After months and months of speculation over what it might look like and a weird detour that saw the Marvel Universe mashing up with the Attack on Titan manga, we finally have our first look at the cast of the live action Attack on Titan in costume. Earlier today, a series of character posters offer our heavily-photoshopped first looks at what costume designer Isao Tsuge has in store for how Eren, Armin, Mikasa and the gang will look in the forthcoming film. And they look, well, not exactly like what many readers of Hajime Isayama’s manga and anime watchers were expecting.
There’s a method to the madness, though. According to producer Yoshihiro Satou, “We weren’t concerned about casting people on the basis of whether or not they looked like their character in the manga. After many discussions with Isayama-sensei, we cast people only on the ability to carry over the spirit of the character.” Admittedly, I was a bit taken aback by some of the character designs, but as is my policy, I’ll be reserving judgment until I see the final product. After all, that Subaru commercial that served as proof of concept was pretty rad, so maybe this will live up to our lofty expectations.
Haruma Miura as Eren
Here’s the gallery of all the characters:
What do you think of the Attack on Titan cast designs? Let us know in the comments below.
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pretty content and excited
Hopefully they don’t blow it so bad that a US studio can’t pick it up and do another adaptation.
why is there all asians .
Check the shooting location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fresH4KKTb0
It’s going to be EPIC!
Allright, the movie is made in Japan, and they had to rewrite the plot and settings to fit all asian actors in the reimagined universe. Okay. But then they could reverse it, and make Mikasa the only blue eyed, blondy white left on Earth. Simples! Why they didn’t do it?
Aren’t they not supposed to be Asian, isn’t MIKASA supposed to be the only Asian?
Your name represents my feelings on this.
So in a land where there is only one remaining Asian (who is only half at that). The entire cast is Japanese? One of the few anime adaptions that should NOT have had an Asian cast.
Your name represents my feelings on this.
Americans made supposedly asian movies like dragon ballz, the edge of tomorrow, airbender etc with only white cast… so go figure.
so much poorly executed photoshopped lense flare
the one anime where there not suppose to be all asian
precisely my thoughts. it would have been great to see this cast with their actual race in tact
I am pleased.
Super Jacked! For me the character designs are secondary, the films tend to take a slightly different direction than the animes or the mangas anyways, it’s the acting and the character personality that really has to shine. eeeek!!!
I think the characters look the part and the image clips definitely embody the spirit of the characters but to see how it actually plays out. I will continue to reserver judgement.