The director, Hirose Natsuko, is literally the director of Season 4 of Attack on Titan

Jan 6, 2:36 PM

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Hirose Natsuko, according to the first episode
- An animator who quickly made her way from an animator from school to a director
- Many people await her next work because of the works they've seen from her
- She's known as extremely hard to work with as a director
- She tends to want to do everything herself, and is known to frequently ask for large retakes with no advice given
- An incredibly dedicated animator who is a shut in, and isn't known for moving off her desk when she's working.

Now, Mitsue Yamazaki, the director for this show, does not have many of these traits. She was a Production assistant turned director, and while we didn't see anything for her in the production of the shows, she's not notorious for being hard to work with even with the several shows she's made. She also isn't as worldwide recognized or critically acclaimed, as good as her shows are. And even for the episodes for her show, she doesn't show a huge, "I'll do it myself mentality," with her letting many of her assistants and studio people help her throughout the show.

Now, let's compare this to the director for Attack on Titan Yuichiro Hayashi

- An animator who, within 10 years, went into directing his own series (which isn't that quick, but it is faster than some directors get their debuts)
- Many people await Yuichiro Hayashi's next work (Dorohedoro season 2, maybe Kakegurui season 3) after seeing Attack on Titan season 4.
- As 100 cams shows, he's extremely hard to work with, with many of the animators and directors working with him being terrified of him.
- He tends to want to do everything himself (storyboarding a majority of Attack on Titan season 4, all of Dorohedoro season 1, Kakegurui season 1, whilst looking over Key animation, backgrounds, screenplay, special effects, in betweening, etc), and asked for 80 percent of the work submitted to him to be redone (that is not a joke) without initial advice.
- He calls himself not really leaving his desk or talking with other people outside his PAs and people working with him.

What makes it funnier is that the director for Zenshu, Mitsue Yamazaki, worked with him for a few years for AOT season 4 part 1 and part 2, so the fact that she kills off this "Female Yuichiro Hayashi" with food poisoning is really meta.

Jan 6, 2:42 PM

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Bros trying his hardest to make AoT relevant again

Jan 6, 3:27 PM

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So she's to blame for that.

Jan 6, 3:45 PM

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Neterosan said:
Bros trying his hardest to make AoT relevant again

I mean, the director is obviously very similar to Natsuko here, and there were rumors about a Yamazaki original back when part 2 was airing. 🤷‍♂️

Jan 6, 3:45 PM

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So, that could mean Zenshuu would be a best anime series. Isn’t it?

Now that you mentioned it, you’re right. Natsuko Hirose was the director of the 4th of AoT.

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Jan 8, 9:46 AM

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Now this is a quality post I'm here on mal for. Well done OP 👍🏻

Jan 10, 12:46 PM

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lmao well done post, also thanks for creating shorts content for half of the anime tiktok for the next week.

Jan 13, 10:12 PM

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Ohh let's see how the show goes!

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Jan 28, 3:53 PM

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@raceraot Sooo... In conclusion, Mitsue Yamazaki wishes his ex-director finding true love in another world? I feel love-hate relationship :D

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Starpudding said:
@raceraot Sooo... In conclusion, Mitsue Yamazaki wishes his ex-director finding true love in another world? I feel love-hate relationship :D

Yeah, she genuinely respects Yuichiro Hayashi, but definitely seems to put him as strict.

Also, Unio/Luke actually kind of reminds me of Armin/Eren, their promise they had to each other, the fact that Unio constantly wants to die to try to make his life worth it for the rest of the soldiers, their talk to Natsuko reminding me of Eren and Armin's talk in season 1 episode 12, and more, it feels like there's a lot of AOT inspiration behind this show.

Mar 21, 1:16 PM

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Starpudding said:
@raceraot Sooo... In conclusion, Mitsue Yamazaki wishes his ex-director finding true love in another world? I feel love-hate relationship :D

@raceraot Apart this promise between them I don't remember Armin jealousy towards Mikasa. But you are absolutely right about Luke as variation of Eren. When you mentioned it I recognised why Luke's face is somewhat familiar. That explains a lot. I hope this time, in this world Eren/Luke will live happily ever after T_T (✿◠‿◠)

StarpuddingMar 21, 2:54 PM

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