The Attack on Titan finale!
What's up with Mikasa's headaches?
Especially giving them to a certain titan.
Isn't that right Eren?
So what's up guys Foxen here. Other timelines? Other realities? Eren's demise? Titan magic?
Is mikasa just taking a page out of mirai nikki? Or did Isayama actually foreshadow
this since chapter one? So go ahead
and Colossal smash that like and subscribe and by the way my Evangelion non-spoiler review
is now up. Definitely watch it after. The Attack on titan chapter 138 was a real game changer
having one of Attack on titan's biggest twists.
Unfortunately at the same time it didn't leave a good chunk of fans confused or outright
pissed off. Especially if you missed the major takeaway. Let's first dive into this looking
at the known timeline slash reality slash possible future. For now let's call it timeline
1 and timeline 2. For timeline 1 you had the Attack on Titan event season 1 to 3 then
the time skip happened. The branching off point is when Eren and friends actually visited
Marley. You had the scene of Eren Mikasa outside at nighttime. Eren asked Mikasa what he meant
to her. In timeline 1 Eren and Mikasa actually run away together so hell yeah Eren got together
with this hot asian sister. I originally read this quickly and thought their honeymoon getaway
was at paradise island but at this point they were at Marley. They could have been anywhere.
In the recent chapter Eren suggests the war with Marley still happened but hold up a minute.
Wasn't Eren the one that triggered the attack on Marley? So looks like with or without Eren
the Survey Corps was still gonna be forced to launch an attack on Marley which means
the world forces being allied together was inevitable. The only difference perhaps being
waiting a little bit longer to attack paradise island but back to Eren and Mikasa. Talk about
a dick move. They essentially gave up both of them abandoned their friends and Eldian people
which reminds me of a certain failure timeline route from Steins gate. Which is why this
original timeline one feels weird. I mean you could examine this further but the main point
is Eren and Mikasa. What they did doesn't really fit their character. On top of just
straight out ditching Armin the Survey Corps and everyone else. If this really did happen
hopefully Eren's point of view next chapter can provide more insight. Next up getting into
timeline 2 you had all the events leading up to Eren Mikasa on that night staying the
same. Only this time behind Mikasa family zoning Eren. After that you know what happens eventually
leading to the current events as of the latest chapter. Looking at chapter 138 in timeline
1 near the end you saw what appears to be Eren at the end of his titan sentence which
means the final four years had passed by. This is strongly suggested by the titan markings
wall in human form. You even got Mikasa saying see you later Eren in my review you heard
me reference seeing this before from Mikasa too if you're anime only or if you did start
reading the manga later you may not recall this. This was actually in the first chapter.
Let me just quickly mention the "see you later" line isn't completely wrong but it's not exactly
right either. I'm going to assume whoever translated this did it to match the original chapter
1 line. In japanese Mikasa says "itterasshai" Eren. It's the same for both scenes. In the
chapter 1 scarless Mikasa scene and in the latest chapter to the dying Eren. I'm sure
you heard this used in anime or japanese dramas before usually with the person leaving they
say ittekimasu or ittekuru and then it's usually the mother saying itterasshai. It literally means
go and come back which is really just a send-off. I asked my japanese buddy about this he told
me itterasshai is also commonly used in the japanese workplace when leaving. With that
in mind look back at the two Mikasa scenes. The first one by itself doesn't seem weird
at all you could just assume everyone is leaving somewhere the wife of Mikasa is seeing him
off but then with chapter 138 this adds a whole new context. You see Eren slim down but
then the eyes open in the following panel presumably close to dying eat that shy Eren
for some fun here i did spend a day at the cafe dissecting us with the japanese friend
along with some upcoming stuff you'll see according to him saying eat that aside to
a dying loved one feels off i'm not saying this hasn't been done before but both of us
really couldn't find a popular example of this either an anime or some other piece of
entertainment who knows perhaps Isayama wants to be a trend setter.
Omae mou shinderu no no now it's itterasshai mofo taking a step back is Mikasa actually
implying something here with that line that is mikasa four years later is expecting to
see Eren again despite him dying could perhaps mikasa expect to see Eren's titan standing
tall in the future in my initial impression slash review you heard me bringing up Mikasa's
lost girl story. That is definitely more relevant than ever now so let's take a deep dive before
fully jumping into that just know there are various different versions of the story it
was also not written or drawn by Isayama himself first off you have the book released in 2013
it actually came as a combo with Mikasa and Annie's story then the manga this was released
three years later in 2016.
it was definitely a more stripped down version you later had an even more abridged version
release with the anime version. Turns out you could actually go further back the original
combo novel is actually based off of two mini visual novels released on the anime blu-ray
i recall reading Mikasa's lost girl story novel it felt like a nice encapsulated story
if it was canon to the story fun juicy theories could be made especially with the vague mention
from Grisha about a great power fast forward years later this mikasa tale feels as relevant
as ever especially with some notable changes between adaptations let's go ahead and look
at the anime for Mikasa the lost girls story there were three key changes or updates to
scenes or dialogue the first one he had mikasa getting visited by this butterfly you actually
have her hearing her own voice if you don't like this reality you could redo it again
redo it from the place you wish in that world various things should be what you want however
you cannot stop Eren's death if you ask why because Eren and then it cuts off doesn't
this sound very irrelevant to the latest chapter the second scene yet Mikasa’s conversation
with the mirror man that stops her the guy mentions something about staying here too
long that is time for Mikasa to go back otherwise she wouldn't be able to return that she wouldn't
be able to remember everyone's face again the Mikasa would be stuck here for the rest
of her life he insisted Mikasa how to kill him if she didn't want that to happen so two
key takeaways right here he got that idea of not being able to recall Eren's face which
is actually very similar to recently where mikasa had trouble recalling him let me also
quickly mention that throughout the story you do have some ideas that come back during
the recent family talk although this seems to suggest that the mirror man could be Eren
in some form especially with how he insists Mikasa to kill him. Sound familiar? I did double
check for the anime the guy is actually voiced by someone random. It's not Eren. Another thing
that does suggest it could have been Eren is that the mirror man keeps on mentioning
hypnosis which could be seen as a parallel to the founding titan ability which you know
Eren has. You should also notice that novel mentions young Mikasa hearing a different
voice too. In the anime Mikasa clearly hears her own voice which is similar to the start
of all of this. The switch to her own voice happens as soon as Mikasa sees herself reflected
with this in mind the anime change here is pretty telling instead of claiming Mikasa
has been here for too long the guy claims the Mikasa is lost here due to her own wishes
due to Mikasa not being able to accept Eren's death this is a world that Mikasa created
herself however in whichever world mikasa is in she cannot stop Eren's death this is
where switch has Mikasa's own voice continuing from the previous cut line. Why can't Mikasa
stop Eren's death? Because Eren's body is embraced by death. No matter how much you protect Eren
and death will always catch him. Feels like it's subtly referencing the curse of Ymir
if you think this is a lie go and confirm yourself but first you must kill me you have
to get stronger and return to the previous world a little bit later you even see an older
Mikasa overlaid with the mirror guy so perhaps this is a symbolic representation of herself
the third scene you got a new anime only scene added Eren and Mikasa on top of the wall right
before they go to fight the warriors in season 3. this is actually added at the start and
the end of the episode at the start mikasa thought how Eren will leave them behind and
go somewhere far away could she feel this way due to this have already happened once
Mikasa herself thinks that she cannot stop him this is perhaps a past Mikasa telling
herself to not try to stop Eren this time mikasa goes on to say that she knows Eren
will retake Wall Maria, he's going to kill all the titans and even see the ocean. Notice
how certain she is about this. That no one will be able to stop Eren in that's fine. Wherever
Eren goes Mikasa will be by his side. That is her only wish so hopefully one day we get
a confirmation from Isayama himself but i would bet Isayama requested these additions
and changes. Keep in mind the Mikasa story already got updated to match the anime. One
glaring change involves Armin and Eren's plane Eren originally died writing their plane prototype
saving armin in the process looks like Eren is always rescuing armin the anime version
now changes to a hot air balloon which does match the mysterious couple that tried to
escape the walls which i believe Isayama confirmed were Armin's parents
which you could even see as more foreshadowing a shooting star is this Mikasa's wish or more
like Mikasa 'spromise to Eren across time and space you got mikasa running which could be a stand-in for
the lost girl or a forgotten memory you got the branches behind Mikasa as she moves forward. you got multiple bloody daggers on the ground although this could
be hinting at different branching timelines or realities for the actuating song a super
quick examination of the lyrics dimensions constantly throwing away and finding perhaps
hinting at past memories you got the line about sleeping peacefully could this be directed
at Eren's eternal slumber or even because of herself that slumbering memory talking
about forgetting and remembering again this line is actually framed with Mikasa growing
up at ditching the scarf so some of you have asked me a lot about this before in the past
let me quickly touch on it not just this ending but the other endings and openings i do think
there is some foreshadowing there not to mention other insert songs at the same time i do think
a lot of this stuff is pretty vague enough that you could interpret an as foreshadowing.
not to mention i am familiar with how these songs and endings are constructed which is
a whole other video topic anyway back to lost girls in the novel manga version besides mikasa
getting iron scarf Eren also gets mikasa acacia butterfly take a look at this the now explicitly
shows mikasa as a butterfly multiple times so butterfly effect anyone i would say this
would be two on the news for Isayama but then again you have him naming the bird boy falco
the cage the butterfly the one being kept by Eren was later shown to be a standout for
Mikasa this could be seen as Mikasa being freed at the end of all of this quickly touching
on butterflies and japanese culture that are used heavily with symbolism a popular symbolism
that pops up is transformation or change which naturally fits attack on titan although once
again vague enough to fit almost anything. For something removed for the anime something
regarding the mirror guy think over this as you see him as a standard for Mikasa the mirror
guy mentions repeating over and over mixed in with living this meaningless life hmm sound
familiar? I'm getting an odd Madoka vibe can Mikasa secretly be playing this reset
survivor type of role? But besides the changes let's chew on this in all versions you have
Mikasa waking up from it and she feels like it's been a long dream a long dream sound
familiar which is similar to Eren waking up in chapter one and Mikasa waking up in the
latest chapter.
With Eren back on Attack on Titan in episode 1 the anime actually ties us directly to raven
crying to two future events Eren's mother dying and then Hannes dying both of them caused
by the royal blood titan Dina but don't forget another instance often overlooked you got
Eren waking up shouting and crying after the basement reveal interesting how titan dina
was also involved you can have the line from Eren thinking that it was an awfully long
dream to which Eren quickly corrected himself it was not a dream but a past memory so does
this confirm because of supposed dream was also a past memory it strongly feels like
it taking a step back looking at the attack on Titan wake up scenarios for young aeronautics
1 this involved two future events for season 3 Eren this involved past events now look
back at Mikasa this should make you wonder why was Mikasa recently crying thinking about
this on a graph Eren recalled memories on the y and x axis past and future could activates
have the power to recall memories from the z-axes in this case memories from a different
timeline or reality thinking about the Mikasa OVA lost girl special what exactly is the
purpose for it right now it feels like it foreshadowed two major things first off Eren
dying which really shouldn't be anything new considering the curse of Ymir although do
notice at the time the story was published this curse of ymir had not been revealed yet
in the story two an ackerman ability especially with the major update made to the anime version
which gets to my wild ackerman theory their actual powers what are they could the ackermann
have the ability to create either a new timeline a new reality a new world if only temporary
Mikasa's lost girl special highly suggested think about this in a different way recall
what originally happened to little ymir and the titan Centipeede a chapter ago he had
Zeke recounting how Ymir escaped to this world that was free even of death it's not
exactly the same but you have a concrete example of mikasa retreating into this different world
a different reality one where Mikasa is explicitly told that she is the one that created it due
to not being able to accept Eren's death watch it be like wanda where the Ackerman family
can create a temporary pocket universe and bring Eldians inside of it we were told that
the ackerman family is a byproduct the titan science at least in the manga you heard me
play around with this idea in the past before could the truth be that some past elden king
was trying to recreate what the titan centipede did to young Ymir perhaps that elden king
that founding titan didn't get what he wanted you know about the founding titan power to
change genes perhaps that Eldian king didn't get what he wanted but after decades maybe
centuries of experimenting the super-powered titan and even form family was created i would
bet you they were ignorant to their true special powers although this brings up an important
question what exactly are the conditions needed for Mikasa for her to do this time jump or
time reset since Eren is involved it almost guarantees to involve the founding titan that
is needed in some capacity perhaps whatever hosts the Ackerman attach themselves to looking
at the whole timeline business is it really a different timeline a different reality a
different possible future in other words one that didn't happen yet let me point you to
passage from the novel something that got skipped in the manga and anime right after
Mikasa got back to her senses and trust he had Mikasa feeling like she awoke from a long
dream except she don't it was not a dream it was not some fantasy or illusion it wasn't
some wild delusion it wasn't some parallel world that existed and that was running at
the same time as a current one it was some experience that did not have a name all of
this feels clear but let's dissect it some a main point being that it confirms it wasn't
a dream perhaps even giving more evidence for this separate timeline creation at the
same time it does remind me a little of steins gate where there's only a single timeline
running at a given time mikasa you must be a hell of a mad scientist but let's not forget
about a key part to this Mikasa's headaches my theory for this is actually one that i
gave you like two years back that the headaches are Mikasa trying to recall memories from
a different timeline i would take this one step further and said that it's Mikasa not
being able to recall this important promise either from Eren or her past self looking
at all of them because of headaches the first one right after Carla died he also had Eren
screaming his heart out the second one in season 2 after Eren got kidnapped the third
one Mikasa looking at the well done armin number 4 pretty recently trying to recall young
Eren more specifically recalling the day she awoke her Ackerman powers and the latest
in the latest chapter right after they got the task to kill Eren which honestly feels
like mikasa finally recalled what she needed to putting all of this together he had a past
founding titan Eldian king that was experimenting trying to recreate what happened to young
ymir perhaps trying to discover what exactly the titan powers are due to this the ackermann
family was created then only had the sacred power to jump back in time or redo ability
some unknown restrictions and conditions exist like revealed in lost girls Mikasa knows that
eren's fate is to die and she's powerless to change the end game for him Mikasa’s
headaches that are due to her special Ackerman ability which mean constantly gets to her
trying to recall some previous important memory or promise i would even wager this being an
unintended defect for their creation levite doesn't get to this since he's not involved
but hey that's just an attack on titan theory let me know your own thoughts or on theory
below and really i want to stress how these other timelines are the realities of their
features all of this still is in dairy territory we'll find out in like two weeks when attack
on titan is done oh my god bonus time this is already long but i think this does need
to be hammered down for some of you just know that i do realize issues with some of these
theories and often do point them out if this channel was dedicated to only attack on titan
i would probably do a part to examining issues but thankfully this channel isn't. For this
video let me do a lightning round of issues or questions that do need to be addressed.
First off the Eren and grisha flashback how exactly does this fit in especially with Zeke
noticing how it seemed like Eren seemed to be the one that pushed Grisha forward i'll
just quickly mention an obvious solution to this Eren already seemed to be in control
anyway so could Eren have used the founding titan power to influence his past memory potentially
messing with Zeke two the restrictions with the ackermann powers what exactly are they
which i'm betting Isayama will detail in the final chapter it could be similar to how i
see Isayama set up the titan powers why don't you simply pass over the titan abilities well
billy it's a complicated ass process for mikasa actually pulling a suit by to redoing things
why go back to 9 year old Eren? in the special she went back to the day she awoke in her
powers perhaps these two limited save points could be seen as a defect of the ackermann
powers the lost girl ova special just putting it out there how you have this major plot
point or foreshadowing for the story in a science story forget about not watching it
a good majority of attack on Titan fans don't even know this is a thing so mikasa see you
later t sorry itterasshai Eren.
Sorry anime only people what studio did not include this in the first season whether it
was their own change or a request by Isayama in the season 4 anime wherever this pops up
the impact will definitely feel greatly diminished no scar for mikasa did she suddenly get some
deadpool healing factor after all you can't seem to scar on her in the recent panel for
this i would just say it's likely a detail Isayama thought of way later Mikasa wasn't
meant to have the score Eren's involvement whatever happened in those four years where
Mikasa and Eren lived solo personally for me i would love it if both mikasa and Eren
are involved in this master plan in the last chapter it feels like most people only really
focus on mikasa slicing Eren up but they missed Eren smiling almost smiling you could feel
it Eren knew mikasa finally remembered that's how Mikasa knew Eren's location so let's patiently
wait to see what is Isayama cooks up hopefully it doesn't end with Mikasa offering herself
too if that happened people would [ __ ] about this being a romeo and juliet rip off but
anyway share any thoughts or theories below or just say hi don't forget to like and subscribe
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my non-spoiler Evangelion movie review i bet you're right spot that attack on Titan titan
will definitely be compared even more to that now and i'll see you guys later!