Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2

Turning against his former allies and enemies alike, Eren Yeager sets a disastrous plan in motion. Under the guidance of the Beast Titan, Zeke, Eren takes extreme measures to end the ancient conflict between Marley and Eldia—but his true intentions remain a mystery. Delving deep into his family's past, Eren fights to control his own destiny.

Meanwhile, the long-feuding nations of Marley and Eldia utilize both soldiers and Titans in a brutal race to eliminate the other. Reiner Braun uses his own powers in a desperate bid to hold off Eren's own militaristic force, and his fellow Eldians—children Falco Grice and Gabi Braun—struggle to survive in the unfolding chaos.

Elsewhere, Eren's childhood friends Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert remain imprisoned alongside Eren's former Survey Corps companions, all disturbed by Eren's monstrous transformation. Under the blind belief that Eren still secretly harbors good intentions, Mikasa and the others enter the fray in an attempt to save their friend's very soul.

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Yeager, Eren Main

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Ackerman, Mikasa Main

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

Arlert, Armin Main

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Levi Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Zoë, Hange Supporting

Park, Romi Japanese

Blouse, Sasha Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Braun, Reiner Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Kirstein, Jean Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Leonhart, Annie Supporting

Shimamura, Yuu Japanese

Braun, Gabi Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Kimura, Makoto Producer

Kinoshita, Tetsuya Producer

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Apr 10, 2024

Justykanna

Recommended

You did it Attack on Titan. And we're almost at the finish line.

Story: The hilariously named, Attack on Titan: Final Season Part 2, continues on with our heroes (?) having finally caught up to Eren, only for him to be continuing his own plan. With the battles between Eldia and Marley still fresh, Eren decides, basically on his own, what he's going to do. Leaving behind his friends Mikasa and Armin, Eren now has the backing of his half brother, Zeke, and the "Yaegerists" to make sure nothing gets in his way.

This series starts off with a band with titan battles unfolding ... one after the other. It's insane. It's hard to put into words how amazing this looks, but every fight makes sense and it doesn't fall into the trap of being needlessly drawn out, something many action series have struggled with in the past - I'm looking at you Naruto and Demon Slayer. After the relatively calmed down Part 1, I wasn't sure how they would follow this season up, especially with how much historical and political material got shoved into the story. It should be noted that your basic understanding of the political side doesn't have to be pristine. Even if you have a basic understanding of who is at war, and why, you're really set to go. Part 1 brings in a lot of terminology, and even if you can appreciate the little details, you probably shouldn't get lost in it if all you're here for is the action. Part 2 brings it all together again, and everything mostly makes sense there.

The final episode does throw you a little off, but I'm not really sure of a better place they could have put it. It's more story material that adds some details into the mix, but I wasn't the biggest fan of stalling the pacing at the end. They could, however, afford to get away with this due to the final chapters both being an hour long. (9/10)

Characters: We all know who our characters are - except who truly Eren is now. But we kind of have to shove that to the side until later for obvious reasons. Armin continues to be the straight-forward thinker, adding much needed depth to our story on small details that aren't always obvious. For someone who probably wasn't popular in the early days, he sure is a fine character now. Hange is around, but mostly in a supporting role. Her titan obsession feels like the days of the past, but she's still very firm in her beliefs in her team, and still smart.

Reiner has come down to earth since we last saw him, and I love the way in which they use his titan. My only real complaint is that it feels like his titan appears weaker than in days past. Maybe it's just because of the big power struggle and everyone else getting more proficient though. Jean and Connie are still really strong characters in my mind, sticking to characteristics we know and love them by. Falco gets a little more involved in the plot and I really like what they did with him. Time will tell where they take him later, but I like what I'm seeing. Pieck is someone I don't think much of, but not every Titan Shifter needs to have a big personality. Theo Magath fits into his role really nicely as well.

I still can't really buy into Gabi, or what they did with Mikasa. For Gabi, she really only feels like her purpose was to shoot Sasha and since then, her story really only is one that watched Falco. I don't get it. Mikasa used to be a strong, prideful character, but since the timeskip, she's become a shell of what she used to be. Her skills don't stick out anymore, she's an emotionless husk and doesn't say anything that adds to the plot. I loved her pre-timeskip, but I just don't know about her anymore.

A few other characters make significant returns to the scene such as Keith and Pixis, and even though their roles were minor, it's nice to see them back. Some others veer into spoiler territory, but it's always nice to see some stronger characters return to the scene. (8/10)

Art: MAPPA is a big name, and you can really their best work on display. It's perfection. You can't ask for much more. (10/10)

Sound: Like the animation, the sound also fits in perfectly. The Rumbling is about as perfect of an OP song for this season as you can get, with the gentler ED of Akuma no Ko is super popular too. Hiroyuki Sawano is well known for his work by now, but Kohta Yamamoto, who has long worked with Sawano, took more of a lead here. It's still exceptional though. Voice work is equally up to the task with old favourites Bryce Papenbrook (Eren) and Jessie James Grelle (Armin) bringing it in full force. Clifford Chapin (Connie) and Patrick Seitz (Keith) are perfect for their roles too. My surprise pick for the best though? Neil Kaplan (Theo). I was really impressed here, even knowing his long history in strong roles like Bleach. Bravo. (10/10)

Overall: Attack on Titan: Final Season Part 2 is such a step up from Part 1, but part of me thinks that was mostly necessary, due to the complex nature how they wanted to take their story. I plan to finish this story because this certainly feels like the best isn't even here yet. (10/10)

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 7, 2024

DISKOWN

Mixed Feelings

Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 shows improvement over its previous season but still falls short of the expectations set before “The Final Season”.

Part 2 benefits from improved pacing with fewer flashbacks, and the exposition is more seamlessly integrated into the story-line. A new plot element adds depth to the world-building and makes the narrative more engaging, compared to Part 1.

Character motivations receive more thorough exploration in this season, addressing some of the previous shortcomings. Some characters reappear from previous seasons, but their presence fails to significantly impact the story, feeling more like a contrived attempt to bridge the new narrative ... with the past.

The CGI in this season makes the action scenes borderline unwatchable, completely undermining what was once a strong suit of the series: dynamic and creative action sequences. Instead, the CGI has resulted in static and bland action sequences that lack the impact and excitement of previous seasons.

Given that the series has spanned five seasons, there is no justification for such poor CGI and overall production quality.

Several musical themes return, yet instead of enhancing the material, they serve as a stark reminder of the superior quality of previous seasons.

Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2, while better than Part 1, fails to inspire confidence in the continuation of the series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 29, 2023

Allagowf

Not Recommended

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Freedom and High morals will never be alongside.

What happened to “Shinzou Wo Sasageyo” (devote your heart) and all the sacrifices and the deaths by the titans especially by Reiner Bertholdt and Annie, all that rage and striving for freedom?? simply in one season does not exist anymore! The creators are switching heroes. Is that even allowed? ohh what can we do to stop the desecration of one of the best shows ever? Unfortunately, it's already desecrated. there is no way back. This has been happening a lot in recent years to the great shows like GOT, the creators are switching heroes and destroying everything they ... built behind.

The freedom of our beloved once was the theme of AOT at the beginning, when it was a great show, now it is full of high morals the fake one actually. The creator is trying to manipulate our feelings by playing empathetic music "sad music" when the human outside the wall dies and playing anempathetic Music "exciting music" when the Eldians inside the wall dies. this just show the creator has racism issues.

Ignoring the death of their families and trying to protect the others
How could the creator of AOT be more fake than this

Let us not forget Marley was ruling the world using the titans' power and when the world was trying to overpower the titans, Marley plane was to hold the power of the founding titan by destroying the paradis island, so their goal was not to protect the world from the titans it's to rule the world.

this what the Eldians do before but the las king tried to stop the suffering of the world and he punish himself and his people in a prison for more than one hundred years, but the world want to do more and tries to still the founding titan and destroy all the Eldians.

one example of the creator fake Morality:
Marley sent four warriors for this mission and this cause in a ton of death, Reiner Bertholdt and Annie should be the enemy of every Eldian inside the walls, not only because they destroyed the wall also, they betrayed their friendship and threaten their families, but we see them laughs, eat together, and killing their other friends from inside the wall, as they forget everything. or the creator is full of shit and high morals.

Eren trying to destroy the world is something extreme there is some other solution but this one is accepted from his point of view, if the world tries to destroy your home country and you have the power to kill the entire world, what woold you do? you will allow the world to kill your family and your beloved one? or will you destroy them all?

I am outraged from this kind of plot switching in recent years, but why, it's just an anime right? .. it was my hobby for the last 20 years, so it's not ok, this hidden messages in the recent shows are made me think of quitting anime and start doing something better in my free time, better than turned to a pussy as they are hardly trying to do "trying to turn us all to pussies with fake morality".

These fake morals made me want to vomit.

"Me against the world it's a hard decision to make, but my family against the world is the easiest" .. Fake Morality hater.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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