The third season of Attack on Titan hit a snag where because of issues with two sublicensors of the show overseas that leaked episodes early that the simulcasts were being bumped from Sunday’s just after the Japanese broadcast to Wednesdays worldwide outside of Japan. That caused a bit of a row overall but it looks like some relenting has happened. Funimation has now updated that the new episodes will still be available on Sunday’s but they’re being moved, for now, from 1:35 pm ET to 9:45 pm ET. While that may not help for some for various reasons, it’s certainly a more reasonable reaction in the short term for a short season of episodes.
As we mentioned earlier in the week when this first came up, we’ve seen this happen before – sometimes accidentally – but it’s pretty much the biggest strike you can get when dealing with the Japanese side. They react hard in order to ensure that all the sublicensees understand the severity of it because losing shows or moving them to several days later makes a huge impact.
Funimation did confirm that this will not impact the simuldub nor the series debut on Toonami this coming weekend.
Based on the original manga by Hajime Isayama, Tetsuro Araki served as the general director with Koizuka Masashi working on the series composition for the first season. Yasuko Kobayashi worked on the character designs while Kyoji Asano served as the Chief Animation Director. WIT STUDIO produced the animation.
The Japanese cast includes Yuuki Kaji as Eren Jaeger, Marina Inoue as Armin Arlelt, Yui Ishikawa as Mikasa Ackerman, Daisuke Ono as Erwin, Hiroshi Kamiya as Levi, Keiji Fujiwara as Hannes, Kishō Taniyama as Jean Kirschtein, Hiro Shimono as Conny Springer, Romi Park as Hanji, Ryota Ohsaka as Marco Bodt, Shiori Mikami as Christa Renz, Tomohisa Hashizume as Bertholt Hoover, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Reiner Braun, Yu Kobayashi as Sasha Browse and Yu Shimamura as Annie Leonhardt.
Series premise: Centuries ago, mankind was slaughtered to near extinction by monstrous humanoid creatures called Titans, forcing humans to hide in fear behind enormous concentric walls. What makes these giants truly terrifying is that their taste for human flesh is not born out of hunger but what appears to be out of pleasure. To ensure their survival, the remnants of humanity began living within defensive barriers, resulting in one hundred years without a single titan encounter. However, that fragile calm is soon shattered when a colossal titan manages to breach the supposedly impregnable outer wall, reigniting the fight for survival against the man-eating abominations.
After witnessing a horrific personal loss at the hands of the invading creatures, Eren Yeager dedicates his life to their eradication by enlisting into the Survey Corps, an elite military unit that combats the merciless humanoids outside the protection of the walls. Based on Hajime Isayama’s award-winning manga, Shingeki no Kyojin follows Eren, along with his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman and his childhood friend Armin Arlert, as they join the brutal war against the Titans and race to discover a way of defeating them before the last walls are breached.
