Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season - Kanketsu-hen

This is what peak storytelling meet peak adaptation looks like, and I’m glad to be able to witness it. Thank you Isayama, Hayashi, and MAPPA staff.

Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 3 adapts chapters 131-134 of the manga into a 1-hour movie special, and it sure feels like one.

Story 10/10
This part contains what many considered the best chapter in the manga (chapter 131) which shows the absolute true despair of the rumbling and Eren’s true motivation. And It was adapted to perfection, with many anime original scenes to give more context to the situation.

You know you are a once-in-a-generation writer if you’re able ... to make the viewer feel empathetic toward someone who’s committing genocide against the whole of humanity, then the next second, got us to cheers for the stopping force.

Animation 10/10
The rest of the episode also contains the best MAPPA's animated sequence so far for their AOT, both in terms of their perfection in CGI blending and 2D animation. It is safe to say that the rumbling could not be done better by any other studio, given the time and scale of it. And with this latest part, “the limiter has been taken off” - the director, as he is now able to fully express his true vision for what MAPPA’s AOT should be.

Sound 10/10
Perfect placement for all the OSTs in this episode, to heighten the moment even more. Also, many sequences in particular synced the music to the action on screen perfectly right down to the second, which is something that animation alone can’t heighten it.

Overall 10/10
It has been a long and harsh journey for this team under Mr.Hayashi-san at MAPPA, throughout all the criticisms of part 1’s animation, color, CGI, and music choice, working your eyes out to save this generation-defining anime to not burn to the ground in under 8 MONTHS, just to hear harassments, and death threats, even. With the massive improvement in part 2, and now today, the team can stand proud of this achievement, in adapting what people thought is unadaptable, to the degree that no one would’ve thought to even picture or imagine it.

Hajime Isayama, I have no doubt that he is a philosopher with a deep view of reality and human history, and he embodied that view in his work, as well as his knowledge of some cultures and details of our world
Isayama did not tire himself with making a world and maps for his work, but rather he made only the walls because he has a realistic view and a little bit of Far fantasy, or this is what we saw in his work, and Isayama is distinguished by his ability to stir up controversy and make the followers divide into sections, just as he did, ... and this is what we saw in the Alliance fans and the Earth Deck fans, and before that, the Marley Warriors fans and the Survey Corps soldiers fans

Attack on Titan has a great and unique style in the acceleration of events. The diversity of events, their chaos, arrangement, and strength made the work a gateway to the anime world, through which those who have never watched anime enter
In the world of literature, movies, or any artistic world, persuasion is the most important means of pleasure
Surprises are the first way to raise the value of the work or increase the enthusiasm in its events, as the writer follows this method and constructs and arranges the events to pave the way for a shocking moment that takes the work to a completely different level

The character of eren Yeager is the window that Isayama created towards the human psyche in an attempt to understand it and realize its contradictions, mysteries, and desires.
Therefore, I see eren as the best character ever written by the Japanese if not in literature history. eren is a clear embodiment of good and evil, peace, selfishness, exclusivity, group, friendship, strength, weakness, freedom, slavery, dictatorship, and humility. He is that character who tells you that your rights are more important than the life and freedom of your enemy.
eren views life as a battle of life or death only and has no other meaning. The winner is the one who lives and the loser is the one who dies. There is no way for you to preserve your life except to fight and continue to move forward in this battle called life
We also see that the factor that made him enter history from its widest gates... is that the writer made us accept his fascist excuses for extermination. while I was influenced by eren and relatively agreed with his decisions against my will!.
but when I saw it animated and I saw Ramzy and his brother's story I finally refused extermination because what I saw was really a heartbreaking scene.
but it did not change the reality that imposes Eren as the greatest character in the history of graphic literature.
At the conclusion of the second section of the fourth season, it was hinted about eren's goal and view towards the freedom he seeks, (a world and a life that does not revolve around survival only).
he simply had 2 choices one is to follow his brother and the wall's king or two extermination of the others
He said in an episode of memories from the future (If someone tries to take away my freedom from me, I will never hesitate to take away his freedom).
This is eren's principle on his tongue, and he followed it since his childhood, and he remained until his death, and he followed that principle, but at the same time he hates it and hates that someone tries to take away his freedom, and he tries to regain it and live all his life in the same closed circle

The pinnacle of shonen has returned. Attack On Titan will live on for generations as one of the best works of media ever made. Every new shonen since AoT's release has tried and failed to compete with the success that is Attack On Titan. no anime/show has come close to its impact in the medium for quite some time and now it's finally time to sit back and let the show take you on one final ride. I had the privilege of watching Part 3 early and I have to say MAPPA absolutely outdid themselves. While I did think AoT Final Season Part 1 had ... several animation issues, Parts 2 and 3 more than make up for it. Attack On Titan surpasses the classifications of old gen, middle gen, and new gen shonen as it staples what should be the hurdle other shonens must surpass. Every time I've watched a shonen since completing AoT, I've used it as the standard of what the shonen must be held to to be considered great. No show has even come close thus far. The phenomenal writing placed within characters like Eren, Zeke, Reiner, Erwin, Levi etc. will never cease to amaze me and Part 3 only continues to advance on their writing.

Of course, lets gets to the meat of it. I am a manga reader ever since Season 3 so I went into Season 4 with a little more of an objective stance. I compared scenes as to how well they were adapted rather than my raw enjoyment of new content. And I believe that type of criticism is ever important with the approach of the ending. The ever controversial ending. I personally did not think it was as bad as people online made it out to be. I think the problem isn't the ending itself, but rather the show its connected to. AoT was so damn good that the ending provided was so middle of the line that it ended up being even worse than what ending set out to be. The ending itself is like a 6-7/10, including the entirety of AoT? 5/10 or lower. I do strongly believe the ending will be better adding animation, voice acting, color etc. But it's something we will have to look forward to in Part 3 Part 2. Part 3 Part 1 was a fantastic addition to the series and the famous scenes involved in this part are done to perfection. I am trying to be as transparent as possible to avoid spoilers but I promise you it is really damn good.

It saddens me that people unironically think AoT is not a good show when it is the closest thing to being objectively a good one as subjectiveness goes. I've rarely ever seen a show, before or after, my viewing of AoT that even came close to my enjoyment and fascination of a series like AoT has. Attack On Titan sits on the throne of shonen and will remain there in my personal opinion for quite a long damn time.