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AOT really dropped the ball in the last arc and completely destroyed the entire series along with its main cast of characters. The plot armour given to the "Cringevengers" is insane and all the characters that were turned into titans in ch 138 are just turned back in 139. Some of the dialogue in the last few chapters is just cringeworthy (eg Erens tantrum in 139, Reiners letter sniffing and horse reference etc.)Let me explain in detail. Sorry no TL;DR 😥
The Rumbling arc was...really unfortunate. It all started fine, but right around 135, everything just went completely off the rails.
-----> We abandon
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our main character for the entire final arc. He has spent the entire last arc being a plot device. His personality radically changed at the end of the Return to shinganshina arc, for obvious reasons but in ways that are never made clear.
He is clearly compelled to initiate the Rumbling, but also doesn't seem interested in seeing it through, which is a weird stance to take on global genocide. He has, ironically, become a slave to the metaphysical abstract of "Freedom", much like how a Power Rangers villain worships the general idea of "Evil", and it is just never addressed.
The plan was apparently "murder 80% of the world, so the Alliance looks like the good guys", but in the next breath we are told that they're just going to take their revenge. "This fight won't end until either the Eldians or the rest of the world are wiped out." Killing 80% of the world just to delay war with the other 20% is not a good strategy. Paradis, I would imagine, still has an extreme numerical disadvantage against the remaining nations. So Eren killed 80% on the vague chance that Paradis's 1% could fend off the remaining 19% without titans? That's his justification for genocide? Also, why 80%? Also, the rest 20 per cent of the world are far ahead in tech, if they have a single aircraft carrier left, paradise is done in an hour.
The politics involved were too complex for Eren to figure out on his own, it seems. So why didn't he get advice from his genius best friend about it? Why did he talk to Floch & Historia? If he's worried that his friends will oppose him, maybe it's because they have a point and he should take their advice. If he can't stop himself anyway, there's not really any reason not to tell them either.
This guy, having never expressed an iota of affection for Mikasa, tells us he loves her only after he's dead.
ON TOP OF THAT, HE LEGITIMATELY CONTROLLED DINA TO MURDER THE MOTHER HE LOVED. THAT GOES BEYOND THE SIMPLE THEORIES THAT EREN KILLED HIS MOM THROUGH "INACTION" BY NOT TELLING HIS DAD IN THE FUTURE TO HAVE THEM MOVE TO A DIFFERENT CITY OR EVEN A DIFFERENT HOUSE. HE STRAIGHT UP MURDERED HIS MOM. WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE? COULDN'T HE HAVE JUST TOLD DINA TO SIT OUTSIDE THE WALL OR SOMETHING?
Knowing how the Rumbling would turn out, what was the point of all the collateral damage in the Liberio operation? The Liberians are some of the few people to survive the Rumbling, and likely to hold enmity for it. Taking the Warhammer Titan power seems largely wasted.
There's no point to the time shenanigans.
Eren seeing the future ultimately didn't change his plans. He still would have pushed forward to start the Rumbling, except his failure to complete it would make more sense.
Did Eren even try to change the future? He could see the future, but does he know that it can't be changed?
Did he need to influence the past? Knowing that Dina ate his mom and Grisha killed the Reiss family, what is the purpose in going back and making them do it?
Similarly, we abandon Historia for everything post-Uprising. That arc revolved around putting her in power, and once she's queen she does nothing except get pregnant. The story cuts to her every now and then to remind us she's pregnant, but nothing ever comes of it.
It is difficult to tell what, if any, effect Hange's sacrifice had, which isn't a satisfying way to send off a character. Also, the way Zeke the smartest character in the AOT universe is killed is just insulting.
Eren is clearly not making an effort to complete the Rumbling.
In the ideological name of freedom, he has allowed other Eldians to mount a resistance, which is fair. However, when it comes to mounting a defence of the Founding Titan, he barely tries.
Dozens of shifters face off against 4 shifters, 2 Ackermans, and a few normies. Eren demonstrates he can create a volley of arrows and rocks in addition to an overwhelming numerical and experience advantage, but the Alliance is still able to put up a fight.
He captures Armin, but lets him live and get rescued.
He leaves explosives on his neck, to be detonated.
He holds Pieck impaled until she regains her composure and starts her attack again (though the timing of this is unclear. Perhaps she was still fighting while the rest were flying around and didn't get impaled until they were on their second approach).
Eren hides his head in the Colossal Titan's mouth, unguarded and without even being crystallized. He also doesn't use steam to fend off Mikasa.
Another big gaping hole: near the end when Eren transforms into a colossal, how does he or any other titan shifter transform? Wasn't it established that the titan shifting ability is a direct result of Ymir constructing them with the sand in the path dimension? So is Ymir still continuing to build them through all of this? Didn't Eren set her free? Even during the big battle on the founder's back, she would have had to be building titans for her/Eren's enemies?
Additionally, no one in the Alliance acknowledges that Eren let them win.
Falco has a dream, and then on his second shift is able to transform into a bird, combining 2 shifter aspects we've never seen before: flight and transformation. Aside from hardening, the only titan we've seen able to make complex structures is the Warhammer titan. Side Rant for Falco
Zeke, who was opposed to the Rumbling, to begin with, could have ended the Rumbling at any time by just exiting Paths and running away or killing himself. He just didn't until Armin told him to.
All of Zeke's friends, who were opposed to the Rumbling, to begin with, could have helped the Alliance at any point but didn't until Armin told them to.
Only Zeke's friends decided to help. None of the other Past Titans wanted to stop the Rumbling.
When Eren's head is blown off, Reiner is somehow able to hold off the spine, which decided to stop growing once it reached about 50ft.
When his head is blown off, it turns out the spine actually was the progenitor hallucigenia, and now it is somehow alive, disconnected, and independent. Its objective is apparently to reconnect with Eren's head. However, instead of running toward Eren in the aftermath of the explosion when everyone else is winded, it runs away to gather an army of titans to clear a path. It takes its horde of titans and bullrushes Reiner, Annie, and Pieck so it can get back to Eren. Despite the overwhelming force (the titans could just pick everyone up and run forward), they are still able to hold off the spine.
The main objective of the Alliance vs Founder battle is nonsensical.
For some reason, the spine is exposed on this Titan. It appears that his head and body spawned separate titan sections. If the head was truly a weak point, it is unclear why it never fully reattached to the body.
Eren's head is detached twice, and the Alliance still views Eren's head as the main objective, assuming it needs to be severed a third time to win.
AND SOMEHOW THEY'RE RIGHT?!
Eren decides to take Colossal Titan form for some reason.
It is unclear why he hid his head in his mouth. It is further unclear how Mikasa knew the head was in the mouth.
Things just sorta stop and go away.
Ymir goes away. What was her motivation? Love? Love for perpetual abuser projected onto Mikasa’s obsession? Why is she gone? Because she Mikasa kissed Eren? Ymir has had sex and kissing is what placates her? How much of the Rumbling was her and how much was Eren? During the final battle, did she build the Alliance's titans just so they could attack her? Did she have any agency at all besides choosing Eren over Zeke? The whole Ymir-Zeke-Eren love triangle doesn't seem to follow any particular rules.
Hallu-chan goes away. Guess we'll never find out what was up with that thing. Is there another one? Could it create another Founding Titan? Why was it so important to get to Eren's head when shifters can move their consciousness? This thing kicked off the entire mythos of the series and we know nothing about it and no one seems to care.
Pure titans reverted back to normal. So that rather undercuts the pathos from 138, as well as 119.
Titans are gone entirely. Now Paradis is basically defenceless. Thanks, Ymir.
In the end, nothing is accomplished. The war continues. Eren's genocide was pointless. In fact, it might have just made the remaining peoples hate Paradis more. Again, why would you half-ass a genocide?
The worst thing also for me is that Eren apparently had no idea what would happen after his death. He just hoped and prayed that his "friends" would be seen as heroes and not just gunned down.
I tried to keep this criticism as objective as possible (inasmuch as criticism can be objective). I'm not angry that there wasn't a downer ending, or that Eren died; I'm upset that it was poorly written. I wanted to say good things about Attack on Titan's ending, but like many endings to stories that started great, it crumbled under its own weight. It happened to Mass Effect, Game of Thrones, Promised Neverland, and now Attack on Titan.
---> credit goes to u/UnknowNinja , i used some of his points
Apr 8, 2021
Shingeki no Kyojin
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****SPOILERS ALERT*****
AOT really dropped the ball in the last arc and completely destroyed the entire series along with its main cast of characters. The plot armour given to the "Cringevengers" is insane and all the characters that were turned into titans in ch 138 are just turned back in 139. Some of the dialogue in the last few chapters is just cringeworthy (eg Erens tantrum in 139, Reiners letter sniffing and horse reference etc.)Let me explain in detail. Sorry no TL;DR 😥 The Rumbling arc was...really unfortunate. It all started fine, but right around 135, everything just went completely off the rails. -----> We abandon ... Mar 29, 2021
(I apologize in advance for my poor English)This season of AOT was really overhyped by the fandom and any criticism of it just means that people say you are too dumb to understand it OR "you should be grateful for what you have got ".
Animation - Hands down the worst it has been in the 4 seasons of AOT. Very choppy animation at some places (for example the forest fight), along with hideous CGI for ALL the titan shifters this time, the camera angles and the editing all feels so amateur and like it is done with no passion at all. Still frames for ... Mar 25, 2019
Meitantei Conan
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FIRST OF ALL before i start writing this review i would like to tell you that Detective Conan has 928 episodes at the time of this review out of which only 555 are from the manga. It is complete madness to watch all of them and that destroys the experience as well.The non manga fillers do get boring after episode 345 but the manga based stuff is still genius. That is why I highly suggest you to get a good episode list from Google preferably the Xerblade list as that will greatly improve your watching experience. Even the Detective Conan Wiki list with the symbols
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