What is attack on titan about?

Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人, Hepburn: Shingeki no Kyojin, lit. "Advancing Giant") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. The series began in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 25 tankōbon volumes as of May 2018. read more

If Toho's live-action Attack On Titan can recreate the same sense of menace and outright repulsion as the Titans in the anime and manga, it could result in a truly unique and unusually savage new take on the time-worn kaiju genre. read more

Similarly, one of the biggest pop culture phenomena to come out of Japan in recent years has been "Attack on Titan," a story about people struggling to stay alive in a world full of giant, naked, almost-human looking monsters trying to eat them. read more