Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20161007195718/@comment-5774380-20161009222326

Tausendberg wrote:

Wait, I'm confused, is the map in this chapter actually upside down (like our south is their north) or is it inverted?

This is a relevant question because if the map of 'Africa' and 'Madagascar' is inverted, so that the island is on the (what we would call) West side of the continent instead of the east side, then that proves that AOT doesn't take place on Earth.

It is a mirror image, meaning you not only need to put the map upside down but also to see it on a mirror; so no, the story cannot take place on Earth, they only used Africa's geography as inspiration.

Inverting things upside down and left to right is something that Isayama and his assistants like to do, sometimes out of laziness. For example.