Creator Hajime Isayama announced he has submitted the final chapter of Attack on Titan, ending his long run of drawing cannibalistic monsters.
The final chapter of the long-running manga Attack on Titan has been completed and turned in by the original mangaka Hajime Isayama. With it, the final piece of the original story he imagined has come to a fitting end of this apocalyptic journey. Fans of the manga have seen it grow from humble beginnings of a ragtag group of suicidal teenagers zipping around on Vertical Maneuvering Equipment to fight corpse-like giant monsters into a harrowing meditation on the cost of human cruelty and the meaning of the word “monster.” But it had to end somehow, and this is it.
Isayama originally created Attack on Titan in 2006 as a 65-page one-shot book. His work eventually generated enough interest to see it published as a serial in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine beginning in September 2009. Since then, Attack on Titan has become a landmark franchise and leading export of Japanese culture, following the often grim adventures of a group of young warriors known as the Survey Corps who ostensibly protect their beleaguered walled city from the attacks of grotesque monstrosities known as the Titans. This tale of horror, visceral action, and raw emotion expanded in time into larger discussions on the legacies of pain involved in the serious conflict between peoples and the gradual degradation of personal morality in the face of unceasing desperate survival.
Click the button below to start this article in quick view.
However, this journey Isayama began over a decade ago ends now. According to a report by Comicbook.com, Isayama tweeted out on Wednesday, March 30, that he had turned in the final chapter, Chapter 139 to his publisher, completing the story he started in 2009. “I have submitted it,” he wrote in a tweet, according to their translation. “From now on, Attack on Titan is a series I hope as many people as possible will read, so thank you!”
Attack on Titan, while a gruesome and spiritually disquieting tale often depicting the stuff of nightmares in intricate and horrifying detail both physically and emotionally, is an artistic achievement by Isayama which has spawned all manner of media as a franchise powerhouse, including spin-off manga, light novels, videogames and an anime television series which was recently crowned the most popular television program in the world. A product of a dedicated mangaka with a penchant for realizing the kind of vivid imagery of dreams that wake children from their sleep, fans have been taken through many a disturbing twist and world-shaking turn on this bloody, brutal road through the life of Eren Yeager and his monster-fighting friends.
According to an interview with ONE Championship, Isayama’s next challenge will not be a new manga. Instead, he plans to open a spa in his native Japan. Attack on Titan Chapter 139 goes on sale April 9 in the pages of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, with an English translation to follow from Kodansha Publishing.
Sources: Comicbook.com, Hajime Isayama/Twitter.com, ONE Championship/Youtube.com
About The Author
