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shouldn't it be "attack of titans" or "titans attack"

i don't get how this title was translated

if you want to be technical it's advancing giants or advancing titans.

but "attack on titan" was an official translation afaik.

yaeger
bertolt

kirstein
rivaille

rivaille isn't the official spelling though, it's levi

I thought it was Yeager. Which, you know, is even worse.

what's wrong with bertolt though? it's a real german name, not even an americanisation like yeager

"Yeager" is not an Americanization. People were spelling it that way long before the U.S. was a country.

I decided to indulge this against my better judgement and wasted a few hours digging around on the internet and speaking with both history majors and German language majors.

I could not find a single German person living today OR in the pre 18th Century (to meet your criteria of "before the US was a country") that spells their surname "Yeager". It is almost universally 'Jäeger' (or 'Jäger, going further back historically).

So... unless you can back that up with some facts when the rest of the world seems to agree with the idea that the "Yeager" spelling was created by the US immigration system, you're wrong.

Genuine European here chipping in to say that Yeager is pronounced differently from Jäeger. Yeager is pronounced "Yeeger", but Jäeger is- well, you've seen the anime, more like "Yayger".

Speaking as a German anon, Bertolt is either an exceedingly, extremely rare version or a simple misspelling of the much more common Berthold. The way they say it in the anime would make any German who hears it default to spelling it as 'Berthold' unless it's directly implied differently because... it's a language thing. The 'hard t' at the end means that Bertolt would be more pronounced like somebody would say 'duck' in English, with a very harsh ending sound, while Berthold is more comparable to 'duke' with its flow.

I honestly like "Attack on Titan" better than "Advance of the Titans".

It makes the title more proactive than reactive. It makes the story not about the Titans over-running the world, but about the humans rising up against them.

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