Even if we aren’t getting season 2 this year, 2015 has proven to be an excellent year for Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan as its not only retaining its New York Times bestseller status, but its first live-action movie has just premiered in Japan, and its spin-off manga, Attack on Titan: Junior High, has also been announced to receive an anime adaptation!

The anime, which is based on Saki Nakagawa’s hilarious spin-off manga, will be making its premiere this October 2015. It re-imagines the Attack on Titan characters as Junior High School kids/ teachers/ staff, and is considerable more light-hearted (and funnier) than Isayama’s original work. It will be animated by Madhouse.

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It has also been announced that the cast will be returning to voice their respective characters from the original anime series, and they are:

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  • Yuuki Kaji (High School DXD’s Issei Hyoudou) as Eren Jaeger
  • Yui Ishikawa (Gundam Build Fighters’ China Kousaka) as Mikawa Ackerman
  • Marina Inoue (IS: Infinite Stratos’s Laura Bodewig) as Armin Artlelt
  • Kishou Taniyama (UtaPri’s Natsuki Shinomiya) as Jean Kirschtein
  • Yu Shimamura (Gundam Reconguista in G’s Aida Surugan) as Annie Leonhardt
  • Yu Kobayashi (Gintama’s Ayame Sarutobi) as Sasha Braus
  • Shiori Mikami (Yuruyuri’s Akari Akaza) as Christa Lenz
  • Hiro Shimono (The World God Only Knows’ Keima Katsuragi) as Conny Springer
  • Ryota Ohsaka (Valvrave’s Haruto Tokishima) as Marco Bodt
  • Yoshimasa Hosoya (Brothers Conflict’s Yuusuke) as Reiner Braun
  • Tomohisa Hashizume (Gansta.’s Delico) as Bertholt Hoover
  • Saki Fujita (Kantai Collection’s Akagi) as Ymir

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  • Hiroshi Kamiya (Durarara!!’s Izaya Orihara) as Levi
  • Daisuke Ono (Black Butler’s Sebastian Michaelis) as Erwin Smith
  • Romi Park (Full Metal Alchemist’s Edward Elric) as Hanji Zoe
  • Susumu Chiba (vampire Knight’s Takuma Ichijou) as Eld Gin
  • Shinji Kawada (Bakuman’s Heishi) as Oluo Bozad
  • Kouzou Mito (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion’s Kanon) as Gunther Schultz
  • Natsuki Aikawa (Monster Musume’s Centorea) as Petra Ral
  • Michiko Kaiden as Rico Brzenska
  • Kenta Miyake (Macross Frontier’s Bobby Margot) as Mike Zacharias

An official website has also been opened, and more announcements about this new anime will be made in the days to come, so stay tuned.