What are the Attack on Titan compilation movies?

Five films that re-cut the series for cinemas, the last of which adds something new.

Compilation films are a Japanese institution: the television footage re-edited, re-mixed and re-scored for the big screen. Attack on Titan received five. Crimson Bow and Arrow (22 November 2014) and Wings of Freedom (27 June 2015) cover season 1 in two parts; The Roar of Awakening (13 January 2018) condenses season 2; Chronicle (17 July 2020) recaps seasons 1–3 as a bridge into the Final Season.

The fifth is the exception that justifies the shelf. Attack on Titan: The Last Attack (8 November 2024) compiles MAPPA’s two closing specials and adds a post-credits scene adapted from Attack on School Castes, Isayama’s own alternate-universe comedy shorts printed at the backs of volumes 21–34: the cast, in modern dress, leaving a cinema after watching Attack on Titan. The films are not a substitute for the series, but as objects they document how the franchise was sold to people who had already seen it: bigger sound, one sitting, a poster for the wall.

Attack on Titan Crimson Bow and Arrow Blu-ray box art — **CRIMSON BOW AND ARROW**The first compilation film’s Blu-ray box, art by Isayama: season one retold in a single sitting.

THE FIVE FILMS

Release order

2014–2015 · the season 1 pair

Crimson Bow and Arrow; Wings of Freedom. Season 1 as two films, released while the manga’s limited editions were still carrying new anime on DVD.

2018–2020 · the bridges

The Roar of Awakening (season 2) and Chronicle (seasons 1–3), the franchise keeping cinemas warm between seasons.

2024 · The Last Attack

The ending as a film, with the School Castes post-credits scene as its only new footage: a joke Isayama waited a decade to tell in public.

What are the Attack on Titan compilation movies?

THE FIVE FILMS

THE FIRST WORD