Attack on Titan is doing strong numbers on Toonami and we’re zeroing in on the home video release soon. Ahead of that, since it’s just a few weeks out, FUNimation has brought out a new five minute clip from Anime Boston this year where several of the main characters and ADR director were on hand to talk about the dub ahead of its premiere. With a strong simulcast and fanbase out there, strong manga sales, the debut of the novels and spinoffs and the debut of the anime itself in bilingual form on DVD and Blu-ray coming one June 3rd, the series is set to make its debut on May 3rd, 2014 at 11:30 pm, joining other FUNimation series in the block with Space Dandy, One Piece, Black Lagoon and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Plot concept: When the man-eating giants called Titans first appeared, humans retreated behind massive walls. After a hundred years of safety, a colossal-sized Titan smashes through the defenses, unleashing a flood of giants and carnage in the streets. Eren Jaeger watches helplessly as one of the creatures devours his mother. He vows to kill every Titan walking the earth. Eren and his surviving friends enlist to fight against the insatiable monsters. The future looks bleak, but there’s more to Eren than meets the eye: he may be humanity s last hope against extinction. From the director of Death Note and High School of the Dead comes the series Anime News Network calls an intense, visceral, and graphic thrill ride. The Titans have come to feast. Anything can happen. No one is safe.
