Attack on Titan (2013)
Original title: 進撃の巨人
Attack on Titan is a 2013 Japanese-language animation series. It stars Yuki Kaji, Yui Ishikawa and Marina Inoue.
Humanity lives caged inside three concentric walls, hiding from Titans, towering humanoid giants that devour people for no clear reason. For a hundred years the barriers hold and the survivors call it peace. Then the outermost wall is breached, and young Eren Yeager watches his hometown overrun. He enlists in the military alongside the disciplined Mikasa and the brilliant Armin, joining the Survey Corps that ventures beyond the walls where most soldiers die. Based on Hajime Isayama's manga and animated by Wit Studio and MAPPA, the series pairs brutal action with a mystery that keeps widening.
Quick answers
What is Attack on Titan about?
Humanity lives caged inside three concentric walls, hiding from Titans, towering humanoid giants that devour people for no clear reason. For a hundred years the barriers hold and the survivors call it peace. Then the outermost wall is breached, and young Eren Yeager watches his hometown overrun. He enlists in the military alongside the disciplined Mikasa and the brilliant Armin, joining the Survey Corps that ventures beyond the walls where most soldiers die. Based on Hajime Isayama's manga and animated by Wit Studio and MAPPA, the series pairs brutal action with a mystery that keeps widening.
When was Attack on Titan released?
Attack on Titan was released on 7 April 2013.
How many episodes does Attack on Titan have?
Attack on Titan has 87 episodes across 4 seasons.
Where can I watch Attack on Titan?
Attack on Titan is available on Crunchyroll Premium, Crunchyroll Premium (Via Prime), Hulu, Google Play, Amazon and AppleTV.
Where to watch Attack on Titan
Stream: Crunchyroll Premium, Crunchyroll Premium (Via Prime), Hulu
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Yuki Kaji as Eren Yeager (voice)
- Yui Ishikawa as Mikasa Ackerman (voice)
- Marina Inoue as Armin Arlert (voice)
- Kisho Taniyama as Jean Kirstein (voice)
- Hiro Shimono as Connie Springer (voice)
- Yu Kobayashi as Sasha Blouse (voice)
- Takehito Koyasu as Zeke (voice)
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Reiner Braun (voice)
- Romi Park as Hange Zoë (voice)
- Daisuke Ono as Erwin Smith (voice)
- Shiori Mikami as Krista Lenz (voice)
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Levi (voice)
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- Companion guide: Giants & Titans
- Companion guide: Kaiju & Giant Monsters
- Companion guide: Military Sci-Fi
A few thoughts on Attack on Titan
The bleak survival grind pairs with Swan Song, Robert McCammon's epic of humanity clinging on after catastrophe, and The Marrow Thieves, a dystopia of the hunted running for cover. Death Note offers the same escalating cat-and-mouse dread in manga form. For the mood, cue the doom-laden Berserk soundtrack, or fight an occupying force in Half-Life 2.
Dark action anime that don't flinch
Attack on Titan built its reputation on sudden, brutal loss and soldiers who rarely come home. These series share that unflinching nerve, pairing kinetic fights with real body counts, from ghouls and assassins to parasites wearing human faces. Expect the same knot of dread whenever a beloved character steps forward.
Giant monsters and the humans who fight them
The Titans looming over the walls give Attack on Titan its primal scale, tiny people against impossible size. These picks chase that same dwarfing terror, sending recruits, mechs, and last-ditch squads against creatures that treat cities as terrain and treat humanity as prey.
Dystopian survival behind the walls
Strip away the Titans and Attack on Titan is about people penned inside a shrinking world and told peace is safety. These novels and games sit in that same trap, following survivors who ration hope, question their keepers, and learn the walls were built to hide an uglier truth.
Mysteries that keep widening the world
What makes Attack on Titan addictive is how every answer exposes a bigger question, until the whole map redraws. These stories reward the same patience, layering conspiracy, memory, and hidden history so that finishing one revelation only opens the trapdoor beneath it.