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Take Flight Against Monsters In The New Trailer For The ATTACK ON TITAN Compilation Films

Following last week’s announcement, the latest official trailer arrived for Funimation Films’s upcoming releases of the Attack On Titan compilation films. Both movies are comprised of elements from the anime series advance of Isayama Hajime’s popular manga with Araki Tetsuo at the helm.

The films, Attack on Titan Part 1 – Guren no Yumiya (The Crimson Bow And Arrow) and Attack on Titan Part 2 – Jiyuu no Tsubasa (Wings Of Freedom), are set in a dystopian world plagued with seemingly invincible man-eating giants called Titans. A century after the first attack, mankind’s last city is on the verge of destruction when the Titans re-emerge, devastating the inhabitants of Wall Maria, the outer segment of which there are three. It is in the wake of this attack when we meet Eren Yeager who, along with adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman join the military to fight the Titans and save their city. However, Yeager soon learns that he is able to transform into a Titan at will with an immense murderous intent toward other Titans, thus ensuing his own story of self-discovery with questions he must answer while fending off comrades who don’t know if they can trust him.

Attack on Titan Part 1 – Guren no Yumiya (The Crimson Bow And Arrow) and Attack on Titan Part 2 – Jiyuu no Tsubasa (Wings Of Freedom) will play with English dub in select theaters, respectively, in limited theaters later this month. Visit the official website for Funimation Films for the full theater list and more.

Funimation Films Acquires Rights To ATTACK ON TITAN Compilation Films Screening In The U.S. In Late March!

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Before season two arrives, anime fans can now gather in line for their chance to catch the Attack on Titan recap films courtesy of Funimation. The films, Attack on Titan Part 1 – Guren no Yumiya (The Crimson Bow And Arrow) and Attack on Titan Part 2 – Jiyuu no Tsubasa (Wings Of Freedom), are two feature-length summations of the Araki Tetsuo-helmed animated series inspired by Isayama Hajime’s 2009 action horror manga about a dystopian world plagued with seemingly invincible man-eating giants called Titans.

One hundred years after the first attack, mankind’s last city is on the verge of destruction when the Titans re-emerge, devastating the inhabitants of Wall Maria, the outer segment of which there are three. It is in the wake of this attack when we meet Eren Yeager who, along with adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman join the military to fight the Titans and save their city. However, Yeager soon learns that he is able to transform into a Titan at will with an immense murderous intent toward other Titans, thus ensuing his own story of self-discovery with questions he must answer while fending off comrades who don’t know if they can trust him.

Attack on Titan Part 1 – Guren no Yumiya will play English dub on March 27 in 19 select Reading Cinemas outlets and Alamo Drafthouse theaters across the US. The sequel, which will premiere a new trailer for season two at the tail end, will play either on March 28 or 29 depending on the theater.

The official website for Funimation Films has the full theater list for more details.

Live-Action Casting And Anime Feature Updates For ATTACK ON TITAN

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One of the most phenomenal manga and novel properties to come to life in the last several years has been the work of author Hajime Isayama whose 2009 publication, Shingeki no Kyojin – otherwise known as its more commercialized international title, Attack On Titan, has become a highly popular franchise among genre fans of Japanese entertainment. And on the heels of its hugely successful launch on television through anime last year, Attack On Titan was officially announced in December of 2013 to get feature-length live action treatment by way of Toho, with Yuusuke Watanabe providing the script under director Shinji Higuchi.

This week, there are two new important pieces of information involving the live action film, and the anime: Actor Haruma Miura (pictured above) has been officially added to the film, which centers around the character Eren Jaeger who sets out to join a team of legionaires to hunt down giant human-consuming monsters in order to protect what is left of mankind after the death of his mother, altough it has not been confirmed which of the three main characters he will play; Miura will be part of the TBA cast and crew filming undetermined portions of the movie on the deserted island of Hashima (also known as Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island – located off the coast of Nagasaki) to illustrate the world’s only walled-in city protecting what is left of the human race.

Attack On Titan is slated for a 2015 release, which will also add more to the fanfare surrounding the televisied anime which is now being reported to get two full-length movies recompiled from the animated series, with new dubbing and a 5.1 remastering, and will feature voice actors reprising their roles from the animated series. The first film, titled Attack On Titan: Crimson Bow And Arrow, will cover episodes 1 through 13 and will release this winter, with the second, Attack On Titan: Wings Of Freedom, spanning episodes 14 through 25 and releasing in 2015, both directed by series helmer Tetsuro Araki.

I personally haven’t had the chance to watch the series, but its subsequent success since 2009 seems very telling, so it’s no wonder why the creators are taking this phenomenon to new heights. And as often skeptical as people are with live-action transitions are with certain titles, with Isayama overseeing production on Higuchi‘s new film, there is reason to be optimistic, at best. Meanwhile, Funimation will be releasing season 1 on Blu-Ray on June 23, 2014.

Stay tuned for more news on Attack On Titan!

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