108 Fun Facts About Attack on Titan

Which part of a Titan's body must a soldier slice to kill it?

The nape, at the back of the neck, is a Titan's one sure kill spot: any other wound, even a severed head, grows back within minutes, so soldiers have to swing in from behind.

Why does cadet Eren keep flipping upside down in his first balance test?

His belt is damaged: given a sound one he balances at once, and the story later reveals that the drill instructor broke the fitting himself, hoping to keep Eren out of the army.

Roughly how many copies of the Attack on Titan manga were in circulation by November 2023?

140 million copies were in circulation by November 2023; when the count passed 100 million in 2019, the publisher marked it with a giant mural at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Which studio animated the first three seasons of Attack on Titan before MAPPA took over?

Wit Studio, set up in 2012 by producers from Production I.G, made seasons one to three; the switch to MAPPA for the final season also brought in a new director and character designer.

Which Death Note director also directed the first season of the Attack on Titan anime?

Tetsurō Araki directed season one and stayed on as chief director for the next two, then handed over when the series changed studios for its final season.

In Attack on Titan, which military branch guards and maintains the walls?

The Garrison Regiment is the largest branch, yet after a century without an attack its wall guards had taken to drinking on duty, and were caught unready the day the outer gate fell.

What is Eren's hometown, on the outermost wall?

Shiganshina District juts out from the southern edge of the outermost wall; Isayama based the walled-in scenery on his own hometown, a basin ringed by mountains in Ōita.

What is the gear that lets soldiers swing through the air on grappling hooks called?

Vertical Maneuvering Equipment, also called ODM gear, reels its wearer between anchor points on bursts of compressed gas, the only way a human can attack a towering Titan from any angle.

Which officer invents the rocket-like Thunder Spears used against the Armored Titan?

Hange Zoë, the Survey Corps' Titan researcher, built them to crack the Armored Titan's hide, drawing on weapons research the Military Police had been ordered to destroy but secretly kept.

Which of the Nine Titans does the Marleyan Warrior Pieck Finger hold?

The Cart Titan runs on all fours and can stay formed for months; Pieck spends so long inside it that she walks with a crutch, having half-forgotten how to stand upright.

How many years does someone who inherits a Titan power have left to live?

13 years is all an inheritor gets, the span the first Titan lived after gaining her power; holders are usually fed to a chosen successor before then, or the power passes to a random newborn.

How are Pure Titans created?

By injecting Eldians with spinal fluid from a titan, Marley turns condemned prisoners into mindless Pure Titans and drops them on Paradis as punishment.

Which Titan power does Eren first discover he can turn into?

The Attack Titan is what Eren first becomes, unknowingly, during the battle of Trost; he learns only later that it came from his father.

Who turns out to be the Female Titan?

Annie Leonhart, the Military Police recruit from Marley, is exposed in Stohess District and seals herself in crystal for four years afterwards.

Reiner Braun and Bertolt Hoover are revealed to be which two Titans?

Armored and Colossal are their titans, Reiner the Armored and Bertolt the Colossal; Reiner confesses it to Eren almost offhandedly atop Wall Rose.

Krista Lenz is really a member of the royal family under what name?

Historia Reiss, the illegitimate daughter of Rod Reiss, is crowned queen of the walls after she strikes the killing blow on her father's giant titan.

What is Eren's power to control other Titans first called?

The Coordinate is what Reiner and Bertolt call it; Eren first triggers it by striking the titan that ate his mother, turning a horde of Pure Titans on it.

Who is Kenny Ackerman to Levi?

His maternal uncle: Kenny, brother of Levi's mother Kuchel, taught the orphaned boy to survive in the Underground, then walked away and later led the Anti-Personnel Control Squad against him.

How does Erwin Smith die?

In a suicide charge on the Beast Titan, Erwin leads the recruits across open ground as a decoy so Levi can strike; mortally wounded, he is denied the serum in favour of Armin.

What does the basement of Eren's childhood home reveal?

They are Eldians on an island, not the last humans: Grisha's hidden books and photograph reveal Paradis, Marley across the sea, and a world that hates Eldians.

Which Marleyan city holding an Eldian internment zone does the Survey Corps raid?

Liberio is where Reiner and the other Warriors grew up; Eren hides there posing as a wounded soldier, then transforms at a festival just as war is declared on Paradis.

What is Zeke Yeager's relationship to Eren?

His half-brother: Zeke and Eren share their father Grisha, Zeke born to Dina Fritz in Marley; Zeke holds the Beast Titan and seeks to sterilise Eldians.

What is 'the Rumbling'?

Countless Wall Titans marching on the world is the Rumbling: Eren unleashes the giant titans sealed inside the walls, and roughly eighty percent of humanity dies.

Who kills Eren at the end of Attack on Titan?

Mikasa beheads Eren inside his titan's mouth and kisses him goodbye; the Founder's power dies, and every titan reverts to human.

What are the extremist Paradis soldiers who follow Eren called?

The Yeagerists, led by Floch Forster, are the soldiers who rally to Eren when he breaks out of custody, then seize control of the military in a coup.

What are the atemporal gateways connecting all Eldians called?

The Paths join every Eldian to a single point outside time; the flesh and bone of a Titan's body arrive through them, and so do memories handed down between holders.

Where is Eren buried at the end?

Under a tree on a hill near his hometown is where Eren's head is buried; the tree grows huge over the years, and the final pages show a boy and his dog approaching it.

Which real event gave Isayama the idea for the Titans?

A drunk grabbing him at an internet cafe, where Isayama worked part-time, taught him how frightening a human can be when communication fails; that fear shaped the titans.

Which wrestler was a model for the Armored Titan's look?

Brock Lesnar 'with smaller pecs' was the model, Isayama wrote on his blog after watching the Armored Titan's anime debut; he built Eren's Titan on another fighter, Yushin Okami.

Which visual novel did Isayama confirm partly inspired Attack on Titan?

Muv-Luv Alternative pits mecha pilots against alien invaders; Isayama has said he wanted to throw at readers the feeling it gave him, of being killed off by the creators themselves.

Levi was modelled on which comic-book character?

Rorschach from Watchmen, in his film incarnation, was Isayama's stated image for Levi; the first name came from a boy in the documentary Jesus Camp, picked because he thought it a good name.

Who voices Levi in the Japanese anime?

Hiroshi Kamiya has said the part weighed on him: Levi was called humanity's strongest before the story had shown why. Matthew Mercer voices the English dub.

Who voices Eren in the Japanese anime?

Yūki Kaji's performance fed back into the manga: Isayama has credited the actor with nudging him to write Eren as more of a good guy. Bryce Papenbrook voices the English dub.

What names, taken from a legendary Scottish cannibal, were given to the two Titans captured for experiments?

Sawney and Bean split the name of Sawney Bean, the cave-dwelling clan chief of Scottish legend; when a saboteur killed both Titans, every soldier's gear was inspected to find the culprit.

Who ranked second in the 104th Training Corps, behind the heroine?

Reiner Braun and third-placed Bertolt, two of the class's top three, were Marley's undercover Warriors, enemy agents training beside the soldiers they had been sent to infiltrate.

Who voices the heroine, Eren's adoptive sister, in Japanese?

Yui Ishikawa had not read the manga until she was sent to audition, then found she badly wanted the part; she went on to voice the lead in Violet Evergarden.

Which band performed the first opening theme, 'Guren no Yumiya'?

Linked Horizon is the name composer Revo uses when his band Sound Horizon writes for someone else's story; the song's success carried the group onto NHK's year-end Kōhaku show.

'Guren no Yumiya' blends Japanese lyrics with which other language?

German phrases punctuate the Japanese lyrics, including the shouted word Jäger, 'hunter', which is also the German form of Eren's surname, Yeager.

Who composed the anime's score?

Hiroyuki Sawano stayed on when the studio, director and character designer all changed for the final season, sharing that last score with Kohta Yamamoto.

Which emblem do Survey Corps soldiers wear on the backs of their cloaks?

A pair of wings, one overlapping the other and known as the Wings of Freedom, marks the Survey Corps, whose soldiers are the ones sent out beyond the walls.

Who directed the 2015 Japanese live-action films?

Shinji Higuchi took over after Tetsuya Nakashima quit over creative differences in 2012, and reset the story in a Japan-like world after choosing to shoot on Nagasaki's Battleship Island.

Which pair of fan-favourite soldiers was left out of the live-action films?

Levi and Erwin were among the characters dropped when the films swapped the manga's European-style world for a Japanese one; a new captain, Shikishima, took over as humanity's strongest soldier.

The chibi parody spin-off set in a school is called Attack on Titan: what?

Junior High turns the war into a school grudge: Eren hates Titans because one stole his lunch, a cheeseburger, on his first day.

What is the title of the very first episode of the Attack on Titan anime?

To You, in 2000 Years is mirrored late in the story: the eightieth episode, set in the distant past, turns the title around as From You, 2,000 Years Ago.

How many episodes made up the first part of the final season, which began in December 2020?

16 episodes made up the first part, airing from December 2020 to March 2021; a 12-episode second part followed in 2022 and two feature-length specials in 2023.

Which game gave Eren a secret Battle Pass outfit in 2023?

Fortnite locked Eren behind Battle Pass quests in Chapter 4 Season 2 and added ODM gear as a pickup, so any player could grapple onto buildings and swing in for a sword strike.

Which spin-off, first a visual novel bundled with the anime Blu-rays, tells how Levi joined the Survey Corps?

No Regrets has Levi enlist only to get close to an officer he has been hired to rob and kill; after Titans kill his two friends on their first expedition, he follows that officer instead.

Isayama first offered his manga to which publisher's department, whose editor demanded changes?

Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump editors told him to bring them 'Jump', not manga; unwilling to reshape his work to fit a house style, he took it to a rival magazine.

What is the formal name of the elite squad hand-picked and led by Levi?

The Special Operations Squad, known informally as Levi Squad, was hand-picked by Levi; its first members Petra, Oluo, Eld and Gunther died protecting Eren.

Whose spirit do Eren and Zeke meet in the timeless realm that links all Eldians?

Ymir Fritz, the first Titan, went on obeying the royal bloodline long after her death; Eren wins her over by telling her she is no slave and may choose for herself.

Who secretly controlled Marley from the shadows?

The Tyburs, an Eldian family honoured for turning on their own empire, were Marley's true rulers; Willy Tybur confesses the heroic legend was staged, minutes before Eren kills him.

Which company published the English edition of the manga in North America from 2012 to 2021?

Kodansha USA launched the English edition in 2012, then sped it up to a new volume every month once the 2013 anime sent demand, in its own words, through the roof.

Which monthly publication serialised Attack on Titan from 2009 to 2021?

Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine was a brand-new monthly spin-off when the editors who accepted the series placed it in the first issue in September 2009; it stayed there for all 139 chapters.

Which studio, best known for Dynasty Warriors, developed Koei Tecmo's Attack on Titan action games?

Omega Force had to set aside its own one-against-a-thousand formula: with humans outmatched by the giants, each battle became a string of single duels, with no crowd-clearing combos.

Which Attack on Titan recruit earns the nickname 'Potato Girl' on the first day of training?

Sasha Braus gets the name by eating a stolen potato in the middle of the instructor's inspection, the first sign of the food obsession that drives her character.

At Universal Studios Japan in 2015, the life-size Eren titan fought which other titan?

The Female Titan and Eren were sculpted mid-fight at full scale, so visitors looked up at them from a soldier's eye level; a separate walk-through sent guests on the mission to capture her.

In Attack on Titan, only a training class's top ten graduates may apply to join which branch?

The Military Police serve in the safe interior, far from any titan, so the ten cadets judged best at fighting them are offered the one posting where they will never have to.

Which Attack on Titan commander was modelled on the Imperial Japanese general Akiyama Yoshifuru?

Dot Pixis was based on the general, as the series' creator wrote on his blog in 2010; when the post resurfaced in 2013 it drew a flood of angry comments and death threats.

In Attack on Titan, a Titan dies only when a soldier cuts deep into which part of its body?

The nape of the neck is every Titan's only fatal spot. In a Titan Shifter's giant form, the human body rests in that same place, joined to it by muscle.

Attack on Titan's creator named Mikasa Ackerman after a famous Japanese vessel of what kind?

A battleship called Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought of the Imperial Japanese Navy, gave the heroine her name.

Which food does Sasha Braus eat during an Attack on Titan training drill, earning her nickname?

A potato, eaten in the middle of the drill, got her dubbed 'Potato Girl'. Sasha grew up a hunter in the mountain district of Dauper and is skilled with a bow.

Attack on Titan led manga sales in the first half of 2014, ending which series' five-year reign?

One Piece had led that half-year chart five years running. Attack on Titan still ended the full year as the second best-selling manga.

What do Eren Yeager and Armin Arlert dream of seeing beyond the walls as boys in Attack on Titan?

The sea is the dream Armin shares with Eren after showing him an illegal book his grandfather kept about the world beyond the walls.

Which country's Ministry of Culture put Attack on Titan on a 2015 list of 38 banned anime and manga?

China imposed the ban two years after the anime's popularity on the mainland had made the front page of a Hong Kong newspaper.

Attack on Titan's creator says his man-eating Titans drew on creatures from which Hollywood series?

Jurassic Park and its dinosaurs sit on his list of influences beside Gyaos, the monster from the Gamera films, and The War of the Gargantuas.

Attack on Titan's season 2 theme 'Shinzō wo Sasageyo!' has a title urging people to dedicate what?

Your heart is what the title demands: it translates as 'Dedicate Your Heart!'. The song opened the 12-episode second season, which arrived four years after the first.

A special 2021 edition of Attack on Titan took which Guinness World Record from Turma da Mônica?

Largest comic book published went to Attack on Titan for Giants, a volume a metre tall that weighed 13.75 kg.

A 2015 Free Comic Book Day crossover set Attack on Titan's giants against which publisher's heroes?

Marvel Comics sent Spider-Man, the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy into battle with several Titans, in a story scripted from the manga creator's own scenario.

What does Grisha Yeager give his son Eren shortly after Titans destroy their hometown in Attack on Titan?

A key is the gift, and with it an order to reach the basement of the family home, where Grisha hid what he called the truth.

The Titan that devours Eren Yeager's mother in Attack on Titan is named for which facial expression?

A smile never leaves its face, the result of a deformity. Years later Eren has it beaten to death by commanding a herd of other Titans.

After losing to Eren Yeager, Attack on Titan's Female Titan traitor encases herself in what?

Crystal seals her away in custody, beyond questioning, until she is freed late in the story and helps to stop Eren.

What does Eren Yeager's Titan carry to seal the breached gate in Attack on Titan's first season?

A giant boulder does the job, though Eren first loses control of his Titan and attacks a comrade before lifting it toward the gate.

Whom does a young Eren Yeager devour as a mindless Titan to inherit his powers in Attack on Titan?

His father, Grisha, lets himself be devoured, passing on his own Titan power along with one he had seized from the royal family.

In Attack on Titan, Zeke Yeager's deadly throwing accuracy as a Titan comes from which sport?

Baseball experience gives Zeke his aim, which turns his Titan's knack for hurling objects into a devastating long-range weapon.

Which American animated sitcom redrew a character as Attack on Titan's Mikasa in a 2014 Halloween special?

The Simpsons made the nod in Treehouse of Horror XXV, which redrew Lisa as Mikasa and the rest of the family as other anime characters.

After opening in Osaka, Attack on Titan: The Musical made its 2024 overseas debut in which city?

New York hosted the show at the City Center in Midtown Manhattan, where it was sung in Japanese with English subtitles.

What does Eren Yeager give Mikasa Ackerman after saving her life in Attack on Titan?

His scarf becomes her keepsake. She takes it off in despair years later, when Eren falsely claims that he has always hated her.

In Attack on Titan, what name is given to Pure Titans whose behaviour is hard to predict?

Abnormals are still Pure Titans, the weakest and most common kind, but their odd behaviour makes them harder to combat than the rest.

Which drink is secretly tainted so Zeke Yeager can turn its drinkers into Titans in Attack on Titan?

Wine from Marley carries the taint and is handed out to members of the military. Levi is spared because he abstained, while the soldiers guarding Zeke with him all transform.

Which young fighter from Marley stows away on an airship and shoots Attack on Titan's Sasha Braus?

Gabi Braun fires the fatal shot into Sasha's chest, and Sasha utters 'Meat' with her dying breath.

What nickname did Attack on Titan's Kenny Ackerman earn as a hitman who murdered Military Police?

The Ripper was his name as a criminal. Kenny later served the royal family and led the Anti-Personnel Squad sent to capture Eren.

In Attack on Titan, what are Eldians living in Marley forced to wear as a badge of shame?

An armband bearing a star marks every Eldian there, and anyone caught without it, or outside their zone without a permit, faces torture.

Attack on Titan's creator first planned a bleak ending like the film of which Stephen King story?

The Mist was his model for a tragic finale, until the warm response to the manga and anime made the author reconsider.

Attack on Titan's Japanese title, Shingeki no Kyojin, translates literally into English as what?

The Advancing Giant is the literal meaning of the title under which the manga ran in Japan from September 2009 to April 2021.

What does 'Guren no Yumiya', the title of Attack on Titan's first opening theme, mean in English?

Crimson Bow and Arrow was also used as the subtitle of the first compilation film, which retold the opening 13 episodes.

What powers the propulsion in the waist-mounted grappling gear worn by Attack on Titan's soldiers?

Gas drives the propulsion, letting soldiers move freely through the air. They pair the gear with swords made of ultrahard steel.

What is the first name of Eren Yeager's mother, killed as Attack on Titan's story begins?

Carla was secretly loved by Keith Shadis, the instructor who goes on to train her son's class of recruits.

Which voice of Overwatch's Cole Cassidy also plays Levi in Attack on Titan's English dub?

Matthew Mercer voices the Survey Corps veteran in English, and developed the web series Critical Role, serving as its Dungeon Master from 2015.

Which Japanese rock star wrote 'Red Swan', a season 3 opening theme of Attack on Titan sung by Hyde?

Yoshiki wrote and produced the song, which was first announced as an X Japan track with Hyde of L'Arc-en-Ciel on vocals.

Which band's Attack on Titan opening 'The Rumbling' reached No. 1 on a US hard rock chart?

SiM wrote the song entirely in English for the final season, and it also reached the UK's rock and metal singles chart.

Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains, a Spike Chunsoft action game, was made for which handheld?

Nintendo 3DS owners in Japan got the game in December 2013, well over a year before it reached North America and Europe.

The 2015 live-action Attack on Titan films shot scenes on which abandoned island off Nagasaki?

Hashima, also called Gunkanjima, was known for its undersea coal mines until the mine closed in 1974 and the residents left.

In Attack on Titan, Zeke Yeager secretly plans to use the Founding Titan to do what to every Eldian?

Sterilise them: that is how Zeke means to 'save' his people from persecution, by stopping any more of them from being born.

In Attack on Titan, how does the 120-metre Titan form of Rod Reiss travel toward Orvud District?

By crawling for miles along the ground, the burning giant wears away its own face and chest before it reaches the wall.

Which spy known as the Owl passes his Titan power to Grisha Yeager in Attack on Titan?

Eren Kruger spent years in Marley's security service torturing fellow Eldians to protect his cover, before saving Grisha and handing on his power.

In Attack on Titan, the Azumabito family is a branch of the shogun's line in which nation?

Hizuru is their homeland; a wrist tattoo of the family crest, inherited from her mother, marks Mikasa as one of its descendants.

Which Japanese martial artist was the model for Eren Yeager's Titan form in Attack on Titan?

Yushin Okami, a professional fighter since 2002, has competed in the UFC, PRIDE and Pancrase.

Which mountain-ringed home town of Attack on Titan's creator inspired the manga's early scenery?

Hita is a city in the far west of Ōita Prefecture, and the mountains that surround it shaped the look of the manga's opening chapters.

Which title opens the Attack on Titan manga and is mirrored by chapter 122?

To You, 2,000 Years from Now also lends its phrase to the anime's first episode, while chapter 122 replies with 'From You, 2,000 Years Ago'.

Which walled Bavarian town in a meteorite crater resembles a district in Attack on Titan?

Nördlingen is one of very few towns in its country with completely intact city walls, though no official link to the series exists.

Which actor played Eren in the two live-action Attack on Titan films released in Japan in 2015?

Haruma Miura took the lead after starring in Kimi ni Todoke and The Eternal Zero.

Which Confessions director quit the live-action Attack on Titan film over creative differences?

Tetsuya Nakashima left in December 2012, and distributor Toho cited considerable differences over the scriptwriting and other matters.

Which voice actress, Mio in K-On!, sang the first ending theme of the Attack on Titan anime?

Yoko Hikasa sang 'Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai', whose title means 'This Beautiful Cruel World', over the first thirteen episodes.

Which Mid-East Allied stronghold does Marley capture as Attack on Titan's final season opens?

Fort Slava is destroyed by Eldians sent from an airship and turned into Pure Titans by Zeke's scream.

In Attack on Titan, which movement does Grisha Yeager join in Marley after his sister's death?

The Eldian Restorationists were sold out to the authorities by one member's own young son, and were sentenced to exile on Paradis as Pure Titans.

Which son of two voice actors plays Eren Yeager in the English dub of Attack on Titan?

Bryce Papenbrook and his Japanese counterpart were both praised for their portrayals of the character.

What subtitle did Toho give the second live-action Attack on Titan film released in 2015?

End of the World reached Japanese cinemas on 19 September 2015, seven weeks after the first part opened on 1 August.

Which director of the horror film It signed on in 2018 for a Warner Bros. Attack on Titan film?

Andy Muschietti joined once the studio's deal with the manga's publisher was finalised, less than two years after that publisher had denied any talks were under way.