Attack on Titan Is a Propaganda Textbook, and Nobody Warned Us

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I was watching Attack on Titan, casually, minding my business, when I realised I was getting a better education in how propaganda actually works than I ever got from school, the news, or anything with “political science” in the title.

Which is strange, because on paper it’s a show about giant naked people eating humans.

Underneath that, Hajime Isayama spent a decade building one of the most precise and uncomfortable portraits of how information gets weaponised, and how ordinary, decent people end up as instruments of systems they never chose.

Let me walk you through it.

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Attack on Titan Is a Propaganda Textbook, and Nobody Warned Us