Who wrote the music for Attack on Titan?

Hiroyuki Sawano, whose score became as famous as the animation; then Sawano with Kō’ta Yamamoto for the end.

The series’ sound is Hiroyuki Sawano: German-titled orchestral-electronic cues, massed vocals, and themes built to detonate under a transformation scene. His season 1 soundtrack albums (June and October 2013, Pony Canyon) sold the way pop records sell, and tracks like “Vogel im Käfig” and the suite known to fans as the Attack on Titan theme became the franchise’s audio logo. When MAPPA took over, Sawano stayed and was joined by Kō’ta Yamamoto, whose colder, heavier writing suits the Final Season’s changed story; the two share the credit across all four of its parts.

The opening themes are their own canon: Linked Horizon’s “Guren no Yumiya” (2013) is one of the most recognizable anime openings ever recorded, and the Final Season Part 2’s “The Rumbling” by SiM carried the series onto rock charts worldwide. On this shelf the point is the craft continuity: studios changed, directors changed, the composer’s chair barely did, and it is a large part of why the two halves of the anime feel like one work.

Attack on Titan original soundtrack album cover, music by Hiroyuki Sawano — **THE SOUNDTRACK**Hiroyuki Sawano’s Season 1 soundtrack: the score that taught the show to roar.

THE SOUND, BY ERA

Sawano, then Sawano and Yamamoto

2013–2019 · Sawano solo

Three Wit seasons. The choir-and-strings assault that defined how 2010s anime blockbusters sounded.

2020–2023 · Sawano + Yamamoto

The Final Season. Yamamoto’s motifs carry the new theatre of the story while Sawano’s themes return as memory.

Who wrote the music for Attack on Titan?

THE SOUND, BY ERA

THE FIRST WORD