Should Attack On Titan anime have a anime original ending or stick to the manga ending?

I_Am_Freeballing said:
Stick with the manga ending but expand on it. Even with the flaws the ending has, it is clear what ideas and themes Isayama wanted to portray. The anime is a chance to express his ideas better.

_Maneki-Neko_ said:
The manga ending is pretty good, some people just jumping on the hate train without thinking it through.


Thought the same.

Zekkenshin said:
The problem is the entire final arc is lackluster in comparison to everything else AoT offers. Changing the ending or even expanding on it only adds a layer of paint to an already scratched surface. I would honestly have rather seen an entirely different story play out starting from 124 onward (preferably horror / dementia to the max).

deg said:
Attack on Titan has multiple paths to an ending like a Visual Novel

Weebookey said:

What the fuck are you talking about? Please explain how there are 3 timelines because thats the most retarded thing Ive read today.

CrimsonGeek said:
Manga ending, obviously. All the steps up to 123 completely paved the way for what followed. Changing the ending will leave the series with an incoherent follow up and conclusion to the ideas and character arcs presented up to 123.

Isayama on the other hand has always used the anime to improve things he thinks he didn't portray as well in the manga. Since he himself has confirmed that he didn't manage to portray the series themes as well as he wanted to do, he has the chance to fix whatever wrongs he did and give an imporved finale.

Weebookey said:

What the fuck are you talking about? Please explain how there are 3 timelines because thats the most retarded thing Ive read today.

deg said:


not literal timelines but paths to the ending is what im implying like this one, there are at least 2 paths or foreshadowing to the ending

reverse mist ending or AnR foreshadowing
- chapter 089 - the owl said to grisha to do the plan in order to save mikasa, armin and others
- chapter 108 - eren wants his friends to live long lives so he will not pass the attack titan to any of them
- chapter 127 - mikasa x jean foreshadowing
- chapter 133 - reiner said to mikasas face that eren wants someone to stop him
but ye the AnR ending has some foreshadowing too so im not saying there are no reason for it to be the ending too

Tokoya said:
You cannot be serious lol

Once the whole concept of Ymir and the Paths were introduced, the concept of there being multiple timelines was put on the table and Eren himself even stated that he tried many times to get certain desired outcomes as well. But as for what he's directly talking about, 138 pretty much showed us that there is a timeline where Eren and Mikasa ran away instead of facing the issues at hand and then the second timeline is the manga timeline where Eren ended up dying etc

Now the third timeline is only a theory, but that's essentially what AoE is...There's a lot of evidence to suggest the anime will be a different timeline. Just check youtube and you'll see plenty videos explaining what it is (I recommend you check out either Always Tryhard's channel or Arveus' channel in this case for a more detailed and coherent explanation on everything)

Weebookey said:


If it’s not literal timelines then ur spouting nonsense? 139 has happened, that’s it, that’s the end. Regardless of ur ANR theories and shit lol. There is only 1 timeline in the series….

- chapter 89: that was clearly Eren sending memories back, this was explained in 121
- chapter 108: I’m not sure what ur trying to say here, but this has no relation to an alt timeline
- chapter 127: how is that foreshadow? That’s literally jean thinking of his ideal life, mikasa or Pieck or even another woman, nothing is confirmed….

I think ur too fixated on the fact that it will not be anime only ending and ANR is not possible lol

deg said:


youre being too literal and you are misunderstanding me a lot im saying there can be an alternative ending and not literal other timelines since Attack on Titan is a fixed timeline or deterministic universe

im not a fan of AnR ending or the Mist Ending thats why i showed that there are foreshadowing to the reverse AnR ending or Mist Ending

AnR/Mist ending - the main character killed their love ones
reverse AnR/Mist ending - the loved ones killed the main character

as for the foreshadowing of the Mist Ending and AnR ending you already know that from reading them among their fans like Eren wants total freedom first so he should complete world genocide and want to save Paradis and make Historia his waifu and they will point to you what chapters are those

Weebookey said:


Your initial claim is that is has multiple endings like a VN??

Foreshadowing for anything can appear if you think too hard, just look at the brain rot in this fandom alone.

People need to accept that Mappa will follow the manga and there will be no anime only ending.

Eren x Historia is literally impossible lol

deg said:


again i speak of VN as "like a VN" its an analogy or figuratively rather than literally

Weebookey said:


It never had multiple endings to begin with 😂 so your point?

deg said:


i already said it can at least have 2 paths to an ending because of the foreshadowings of both potential endings its just that Isayama chose one ending obviously because its not a VN

its hard talking to you that thinks too literally

Weebookey said:


Then speak more literally, words have meanings and I can’t understand something your thinking of if u don’t portray it well.

The mist ending was scrapped a very long time ago, that’s all there is to it lol. Mappa will be adapting the manga the hopium is insane to the other ppl here who clearly didn’t read it properly 🤷‍♂️

Weebookey said:


How is Ymir and paths related to another timeline? 138 was also a memory or at least mikasas envision of an alternative time where they ran away, you can tell by the broken paneling shown multiple times in the manga… it’s not another timeline lmao

Weebookey said:
The panels literally "break" indicating a memory.

AOT does not have a alternative timelines, it is in a fixed timeline where despite influencing the past, certain events are fixed. Meaning, no matter what a time traveller does to change/influence the past, the circumstances will find a way to make that event happen.

Eren cannot change the past nor the future. He can only influence how it happens. The whole tragedy of his character is him trapped within his destiny and the best he can do with the powers of the attack titan and founding titan is knowledge of what will happen, given what his "future" self has sent back to grisha/owl and small influences in the past to make things happen in a way that suits him best....

Please tell me how these pages do not indicate a memory being brought up.....


Jfc there's no point fighting over such a dumb statement... if u cant even comprehend that these are mere false or artificial memories created by Eren then there's no hope.. AOT is truly one of the most misunderstood series ever LOL

Weebookey said:
Fuck this is retarded. That’s an alternative timeline if they lived in modern day, it has no relevance the the main story timeline…

This whole thread is about the one and only manga ending lmfaoo

Weebookey said:
Mappa is adapting the manga 1:1 there nothing else to say about it 😂
There is no timelines that end like a damn VN jfc lol

Tokoya said:
Only for up to 131...Everything after and especially 139 completely contradicts what was set up

CrimsonGeek said:


Nope, it doesn't.

Zekkenshin said:
The problem is the entire final arc is lackluster in comparison to everything else AoT offers. Changing the ending or even expanding on it only adds a layer of paint to an already scratched surface. I would honestly have rather seen an entirely different story play out starting from 124 onward (preferably horror / dementia to the max).

Tokoya said:
It does because up to 123, the entire story of the series followed philosophies of things like rational self-interest and actively opposed/rejected themes and philosophies such as collective altruism which is basically what everything after 123 (And mostly after 131) randomly tried to throw into the narrative and justify, and as such this is why these last few chapters are plain and simply contradictive of what came before

Armin and co wanting to save the world makes no fucking sense because the world only wanted to use them and then once they saw that the Rumbling was possible, they all collectively decided to take out Paradis....Peace was never going to be realistically attainable and as we saw in the extra pages, they paid the ultimate price for a stupid ass decision that never should have been made

Throughout the entirety of Attack of Titan, the only conclusion this story can come to narratively and logically come to is genocide and yes it's fucked up to think about, but you have to take your own personal modern day morals out of it and see the situation for what it always was

Whether it be kill all the titans, kill marley or kill the world...The theme/end goal always stayed the same...Co-existence will never be possible if one or both sides refuses to play together, so at that point its either us or them

But if anything, watch this video that I'm gonna link below, it goes over everything in extreme detail with concrete evidence and analysis

https://youtu.be/Hr44dBCWcHY