The director behind Attack on Titan’s fourth and final season has detailed series creator Hajime Isayama’s closer involvement in the second part compared to the first! The series is speeding towards its grand finale, and that means each new episode of the series has been full of some huge developments setting up the series’ final endgame. With a much different kind of production seen in the second part compared to the first part released last year, those behind the series have been taking it on much differently than before. This even includes the series creator himself, surprisingly enough.
As director Yuichiro Hayashi explains about the changes for Attack on Titan: Final Season Part 2 in a special conversation about the production released by Studio MAPPA, the first part of the final season was in the midst of production while Isayama was also working on the manga’s finale. But with the manga fully completed, Isayama has much more time to look over each of the elements of Part 2’s production and give much more feedback than before since he’s less busy overall. But it’s still not a contentious relationship, thankfully.
“He checks storyboards every time and the feedback is…,” Hayashi began, “At the time of Part 1, he was in the midst of working on the finale, so it seemed like he was really busy. But now it’s all finished. So the feedback from him used to be about one A4 size sheet, but now it’s about two A4 sheets. And he’s now checking things more closely. ,’ but also a lot of ‘Oh, this is great,’ which makes me very happy.”
Hayashi also revealed that there were some specific requests Isayama had made about what to include in some of the episodes like the secret cameos that took off with fans, and many more things coming ahead in the new episodes. As the series draws closer to bringing the final moments of the manga to life, it’s no wonder that the creator is looking at things just a big more closely than before.
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