Colossal Titan from Attack on Titan looking over the wall
When the Attack on Titan anime was first released in 2013, it completely transformed the anime genre, particularly shonen anime. Prior to this point, shonen animes often centered on fighting, but didn't cover truly dark themes, frightful violence, or stomach-turning gore. Attack on Titan caused a monumental shift, changing perceptions of what topics a shonen could cover.
The concept of Attack on Titan is absolutely terrifying to its very core: a society of people who hide within the town walls, constantly fearing an attack could occur any moment at the hands of brutal, man-eating beasts called Titans who are virtually unstoppable and bent on tearing humans to shreds and consuming them.
In the early 2010s, anime had not reached peak levels of popularity in the West yet, as it has today. Therefore, there were fewer popular series at the time and those that were widely viewed were nowhere near as gory as Attack on Titan. Shows like Dragon Ball Z and Naruto, for example, contained their fair share of goofy moments, but this level of humor was virtually nowhere to be seen in Attack on Titan.
Even nowadays, many of the top shonen series are more grisly and gloomy than many early and mid 2000s era series were. Some examples include Hell's Paradise, Chainsaw Man, and even Jujutsu Kaisen. Although these franchises do include brief instances of humor, their primary plots are not at all lighthearted, covering heavy topics such as death, physical violence, evil spirits, broken relationships, heartbreaking betrayals, and other serious issues.
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