60 Fun Facts About Attack on Titan

Who wrote and illustrated Attack on Titan?

He was 23 when the series began; a 65-page one-shot in 2006 came first, after Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump asked for changes he refused to make.

In which Kodansha monthly was the manga serialised from 2009 to 2021?

It launched in the very first issue of Kodansha's monthly, on September 9, 2009.

How many collected volumes does the manga run to?

Isayama once said he was aiming to finish in 20; the final chapter ran on April 9, 2021 after eleven years.

Roughly how many copies of the manga were in circulation by November 2023?

That puts it among the best-selling manga of all time.

Who animated the first three seasons before MAPPA took over for the fourth?

The producer said Wit turned down the final season over scheduling; only the 3D CG director carried over.

Who directed the first season of the anime?

The Death Note director; Koizuka took over for seasons two and three.

How many walls protect the inhabitants in the story?

Maria is the outermost, then Rose, then Sheena; the walls themselves turn out to be full of Colossal Titans.

Which of the three walls is breached in the year 845 at the start of the story?

The Colossal and Armored Titans punch through at Shiganshina, and Eren watches his mother eaten.

What is Eren's hometown, on the outermost wall?

Isayama based the walled-in scenery on his mountain-ringed hometown of Hita in Ōita.

What is the gear that lets soldiers swing through the air on grappling hooks called?

Also known as ODM gear; the prequel Before the Fall tells the story of Angel, the blacksmith who built the first prototypes.

Which commander develops the rocket-launcher-like Thunder Spears?

Hange later succeeds Erwin as commander of the Survey Corps and dies holding off the Rumbling.

How many Titan Shifters are there in total?

Attack, Colossal, Armored, Female, Beast, Jaw, Cart, War Hammer and Founding.

How many years does someone who inherits one of the Nine Titans have left to live?

The 'Curse of Ymir' mirrors the thirteen years the founder Ymir Fritz lived after gaining her power.

How are Pure Titans created?

Marley uses this to turn Eldian prisoners into mindless Titans and drop them on Paradis.

Which of the Nine does Eren first discover he can turn into?

He reveals it defending Trost, five years after Shiganshina fell.

Who turns out to be the Female Titan?

After her defeat she seals herself in crystal and stays that way for years.

Reiner Braun and Bertholt Hoover are revealed to be which two Titans?

The reveal is delivered almost casually, on top of a wall, in one of the manga's most talked-about pages.

Krista Lenz is really a member of the royal family under what name?

She ends up crowned queen after killing her own father Rod, who had turned into a monstrously large Titan.

What is Eren's power to control other Titans first called?

He first uses it to sic a horde of Pure Titans on Reiner and Bertholt.

Who is Kenny Ackerman to Levi?

Kenny raised him in the Underground after Levi's mother Kuchel died; he leads the Military Police against the Survey Corps.

How does Erwin Smith die?

Levi then chooses to give the Titan serum to Armin rather than Erwin, and Armin eats Bertholt.

What do the characters learn from the basement of Eren's childhood home?

The outside world, dominated by Marley, has been waiting for them all along.

What is the name of the Marleyan capital the Survey Corps attacks?

Eren kills Willy Tybur mid-speech and eats his sister Lara to gain the War Hammer Titan; the raid begins in the internment zone.

What is Zeke Yeager's relationship to Eren?

Zeke holds the Beast Titan and wants to sterilise all Eldians; Levi eventually kills him.

What is 'the Rumbling'?

Eren convinces the founder to release them; his allies later learn he planned to spare a fifth of humanity.

Who kills Eren at the end of the story?

His death ends the power of the Titans for good and frees the Eldians from the curse.

What are the extremist Paradis soldiers who follow Eren called?

They break him out of prison after Liberio and are defeated before the final confrontation.

What are the atemporal gateways connecting all Eldians called?

Eren and Zeke meet the consciousness of Ymir Fritz there.

Where is Eren buried at the end?

The tree grows to resemble the one where the organism that gave Ymir her power lived, and the series ends with a boy and his dog approaching it.

Which real event gave Isayama the idea for the Titans' terrifying inhumanity?

He has said the encounter made him realise how frightening a human being can be when you cannot communicate with them.

Which wrestler was a model for the Armored Titan's look?

MMA fighter Yushin Okami modelled Eren's Titan form; Takanori Gomi's southpaw style shaped how it fights.

Which visual novel did Isayama confirm partly inspired the series?

He also cited Gyaos from Gamera, The War of the Gargantuas and the Jurassic Park dinosaurs for the man-eating Titans.

Levi was modelled on which comic-book character?

Isayama gave him Rorschach's small stature but flipped his filth into an obsession with cleanliness; the name came from a child in the documentary Jesus Camp.

Who voices Levi in the Japanese anime?

Matthew Mercer voices him in English; Kamiya says the character was popular before the anime even aired.

Who voices Eren in the Japanese anime?

He insisted on voicing Eren's Titan form too, calling it an extension of the character; Bryce Papenbrook is the English voice.

Why did Isayama choose the name Eren, by his own account?

The anime spells the surname Jaeger; Isayama has called Eren 'a slave to the story'.

The heroine was based on a real person Isayama noticed doing what?

She was a customer at the store where he worked; the scarf became Mikasa's signature, and Casca from Berserk was another influence.

Who voices the heroine, Eren's adoptive sister, in Japanese?

Trina Nishimura plays her in the English dub.

Which band performed the first opening theme, 'Guren no Yumiya'?

Revo's band mixed Japanese and German lyrics; the song hit double platinum and was played at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

'Guren no Yumiya' blends Japanese lyrics with which other language?

The German-flavoured names throughout the series (Jaeger, Braun, Hoover) follow the same aesthetic.

Who composed the anime's score?

He returned for the final season alongside Kohta Yamamoto.

Which of these honours has the manga NOT received?

The Micheluzzi is Italy's top comics prize; the Harvey is American.

Who directed the 2015 Japanese live-action films?

He also handled the effects; Levi and Erwin were cut from the cast entirely.

Which pair of fan-favourite soldiers was left out of the live-action films?

A dTV miniseries with the same actors instead followed Hange's research into the Titans and the birth of the ODM gear.

The chibi parody spin-off set in a school is called Attack on Titan: what?

Production I.G animated it in 2015; another spin-off, No Regrets, tells Levi's origin.

When did the anime's first season premiere?

It ran on MBS from April 7 to September 29, 2013; seasons two and three did not arrive until 2017 and 2018.

How many episodes made up the first part of the final season, which began in December 2020?

Part two added 12 more in 2022, and parts three and four aired as TV specials in 2023.

Which game gave Eren a secret Battle Pass outfit in 2023?

ODM gear and Thunder Spears were added as mythic weapons; Vanguard had done skin packs earlier.

Which visual novel about the captain and commander's past came with the anime's sixth Blu-ray?

Lost Girls, about Mikasa and Annie, and Before the Fall are the other big spin-offs.

Isayama first offered his manga to which publisher's department, whose editor demanded changes?

He walked it over to Kodansha instead, and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine was born around it.

How did Isayama plan the manga's big reveals?

His monthly routine was one week of storyboarding and three weeks of drawing.

Whose consciousness do Eren and Zeke meet in the Paths?

The original Titan, imprisoned there for thousands of years; Zeke wants her to sterilise the Eldians, Eren wants the Rumbling.

Who secretly controlled Marley from the shadows?

Willy Tybur is killed by Eren mid-declaration of war; his sister Lara held the War Hammer Titan.

Which company published the English edition of the manga in North America from 2012 to 2021?

Volume one spent 81 straight weeks on The New York Times Manga Best Seller list.

How many chapters long was the manga when it concluded on April 9, 2021?

The run had lasted eleven years, beginning in the very first issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009.

Which studio developed the Koei Tecmo Attack on Titan action games announced at Gamescom 2015?

Attack on Titan 2 followed in 2018 and a third entry was announced at the 2026 Summer Game Fest.

On which Japanese broadcaster did the anime's first season originally air in 2013?

Mainichi Broadcasting System carried the 25 episodes between April 7 and September 29, 2013.

How tall was the life-size Eren Titan built for the 2015 Universal Studios Japan attraction?

It was posed fighting a 14-metre Female Titan; visitors could also stand in a ground-level Titan's mouth.

Who directed the second and third seasons of the anime?

Season one was directed by Tetsurō Araki before MAPPA took over the final season.

A 2010 blog post revealed Dot Pixis was modelled on which Imperial Japanese general?

Critics pointed to the general's war record, including allowing the Port Arthur massacre to occur.