Mikasa's fate... I think?

I'm going to be honest. Of all the things that happened in the finale this is the one thing I least expected people to be arguing about this much.

It honestly doesn't matter if Mikasa got married or not.

Point is she moved on and lived a complete life. That was what Eren wanted for her.

How she moved on, did she marry or not whole she married is irrelevant.
That's why Isayama didn't show it.

@Fuhrer_Wrath

I agree

As a fan i can understand wanting to know more detail than what we are given but it doesnt really matter to the overall story.

Unless Isayama confirms (which he won't) the entire argument is pretty much a waste of time. People can interpret it anyway they want as was intended. Nobody is going to change anyone else's mind and it just becomes ship v ship. The extra pages do what they were intended to do. The major points are made clear.

Eren's friends live long peaceful lives and die of old age as he wanted
Mikasa doesnt forget Eren (pretty much Eren's true wish despite telling her otherwise)
History always eventually repeats itself and conflict is inevitable

@injectionsh0t It's like some people genuinely don't know how vague endings work.

You're not supposed to dissect them. They are not meant to give you a conclusion.

They are meant to convey an idea and the rest is up to interpretation.

Take the movie American Psycho for example. By the end of that movie nothing is made clear. But that's the point. The point is that Bates is a Psychopath. And the world around him is either so ignorant that they don't notice or so malignant that they actively hide it.

Same with a movie like Inception. You're not supposed to dissect the ending. The vagueness is the point.

@Fuhrer_Wrath
Theres also the fact that AOT has always been more metaphorical than literal.

Eren is a bird memes showed up everywhere after 139 was released. Funny for sure but anyone actually reading the story knew it wasn't intended as Eren actually reincarnated as a bird.

The entire story is filled with symbolism and subtly. Any story like that never ties everything up in a bow. Code Geass is a great comparison. The main storyline is wrapped up and we get a few minutes of epilogue but there's a lot left open.

Most of the "issues" with the aot final chapters are because a lot of people processed s4 in a vacuum rather than the entire story.

@injectionsh0t Dude the bird thing is so fucking annoying.

After the Manga ending I met people who genuinely thought Eren reincarnated as a bird and complained that it's a plot hole because the Manga never explained that Titan powers could allow Eren to reincarnate as a bird.

At that point I just gave up.

It's the same guys who complain the finake that Eren did the Rumbling because he's an idiot while ignoring literally all of the other dialogue around that one sentence.

@Fuhrer_Wrath

Did you watch the youtube reactions? Almost all of them explain these things in clear detail and there are still people fighting about it in the comments.

"Eren never showed any interest in Mikasa, Isayama just ruined his character to make it a love story" did you not hear him tell mikasa in s2 he would wrap the scarf around her as many times as it takes and all the other subtle hints?


"Everything Eren did was for nothing" "The rumbling should have gone to 100%, screw the alliance of traitors" At what point was Eren your typical MC looking to save the world. He was selfish by nature and only cared about his friends. The most important ones were literally part of the alliance as he intended. I think Grisha said it best to Zeke. Things weren't going to go his way but Erens way. Aside from Sasha and Hange dying everything basically went as he wanted.

The list goes on but it all pretty much comes back to viewers taking everything at face value. Doesn't help that people see a single frame on social media and go bonkers.

that is the only thing I heat about the episode
I think it's an unnecessary cheap move I didn't expect from Isyama to keep some discussions and controversies on the ending