Will an American reboot follow?
That seems to happen with many Japanese movies.
shareI always got the sense that the Titans WERE Americans.... that this whole thing is an allegory about us Yankees consuming up all the natural resources, taking advantage and invading the less developed nations.
In the cartoon version, the Titans look Caucasian, definitely different than the Japanese town-folk. It would be quite ironic if America rebooted this property.
That said, it does appear in the live-action version, they steered away from making the monsters look Caucasian, probably because they want international appeal.
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no way we'd let irony hinder a reboot of something.
Plot hole - Aspect of a film that is misunderstood or missed while using your smart phone.
I have no clue where you get that from with characters named Jean, Bertholdt, Reiner, Armin, Krista etc... they are obviously not asians for the most part.
As for the rest, my guess is the titans are just weapons of another country or something like that. Or maybe experimental tools like in Claymore and the town we see is full of people that are experimented upon... All in all there's no way it's the only human town (even if that's what we are told in the beginning of the show). Because of that, titans themselves cannot be a symbol of "evil humans". Their owners though... probably!
In the manga/anime most of the people are non Asian including Erin and Armin. Mikasa is the only one of Asian decent (Half Asian on her mothers side).
I got the sense from the Anime (I haven't really read much of the manga) that the Titans are the souls of the dead returned to torment the people and the world might be some kind of purgatory. That's why you see titans of different ages and styles in general. Erin's Titan reflected him very well and the female Titan later reflected her human form as well. In the movie, the baby titan could be the baby that was killed.
In the Anime, they are all Caucasian. Only Mikasa is oriental. They made it pretty clear during the backstory for her that Oriental race was rare or nearly considered extinct as a race.
shareSeems like they're mostly based on German heritage:
http://seireina.blogspot.ca/2013/07/the-nationality-of-shingeki-no-kyojin.html
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What are you talking about? There is only one Japanese character in the whole series EVERYONE else in the series is a white person.
And you know it's true because SpaceMonkey -> said so.
I would even wager that the characters in the context of the series speak English, not Japanese. If all Asians are dead that would leave English as the most commonly spoken language in the world and I believe it's the most diversely spoken language in the world as well so It'd be reasonable that if all the characters aren't exclusively German and have other European races mixed in as all that's left of humanity, English would be the desired language.
And you know it's true because SpaceMonkey -> said so.
The only thing "American" about the titans is that one of them ate the Hiana character played by Ayame Misaki. And wanted to eat her too, but mostly between her legs.
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