Attack on Titan: The Final Chapter Review

This is my epilogue to the Attack on Titan Colossal Review. These are my thoughts on a series I've been in love with for the last 8 years! Special thanks to AnimeAjay for this week's script!

This is possibly my final video on Attack on Titan, and it's through my review of its final installment. Chapter 139, Toward the Tree on that Hill. Poor Mikasa, poor Levi, Poor Armin... I hope you all enjoy the video and I hope you can appreciate our point of view!

MUSIC USED:

-Kid's Theme (198X)
-Init. (We Keep The City Running)
-Back When We Were Kids (198X)
-Vignette - Panacea (Hyper Light Drifter)
-Titan (Hyper Light Drifter)
-Entregaras tu rostro (Blasphemous)
-AOT Theme Sad Version (Pokemixr92)
-Hunter X Hunter Preview Theme

Video edited by Editor-San

[samurai]

People who liked the ending: That Levi scene was really good

People who disliked the ending: That Levi scene was really good

[eduardogutierrez]

It's ironic that the world in AOT almost ended up becoming the world it was supposed to be at the beginning of the manga: a world in which all people outside the walls were exterminated by the titans.

[jessepanosh]

Imagine if Eren had just bumped into Historia at literally any point during the academy days

[Godzilla]

Isayama has said that the Anime is the definitive version and has used the medium to correct things he didn't like about the way the story was presented in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if he took the chance to let the ending breathe more in its anime form as well. That would clear up many of the issues, especially the ones you talked about here.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Levi shedding a tear while devoting his heart was heart to the Survey Corps one last time, was heart wrenching.

[htw.]

Attack on titan was created, hated, forgotten, loved, and concluded all within my lifetime. What a time to be alive.

[ammar]

My man Erwin couldn't even get his missing arm back in the afterlife, he was the only one saluting with the left 😂

[texassummer]

in Lost girl, Isayama explained the concept. " if you want eren to be free, you have to kill him" . it was published decade ago.

[RogersBase]

For me personally, AoT had a 7/10 ending but was a 10/10 series. Definitely had some issues with the final chapter of Attack of Titan (such as Ymir's Stockholm Syndrome and the reversal of Connie/Jean/Gabi's fate) but overall, I'm VERY satisfied and feel like I got what I wanted for the most part. The end of an era. PS: You're totally right on in your analysis of AoT's perception of time (it's very similar to the movie Arrival)

[jorgel.quiroz]

Maybe the real Attack on Titan were the friends we made along the way.

[psyonide]

The pacing in the anime between armin and erin fixed so much of this. I watched it without any spoilers. It hit really hard. They added extra dialogue letting the conversation breathe a little.

[CellSpex]

Ok so hear me out...

I acknowledge It still could have been better executed or phrased, but lot of people have a problem with Eren's "I don't want Mikasa to be with another man' outburst', which honestly didn't strike me as that strange, it was the one time since being in his omnipetent state (that I can remember) where he seemed to show genuine emotion, the last time in his life where hell be able to express how he truely feels about her before he dies, these are his raw unfiltered feelings, and aside that I feel anime romance, or honestly a lot of mainstream romance in general frequently paints a lot selfish impulses like possession and jealousy as romantic so this depiction doesnt particularly surprise me, but in a way its oddly fitting.
Because well, Mikasa's love for Eren has frequently been descibed as, unhealthy, obsessive, and certainly had her moments of possessiveness and jealousy, literally the entire last arc is her reisting having to kill Eren even though he has murdered SO MANY PEOPLE. So Eren's outburst in a way is him expressing 'My feelings for Mikasa are just as selfish and irrational as her love for me!" And in that way, I weirdly find it kind of fitting.

But then again, you know, he did just kill most of humanity so its still ok to give him shit about it

[ill_luck]

I was about to comment “I wasn’t expecting this until Thursday” and then I realized

[DesignDoc]

Feels like the ending, while a bit flat and not all that well told, doesn't undo the rest of the series, and still retains its own merits to some degree. AoT still seems very much like a series worth reading or watching from start to finish.

[professional]

I saw someone point out in the final scene of the boy walking up to Eren's great tree, the boy exploring the hollow has a dog with him, and presumably goes into it willingly. While Ymir was chased by dogs and on the verge of death. The idea being that even if things repeat, maybe the ultimate fate of the cycle of violence is these minor differences that might mean the curses of the world we leave behind are just a bit better than what we had to fight in our time.

[zainsalim]

I've had this video in my watch later playlist since the day it released since I was an anime only viewer. Today, I'm coming back to it, purely because I absolutely LOVE your method of analysing and reviewing content

[corsijtsma]

Isayama probably will instruct Mappa to extend the scenes to make it more sense in the end. That or make the dialogue make more sense for those who thought wtf was going on in the final chapter

[presidenttogekiss]

I like to think that one of the reasons why Eren freaked out at the end of the Liberio raid when Sasha died was because he realized that she HAD to, that there was no possibility to actually save her. She was doomed to die regardless of what he did.

[NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

Im really glad they beefed up the dialogue and pacing in the anime. I felt it nailed almost everything Iseyama was going for

[kingace]

All of this being said, MAAPA's ending (as long as they follow the story) could fix the pacing problems of the last chapter cinematically.