ATTACK ON TITAN

 

Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人, Hepburn: Shingeki no Kyojin, lit. "The Advancing Giants") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity lives inside cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from the gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as Titans; the story follows Eren Yeager, who vows to exterminate the Titans after a Titan brings about the destruction of his hometown and the death of his mother. Attack on Titan was serialized in Kodansha's monthly Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2009 to April 2021 and has been collected into 33 tankōbon volumes as of January 2021. An anime television series was produced by Wit Studio (seasons 1–3) and MAPPA (season 4). A 25-episode first season was broadcast from April to September 2013, followed by a 12-episode second season broadcast from April to June 2017. A 22-episode third season was broadcast in two parts, with the first 12 episodes airing from July to October 2018 and the last 10 episodes airing from April to July 2019. A fourth and final season premiered in December 2020, airing 16 episodes in its first part, with the remainder announced to air in early 2022.

PLOT:

The story revolves around a boy named Eren Yeager, who lives in the town of Shiganshina, located on the outermost of three circular walls protecting humanity from Titans. In the year 845, the wall is breached by two new types of Titans, named the Colossus Titan and the Armored Titan. During the incident, Eren's mother is eaten by a Titan while Eren escapes. He swears revenge on all Titans and enlists in the military along with his childhood friends, Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert.

During their first battle, Eren learns that he has the mysterious ability to turn himself into a sentient Titan, which draws the attention of the Survey Corps, who intends to use his newfound power to reclaim Wall Maria. As the battle against the Titans intensifies, Eren and his companions fight to defend their land while uncovering the mysteries about the Titans, their own civilization, and what lies beyond the walls.

Eventually, Eren and those in the military alongside him discover they are not the only humans left alive. They are part of a race called Eldians, who have been exiled behind the walls for past crimes against another race, the Marleyans. What they previously believed to be the entire world is merely a small, isolated island named Paradis. Led by Eren Yeager and his commanding officers, the Eldians begin to wage war against the global fleet assembled by the Marleyans to destroy Paradis. Eren unleashes the Rumbling, an event which unshackles the millions of colossal Titans hidden inside the walls of Paradis, in an attempt to destroy the world and thus create eternal peace for the Eldians.

With the help of the Marleyan Titan shifters, the Survey Corps stop the Rumbling, which has already wiped out eighty percent of humanity. Mikasa kills Eren, ending the power of the Titans permanently. Three years later, the world prepares for war between the island's inhabitants and the remaining countries, but Armin has hope that peace negotiations led by Queen Historia will be successful. Some time afterwards, a modernized Paradis is bombed from above and destroyed in the war, with the tree containing the original power of the Titans having regrown in the center of the rubble.