Final Episode Release Date

Considering what epic hype they are trying to create around the finale, I’m even afraid to imagine what will happen on the Internet and the anime community on this date.

@Adnash It's like you're preparing me for a civil war to explode, lol.

@RobertBobert Oh no no, I didn't want to sound menacing or something. I just know how it was back when S4P1 and S4P2 was airing. Their activity was becoming gradually lesser, but still you could see overly toxic people with obsessive thoughts ordering them to rage over something that had happened many months earlier and wasn't even meant to be featured in the Parts I mentioned earlier.

Possibly there won't be a lot of them around S4P3 final episode's premiere, but who knows. There will be one particular scene that they found as extremely triggering while reading the manga, so I can easily imagine them appearing out of nowhere and just insult chilled enjoyers. Oh, and of course lose to their obsessive thoughts and signal everyone how they are no longer interested in AoT, not at all. 🤡

@Adnash I've been following the manga and anime over an unreasonably long time gap, so it's hard for me to keep up with the development of fandom's attitude towards it. For example, I read about how Mikasa pumped up her abs in prison many years ago and only saw it in the anime a couple of days ago. But from what I understand, the final arc( arcs?) will be a complete change of mood and premise.

Thematically this show is the same in its last two arcs. It's just the atmosphere becomes more serious, and the whole narration resembles more a seinen than a shounen, which Attack on Titan started as. There is also a change of perspective (way bigger one than in the first arcs). However, like I said before, thematically it's still the same and consistent show.

@Adnash Then why were so many people salty about the final arc and the twist about their world? I don't mean the ending itself.

@RobertBobert They are? Throughout the year, long before the final chapter's premiere, I've rarely seen anyone acting salty or even toxic about post-timeskip arcs. It was more like chilled convos (I know, "chilled" and "Attack on Titan fans" might sound awkward, haha) about which arc was better (in most of discussions I remember it was mostly Return to Shiganshina arc vs. Marley arc). Roughly 95% of comments I saw, saying that the twist wasn't that much spectacular or necessary were treated as basically thrashing the series, so their authors were jumped on and called names.

I personally enjoyed the twist and AoT's atmosphere change. What I perhaps not disliked, but felt unamused about, was the whole Paths concept becoming more rational than mysterious. What felt cheap to me was "huge plot twist kino" with Eren in the Paths. It was just an asspull meant to present something shocking, surprising, unexpected. Nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, by the way: we also need to make it clear whether we are going with the official list of arcs, or that one fanmade one that's still popular among many fans (me included). It separates Rumbling arc from War for Paradis arc, while according to the official list, there's only one big War for Paradis arc, serving as the very final one.

@Adnash I'm an anime only so for me the arcs are separated by season names lol.

@RobertBobert Ahh, I see. That's also a way to separate certain parts of the show, haha. Especially if you are not that much invested into the story or lore. My friend does it as well, so I'm familiar with switching from thinking about arcs from the manga to thinking just about anime seasons. It's even easier when whole seasons or their parts adapted the entire arc, i.e. Season 3 Part 2 adapted Return to Shiganshina arc. Nevertheless, I recommend checking out the official list of AoT's story arcs. Just to broaden your horizons in this field. :P

@Adnash Does this change anything radically?