Summary Of Hajime Isayama's Attack On Titan

Hajime Isayama’s prolific graphic novel series Attack on Titan is about war. The plot and setting are an anachronism melting pot of various conflicts and atrocities across recent human history, from ethnic cleansing to wars over oil. At the center of this is the walled society in which the bulk of the story takes place, a monarchy that censors and oppresses its own people. This too is representative of a real world tragedy. The oppression inside the walls is the result of the haunting of a godlike, put ultimately non-divine entity being worshipped as a true god, serving as an allegory for the effects of the personality cult of North Korea. The titans are shrouded in mystery, but most explanations of their existence are rooted in the idea of deities and devils: omnipotent, godlike forces. The original titan, Ymir, is hailed by Eldians as their benevolent goddess ( ), and the people in the walls worship her power, the power of the Progenitor Titan, as god like as well. Rod Reiss described the person who possessed this power as “The sole creator of this world and its ultimate governing force. An all-knowing, all-powerful being.” ( ) known as god. However, when pushing all rhetoric to the side and observing the nature of this ‘god’ as it appears in the story, it is far from omnipotent. The Progenitor

The corruption is modeled after the very real corruption in North Korea and is used as a lens to examine the country’s governing style and its effect on the North Korean people. The oppression of these people is a direct result of the ghost of the original leader of North Korea, Kim Il-sung, manifesting as a personality cult that brainwashes many powerful people, in the same way the First King brainwashes and controls the Central Military Police, leading to the oppression of the common