The first season of “Attack on Titan” rose to prominence more quickly than the production studio had anticipated, and the series earned many fans over a relatively short period of time. With that in mind, it’s easy to see how the upcoming release of the second season has been enjoying a lot of attention, and fans have been growing more and more eager for news from behind the scenes.
It was recently confirmed by Tetsuro Araki, the show’s director, that the new season is coming in 2016, and production is rumored to have started just a few months ago, in October this year. Apparently, the studio has been spending a lot of time trying to develop a solid story for the second season, and are also potentially planning some serious changes to the show’s format, which require a more prolonged pre-production period. On the other hand, sources from the studio are claiming that the new season will be even more successful than the first one, and the show is already on the way to becoming a long-term classic.
It’s interesting that the producers are working so hard on the show’s story, according to some critics, as they don’t have to come up with the entire plot line on their own, given that it’s based on an existing manga. Still, history has shown that converting a story from one media to another is never a straightforward task, and there are always tricky problems that the producers have to be aware of and deal with efficiently. How well those issues are handled is typically what sets apart failed adaptations from successful ones.
Other than the second season of the show, fans will also get to see a crossover with Marvel Comics, and rumors have it that the event is actually planned to be quite massive. It apparently depends on the popularity that it will manage to generate, and if fans like the idea, there could be more of it coming later. It’s currently planned as a live action film in two parts, but producers are reportedly keeping open about potential ideas for extending the crossover even further.
It’s certainly good for any fan of the show to see that the producers are hard at work on the new episodes, but some have been criticizing the slow production schedule compared to other animated series. On the other hand, some fans have been taking up the stance that the producers should take as much time as they need, as long as it means that the story will be told properly and fans of the original manga will not be left disappointed.