‘Attack On Titan: Junior High’ Is The Adorable Spin-Off You Never Knew You Needed

Attack on Titan is one of the biggest anime hits in recent memory, and the franchise is expanding quickly to provide content for its ravenous fanbase. There’s the two live action movies from Japanese studios that will be in North America soon, and now a second cartoon series called Attack on Titan: Junior High is about to debut in October.

That’s right: there’s a cutesy take on the Attack on Titan world and it has existed in serialized manga form since 2012. The series is exactly what it sounds like: it takes all the characters from the original and sticks them in the same junior high school where they deal with all the problems regular teenagers face on a daily basis. Plus gigantic monsters that eat everyone.

Now the manga will become an anime and while the series promises to be goofy fun with less nihilistic philosophy, the people behind the series at Production I.G aren’t cutting corners with the animation or voice acting. Almost all of the actors from the original Attack on Titan are returning to voice their Junior High counterparts.

These new movies and spin-offs are great and all, but what most fans of the show really want is season two of the original Attack on Titan anime. Director, Tetsuro Araki has said this will come sometime in 2016 but hasn’t been more specific than that. It sounds like the series is having something of a similar problem to Game of Thrones where the show is outpacing the books. But rather than forge ahead alone, the anime will be waiting on the manga to develop further before a new TV season can be completed.

So until then, enjoy the Junior High spin-off. And the live action movies. And maybe take a trip to the Attack on Titan theme park at Universal Studios Japan. Wear your Survey Corps jacket out to conventions and high five your fellow soldiers. It’s a good time to be an Attack on Titan fan.

(via RocketNews)

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