The Disturbing Reality of Attack on Titan

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[@JustinSVA]

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[@Ar_sole_hair_fiddler]

The end frame of the final episode that just says "The End" in total silence hit too hard.

[@otysb209]

In stead of ‘to be continued…’ ya. Longest ‘to be continued…’ I’ve followed in my life so far.

[@Betoruffo]

@@otysb209one piece

[@betuna9487]

​@@Betoruffoyou african?

[@cale0176]

Iseyama: I want to write a story that's easy to understand. Also Iseyama: *writes Eren*

[@Omar_E11]

Eren isn't hard to understand, if you're willing to acknowledge your previous misconceptions about him were wrong. He is a brilliant character.

[@daniaaal]

@@Omar_E11 Agreed. Tbh Eren didn't impress me much as a character until Season 4. That's when the intrigue of the character fleshes out.

[@jameseddleman6944]

Sorry but what was so complicated about his character? I actually can relate to Eren in many ways. When he turned "bad" to his friends, I already knew his reasons. He was always trying to protect them. But, because the human mind can't live both in the past and in the future, his brain was mess up from the founder. On top of the fact that the organism inside of him is constantly pushing that "flight or flight" response to save it's own skin, it had to make its will to survive, Eren's will. So when he said "I wanted to kill them." after explaining to Armin what his plan was, he's not saying "I'm a killer and I love it." that "desire" to "kill them all" comes from the need to reproduce and survive, so feeling good about killing all those people just comes from base instinct of the organism inside him, and he calls himself an "idiot who gained power" because that is exactly what he is, for letting this power control him. He's an idiot because he couldn't let the Island die, and by guessing what was in the end credits, the worm inside him knew that if it could make the island survive, the worm would have have a new host in the future even after the island gets bombed, there would still be Eldian survivors to infect. Eren's character, in relation to the organism, is a stepping stone.

[@cale0176]

@@jameseddleman6944 It's because a character with a non linear view of time would never be someone an audience can fully relate to. In part because their perspective brings up legitimate questions of free will and autonomy, making any discussion of his morality mired in additional layers of depth and nuance. Everything you're describing is surface level. He thinks in a way that no other character, that none of us, can fully comprehend. Eren, as a character, is fundamentally more complicated to discuss than most other protagonists in media because even to this day it's unclear if his hand was ever truly forced.

[@jameseddleman6944]

@@cale0176 I think you're wrong. First off, someone wrote "non linear" time characters before. Its not "such an unhuman" topic that no one can do mental gymnastics to get the grasp of, as most of us have through watching this show.... I mean purely by proxy of the show we are experiencing "that time" felt by Eren as we see somethings through his minds eye . Yes, by nature we can't actually "do it" but we are perfectly capable as humans to "do things for the future" however clear or unclear that is. We are able to imagine futures in our heads and then obtain that future, so is that not similar? I mean, if it comes true then did you not "see" that future from the past? Simply imagine that you have to use the bathroom and see yourself there... then execute... congrats you are able to see the future!... I jest. Secondly, I am writing a story too, and my character is immortal outright. So to make the story interesting I have to think about all the realistic bad that comes with being 100 yrs old, to 1 billions years old. What does one think about, how does your morality last after seeing humans repeat history over and over, do you love anything anymore? do you wish for death? All things I have to pretend to be immortal to "get". And why I think Attack on Titan is such a great story, is that we can pretend to be like Eren very easily. It's called "watching the show" lol Eren IS like a real world veiwer, aka us. He is a slave to his fate and we were all a slave to seeing this story all the way through to the end. He was very much an observer of his own life as it was laid out before him by him from the future, but that "future him" was made by all the choices of the world he was born in, so a real fate not some magical one. But no, seriously. If you watched it all, then go through it again, watch it again. Just by doing that you are experiencing both the past and the future (as it pertains to what you know as the viewer) Tell me I am wrong I dare you lol. You have the knowledge and emotions of the future, and you are re-watching Erens Mother die in episode 1... does that not make you both aware of the future, but emotionally you are in the past, still feeling sorry for her as she tells her kids to run? That's the kind of thing Eren is going through, like all the times he said "kill them all, every last one of them" he had no "knowledge" of the future, but emotionally he was in the future, just like an instict is just wells up and the feeling is there but he has no idea why that is (as a linear being). When he kissed Historia's hand, the emotions of the future were finally caught up to the knowledge of the future, hence the face he made because he felt like he was already stepping over all those people, and crushing Ramzi, while also apologizing to Ramzi for crushing him, while seeing Ramzi get beat up by those 3 merchants WHILE seeing his mother die again probably lol. Its just all the things all the time, and thats not impossible to imagine, just impractical to actually do. As you re watch the episode where Reiner and Bertholdt reveal who they are, do you still not get chills? do you not feel for Eren who keeps being betrayed by the people around him whom he called "humanity"? I still get up and say "YOU DAMN TRAITORS!" every time I see that part even though I know what happens in the end and why Reiner pushed forward. (Which is to be a hero, not to save the world) Seeing Bertholdt try to explain why he has to destroy them, with the knowledge you now have you can actually feel bad for him, instead of being like Mikasa who wanted nothing more than to chop off his head. That's all examples of this awesome story, making you into non linear being like Eren. written exactly that way to be felt retroactively while thinking about what happens later on in a different light. They practically spell it out when Eren sees his father kill the family, in like 3-4 different perspectives, what it's like for a Linear being to be semi Non Linear.

[@gumerzambrano]

I'm so glad I binged watched the WHOLE series for the first time recently. Also without getting spoiled. It was an amazing experience

[@Darksightkellar]

You lucky bastard, you.

[@gumerzambrano]

@@Darksightkellar I just never started it but new it existed

[@Nohandle1125]

Honestly, compared to the JJK fandom, Attack On Titan fandom was extremely respectful about spoilers.

[@asdfiekpj]

Same here. I'm watching it again because it's so good.

[@Nigels_Wrld]

congratulations this was my first ever anime and is now one of if not my favorite show of all time

[@ytbubble]

This anime has somewhat ruined entertainment media for me. Isayama's deep & accurate understanding of human nature, makes this anime into almost a documentation of human emotions/behaviour. Something that I can very rarely find anywhere else. I hope something in the future can live up to the care for storytelling that has been shown here.

[@giygas9305]

I thought everything was ruined after I watched this show as well😂. I can still enjoy other shows, but deep down I know nothing else even comes close to AoT (except maybe Game of Thrones? I never watched it tho)

[@brinu5341]

Dude, same. I revisit some other stuff..and im like.... "meh". Only thing vaguely on a par with this for me, is the Last of Us part 1 and part 2 game series.

[@giygas9305]

@@brinu5341 did you just recently watch AoT? For a week or two after I binged the show, nothing else could entertain me at all. All I had on my mind was Attack on Titan and I couldn’t stop making references to it. I still make references and constantly compare everything to AoT, but I’m not on a full blown AoT high anymore.

[@giygas9305]

@@brinu5341 did you just recently watch AoT? For a week or two after I binged the show, nothing else could entertain me at all. All I had on my mind was Attack on Titan and I couldn’t stop making references to it. I still make references and constantly compare everything to AoT, but I’m not on a full blown AoT high anymore.

[@brinu5341]

@@giygas9305 Just finished it about a month ago. Been thinking about it ever since.

[@Wandergirl108]

Something about AoT that always got to me was how, despite the initial premise we were given, it has always been a show about people, doing people things, for people reasons - there is no hero, no villain, no definitively "right" side, in fact it just shows that EVERYONE is wrong in some way or other when it comes to war. What got to me more was how, while the first three seasons portrayed the positive side of being human - that yes, we struggle, and we make mistakes, but so long as we fight, so long as we believe, there is always hope - season four portrayed the negative side of being human, the ways in which even the best of us fail. Season four triggered my depression HARD, a few episodes in I was starting to feel like I didn't want to live - not because the show was bad, but because it was so good at portraying the grimness and misery of the world, it nearly broke me with how real it was. That's why I can never call AoT one of my top five favorite Anime - it's definitely one of the BEST Anime, best SHOWS, I've ever seen, but I can't honestly say I enjoy it, because it forces me to see the true depths of the awfulness in the world that I frankly watch shows to try to forget about. In a way, that's a point in its favor. Still makes me feel miserable when I watch it, though.

[@LuisSierra42]

tbh you just need to watch the news to realize just how fucked up the world can be

[@johbot]

welp. guess you should stay far far away from Berserk

[@thatjrpganimefanplayerjusi8003]

@@LuisSierra42exactly what’s going on now our world my not have long AOT especially season 4 is truly based on real human dark F UP nature of our world only reason most don’t believe this is because there ether sheltered by society or just flat out blind ignorant delusional Enough said

[@JustinBobby-di9zt]

Honestly, AoT sorta reminds me of Gundam Wing despite it being one short part of the franchise. But in the way it dealt with the concepts of war and peace and can peace be achieved and how. It also had a main character who was a revolutionary terrorist and a murderer who accumulated children as collateral damage as a child. It also just deals with revolutionary ideology and freedom and with amoral people being willing to commit atrocities to obtain freedom or peace or so their side can win. The operation meteor is to crash the Battle Ship Libra into the Earth to deal a decisive blow to the Earth Sphere Alliance. Someone is willing to shoot down an entire space colony to prevent the same.

[@Kaiverze]

I get where you're coming from about not truly enjoying the show or not placing it top 5, and you're right because I also feel depressed watching certain episodes and moments. But one thing that always pulls me the other way, towards the light if you will, is Armin and what his entire character is about: "but there's more to it than that", there's more than just being drunk on and being a slave to something, there's more to it than just kill or be killed, there's more to it than just continuing the species. There is so much more to life than any of that. And that makes me genuinely happy to know that AOT, the best piece of media ever imo, taught me that.

[@nuguns92]

Your story made me feel kinda old ….I was 19, in college, had just moved into my first apartment with a roommate… Now I’m 29 and own a house with a kid . Crazy 10 years man.

[@JustinSVA]

Yeah, believe me when I say that I feel you there! The fact that it has been 10 years bothers me in a way that I can't begin to describe.

[@otysb209]

Saaaaammme, same same. Same. lol

[@guyhuy]

congrats on having ur kid bro.

[@jonathanhoward1499]

Monotolife. We call em expendable.

[@rominnoodles]

Same I started watching aot in 2015 when I was 13 now I am 21 in college close to graduating

[@KrazyVideoChick]

1:04:39 the Rumbling in AoT is sort of what I expected from "Winter is Coming" in GoT... I'm sooooo glad that AoT made The Rumbling the horrifying event that everyone was scared that it would be. GoT made so much ado about nothing regarding winter coming, and it's like we blinked, and it came and went. 😅

[@jameseddleman6944]

Man, I hated GoT season 8. I had this whole thing in my head about how is should go. Like, I could give you a detailed version, but ultimately I thought that the White Walkers would never be stopped exactly. I thought that John and Danny would be pushed to Kings Landing like in the show, and Bran would learn about how the Whites can see into the future ...because they seemed to kill all those wildling season 1 episode 1 to leave behind symbols of the "pact" as if to warn humans that they are about to break the "pact" and they sent a White to go stop Sam from taking little Sam, Crasters incestuous son that he would sacrifice. The Walkers only sent one of their kind to go get it, SO I think the idea is that their future site is limited, possible to what happens around those White trees, while the "Green Seers" can see things that happen around the tree only, the Whites have "Blue seers" They sent one Walker to get their Prince that was Promised, Little Sam. They saw Big Sam in a vision maybe, saw that he was fat and a coward, like in that blizzard the one time so they thought one Walker would be enough. But they underestimated him, as well as couldn't see the future where Sam gains the courage to fight. So once little Sam was beyond the wall, the pact was broken I think, they made the last son of Craster turn into one of them, and then came down south themself. So I thought that in the end, they would try to fight in kings landing, but start losing and when the citizens die, they become the enemy right? so the back up plan that Bran comes up with as he "looks" through time... "Burn them all." and it's just my theory but Bran being stronger, would actually Worg trough the life of The Mad King which on top of the (book) torture the Mad king endured before I was just connecting the fact that Jammie said "He'd been saying the same thing for hours, 'burn them all'." Kinda like Hodar saying hodar for years. So now that the enemy has take Kings Landing, and the White Walkers could have never seen what happens at Kings Landing due to the tree being there. So I had two ending in mind, either they win by destroying everyone and everything Danny was trying to win, in order to actually defeat them. OR They don't die from Wilde Fire either, just most of their army. So then The White Walkers stop attacking but start to communicate using the symbols from season 1. Bran would see this, and be able to look in the past and see that in order to stop the Winter, a sacrifice of an incestuous son, with the caveat that Jammie and/or Cersei is dead and Danny/John being the last pair that could actually stop the world from ending by doing what Craster was doing, by doing what the Targaryens have done for generations.

[@Elmo914]

Eh, you kinda right but thats kinda ruined by the crazy levels of plotarmor our heroes have during the event. Our heroes literally had to search for death (like hange) in order to get it. GoT and AoT are very similar with their tropes and good guys win relatively undamaged meme. Which is why I did not like the ending of AOT, while the musical score and art is fantastic, the bread and butter, the story, left me unsatisfied. Mikasa and Jon are both chosen one lover killers. Ugh what a bore, what AOT could have been.

[@Elmo914]

@@shivanshsharma3487 First four seasons, hell yeah, without a doubt.

[@jefferybrown6473]

​@@jameseddleman6944 God that would've been an extremely better ending.

[@LuisSierra42]

As the rumbling unfolded, I remember thinking "This is EXACTLY what I would expect from a show called Attack on Titan", one of my favorite aspects of the show is the aesthetics and how the titans are designed and interact, it's terrifying but at the same time very interesting

[@elcee8]

Great video! But i think you got one small thing incorrect about Armin. At 17:42 you mention that he runs away from his fights. I’ve never seen him run away from a fight. Especially not from the Colossal Titan. He just lets the bullies beat him up as he tries to verbally outsmart them. In fact, that was Eren’s question to Armin when they first met “Why don’t you run?”

[@bp4_archive]

Spot on

[@Free_3.0]

There were a few other small inaccuracies, but overall I still thought it was very well written.

[@elcee8]

@@Free_3.0 yeah, they are small inaccuracies and not important to point out but annoying type A fans like me just have to point them out anyway.

[@Free_3.0]

@@elcee8 oh no my friend... My fingers were hovering over the keyboard as well. Your point was one I noticed, he also said that Zeke betrayed his parents in order to enact the euthanization plan (they came up with that plan years later) ... Actually now that I think about it, the other thing I started to comment was less of an inaccuracy and more of an interpretation. That one had to do with Ymir's cult and how I don't think that they actually betrayed her. Knowing what was revealed about founder Ymir, I think the cult always intended for her to be a scapegoat.

[@lirenxin5472]

I think one of the most important character of Armin is that he never runs away from his fights. His reaction to his bullies in his childhood is symbolic to his later decisions, whether to face titans head-on (especially with Bertholdt), his war atrocities to Marley, his conflict with Eren. He always faces the truth despite how weak he is physically.

[@customizablemilk353]

man, imagine being a descendand of marley/eldia 4 generations later and having to study all of this just for your history exams

[@johans3164]

Dude, i can hear u talkin about AoT for hours. Peak content right here

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you so much! I appreciate that a ton! Considering this video was practically another hour long at one point, you could have had that. Lol.

[@GrimFelArt]

@@JustinSVA btw it's pronounced "coo-day-tah" lol it ain't that hard to google a word XD

[@arthurangelo519]

For me, the soundtrack is SNK’s peak. Every score is perfect. It is so unique, ponctual and chaotic. They are beautiful and tell the story for themselves. They are as alive as everything in this world. I cannot imagine this series without remembering the music.

[@IAKTKST]

As much as I completely love this video, your pronunciations are INFURIATING me 😭😭😭

[@96waver72]

Thank you.

[@bruteforcexbl]

i was looking for this comment lol

[@IAmTrash1995]

I watched this anime from beginning to end and hearing you narrate this brought me to tears. Thank you

[@Veteransmoker]

I read Attack on Titan alongside Berserk in Highschool. Great mangas.

[@a.jthomas6132]

The two main characters on Attack on Titan fits perfectly on the two concepts of freedom from Russian-British philosopher Isaiah Berlin: Armin Arlert is the embodiment of positive freedom, and Eren Yeager is negative freedom.

[@AbdulAhadAhad-q9e]

Armin’s freedom is based on mainly non-violence and achieving freedom without getting his hands dirty and his mind he thinks he’s doing no better then his oppressors if he kills innocents. But Eren is different, he UNDERSTANDS the human nature and he knows that no matter what he does the HATE WILL continue so he knows that if he has to protect the ones he loves and if he wants to achieve COMPLETE freedom he has to destroy it’d enemies.

[@9eishitasharma501]

​@@AbdulAhadAhad-q9e I really don't think eren understands the human psyche. He was only guided by his memories,if anything,it's armin who is a great psychological manipulator. He understood why great commanders like erwin and pixis sacrifice their humanities,why annie and her gang did what they did and understood zeke and eren's mind. Armin was an idealist while Eren was delusional.

[@Aaengelren]

yes!! love to hear other people say it

[@christianmorales8978]

@@9eishitasharma501 eren didn’t understand the human psyche? That’s how he got grisha to kill kids right? That’s how he got an entire army to back him and how he got Zeke to act in accordance to his plan without realizing it right? Look, you may agree or disagree with what eren does but to write his character off as delusional and say he doesn’t understand people is kinda shortsighted.

[@jamess.2491]

@@9eishitasharma501 sometimes peace can only come from great suffering. What did Armin accomplish in s4? The world continued just the same as it always was, arguably worse as there's no way the world would forgive the Eldians after the Rumbling. Eren could have at least changed things.

[@lollybirdy]

Aot has set my bar for storytelling and quality so fucking high i havent found anything that can even come close to it.

[@yelsahblah3270]

Man, I tried to move on to another anime after finishing AoT and man is it just hard. It was just so good and so emotionally charged. The ending was so brutal but beautiful and watching these videos is just so cathartic. You could have talked for another hour and I'd have been fine with it.

[@alexjones1779]

Jjk. Give it time to cook but I promise you good series. Also handles many mature themes.

[@notyourdad9548]

Full metal alchemist brotherhood... you're welcome. When you finish come back I'll give you another

[@shubhise]

​@@alexjones1779Blud said JJK💀...

[@alexjones1779]

@@shubhise Yh you need to hear me say it out a microphone?

[@petebagwell6666]

Innitial d, its a good breather from all the chaos and death and has a few of the same vas

[@MadMick7]

I am hungry and you have just given me food

[@jamess.2491]

Stuck with my boy Eren for 10 years, they really thought we were gonna switch up for a bit of genocide???

[@jolanjump]

get this up to 88 likes \o

[@perrydaplatypus2667]

got it to 111

[@unknownbutknown332]

Eldians=whte people You could also relate it to pretty much every race but its closest to whte people What eren did was wrong but i understand the feeling just like i understand gaby because i see similarities between her and me when i was younger

[@lil_perc05]

​@@unknownbutknown332nah bro flip it the other way around eldians are every other race marley is white people because they've done so may horrible things through history just because the color of someones skin

[@shalomedome1614]

Yea bro it wasn’t even the entire population

[@scythe9734]

Great video and yes, I miss AOT too 😭😭😭. I think you made a little mistake at the end in regard to the kid and the tree in the after credit:it isn't that the cycle always repeats (the ending credit before it already did that) it's the undeniable fact that any power isn't bad by itself; it couls be used for both bad and good. Ymir was a broken slave little girl who was chased by dogs and men to the power, but the kid went willingly and freely with a companion dog at his side into the tree. We don't know if he'll use it for good or bad. Hell, nuclear power was meant to be the power that will make the world a better place but instead people like cavemen used it as a stick to hit and scare each other. This is one Fu**ing depressing world we're living in.

[@Starburst514]

Exactly, and we don't know if he'll even get it too. The boy could just be going "that's a big tree" and then walk past it.

[@lordwarryl5712]

Literally nobody: Wall CENA: Are you sure about that?

[@earmuffs6506]

I don’t think that the ending promises the same cycle of violence. The titans may return, but I think the way the titans were introduced is different at the end. Ymir found the entrance in the tree while she was being hunted, and thus, she gained the power of the titans to live. The kid with the dog at the end though may *not* utilize the power of the titans for violence.

[@brianross8762]

this vid is awesome! you pointed out so many things i never picked up on after watching the series 4 times. btw at 43:10, coup d’état is pronounced “coo day ta” a lot of people shorten it to just “coo” though.

[@Twenty-Seven]

I heard about Attack on Titan during my first summer semester of college back in 2013. I was in mechanical engineering and I was in CAD class where we were presenting projects. One student explained that he made a piece of equipment from a show called Attack on Titan (the name made no sense to me at the time). I looked it up later that week and I was totally smitten.

[@user-jb5qf4zp9p]

i mean the title doesnt really make sense why is it clalled attack on titan? why not attack on paradis or attack of titans or something like that?

[@Twenty-Seven]

Ÿvancing Titans." 5 Isayama insisted on the "Attack on Titan" name.

[@a.jthomas6132]

Eren Yeager is one complex anime character that is both victim of the world and a mass murder. Free yet not free. And he is neither good nor evil. But keeps moving forward.

[@uhmdark]

I had kept putting off reading the manga for the sake of how good the anime was, but when Eren Krueger name dropped Armin and Mikasa in the flashbacks when they weren't even born yet, i couldn't hold back any longer. I was forever hooked

[@_Plague_Doctor_049]

13:31 - A HUGE mistake that you made is...MIKASA AND EREN ARE NOT SIBLINGS...not even step-siblings. Mikasa was allowed to stay with them, because she didn't have anywhere else to go, and that was just a year and a half before "That day".

[@merentori]

I think that kind of makes them adoptive-siblings, also I never knew how long she lived with them

[@_Plague_Doctor_049]

@@merentori She was not adopted; she was a guest. And they lived in that house for almost a year. Nothing makes them even remotely sibling-like.

[@klexzy]

This is gonna be my essay in class thanks

[@kurokamina8429]

I would like to see you make a video like this for the Evangelion series. Attack on Titan and The Evangelion felt like two sides of the same coin. About life, existence, the misery of life and its beauty

[@seg162]

They're also both controversial and severely misunderstood cultural phenomena, despite being fairly simple narratives that spell out their themes. Hell, they're both kaiju series. Recall that the EVA units aren't actually robots.

[@kurokamina8429]

@@seg162 what's funny is that I introduced my brother to attack on titan the same time he introduced me to eva. Shock to find how similar they were

[@seg162]

@@kurokamina8429 Eren bursting out of the bearded Titan in his first transformation has major "EVA-01 bursting out of Leliel" vibes for me.

[@a.jthomas6132]

Mikasa really does loved Eren with all of her heart but her two roles as his protector (since Carla asked her to loo after her son) and being a lover (since we have seen time again of her feeling towards him). While she had suffered the 7 stages of grief in the final season, my question is do you think Mikasa regrets her response to Eren at the Refuge Camp.

[@waytoguidance]

no she doesn't.. after Eren showed her the alternate world where they both run away and live in peace for Eren's remaining years in the cabin.. She doesn't regret her choice after that and knows what she has to do to set the world free from this curse of titans and to finally put Eren to rest after all his suffering

[@Starburst514]

I think Mikasa knows it wouldn't have happened. What Eren showed her was a dream, her's and his, it was an alternate dream, but I think she knew it never could have been a reality. One of the things I really loved was how S4 was Mikasa seeing Eren as he truly was, that was why she wore the red scarf less and less until she put it back on again. Armin had always known who Eren was, Mikasa had an idealized version of him. She truly loves him, but she had to come to terms with reality of Eren, and that meant knowing the beautiful dream could never be

[@rckg7]

@@Starburst514 I agree with everything you said except the part about Armin knowing who Eren was and Mikasa not. If you think about it, after Eren saved her from the traffickers and welcomed into his family, Mikasa was basically his care taker/babysitter. She would see him get beat up on a daily basis by bullies, being scolded by his mother and constantly having to save him. So I don't think it's possible for her to have Eren portraited in her mind as this white, glorious knight you know what I mean? I think she just likes him despite his flaws. If I remember correctly, only during the training arc she's wrong about what Eren's thinking (the scene where Eren finally manages to use 3dm gear). After that and the super rare harsh moments between them in early season 1, they have a pretty normal "situationship". They communicate with just glances in some occasions. And I think that's what her and Armin's story is in Season 4. They're trying to figure out "Why is Eren behaving like this all of a sudden? This isn't Eren". They both are taken by surprise by his sudden switch in personality after he leaves the group in Marley after the Eldian convention. The "actual" Eren pretty much died when he kissed Historia's hand. Then after the restaurant scene ofc Armin is the least emotional and smarter of the two so he's quicker to rationalize what is going on with Eren (also because Armin got hurt only physically while Eren attacked Mikasa emotionally, right on her weak spot, himself). And in the end I think that Mikasa gets "kinda" proven right about what Eren is. He loves them so much (he has massive flaws and is kind of a loose unit) that he would make them hate him just so they can be happy after he inevitably dies. So like, all her doubts about his motives, the people he actually cares about get disproven. Also, according to Mikasa's OVA episode, she knows Eren will die sooner than later and "even after eliminating all the Titans, he might still want to move forward" this is all before the Return to Shiganshina arc. So I'm of the opinion that Mikasa is aware of the true nature of Eren, she just loves him so much that she accepts his flaws and just wants to be beside him. Ultimately, they were cursed from the start because they had Fate itself against them, like you said so they both know that their dream scenario could've never happened, because when Eren pulls everyone in Paths when they're on the plane and says something like "no need for a discussion, kill me if you want to stop me" he's prioritizing what's best for Mikasa and Armin's future to his dream of having a happy 4 years with her. "Why does Eren always run away from us?" He's destined to get himself in trouble and killed eventually, I think that's the main problem with Eren and his impossibility of ever settling down with Mikasa. That's my opinion, I'd like to know what you think of it 👍

[@jerry3408]

@@rckg7 I love your opinion

[@daeith1233]

I don't agree personnaly. She knows he has flaws but mostly refuse to see them, or to acknowlegde them. For example in s3, I used to find Eren annoying for looking depressed most of the time and also bc he never spoke abt his friends about what was happening to him, but looking back I feel like even if he could, he wouldn't have confessed to his friends about what he saw anyway: there is that on escene when they're all eating in the canteen and Eren starts talking about some of his worries, and Mikasa just shut him up, not even delicately but just kinda force him too, like she doesn't want to hear it, which is ok but if Eren isn't doing well, shouldn't she listen to him and be concerned about his feelings? And that was before touching Historia's hand. The whole s4 is Mikasa slowly accpting that they were hints that Eren wasn't always doing great and had things planned, which she apparently decided to ignore for 4 years. Maybe she thought they had time but she also knew Eren would die soon anyway due to titans's powers.Maybe one of the point of her character is learning to cope with reality and accepting what she likes, not what "is". She was kinda selective with her perception of Eren. I was glad in those chapters when she started questionning her view of Eren, but it didn't really went anywhere so. My biggest problem with Mikasa's character is definitely the lack of her pov, which means when you try to analyse her you're suppose to create her own thoughts based on her behavior, which can work obviously but Mikasa is basically centered around Eren, the whole point of her character ended resolving around Eren and yet, she felt like the one who understood him the least. Everyone was able to make little analysis of Eren, it could be Armin, Annie, Jean, expecially Levi I think at some points but they would understand Eren's motive and will, while Mikasa never seemed to do so. I wish her last convo with Eren would have a deeper conversation, but it didn't either and was so confusing. Throughout the whole s4 she was basically trying to convince everyone that Eren was manipulated and then that Eren could just stop and things would go back to normal (cute dream but even with love, they're at war how could she expect such a thing afterEren started the Rumblings) and then killing Eren but not out of an internal thought, more bc he was going to die anyway. The OAV you mentionned was great bc at least she could give a proper description of what Eren is, I hated how her only way to remind why she loved Eren was bc of the day he saved her and the scarf stuff, it really felt like she only loved him bc of that one even that happened when they were 9 yo. Like you could replace Eren with Fritz and she would just feel the same, which obviously isn't the case, she probably had other reasons to love him, reasons we don't know: she never that she loved Eren bc of his free will, she never said she loved her bc he took care of her or anything (also he didn't take care of her in a very different way from how others can help her too so it's hard to make her moments with Eren special), Eren would even sometimes treat her badly without her having idk inner thoughts abt it, which made me think she only viewed him as a "sibling", or someone she needed to protect. As Eren's lover, I wish Mikasa feelings would have been more complex than what we got, I don't even remember her being angry at the Rumblings, being sad at the idea of killing her own ppl to save the world of whatever. s1 Mikasa would probably be dissapointed.@@rckg7

[@thebeyblader217]

pronounce things correctly challenge lvl IMPOSSIBLE

[@KairaisnotaLiopleurodon]

Commenting as offering to the algorithm gods. This was rhe first video I saw from your channel. Phenomenal job dude.

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you so much! Taking your time to push it means a ton to me! Thank you again!

[@durodesduvo8424]

I loved the small foreshadowing details in this series. For instance we see the Beast Titan at the start of season 2, and they confirm Zeke and Eren are related at the end of season 3, but a few might’ve notice that their Titan forms possess those pronounced “vampire ears”, as well their father. And these are the only titans in the show with those ears, so it’s a Yeager family trait 😂

[@JavSaav845]

"Devil like ears"

[@vivienkoles1880]

I think it is not real forshadowing, but based on how bloody the 1st episode was, after watching it I was like: nah, the main character will not make it at the end... 😅 I was prooven right 10 years later

[@skeptischism1324]

Isayama is a genius. The twists were some of the fucking best if not the best in all of Anime. I'm 41, I'll watch this shit till I die. I rewatch the whole series every few months. It's such a unique world. It's in it's own category. Also, people overlook why the story is narrated by Armin..........

[@RatchetRorschach]

why the story is narrated by Armin? and I hear narration by Historia at the end of AOT Season 4: Part 3 - Episode 2

[@haymanwoo1031]

I recently finished the show, after I took a break to focus on school and mental health, and I came back to finish it. That final shot where the “to be continued…” is now “The End” just sits in my mind, as it hits that there’s no more. There’s no more of the amazing story that had the most gut wrenching moments I could think of in a show. It’s all over, and it still just doesn’t feel real. AoT quickly became my favorite show when I started only a few years ago, and the ending solidified that. Isayama deserves more praise than he could ever get for giving us this story

[@tragicjack6815]

Eren is a fantastically ironic character. In his pursuit of freedom, he ultimately robbed himself of it. Greatly written.

[@makiroll218]

Well if Armin’s GRANPA didn’t have that damn book Armin couldn’t have gotten his hands on it, couldn’t have shown Eren so it’s Armin’s grandpa’s fault. 😂

[@giygas9305]

And it’s Armin’s Grandpa’s Grandpa’s fault for giving it to Armin’s Grandpa

[@daniaaal]

Eren was whispering to Armin's grandpa to pass it to him XD

[@lProN00bl]

@@daniaaalGod knows how long Eren spent torturing the author to write the damn book in the first place.

[@veonncaines7063]

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[@Rays_K]

No it's the book author's fault.. no it's the merchant that sells it.. no it's the one that gave birth to the idea of "book"... No No NOOOOOO IT'S etc etc etc. Turns out it is not Armin's grandpa's fault alone. Damn those people.

[@kadabra4009]

It‘s the way the story evolves from this black and white perspective "Titans strong but bad, humanity good but weak" to these different shades of gray where you don‘t know who to root for. Season 4 with the perspective switch was jarring but needed to be done and I immediately knew where we were and what Isayama was trying to achieve here. This is a WAR story and a very well executed story about the human condition. When I watched the first season of AoT, I didn‘t expect this story to be so philosophical and political. But I’m so happy this didn’t just end up being about mindless action and body horror and the found family aspect with the Scouts was heart-wrenching. Honestly this anime is so incredible. I‘m still awed.

[@virdixxii8341]

I LOVE how you added the Nier OST in the background. Nier Replicant+Automata and AOT are my two favorite stories of all time.

[@hunteruhuruazrael]

Also Zeke didn't sell out his parents for the sake of his plan, Ksaver convinced him to do it to get Zeke to save himself, using his grandparents as well to convince him to save them, the restorationists were about to be caught, he saved Zeke from being caught up with the restorationist group. It wasn't till he was older that the plan would be born.

[@paulmaloney4387]

When people ask me what the best shows of all time are I always mention AoT. Then they'll say, "Thats an anime though...", and I'll say, "Its one of the greatest stories ever told."

[@its_me_billy757]

Your narration is spectacular. Seriously, your flow made for a very entertaining watch.

[@JustinSVA]

You have no idea how great it is for me to hear that! The last video I made had a lot of criticisms against the narration so I'm super glad to see that I've been able to course correct!

[@charlesawwad]

A video so good I had to watch it back-to-back. Perfect summary with great insight!

[@JustinSVA]

That means a lot to hear! Thank you so much for the back-to-back viewings! Lol.

[@brandonsev3080]

Incredible video, incredible story, and yes I AM CRYING OKAY. Awesome stuff man!

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you so much, bro! Means the world hearing that from you!

[@pohorex6834]

Remember, armin is narrating the entire story. So it makes sense that he’s the most relatable one

[@CoopaCoop]

Attack on Titans mysteries, world building, character building, and sound tracks are almost perfection. I think almost anyone who watches this show will get drawn into the depths of this story.

[@errogmh]

Damn that Vogel im Kafig ost is so incredibly epic and sad, really appreciate having it in the background throughout the vid !

[@6tei6]

The one thing I didn’t like about this was the lack of depth in Armin’s potential early on and how utterly capable and smart he was in the entirety of the show. He was the one who knew who the female titan, the armored titan and the colossal titan was before anyone else. He has battle strategy that saved many of his comrades early on. I know many would’ve wanted Erwin saved even armin himself regretting even being chosen to live; but I prefer a rational brain over selfish leadership.

[@shockwavegaming5907]

Ironically that game at the start of the video is how I found AOT, finding the game on KZbin and my morbid curiosity getting the best of me.

[@CassiieMay]

I just remember waking up every Sunday and refresh my animelab app on my iPad until the next episode was available to stream….what a time! I miss those days 💔

[@Fubbington]

I met some of my best friends through the attack on titan fan game in 2014. This show did way more for me than I sometimes realize.

[@fear-cu]

subbed i really like your philosophical view on the whole storyline and breakdown

[@Eagle1oh7]

Every time I think about the closing scenes my eyes start to burn because of the tragedy.

[@dr.deadpool5959]

A common story characteristic that I found to like that Attack on Titan shared with Dune is that seeing the future is like a curse for both Paul Atreides and Eren Yeager

[@JackTulsen77]

Dune.... ewww.

[@kakorotskywalker]

1:05:35 "And as we poke our heads deeper and deeper into the abyss, and it stares back" Love that Crisis on Two Earths reference! :D Amazing movie, and defo one of my fav Batman moments of all time.

[@mustofaakmal7493]

This video deserves more views! Hopefully the algorithm god gives this video her grace

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you so much! It's been picking up a little bit so hopefully it continues to trend that way!

[@mustofaakmal7493]

​@@JustinSVA It's started to pick up, 20k by tomorrow 🙏

[@JustinSVA]

@@mustofaakmal7493 LET'S GET IT.

[@tyschirmer6127]

Yes for including the og tribute game! That was one of my first introductions shit was so good

[@MagiShrooms-zc7hn]

I stuck with eren since i was 11-12 (dub release) i am 21 and i am not gonna stop sticking with the man, forever gonna be by his side

[@marshallbrooks2371]

always super sad to remember the last conversation Eren and Mikasa had was when he said i've always hated you

[@bobtroter]

What a fantastic video on a fantastic show. Keep moving forward…

[@Skyhorsemap]

“Earn money while having fun.” That hit hard.

[@giygas9305]

I’m about your age and I heard about this show hear and there but nothing more than just the name. Started watching anime in July and AoT was my 4th anime. F***ing mind blowing.

[@Nightc1tyronin]

If you enjoyed AOT, you should watch “Full Metal Alchemist”.

[@jamesdorpinghaus3294]

"Beware, when hunting monsters, that you, yourself, do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche

[@jashanmor1085]

Very good video bro, watched it in one go, really impressive, we aot tards are always hungry for aot content ❤

[@JustinSVA]

That's awesome to hear! Thank you so much! Lol.

[@gumerzambrano]

Same here! Such a great experience to binge watch everything

[@dachshundyt9085]

the final battle was filled with contrivances and convenient moments. it definetely wasnt a proper ending either. i hated it

[@FishiusArt]

Hey, now we know why books were illegal inside the walls, it birthed the idea of the rumbling.

[@MeleenGames]

In 2014 I was bullied for liking this show and the school psychologist told me my depression was caused by anime. Things have changed but daym looking back is wild.

[@giygas9305]

16:57 crazy how Armin is literally right there but he is so deeply shocked that he doesn’t even notice what is happening right next to him

[@t.j.hampton6483]

He's not. That was a while afterwards when Eren woke up in the Titans stomach

[@giygas9305]

@@t.j.hampton6483why don’t you actually look lol

[@t.j.hampton6483]

@@giygas9305 I've rewatched this series 5 times so far no including manga. Go rewatch. The Santa Titan walks away from Armin after eating Eren and then we see later it's in a different place walking aimlessly when eren transforms

[@giygas9305]

@@t.j.hampton6483 but Armin is literally right there. Who else can that be?

[@t.j.hampton6483]

@@giygas9305 bro that was a cut in the video. It didn't happen like that in the anime lmao. Nobody was next to Eren when he came out of the Titan. I can't tell you to rewatch enough. I literally just went back to check

[@musachi5999]

This show tackled some really deep themes in a way that many others stumbled to articulate in an engaging way. Once the viewer reaches Season 4 it all becomes clear about the true themes of determinism vs free will and how people can become a product of their environment for better or worse. I never felt for fictional characters like I felt for the ones in AOT, the true pits of despair they got dragged through is the most compelling TV I've ever seen.

[@christianleeperrr7641]

First video I swear of yours , 15 minutes in , you’re a talented video essayer I like your comedic tinge! Very good work

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you! I really appreciate that! Especially since I feel like my comedy can be super hit or miss. Lol.

[@christianleeperrr7641]

All comedy is hit or miss xD

[@darkcloud2442]

I just found this video, I can’t let myself finish the last episode of AOT. I feel like doing so will cause a hole in me that I will never be able to fill. I started watching AOT when it dropped I was like 25, now I’m 38 and it’s been such a large part of my life that I’m kinda afraid to let got of.

[@garra1223]

The amount of foreshadowing I missed is crazy

[@doneiliragaba1266]

Bro that’s Crazy how you summarize AOT as a person who just was able Season 1. I hope me too I watch it to the end and set myself to freedom.

[@charizardmazezka1251]

Excellent video, your thoughts were very well articulated! I'd be happy to see more AoT videos from you ^

[@1_Solitude_1]

Great video. My one gripe about the show is Reiner’s plot armor during the battle for Shiganshina. I’m still mad about it to this day and it almost overshadows the Levi v Beast Titan fight.

[@noktumwhatever753]

Eren Jager is my favorite character in all of anime, easily. The only one who comes close for me is Edward Elric. Eren's character forces us to consider some very profound philosophical questions about the nature of right and wrong, the nature of freedom and loyalty, and the nature of time itself. Masterfully done, only the Atreides family from Dune compares imo.

[@syphernynx4186]

What made the experience so much greater is waiting for some scene reveals from the start to end of a 10 year duration

[@JustinSVA]

We had to wait 10 years to know why Eren was crying under that tree. Built with such care that it's insane.

[@anuragraut5101]

Qnybody looking for music at 02:00 , its from nier automata , named "city ruins"

[@melonemix]

17:44 correction: Armin himself said that he is not a loser, bc he didn't run away. Focus is on the run away part. Yes he felt like a burden but he never ran away he endured the pain

[@lilfluff1655]

Guys I just finished AoT, am I ever going to be okay again?

[@sandraraw6317]

The ending of the rumbling made me cry

[@marcschwartz549]

This is an amazing video. Very minor criticism, HOW ARE YOU MISPRONOUNCING THE ENGLISH WORDS BRO? CHRISTA? ACKERMAN? My god bro.

[@Jintenzo]

Both of those are German and not English. Still not hard to pronounce though.

[@robinlackey5159]

This video was beautiful. Just really, really beautiful. Well done! ❤

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you so much!

[@sebastiang282]

Amazing recap of the show! Blown away. Had to subscribe

[@JustinSVA]

That means a lot to me! Thank you so much!

[@EvanWhite-v9r]

Love how much you love your life and new chapter with your new certification!!

[@Smorezee]

Bro that game was so fun

[@mctwist13]

Damn, great video dude. Nice quality and good screen presence. Your channel will blow up soon dude. Just keep up the good work.

[@JustinSVA]

Thank you so much! I've got a lot of planned up so I'm definitely hoping for the best!

[@gregoosee]

Great video!!!! 14:31 is this a Signalis audio effect?

[@JustinSVA]

YES. FIRST PERSON TO CATCH THE SIGNALIS STUFF!

[@gregoosee]

@@JustinSVA OMG i love that game... another deep and beautiful story.

[@malcolmfontenot4560]

This was very well done. I miss this show so much 😞

[@blackmanwithcomputer]

Kinda surprised that you barely touched Reiner, who became the 2nd protagonist in S4. Also, you didn't go into how the Attack Titan's powers work.

[@Atomic_Aegis45]

The armor and colossal reveal isn't even the focus during the episode it is designed to be background noise. I didn't even notice it on my first viewing.

[@Furmarz]

14:26 best frame in the entire anime. absolutely hilarious

[@CyberBunny-xb8nn]

the way you say Ackerman, Shiganshina, Marley, Gabi, hurts me also called Sasha, sasha Blouse (its Braus) w video tho

[@Ante_Barac]

How is it possible to be a fan of aot, but mispronounce the names of half of the characters

[@ixpoison]

lmao

[@Dainian2008]

First time I ever heard of Attack on Titan was at my Aunts. My cousin showed me the Manga with the talking abnormal who thought the scout was Ymir. Usually I would've been freaked out by a giant uncanny man eating humanoid. Instead I was like "OOOO, WHAT DAT?"

[@jckdnls9292]

I thought i was meant to marry Mikasa

[@RatchetRorschach]

1:13:57 when Eren said to Armin "I don't want to die" *_I'm at total lost of this whole tragic titan world..._*

[@rafaelschondelmeyer]

The Fact that Reiner has been staring at Annie's @ss since Marley 💀

[@Randomperson-ve7qu]

At 31:41, that scene made me cry