Attack on Titan: Chibi Theater - Survey Corps, Levi Squad!
｢進撃の巨人｣ちみキャラ劇場”とんでけ！新生リヴァイ班” (Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Specials)
- Comedy
- Parody
- Episodes
- 7
- Duration
- 2 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 17, 2018 to Sep 18, 2019
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
*Attack on Titan: Chibi Theater - Survey Corps, Levi Squad!* collects the DVD/BD bonus shorts released alongside *Shingeki no Kyojin* Season 3. Presented in a super-deformed, parody style, the specials trade the main story’s intensity for quick comedic sketches featuring the Survey Corps and Levi’s squad.
Seven videos were produced—one bundled with each Season 3 DVD/BD volume—and each video contains three mini-stories. Together, they form a run of short parody segments (effectively chibi “episodes” 38–59) that continue the ongoing chibi storyline introduced in the earlier DVD/BD specials from previous seasons.
Otaku Consensus
Attack on Titan: Chibi Theater - Survey Corps, Levi Squad! is received as a higher-than-expected-value bonus package, with its 7.66 MAL score and 75/100 AniList score reflecting how well the three-sketch-per-volume format turns Season 3’s cast chemistry into quick parody beats. Its strongest assets are Studio Moriken’s compact super-deformed staging, the brisk DVD/BD-extra pacing, and the continuity with the earlier chibi specials; the recurring criticism is that it is intentionally slight, rewarding franchise familiarity far more than standalone comedy.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want Attack on Titan decompression without committing to a full spin-off season: seven bite-size bonus videos, each built from three mini-stories, designed for fans who already know why Levi and the Survey Corps carry so much dramatic weight in the main series. It scratches a similar itch to Attack on Titan: Junior High or the crossover silliness of Isekai Quartet, but with a narrower, home-video-extra focus that makes it feel closer to official cast-room banter than a separate parody project. The appeal is in seeing Season 3’s severity compressed into chibi timing: fast setups, exaggerated hierarchy jokes, and the pleasure of recognizing how the specials continue the earlier DVD/BD chibi numbering rather than starting over.
Key Characters
- LLevi
Levi’s appeal here comes from how his famously severe presence survives the super-deformed treatment, turning discipline and deadpan authority into the shorts’ most dependable comic engine.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Studio Moriken handles the specials in a super-deformed chibi style, a production approach that separates these shorts visually from Wit Studio’s main Season 3 television episodes while keeping the franchise identity intact.
- 2
The release structure is unusually tied to home video: one special was bundled with each of the seven Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 DVD/BD volumes from October 2018 to September 2019.
- 3
Each of the seven videos contains three mini-stories, making the project function as 21 compact comedy segments rather than seven conventional short episodes.
- 4
The specials are effectively numbered as chibi episodes 38–59, positioning them as a continuation of the earlier Attack on Titan DVD/BD bonus shorts instead of a one-off Season 3 gag reel.
- 5
Its genre profile is sharply focused: AniList tags it at 88% Chibi and 84% Parody, with the 75% Military tag reflecting that the jokes are still built around Survey Corps structure and rank dynamics.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Hajime Isayama is credited as the original creator, anchoring the parody shorts to the same source-author lineage as the main Attack on Titan franchise.
- Fun fact 2
- The project’s MAL popularity rank of #3859 is modest compared with mainline Attack on Titan entries, but its 14,475 MAL votes show that a sizable home-video-special audience still sought it out.
- Fun fact 3
- Because the shorts continue the prior chibi continuity as entries 38–59, Season 3’s bonus material implicitly assumes viewers may be following the parody side series across multiple disc releases.
- Fun fact 4
- AniList records 174 favourites for the specials, a small but telling number for a DVD/BD-bundled comedy extra rather than a broadcast television season.
Studios
- Studio Moriken
