New Shingeki no Kyojin Live-Action Films Stills Release

06.09.2015 14:51

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The July issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine released new stills from the Shingeki no Kyojin live-action films, adapted from Hajime Isayama's manga.

Eren is saluting "offering my heart" pose

Sasha is shooting an arrow

Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima, an original character in the live-action films, "humanity's strongest man"

Official Trailer:

The cast:

Haruma Miura as Eren

Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa

Kanata Hongo as Armin

Satomi Ishihara as Hans/Hanji

Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha

Takahiro Miura as Jean

Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima

Ayame Misaki as Hiana

Pierre Taki as Souda

Jun Kunimura as Kubal

Shu Watanabe as Fukushi

Satoru Matsuo as Sannagi

Rina Takeda as Lil

The cast includes seven live-action original character. Hasegawa's character Shikishima is the key character of the films' story as "humanity's strongest man".

The film director Director Shinji Higuchi mentioned that the story is based on the world and characters of the manga with new characters and new dangerous enemies. Yuusuke Watanabe (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, live-action Gantz, Gantz II: Perfect Answer, 20th Century Boys, Gatchaman) is in charge of scripts. Isayama's friend Tomohiro Machiyama, a film critic, also participated in the script with Isayama and Watanabe. 

The band SEKAI NO OWARI performed the first and second films' theme songs "Anti-Hero" and "SOS," respectively.

The first film will be released in Japan on August 1, and the second film, Shingeki no Kyojin: End of the World, will be released on September 19.

Isayama's Shingeki no Kyojin manga series began in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on September 9, 2009. It has four spin-off manga, an anime adaptation aired in 2013 and a second season is confirmed to be released in 2016, a two-part live-action film adaptation.