Attack on Titan’s True Meaning Explains All of its Best Twists

Attack on Titan gained a massive international following thanks to its intense action and mind-blowing twists at the pen of mangaka Hajime Isayama, but its true meaning casts the whole journey in a different light: fear of being “the other.” With the Attack on Titan anime series now in the midst of its final episodes, and a terrifying Titan-induced apocalypse besides, the theme of humanity’s total destruction permeates the work, as it in many ways has since the cannibalistic giants first appeared to crash through Wall Maria and eat Eren’s mother right at the beginning.