Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28015903-20160830173943/@comment-27441457-20160831214000

Sookey5 wrote:

GodKingReiss wrote: Hiroyuki Sawano did the soundtrack for AOT, and he's done a LOT of soundtracks with German lyrics even if the series he composes for has nothing to do with Germany (Kill la Kill, Aldnoah Zero, Guilty Crown, Gundam Unicorn, etc.). There are definitely some Germanic elements to AOT, but I highly doubt the walls are located in Germany itself. For one thing, the walled territory is larger than that area of Europe to begin with.

Basically, it doesn't have anything to do with the series. Hiroyuki Sawano just really likes German. The wall is twice the size of modern day Germany and since mikasa is the last Asian and everybody has old names (like eren, armin, Erwin, levi, uri) it most likely takes place in an alternative Europe. Most likely, from the looks of it. Isayama did mention that the East Sea in the AOT world is different than our world's East Sea (Sea of Japan), which to me strongly suggests that the geography of the world has changed drastically from our time into AOT's time.