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By Anya
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What is it?
Attack On Titan is an anime written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. Based in Germany, it follows the story of a young boy, named Eren Yeager (jaeger/jëager), as he grows up and discovers many secrets of his family past
Throughout the series the show contains many references to Graeco-Roman and Norse mythology
The Greek king of titans, Kronos, mirrors the main protagonist of Attack on Titan, Eren Yeager. In Attack On Titan there are titans, humans and titan shifters, a select handful of people are titan shifters able to transform into a titan by feeling a certain level of pain
One of these such people is Eren Titans feed off humans as their main source, meaning that Eren, when in his titan form, also eats humans. Kronos ate his children, Hera goddess of women and childbirth, Hestia goddess of the home and hearth, Poseidon god of water and earthquakes and hades god of the underworld and the dead This alone does not show how Eren is like Kronos over any other titan, however, Eren is also currently the attack on titan equivalent of the king of titans as he has become the founding titan.
In this alternate universe there were 9 original founding titans, the cart titan, beast titan, female titan, attack titan, armour titan, colossal titan, jaw titan, war hammer titan and the founding titan In this show, there will always be someone who holds all of these 9 titans, either separately or more than one per person, as they all hold certain powers you can gain one of these titans’ powers by eating the person who holds that titan in their titan form. The official most powerful
