It was confirmed by Adult Swim’s senior vice-president Jason DeMarco that the second season of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan anime will be coming to Toonami starting April 29! With the news being announced on April 1, many took the news to be an April Fool’s joke; however, DeMarco himself confirmed that the news is, indeed, real via his Twitter account.
The second season of Attack on Titan premiered in Japan on April 1 and is slated to run for 12 episodes. The series picked up at the end of the Female Titan arc and the first episode is branded as Episode 26, showing that it is a continuation of the first season. FUNimation is simulcasting the series on the day it airs. Crunchyroll is also streaming the series. FUNimation has acquired the license to the second season of Attack on Titan, much like it did for its first season.
MyAnimeList.net describes the story of Attack on Titan as follows:
Centuries ago, mankind was slaughtered to near extinction by monstrous humanoid creatures called titans, forcing humans to hide in fear behind enormous concentric walls. What makes these giants truly terrifying is that their taste for human flesh is not born out of hunger but what appears to be out of pleasure. To ensure their survival, the remnants of humanity began living within defensive barriers, resulting in one hundred years without a single titan encounter. However, that fragile calm is soon shattered when a colossal titan manages to breach the supposedly impregnable outer wall, reigniting the fight for survival against the man-eating abominations.
After witnessing a horrific personal loss at the hands of the invading creatures, Eren Yeager dedicates his life to their eradication by enlisting into the Survey Corps, an elite military unit that combats the merciless humanoids outside the protection of the walls. Based on Hajime Isayama’s award-winning manga, Shingeki no Kyojin follows Eren, along with his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman and his childhood friend Armin Arlert, as they join the brutal war against the titans and race to discover a way of defeating them before the last walls are breached.
