Titanic blockbuster Shingeki no Kyojin telah menyampaikan kejutan untuk fans dalam bentuk live action adaptasi pada tahun 2015, yang sebagian besar tampaknya percaya hanya akan menjadi film yang buruk.

Staf film termasuk sutradara Shinji Higuchi (ekstraksi Gonzo dan paling dikenal untuk mengarahkan "Japan Sinks"), dan penulisan naskah oleh Yuusuke Watanabe (yang kredit termasuk penulisan film Gantz) dan Tomohiro Machiyama (kritikus film). Banyak cosplay dan parodi materi mengungkapkan penggemar tidak sepenuhnya memusuhi ide titans live action:

“It’s over…”

“I can not believe they are making this live action and not an anime movie.”

“And it is all by Japanese, great.”

“Wasn’t the setting mostly devoid of Asians?”

“The protagonist is basically Germanic. Bit of a joke to cast Japanese in it.”

“It’ll just be more trash like Gantz.”

“Just make them into samurai and do a Japanese version.”

“They should get an all-foreign cast and do it overseas. Japanese actors are too low level.”

“Please just sell it to America.”

“What the hell is Machiyama doing involved with this?”

“It doesn’t matter who is doing what. All you need to know is that it is live action so this will surely be trash.”

“Japan’s movie industry does a better job at chewing up and destroying content than any titan could…”