Attack On Titan Producers Explain The Studio Change For Season 4

Attack on Titan Season season 4 is set for release on 7th December 2020. The final season of this heart-wrenching anime made a shocking change of studio.

Studio WIT had been handling the animation for the series, but it was suddenly handed over to MAPPA.

The shift in the studio has generated a lot of speculations and piqued the curiosity of fans.

In a recent interview with Newtype, Kensuke Tateishi, Toshihiro Maeda, and Tetsuya Kinoshita have cleared up the mystery behind the change.

Tateishi, the producer of Attack on Titan Season 4, explained that the creators wanted to escalate the anime. In the last episode of season 3, Eren is shown gazing at the ocean, which marks a new beginning.

The changes that the creators wanted in the anime were difficult for WIT to perform.

Maeda further simplifies that a lot of studios turned down the offer since the task was too huge. Others declined due to tight schedules.

MAPPA was the only studio that considered the project and later confirmed it. WIT studios did not have any problems with handing over the reins because it was MAPPA.

The studio further said that Attack on Titan deserves a proper ending for the sake of fans. This moved the producers even more. The trailer indeed looks outstanding.

Fans can now relax as it is confirmed that the final season will adapt the whole manga. Since it is a series that has received a lot of fan support, it will not leave the story midway.

The Attack on Titan manga will either conclude before the anime’s release, or they will be released simultaneously. Either way, we won’t be left wondering for a better ending.

Attack on Titan has been broadcasted on MBS ever since the series first started. However, the last season will air on NHK. This is because the producers wanted the anime to reach a broader audience in Japan.

Although MBS was free to stop investing in the anime, it continued to do so. The creators of AOT are thankful to both NHK and MBS.

About Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. Kodansha publishes it in the Bessatsu Shonen Magazine.

The manga began serialization on September 9th, 2009, and continues to date with 30 tankōbom formats.

Attack on Titan follows humanity settled within three concentric walls to protect themselves from the terrifying titans that prey on them.

Eren Yeager is a young boy that believes that a caged life is similar to that of cattle and aspires to go beyond the walls one day, just like his heroes, the Survey Corps. The emergence of a deadly Titan unleashes chaos.

Source: Newtype magazine November issue

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