- [Foxen] I choose you, Colossal Titan.
So what's up guys, Foxen here!
Last time, we had that Armored Titan versus Eren Titan,
which was really one-sided.
Ultimately, it looked like a scout
went after that thunder spear attack.
But, don't count out the Plot Armored Titan just yet.
By the way, if you enjoy these anime videos,
Oh it's flashback time.
Back to Attack on Titan season one, the Trost arc.
You got the titan Eren going
Plus Ultra on that massive boulder.
Pretty convenient for that super boulder to just be there.
Someone was just waiting for a hole to come around.
But why the flashback?
Of course, this just turned out so horrible for Marco.
Anyone recall 50% bully Marco?
Although I can't blame you if you forgot him.
It was fun to see Reiner try to
play this off really quickly for like a second.
But dammit Reiner your acting sucked back in Season one.
Nothing all like your Season two performances.
Although I can't blame it all on Reiner.
Unfortunately, Marco also screwed up by
looking back and giving that quick glance.
At this point, both sides were unsure about what happened.
But then when Marco turned back,
that straight-up confirmed it.
He knew something was up.
As for the girl on ice cameo, hey blonde girl Annie returns.
Too bad for Marco that Annie didn't show up to help anyone.
Right here, you actually have
an interesting reveal about the warriors.
Which was then not really being that synced up together.
You just had Reiner demanding Annie
to get her hands dirty too.
Turns out the warriors weren't exactly the best of buddies.
While Reiner and Bert were obviously close,
Annie was, unsurprisingly, more of this lone wolf character.
Hence why you have Reiner's warrior self questioning Annie,
Despite Annie as a female Titan
being made to be this big villain of
Attack on Titan season one, especially for the finale,
Annie has always had some issues
going along with the warrior mission.
I definitely recommend reading Annie's lost girl story,
the novel version.
If not the novel, there's also the manga
and the condensed anime version.
Which I think most of you will like.
And my God, just looking at how horrified
Annie looked at this moment,
made me feel so bad for her.
Poor blondie.
And lazy Reiner, do your own dirty work.
Anyway, now you actually get the truth about Marco,
how he got reduced to half-sized.
Although if you have checked out Annie's lost girl story,
the anime version,
this whole thing should look very familiar.
The Attack on Titan special for Annie
started off with Annie recalling this scene as a nightmare
before being horribly woken up.
Anyway, switching the focus back to Reiner.
Here you got another taste of
how screwed up Reiner really is.
Warrior Reiner had no problems killing Marco,
and even bossing Annie around.
But then Reiner switched over to his scout persona.
The dude had no idea what just happened.
Reiner at this point was just a walking nutcase.
Next up, Dio.
I mean Zeke.
I like how Zeke was so sure that Annie was still on ice.
Or at the very least, not captured.
And it's almost kind of funny too,
Armin trying to trick the warriors
about Annie being tortured.
And that hosing actually ended up tricking
a good chunk of anime watchers.
For Zeke here, I was really wanting to see
if they would keep Zeke's trademark ear scratch.
And bingo, they did it.
By the way, doesn't Zeke look awfully skinny here?
What happened to that eight-pack?
Right here, you gotta love Zeke's threat.
Reiner, if you lose, the next warrior
will go buffet on your ass.
This is actually referenced that
Beast Titan beat down from the previous
Attack on Titan uprising arc.
What that these two other warriors
still wanted to look for Annie.
Zeke finally hints at a key thing here,
something about that quote unquote cursed history.
Naturally he can't go into this choosy topic.
But go ahead and keep this in the back of your mind
what the Beat Titan is focused on.
This right here was really the first time
that the passive Bert declared something he wanted.
In this case, echoing he wanted to complete their mission
and fully on board with Zeke's plan.
Previously, he'd always been this character without
too many dots and really just blindly following.
Just perfect for someone controlling the Colossal Titan.
Oh and that voice.
The backpack Titan speaks.
I totally forget he'd get a peak into this thing's voice.
This Titan really sounds like
one of those voice distortion things,
which is pretty different from how the Beast Titan
had this deeper speaking voice.
By the way, this right here really just hammers
this Titan being a Titan shifter.
Officially known as the Cart Titan.
I really liked how they kept
Anyway, a little bit of a side note here,
let me know your thoughts too.
I think I really have to get used
to Zeke's human voice.
Right now I don't really here anything but Dio.
Hopefully that goes away sooner rather than later.
So back to the lovely warrior couple.
Reiner right here brings up Bert
It really is interesting how Reiner
turned his love talk into this rescue thing.
The Colossal Titan gets to be this Prince who rescues
the girl on ice.
Meanwhile, Reiner wants to Goddess Krista to himself.
Right, a promise to Yooyer.
Let's be honest, Reiner just wants a threesome.
Keep in mind, Reiner at this point has no idea that
Krista is gone.
It's now Queen Historia.
Anyway, back to last week's cliffhanger.
What a steaming surprise, not.
Oh yes, Reiner's blown up face covered in
steaming goodness.
I'm only actually surprised all those thunder spears
didn't damage the rest of Reiner's body.
Even his clothing is still perfectly fine.
Not toasty at all.
Meanwhile, we have poor Mr. Horse trying to play it off,
but really, let's be honest, he's just like
Charlie Brown and potato girl.
They all still like their thick buddy Reiner.
Of course this is especially affecting Eren.
Just look at his Titan, he completely
turned off after her found out Reiner was dead.
Despite obviously being this Colassal Titan tiger fan,
here's when I have to bring up this issue.
I really only wish you got a chance to see
more of the scouts actually bonding with Reiner
during training days, or even in general.
It would have been even more important to see stuff
involving Eren and Reiner getting closer together.
Let's be honest, Reiner and Bert pretty much weren't
characters until Attack on Titan Season two came around.
Anyway, for Armin's little moment here: even Armin was
shocked about the turn of events, but more from
their inability to do anything else.
This is really a comeback to what Armin brought up
in the uprising arc, which was them having to kill
the other side for their lack of information,
or whenever their opinions differed.
But hold up, don't count out the plot Armored Titan,
he's got that nickname for a reason.
This is why you guys gotta double-tap.
Finally, you got the Armored Titan roars signal.
Just like back in Season two.
Next up, the midinfo card.
Interesting how they're focusing on the
coffee. If we recall back to the first episode,
Armin had no idea what that was.
Black tea.
Looks like there's no Starbucks inside of walls.
That sounds really, really horrible.
The world is a cruel place.
Anyway, the Colossal Titan inside of the barrel bow.
The new added touch was him about to go
Colossal Titan-mode via Eren's trademark love bite.
And let's be honest, this episode should have
really been called the Ummer Titan Steam Machine.
Their covering so much away of Reiner.
Just look at this specific shot compared to the manga.
I mean really, we all joked about it in the
Uprising Arc.
Oh, the next arc is going to be covered all in steam,
for all the crazy stuff.
But this is really just too much.
As for how Reiner actually survived:
turns out Reiner just did the ashbowl he did
from the previous Levi Summit.
Except this time, we're all in Titan-mode.
Come on, you definitely have to teach that to
Eren later.
That could be useful if Eren gets his head damaged.
Anyway, you have the warrior Bert going in.
Honestly, really terrible move on his part.
He could have easily taken a thunder spear
to his Colossal ends.
And surprise, surprise you have Armin here still
trying to talk.
This really shows a clear difference between
Commander Erwin and Armin.
Armin's so good at thinking outside of the box,
but he still willing to talk at the risk of the mission.
On the flip side, Erwin would have tried that.
But really just to use that to get a sneak attack
in now.
Funny how the Mr. Colossal Titan instantly denied
the naive Armin.
At least the nice guy has some easy demands:
just go ahead and die.
There's your negotiation, Armin.
At the very least you got a glimpse of the dark
mastermind Armin coming out via that threat.
Oh, and he's just gonna be tortured even more now.
Fricking Bert, here is like the old Captain America
whenever Bucky was mentioned.
See, right here someone should have gone behind him.
Then Armin could have gone into the detail about
Annie's special vacation in hell.
Then Ben.
Thunder spear on the mini Colossal Titan.
Titan game over.
I really do have to give props to Bert for calling
As for Armin here, his face looks so much in pain.
Once again, I really just wish they really
established Bert and Reiner's relationship
even more in the previous times.
Then, freaking finally Mikasa coming in.
Definitely gotta take advantage and use that
sneak attack.
Unfortunately that is two major fails for the scouts.
I mean, you have Reiner's ass over here pulling
a Thor-just slipping the thunder spear off
Anyway, getting into the Colossal Titan's debut.
Bert, here, really got some good air taking off
This whole place is just wrecked.
Screw this district, start over in a different
For the actual Colossal Titan, say hello to
the CG Titan of Destruction.
Let's see how many complaints this episode gets.
Look at the glass half full,
at least this thing looks better than what the
opening showed, which was a really low bar to begin with.
At this point, I actually wouldn't mind if they
did something like a Attack on Titan Season two.
Keep in mind, Season two did improve the CG Colossal
Titan look in the Blu-ray release.
Maybe they could do that again.
As for the quick shot of Reiner,
Reiner confirmed still living.
His face and brain fully recovered, too.
Even Deadpool would be jealous of that recovery
speed.
I am a bit shocked they kept the brain shot in
the anime, not covered in black.
I guess this stuff is technically not gore stuff.
Anyway, with Hanji gone, now Armin you're
promoted to leader.
Notice how much in shock Armin was.
They would sub after the selling ones giving him
great points to reconsider.
Maybe HorseFace should be leader instead.
Anyway, for this episode's cliff-hanger:
scratching its ear.
It is fun stuff they're doing with the cliffhangers.
Last week it looked like the scouts were on top.
This episode is definitely the worst ballgame.
Next up, getting into some highlights of anime
versus manga changes for this episode:
First off the Marco flashback at the beginning.
Nothing too drastic here.
Just notice for the anime Marco now lands on the
Next up, the tea time warrior flashback.
For the anime, Thenshi added the nice little detail
of his coffee pot in the shot.
This was right along the blond war chief Zeke.
Next up, the Cart Titan redesigned.
This is actually something I went in depth more
in the previous video.
So in this chapter, they really just updated the previous
flashback design.
Once again, no longer looking like this old man.
Unfortunately now you got duck face Titan.
Next up, the two warriors on top of the wall.
For the anime Thenshi fixed the walls from being
too thin.
Previously I'm not even sure how Colossal Titan
fit into that.
For the anime this episode, damn those walls got thick.
Next up, a quick ass shot removed from Eren's Titan.
Ohhh you can't show that!
Now we actually see Eren's Titan from the front,
unfortunately for some.
Next up, Mr. Censorship returns, unfortunately.
This really happened throughout the episode.
In the anime version you really can't see almost
anything of Reiner's body.
Specifically, Reiner's missing head-only steam now.
This really goes back to something I mentioned.
Is really just less animation rather than censorship?
You decide!
Next up, the Beast Titan throwing the Colossal Titan
into battle.
For this, when I saw it I was like, "Is that the
raging shot from Attack on Titan Season two?'
Are you freaking serious?!
I don't know, maybe call me naive, but I'm really,
really surprised at this.
I guess it was a gorgeous shot to begin with, but
I don't know, are they just behind on this project?
Keep in mind, they just finished Kabanari movie.
And also, they have that upcoming Shogun anime
that's 24 episodes.
Looks like Attack on Titan is definitely not the
priority for them.
As for the total Attack on Titan chapters this episode:
you may be surprised but this actually covered
over two chapters.
That's chapter 77, 78, and the first 12 pages of 79.
This really just means about 11 1/2 chapters
for seven episodes, really around 11 chapters
without the Yamir stuff.
I bet that's going to go by quick.
For this episode overall, part of me wants to
just released a few days ago.
They definitely put their best resources and animation
on that project over there.
Right now I'm hoping that the next three episodes
makes up for some of the stuff we've seen so far.
Anyway, let me toss it over to you.
How much did you love this episode?
Or did you also have some issues?
Did you like the Colossal nuke?
What did you think about the steam-powered
Armored Titan?
Was the CG Colossal Titan really that bad?
Or was it fine?
Go ahead and check out my manga versus anime
for the first two episodes.
Definitely watch those next and I'll see you guys later!