Shintarou Kawakubo, the editor of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) manga has revealed on Twitter that an interview between Isayama and anime director Tetsurou Araki will release on March 9th, which will reveal new information about the second season.
3月9日売り別マガ掲載の「進撃の巨人」原稿が上がりました。諫山さんお疲れ様です。もう原稿の一部をチラ見せとかできる状況にないので、こちらの対談記事をチラ見せします！ pic.twitter.com/n33HquSYqn
— 「進撃の巨人」担当者バック (@ShingekiKyojin) February 25, 2016
The upcoming issue of Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shounen magazine will release on March 9th and will contain the interview. The interview will be about the future of the series, the production of the first season and anime films, and the first details about the second season. Season 2 of the Attack on Titan is scheduled to air in 2016.
Here is the preview video for the second season that was revealed at the conclusion of the second compilation anime film:
The Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) series was created by Hajime Isayama. It started off as a manga in 2009 and is published in Kodansha’s monthly Bessatsu Shounen Magazine. To date there has been 18 compiled volumes of the manga. A prequel light novel adaptation started in 2011, and two spin-off manga started serialization in 2012: Shingeki no Kyojin: Before the Fall and Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou. In April 2013 the series was picked up for an anime adaptation. The anime series was produced by the newly formed Wit Studios. The series has grown in popularity since the anime’s debut, with the manga selling over 36 million copies as of April this year. Numerous game adaptations of the film were created following the anime, including a PlayStation 4 title. Two live action film adaptations were be released in Japan in 2015.
Here is a synopsis of the anime from MAL:
Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of titans.
Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
The second season of the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) will be airing in 2016. More information about the anime will be revealed in March 9th issue of Bessatsu Shounen in an interview with the anime director and manga creator.
Visit the anime’s official website: http://shingeki.tv/
And follow them on Twitter: @anime_shingeki
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