I won't rewatch it and I'll just trust my memory.
This won't be a review either, I'll just write a few things that were really awful to me.
Not to mention the huge drop in production quality that despite most of the fandom coping, was objectively quite big, it killed a lot of the epic scenes that all manga readers were waiting for and no amount of thinking that the animators did everything they could will change that.
I loved this anime up until the rumbling started but almost everything that happened after was just a disappointment, although at the time I watched it I didn't think it was that bad, but in retrospect I see/think that Isayama had absolutely no idea what would happen after the rumbling started.
Attack on Titan was often compared to titles like Game of Thrones, people praised the brutal world and the fact that "no character was safe" and you can agree with that, unfortunately now these comparisons go even further and Aot, like GoT, loses all its atmosphere and gives its characters who are loved by fans, a huge plot armor (yes, Hanji had her senseless sacrifice but still..) Levi lives only because he is the most popular character in this anime, we stop having the feeling that the characters are real people, we only see "chosen ones" like superheroes from Avengers, I'm not saying that the desire to save the world = Avengers but a small group of these wonderful and unique characters who, accompanied by plot armor, go to save the world and manage to defeat the fucking "God" gives me some Avengers vibes. But before that, these "good chosen ones" have to slaughter their old comrades, ok it seems to add something and show that it's not that easy and these heroic saving the world will require getting your hands dirty but the way it was presented in the anime is pure comedy, as if Mikasa ran a sword through a young boy which was enough to kill him BUT... additionally she had to blow up their corpses just to look "cool" in the rain of their blood XDD
Overall the final battle made the world building really disappointing, even though we skipped the island the world didn't end up being that much bigger, what do I mean? is all the world has to offer against Rumbling a few airships? and ships? is that all the world has to offer even though they were terrified of Rumbling? Everything that led to the final battle and how it looked was simply too simple/straightforward, there were no plot lines that would make the finale believable and diversify how our heroes simply chase after Rumbling, I think that the Tybura family plot was wasted and could have enriched the final battle, the family that feared Rumbling the most could have had some knowledge about the weakness of the founding titan, some secret special forces that would be prepared to repel the march of colossal BUT we got some shit with dropping explosive barrels from airships, which of course failed and everything rested on the shoulders of our chosen group who forgot about the previous seasons and do not know that gas, blades, lightning spears and titan energy, are ending, if Isayama had time and planned the final battle better, he could have supported our heroes with some army, this army could have been armed with experimental special weapons that could have been somehow mentioned earlier by Magatha who was close to Tybur, our heroes could refill gas and everything else on airships and Falco could rest until the last flight to Eren, so that the fact that he has been in titan form for so long despite only his second transformation, would not seem so stupid, Isayama had a lot of room to show off to make the whole finale more logical, so that all the previously established rules were respected BUT NO... we literally got crap in the style of Avengers where everything, everyone happily succeeded, the whole fight with those titans summoned by Ymir was a festival of weak writing.
Eren...yes, everyone knew that he cared about his friends and everything was just a "game" it wouldn't be a big surprise so what did Isayama do? he did something that no one really expected, no one had the right to expect xD he literally canceled the entire fucking development of Eren, a character that everyone (almost) praised for developing in season 4, a character who became really radical in his actions and everyone was able to deeply understand why he was like that, even those who didn't like him BUT *PLOT TWIST* Eren is the same idiot as in the first season and doesn't know what he's doing... why? no one expected him to be just a cold "Sigma" I expected him to finally crack and show emotions but I didn't expect that his whole "New Character" is just "acting" xDDD this is probably the most important disappointment in history!!
Additionally, his pseudo romance with Mikasa... or "romance" that was just a meme for season 1-3 and no one NOBODY took it seriously and in the fourth season they only got a few scenes of something that can be perceived as the real construction of their relationship, can it be the most important element of the finale? there's nothing more pathetic than Eren going from being completely indifferent romantically towards Mikasa for 90% of the anime to someone so desperately in love, really those few sad looks Eren gives Mikasa don't build it up enough.
Plus that idiotic vision of Mikasa at the end...I don't remember what it was exactly (I hope it was just a false illusion and not an alternate reality)
Was our asshole, infinitely in love with Mikasa, Eren, able to leave his people/other friends and run away with Mikasa? Someone will say "oh just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad" IT'S BAD...it's a complete denial of Eren's nature and character and all in the name of this hopelessly written romance, in the entire anime there's probably only one dialogue between them that shows that they have any real chemistry and it doesn't work only on the principle that Mikasa has a comical obsession with Eren XD Mikasa's character in general, if she had something in her than love for Eren and wasn't a literal Pikachu who instead of "pika" says "Eren" then maybe I would be able to take it seriously and it wouldn't seem like a forced comedy.
I don't want to write anymore...
To start the rumble 10/10
Next 6/10
