The attack on Titan finale, what I loved and what I hated.
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Foxen here.
What did attack on Titan do it right?
What got splattered on the wall?
Now that we've had some time to digest it, let's fully dive into this.
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A 10 in chapter one 39.
The attack Titan world has been completely destroyed.
I mean,
Eren would even make Thanos blush from the attack on Titan trio.
The two main characters got a sad conclusion, sorry Eren and Mikasa.
I'm actually thankful that he say I might chose a bittersweet ending.
Anyway,
let's dive in what worked first off the attack on Marley,
which I think is pretty much the entire etc.
Isayama took a big risk that even he admitted,
he was worried about suddenly switching the board on fans for months and
months to come. Old school manga fans recall how long it took to get hobo
Eren reveal? This drastic change
up allowed you to fully
get the Marley point of view,
which included the truth about the great Titan war.
You had a Willy from the Tybur family an Eldian himself. A family that had
allowed the current world situation with Marley to become top dog to happen.
That's ultimately led
Eren and the Scouts delivering divine payment for what kicked off his
story. By far one of them the most Epic time, skip moments, the Jaws Titan,
the nutcracker scene and throughout the battle of the devastation,
which included Armin nuking them.
That is whether you prefer the manga version or enjoyed
the recent anime take on it.
The attack on paradise Island.
Originally,
I was only going to mention the actual battle that took place in Eren's hometown
but the recent anime completely change my feelings on the buildup.
I really did take a liking to Zeke's delicious wine
subplot.
What a classic demonstration of letting your audience see the bomb,
and then sit anxiously waiting for it to go off.
Then the actual Marley assault on their home base so much to love. From Eren
spamming his Warhammer Titann powers in battle. Pieck blasting the attack
Titan.
Then Zeke.
finally, deciding to let out his Beast Titan scream,
to Eren jogging over to his hairy Onni-chan. I'm getting fricking chills,
picturing this in the anime with a Godtier soundtrack,
mixed up the warriors, which goes hand-to-hand with
the Marley point of view,
you had Reiner fully fleshed out, of course,
with the buffet of suffEreng. For best girl Pieck.
Sure I would have liked a little bit more, but I was really satisfied with her.
And let me be fair that I am bringing her recent anime portrayal into this.
Beyond that she kicked some major as in the final Colossal Titan arc.
She really deserved a bonus for clearly making what seems to be the bottom
tier Titan into something more. For a Porco
this was easily the guy lacking from the warrior group.
Again, prompts to the anime for elevating his character so much more.
I'm looking forward to,
Porco getting this final job at anime Reiner next year. For Gabi
You heard me praising her in my season for anime overall video.
Once again for her, I'm more so leaning toward the anime portrayal of her character.
And then honorable mentioned for Falco.
This guy took such a beating for simping to Gabi.
Next up Annie,
I am counting her stand alone.
You know,
how much of a big fan I've been of the female Titan. It's crazier.
when I really wasn't at all before. My perspective on any really completely
changed after reading her Lost Girl's novel,
which is why I was really getting super impatient with Isayama.
It felt like there was no way that he saved my could bring Annie back so late
into the game without it feeling wasted,
which is why Annie gets a spot here. While I still don't think Annie play that major
of a role as an Annie fan.
I was pretty satisfied with her contribution onscreen post
crystal braking. Next up the Colossal Titan parade and really just their
destruction.
Unfortunately it hasn't made it yet into the anime,
but really the rumbling. So massive credit here for the imagery built around
these colossal Titans.
I mean the sheer horror. You had
so many people getting pancake worldwide,
Some stuff that I can't even show off here or YouTube will get pissed off.
You have so many pages
that looked like it could be like something out of an art exhibit. After getting the
taste of Armin's colossal Titan at Marley,
I'm really looking forward to seeing some of this destruction in the anime.
Fingers crossed that it won't be horribly done with CG.
Although at this point I may be mentally prepared.
So what do you know,
why does it seem like
A majority of what I liked heavily leans towards the warrior or Marley side? Really
quickly pause below
and let me know what you love below in detail.
So let's go ahead and switch over to my issues.
What did not work for me?
And likewise posts below.
I know'll this get heated.
Let me build up
and first mentioned Levi. Levi getting blown up.
Isayama didn't have the Titan sized balls to kill off his moneymaker.
My real issue here is with how Isayama chose to de-power Levi. Trying to examine
this it really just doesn't make sense. Clearly setting off,
but the thunder spear was never part of Zeke's master plan. Without Ymir coming in
and Zeke would have been a roasted monkey.
Levi has never had an issue versus Zeke
the Beast Titan. Even without that,
thunder spear stuck inside of him
it's not like Zeke would have been able to escape. Doing that goes against what
Levi was plotting,
which was trying to feed Zeke to Historia or a different host.
I mean, even thinking about it for a few minutes, say you want to keep the same scene,
but instead,
really emphasize how Levi was in this terrible mental state for him to do
something so stupid. From a story point of view,
essentially Isayama was removing Levi from the Marley battle,
which again could have been accomplished in
so other ways. Besides given what you know now Levi at full power in the
final battle would have been mostly the same. As much as I do a lot with the character
If you were going to hurt Levi so much in the end anyway,
I think it would have been a really impactful moment
if when he saw the survey
Corps that you then had a panel where Levi or dropped his arm and that was it.
He joined them. As a slight positive
I do feel the events were played out better reasonably for the anime, but eh,
likely a nitpick compared to some of this upcoming stuff.
For example, the next issue,
let's talk about Mikasa and really with what Isayama did with Mikasa,
or should I say did not do. As a Mikasa fan,
it does her to admit she's lacking the most from the main trio.
Especially given her importance later,
we were waiting and waiting for more development to come. More fleshing out of
Mikasa's character onscreen
instead of simply being the muscle,
Isayama even introduce that golden ticket with Louise.
I mean, what a juicy combo, parallel Mikasa and her own situation with Eren,
but then that subplot really went nowhere.
They could have just removed that completely.
I mean, it feels like fricking Annie got more than this lady Ackerman,
and this is Annie who was out for half of that timeskip.
Skipping forward with Mikasa
essentially being the one to take out Eren.
Yes, technically you did get a scene between me and Eren together.
My issue with that is that then it should have been vastly more fleshed out.
You saw in the final chapter,
how much time Isayama spend with Armin and Eren.
That same amount of dialgoue
should have taken place between Mikasa
Eren talking it out, which nicely leads into my next issue.
Eren.
First off a nitpick here.
I really never been a fan of the design for this.
I mean, honestly, did anyone love this?
I'm almost laughing at the idea of some company down the line
trying to make a figure out of this thing.
Then the actual battle that took place in hindsight, given what we know now,
it does make sense why those fake Titans went down so easily.
But despite that this still was some final grand battle,
there really should have been some loss for the warrior or scout side.
I mean, am I forgetting about something or were there really no losses here?
The biggest damage taking might've been to humanity strongest.
Thanks Connie.
Then for the much bigger Colossal issue,Eren.
So let me mention,
I will be touching more on this whole Eren reveal and the upcoming plothole video.
But first let me just say that
I will accept where Isayama
went with Eren. Maybe I'm naive,
but I don't know why a good chunk of people bought into this fake Chad
Eren persona or meme, but I felt it was obvious.
Eren didn't completely turn into some edgy character.
Even from me
you heard theorize how Eren was this grand master using the founding Titan power.
But unfortunately reality is sometimes disappointing. At the same time
I really don't think we need to hold it against
Isayama when some of
our theories didn't come true. That said, let's put it out there.
Isayama sure took quote
the huge risk waiting until the very end to fully show Eren's point of view.
Did it fully work out?
I really do question this.
It might've been and better to wrap up everything the chapter before,
like on chapter 137 or who knows that an extra chapter then exclusively have
an entire chapter for Eren alone.
You could have Eren with Armin,
Eren and Mikasa, perhaps even Eren with Ymir or Eren just solo,
reflecting on everything that happened. Next up a fan favorite Gabi.
Oh yeah, she's on both.
Let's do very much feel that Gabi has been one of them develop and flesh out
characters post timeskip.
I could also see some of you being bitter with that screentime not being
used elsewhere.
Instead, my main issue is with what Isayama
did with this overpower Gabi character. In the attack on Marley
you had Gabi sliding and getting that headshot.
You then had Gabi head
shouting Eren while crying, or just being emotionally unstable.
Also no damage or arm broken? Not too long after that,
you had a Gabi that essentially double head shotted that Titan.
Again no pushback.
And then Gabi's perfect aim continued while on the Falco express.
Again, I'm the expert in this weapon
that's supposed to be able to take down Titans,
but even if you ignore whether Gabi would have been able to get all those
shots seriously? There's no injury on her body.
Now I can see why some of you want to get Gabi to be revealed as an Ackerman.
so badly. At least that would have been some sort of explanation.
I dunno and let me know, am I overthinking this?
I do think you could get lucky once,
twice, maybe three times, but looking at Gabi's track record,
you do have to ask why. It seems Isayama really got inspired from
Aria from game of Thrones.
It is funny because I actually had planned to do a theory video on Gabi.
That Eren was the one actually manipulating Gabi across time and space,
which could have been a parallel to what the past founding Titans wanted the
Ackerman to be. In the end
I'm not blaming the Gabi character or really hating her.
I'm strictly calling out the writing around her.
So what is your deal with her Isayama?
Getting into a loaded one,
the Titan sausage centipede and Ymir.
In hindsight, it would have been much better not showing this thing off.
Since I really doubt there would have been some explanation that would have been
able to satisfy everyone. Did the Titan powers come from a devil?
Some Goddess? Some organic thing?
In hindsight, if Isayama
really wasn't going to do a deep dive into the Titan powers and lore
it would have been much better just to leave this stuff vague.
Let the reader decide.
And this whole Titan sausage business really leads into my overarching
main issue,
which I think all of us are on a similar page where there are too many questions?
Did the story leave
So many things unanswered? Ironically,
or perhaps even poetically Isayama gave you so much freedom with the attack on
titan finale. He left the attack on Titan ending left,
super open to interpretation.
You saw Armin and the warriors going back to the Island as peacekeepers will
Historia deny them will the eager supporters outright sink their ship,
could Armin succeed in their peace talks.
Does that even matter?
There still is a chance that the world could regroup and attack Eldian.
Again,
for me, kind of sad issue truly free from Eren is Mikasa.
Now doing her own thing on the Island,
or she's still binded down to Eren and visiting his grave daily for Eren.
Was he ever free the deal now himself to be stringed on by Ymir or is he stuck
in the Titan realm?
Could Eren have somehow been reincarnated as a bird at the end?
And those are just some of the mysteries you're left to wonder if you make a
good argument case or theory for one way or another.
The interpretation is there for you to have,
which really goes into my major issue with how attack has had an ended.
But before you go on that, Jerry hated the tack without an ending.
Let me just be perfectly clear.
I still very much am somewhere in the middle.
You just heard me detail some of the stuff that worked and some of the stuff
that did not,
it really is a mixed bag to fully understand the problem I have with how he
saying my chose to conclude his beloved story.
Let's take a step back.
Recall how you saw the Tektite and trio witnessing the Colossal Titan
devastating their bird cage at a high level, from a story point of view,
you were presented and tease with this mystery.
We had the survey, coral,
risking blood, sweat, and tears.
I mean,
most of the survey car got wiped out and you finally got answers to your burning
questions at a high level, you had a mystery,
you got some answers which then led into the questions, but don't worry.
The attack attendant story continued.
Now flip it over the time, skip stuff.
Funny enough, you really didn't have history repeating itself,
similar to what Isayama had done leading up to the basement of reveal.
You got answers to some questions or at least hints at them,
which resulted in more questions, except here's the major difference.
And my issue.
Unlike what the basement of reveal this time,
there is no more runway.
The story is over.
It's done.
There is no other basement.
There's no second talk with our incoming Ymir,
disappeared into the Titan heavens or who knows where.
Is Armin about to retell
the events starting from episode one.
And unfortunately there is no new chapter in may at a high level,
examining the ending from a story point of view.
This is my major issue.
You say I'm a left the attack upon his story.
So open-ended, it's left.
So open to interpretation at the same time, I can respect that.
And perhaps even like it, part of me does think he's saying,
I'm always saying to end the story like this,
without giving the audience a super long essay to answer everything from the
part of me, that hungers, for more knowledge to know more,
I only do wish there was more of a concrete path that
he say my laid down here.
Make sure I'm fine with interpreting and theorizing after the fact.
But part of me was left with this super empty feeling,
that curiosity to see your vision of events to come Isayama,
and perhaps this does lead on to a different discussion.
The reaction for the attack of thunder finale overall has been positive from
Japanese fans.
I mean the fricking magazines.
So out from so many people buying it up,
Japan in general seems to be really fine with open-ended endings,
looking at the quick YouTube poll, almost 90,000 of you,
as you can see the vast majority at least liked it for a person,
hated it combined 8% disliked it.
So really it was a small minority that's vocal that they didn't get what they
wanted.
And you're free to feel like that Isayama
gave you that freedom just don't be a Dick about it as a huge positive.
I am predicting the attack on an anime ending will come off a lot better next
year.
It'll definitely help with the pacing issues and spots where you can't little to
no dialogue,
not to mention the voice actors and gone tear center check to fully deliver this
home.
That is going to be a rainy day for some important, juicy and full.
I know you'll love.
If you did feel the final chapter was rushed or too short,
the attackers had an editor.
Dick confirmed the official Manga volume will have more panels you say,
am I also,
it does have an interview coming up with the full metal Alchemist author.
On top of that, it's probably the best thing.
There is another tech atonic guidebook coming in June.
These things are always filled with these interviews and based off the track
record for these,
I could almost guarantee you you'll be getting some answers to some lingEreng
mysteries or be sure to do a deep dive.
When that comes out upcoming.
This week,
I am working on this followup video to tackle any issues or quote unquote plant
holes you send in post your own down below to make sure it makes it into that
video and going forward.
I am trying to set a set schedule.
I'm thinking Friday,
something always on Friday where there's that weekly attack on a hundred video
or something animated related.
You heard me mentioned last time, Howard,
pretty much put my life on pause these past few months in order to cover the
attack without an anime and manga ending,
I've been slowly catching up to that baggage.
I put aside this entire month,
and then at the same time, just recharging my batteries.
I needed it coming up is my return to the attack.
Aton hometown.
Hopefully that'll be fun.
And if you want to see anything specific,
definitely let me know.
Below Tokyo, Japan just went an another lockdown.
Rona Chan is raging.
So I figured I pushed off that trip into those two weeks.
Definitely show our keynote tactics and love.
It really does help to keep the lights on here and it supports the channel
overall it'll help cover that super expensive trip.
Do you say almost hometown?
No worries that we don't keep on playing just downloading helps a ton,
but anyway, I'm really curious.
Definitely.
Let me know what you love or hate it from the attacker tonic ending.
What did he say?
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