12 Best Anime You Need to Watch If you Like Attack on Titan

Shingeki no Kyojin aka Attack on Titan is a popular dark fantasy action, horror manga and anime. Hajime Isayama is the writer and illustrator of this series. The series has a total of 34 volumes and 4 anime seasons. The franchise even has two live-action films besides its 8 OVAs. If you love Attack on Titan, you may equally be interested in the following 12 animes

1. Tokyo Ghoul

Like in Attack on Titan, the protagonist of Tokyo Ghoul is a monster human hybrid. Unlike titans, ghouls look like normal human beings except they eat human flesh just like titans. Ghouls can even go berserk if they get too excited or hungry.

The ghoul story goes as follows: Kaneki becomes a half-ghoul due to a surgery where a ghoul’s organs were donated to his body. So he has to learn how to live in his new body and control himself. It’s actually a popular series, if you haven’t watched it yet then this is the time to. It even got live actions and video game adaptations.

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2. Goblin Slayer

You will love this anime if you love Attack on Titan. Goblin Slayer follows the story of a priestess who joins a bunch of guild members to kill goblins. Unfortunately, every member is slaughtered right in front of her and female members are kidnapped. However, she didn’t face the same destiny as others since a mysterious man called “Goblin Slayer” rescues her. But this is only the beginning of a bloody adventure.

3. Hellsing Ultimate

Hellsing is a 10-episode dark fantasy anime. Unlike Attack on Titan where human uses their selves as weapon to kill each other, Hellsing in the series is an organization responsible for destroying supernatural forces that prey on humanity. Integra the head of the organization together with Alucard her weapon and Sera must do anything to save mankind.

4. Seraph Of The End

This is another dark theme anime as Attack on Titan and the plot takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that killed all adults and left only children under the age of 13 alive. The story follows two orphan friends, one sacrifices his life to save the other. However, as time passes it turns out that his friend is still alive.

5. Akame ga Kill

It’s not always easy to decide to join an assassination band. But Tatsumi, a really naïve boy joined one after being persuaded by their ideology and their resolve. However being an assassin is not quite easy since you will always with surrounded by revenge, death, and enemy just to list that. Unlike in Attack on Titan where the Titans are the main threats, here it’s the human government.

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6. Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist tells the story of Edward Elric, desperate to resurrect his mother through Alchemy, who ended up losing one of his arms and leg as well as his brother(Alphonse Elric). Miraculously, he successfully binds his brother’s soul in an empty armour and with the help of their childhood friend Winry, who had knowledge in mechanics, created a mechanic hand and leg for Ed(Edward). After then his brother and him partake in a journey in such a mystical object “the Philosopher Stone” which is believed to have power that can even bring back life.

7. Claymore

Normally fans of Attack on Titan should love this. Claymore is a dark fantasy anime of 26 episodes set on a medieval island where humans are menaced by humanoid shape-shifting creatures. However, an organization of woman mid-monster and mid-human kills these humanoid creatures for a certain fee. They are known for their claymore swords and silver eyes. A Claymore warrior is posted in each of the island’s 47 districts.

8. Berserk

As the name implies, it’s as horrific as Attack on Titan and it is classified among the top dark anime stories. All I’m going to say about this anime is GO and SEE.

9. Black Bullet

Many fans say that Attack on Titan is quite close to the black bullet. Well, the only way for you to confirm that is by reading reviews or watching it. I think so and really worth watching it. The setting is in a post-apocalyptic era. A virus known as “Gastrea” turns people into monsters by infecting them. On the other hand, for Cursed Children none as initiators are responsible to handle them. Promoters are then assigned to these initiators to guide and protect them.

10.  Kabenari of The Iron Fortress

As in Black Bullet, the story resolves around a virus that infects people who later on become monsters and humanity has very few ways to kill them. The story takes place during the industrial revolution

A similar aspect in Attack on Titan is the fact that the story takes place in a fortress built to protect humanity from these monsters. Another similarity is that monster breaks into the fortress at the beginning of the story as in an attack on titan.

11. God Eater

As in the attack on Titan, humanity is on the brink of extinction due to the appearance of man-eating monsters called Aragami. Hence the fate of humanity is up to special humans called “God Eaters” that use a weapon called “God Arc” to extinct those monsters.

12. Parasyte

Suddenly the earth is covered with mysterious parasitic organisms who have the ability to fully control their host and metaphor into various forms. Shinichi Izumi a high schooler suddenly come in contact with one of the parasites that tried to take control of his brain but mystically failed and ended up controlling his right hand. As if it was their fate, the two ended up teaming together in order to dismount a hostile parasite organization which include both humans and parasites.

We have presented you the top 12 anime similar to Attack on Titan that you may be interested in as a fan or not of Attack on Titan. These are equally the 10 hottest anime releases for this summer.

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