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 and his childhood friends Mikasa Ackerman and 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.

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