![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The zeitgeisty anime phenomenon Attack on Titan, based on the manga of the same name, is no different, having taken inspiration from Germanic imagery for its world since the show began, but when Season 3 appropriated imagery and lexicon we associate with the Axis powers of World War II and the Holocaust, it sparked outrage. George Lucas has repeatedly said that the evil Emperor in Star Wars was modeled after Richard Nixon, and Fullmetal Alchemist used imagery from the Iraq War in its depiction of the fictional Ishval Civil War. Using real-world imagery and events as inspiration for a fictional world is nothing new. ![]() In Season 4, Attack on Titan is finally telling us what its use of disturbing imagery and allegories really meant.
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