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The Attack on Titan Manga Gallery

Every Japanese cover, 1 to 34, drawn by one hand.

Attack on Titan ran in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2009 to April 2021, and Kodansha collected it into 34 tankōbon volumes between March 2010 and June 2021. This gallery documents the standard Japanese editions, cover by cover, in order.

Volume 1, volume 34

First cover · last cover · eleven years apart

Attack on Titan volume 1 Japanese cover, 2010 — March 2010Volume 1. Hajime Isayama’s scratchy early line, the Colossal Titan’s face filling the frame, a boy with blades in front of it.

Attack on Titan volume 34 Japanese cover, 2021 — June 2021Volume 34. The same children, grown, running toward a tree on a hill in open country. No wall anywhere in the picture.

Every Attack on Titan cover is drawn by Isayama himself, and the run is a single artist’s hand maturing in public: compare the raw, hatched panic of the first covers with the painted calm of the last. The gallery below shows all thirty-four Japanese tankōbon covers, each checked against the printed volume number on the book itself.

VOLUMES 1–9

2010 to 2012 · the Bessatsu years begin

Attack on Titan volume 1 Japanese cover

Volume 1

Kodansha · 17 March 2010. The first volume: the Colossal Titan over Shiganshina, the image that launched the series.

Attack on Titan volume 2 Japanese cover

Volume 2

Kodansha · 16 July 2010.

Attack on Titan volume 3 Japanese cover

Volume 3

Kodansha · 9 December 2010.

Attack on Titan volume 4 Japanese cover

Volume 4

Kodansha · 8 April 2011.

Attack on Titan volume 5 Japanese cover

Volume 5

Kodansha · 9 August 2011.

Attack on Titan volume 6 Japanese cover

Volume 6

Kodansha · 9 December 2011.

Attack on Titan volume 7 Japanese cover

Volume 7

Kodansha · 9 April 2012.

Attack on Titan volume 8 Japanese cover

Volume 8

Kodansha · 9 August 2012.

Attack on Titan volume 9 Japanese cover

Volume 9

Kodansha · 7 December 2012.

VOLUMES 10–18

2013 to 2015 · the anime era

Attack on Titan volume 10 Japanese cover

Volume 10

Kodansha · 9 April 2013.

Attack on Titan volume 11 Japanese cover

Volume 11

Kodansha · 9 August 2013.

Attack on Titan volume 12 Japanese cover

Volume 12

Kodansha · 9 December 2013.

Attack on Titan volume 13 Japanese cover

Volume 13

Kodansha · 9 April 2014.

Attack on Titan volume 14 Japanese cover

Volume 14

Kodansha · 8 August 2014.

Attack on Titan volume 15 Japanese cover

Volume 15

Kodansha · 9 December 2014.

Attack on Titan volume 16 Japanese cover

Volume 16

Kodansha · 9 April 2015.

Attack on Titan volume 17 Japanese cover

Volume 17

Kodansha · 7 August 2015.

Attack on Titan volume 18 Japanese cover

Volume 18

Kodansha · 9 December 2015.

VOLUMES 19–26

2016 to 2018 · the basement and the ocean

Attack on Titan volume 19 Japanese cover

Volume 19

Kodansha · 8 April 2016.

Attack on Titan volume 20 Japanese cover

Volume 20

Kodansha · 9 August 2016.

Attack on Titan volume 21 Japanese cover

Volume 21

Kodansha · 9 December 2016. The basement volume: the story walks down the stairs it had pointed at for eight years.

Attack on Titan volume 22 Japanese cover

Volume 22

Kodansha · 7 April 2017. The ocean volume. Isayama drew the sea as a full stop at the end of one story and the start of another.

Attack on Titan volume 23 Japanese cover

Volume 23

Kodansha · 9 August 2017.

Attack on Titan volume 24 Japanese cover

Volume 24

Kodansha · 8 December 2017.

Attack on Titan volume 25 Japanese cover

Volume 25

Kodansha · 9 April 2018.

Attack on Titan volume 26 Japanese cover

Volume 26

Kodansha · 9 August 2018.

VOLUMES 27–34

2018 to 2021 · the final arc

Attack on Titan volume 27 Japanese cover

Volume 27

Kodansha · 7 December 2018.

Attack on Titan volume 28 Japanese cover

Volume 28

Kodansha · 9 April 2019.

Attack on Titan volume 29 Japanese cover

Volume 29

Kodansha · 9 August 2019.

Attack on Titan volume 30 Japanese cover

Volume 30

Kodansha · 9 December 2019.

Attack on Titan volume 31 Japanese cover

Volume 31

Kodansha · 9 April 2020.

Attack on Titan volume 32 Japanese cover

Volume 32

Kodansha · 9 September 2020.

Attack on Titan volume 33 Japanese cover

Volume 33

Kodansha · 8 January 2021.

Attack on Titan volume 34 Japanese cover

Volume 34

Kodansha · 9 June 2021. The final volume. The children by the tree close the run where the run began: outside the walls.

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