It’s been three years since the Attack on Titan anime officially wrapped, concluding a long journey for MAPPA. The animation studio made the show’s final season, which started in 2020 and played out over a four-part saga. But it’s not quite over for MAPPA yet, since there’s a new video game for the franchise coming.
During June’s Summer Game Fest, Koei Tecmo and Omega Force announced Attack on Titan 3, which plans to adapt the entire manga’s story from beginning to end. (The first game, released in 2016, covered chapters 1-30, and the second game, released in 2018, covered chapters 1-50, with an expansion adding content covering chapters 51-90.) Earlier this week, Koei Tecmo released a 45-minute video about the game, where it revealed MAPPA is creating an original opening sequence that will be added in a post-launch update. Arifumi Imai, whose hands have been all over the three seasons and its OVAs as a storyboarder and action animation director, will direct the opening.
While this is the first Titan game to get a MAPPA animation, the studio’s dabbled in video games here and there. In the past, it’s made opening animations for Persona 5 Royal and the mobile game Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade. More recently, it made a concept video for Hoyoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail ahead of that game’s 4.2 update. That MAPPA pops in for Jujutsu Kaisen and now Attack on Titan helps both those games feel a little more legitimate to fans of their respective anime—and if something like Chainsaw Man or Dorohedoro ever got their own games, there’s a chance the studio would come in to work on those as well.
Look for Attack on Titan 3 to hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC this winter.
[via Polygon]
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