Hajime Isayama
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創 Isayama Hajime, born August 29, 1986) is a Japanese manga artist from Ōyama, Ōita. His first and currently ongoing series, Attack on Titan, is experiencing success with 45 million copies in circulation as of November 2014.
Repeated nightmare
The World is out of gear after 11/9 Attacks.
In the American superhero film “Batman” directed by Tim Burton in 1989, a jovial hero appeared.
But in “Batman Begins” in 2005, Christopher Nolan reboots the original to show us more serious and down to earth aspects.
In a monumental work “James Bond 007 series”, a superhero of enduring dandy was turned into a wounded hero like a familiar man in “Casino Royale” in 2006.
Anyway, human always fight.
How will “Attack on Titan” end? Will human exterminate titans — like “Independence Day” in 1996? Or can they build amicable relations with them?
Many readers may agree neither of them.
This manga created after 11/9 Attacks asks us what human should be.
Notable works:
Attack on Titan (2009-)
Next author (Hiroya Oku)