Board Thread:Theories/@comment-27441457-20151225042055/@comment-27702860-20160402034905

Aggression25 wrote: It could be an alternate Earth history. They do that a lot in different franchises. Indeed. Case in point Full Metal Alchemist which has comparisons to "our world" and its history with clear differences. Then compare Higurashi no Naku Koro ni which takes place in post-WWII Japan manly in June, 1983. If this is the case, then trying to "fit" the world of AoT is futile and elements like Beast Titan's baseball references are just the author having some fun with us. However:

Another possibility is that the First King made the world over with the power of the Titans, but there are still remnants of the previous world around.

One thing is the line in the manga--I forget if it is in the anime--that Mikasa's Mum is the last of the "Oriental Race." I am trying to think of a situation where something like 99.9% of the human population is wiped out that then allows a First King as an "Evil Scientist" with other "Evil Scientist" who have "developed the Titan serum! HA!HA!HA!" to then in a sense create a world where everyone is forced to sort of work together. I do not think it is the Titans that caused this because, frankly, in a modern world we have, Titans are a "minor inconvenience" to modern weaponry.

Which. . . is why I stopped when I did because I see I can pointlessly pontificate since it is all speculation. > . <

However, the whole "memory wipe" suggest that this may have been going on for more than 100 years. Another question is, whatever happened, did the First King & Co. do this with society around the technological state they are at, or did they force everyone to a more primitive state?

Speculate! Speculate! Speculate!

--J.D.