‘Attack on Titan’ Manga to have A Collaboration Café in Tokyo

Here’s something for Attack on Titan fans especially those who are in Japan. It was announced that a collaboration café will be happening in Tokyo which will allow visitors to “experience the manga with all five senses.”

The said collaboration café will be at the The Live Cafe Mixa, which is located on the 9th floor of Ikebukuro’s Mixalive TOKYO building. Like the usual anime collaboration café, the Attack on Titan café will have a serve course set meal inspired by specific manga chapters, which are supplemented by footage and music from the series.

Each course will have a 80-minute time slot that visitors can participate in as part of a group banquet. During the first half of the café’s collaboration period (from September 4 to October 2), there will be four courses: Course A is called “Scream” inspired by Chapter 50 of the manga. Course B is “The Unknown Soldiers” by Chapter 70, Course C is called “Friends” by Chapter 69, and Course D is a limited-time set called “The soldiers’ banquet’. The course lineup will change on the café’s second half from October 3 to November 1. The course sets will not include alcohol.

You may purchase tickets (worth 6,875 JPY each) for the café online through their official website.

About Attack on Titan

The Attack on Titan manga is created by Hajime Isayama and was first released on September 9, 2009, in the Bessatsu Shonen Magazine (which is owned by popular manga publisher Kodansha). The series has released 29 compiled volumes so far as of August 2019 and the franchise is well-received by fans not only in Japan but around the world. The popularity of the manga has also got it to garner several awards including Harvey Award, Micheluzzi Awards, and the Kodansha Manga Award.

The manga series’ massive popularity has paved the way for an anime adaptation. The Attack on Titan anime first premiered in Japan on April 7, 2013, with 59 episodes so far (covering 4 seasons) and 8 OVAs. The anime adaptation is still ongoing.

The story is centered on Eren Yeagar who lives with his foster sister Mikasa Ackerman and his best friend Armin Arlert in a town called Shiganshina, which his adjacent to Wall Maria. The huge wall that is covering the whole town is a way of protection from the Titans, giant creatures that eat humans in their sight. Titan attacks are an inevitable thing on the island, there are various troops or legions that are tasked to protect the citizens from the Titans. With a special maneuver gear, they can hook on walls and use to travel or cling to one part of a Titan and attack them.

Going back to our main characters. Eren, Mikasa, and Armin’s lives weren’t the same when their town was suddenly attacked by Titans and even witnessed some people being devoured. Eren then decided to become part of the Survey Corps when he got older so that he could avenge the death of his mother who got killed on the Titan attack. This continuing thirst for revenge has also fueled Eren to become the best in the Survey Corps and kill every last Titan that stands in his way.

The story progresses of Eren finding a little bit of his past, about his missing father, and finding out about the Titans. Later on, he then finds out that he becomes a Titan himself.

The Attack on Titan FINAL Exhibition has started touring since last year. It had stops in Roppongi then in Osaka. The 2019 exhibition concluded in Osaka. This year, the exhibition will start in Kobe.

For those who are in Japan right now and wanted to drop by in this exhibition, it will be on the ninth floor of the Daimaru Kobe department store in Hyogo. The exhibition will only be from July 22 until August 9. It will have original art displays and a character voice guide to help visitors through the exhibits. The Kobe version will also offer 31 new pieces of art that were not previously shown in the previous tours.

Similar to the Osaka exhibition,  a temporary “Reeves Company Store” will open with over 100 kinds of limited edition merchandise. Visitors will also be able to download a special smartphone wallpaper from the decorated window. You get it by scanning and accessing via QR code.  

It seems that final season for the Attack on Titan anime is something worth looking forward to as its new promotional video revealed previously that the anime will be done by animation studio MAPPA.

The new animation studio tasked to produced the final season of this popular anime series have also animated notable anime like Yuri!!! on Ice, Dorohedoro, and In This Corner of the World.

The director the upcoming anime season will be Yuichiro Hayashi at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko returns to oversee the series scripts, and Tomohiro Kishi is responsible for the character designs.

The official website of the series contains comments from the Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama, Hayashi, season 1 director and seasons 2 and 3 chief director Tetsuro Araki, MAPPA representative director Manabu Ohtsuka, and Wit Studio representative director and president George Wada. Isayama thanked Wit Studio for all their hard work into the previous seasons by drawing an illustration.

Below contains the following staff members:

Chief Animation Director: Daisuke Niinuma

Production Chief: Jun Shishido

Effect Animation Director: Satoshi Sakai, Taichi Furumata

Color Design: Junko Suenaga

Art Director: Kazuo Ogura

Screen Design: Yusuke Tannawa

3DCG Director: Takahiro Uezono

Director of Photography: Shigeki Asakawa

Editing: Masato Yoshitake

Sound Director: Masafumi Mima

Sound Effects: Naoto Yamatani (Sound Box)

Sound Production: Tecno Sound

Animation Producer: Masato Matsunaga

The returning cast are:

Yuuki Kaji as Eren Jaeger

Yui Ishikawa as Mikasa Ackerman

Marina Inoue as Armin Arlelt

Hiro Shimono as Conny Springer

Yu Kobayashi as Sasha Blouse

Shiori Mikami as Historia Reiss

Kishō Taniyama as Jean Kirschtein

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Reiner Braun

Romi Park as Hange Zoë

Hiroshi Kamiya as Levi

Takehito Koyasu as Zeke

Source: ANN