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"https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Attack on Titan: End of the World (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド) is Shinji Higuchi's 2015 Toho live-action sequel concluding the two-part adaptation of Isayama's manga, starring Haruma Miura, released September 19, 2015, with mixed-to-negative reviews.", "snippet": "Attack on Titan: End of the World (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド) is Shinji Higuchi's 2015 Toho live-action sequel concluding the two-part adaptation of Isayama's manga, starring Haruma Miura, released September 19, 2015, with mixed-to-negative reviews.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series.franchise-series.action-thriller-series-entries.entries-released-in-the-2010s.action-and-adventure-entries.alpha-symbols-to-k", "markdown": "# Attack on Titan: End of the World (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド)\n\n**Attack on Titan: End of the World** (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド) is a 2015 Japanese live-action action film directed by Shinji Higuchi and the second part of a two-part adaptation of [Hajime Isayama](https://www.edgepedia.org/hajime-isayama)'s manga *Attack on Titan*, concluding the story begun in *Attack on Titan: Attack on Titan* released earlier the same summer.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) It was produced by Toho and released in Japanese theaters on September 19, 2015, rated PG-12.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Japanese release | September 19, 2015, distributed by Toho; PG-12 rating[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) |\n| Runtime | 87 minutes per Cinema Today and Filmarks; 88 minutes per Eiga.com and Kinenote[2](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0019749) • [1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) |\n| Director / special effects | Shinji Higuchi (director); Katsuro Onoue (special effects director)[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) |\n| Screenplay | Yusuke Watanabe and Tomohiro Machiyama[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) |\n| Lead cast | Haruma Miura (Eren), Hiroki Hasegawa (Shikishima), Kiko Mizuhara (Mikasa), Kanata Hongo (Armin), Satomi Ishihara (Hange)[2](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0019749) |\n| Music and theme song | Score by Shirō Sagisu; theme song by SEKAI NO OWARI[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) |\n| Reception | 50% Tomatometer (8 reviews) and 36% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes; 2.4/5 average from 17,566 Filmarks user reviews[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_on_titan_part_2) • [4](https://filmarks.com/movies/59201) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Story\n\nThe film follows Eren ([Haruma Miura](https://www.edgepedia.org/haruma-miura)) and the Survey Corps as they set out on an operation to repair the outer wall destroyed by the Colossal Titan. The squad is ambushed by Titans; Eren, badly wounded, is swallowed by a Titan while shielding his friend Armin (Kanata Hongo), leaving everyone present in despair. At that moment a mysterious black-haired Titan appears and begins destroying the other Titans.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) The Titan's identity is Eren himself, and the story moves toward the mystery of why the Titans exist and humanity's last counterattack.[5](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA_ATTACK_ON_TITAN_%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89_%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96_%E3%82%B6_%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89?hl=ja&id=E7p9LRV-Pms)\n\nThe two-part film uses an original story rather than a direct retelling of the manga. The film's captain, Shikishima (Hiroki Hasegawa), described in promotional material as \"the strongest man in humanity,\" has no direct counterpart in the source material, and reviewers noted that characters carried over from the manga behave quite differently.[2](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0019749) • [4](https://filmarks.com/movies/59201) The UK Anime Network review describes the second film as placing itself \"firmly within the comic book genre,\" introducing human lead super-Titans who fight in the finale, in contrast to the first film's monster-movie framing.[6](https://www.uk-anime.net/liveaction/Attack_on_Titan%3A_The_Movie_-_Part_2%3A_End_of_the_World.html)\n\n## Production\n\n**Tokusatsu and digital hybrid.** In a 2015 interview with the magazine Nippon.com, Higuchi explained that the live-action films were realized through a hybrid of Japanese special-effects (tokusatsu) tradition and digital technology. He also said that the scenery of Gunkanjima ([Hashima Island](https://www.edgepedia.org/hashima-island)) would be shown to connect closely with the film's original world setting in the second part.[7](https://www.nippon.com/ja/views/b04004/) A lecture account published in the InterBEE Review 2015 notes that the production period from the start of work to release was very short, and that three elements of the source material, the giant wall, the vertical-maneuvering gear, and the Titans themselves, were the principal hurdles for the visual production.[8](https://archive.inter-bee.com/ja/pdf/InterBEE_REVIEW2015_j.pdf)\n\nThe film was made as the latter half of a two-part structure; a Japanese reviewer on Cinema Today observed that the two parts resulted from splitting a script originally written as a single film to fit theatrical running times.[9](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0019749/review) The source manga had surpassed 50 million copies in cumulative circulation worldwide by the time of the film's release, according to the film's promotional material carried by Natalie.[10](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/166831)\n\n## Release and reception\n\nThe film opened in Japan on September 19, 2015.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/) [Funimation](https://www.edgepedia.org/funimation) gave it a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 20, 2015, with streaming availability from December 6, 2016.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_on_titan_part_2)\n\nCritical reception was mixed to negative. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 50% Tomatometer from 8 reviews and a 36% Popcornmeter score from more than 1,000 audience ratings.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_on_titan_part_2) [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-hollywood-reporter)'s Piera Chen called it \"a gore fest without the visual impact of its predecessor,\" while James Marsh of the [South China Morning Post](https://www.edgepedia.org/south-china-morning-post), rating it 1.5/5, wrote that the climactic battle resembles \"a not-too-expensive episode of Ultraman, as men in rubber suits duke it out against miniature sets and green-screen FX.\"[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_on_titan_part_2) The Guardian's Chris Michael, at 3/5, acknowledged \"a schlocky B-movie appeal, propelled by terrific special effects,\" and Boon Chan of The Straits Times, at 4/5, wrote that the sequel \"still has some intriguing cards up its sleeve.\"[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_on_titan_part_2)\n\nJapanese audience scores were similarly low. Filmarks users gave the film an average of 2.4 out of 5 across 17,566 reviews, with 40% of ratings in the 1.0 to 2.0 band.[4](https://filmarks.com/movies/59201) Kinenote recorded an average score of 52.2 out of 100 from 712 users.[11](https://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=82907) A Yahoo! Japan aggregation showed 2.3 out of 5 from 4,450 ratings, with 46% giving one star.[12](https://search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&eykbid=A04mJ2oAAJUbK0KPQ0g8K3l5zPgovn40LBeEJoZNI_4IZyc87-ieAGA6tBryX7Dez-G4FRzqKowuLQQa0gYiOuA0bVzeZTqBG9oYQDSh_32XDWsALe-1eLSpkma0V9lOkOPCCGwldkEFeAGPvVG27ksMS0XiQh0PXczk85ai9Yb6f5N-m7sEBvJoEOTOQuRQdDp5Edf65GNd9Jyt6X0nfutjADw&eyp=A04mJ2oAAHuvDx14TXrc65rdUkA4BoBV_0AjaARDKnJZoEJtliIwHKAJDtZ-JJzsfHAg50ugG1ql6nLHIxMcu67tChKFgCCbXm-yFfC7L5gop7Aje5lJtSJqYCXi0GbpTTUCeysgAgMI1Q&fr=mashup_krank&p=%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA+ATTACK+ON+TITAN+%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89+%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96+%E3%82%B6+%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89&rkf=1&x=nl)\n\n## Assessment\n\nReviewers generally judged the second film against both its predecessor and the source material. Starburst Magazine wrote that the film \"wasn't met with much fanfare upon its release\" and that both parts \"must be marked down as fails in comparison to their source material,\" while crediting Higuchi's visuals as \"absolutely spellbinding\" and calling the film \"a watchable missed opportunity.\"[13](https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/attack-on-titan-ii-end-of-the-world/) The UK Anime Network, scoring it 6/10, found improvements over the first film in its tighter running time, action-set-piece finale, and reduced bad CGI, but concluded that it \"fails to rescue the project as a whole.\"[6](https://www.uk-anime.net/liveaction/Attack_on_Titan%3A_The_Movie_-_Part_2%3A_End_of_the_World.html) The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film rated it 3.25 and called it \"not bad, but not the crazy fun that the first one was,\" noting that the two films together run just under three hours.[14](https://chlotrudis.org/review/attack-3/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド, Eiga.com](https://eiga.com/movie/81504/)\n2. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド　オブ　ザ　ワールド (2015), Cinema Today](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0019749)\n3. [Attack on Titan: End of the World, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_on_titan_part_2)\n4. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN END OF THE WORLD, Filmarks](https://filmarks.com/movies/59201)\n5. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド, Google Play Movies](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA_ATTACK_ON_TITAN_%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89_%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96_%E3%82%B6_%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89?hl=ja&id=E7p9LRV-Pms)\n6. [Attack on Titan: The Movie - Part 2: End of the World, UK Anime Network](https://www.uk-anime.net/liveaction/Attack_on_Titan%3A_The_Movie_-_Part_2%3A_End_of_the_World.html)\n7. [実写映画版『進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN』の世界観—樋口真嗣監督に聞く, Nippon.com](https://www.nippon.com/ja/views/b04004/)\n8. [InterBEE REVIEW 2015](https://archive.inter-bee.com/ja/pdf/InterBEE_REVIEW2015_j.pdf)\n9. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド　オブ　ザ　ワールド (2015)：映画短評, Cinema Today](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0019749/review)\n10. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド, 映画ナタリー](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/166831)\n11. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド, Kinenote](https://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=82907)\n12. [進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド 検索結果, Yahoo! Japan](https://search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&eykbid=A04mJ2oAAJUbK0KPQ0g8K3l5zPgovn40LBeEJoZNI_4IZyc87-ieAGA6tBryX7Dez-G4FRzqKowuLQQa0gYiOuA0bVzeZTqBG9oYQDSh_32XDWsALe-1eLSpkma0V9lOkOPCCGwldkEFeAGPvVG27ksMS0XiQh0PXczk85ai9Yb6f5N-m7sEBvJoEOTOQuRQdDp5Edf65GNd9Jyt6X0nfutjADw&eyp=A04mJ2oAAHuvDx14TXrc65rdUkA4BoBV_0AjaARDKnJZoEJtliIwHKAJDtZ-JJzsfHAg50ugG1ql6nLHIxMcu67tChKFgCCbXm-yFfC7L5gop7Aje5lJtSJqYCXi0GbpTTUCeysgAgMI1Q&fr=mashup_krank&p=%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA+ATTACK+ON+TITAN+%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89+%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96+%E3%82%B6+%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89&rkf=1&x=nl)\n13. [ATTACK ON TITAN II: END OF THE WORLD, Starburst Magazine](https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/attack-on-titan-ii-end-of-the-world/)\n14. [Attack on Titan 2: End of the World, Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film](https://chlotrudis.org/review/attack-3/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Franchise and series entries as standalone works › Action, thriller, and crime series film entries › Entries released in the 2010s › Action and adventure entries › Titles symbols to K*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/attack-on-titan-end-of-the-world", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/attack-on-titan-end-of-the-world.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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