For anyone upset, get over yourself and recognize i gave season 1-3 a 8-10 rating. Ive been dunking on this stuff since season 4 as i read the manga during season 3 and recognized the failure in writing. I dont review low because of one ending moment but because the series showed it was a one star show besides a few interesting characters like Levi and Armin pre-Erwins death. The pressure even got to the man (author) enough where he kept apologizing for the ending on twitter and he got teary eye at a conference because people actually said they liked his series. If there is this big of an issue, there is a writing issue that needed to be solved.
The credit i will give is the anime fixed that certain characters sacrifice. In the manga they really just off themselves for no reason as they dont affect the titan speed at all lmao. Honestly just an example of poor pacing and failure to juggle. And if you have to use dead characters to artificially praise living characters to stop your fanbase from comparing the leaders together, u failed as a writer. For many anime onlies not gettig this paragraph, this was all stuff prominently complained about during the mangas monthly releases. This is only the tip of the iceberg of issues that the anime finally reached.
If you love AOT and its your favourite show like how it was once mine, this will be good for you. If you were already iffy about the later seasons and/or know the manga spoilers/already have your stance on the ending, dont bother.
