The Attack on Titan season four has begun.
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Time for The Attack on Titan final season manga comparison..
Did Mappa studio do a good job?
Was anything censored?
Any changes?
What was cut out or what was newly added?
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Let me quickly get this disclaimer out of the way first.
Despite what is in this video, I really don't advise watching Attack on Titan or any anime
in this manner.
I want to also hammer down this is not me supposedly hating the MAPPA studio.
If you actually see my videos I don't know how you would get that for a single second,
but unfortunately twisting what is said or straight out lying seems to be common.
I’m only gonna mention this here once, probably still not gonna stop people, but I tried.
Anyway, for the actual anime manga comparison, for this video I probably went super overboard.
On top of the actual comparison for the manga and anime visuals, I went ahead and compared
the Japanese manga dialogue to the Japanese anime dialogue.
And then, for good measure, double-checked it with the English manga, comparing it to
the official subbed anime.
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Attack on Titan season 4 episode 1 titled “the other side of the ocean”, same title
as chapter 91.
Kicking this off with Falco!
A near anime scene here, a focus with a close-up on Falco's eye.
Great attention to detail with the bird flying in the reflection too.
Way to go MAPPA!
For the far shot, oh they've removed it from the anime.
The manga showed you Marco’s relative close to Falco.
Manga’s Falco was also closer to that hole.
You are able to see four people, well, three and a half, at least one of them looked alive.
For the anime they're all dead.
New for the anime is that busted shovel, one piece in the manga.
New bonus explosion with the body flying too, because you didn't have enough in the opening.
You got a new cherry explosion to the side as Colt is helping out his little bro.
Plus two more when he's holding ass out of there.
Slight change here.
Manga’s Colt actually jumped and made it into the hole.
In the anime, Colt's batteries ran out just before.
Instead, he had Gabi and the other warrior candidates helping to pull them in.
Getting into Magath, for the manga version, he's already waiting with the four of them,
compared to now, where we had the commander coming out with his thick buddy in the anime,
which is, by the way, a huge thank you to the Attack on Titan anime for making this
guy a lot more distinct.
For a cut: Gabi line.
Gabi originally asked about their injuries.
For the hurted Falco, you do hear Gabi claiming that he must have hit his head.
However now for the anime Gabi now emphasizes it must have been a strong hit to the coconut.
By the way I personally love MAPPA’s positioning the trio like this.
Quick thing to notice about Gabi, she did have black hair in the manga, which has now
been switched up to brown for her anime debut.
Kind of resembling Sasha as a kid.
I have seen some anime-only people mix that up.
For some new anime dialogue, Falco is more confused about who he is.
The English subs were a little weird here.
Falco mentioned recalling someone holding a sword and flying around, plus a mention
about a titan.
Too bad Falco got cut off.
For a Gabi anime change.
You now have Gabi getting Falco wet, compared to the manga, where it was originally Udo.
Zophia was also tending to Falco's wound.
Now she's just idly standing there in the anime.
For a slight anime correction, they actually added a little Eldian symbol to Falco’s
jacket.
Giving props to MAPPA studio here!
Excellent animation with the bird transitioning over to the fog,
which is now more reddish compared to just looking dirt color from the trailer.
Anyway, you now have Zophia tending to Falco that got moved forward in the anime.
Next up, something that I spotted completely wrong in the English translation.
You got Gabi that brings up the topic of the next Armored Titan.
In the manga, you have two of the warriors that seem to be going against Gabi.
“Don’t get cocky, Gabi”.
“One look at your grade”.
Now flip it to the anime, which is actually more correct to what was in the Japanese manga.
“Well Gabi does have us beat”.
“As far as our grades go”.
Notice they're freaking agreeing with Gabi having the upper hand.
Next up, for Gabi here, you got anime’s Gabi looking much more intense.
Those dreaded lines echo what was often done in Attack on Titan season 1.
Newly added for the anime you got a visual of the soldiers on the fort as Colt describes
the issue with staying put for too long.
Here's some great attention to detail in the anime.
You could clearly spot the warrior brats eavesdropping early on.
For the anti-titan cannon it is much much easier to see the details in the manga version.
And don't get me wrong.
I don't mind it not looking as sharp in the anime, since they were trying to imitate what
Magath was seeing.
About the rounds, this actually got upgraded from 100 millimeters to 150 millimeter rounds
for the anime now.
For the anime, now notice an update to a term.
“Warrior Unit” has been updated to “Eldian unit”, which I do think makes it far less
confusing.
Talking about the “800 expendable Eldians”, switching between manga and anime really gives
you a good look at the detail that MAPPA added for the anime.
The trenches aren't simple hoes anymore.
You got things like wood, spikes, sandbags.
A new anime scene, you got the poor Eldian soldier shaking, which includes chubs ordering
them to get ready for their final charge.
This includes a newly added darker movement that got to some of you.
The Eldians being forced into the suicide squad.
Nice little extra salt on the wound with the poor Eldian kissing the watch.
Overall very nice addition.
It really does emphasize how Marley and Magath see these Eldians.
Next up, fun little detail.
You could almost hear that internal moan as Gabi calls herself cute.
For the super intense Gabi, I left out the fleshed out detail for the face shot.
It feels like so much is lost in the manga due to the dialogue real estate.
For an anime cut scene, they axed out Falco screaming out for his little muffin, along
with the cocky Gabi smiling back looking back at his sorry ass.
For the anime, now Falco is just looking intensely.
Getting into bomber Gabi, in the manga version you can actually see a little bit of muscle
here.
Sorry anime Gabi, you've been downgraded.
Looking closer at those grenades, the anime added what seems to be some plant route.
Later you do see that they distinguish between the rope and the trigger switch, which gabby
rigged up to pull the pins when she tosses it.
For an anime cut, Colt pointed out how the soldiers without uniforms goes against international
law, to which Magath quickly replies “Don't worry there won't be a problem if there's
no survivors to report it”.
And then Falco's just wondering why Gabi is loony enough to go this far.
For a new brief anime scene, the guy points out Gabi not moving.
And the other guy is like “Who cares?
Shoot her little Eldian ass”.
Time for the Jaws Titan.
In the anime, you can now slowly see the hardened face being chipped by those bullets.
In the manga counterpart, those are deeper.
Looked like he was suffering more damage.
It's now a lot easier to spot the harding claws too.
Looks like the Jaws Titan has no titan crystal for them, or at the very least they're not
blue.
Now this is where the anime gets to shine.
Instead of Jaws Titan pretty much jumping forward to smash, you get to see the speedy
Jaws Titan evading the gunfire.
He leaps to the left, to the right, then titan-smashes them.
Switching to the blimp.
One light cut out from the anime.
Originally we had the soldier telling Reiner and Zeke to still be cautious of any anti-titan
artillery inside of the fort.
Looking at the packaged Eldians, same scene in both.
Although in the anime version it is that much harder to spot the drool.
Taking a focus on Zeke.
One of the more curious things, it has been something that a lot of manga readers have
noticed and asked me about.
Why does Zeke not have white hair?
Zeke right now is in his final year for the Beast Titan.
If you recall, a titan shifter does have a 13 year time limit, you could thank the lovely
curse of Emir.
Recall the Founding Titan-Uri, I have mentioned this rapid aging, potentially being limited
to only royal blood Eldians, like Zeke.
Zeke has been shown on manga covers with white hair, multiple times in fact.
So what happened?
It might just be the obvious.
This could be Isayama using the anime to recon and update Zeke for you.
He's still your golden boy.
Getting back into the battlefield.
The Eldian in charge.
You got one full page panel being beautifully expanded for the anime.
Now there's so much death, tons of bullets, a river of blood.
You even have a bonus scene of a lone soldier climbing a mountain of dead bodies.
For the Jaws Titan, did you catch it?
Looks like the anime is continuing the season 3 tradition of the red eyes for titan shifters.
Likewise the single Jaws Titan panel of him wrecking shot got expanded on.
One of my personal favorite details, you can now spot the hardened claws in the back too.
What adorable titan pawns!
Alright so getting into the jealous titan biting down.
Nothing weird here, except like some of you noticed there are two different versions.
The trailer did show you this scene, but with hand-drawn animation instead of CG.
Ditto for the Cart Titan tank mode charging in.
Oh and I recall people saying that I was nitpicking for saying it looked a little weird here.
Virtually goes to show that the season 4’s version is a huge improvement.
And notice the Cart Titan is going with those yellow gems instead of red.
Next bonus anime scene!
After the Cart Titan flips our table, you get to enjoy the ldn unit coming in to double
tap.
For the far shot the anime is so rich in detail.
You got a buffet of dead bodies everywhere
Next up, an anime cut.
A full manga page is chopped out.
It was actually a quick discussion between Colt and the commander on the current state
of events.
The rest would be left up to Zeke and Reiner.
Honestly no real loss here.
For the Eldians retreat, I like how you can now actually see hundreds in the anime.
Not much space to show this in detail for a single panel.
For the Eldians getting their Deadpool moment.
The anime now completely removed any sign of them drooling.
So really?
What gives?
Weird, since they did include it previously.
Let me go ahead and show some more left for some animation.
The monkey boy is screaming his ass off, followed by the titan light show in the sky
I'm so living for this fleshed out animation scenes
For Colt on the ground, now visible tears.
You could almost not even see the detail in the manga.
Even zooming in it's tough to spot.
Then for the titan care package delivery.
I counted over 50 titans in the anime.
Still, quality upper quantity.
I think the winner for this goes to the Attack on Titan manga.
On the other hand, I do think the anime captured the sheer destruction from all the titan impact
a lot better.
On the ground the enemy now gives you the titans feasting and capturing their prey.
Oh one poor titan on the right did not make it.
Even this silly titan scene is made goofier with the background.
For the warrior candidate shot, I like how the anime lined them up.
Which by the way, Zophia, are you related to Annie?
For the titans getting shot up.
Oh super bloody for the anime.
I like how they really demonstrated how easily these things could go down now.
For a slight anime change: The Reiner flashback.
Compare this to the manga, you could actually see Bert, Eren, Potato Girl and Connie in
detail.
I'm going to wager this is MAPPA not wanting you to directly compare the characters between
studios.
Anime improvement time!
You could actually see the detail of Reiner slashing his hand to go titan mode.
Did someone say superhero landing?
Ulike season 3 you got the Armor Titan going back to the yellow glow too.
Getting right into the Armor Titan going on a rampage.
Let me just say it.
I really didn't mind the CG Armor Titan used here.
It really felt like MAPPA studio did a great job showing his titan off.
Even Reiner from inside the titan, so red.
Right here you can see the armor titan getting penetrated.
Anyway now getting into an armored titan change, you got Reiner losing his arm.
What the hell?!
This is completely anime original.
Manga Reiner didn't lose any limbs at all during those.
In fact the anime added an additional anti-titan train too.
After the Armor Titan got shot one time in the arm, the Jaws Titan came in for the save,
which did happen in the anime, but only after the new scene of Reiner's suffering.
Oh I think I get it!
Isayama, good job!
For an anime bonus, do I smell the bromance developing just locking eyes on the battlefield?
Unfortunately this now means that anime Reiner couldn't do this.
The manga Armor Titan pulled out this tower to smash some more cannons.
In the anime that's now replaced with Reiner using this tank as a shield.
And I mean isn't this a little bit embarrassing?!
The Armor Titan needing a freaking shield
Twirl, Reiner!
Twirl!
Either way, don't get me wrong.
I personally didn't mind the switch up here.
And then a bonus with the titan bros acknowledging their win.
For a funny scene.
We got the Armor Titan calling Zeke over.
This was straight out of PS2.
For dio here, lovely detail with the blood splatter on his face.
For the Donkey Kong Titan, you got the red eyed fella.
And yeah, like a lot of you, I do agree that this guy stands out the most.
Although I think I'm slowly getting used to it by now.
For this episode, if anything, I think Reiner stands out the most from the far shot.
Come on some Blu-ray improvements!
You could really tell that MAPPA was trying hard to imitate the Beast Titan throw from
Attack on Titan season 2.
Sorry but With Studio raised that bar sky high.
I mean hell even in season 3 they freaking copied and pasted it.
In the anime, Zeke is now much more savage.
Making sure to devil and triple tap through ships.
You could actually now see the destruction from below the water too now.
Then for the wrecked Reiner.
Could this be the only drawn shot of him in season 4?
For an anime out of detail, Gabi is visually shaking at the sight
Gabi must be like “Not again Reiner?”.
Going forward, this is completely anime original.
I really didn't like getting a taste of the Marley people cheering for their victory.
Kind of humanized them some.
And then what had me cheering at the end.
You know who this is!
Let me bring up a popular question about the Attack on Titan season 4 trailer.
Wasn't it false advertising?
Most scenes from that trailer did not even make it into this episode.
Never mind the obvious switch to CG titans.
It really now does explain how the trailers seem to mostly be stills, very little actual
animation.
Let me be fair and ask you: how do you feel about this switcheroo?
I do think I've seen some people go extremely overboard, saying that CG ruined the Attack
on Titan season 4.
At the same time I do think you're justified in disliking how one thing was teased, yet
you got something completely different for episode 1.
Overall, what did you think about the first episode?
Are you anime only or manga reader?
And trust me, I know some of you hate CG no matter how it looks.
Thankfully I think I was quickly able to get used to it, at least for this first episode.
Taking that into account, perhaps unpopular opinion, but freaking amazing first episode
by MAPPA studio.
I mean comparing it to the manga, the manga looked so rough you could tell Isayama was
still improving at this point.
The best part is really seeing more meat added to the bony scenes.
These little details do matter.
And then with the great bonus new scenes.
The two that stand out from this episode was the early Falco stuff and mr newspaper.
I'm really hyped to see what comes next.
Here's hoping that the CG titans keep some consistent quality.
I am a bit concerned when it comes to titan error making a season 4 debut.
And yes, CG titan Eren is confirmed.
I saw it myself yesterday at the MAPPA event.
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