shingeki no Kyojin," has a dual meaning.
