"Attack on Titan: Junior High," a spin-off manga series to Hajime Isayama's bestselling original, is getting an anime adaptation. Created by Saki Nakagawa, the spin-off features Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and other original characters as students and teachers at Titan Junior High School.
The new series will premiere in Japan via MBC and other networks in October. A website for "Attack on Titan: Junior High," which is teeming with information on the story and the characters, has already been put up by Production IG.
A trailer for the series has also been released, showing the group of youngsters freaking out as they muster the courage to tackle a Titan peeking from beyond the wall. However, here, Eren, Mikasa and the rest of the gang have assignments and school to deal with apart from flesh-eating giants.
Yoshihide Ibata, who directed a "Kill la Kill" episode, helms "Attack on Titan: Junior High." Midori Gotou works on the series composition; Yuuko Yahiro handles character design; and Asami Tachibana is in charge of composing the music for the series.
The "Attack on Titan: Junior High" manga will be available in Japan on Aug. 7. Kodansha Comics will release the manga in English, too, with volumes 1 to 3 already available in Amazon. Volume 4 will be published on Nov. 10 and is now up for pre-order.
The original "Attack on Titan" manga, which was introduced back in 2009, follows humanity's battle against a hungry horde of giants that had them retreating into the confines of three large concrete walls to keep the monsters out.
The story is grounded upon a dismal tone, with humor interspersed very tightfistedly. The story was a knockout and now, the original anime series is on its second season, which is currently in development and is slated to premiere next year.
Apart from this "Junior High" spin-off, the manga series also spawned two compilation films and two live-action films. The first one from the latter just premiered and has netted a whopping $4.86 million (￥603 million) in Japan just this weekend, kicking "Minions" out of the top spot.
