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Attack on Titan: End of the World Opens in Indonesia on September 30

Indonesian film distribution company Encore Films Indonesia announced on its Facebook page on Friday that Attack on Titan: End of the World, the second live-action Attack on Titan film, will open in Indonesia on September 30. The company also began streaming an Indonesian- and English-subtitled trailer for the film, which previews the film's theme song "SOS" by the band SEKAI NO OWARI.

Attack on Titan: End of the World will open in Japanese theaters on September 19. The first movie opened in Japan on August 1, and in Indonesia on August 26. The film debuted at #1 in the Japanese box-office and earned about 600 million yen (about US$4.8 million) in its first weekend in Japan.

Encore Films Indonesia also unveiled the film's Indonesian poster on Monday.

The films star:

Haruma Miura as Eren

Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa

Kanata Hongō as Armin

Satomi Ishihara as Hans/Hanji

Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha

Takahiro Miura as Jean

Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima

Ayame Misaki as Hiana

Pierre Taki as Souda

Jun Kunimura as Kubal

Shu Watanabe as Fukushi

Satoru Matsuo as Sannagi

Rina Takeda as Lil

The cast includes seven characters that are new to the film versions of the story. Hasegawa's character Shikishima holds the key to the films' story as "humanity's strongest man."

Director Shinji Higuchi stated that, with the supervision of Attack on Titan manga creator Hajime Isayama, the story is based on the world and characters of the manga, while incorporating new characters and new formidable enemies. Yuusuke Watanabe (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, live-action Gantz, Gantz II: Perfect Answer, 20th Century Boys, Gatchaman) wrote the scripts. Film critic Tomohiro Machiyama, who is also friends with Isayama, worked on the scripts together with Isayama and Watanabe.

The band SEKAI NO OWARI is contributing the first and second films' theme songs "Anti-Hero" and "SOS," respectively.

Hajime Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga depicts the battles between humans and the giants who now rule the world outside humans' walled enclaves.

Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga has inspired four spinoff manga, a 25-episode television anime version that aired in 2013, and two compilation films, the second of which will open in June. Additionally, a second season of the television anime series is slated to air in 2016. Isayama launched the series in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009.

Elex Media Komputindo publishes Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga in Indonesia under its Level Comics imprint. Elex Media also published Ryo Suzukaze's Attack on Titan: Before the Fall light novel prequel series in Indonesia on June 24, also under its Level Comics imprint, and is also publishing Satoshi Shiki's Attack on Titan: Junior High comedy spinoff manga, and the Attack on Titan: Before the Fall manga, based on Suzukaze's light novel series.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]