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Funimation Subtitles Live-Action Attack on Titan Films' New Trailer
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The IGN website began streaming a new trailer for the two live-action posted.
Attack on Titan manga depicts the battles between humans and the giants who now rule the world outside humans' walled enclaves.
Funimation just Shinji Higuchi attended the red-carpet premiere.
The first movie will Attack on Titan: End of the World, will open on September 19. Funimation's license includes theatrical, video-on-demand, home video, and broadcast rights, and the company plans to release the first film in American theaters this fall.
In the films' third poster above, the tagline reads, "Defy your fate…. If you don't fight, you don't win."
The films star:
Haruma Miura as Eren
Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa
Kanata Hongō as Armin
Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha
Takahiro Miura as Jean
Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima
Ayame Misaki as Hiana
Pierre Taki as Souda
Jun Kunimura as Kubal
Shū Watanabe as Fukushi
Satoru Matsuo as Sannagi
Rina Takeda as Lil
The cast includes seven characters that are new to the film versions of the story. Hasegawa's character Shikishima holds the key to the films' story as "humanity's strongest man."
Director Shinji Higuchi stated that, with the supervision of Attack on Titan manga creator Hajime Isayama, the story is based on the world and characters of the manga, while incorporating new characters and new formidable enemies. Tomohiro Machiyama, who is also friends with Isayama, worked on the scripts together with Isayama and Watanabe.
The band contributing the first and second films' theme songs "Anti-Hero" and "SOS," respectively.
Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009.
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall and Attack on Titan: Kuklo Unbound light novels.
Both Funimation released the series on home video last year.
