

Lots of speculations have been made as to the time frame and location using
clues from within the manga and animation.....but why not just ask the series
creator if he gave it much thought or is the story just a mishmash of past and
future technologies. I'm sure much Japanese writing has been done on this
topic that hasn't been translated.....or perhaps, we Westerners are more
concerned about this than we should be.


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Has the creator been interviewed about when the Attack on Titan story takes place?


I always thought of it as a futuristic collapsed society type theme. They were
forced to build walls and revert back to medieval society but they focused
their technology on their ODM gear to combat the titans. There is reference to
the past (our current real life time). Perhaps the biggest supporting evidence
of this was episode 6 where Misaka's kidnappers are talking about her race and
they state:

"she's exotic. what they used to call an Oriental.You know about all that
right? back when there used to be different breeds of people, a bunch of them
from the far east came scrambling here for safety. the old perverts in the
capital really go for that sort of thing. this little beauty's going to fetch
a mint at auction. it's great business. she's the last of her kind. all the
rest of her people died out."

hope that helps. the year that it starts out on is 845 so the yearly calendar
reset for some important reason, but it hasn't revealed a lot about the
history yet (just that the titans appeared over 100 years ago.) As far as
location goes it's safe to assume that it is probably German. accounting for
the kidnapper's claim that there is currently only one race and we have names
like: -Yaeger (german for hunter) -Arlert is old german anglo-saxon, and
Armin's wiki page trivia section states that "The name 'Armin' may have
multiple meanings, either from an old German word meaning "whole", or
"Herman", meaning "soldier"".
<http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Armin_Arlert> -Erwin - Derived from
the Germanic name Hariwini, composed of the elements hari "army" and win
"friend".

Add it all up with a lot of blonde hair (Armin, Reiner, Nanaba, Christa,
Annie, Erwin, etc) and it seems that they were leaning toward a German-
oriented character base with names that are literal puns toward the fact that
they are soldiers.


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