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Attack on Titan (Page 5)

Newly released image of the giant in Attack on Titan: Kansai version is more glam than ever

Audrey Akcasu
Dec 22, 2015
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Last week Attack on Titan Part 2: Wings of Freedom was released on DVD and with it came a special gift: An improved visual for the Kansai dialect AoT.

Japan
(Attack on Titan • dialect • Kansai)

Attack on Titan advances to the world of finance with anime Visa credit cards

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2015

Survey Corps, charge!

Japan
(anime • Attack on Titan • cool • credit cards • manga • visa)

Universal Studios Japan’s Evangelion, Attack on Titan attractions teased in videos

Anime News Network
Dec 3, 2015

Universal Studios Japan‘s upcoming Universal Cool Japan campaign rides are rolling out in January with a new ride attraction inspired by fashion model and singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (Crayon Shin-chan) and upgraded versions of “Evangelion The Real 4D,” “Attack on Titan The Real,” “Biohazard (Resident Evil) the Escape,” and “Monster Hunter the Real.”

Fan anticipating the launch of “vangelion The Real 4D” got a sneak peek of the experience in a new ad.

Japan
(Attack on Titan • Evangelion • ride • theme park • Universal Studios Japan • video)

Attack on Titan could definitely use a little Sailor Moon—check out this transformation!【Video】

KK Miller
Dec 3, 2015

If you ever thought Eren from Attack on Titan needed a Sailor Moon-esque costume change sequence, your prayers have been answered.

Internet
(Attack on Titan • Eren Yeager • Sailor Moon • transformation)

New Attack on Titan game announces release month, continues to look really amazing 【Video】

KK Miller
Nov 30, 2015

The live action movies were a disaster, but the video game, with a newly announced Japanese release date of February 2016, looks like it might redeem them both!

Japan
(Attack on Titan • Eren • Koei Tecmo • Levi • Shingeki no Kyojin • video games • videos)

Dragon Ball & Attack on Titan’s theme songs—recreated with taiko, flutes, and beatboxing!【Video】

Preston Phro
Nov 27, 2015

Whether you’re a fan of anime or not, you’ll love Shinpu’s covers of Attack on Titan and Dragon Ball’s theme songs combining Japanese flutes, taiko, and even beatboxing.

Internet, Japan
(Attack on Titan • beatboxing • Japanese flute • music • taiko • video • YouTube)

Attack on Titan game reveals new characters, story details

Anime News Network
Nov 9, 2015

The official website of KOEI Tecmo‘s game based on Hajime Isayama‘s Attack on Titan manga revealed new characters and story details about the game on Sunday.

Japan
(anime • Anime News Network • Attack on Titan • characters revealed • Koei Tecmo • manga • video game)

Attack on Titan and Monster Hunter team up so you can take down colossal-sized monsters

Scott Wilson
Nov 7, 2015

Do you like Monster Hunter? Do you like Attack on Titan? Does the idea of combining the two… excite you?

Well then we have good news! Video game behemoth Capcom is teaming up with the creators of Attack on Titan to release a collaboration Monster Hunter smartphone event. Ready to take down some colossal, steaming, monster-titans? Then read on for more!

Japan
(Attack on Titan • collaboration • event • Monster Hunter • smartphone game)

Cute Levi imposter wins over Japanese Twitter

Jamie Koide
Nov 3, 2015

Attack on Titan fans who pre-ordered the new Levi figure by Good Smile were no doubt super-excited when orders started shipping last month. But one buyer, who goes by the username @Levi_Eren_Karin on Twitter, couldn’t help but tweet about her surprise when the contents inside weren’t quite what she had been expecting…

Internet, Japan
(Attack on Titan • cats • cosplay • cute • funny • pets • twitter)

Attack on Titan car navigation system stars Survey Corps, a walled city and checkpoint giants

Oona McGee
Oct 20, 2015

The live-action Attack on Titan movies may have been a bit of a disappointment, but we’ll always have the glorious anime. And now the animated protagonists from the acclaimed series are bringing their world into ours and guiding us around it with an amazing new tablet and car navigation system.

Filled with special extras including the opportunity to “rank up” according to distances travelled, a choice between “return to the wall” or “Survey Corps outer expedition” route views, and an appearance from a Titan when we pass through convenience store checkpoints, it’s bound to make trips to the grocery store much more exciting!

Japan
(anime • Attack on Titan • car navigation • cars • Eren • GPS • Levi • tablets • tech)

Taiwanese parody of Attack on Titan explores larger than life possibilities, hilarity ensues

Joan Coello
Oct 9, 2015

Fictional characters can get away with just about anything, especially if they dwell in a fantasy setting where superhuman abilities exist and extraordinary events occur. But even in such fictional worlds where anything is possible, many creators design their characters and settings with a certain amount of realism, perhaps to keep things relatively convincing and logical.

Take the characters of Attack on Titan for example. It is shown that the members of the Training Corps go through rigorous training in order to become official members of the military, so it’s understandable that they are physically fit and athletic. A Taiwanese variety program made a parody of the series, though, that proved exactly why the titan-slaying heroes and heroines have to keep their well-toned physique. Watch the clip after the break!

Taiwan
(anime • Attack on Titan • funny • manga • Parody)

Tiny characters and cuties to hold up your smart phone 【Photos】

KK Miller
Oct 7, 2015

Having a handheld device that tells us how to get places, allows us to check our E-mail, and browse the Internet has been one of the greatest inventions of this century. Plus with video streaming services like Netflix and others on our phones, we are carrying around a library of entertainment. The problem with using our phones like a mini-TV, though, is that it’s difficult to prop them up at the right angle with the myriad objects that fill our homes.

While we’ve brought our readers an inexpensive solution to that problem in the past, some of us want to do it in the cutest and most fashionable way possible. Thankfully, gachapon capsule toy machines are dispensing prizes that feature famous characters and other eclectic figures that are designed to hold up phones for our viewing pleasure. You’ve never seen a phone held up with such panache before.

Japan
(anime • Attack on Titan • cats • gachapon • Pikachu • Smartphones • toys)

Adidas’ Attack on Titan fitness wear is perfect for exercise, fighting giants

Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2015

Compared to most other action anime, the cast of Attack on Titan has a pretty low-survival rate. This could be because their opponents are remorseless man-eating giants, but is another key factor that fact that the Survey Corps’ uniforms are poorly suited for the duties the heroes perform? Sure, those cloaks look dramatically stylish, but they’re also bulky and movement-limiting, so maybe it’s about time Eren and his pals changed into some official Attack on Titan exercise wear from Adidas.

Japan
(Adidas • anime • Attack on Titan • fashion • fitness • manga)

Attack on Titan fans left “waiting”, start tweeting, as subtitles freeze during first screenings

Philip Kendall
Oct 1, 2015

With part one of the live-action movie adaptation released for the first time outside Japan on Wednesday this week, fans of the hugely successful manga and anime series Attack on Titan were no doubt incredibly excited to see their favourite giant-slaying characters brought to life by living, breathing Japanese actors.

Little did then know, however, that when one of the English subtitles added to the movie for its North American release would appear on-screen, **it would remain there—for a full 20 minutes—**while the action continued behind it.

Japan, USA
(Attack on Titan • error • I've been waiting for this day! • Live action • movie • subtitle • twitter)

Stop-motion Attack on Titan/Godzilla crossover is disturbingly awesome 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2015

Attack on Titan’s adaptations to other forms of media have been sort of hit-and-miss. Sure, the animated TV series that followed up on the success of the original manga is the anime industry’s biggest hit in decades, but kind words for the two live-action movies have been few and far between.

Still, the upcoming video game version looks pretty cool, and as further proof that the series can still be cool in new formats is this awesome fan-produced stop-motion video that’s a crossover between Attack on Titan and Godzilla.

Japan, Taiwan
(anime • Attack on Titan • cool • fan art • Godzilla • manga • stop motion • video)

We take a look at 20 of the best, funniest Attack on Titan cosplay photos

Meg Murphy
Sep 22, 2015

To those not familiar with the scene, cosplay may just seem like older kids and adults playing dress-up, but few realize the time and effort that goes into custom-making the costumes or the attention to detail that really makes the outfits works of art.

For some, just wearing their masterpieces to an anime or comic convention is enough, but others take it a step further, staging beautiful, dramatic, or sometimes even humorous photoshoots, preserving themselves in character and enabling the sharing of their visual pieces online. And today we’ll be taking a look at just that! Here is a collection of the amazing handiwork and photography skills from around the world used to recreate scenes (and create new original scenes!) from the mega-popular anime series Attack on Titan.

Global
(anime • Attack on Titan • cosplay • deviantART • photos • Shingeki no Kyojin)

Attack on Titan live action movie receives its most colossal review from a Tiny Titan

KK Miller
Sep 19, 2015

As you probably know, Attack on Titan, the mega-popular manga and anime series, was recently adapted into a live-action movie and infamously received absolutely horrible reviews—it might be a toss-up between this movie and Fantastic 4 as to which summer blockbuster was worse. For its part, the Attack on Titan movie was so horrible that one Japanese critic hoped for the titans to eat the characters and be done with the whole thing. No one is asking Dr. Doom to eat Mr. Fantastic…yet.

As they say though, you shouldn’t judge something till you see it for yourself, so we had to send one of our own.

Japan
(Attack on Titan • cosplay • Live action • movies • Mr. Sato • reviews)

Makers of Dynasty Warriors bring us awesome Attack on Titan game this winter【Video】

Oona McGee
Sep 17, 2015

While the Attack on Titan live-action movie may have failed to live up to some people’s expectations, we’re still holding out hope for something even greater on the horizon.

It looks like we won’t have to wait too long because come this winter, there’ll be a new game on the market—and it’s set to feature advancing giants, a showdown with the Colossal Titan himself, and gameplay that lets you fly through the air using Omnidirectional Mobility Gear.

Oh, and there’s a ton of blood.

Japan
(anime • Attack on Titan • gaming • manga • playstation • Playstation 4 • Playstation Vita • video)

The awesome Nintendo and anime-inspired stairway art of Japanese high schools 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 16, 2015

Growing up in suburban southern California, my elementary, junior high, and high schools were all single-story structures. As such, my classmates and I went through our K-12 education without knowing the excitement of the romantic rendezvous and bare-knuckle showdowns that so often occur in the stairways of schools in TV shows, movies, and other works of fiction.

Still, we made do, as the student body just had to find alternate locations in which to swap spit or punches. One thing we definitely missed out on, though, was the opportunity to create awesome stairway art, like these students in Japan who decorated their school steps with the cast of Super Mario Bros., Love Live!, and Attack on Titan.

Japan
(anime • art • Attack on Titan • education • fan art • love live • Mario • nintendo • video games)

Attack on Toilets now going on inside Osaka train station bathrooms

Jamie Koide
Sep 14, 2015

Now that the Attack on Titan exhibit has wrapped up in Kyushu, it’s moved on to its next stop, Osaka.

Somewhere along the way, however, the titans and military decided to stage a battle in the middle of Osaka’s central train line, or rather, the train line’s bathrooms. On a mission to remodel some of the not-so-popular toilet facilities located inside five of the stations on the Osaka Loop Line, the bitter enemies are working together for the first time to clean things up.