Titans have invaded Japan, but these monsters eat plastic, not people.
Change For The Blue, an environmental organization in Japan, has begun utilizing official, Titan-shaped recycling bins in an effort to raise awareness about recycling programs in Oita City, which also happens to be the home town of Attack on Titan's creator, Hajime Isayama. The Titan shaped bins will be placed next to vending machine installations throughout the city and will be placed next to signs that feature characters from the series, including Levi and Hange, that explain what types of waste materials are able to be recycled. The promotion's official website also shows workers in full Survey Corps cosplay emptying the bins. The Attack on Titan recycling campaign will only run until November, after which the attention-grabbing recycling bins will go back to their previous appearance.
While Isayama's Attack on Titan reached its controversial conclusion earlier this year, hype for the series remains high as MAPPA puts the finishing touches on the final half of the anime's final season, which is scheduled to being airing next January.
Attack on Titan debuted in 2009 with a manga that was initially rejected by Japan's premier manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump, and later picked up by published Kodansha. The series was adapted into an anime by Wit Studio in 2013, and is now regarded as one of the biggest cultural phenomenons to emerge out of Japan since the turn of the millenium. The manga has over 100 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the most successful manga series of all time. The series has also spawned multiple spin-offs and novelizations, several video games, and two live-action Japanese movies. Warner Bros. is currently producing a live-action remake of the series.
The anime and manga series tells the story of a world where the last remnants of humanity live behind a series of massive walls, which protect them from giant, man-eating monsters known as Titans. Eren Jaeger, a young man who lives behind the outer most wall, is consumed with a desire for revenge against the Titans when the wall is breached and his family is consumed in the ensuing attack. Eren, alongside his childhood friends Mikasa and Armin, join the Survey Corps to learn how to fight the Titans, but Eren soon awakens a mysterious ability that begins to unravel the world around him.
The anime's first three seasons, as well as the first half of Season 4, are all currently streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu and Funimation. The manga is localized and distributed internationally by VIZ Media.
Source: Change For The Blue
