Attack on Titan Chapter 7: A century ago, the grotesque giants known as Titans appeared and consumed all but a few thousand humans. The survivors took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren yearns to explore the world beyond Wall Maria. But what began as a childish dream will become an all-too-real nightmare when the Titans return and humanity is once again on the brink of extinction ?
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創 Isayama Hajime, born 1986) is a Japanese manga artist from Ōyama, Ōita. His first and currently ongoing serial, Attack on Titan, has sold over 22 million copies as of July 2013. He has mentioned Tsutomu Nihei, Ryōji Minagawa, Kentaro Miura, Hideki Arai and Tōru Mitsumine as artists he respects, but stated that the manga that had the biggest influence on him was ARMS.
I'm constantly amazed at how the anime adaptation was so close to the source material. Even knowing how the events of Vol. 7 play out, it was still a page turner. I also felt like it had stronger hints of "humanity fighting itself as a theme" much earlier than the anime. One of my favorite scenes is the fight between Eren's titan and the abnormal female titan. Eren's personality is evident in how ferociously he fights despite his disadvantage against the experience and armor ability of the female titan.