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| This is it, I'm so glad to be part of the history. 10 years of journey is finally over. REST IN PIECE EREN... One of the greatest piece of story i have ever experience in my life. 10/10 Thank You Attack on Titan!! Thank You Hajime Isayama!! Thank You all the VA!! Thank You WIT STUDIO AND MAPPA STUDIO!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS JOURNEY AND EXPERIECE!! For one last time, SHINZOU WO SASAGEYO!! |
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| To all those involved in the making of this series (and manga), thank you for this journey! |
| It's finally over. You know I was waiting for the extremely controversial moment that supposedly makes the ending so awful, but it never came. Just goes to show when something gets this popular, there will always be whiny haters bitching about everything. This is pretty much exactly what I expected to happen except I thought maybe someone else would die. Especially Reiner lmao. But Eren dying and the power of titans being removed... yeah that's exactly what I thought had to happen for our cast to have any sort of decent life ahead of them. And that's exactly what happened. Sure there is this idea of a ton of humanity being wiped out in the future, but Eren made it sound like it was a direct consequence of what he did. He was completely wrong. We are to believe none of our cast is going to get to live out a peaceful life, but from the credits montage we see they get to do exactly that. Then what is probably several hundred years pass and humanity has destroyed itself with nukes or whatever. If that is the thing Eren was thinking of, he was seriously missing context. I think it's a relatively pointless thing to show. This brief glimpse of future we see is so far removed from anything else in the show that it doesn't even exist. But I think the point Isayama was trying to say is that you can never stop conflict between people. On a less meta level, it shows us what that "80% of humanity being wiped" out thing really is. Then "Beren" or whatever shows up at the tree as a cheeky nod to the start of the show. If anyone seriously thinks this implies Beren will go onto getting the "power of the fighter jets" and turn into a B52 stealth bomber to continue the cycle of violence again is a fucking idiot. This was the prefect ending I wanted. Even Mikasa went on to have a family of her own. |
| Thank you for 10 years of absolute quality. While I was expecting a couple more main character deaths, I'm so so so glad Jean and Connie weren't stuck as titans or killed. I was frozen when I saw all those people transforming. Reiner seeing his mother as a titan trying to kill him was insane. I even thought we were finished with revelations about titan abilities or plot threads. The flying titan was sick! And the perfect kind of (literal) elevation for a final episode. Realizing the Eren erased final memories with Armin and Mikasa was a great emotional gut punch! Glad Levi made it through everything. The very last of the OG Scouts. Interesting take with the credits montage of peace and age and eventual, perpetual war. It's sad but truly what else could have happened. Great storytelling. Thanks again |
| The animations, OST and overall direction of this special episode helped a lot to evaluate the huge divisive ending. I'm pretty satisfied overall even if it's almost a 1:1 transposition. Still don't understand why in the first few pages there are like 95% posts from oviously manga readers (fervent haters) that got burnt out by this ending 2 years ago. We know you didn't like it one bit, still there are a lot of really bad formulated comments. I don't even believe that the majority of those posters actually watched this special episode; they probably just wrote their hate as soon as the this topic went up. The ending overall isn't that far from a Requiem Zero of Code Geass for example, and that part I think is pretty much liked by the anime fanbase? Anyway back on AoT, was there any truth in an upcoming new chapter in April by Isayama? |
| Very cool because I had a bunch of friends over to watch this yesterday. But man, the ending wasn't nearly as bad as manga reader made it out to be. I'm really wondering why it got so much hate a while back. It's confusing but not completely unexplainable, some lose ends but all it all it's a rather satisfying conclusion. Of course I gotta sit on it for a little while and maybe then I'll be able to see more flaws. |
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| Well, anime-only watchers, you got your "original" ending (or rather an improved version) in the form of extra scenes and changed dialogues. I actually like this version of the ending the best. It even got me a little emotional. Well done, MAPPA. Thank you, Hajime Isayama, for creating this masterpiece. This will be remembered as one of the best anime of all time! |
Kaito__KidNov 5, 2023 7:34 AM
 When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. |
| GREAT anime of All Time |
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Reply to Cruicruise
@-Ryu No one believed that. It was obvious he was suffering a lot but I personally thought there was more subtle ways to express Eren's vulnerability in the end, more in tune with what we saw from him post timeskip. I didn't wish to see him go out this sad. Also this was far from the only issue people had with the conclusion.
| @Cruicruise I think it makes sense for his character in general, prior to the time skip he was always overly emotional, so it was fitting to show that behind the cold and heartless mask he's been putting up is the scared and traumatized teenager we've seen in the beginning of the story. It does feel like this was the biggest issue going by how everyone overreacted to that particular moment, which I honestly didn't even think was an issue to begin with. This ending is definitely flawed, it suffers from the same pacing and character development issues from the rumbling arc in general, but I'd argue it's the best part of the arc simply because at the very least it is thematically coherent with the rest of the story. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
Reply to watsym
@Ohmena You’re saying he massacred humanity with titans, so no one else can do it. Seems illogical, but he is stupid after all
watsym said: You’re saying he massacred humanity with titans, so no one else can do it. Seems illogical, but he is stupid after all The real problem is that the author didn't show us how twisted Eren's mind has become since he kissed Historia's hand. It's a huge waste of potential if we don't see the impact of having your mind flooded with information from the past and future, at the same time that N futures in which you try to change something always result in the same tragedy. Time travel works like Higurashi, Steins:Gate and even Suzumiya Haruhi's infamous Endless Eight do this very well. The problem with the scene where Eren calls himself an idiot is precisely that it didn't show to the viewer what he actually went through. It is a moment that becomes shallow because the work only speaks, but does not show anything. |
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Reply to deg
attack on titan is about nihilism over idealism, power struggle and power corrupts, nature over nurture, genocide justification over genocide prevention, violence is the answer its kill or be killed, the cycle of hate and violence and war never ends
| @deg I completely disagree with your last statement, I don’t think snk is the opposite of Vinland saga in terms of criticizing violence. Snk is also a story about how the cycle of violence is a vile thing, the only difference is that it leaves us with no hope that it will ever end, humanity will never learn and that is sad. Part of the bittersweet feeling about the end is realizing that no matter what, people will just keep killing each other and the anime shows us how awful that is, so we need to enjoy the little things while we can. |
Reply to deg
attack on titan is about nihilism over idealism, power struggle and power corrupts, nature over nurture, genocide justification over genocide prevention, violence is the answer its kill or be killed, the cycle of hate and violence and war never ends
| @deg I completely disagree with your last statement, I don’t think snk is the opposite of Vinland saga in terms of criticizing violence. Snk is also a story about how the cycle of violence is a vile thing, the only difference is that it leaves us with no hope that it will ever end, humanity will never learn and that is sad. Part of the bittersweet feeling about the end is realizing that no matter what, people will just keep killing each other and the anime shows us how awful that is, so we need to enjoy the little things while we can. |
Reply to Quequel
@deg
I completely disagree with your last statement, I don’t think snk is the opposite of Vinland saga in terms of criticizing violence.
Snk is also a story about how the cycle of violence is a vile thing, the only difference is that it leaves us with no hope that it will ever end, humanity will never learn and that is sad.
Part of the bittersweet feeling about the end is realizing that no matter what, people will just keep killing each other and the anime shows us how awful that is, so we need to enjoy the little things while we can.
I completely disagree with your last statement, I don’t think snk is the opposite of Vinland saga in terms of criticizing violence.
Snk is also a story about how the cycle of violence is a vile thing, the only difference is that it leaves us with no hope that it will ever end, humanity will never learn and that is sad.
Part of the bittersweet feeling about the end is realizing that no matter what, people will just keep killing each other and the anime shows us how awful that is, so we need to enjoy the little things while we can.
| @Quequel take it from the author of vinland saga himself here https://twitter.com/Anime/status/1704533377301586291 https://twitter.com/Anime/status/1690088613453959168 |
| Its really funny watching the score of this episode slowly climb from the people who just spammed 1's before the episode was subtitled. People really spent 3 years of their lives basing their entire personality around this being the worst ending ever only for it to mostly just work for people in spite of some wonky aspects. |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| I don't know what to say I am still trying to understand what happened anyway I understand the plot its simple yet so deep just a story of an idiot with too much power committing let's say self sacrifice then why am I so conflicted I don't if I am sad or happy its the same feeling I felt in death note and code geass but this time I am here to end it its a feeling of a master piece ending before you wanted to finish it but after finishing it you feel empty you have ruined the excitement but I have too that's why I am here though that's human nature we ruin the things we like without knowing it |
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| Amazing final episode and ending. I will miss this show for sure. |
| wasnt expecting another 1 hour and 24 min ep ngl.. but holy, wasnt expecting that much fight scenes either. |
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