imagine thanking your friend for committing genocide uwu tysm for being a monster for us babe... that is literally what happened in the ending, and whatever 'good' plot this manga had previously is wiped out by the sheer terribleness of the ending. for example, apart from that, a slave girl started loving her literal rapist + owner + murderer (kinda) and got closure from another girl's shitty excuse of a romance. ah... I'm sorry... maybe this other girl's romance isn't that bad, but because this ending was so bad, i couldn't feel anything for the romance. SPOILER yeah it's freaking mikasa. it sucks.
Art 5: it used to be 3 or 4, but it slowly improved so I would say it deserves a 5
Character 2: absolutely dreadful closure for the characters in the ending, all the character development seems to have vanished. Armin's character development was tossed in the toilet bowl when he said that stupid crap in 139. not very sure about his 'smart plan' to save humanity though, maybe he deserves more credit for that but the 'hehe friendship' shit was so freaking bad. man. Apart from him, mikasa is clingy to the end. she COULD have had better character development, but she DIDN'T. and eren... i think his character development went backwards as well, as the readers realised that he didn't know what the hell he was doing. (let's not forget the GENOCIDE) The main trio hence deserves a whopping 0 for character, but the 2 i put was for all the other survey corps members who died for such a shitty plot. oh and of course my favourite babies jean sasha connie, who did NOT get the character development they deserved. i think i wanted to see jean as a leader or something.
Enjoyment 1: SPOILER AGAIN i didn't enjoy my favourites being alive at the end because the ending was so bad. actually when they were alive again they seemed to be genocide sympathisers. anyway, actually, i have never truly enjoyed attack on titan but that's just me. i was just a fan of jean sasha connie and i wanted to know how the story ends, and i never loved the plot that much. but yeah enough of me, as you can see from my ranting about character development, i did not enjoy this manga at all. the 1 point is for jean sasha connie moments <3
overall: sum divided by 4. Thanks for reading, and i hope you enjoy the manga/anime more than me. i'm not sure if i recommend the anime more than the manga because i heard that they cut some parts from the manga? which sucks. but then the anime has a lot of hype! i also hope this review was kind of useful, because at the end, i felt like the ending was not just encouraging romance between a rapist slave-owner murderer and his slave, but also glorifying (or glossing over) genocide. this is why i cannot trust people who liked the ending....
EDIT: I read the bonus pages (does it count as chapter 139? why is the total suddenly 141) and I don't really care about jeankasa being canon after the way mikasa pined for eren in like literally 4 pages earlier or something smh my head... embarrassing.
