Attack On Titan Finale Got Us Emotional

[@Poineapples]

So sad because in the first episode when Mikasa wakes up Eren he asks her why her hair is so long and that he felt like he was in a long dream. And then starts crying when he sees her and is saying he can't remember what he was dreaming about.

[@OutOfPocket-h9e]

Y'all remember the OVA with Mikasa? The one where she monologues while watching a praying mantis, which foreshadows Mikasa cutting Eren's head off just like how a mantis would eat the head of their mate. What a wonderful end to an over a decade long story.

[@Flash-FireCC]

Now I have to watch the OVA's

[@sabinakoka7967]

Yep! The ova foreshadow the ending and it's pretty clear...the man with the mask says to mikasa only you can end this cycle

[@iiraingirlii]

@@sabinakoka7967which ova is that?

[@jrlombardi5251]

@@iiraingirlii lost girls ep 3

[@jrlombardi5251]

I thought that happens as the mantis eats a butterfly, and like butterflies have always represented Mikasa, no?

[@calibratedtub4810]

Finally, a satisfying conclusion to the grandest, most layered narrative ever told. Attack on Titan belongs in a museum.

[@tombystander]

I think Isayama should be damn proud of his masterpiece. The marley warriors/candidates were my favorites. Thought the end credits revealed a realistic reality for that world

[@aarongallardo3684]

Quite unfortunate that some people REALLY hate him and the manga ending. Like it his story, he wants to convey something.

[@gensischosen251]

@@aarongallardo3684i mean I was of the few people that disliked that ending ( but Anime improve the ending from manga and my old rating 4/10 from manga and for anime 5/10) but I don't hate isayama though, I viewed him as a writer who can write a good story but you can can't write a ending and thats ok

[@aarongallardo3684]

I am gonna miss AOT now that the anime is finished. I had a fun journey.

[@v4mps_blood]

I have been crying the past day cuz of the ending such a great anime

[@jura9484]

oh if you mean them i loved the four kid candidates. was kinda sad that half of them died so soon, they were a fun group

[@ShadyRK9]

Its been 10 years and it feels so surreal that it's FINALLY over! I've been watching since the very beginning! I remember the many memes and parodies of the original theme song alone!

[@troy6646]

That's what I'm saying, it's wild. I had so many feeling about eren and to sit with him in those moments with armin and mikasa in the dream space...I think armin is the closest to saying what I would've said to him, minus an accusatory tone lol

[@davidyodo24]

So glad to be the part of the history

[@orabijuu8550]

Including the origins of the manga, it has been 13 years. The official story is divided into 9 arcs ending in chapter 139. (I see this comment over and over haha)

[@damiennightmaresx7950]

i still have the the meme of the guy in a colossal costume just straight dancing as like electric music blares from the wall xDD usually pared with the wrong lyrics of like "OH MY GODD" "FUCKING COOL" xDD

[@javiartem]

a slap on titan is still a banger and i wish it kept going

[@lightningg252]

For me, a great ending is "satisfying" and "fitting" for the story and characters depicted and it's not always a happy one. The only endings that piss me off are the ones that make me feel like I wasted my time. This one did not waste my time.

[@davidyodo24]

True, I'm also satisfied with the ending. Ngl i was worried when all those Manga readers complaining about the ending.

[@Fuko0139]

​@@davidyodo24same

[@slipstream5762]

@@davidyodo24 Man should've seen the copium theory crafters when these chapters were coming out. Some people wanted Eren to just kill everyone and "win" ( I don't know how you would even write that ), or the people that thought Eren was the father of Historia's child, and they thought that Eren was some mastermind genius that after his death, he would live on through the Paths in his own son and conquer the world with another Rumbling. The community was WILD during all this.

[@davidyodo24]

@@slipstream5762 so it was bad because it never met their expectations? 😂

[@starkillahx]

Theres only been one manga ending I've read that has made me feel like I wasted my time and it was from I am a hero. I was satisfied with this ending even though I have my grievances here and there

[@DissedRedEngie]

spioilers: Just a clarifier for that segment with Armin and Eren talking in the paths. Eren was showing Armin the things he read about in a book, not what the world would've looked like after the rumbling. Also, when everyone was in the boat, Eren gave his friends visions just like with Armin, but made it so that they'd only remember if they killed Eren. Basically he wanted to give his last words as himself, but knew that if they remembered what he told them, they would've hesitated too much and would've failed.

[@amirultempest]

23:00 I think someone already explained it in detail. From my vague memory, to control the Rumbling you need the Founder titan and royal blood. Zeke got royal blood and Eren got Founder titan. And love that "Gabi never misses" from Boom 😂

[@kal973]

Yup, eren is the power source with the founding titan, and zeke is the key, without zeke, the power can't be accessed anymore, surprising they forgot that considering that levi and the others planned to kill zeke exactly because they believed killing him would stop eren (although levi had an added personal reason)

[@amirultempest]

@@kal973 well it's kinda years ago and a lot of anime and cartoons they consume

[@Grimbear13]

So Eren wasn't trying to stop war, he was trying to give his friends a peaceful life. It's why he propped himself up to be THE villain so that his friends could kill him and be the heroes of the world and that would stop war for awhile. Also why he wiped out 80% because even though the number of people outside Paradis and the rest of the world are now equal. Logistically speaking for the rest of the world to rally an attack would take YEARS to coordinate and recover from the Rumbling. Eren knew he couldn't end human's need for war... but he hoped to give his friends AT LEAST a period of peace and he did that cause you can see various friends visiting the tree casually over time and it's not till thousands of years later when Paradis is destroyed in a war... cause humans gonna human.

[@Grimbear13]

Boom One Piece is something I question how much Oda planned and how much he has a book of "Open threads" that he just comes back to later to loop into the story later. But AoT feels fully thought out start to finish because it's a much shorter story he was able to plan it out from the start I'm 90% sure.

[@Vortex_ICEcold]

Finding a short term period of peace. In that perspective, he won. There are still a lot of plot holes and lines that don’t make much sense.

[@Grimbear13]

@@Vortex_ICEcold What plot holes/lines are you talking about?

[@ljeans531]

​@@Vortex_ICEcoldWe don't even know why the war in the credits was happening. It could have nothing to do with Titans or them being Eldians and could just because Paradis became aggressors, or another country had beef for a random reason. I doubt the world is still segregated 1000 years later. Also what plot holes? I didn't see and holes, just things I think don't fit the theme.

[@kaizokud42]

Wiping 80% of humanity then war still continues is a terrible terrible plan.

[@AzarathMetreon]

“How do you grab a leaf like that?” He didn’t, he grabbed a baseball lol. They each saw something different that reminded them of preciously peaceful moments in their lives. “Why are they stopped…?” They stopped because Zeke was the one with the ability to direct other titans. Eren had the lock and Zeke was the key. Without him, Eren can only control himself.

[@quanganhvu6791]

Lol I think you misunderstood. From Armin's perspective Zeke grabbed a leaf in a weird way which is funny

[@AzarathMetreon]

@@quanganhvu6791 I think you misunderstood. Armin is perfectly capable of understanding context. He would have known Zeke wasn’t seeing a leaf as soon as he started talking about throwing it back and forth all day.

[@quanganhvu6791]

@@AzarathMetreon are you slow or are you trolling? The object in Armin's hands, which he saw as a leaf, was grabbed by Zeke, who gripped it as he would a ball, so from Armin's perspective Zeke grabbed a leaf as a ball, and for us viewers it is funny because it would look weird for Armin. Jesus, do I actually have to spell it out for you? I know you are trying to show off your understanding of the scene but that's not what we are talking about here so you are missing the mark.

[@AzarathMetreon]

@@quanganhvu6791 Yes, I’m well aware that that’s what it looked like. You’re thinking too two-dimensionally. What I’m saying is that what Zeke and Armin each see and grab is different. The point is that the object itself is irrelevant in every way other than what Armin and Zeke each perceive it to be.

[@UberGhoul]

@@quanganhvu6791 Well, Zeke saw Armin holding a ball the correct way while Armin saw himself holding a leaf the correct way at the same time. In the exchange Zeke saw it as handing a ball while Armin most likely saw it as handing a leaf, both of them seeing it the correct way from their own perspective I think.

[@AliRizwanMasood]

Manga readers are confused why anime watchers like the ending. Turns out if you don't form your opinion around Reddit forums, you can actually enjoy things

[@idle7240]

I’m dying 😂😂😂

[@beastvicious8672]

I read the manga and was very satisfied by the ending. Then i go on the internet and find out everyone hates it. Now a lot of these people wanna act as if the anime was "different from the manga", which it isn't. They can't just admit they jumped on the hate bandwagon or that they just didn't understand the ending. I'm guessing these people expected world peace? That's just ridiculous and never what the show was about. It's always been realistic, why would that change at the end?

[@KornerIsabel]

@@beastvicious8672 X2 back in april 21, I was fighting the damn edgy idiots that felt Eren was ruined and Isayama riuned his story... Now THEY are in shock XD watching every single anime only loving the ending and find it it logical XD

[@Tenshii_Artii]

I swear you copied this from someone else. But other than that, yeah that me true.

[@Mimi_1988]

​@@KornerIsabelit makes me so happy!

[@ishinobi4764]

This show sums up humanity as whole

[@SamusV4]

The darkest part of the ending is the fact that there's nothing stopping the cycle from continuing again. It'll just be much worse with the higher levels of technology that world has now.

[@deb9548]

The biggest enemy of humanity is humanity 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@beastvicious8672]

That's just reality, we don't live in a fantasy world and AoT never tried to achieve "world peace". Any living being experiences discomfort, that's life. Idk why people has this perception of hatred and war being something you can just snap away. These people on drugs? Do they live in the real world?

[@SamusV4]

@@beastvicious8672 That's part of what made AoT so good. There's no magical cure for human behavior.

[@EnbyLink]

This is one of the few anime’s I watched since it first came out to when it finished, and it feels almost hollow how it ends, but I feel like that’s how it’s intended. Because it’s not some cheerful ending, it is NOT a cheerful show. However, it feels complete, I don’t feel like much is really missing from the ending at all. We just feel for these characters we came to know so deeply and watch go through tragedy and it almost hurts because we wish they had such a happy ending.

[@orabijuu8550]

My fave scene were reiner casually spoiling eren what he saw in his memories. "Im the armor hes the collosal. We fk shit up.youre down but we up. Come with us and youll be a sigma like us."

[@sethaasland5705]

something i learned recently that broke me: attack on titan ended on chapter 139, because the number 140 in japanese can represent “freedom” in which eren was a slave to. we never made it to 140, and eren never reached the freedom he always talked about 😢

[@anime_7881]

The series ends on 139.5. There's an extra chapter, which is, 139.5 which basically showed the story of the end credits, which is shown after the bird wraps the scarf around Mikasa in the anime... It's the same in Manga...!! And yeah you're right too, what you said is true ...!

[@rubenjacobs334]

Honestly this ending is pretty happy all things considered. You could see how Paradis had the time to become a dystopian megacity before war struck again so they had hundreds if not thousands of years of peace.

[@senbujohns4489]

I don't know how people are considering Aot ended poorly. So realistic that the whole show people disliked Mikasa because she just had Eren as lines that she was the one to kill him and show Ymir she can't free herself from the love that hurt her. Also the fact that Paradis got reprisal from the world from idk how many years later. That's literally the message of this show and Yelena literally said it "As long as mankind will be different there will always be an enemy" because of this fear of death. That's just so fitting to this show idk what to tell you. The only thing i find very hard to believe is except Eren nobody else we personally knew died during the battle but really good ending. I also like that this story isn't as dumb as "He became enemy public number 1 so the rest of the world joined together and peace remained forever" because that just isn't realistic at all. Also thank Ruffy for being transparent on getting spoiled and people just do stuffs like that because they want attention. I remember reading a specific jjk chapter and being so empty inside because after i saw a friend sending just one panel of that chapter in a group chat. I was sitting there like why though ? I wasn't spoiled I had already read it but the others were all angry. I don't understand them and mankind will never understand each other so I just let it slide now. Just try to be happy I guess.

[@heyitsquang285]

Nobody actually hates the ending itself. They just hate the final chapter. General points: plotholes Rushed plot points, like the Ymir Stockholm. Destiny taking away Erens agency and accountability. Not depressing enough. Etc, this is just a small piece of it. Just look at videos criticizing it with a open mind.

[@beastvicious8672]

Considering there's been many deaths throughout the entire show, i don't think it's a problem. Hanji just died previously, so it'd be less impactful for her if we kept getting death scenes right after her sacrefice. Also Zeke sacreficed himself to stop the rumbling, so there was 1 major death. And also Eren of course, like you said. Anymore death's and it would've lessened the value of these characters i think. Completely agree it would've been dumb for Eren to just bring world peace, becouse that's not how the world works. Idk how people expected that outcome, it's not a fairytale. Guessing it's Code Geass fans who don't understand how their ending was trash.

[@beastvicious8672]

@@heyitsquang285 What was the plotholes? Some people have stockholm syndrome, it's a real thing. Also Ymir wasn't part of our main cast, she was more of a plot device. Her relevance isn't as big as the characters we've followed throughout the show. Wrong on the third one, idk why so many people misunderstand this. Eren's decisions were all his own. He shaped the future. It was just that the decisions he made, turned the future into what it was. Had he made different choices, then his visions of the future would've been different from the beginning. But becouse he made the choice to use the rumbling, that's the reason he saw the future of him doing the rumbling. It was inevitable, but it was inevitable becouse this is what he wanted to do. I'll give an example. I know in the future that i'd order a pizza, rather than cooking rice and chicken. I could change that outcome any moment, but i still choose to order pizza at the end of the day. Becouse that's what i wanted. My decision here was the reason why i previously got visions of ordering pizza. Makes sense? Not depressing is subjective, lots of depressing things happened this episode. What specifically are you referring to?

[@heyitsquang285]

@@beastvicious8672 Eren already said in the episode he tested things and every time it led to the rumbling. For the plot holes just watch a video on it. Ymir being a plot device is lame and her issues were shoe horned into the story. Stockholm syndrome is a complicated thing and doesn’t deserve to be glossed over. For the not depressing enough part, too many of the characters survived. The AOE people wanted Eren to win and live with the consequences in the anime timeline and then cut to the destruction of Paradis scene later to remind people that humans will always fight.

[@jura9484]

​@@heyitsquang285 huh i just watched the ep today, i don't see the ymir stockholm thing as as rushed. you can already tell it's like that in the episode where her life was shown - she had zero self worth and took a spear for the dude. that she loved him too is very compatible with how people work in real life. (oh in this video you can see an irl example of how people in similar situations might think about themselves, if you're interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIWyiaOAbsuAbNEsi=p0P-b6mqt0q-YkYY ) if you mean that how it was brought up in this ep was rushed then yeah, i agree. in general there were a decent amount of individual bits that i liked a lot, but generally everything felt a bit smushed and like it could've used some room to breathe so it'd have more weight.

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

In the ending during credits, Armin as old man visits the tomb of both Eren and Mikasa

[@gremmythoumeaux2393]

Imagine if we get a sequel featuring that kid in the end. We can call it: “Beren: AOT Next Generations.” 😂

[@orabijuu8550]

The parasite is ded

[@prod3clips]

@@orabijuu8550 Dawg its a joke and just because THAT one is dead does not mean another can be born. And btw its based on a real prehistoric worm species or sum its called the hallucegenia i belive. I think and the idea that the worn did or didnt survive is purposly left ambiguious so you cant rly cross out the possibility of a "Beren: Aot Nexrt Generations" I personally would rly like to see a 2000 yr old reiner mentor Beren idk how hed survive but hes good at that hell figure it out.

[@slipstream5762]

Well...@@orabijuu8550 How did that giant tree end up that Ymir found? Was there a whole Titan history before our current one? Will it ever end?

[@orabijuu8550]

@@slipstream5762 we wouldnt know about the past. But ymirs parasite/curse Is dead/gone. Its an open end so you can assume that eren's head became the new parasite making the tree grow into a similar tree ymir found. But ill stick to what was stated which is the titans was erased in the world now

[@orabijuu8550]

@@prod3clips sorry bro, forgot to put my glasses on 🤓 ahhm acshually dee parasyte is ded

[@blowindaeditz]

I loved this episode, but I cried like 6 times tho😭😭

[@Thylax_]

I personally loved this ending. I have the full manga but held off reading. I wanted to see it animated. While I was watching all I could think about was the crazy journey. How this show started and how it ended. Amazing. There is so much symbolism we will be able to pick up on now when we rewatch. And yes, Levi vs Kenny squad at the start of S3 is forever a standout scene for me and one of my favourites.

[@dfdoom9153]

From what I understand is that when mikasa is in her dream at the log cabin with Erin is the outcome if she had confessed her love for eren as he would of given up all of his dreams just for her. Armin would of likely died when they ran away together and paradis would have been destroyed or at the very least all forced into slavery.

[@CrazyGamebino]

with the happy ending point i get that not everyone gets a happy ending. i would know i nearly died when i was 8 because a high drunk decided to get behind the wheel. as a result i was bullied as a child, i have permanent brain damage that affected my ability to sleep(cranial/brain trauma can severely fuck up your ability to sleep to the point you almost never sleep like me), my abilty to speak, my body has never fully recovered(i have limited dexterity in my right hand), and lastly my mental state is to put it kindly fucked. i was nearly killed as a child and the world punished me for it. so why would i expect anyone to get a happy ending when i was nearly given the opposite i still have to live with.

[@Nastyn1nja808]

Fallout said it "War.....War Never Changes"

[@kudasai1875]

Bro I was crying the first time I've seen this 😢

[@CS-jx8rr]

aot will always have a place in my heart and i think this is the best outcome of everything. the show was unpredictable and all the decisions made by the characters were best represented on how they were thinking and what they were experiencing in the most realistic way that it could. ending it on a happy note would take you out of the world and make you feel like all you felt, cried, and got angry about was for nothing. this show just represents how the world works and unfortunately the cycle will always repeat itself, whether you destroy and erase everything you can, even if you are on the same side and everyone thought the same, one person will be born who will not and the influence of them will start a whole new war. aot was my first anime that got me into anime as a genre in hs, this show was a masterpiece and im glad i got to experience it.

[@Goldenswagger359]

Wished ya noticed the first half of the credits where the whole squad comes to Eren's grave to Mikasa visiting the grave with her kid and her husband who might or might not be Jean.

[@Goldenswagger359]

Anyway at least all of Eren's friends who survived the future that was set in stone got to live a full life in a world without Titans like he promised.

[@pkgodie8001]

⁠​⁠@@Goldenswagger359Not all of his friends got to live a full life ☝️🤓

[@Stan13y]

Bro said necrophilia like it’s that serious

[@Vortex_ICEcold]

Eren also sent Dina to himself so he would see Dina eating his mom. He needs it to be Dina so he can get angry and touch Dina in season 2 finale to unlock the founder powers which leads to the snowball effect.

[@jrlombardi5251]

In case you don't remember, Eren still needed royal blood to use the founder (bc even if Ymir is on his side, she can't do whatever she wants, her powers have limitations and just as ppl without her blood can't transform into titans, ppl with a lot of her blood like the royal family have more power), so he was using him to make the rumbling. The alliance talked about this last episode and that's why they were trying to find him to kill him, bc it was the easier way to stop the rumbling, to take the person with royal blood away from Eren, making impossible for him to use the power of the founder to make the colossals move.

[@phoenixsoren]

Falco's Winged Beast Titan is easily my favorite design

[@Ragdefender]

Technically a jaw Titan.

[@phoenixsoren]

@@Ragdefender I say it how the manga says it, Falco is the Winged Beast Titan despite actually being a Jaw

[@Flash-FireCC]

The more I watch people's reactions the more I start to understand the ending. I rated this episode kinda low since for me it was hard to process everything since it felt like it all went by so fast(which is one of critiques about this episode). Also some scenes felt like they had missing pieces so they didn't land as well but other than that as much as it pains me to see this non-happy ending, it deserves to conclude this way. I couldn't cry but throughout this whole episode I could feel my emotions deep down sink to the bottom of my stomach.

[@JPGameStuffs]

Mikasa letting loose in season 4 on the rooftops was an insane scene.

[@Random-ue8si]

Just like that history repeats itself.

[@delaneyfells913]

"I wanted more rumbling" 😂😂😂 me too

[@BGBSsu]

Human nature is complex. Many people just want to see perfect victims, perfect avengers, perfect love, and characters without moral flaws, but the reality is that human nature is very complex, no one is perfect, and reality is imperfect.

[@NestorFuentes001]

I think the ending debacle in the manga was less what the ending was and more so how it ended. Execution is so important and the slight changes the anime made to adapt it gave it way more justice. If you read the last 3 manga chapters back to back you could see how different it feels. This had more breathing room and it was just what it needed to make it work so much better.

[@beastvicious8672]

The anime wasn't different from the manga. Except we saw Yelena at the end, which we didn't in the manga. Remember people were upset about not knowing Yelena's whereabouts, for whatever reason.

[@Doomfoolable]

@@beastvicious8672 that…. isn’t what most people were upset about lmao

[@beastvicious8672]

@@Doomfoolable Nothing else was different from the manga. Also lots of people complained about not knowing what happened with Yelena.

[@zack3851]

​@@beastvicious8672😂

[@FuzionOki]

@@beastvicious8672 Did you read the manga? Obviously you didn't because if you did you would know there's dialogue changes in the Eren Armin scene which was a huge complaint when the manga came out because of some unnecessary and underdeveloped dialogue

[@penguin50279]

Zeke’s royal blood was needed for the rumbling to start so when he died it stopped.

[@Runo1923]

It was truly one of the endings.

[@sliceoflifeanimeking1496]

There are three reasons what I think Hajime Isayama was trying to convey in process of making Attack on Titian📖 1.)You matter: A lot of people in this world grew up in households were their parents expects greatest from them and when they don’t live up to their parents expectations they can often feel like they don’t matter. Eren who is the main character of Attack on Titan his mom Carla says “When it comes to my child it’s fine if he never great he doesn’t have to be better than anyone he is already special because he was born into the world”(Carla) Isayama wants everyone to know they don’t have to be the president, football athlete, actor, singer and Rapper to even exist in this world you matter simply because your alive and you have a good head on your shoulders💯 2.)Hatred: Hate will always exist in this world like it or not you always going to find that one person who hates you cause you look different act different, and talk different Isayama wants us to understand despite all the hatred in this world that should not stop us from trying to shine love and peace in this world. 3.) Freedom conclusion: A lot people slave to something in this world Hajime Isayama believes you should do what you want and don’t fall into the habit of pleasing others cause you end being a slave to them forever if you do. I totally agree with him everyone should live for themselves once and awhile traveling, explore, and do what makes you happy. Eren Yeager wishes he can do what we all are doing which is traveling places with our friends and family seeing places and meeting people but he couldn’t cause of his circumstances but that didn’t stop him from doing so he still chase his freedom despite being a slave to not being able to be free I’m truly grateful that I’m alive and well to see your series come to end thank you Hajime Isayama I pray we meet someday soon my friend🙏🏽🙌🏽

[@hectorarrivillaga5090]

@ruffsenpai The way the story unfolded in the manga is different than the way they told the story in the anime. In the anime, they kind of imply that war will always exist and that we are in end endless cycle of self-destruction but in the manga, I felt it was more open-ended for you to interpret. I think the ending they made for the anime is a lot better than the ending for the manga series

[@BigJMC]

43:48 Yeah it doesn’t really count since it takes 10 seconds to become unconscious after decapitation and then 3-6 minutes for irreversible brain damage and death. But I can see how it can be seen as goofy but I think it’s important to understand what the author is trying to do/convey in the scene.

[@sodapop6164]

37:36 i think the term pyrrhic victory is appropriate

[@MaIKa42wo]

The Baby scene MUST be a reference to the little girl scene of "Schindler`s List".

[@LDIndustries]

45:11 It's never over Attack on Titan is a flat circle

[@Dat-Boi-Camoja]

When I read the manga and saw Pieck snapping I’m like *”my girl”* 😩😩

[@mcoupe69]

Erens head was the seed for the new hallucinogenia tree

[@andoyosua5887]

The awkward moment when Eren start crying lmao

[@НикитаСимонян-ж5е]

Armin provoked him and he just dumped all his real feelings for her in a pathetic way. I think it was done on purpose, hinting that even though he loved her, he is an idiot, and a real idiot who wanted destruction and no longer deserves to be with her

[@andoyosua5887]

@@НикитаСимонян-ж5е who the hell asking for explanation wtf lmao

[@mauricetoney]

I love how this finale introduced everyone to my favorite animal 😂. Okapi for the win!

[@MewinMoose]

We can die happy having watched peak

[@greentitan0262]

A bit of a long comment. Not alot of things changed in the ending. The only thing that was changed, is that they added that Armin was gonna share Eren's sins, and that they are going to see eachother again, in hell. As a manga reader, i loved this subtle change. I dont know how people will think about this ending, i've already had over 2 years to think about it and consider what it all means. As far as i know, in Japan, the ending isnt thought of as weird or out of the box. Its attack on titan. Of course in the end the problems isn't the titans. Erwin said this very early: Who do you think the "enemy" is? Its humans. Conflict will never end. If we take away a weapon of mass destruction, at some point humanity will find something to bicker about, and they will just go to and make a new weapon to use. Conflict is inevitable, but at least Eren's friends where able to make the best of it, and live their lives happily.

[@chriswave1992]

Without a shadow of a doubt, this series is and will always be a masterpiece. This ending was as perfect as can be and even surpassed the manga version in my opinion. 🙏

[@Pope1992]

I’m really glad you guys are able to understand the ending. I love the ending. Mind you, I also wanted a different ending. I wanted eren to win. But his plan never changed. He said “I attempted to eradicate all life beyond the walls, but you only manage to save 20%” ge was gonna go thru with it. He just knew his friends would stop him and whatever choice mikasa made would bring about the end of the titans. Such a beautiful ending.

[@al_alemania]

Its got all of us emotional

[@arivanilla]

We all know the opinions will be divided because in no way people have the same point of view on controversial topics. Since the genocide began the fans already went different ways. But I love how people still remember and love the characters from early seasons. Many died early but I feel stronger connection with them

[@SamirSiraj8542]

Was waiting for it

[@simucasolano4087]

Ellen is the biggest sacrifice. Ellen abandoned everything and saved her friends and everyone after that. If the giants didn't disappear, children fought to become soldiers, discrimination continued, and parents were forced to feed their children forever. What I've seen since episode 1 has been repeated. Ellen couldn't change the future. Ellen was a puppet. That was finally freed by Mikasa.

[@TheSleyar]

Eren doesnt stop any titan related tragedy in the story from happening because it fundementally goes against his belief of fighting for freedom. he cant take away others free will while championing it, even though those things are horrible. he explains to his friends as much during the plane ride to him

[@ChristinaMagma]

It’s not an ideal ending, but a realistic ending.

[@Olivia-ch6fh]

I think ppl interpret eren saying he's an idiot as like a throw away comment. Eren is saying with who I am, the knowledge I have I'm not smart enough to think of a way around the future ymir is striving for he is a slave to freedom BUT he's an idiot with power. So with the power he does have he comes up with a way to not only satisfy ymir but also save his friends all of them (rip sasha). If he were smarter yeah maybe he could've devised a plan to end war forever no retaliation, keep his friends alive, and eradicate titans but there just a way. At least one he could devise. Now as yall rewatch this amazing anime look for adult eren and or moments where you see he pops into the paths to talk to armin in different times. Especially when they are kids it was so quick but it's there you can hear eren describing his dream to armin and literally says you kill me or something along those lines to armin.

[@ChristinaMagma]

When crunchyroll froze 😅 24:00

[@AlexBlight]

Nothing to do with the video but why H-man He doesn't appear almost on the channel anymore, except for old pre-recorded videos like Steven Universe?, I haven't seen the videos for a while so I don't know if he's not part of the channel anymore

[@deadsoon]

Seeing Historia being a good mother and celebrating her child's birthday and doting on her makes me so happy because it means she's not repeating the cycle of abuse she was burdened with by her own mother. She also didn't necessarily want nor plan for the baby, but she stepped up and raised her as a proper parent. I know she loses a lot of focus from the plot after season 3 and she seems to regress character wise to some but...I think she didn't. She got to live a full life with her kid doing what she loved. She got to be selfish and live for herself for once. I see that as a win tbh.

[@franciscorojas6232]

The only problem I had with the ending was the final conversation between Eren and Armin, it was bad. But they completely changed it in the anime and now is so good xD

[@ag-906]

Perfection bruh😢

[@cesarvictorino4301]

It’s sad to see another great anime go but now it’s time to find something else.

[@Flash-FireCC]

Onto Kaiju no 8!

[@pkgodie8001]

@@Flash-FireCCw manga

[@ImJasonD]

When will KZbin reactors get it? React THEN discuss. That pause at 37:35 is nearly unforgivable...

[@cesarvictorino4301]

Would anyone like to see Code Geass on here?

[@renatoramos8834]

2:49 I've seen enough hentai to know where that is going.

[@Whorpse]

Gabi out here delivering backshots

[@GUevanescence]

23: 58 nightmare 🤣

[@johangama8505]

the final is perfect!!!!!! is about the eternal return!!!! like guru laghima said, new growth can not exist, without first the destruction of the old. AOT IS PERFECT!!!!

[@RKO1217]

Yeah the evolution change it all for us from start to finish. Followed the manga from when it was showing Reiners childhood in S4, but the progress from there and the ending just had me sad and empty not in a bad way, but just like emotion should be added and it is perfect with both endings. Ending 1 = Mikasa’s thank u, and ending 2 = the entire credits scenes which everyone hated, me just didn’t care but yeah the ending really made sense after my second day looking at manga made so much sense for an amazing yet dark anime/manga. Also Dubs r quite good personal opinion to say. It’s truest just sad to say goodbye to both manga and anime now. Great full to Isayama.

[@NightSterling]

I think the people that hated the ending just preferred Eren being an edgelord no emotions genocial maniac over the whiny kid he's always been.

[@AzulApe]

Nah, it’s just corny for Ereh to kill his own mother to be a genocidal edgelord and then admit he’s an idiot. Makes as much sense as Ymir loving Fritz.

[@AM17titan]

@@AzulApethe thing is that he wasn’t an edge lord In the rumbling opening song he even says ‘he doesn’t want to be the king ‘ And eren killing his mother I think it wasn’t necessary but I also love the fact that future eren made dina eat mom so that kid eren could get his hatred of the titans It’s so fucked up It’s like the flash story where Barry has the power to save his mom but let reverse flash kill her

[@AzulApe]

@@AM17titan he doesn’t wanna be the king, he’s a whole jester. Ereh even asked Reiner why his mom had to die after he knew that he killed her. Comparing him to the flash is laughable. Flash allows his mother to die to prevent the timeline from destroying other people’s lives. Ereh kills his mom to commit genocide. 🤣

[@davidyodo24]

Said a lot about those people 👀

[@gabrielegenota1480]

@@AzulApe Okay but consider what'll happen if Eren never had this insane hatred of titans. Paradis would just straight up be gone in some Marleyan attack with very little resistance lmao. He probably saw all that too, which is why we got the timeline that we got.

[@thalunizz21]

Will always be a masterpiece. 🙏

[@actionturnip395]

Our “””heroes””” spent DAYS AND DAYS being unable to stop Eren because they had to physically hike to the shore of Paradis, when it turned out if they had gotten Falco to mess around with his titan powers a little, they could’ve skipped all of that and flown to Eren way sooner without losing Hange or Magath or even having to kill those Yeagerists… not to mention they could’ve stopped the Rumbling well before it got to 80% like that. But nooo we gotta keep Falco out of the action because SUDDENLY we care so much about sparing the children I mean FUCK OFF. It feels like how people used to make fun of Lord of the Rings because “oh the eagles coulda just carried them to Mordor” but I feel like this is that times a MILLION, and to top it all off the character’s name is Falco…? Fuck this series in its genocidal abusive dictator loving ass. King Fritz abused everyone, gets a woman to do the ENTIRETY OF TITAN MAGIC purely by his will. Annie’s dad abused her and made her into a cold killer, he gets to survive and be reunited with her happily ever after. Fucking EREN obviously “abused” the world just like Fritz, and Mikasa still loved him and missed him years afterwards, which is exactly what he wanted for some reason. Even Uri Reiss… inexplicably Kenny was super loyal to that guy in spite of having every reason in the world to hate him for wiping out the Ackermans. This story is just so obsessed with the concept of an irredeemable monster being adored by the subjects of his worst abuses that it makes me wonder what kinda weird shit Isayama gets into IRL… There’s a way to execute the tropes that this story loves, and IMO it did pretty much everything wrong at the end. But considering anime watchers were on for the ride this far, it’s not surprising people like whatever diarrhea Isayama shits out. I just hope MAPPA makes enough money off of this to start working on Chainsaw man again…

[@Someone-xx2zi]

[@danocedani]

This is gotta be my favourite anime that has an ending. Of course , i wanted a happy ending(they lived happily ever after type shit), but cmon ,thats not possible in AOT. This was litteraly the most reasonable, realistic and satisfying ending we could get. (When the AoT manga bros were raging because of the ending i immediately guessed the would be sad but Good.) Thank you author for making this masterpiece and to you guys for giving the best reaction ever. See you on the AoT aftertale OVA the final Edition 😂

[@aotgoat3267]

No one wanted a happy ending. I don’t know why everyone saying this. Not 1 manga reader wanted a happy ending💀💀💀 + this is a very happy ending💀💀 no one died apart from Eren.

[@junkbot931]

😂

[@OBITO_YEAGER]

Yeah hange still alive🤡

[@OBITO_YEAGER]

Yeah hange still alive🤡❤

[@atmaillumina]

Great reaction. Tbh, I hated the ending and always will. I've thought about it for a really long time. I have concluded that Isayama dropped the story and rushed it at the end. It's easy to get caught up in the recency bias of watching this story that had such good action. However, when you really think about the logical progression of the show, you will notice a lot of plotholes and failed character arcs. Most people that didn't like the ending feel this way because they mutilated Eren's character. It was a really weak ending and resolution for where the story was going. Eren not going through with his plan, Armin's failed choice of being the leader, Mikasa being the "main character" is laughable, failed Historia arc, plot contrivances in Falco having flight (why were there no other flying titans throughout history?), failed Jaegerist agenda plotline, unresolved hallucigenia plot, creepy necrophilia from Mikasa, Ymir being "in love" is what caused this mess and she wanted to see something so trivial that she caused a cycle of hatred (she could not have possibly been in love lol), the list just goes on and on. There's a lot of good and deeply powerful moments. Regardless of how I felt about the ending, I loved the story from a very profound place in my heart. I've never spoiled it for anyone and allowed all of my friends to go through this journey while having conversations with them about it throughout the years... it's been a fantastic time. But that doesn't mean I can forgive this rushed ending. After the decade of waiting, fantasizing, theorizing, and researching this lore, I can not reconcile in my head that it ended this way. I respect anyone's opinion on the ending, but I will insist that you do not judge others for how they feel about the ending. Try to get an understanding of why they may feel that way instead of judging them instantaneously. I understand that your connection and love for the show can temporarily blind you to the plight of another, but seriously try to understand the other side.

[@scr3verrrb70]

As much as i Iove the ending, ur comment is beautiful

[@yujin1343]

Man you gotta stop with that face on the left for the thumbnails im laughing my ass off instead of being sad LMAO

[@jasmine9581]

ohh jeez do I wanna do this again aa 0:14 Heh

[@Ayezil]

Armin the throat goat

[@peter-josephlamusitele6296]

For me this is a good ending lucky i haven't seen too much on it before starting it

[@spacewoomy4853]

To me, the ending is bittersweet in multiple ways, but the main being that Erin completed his goal. He killed every titan. they're all gone. it was at the cost of most of humanity, and himself, but in the end, he killed every last one of them. I think I get pretty lost with all the time travel shit, but i think it's a pretty good ending. Not perfect, but definitely great. I think the moral of the story is that LEVI IS THE GOAT!!!!!!!!! LEVI NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S GOOO!!!!!!!

[@whatthefisfilipinx]

36:52 Fun fact! Armin's VA is a woman.

[@damiennightmaresx7950]

AOT:WITH MECHS would be epic

[@orabijuu8550]

Yow jjk mentioned. Does the SSR reacts to it? I have forgot if yall reacted to it individually. Edit. Thats a stupid Q. I just saw the mashup playlist Wish they could react to the second season together

[@sarasama7966]

SNK GOD Isayama... GOD Itterasshai...EREN❤

[@daysand123]

Ive said it before a d ive said it again. People legit tried megaslicing theories together into multiple theories of Naruto level trash ass narrative of brainless effort into anime only ending Eren succeeds and everyone dies except Eldia and he sends memories back to himself before it happens or whatever on a neverending loop. Like thats awful. It basically perpetuates a samsara of years decades even of horriffic bloodshed that is just neverending as opposed to the actual ending and others that actually go through with committing with consequences despite wondeeing about alternative outcomes.

[@neutralplayeroflol5722]

As a manga reader, the reason we hate the ending is because of Armin's dialouge and wanted Eren to win. The anime made it better(prefered WIT studios though)

[@sabinakoka7967]

Eren could have stopped berthold and reiner but that would have had a diffrent outcome with titan still existing...the only way for titan to be eradicated was this way and that's it

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

You guys uploaded the previous episode reaction ri8???

[@BigJMC]

I think the Eren and Mikasa kiss would’ve been less goofy to the people who found it weird if they had Mikasa kiss Eren as he was being chopped off instead of having his head chopped off and then the kiss.

[@sebastianbaker58]

I don’t think you guys realized but Armin’s voice actor is a girl. I know it surprised me too when I looked it up.

[@parthpandiya1729]

just so you know it was mikasa visiting eren's grave with her new family (😢) till her death due to old age

[@thelwulf3367]

It wasn't her family lol those two were just Mikasa and eren in her vision. They both used to come there when they were kids.

[@parthpandiya1729]

@@thelwulf3367 I think we're talking about seperate scenes

[@thelwulf3367]

@@parthpandiya1729 I know the scene you are talking about which comes at the end while she's visiting his grave. Those two kids are eren and Mikasa while adult Mikasa is sitting beside them

[@sentoworf]

​​@@thelwulf3367they're talking about the scenes during the credits not before Mikasa starts crying.

[@Aaengelren]

I would recommend you to read Mikasa's lost girls manga. It's very different from the anime

[@tiochocabron]

Di you think Eren will be the next ymir trying to seek his freedom from freedom slavery?

[@ebonyangel951]

What anime only watchers saw WAS the changed ending. In the original manga, the next generation of Eldians just get genocided, and THAT was the ending manga readers complained about. Iseyama rewrote the ending in a special chapter and that chapter was the ending the anime received, so yeah, most fans accept the new ending compared to what was we had.

[@davidyodo24]

Wait really? I thought they didn't changed the ending for the Anime. Now i have to read the Manga for comparison

[@eeeeggnog._.]

​@davidyodo24 they just changed some little things bit it's the same plot. What this guy means is that in the anime credits scene, Paradis seems to grow for hundreds and hundreds of years before being bombed, in a completely different conflict. In the manga, it looked like it was 50-100 years at the most and seemed to be a direct consequence of them stopping Eren.

[@ItsMe-bt4tm]

what are you talking about they still get basically genocided did you see the ending with the nukes?

[@davidyodo24]

@@eeeeggnog._. ohh i see, i understand now

[@sentoworf]

​​@@davidyodo24in the manga scene with armin/eren there was a line where armin says "thank you for turning yourself into a mass murderer for us" lmao

[@justinmathaba8482]

In the manga it was implied that Mikasa moved on and had children(Jean somewhat implied to be the father) and funny enough that's the 90% the reason most people were mad at the ending Also the ending in the manga was rushed and didn't give people enough time to digest and process their emotions hence the rage and hope the anime would make it different

[@OBITO_YEAGER]

Lol how can she move on. But she still wearing erens scarf in the manga😂