The ORIGINAL Attack on Titan Anime
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2023
- The original draft of Attack on Titan was created in 2006 and it was a story where Eren didn’t exist, the walls didn’t exist and titans were even more impossible to kill.
Initially the idea was submitted to Weekly Shonen Jump which is the famous magazine, that at the time was publishing series like Naruto, Death Note and of course One Piece which is still going on. Like most ideas THAT GET submitted, the first draft of Attack on Titan was rejected but despite that there were others who saw the potential. In that same year Isayama sent the draft to a contest at a different magazine, where it won the “Fine Work” award and after several alterations began being published 3 years later. In this video what we’re about to do is examine the original story from 2006 and by the end you’ll see what attack on titan could’ve looked like, if the series had stuck to it’s original vision. On top of that I’ll also be showing you all the moments that ended up being re-used in the main series, including one major plot twist.
Alright so the original draft starts off with this titan, as it approaches a group of terrified looking soldiers. Seconds later it then begins eating them one by one and while that’s happening we get an interesting backstory about how these monsters were created. A hundred years earlier there was some kind of man-made global crisis and following this, a group of scientists and religious leaders decided that they had to do something. In order to protect themselves they began the “mankind destruction operation” with the hope of eradicating every other human on the planet. As part of this mission they created the titans, although these titans are completely different to the ones we know from the anime. Firstly in the original draft every titan had the power to shape-shift into the form of anyone they’ve eaten. As an example, imagine that when Marco was eaten in season 1, the titan that did it suddenly transformed into him and then just pretended to be Marco for the next 3 seasons. In the original draft the titans had this ability making it significantly easier to infiltrate humanity and as if that wasn’t bad enough, they don’t even have a weak spot in their neck. Instead, their only weakness is a special organ called the nucleus, which is always located inside a random body part of the titan. In this opening scene of the manga nearly every last soldier dies before they can find the nucleus with the only survivor being a soldier called Murakumo. As a character Murakumo is similar to Levi when it comes to his physical strength and in terms of design he has a few things in common with Mikasa and Eren. Anyway in this moment he tries to ambush the titan by attacking it from behind but at the last second it turns around, leaving Murakumo in a life or death situation.
The story then flashes forward by a month, where it’s revealed that humanity lives inside towns that are surrounded by large trees. If you’re wondering why it’s because the scientists who created titans didn’t want to hurt the environment and so they programmed titans to view nature as sacred, while humans are presumably viewed as evil. As a result their programming doesn’t allow them to destroy trees, explaining why they now act like a barrier defending humanity.
Now in this particular town Murakumo is seen walking down the street and as he looks around, he notices that all the locals are afraid of him. One thing you need to know about Murakumo is that he’s a member of the Vanguard (basically the Survey Corps), which is the only branch of the military that goes outside the trees. Therefore none of the locals actually saw what happened between Murakumo and the titan, all they know is that a squad of Vanguard soldiers was wiped out and apparently this guy was the only survivor. - บันเทิง
Eren Probably convinced Isayama to change the story
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Truth be told that's not far off. Isayama was still pretty moved by folks response to Eren's character.
Haha right
this is for Eren's tatakae plan
Thats not a bad script tbh. They should adapt this into like a "What If" series spinoff of AOT and see if people would like it
Imagine the aot mappa style for the style. I was thinking wit but it would be nice with a dark tone of mappa.
It’s kinda like the live action. Just don’t watch it it’s horrible.
@@sneakattack9984yeah I found it funny that its more accurate to the live action films than the main show XD
how about using this script for the sequel of AOT . As in the ending we have seen the boy enter in the tree. how about taking Titan power!!
its basically just AOT if isayama stuck to his premise instead of making it about war
Pretty cool how “Gabi” in the original was like a precursor to Eren, and then in the anime it’s flipped around. Almost like a real world Attack Titan twist 😂
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Can we just appreciate how far Isayama's art has come?
at 9:28 the difference is night and day, Publishers turned him down for his poor art skills, but he didn't give up, mad respect for him.
Isayama is inspirational
It's more of a sketch than what would be released officially
And because of that, AoT became the greatest anime to ever exist. Isayama is a goat.
@ZarifZeek
I wouldn't say it's the best of the best, but it's definitely up there.
There isn't really a "best anime" out there. It all depends on your preferences.
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I won’t lie this script was actually really interesting to me. Almost like a pilot episode for attack on titan
So, the one shot?
@@NamingIsHard828what one shot?
@@MsDragonbal776 the one shot showed in the video
The "nature is sacred" bit strikes me as too on the nose and misanthropic, but pure of heart loophole is pretty funny
This really shows you how good Isayama has been at writing from the get-go. I make comics too and write stories constantly, so it's actually very surprising to see someone be able to pull off something like this as one of their first works. Insane, Isayama truly is a master of storytelling.
ngl i can do better
do it then@@xanidydexidy
its more like he was good, then got worse as time went on. could be just the result of the AOT story itself becoming more convoluted as opposed to his skills becoming worse though
this story seems so good because it focuses on the same strengths that got people hooked into the original AOT: the existential horror and dreadful setting.
No you couldn't@@xanidydexidy
@@derth9230 yes I could and yes I am doing it
This script was really good imo
I agree
its awful
@@lavlaucok kid, cry more
@@PessiTheFraud eren dies at the end, everyone else lives. He is actually good and likes mikasa back
@@lavlaucwhat are u yapping about
Really upset the flame swords didn't make it to the final cut. I would have loved to see that animated.
i think he replaced them with thunder spears
Nah! That's too generic in anime
If that was in AOT. I wouldnt have tried watching AOT if I saw another Flaming sword in an anime.
watch demon slayer
it’d be too unrealistic
If Isayama wanted to do an alternate universe of Attack on Titan. It should be about this original draft.
I would like more a What If Erwin ate Berthold, how would he react to the truth?
What if Dina Fritz ate Marcel gaillard
I wanted to thank you for explaining the ending. No matter how many times I read it, I never could understand how the mc became a Titan. Pretty interesting concept ngl. It's fun to think of this as an alternate universe in AOT, an Earth-0 if you would
I think the other parallel for "Gabi losing everything again after already losing her parents" is more like what happened to Mikasa in episode 1, where she lost her family a second time, and she even says "it's the same thing again" or something like that.
Murakumo is going to be the kid who walks into the tree at the end of AoT 😭
This original concept is actually so interesting! I was routing for Murakumo even though you were just summarizing the story! I would love to see Isayama redraw this concept with his improved art skills and republish it. Sorta like a JJK 0 type thing, maybe.
Honestly i would love to see a series following the original idea.
Isayama had that goat writing even then💀
It's so funny because many many (not sure how many) years ago I decided to get into the Attack on Titan. The reason was I knew it was very famous. So I searched for Attack on titan comics and this is what I got and because I had never seen AOT before, I thought this is what AOT is about. I have never finished this manga. Years after (when AOT Seasen 4 was confirmed) I decided to watch AOT for the first time due to anime popularity and I totally forgot I read this manga before. Only now with your video, I have remembered. So thanks for that
You found and read the pilot chapter first?! Kinda surprising since I’ve heard it’s a bit tricky to find that chapter online. That’d be like finding and watching an animatic of a movie before watching the actual movie…I weirdly found something like that happen a while ago.
What if they made a prequel to attack on titan before Eren and the others.
There is one already! It's called Before the Fall and it's a light novel. Haven't read it myself tho
@@PancakeCharlieit’s pretty good a bit more “Shoneny” than aot but it’s and enjoyable read
@@PancakeCharlieits also a manga series
there is
If they turn this into an anime I'd watch it. This makes the Titans almost like a man made virus.
Ia like the underrated horror movie "The Thing" alien blob that attack live beings and turn into them. In this case just mankind
Thats what I thought the titans were in season 1
You know what despite how i feel about the ending and story, If isayama does another manga i can guarantee that he will be way better in creating something amazing, very similar to togashi and the praise HXH gets.
How can he make another manga? He already copied Muv-Luv dry. Do you mean he has to make a completely own story?
@@samuelutanlock8141aot is not 100% based in muv luv lmao he only based some things in muv luv but not all. and its not copy
Its like norse mythology who had "picked up" things from the bible and other religions and mythologies who also usualy "picked up" things from the others myths and religions etc...
@@samuelutanlock8141
the differences between the two are extensive:
The Muv-Luv franchise is a trilogy of visual novels with a branching storyline (although Alternative has no choice points that actually matter), while Attack on Titan is a linear manga.
Muv-Luv and many of its spinoffs (Total Eclipse, Schwarzesmarken) depend heavily on harem-style setups, where a male protagonist is surrounded by many female characters, each potentially with a romantic interest in him (although Unlimited subverts this somewhat). Attack on Titan doesn’t surround Eren with a pack of girls interested in him, and arguably the best-developed romantic relationship in the story is between supporting characters Krista/Historia and Ymir.
Muv-Luv depends heavily on parallel timelines and time travel, while Attack on Titan lacks this element.
@@thephoenix4093i wouldnt go as far as to say aot lacks time travel, perhaps in the traditional sense, but the whole "memories send through time" shenanigans is practically a form of time travel
@@DustyyBoi its not. they don't travel through time, they change it by giving information to other characters in different times. they don't even know under what context or situation the said characters are in when given said information. the only time that happened was with grisha and eren in the paths, which is not accurate to say either.
So cool to see all the parts that inspired and where reused in different ways for the official release
This rough draft of titans being created from scratch and a project meant to wipe out humanity reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yo fellow AOT fans can someone tell me when the next special/episode is coming out, I forgot
Nov 4
@@kingsley2004 You absolute Legend bro 👑👑
I really enjoyed this. And honestly, knowing how good isayama is with deep storytelling. This could’ve been great as well.
hearing this early early lore and seeing the rough illustrations of the early manga is crazy cool.
maybe those giant trees in this original could be the explanation for why isayama included the giant forests within the finalised attack on titan... i've always wondered why they were so tall
This origin for the titans is slightly better than the hallucigenia version and would’ve made more sense with the already brutally realistic AOT but ig calling eldians as a marleyan bio experiments would make marleyans completely villain and take away the complexity that AOT has acheived
Marleyans are already completely villains. They got the chance for world peace twice and both times they choosed war. The first was when they attacked even after King Fritz retreated and the second when they destroyed Eldia after 60 years despite Armin and Mikase defeating Eren.
@@brunomineiro23but at the same time the eldians did destroy them with Ymir and took over in a brutal way. So are Eldians the villains too? Or is it all complex like what OP said
@@Echo-nn8dt You could say that, but in the grand scheme of things marleyans are the real villains. They are pure evil, they wanted to destroy Paradis because they wanted their natural resources, they are also an obvious allegory to real world Nazis, but worse somehow. Says a lot that there is only one non eldian Marleyan that isn't complete evil, and even he admits that they (marleyans) are evil. The eldian warriors, honorary marleyans that they are, are even dumber.
@@Echo-nn8dtIn conclusion, humans.
@@brunomineiro23that is your head cannon entirely making up numbers and everything
Imagine if the project "Shingeki no Fly" is a continuation to this script.
I would love to see this animated in a elseworld OVA
Aot contents: Start crawling up at my yt recommendation
PTSD: popping up
when i was younger i tried to read the aot manga but couldn't do it. i was so confused and couldn't follow it.
after watching this video, i am now realizing THIS is what i was trying to read, so no wonder why i was so confused. how tf did i find this instead of the actual manga online? 😂
LMFAO that’s amazing. It’s harder to find this than the actual manga so... well done I guess? 🤣
@@TurtleQuirk genuinely have no idea how i managed it😂
That was pretty interesting. It felt like the intrigue that was lost from AOT once we pretty much got all the answers, had returned for a little while.
Did yall noticed how they kept the attack titan's design simillar to murokumo's. Like the hair
And then also made eren similar to marukumo when he became a adult
I actually read this a few months ago when I was reading the manga online, I nvr finished it but this a really interesting story I feel with more time and touching up this story would’ve been real solid
I would love to see this turned into an ova
The titans eating people to shape shift reminds me of the yoma from Claymore. It’s amazing that Isayama had worked on this story for almost twenty years, and now it’s probably one of the most well known anime ever
Damn that is crazy. It has a body snatchers element to it and it’s like the way the shifter titans work but in reverse.
This is fascinating
If this is how the series goes, I can see Gabi, this early Gabi, to become a protagonist in her own right. And I doubted she will become like the one we got. After experiencing such traumas, I don't think she will become arrogant. Vengeful, yes. But arrogant, no. But that can be her character's arc. Like Eren and the Gabi we got, she is driven by vengeance and hatred against the Titans. But when she has come to realize that the Titans are just tools for one of the many groups of humans out there in the world while the other groups of humans are destroying nature all over the place is what driven the ones who created the Titans into this madness in the first place, she will most likely become cynical nihilist as time passed by. Heck, she might even be terrified at the idea of having a child because it means one more human born into this cruel world to make the world even crueler. But I guess that won't stop her from falling in love with the Falco of this world. And he will most likely be there for her just like the Falco we got did for the Gabi we got. However, the fact that this series might receiving the ending that Mr. Isayama originally planned is quite high as well. You know, the one where it ended with everyone ended up dying. And if that happened, it will send a good message out to all of us to stop destroying nature for our own benefits before nature decided to become radical and strike back at us the hard way. Well, there is more than one ways to execute such an ending with such a message and defeating the ones who created the Titans seemed to be an option while promoting the ideological belief of preserving nature for the betterment of the world as well.
P.S: Ironically, papers are made from trees. And trees are part of nature while papers are important ingredients in creating manga.
Great ideas sounds a lot like Hunger games with Katniss and Peeta
Would she able to transform into a titan too?
@@kafukwamekemeh I heard of Hunger Game before but never see it. As for Katness and Peeta, I have no idea what or who they are.
As for will this version be able to transform into a Titan or not, I don't know. But I see the grown up version of her in this version with this world's Falco, Udo and Sophie as the protagonists in this version of Attack on Titan.
Ohh kay
Also i thought the same cast like, Mikasa, Armin, Jean could be part of the early Gabi too
@@kafukwamekemeh Well, I was trying to make the series looked similar like the one we got. But yes, they can be part of the unit she worked at.
And also after reading your story pitch, why would you want to focus on protecting nature as being a theme in your story when the original story dealt with freedom and the cycle of hatred(would these themes still be intact?)
And since nature theme was already done in Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
This script resembles a little bit of an anime called "Claymore" which was released around that same time and was dropped after first season.
Turtle quirk! Turn up your vocal audio!
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That story is hella interesting tho wow
The thing I thought was the most interesting was how obvious it was from this early draft that he got inspired by Muv-Luv. Titans being made and "programmed" and all
Interesting premise
titans shapeshifting into who they eat would have been insane!!
Off topic but I remember somebody saying in a comment section that when they first saw the beast Titan they thought he was some kind of Titan God. Imagine if the original draft of this story did happen and Zeke was actually some kind of Titan God which made the programming for all the other Titans to keep nature safe
Wdym? Zeke is some kind of titan god. That’s the whole point of him having royal blood and controlling titans.
@@Echo-nn8dt I mean he can be killed by war world 1 equipment and odm gear. Also he can only control titans with his spinal fluid in them either from drinking, injection, and gassing. He can't control random Titans it's just his special ability. Kinda like how porco and his brother had string jaw titans compared to regular users .
This is awesome
At this point, Eren just re written the script and threatened Isayama to do it😂
So basically, that bad live action movie from a decade ago followed the script of the original 2006 draft when they ran out of material since at that point in the story the origin of the Titans had not been revealed yet in the Manga. (but was spoiled in the season 2 anime credits XD as revenge against the manga readers spoiling the plot for anime only watchers, which was based)
I love that you just made shit up and was like YEAH SHE GOT A BUN THATS GABY FOR SURE
Ngl i really like this plot, they could totally work this into a "sequel" of sorts from how aot ended just repeating the cycle this could explain how titans came back and adapted from the previous series, since thats the halluicengias whole thing, the mc could pass as a levi ancestor and the gaby like character can pass as a milasa ancestor with erens will type stuff i definitely would like to see more
This is AOT with a parasyte spin
I hope Mappa one day will animate this
its a good lesson on simplicity. isayama probably added all the weird confusing elements like shape shifting and a detailed backstory very really early on because he was afraid the story wasnt interesting enough, when really just the idea of humans living in fear of huge humanoids that want to eat them is interesting enough to carry the story for a while before new elements are introduced
I would love to this animated. I also appreciate how we think we know the main character but it switches, and also how the attack titan looks like that because murakumo looks like that. We’ve all speculated why eren’s titan looked that way and I never accepted that. It’s good to know it was because he was keeping his OG script alive somehow
So the guy was too pure so titans couldn't kill him, just to later killed off by a titan anyway. Lmao.
They should make anime out of this
This is actually a pretty sick storyline. I wish this would make a new anime spin off start
undead unluck has that cool regeneration animation
The titans having a nucleus or small pearl-like thing to destroy remind me of One punch mans alien guy Melzargard that also has the little "nucleus"
Bro Isayama just got it like that. This script better than half anime out there
The headless half of Murakumo's body regenerating, and not the half with his head, is really weird lol
I always felt as if AoT borrowed a lot from Claymore, but with the whole Titan's hiding among the people by shape-shifting into their victims part, even more so now.
It's probably a good thing Isayama changed it because, together with the outside world twist and premise, it might have felt outright derivative otherwise.
Creatures hiding within human society is a concept from parasite manga which came out in the 80's and any manga you see use that concept got inspired from parasite.
Woah 🤯
is the drawing from 6:48 an actual panel from the manga? Eren's got a mad case of the tiny hands lol
Okay Here me out, a1 episode special for this draft version
Had some They Live or Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes with that whole turning into a human thing. Interesting premise, but I think the version we ended up getting was the better choice. The whole nucleus thing is an interesting idea too.
This is great. It doesn't look like it couldve reached the same heights as aot, but its still great.
I want this show
I really wanna see this adapted
That thumbnail tho😂
This is hella cursed
i hope isayama actual makes this in to a full on manga
U should make video on aot: before the walla
This almost like demon Slayer but a mix-up of attack on Titan
Demon Slayer? 💀
this story would do nicely as an anime movie.
why the fuck was this in the library way back in West Hill C.I. like I swear I saw the manga there around 2007-8, was it out by then?
What I would imagine:
That is set centuries after humanity was destroyed in a nuclear war (spoiler) and years after the kid with his dog discovered the tree.
That time, when the kid and the dog entered the tree, they did not fall, but found the spine creature. Fearful that it is a dangerous monster, the kid rushed to the corner and the dog aggressively barked at it. However, the spine like creature did not attack but just stopped moving and remained idle. Suddenly, the kid heard a mysterious voice saying “do not be afraid”. With that, the kid emerged from the branch where he was hiding, and he saw his dog sitting with the creature (as if being friendly with each other) and saw the ghosts of Eren and Ymir (who opened their eyes and were smiling).
Timeline of Attack on Titan (my perspective):
- before ymir
- ymir era
- titan era
- after titan era
- and the time the kid and the dog found the tree
Can you please do a what if eren had the power to summon past eldian soldiers that would be cool
11:26 it’s just some angry eyes bro..💀🤣
bruv,we need spin-off that based on alternate universe of attack on titan.
the titans in the script sounds like a wendigo
deep...
🤯
Prototype AOT looks pretty cool
at 1:42 am I the only one who sees that these og titans were heavily inspired by the regeneradors from re4
Doesn't murokumos hair look more Erens hair in the end season 3? I do see why you mikasa but its mainly just his hair colour for me...idk man
the fire sword was acc a very cool idea
That nucleus weakness reminds me of that scene in the season 2 opening, where you we the beast titans all running together and you see a shining ball inside all of them
This script was good.
12:56 same man
This sounded way better than the present story. The story already established Titans as manmade creatures and humanity really is wiped out
That was really good tbh
Its not awful but I can see how after a few iterations it became what it did and why its better for it
It reminds me a lot of Claymore
10:15
seeing those smaller titans gives such a twisted feeling now that we know they were eldians
Marley Soldiers didn't even care they were children-
And well eren didn't knew and just
you know, send ehm flying
Needs an Ova.
This could made into an AOT OVA
Murakumo looks like a self insert of Isayama.
glad aot wasnt on jump, it wouldve been so different
I kinda like the original one except for the flaming sword part
Bro can you please explain jjk season 2after it gets completed.
Pin this comment so that I know that you read this comment and will work on that.❤
Of course I will bro