#OFFICE BUILDING INSIDE ANIME ART SERIES#

Once the books and subsequent show grew in popularity, Isayama authorized a backstory manga to be made called Before the Fall.

#OFFICE BUILDING INSIDE ANIME ART SERIES#

More accurately, according to Looper, the manga’s editors wouldn’t publish the series until Isayama assured them he had an ending in mind. It was his publisher who encouraged him to expand the story (and thus the world) with a definite ending in mind. Attack on Titan is an interesting case because the creator admits he didn’t know the whole story world when he began writing the manga! The graphic novel was originally created as a “one-shot,” meaning it was a stand-alone story contained in one issue rather than a serialized story. When Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama began drawing and writing the future hit, his worldbuilding was not as robust as needed. Still, a soul ain’t everything the soul must have a physical dwelling place that is healthy for it to persist. Characters and their arcs would not be possible without the world being built for the story to inhabit, as a soul in a body. In behind the scenes commentaries for film and TV, directors and production designers frequently say they want the “setting to be a character.” In the case of Attack on Titan, the world’s milieu is key to the way that the story progresses. Just like our real universe is both specifically created and designed, so too is the sub-world of Attack on Titan.ĭesigning worlds is not a new concept in storytelling of any medium. This is one of the reasons, among others, why the cosmological argument for the existence of God is so compelling. The above state is admittedly hyperbolic - it’s logically impossible for something to create itself. Let’s explore how this works, and how the world of Attack on Titan creates itself. That cycle is called the “World-Building Circle.” Unlike adaptations of the past, in which the old intellectual property (IP) merely served as fodder for the new version, this agile-like process has become an iterative cycle of creation for Attack on Titan.

There are spoilers ahead.Īttack on Titan represents a relatively new - but increasingly common - occurrence in modern transmedia (immersive, multi-platform) storytelling. In Part II, we continue to explore the manga and anime Attack on Titan’s worldbuilding as our teaching example. As we discussed in Part I, worldbuilding is the act of creating a fictional universe for a story to inhabit.

Office building inside anime art