The Artistic Evolution of Attack On Titan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2021
- Spoiler alert for up to Season 4 Episode 5!
Shingeki no Kyojin, by Hajime Isayama, is a fantastic series and yet it's a debut series! Because of this, the manga has come a long way from it's beginnings, so let's take a deeper look at how different it's really become! - บันเทิง
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umm you got some shots of the (Spoiler bellow). might spoil people
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@@BloodyDIMISIS55 ALSO a bunch of shots from Ymir's backstory, which hasn't been animated yet either.
@@BloodyDIMISIS55 nobody cares
@@Krill25 seems like you do.
Bruh you literally spoiled Ymirs back story and much more
Isayama improving as an artist was all part of Eren's plan
from dr swole vids to AoT vids I love it bro
Jokes aside, Isayama’s art and storytelling abilities have improved so much that I just can’t wait to see his next works. He will have all the experience from the beginning.
Bruh ur everywhere in yt
Isayama kept moving forward
Eren isekai'd into the real world ?
One thing that I like about AOT's artstyle is the "shadow" lines over the eyes when the characters get angry, sad or shocked. That and the eyes close-up.
That was ultra common in the 80s and 90s in Manga.
Sasha Death (rest in peace) - Gabi worst character: th-cam.com/video/27pFLK0ENv8/w-d-xo.html
Yes And I love how exaggerated they can be at times, It really puts focus on the characters mental state and expressions, and with Ymir fritz (founder) it's Scaled to the max and really puts more focus on her Slave/ freeness
I also like how they show their teeths when they get those emotions
@@RaharijaoDavid That too. I feel like they are grinding it. Or when they make a focus around the eyes's pupil, it so detailed.
I really love when you see an artist grow as the series progresses
BRO YOUR NAME LMAO
u got shot by a drunk man ur soft XD
I think I've seen you on Titanfolk
Ishida Sui's art style also has an amazing development, especially since he also puts down in his notes how at one point while doing Tokyo Ghoul he shifted to digital art.
Oh shit it's the guy from disqus
The Courtroom Drawing style is actually way smarter than it seems...
Since, in theory, Armin is the one telling this story, it makes sense that older events are "uglier" and "blurrier", and more recent events are clearer and more well defined in his mind.
Woah that's awesome!
Lol everything can have a in-universe explanation 😂
I mean you can take it that way but Isayama himself stated his drawing skills were bad at the start of his career and he was far from the level he is on now
Theory: Isayama is actually armin
@@kakyoindamilfhunter7379 exactly
You're reaching.
one of isayama best traits is how he conveys motion and action. even from chapter 0 he dosent follow technical accuracy rather he focuses more on exaggeration and paneling, how he exaggerates scales of titans, perspective and motion makes him stands out from other mangaka.
The spread where Bert looking up the wall as a kid was super good.
making manga is more than static art, Isayama is similar to Togashi in the sense that fundamentals of drawing < fundamentals of manga. Isayama has always been able to immerse you into the events and motions in the manga. people put too much emphasis on art in manga its a small aspect to what makes manga good
@@JeffPenaify YES! That’s what’s wrong with most webtoon comics. They focus so much on the prettiness and details that they forgot to actually put “life” to it.
Berserk got both of them, the characters are both “lively” and beautifully detailed while also being iconic
his action scenes look a lot more like storyboards for anime and I think that plays into why the adaptation it got was so good
I am really interested to see where Isayama goes once SnK is done. His development has been super impressive to see.
Well he did say he wanted to open a sauna after aot is finished
@@marvelous_jack5228 Can there will be walls too?
@@marvelous_jack5228 Can He will be free?
@@marvelous_jack5228 Isn’t there an AoT spa now? I saw an ad for it.
@@MIGU3L2K really? Tbh idk, there could be for all i know
One thing I like about the art of attack on titan is how distinguishable all the faces are. Everyone noticed the similarity of zeke and Grisham when they first saw zekes face and when look at riener and his mother are easily recognizable as mother and son because of isayama's art and the same goes for Connie and his mother and especially eren and his mother. You can also see it with rieners mother and gabi's father who are siblings, mean while most other anime have the same stock face copy pasted fifty times with each time with a different hair color and hair style and calling them different
Very good observation
Seriously, every character and even titan illustrated in both the manga and anime is actually their own identifiable figure. I've always noticed how even the random cannon fodder soldier that's seen in only one framing in the BACKground, can be identified as their own character. Blows my mind.
well the observation is really great , but about the second part , I don't think any self respecting anime or manga copy pastes the same face tbh. Most great animes have distinct faces and character design.
for real, you could literally chop off Carla's ponytail and you'll get Eren in a dress
@@freddiem6805 I mean, Steel Ball Run
Tokyo ghoul had a similar evolution too, started with a more amateur style, as the series progressed Ishida found his own.
Shame he never figured out how to write though
I was literally just gonna say this after i watched the video haha
@@ErioArubino ya can have your opinions but sayin he can't write is just not correct in any way
@@marvelous_jack5228 You right. He can write, but not very well.
@@ErioArubino he could write
at first he had themes likes kaneki accepting his existence as a ghoul and how he was aware how he would write a tragedy if he was the main charecter coz of his naiveness and indesiveness
and he was writing it quite well as simonteniusly building the ghoul vs human conflict
but after the tragedy of its anime adaptation it was what it was
but he did a good job considering he did not took a single day hietus
I like his artstyle because it conveys the time period (feel like post Ww) pretty well, and the characters don't all look like perfect top model! Flawed people in a flawed world!
Thank god for that, I've gotten a bit tired of all the good guy models and ugly bastards opposing them.
@@bruhtonbruhkkinson6848 the typical ugly bastard fatman pig and in the other side the "I HAVE MY PANTS OUT FOR YOU", like a lots of characters in anime, i love the fresh air what SnK give us
It's not that deep, he was just bad
@@hipjoeroflmto4764 you'll be surprised, this guy is actually very deep, the characters are very realistic both in art and in plot.
Isayama loves 9s. 9th month, 9ish year, 9th day, 9 Titan powers...
Guess this means his second favorite number is 13. (You can inherit the titan for 13 years before death)
@@sigma_jaeger8781 no the 13 years curse refer to the belief of the number 13 the number 13 is said to be an unlucky and evil number that why hotels and airplane don't have the number 13 in their seats and rooms
He based aot a lot off of Norse mythology, and the number 9 is sacred there!
the last chapter is 139 lol 13 and 9
@@thielman8729 alsooo the manga dates add up to 13! september 2009 - apr 2021 9(sep)+4(apr)= 13
I think the anime design influenced a lot on his design. He himself said that he catch inspirations from the anime too, and you can see that's the way he draws the eyes starts to change when the anime starts. Some designs of the titans also were remodeled based on the anime.
Sasha Death (rest in peace) - Gabi worst character: th-cam.com/video/27pFLK0ENv8/w-d-xo.html
@@Allchinabuy imbecile
@@Allchinabuy why do you dumbasses care so much for sasha? Her whole personality and thing was eating wow so emotional that she died wow wow wow of course gabi was not justified after all her friends died and her city destroyed (:
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If you noticed , earlier on Hajime Isayama didn't put much thought on drawing houses and infrastructures so all of the houses and buildings looked bare bone , simplistic and couldn't really convey the time period he was envisioning . However , the anime fleshed this out immensely and incorporated european architechtural style into the design of the world and create an era for the setting of the series . Hajime quickly caught on too and has since updated the designs of the buildings and cities to be more detailed and less mundane and bland .
Recently with the revelation about Marley and stuff , he has also done a pretty great job researching and replicating the era of WW1 .
@@marianatho7001 I don't hate Gabi but that being said don't act like Sasha didn't have basically a whole episode for her character and the subtle character development majority all the characters in the show and manga go through. We not gonna down play Sasha like that. Disrespectful.
WAIT, he didn't know how the series would end but still had this much detail in the world and characters.
No he knew how it would end
@@sugaristhenewwhite he probably had a vague idea that wasn't finished at the time until maybe chapter 5 or beyond, when the series started catching steam.
However, the finale changed a bit in 2014 after he watched Guardians of the Galaxy.
@@sugaristhenewwhite hell, he even said that Eren's dream has stuff that won't be there for the finale.
@@86Fallowcp lmao did he change his mind after wathcing guardupians of galaxy?
@@86Fallowcp a shame that erens dream wont be in
While I don't like the art nearly as much as some other series, man are some of Isayama's spreads damn impressive . Of course, he's improved over time without a doubt.
The only thing that I would like to add to the discussion is the importance of assistants, especially when analyzing the improvements on background art. They are usually drawn by the mangakas themselves in the beginning of the series, but as the series gains popularity, the mangaka starts to work with assistants that will draw detailed background, clothes etc. Sometimes I see people praysing highly detailed backgrounds crediting only the mangakas like total geniuses, not mentioning that, most of the time, they are usually drawn by assistants.
Well, in this case: Editor was also one of the important man of the story. He helped him to cover every plot points, although it was kinda obviously because well, he was a psychopath.
@@CoolManCoolMan123 Wait what who was a psychopath?
@@marthvader14 i heard his first editer killed his wife.
6:30 makes me wonder how many potentially exceptional mangas got rejected that we are never gonna know about.
"Attack on Titan is one long courtroom of events" ok that is definitely a good reading of the art style :O
5:17 "Isayama himself didn't know the ending of the manga when he started out"
Also Isayama:
Aot chapter 1 🤝 Aot chapter 139
See you later, Eren
He knew how it would end but he did not fully develop the whole idea
Another artistic aspect of the manga/anime I found really interesting was how Eren looks progress throughout the story according to the previous owners of his titan. In his earlier years (season 1-2) his hairstyle is the same as Eren Kruger's. And in season 3, his hair resembles Grisha's hair. In season 4, he grows out his hair, and it resembles the hair of Frieda Reiss. And further into season 4, he starts to wear it in a bun, and he resembles the owner of the Warhammer Titan.
Thats pretty gaj
woooww HOW DID ANYONE NOTICE THISS gogd catch
So basically common male hairstyles...
It's always so inspirational when authors are getting rejected at first but still manage to release their work to the world. I really hope amazing story-tellers like Isayama will keep coming and putting out these breathtaking stories.
The rumbling was a masterpiece,I will never experience something like that ever and I feel they same way towards the entirety of snk.
Ya know, I was gonna get mad and say “add spoiler warning”, but I guess this is my fault for scrolling 😭
Wait your comment was 7 months ago? Bruuuh I just got spoiled by a time traveler 💀
One of my favorite stories ever told, honestly... Its artistic evolution and the evolution of its narrative is just amazing.
it's interesting what you said about the drawings looking like court drawings because, there's this theory running around about all this history of aot is told by Armin, since in the anime he is the one narrating the events, besides that out of all the Isayama work, i love how he portrays strong emotions in the characters eyes, like is almost like seeing a real person eyes
It went from a simple artstyle just as we initially perceived the plot, to a complex storyline exuded through the extreme realism.
Imagine if Isayama gave up on publishing this manga after his first try... we would have never had this, and wouldn't realize there would be such story to be told. I'm so grateful we got this, I never needed it until i did.
An interesting thing to see would be an evolution of ONE's art.
Good guess, that video is coming out in a few days lol
He's really good at making the panels look like a storyboard for an anime
i LOVE isayama's art style, as someone who loooves lots of sketch-like lines and details. his style has matured and aged like fine wine in the past 11 years. MMM the characters look so beautiful. though his first 2 seasons artwork were still really good, the volumes consisting of season 4 HANDS DOWN his best artistic work. the lines add so much more tension and emotion. not only that, his use of manga screens really developed throughout the series too. i love how he uses the sketchy lines for detail and emtoion, then layers of manga screens for depth, shadowing, and highligthing (even sometimes, if it is a dark mood, he will have the entire character and background under a light grey manga screen)
I actually think that earlier chapters of AOT have the best art, not because its really good art but just because alot of another mangas have "perfect" looking art and AOT's art is unique and kind of creepy.
If i was a studio owner, i would welcome this man with open arms.
To be honest when the Attack On Titan manga first came out it looked like DOGSHIT but now ATTACK ON TITAN IS THE GREATEST MANGA EVER PUBLISHED BY BESSATSU SHONEN MAGAZINE ALONG SIDE THE FLOWERS OF EVIL!!!!!!!!!!
Omg flowers of evil is so good!!
@@alexenterprises1 YES THAT'S WHAT I MEANT IT'S REALLY FUCKING GOOD SAME THING WITH ATTACK ON TITAN BOTH WERE PUBLISHED BY BESSATSU SHONEN MAGAZINE!!!!!!!!
@@saudbintalib2567 bro... chill out loll
@@dorien_rose lmao
lmao DOGSHIT indeed
And he’s back... like a rebound.
Or Reiner for another beating🤷🏾♂️🤣🤷🏾♂️
even without knowing how the ending will play out since the beginning he managed to tie chapter 1 with chapter 122 in a satisfying way and I love it so much
He did know most of the story from the beginning though. You can also see foreshadowing from the beginning
I'm pretty sure he actually came up with the concept for the end and wrote backwards from there
His story is absolutely fantastic and one of the best I’ve ever encountered and would be like that for quite a while. However, I honestly can’t blame the early publishers turning him down due to his drawing skill...
Yeah, even the story wasn't even good enough for it to be released
This proves that experience is the best teacher
Also, Shōgeki best AoT ending..
Thank you for using it as a bgm
Attack on Titan, where we have not only character development but also story and art development as well. What a great series, it's a must read for sure.
And that's why he takes his revenge using the ending
seeing many artists progressing and making some changes to their work made me realizes that it doesn't matter if you try to make your comic or manga looks good or perfected. As long as you don't overwork your body, don't think of negativity. It's what keep you in doubt.
That art is not ugly though? It's rough, sketch-like, but not ugly. Maybe some panels / early chapters.
I've heard some people complain but honestly I really like Attack on Titan's art style especially for what it is. I feel like it knows the style it's going for. The comparison to court room drawings (while I think it's probably coincidental) really makes me appreciate it more.
I personally absolutely love Isayama's style even if it's "inferior" than the style of manga like Berserk, but I have a better time reading Attack on Titan than Berserk, not because of the story, it's because Attack on Titan's style is unique and has an awesome charm to it while Berserk just feels like anime style on paper.
Imagine calling berserk anime style on paper 💀
one thing that's always been consistent is that he's always been good with drawing expressions, especially in the way he draws eyes.
While an analysis on the art of One Piece had been done by others, I'd still love to hear your opinion on it.
A lot of people always focus on how fanservice has increased and not much more.
This is a vid ive wanted to see for awhile, thanks for making it
Ah I KNEW it reminded me of something, but couldn't place it. Who would have thought of courtroom sketches as the perfect way to sum up the AoT Aesthetic!
Also do world triggers art next pls!
For me it's the PTSD visualized so well
Eren really gave Hajime isayama interesting character development
This is so inspirational
Bleach would be a good series to cover, that style changes a lot!
Yes!
This was great, I would love it if you covered more of attack on Titan kinda like you did for berserk
nice back ground music
Even if the firsts volumes have a not very good art, I loved the art style so I still enjoyed it but with the manga sucess and then the anime success the author made big money and got some assistants + he improved = amazing Manga now, the direction, réalisation, the perspectives omg
I love the art style of the first volumes as much as the new ones. Back then Isayama stated that he wasn't really good at drawing but in my opinion the first art style really fitted the setting of the story. In the beginning neither the characters (well most of them) or the readers really knew where the Titans came from or what exactly they are. The old art style made the Titans really creepy and uncanny valley like, and that really emphasized the horror the people inside the walls felt towards them.
I think it works very well with the ages of Armin, Eren and Mikasa as well. They where still children at that time. Before the Fall of Maria life was, more or less, simplistic for the three of them. That made the impact of Carla`s death even more tragic, because to children Titans must be way more horrifying than to adults.
The first art style reminds me of childhood memory's as well. When you grow up you tend to not remember things of your childhood clearly (i don't know if my sentence structure makes sense). The final art style of the series reflects now the adult characters. They now know what the cause of the Titans where and for them it all happened not too long ago.
I like the theory that the whole story is told by an adult Armin, since the events of the ending are very fresh to him and the others.
Please excuse my grammar. My mother tongue is German so i don't know if i accidentally mixed the German grammar into the English one.
@@amsedzaferovic1679 i think I understand what you want to mean, less we know more the style is creepy
Mappa fans: “Mappa is more manga accurate than WIT”.
You can’t really blame WIT for changing the character models from Isayama’s early drawings.
More like WIT making the style better then Isayama copying the WIT style and then Mappa copying Isayama
Love your artistic evolution videos, always so fun to watch. Great videos man
These types of video content are very motivating. As Artists we aren't perfect...our Art has flaws. But there is natural beauty in our work which also has flaws. Besides that, this video has me resolving to rewatch Attack on Titan from the start. I haven't seen the final Arc as yet, might as well start over such a masterpiece and run through it.
I like how even though the art in the manga was inaccurate and looked odd at times WIT studio still went with it and tried to keep the style.
Also, if you haven't noticed, as Isayama's art improves and changes so does the studio try to adapt to it. I mean, just compare how the characters looked in s1 vs s3.
Man isayama did improve alot over the years.... It's as you said we can see it happening while reading it
Keep up the good work man
It's kind of like reading joyce and seeing the transition from Portrait of the artist to Ulysses. Seeing the slow development if a style and the artists ability to convey that style over thousands of pages is a greta experience.
there's just something special about unpolished raw art and seeing it develope and improve in front of our eyes compared to the usual polished at the beginning art that subtly changes as it goes on to where its barely noticeable. you know its a good story/idea when publishers saw that kind of messy art and an incomplete storyline and still thought "This is something we will publish proudly" [with some improvements they're still a business]
Great video dude
You made change my opinion and now I like the style of Isayama, so thanks😊😊
I've always really loved his linework and the sense of life and urgency in it, and it's so interesting how you compared it to courtroom drawings. There's a real sense of movement in his artwork and a grittiness to the designs and expressions of the characters.
Great video, as usual. I always look forward to hearing your thoughts. And this topic is particularly interesting. Art evolution makes a manga seem more special, especially if it's from an odd style to something unique and well-crafted. Makes, for instance, my 2 fav mangas all the more endearing.
Literally sitting with your sister rn enjoying your vids keep up the good work 👍🏼
0:28 Yup, that's because the art might not have been good, but the story is TOP TIER and that's Attack on Titan.
And the anime has the very top tier story with amazing art, the results are: Perfection.
I really like this video. I couldn't imagine another art style fitting attack on titan more.
I just came back home after a long day of work and I see this video, I am truly blessed to have subbed to such a great content creator!
Thanks so much for your support, man! Hope work went well!
@@alexenterprises1 thank you for asking, it went well, and i have a suggestion,after watching the video i came up with ''the artistic evolution of Vinland saga/Kingdom''
One thing I've always loved about Isayama's art is his close up shots. I feel he is able to portray so much emotion in his close ups and a lot of it has to do with the way he draws eyes. I'm no artist so I can't really explain it but his eyes have always captivated me
Thanks for did this video
thx for this bro!
Love the background music:)
Love this series so much!!!
and that's why i admire hajime isayama
Vinland Saga or Goodnight Punpun both need an entry into this great series!
Gives you hope in terms of a consistency in terms of art for his next work (hopefully he creates another great series after AOT).
Great vid!
that remix of My war in the background is really good
Oh hey you did it, i'm gonna like and subcribe
I love these artistic evolution videos! I would love to see one on Bleach! I think the improvement of the art is incredible in that series.
his art is by no mean bad its just simple-ish enough for me to replicate it which makes it that much more special for me
Im very impressed and amazed on how much he improved his art skills
Amazing video as always, personally would love to artistic evolution of bleach, it has great art.
I was actually wondering if you could do an artistic analysis on Tsukasa Hojo's style from the City Hunter series. Well, the difference is really only noticeable through his later work of Angel Heart, but putting them side-by-side really emphasizes the difference in styles between then and now, especially characters from the original City Hunter run looking more grounded than before.
It's so subtle..... But amazing
Very interesting videos. You make here I would love to see one about Vinland saga
Isayama has inspired me to start working on my own comic!
No matter how the artstyle looks, there's always room for improvement and if you feel embarrassed of old art (how ugly it looks, etc.), means you've grown as an artist. He showed me to never lose hope and push onward. I'll thank him for the rest of my life for that.
I’d love to see you do one of these videos for HunterxHunter, Togashi’s art fluctuates so much during later arcs with the oncoming hiatuses and health issues.
Reading and watching the anime has huge difference for me. You can feel the character's emotions more in the manga, Isayama is really good at drawing believable facial expression but unfortunately that trait often lost in the anime.
Love the video! Similarly to the other long running manga you've covered, I think One Piece would be a pretty good pick for artistic evolution.
I alwaya loved hisayama art it helped me a lot to find my own art style and i got inspired of him his art is so unique it looks like a sketch but it doesn't at the same time
I gosh damn LOVE SNK/AOT's art style.
I had to watch this 4 times because the first 3 times I was just listening to the background music
I think you could do a really interesting video on the Artistic Evolution of One Punch Man, covering both ONE's own artistic development and improvement over the run of the series, and covering the way the Murata's artwork changes the series
I'm still proud of my self that i manage to watch attack on titan season 1 and saw the trailer season 2 to 4
It’s so amazing to watch an artist Who not only grows artistically through time But also while the story progresses and the writing gets phenomenal.
MI love his unique style and that he didn’t know exactly how the story would turn out original. No he was rejected initially he didn’t give up.
Love how the evolution of the arts goes togheter with the evolution of the story
seems a choice (it is not of course) with the progression of the story and aware of the world outside the arts changes being more realistic
a cool coincidence
Beautiful
My war lo-fi in the background. ❤️
Um, fantastic work sir. Would you consider doing a livestream with the community? I think it would be a success!