Attack on Titan (Anime)

"Attack on Titan" (進撃の巨人) is a 2013 anime series based on the manga by Hajime Isayama serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. It is set in a world where humanity lives inside cities surrounded by enormous Walls due to the Titans, gigantic humanoid creatures who devour humans seemingly without reason. The story centers around Eren Yeager and his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman, whose lives are changed forever after the appearance of a Colossal Titan which brings about the destruction of their home and the death of their mother. Vowing revenge and to reclaim the world from the Titans, Eren and Mikasa join the Survey Corps, an elite group of soldiers who fight Titans outside the Walls.

The anime is produced by IG Port's Wit Studio and directed by Tetsurō Araki, series composition by Yasuko Kobayashi, music by Hiroyuki Sawano, character design by Kyoji Asano, art direction by Shunichiro Yoshihara and sound direction by Jin Aketagawa. The anime began airing on April 7, 2013 on Mainichi Broadcasting System and were later aired on Tokyo Metropolitan Television, Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation, TOS, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, Television Aichi Broadcasting and Nippon BS Broadcasting. Both Funimation and Crunchyroll are streaming the series on their respective websites. Funimation has also licensed the anime for home video release in 2014. The English Dub is also set to premiere in the Anime Boston convention on March 21-23.

In episodes 1-13.5, the opening theme song is "Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen" (紅蓮の弓矢) by Linked Horizon and the ending theme song is "Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai" (美しき残酷な世界) by Yōko Hikasa. In the episodes 14-25, the opening theme song is "Die Flügel der Freiheit" (自由の翼) by Linked Horizon and the ending theme song is "Great Escape" by Cinema Staff.

Episode 25 of the anime premiered on September 28th, 2013 and was screened in multiple Japanese theaters.

Trivia

 * According to Wit Studio head, George Wada, there will "definitely" be a continuation to Attack on Titan. In the meantime, however, they are "producing an anime that will be bundled in a limited edition of the Attack on Titan manga, which tells a different sort of story than what we did in the TV series".