Attack on Titan: Junior High


Attack on Titan: Junior High is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Saki Nakagawa and published in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from April 2012 to July 2016. The series is a parody of Hajime Isayama's manga series Attack on Titan.
The manga has been adapted into an anime television series which began airing in October 2015. A rebroadcast was aired during January 2016. A sequel, Attack on Titan: High School, known by its subtitle, Youth! The Marley Academy Next Door ran from June 2018 to August 2018 and consisted of six chapters.
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Plot

The story is a parody of the Attack on Titan manga, featuring younger, chibi versions of the characters as they attend the "Class 1-04" at the Attack Junior High School. The story focuses on their adventures during the first year at school.

Characters

First-year students

;Eren Yeager
English: "Eren Jaeger"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Mikasa Ackerman
English: "Mikasa Ackermann"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Armin Arlert
English: "Armin Arlelt"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Reiner Braun
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Bertolt Hoover
English: "Bertholdt Hoover"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Annie Leonhart
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Jean Kirstein
English: "Jean Kirschtein"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Marco Bott
English: "Marco Bodt"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Connie Springer
English: "Conny Springer"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Sasha Blouse
English: "Sasha Braus"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Krista Lenz
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Ymir
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Thomas Wagner
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Mīna Carolina
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Hannah Diamant
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Franz Kefka
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Hitch Dreyse
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Marlowe Freudenberg
English: "Marlo Freudenberg"

Second-year students

;List of Attack on Titan characters#Petra Ral
English: "Petra Rall"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Oluo Bozado
English: "Oluo Bozado"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Eld Jinn
English: "Eld Gin"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Günther Schultz
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Rico Brzenska
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Ian Dietrich
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Ilse Langnar

Third-year students

;List of Attack on Titan characters#Levi
English: "Levi Ackermann"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Zoë Hange
English: "Zoë Hange"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Mike Zacharius
English: "Miche Zacharius"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Moblit Berner

Staff

;List of Attack on Titan characters#Keith Shadis
English: "Keith Sadies"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Erwin Smith
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Hannes
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Darius Zackly
English: "Darius Zachary"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Dot Pixis
English: "Dot Pyxis"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Nile Dok
English: "Nile Dawk"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Kitz Weilman

Other characters

;List of Attack on Titan characters#Carla Jaeger
English: "Carla Jaeger"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Dita Ness
English: "Dieter Neiss"
;List of Attack on Titan characters#Frieda Reiss

Media

Manga

Saki Nakagawa began publishing Attack on Titan: Junior High in the May issue of Kodansha's monthly manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on April 9, 2012. A special chapter was published in the May issue of the Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine on March 25, 2014. In the June 2016 issue, published on May 9, Nakagawa commented that the manga would be ending soon; the final chapter was published in the magazine's August issue, on July 9, 2016.
The series was published in form by Kodansha. It has been licensed for publication in North America by Kodansha USA. The series has been collected into eleven tankōbon volumes, published as five volumes in English. The additional chapters were published in a single volume in August 2018.

Sequel

A sequel, Attack on Titan: High School, known by its subtitle, Youth! The Marley Academy Next Door was published in six chapters between June and August 2018 and collected into one volume.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced in July 2015. The series is directed by Yoshihide Ibata and written by Midori Gotou, with animation by animation studio Production I.G. Yuuko Yahiro provides character designs for the series, and Asami Tachibana composes the show's music although most of the music comes from the first season of the main anime. Kazuhiro Arai from Studio Homare is the series' art director, and Tetsuya Takahashi serves as director of photography. Taeko Hamauzu is the anime's editor and Masafumi Mima serves as sound director. Linked Horizon performs the series' opening theme, "Die Jugend ist ein Feuerwerk". The ending theme, "Ground of Counterattack", is performed by the voice actors for Eren, Mikasa, and Jean. All cast members from the main anime reprise their roles for Attack on Titan: Junior High. The series premiered on October 4, 2015, and aired on MBS, Tokyo MX, BS11, RKK, and SBS. The anime portion is followed by a live-action segment composed of two parts, "Shingeki! Treasure Hunt" and "Sasha Tries ?? By Herself!!"; the former features the voice actors for Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and Bertholdt, and the latter features the voice actress for Sasha alongside a mascot called Titan-kun. The series was licensed in North America by Funimation, and was simulcast on their website. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll. The anime was distributed in the United Kingdom by Anime Limited.

Reception

Volume one made it onto The New York Times Manga Best Sellers list for three weeks, debuting at eighth place before rising to fifth.