So Polygon ran an article about the fascist subtexts within Attack on Titan:
https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/18/18683609/attack-on-titan-fascist-nationalist-isayama-hajime-manga-anime
I never got into Titan, it's been years since I've been into anime. But as a Latinx person, as a first generation citizen and a child of immigrants, I'm especially sensitive and aware of what walls represent. Their context, their connotations, their symbolism. It's no mistake that this anime is centered around a walled society and an army of invaders.
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I saw the first episode of Titan and found it to be militaristic at best. Given the rise of right-wing nationalism around the world, I'm not surprised at all that the series creator included fascistic undertones within his work. The idea of invaders breaching the walls of a civilization and young people recruited to stop the invasion being celebrated is incredibly retrograde. What's more disturbing to me is how popular this series is.