User blog comment:San&Ashitaka/To be or not to be?/@comment-93.209.48.123-20140618073951/@comment-10427184-20140625085643

Exactly. This theory - well, it doesn't sound like it fits SnK, but it certainly is worth thinking about.

Heck, on a game called Infinity Blade, everyone uses swords and shields and stuff but it was actually millions of years in the future because a certain group destroyed and re-created the world.