The GENIUS of the Basement Reveal - Overanalyzing Attack on Titan & Retrospective

[@johnwilliams9179]

The walk to the basement always felt like a funeral procession.

[@Koroto]

YES.

[@LuisSierra42]

I always tear up when I watch it as they remember their lives before the attack, it feels so nostalgic

[@lorenzobortolani5286]

@@LuisSierra42the music is what makes it that nostalgic, at least for me.

[@billjones3963]

@@Koroto random reply I just don’t know how else to @ you but I like how you made yourself a kinda background character in one of the scenes, I think you should do it more. I’ll watch you irregardless

[@solalabell9674]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves ‘nature reclaiming cities’ as a setting

[@sukunasgaylover]

I live in the South, and lemme say, seeing kudzu take over abandoned sheds and barns over just a few years or even months is as terrifying as it is beautiful.

[@LuisSierra42]

I really like that. The Last Of Us and the new Planet of the Apes movies are also good examples

[@Phylonix38]

I HAD THE SAME REACTION ! btw, because of this passion, i particularly liked the "hello future me" video on abandonned places, hope you'll find cool as well

[@kuromi_pink77]

Eco brutalism is an architecture style that I feel really embodies this idea.

[@theblazinken3501]

Fun fact: the post credit scene of this episode was the first bit of AoT I've ever seen. I'm Polish, so seeing a clear reference to Jews in ghettos got me like "what show dares to mention this part of history?". So I went back and binged the whole show in two days flat. Worth it

[@twinzzlers]

Wait were you taking offense at it?

[@Daore05]

Had to watch whole 3 seasons just to see that scene 😃

[@theblazinken3501]

@@twinzzlers no, not at all. But i know it's a touchy subject and i was just suprised that a show made a very obvious reference to it

[@Daore05]

@@theblazinken3501 After that I started associating Eldians with Jews, but now idk about it. I shouldn’t actually associate them with one particular nation, but still, our brain is a quirky thing

[@Daore05]

Oh, Crotos actually says that in the video lol

[@banicans5299]

I love how the big secret was just a photo, something pretty mundane, however it's what it implies that so world breaking.

[@winjiro]

Just a photo? There three thick books grisha left for the survey corops

[@slappytheclown4]

Wasn't just the photo, Grisha left behind 3 journals detailing the world outside the walls and how all the Eldians within the walls had been brainwashed into forgetting by their royal family. That was the big secret, the fact that their entire world as they knew it was a complete lie and that not only was humanity in fact alive outside the walls, but they were doing much better than them and they also wanted them dead at all costs and viewed them as devils.

[@eppinizer]

Pretty sure this show has the record for giving me the "Wait Whaaatt!?" chills. There were so many times I thought I had things figured out only for my perception to shatter in the greatest way.

[@hybridvigga]

I was in a nice warm house watching this episode, but once they got to the basement, with that music, and then seeing a goddam PHOTOGRAPH, it's my soul got cold inside the warm body and my bones shivered while I was sat still. It's what the prequel trilogy SHOULD have done to me growing up with the original trilogy, a swing and a miss for Lucas but a meat-suit-mecha anime managed it.

[@Bandog23]

This reveal BLEW me away even though i kinda knew it was a coming.

[@Alex-bw6yd]

For real, one of the biggest ones for me was when Eren was sprinting to Zeke in season 4 and Gabi blows his head off. Everything about that scene still gives me chills to this day, no matter how many times I watch it. The build up, the intensity and desperation, the countdown running out, the ost, the music and sound dropping out as a tear falls from Gabi’s eye all before a loud shot rings out and we hear and see his head being disconnected from his body. It’s just one of many of those chill inducing, jaw dropping scenes. AOT is chock full of them.

[@eppinizer]

@@Alex-bw6yd Yea, that's a great example. The fact that a series can still induce such dramatic anticipation so far into its run really speaks to the quality of everyone involved.

[@NigerianWeeb]

Yes! AOT doesn't just have a great story, the actual storytelling itself is out of this world.

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

"Then, everything changed when Eren saw the Basement."

[@elisennesh7641]

It didn't. Eren kept moving forward.

[@kimicrewe4443]

I understood that reverence

[@samoth5161]

​@@elisennesh7641he's quite literally that only one who didn't move forward after that. Completely unable to accept that the outside world wasn't what he expected it to be and refused to move past it

[@anahimansur7288]

@@samoth5161 eren is not a psyco, and he wasnt disapointed because the world just was different, but for the fact that the people outside the walls became another wall, the were violent not only to paradis. not only to eldians, but to themselves too. you see him all the time previous to the rumbling earching for better options that do not involve him becoming a murderer, yet the world and the incapabillity of the scouts to find another solution forced him to, in order to protect the freedom of his people. you literally see him crying at the kid about having to kill people bro.

[@AshyPremium]

He made it out the basement. Jack black needs to rap that. He’s Steeeeve

[@spinningredchair8092]

I love how when you watch the show you and they say "Is this a drawing?" You're like "No that's obviously a picture, how could they not kn-" and then it hits you. They've never seen a camera. They've been using wagons, water wheels and lanterns. They're in the past. And the fact a picture exists means there's someone out there years ahead of them in technology. And then new puzzle piece drops onto your puzzle board and messed up all the other pieces

[@yeahright3901]

Um no at this point we’re well aware that they don’t know that’s a picture because they didn’t even know what coffee was. It’s not mind breaking, it’s obvious and expected

[@joshhumphrey736]

@@yeahright3901 the point was that in the context of Aot, something as mundane as a photo has world-breaking implications.

[@gatsuofmontecristo7337]

It's called the basement because it's extremely based

[@alicepbg2042]

and in weirdly mint condition

[@1MoreStep1]

@@alicepbg2042 Talking like its some sort of collectable card :D

[@_Fakieblunts]

Top tier comment

[@ThyBackUp]

More like mentally based

[@b0xman935]

Really like your pfp of guts and the moon child it's adorable

[@fifty7cal]

I really wish I could watch this show for the first time again.

[@hybridvigga]

I've got shit growing in my brain, I might be able to soon, if I remember to rewatch it

[@codyrobbins7985]

Daryl Talks Games just barely did a video on this concept. It is more about playing a game for the first time, but most of the concepts are still very relevant. He even teaches you how to forget better so you can do that. (Spoiler: if you're like me you won't want to, or even probably be able to do that with AOT)

[@realstrixy1229]

He going gobblin mode. The wait was worth it.

[@Koroto]

Always. 😤

[@Treebohr]

2:06 I love that you zoomed in on the sentence saying there's no way we read it AFTER I had already read the whole thing.

[@Koroto]

nuh-uh

[@oyamampendu9467]

​@@Koroto the power of speed reading is terrific skill

[@line4169]

The post credit scene of this episode is maybe my favourite post credit scene of all time, the way it just casually reveals what we've been waiting for so long from the start of series & it isn't even big reveal at the end of episode, it's just tucked away in a post credit scene, marvel wishes it had this good PCS, also I love the ost, I listen to it time to time, it's very charming & I got chills first time I saw the ominous dread of small childrens amidst the backdrop of horrible imagery( ghettos & armbands), truly groundbreaking & revolutionary plot twist.

[@nehemiahfualaau]

What is the ost

[@DarthJex]

@@nehemiahfualaauit’s a complicated name but search “aot mahle ost” and you should find it

[@Tyrarl]

37:42 off topic, but as a former English teacher, i agree that the suppression of certain language is seriously bad. It reeks of "doublespeak" to, as you said, damage the credibility of a sensitive issue. We need to be able to discuss these topics if we want to learn from our mistakes and our history so that we can improve.

[@leserb9228]

Agreed

[@wes4736]

Thanks for giving those plates a passing mention. As someone who used to move around a lot, especially when I was younger, it really is menial things like utensils that carry over this sort of continuity of your life. I see them taking the precious moments to stack the plates atop one another, and placing broken shards in order exactly BECAUSE they recognize these things, maybe even have random memories where they eat and drink with them like Mikasa bringing Grisha wine to him as the wooden cups still there. I think you were spot on, because when you're at a demo site you just haul as much debris as you can carry and move it out of your way. They took the time to organize those little trinkets they share memories with.

[@davidf76363]

One thing I noticed watching the series for the nth time : Eren being stressed and panicking twice in this episode (1. When the key does not open the door 2. When the empty drawer is revealed) is at least imo a sign of Eren knowing deep down (thanks to future memories or Grisha's memories, unconsciously) that he will be disappointed and destroyed by the truth he will learn. Unconsciously he wanted to avoid this truth as much as he could, saving some time before the fall of this fake world of Paradis that saw him grow.

[@rustyshackleford1062]

This is where the plot hooks fall apart for me. Eren's duality as the mastermind directly behind everything and the hapless victim of his own machinations doesn't make sense. He cannot be both, if he has to kill his own mother in front of him and set this very specific path in order to make it to the paths in the first place then how did future Eren even get to that point to begin with? Also this is contradicted by Eren's future musings on how from the moment he saw the truth he did everything in his power to prevent the future foretold, but that that future was already set in stone and unchangeable. You cannot have both and honestly I think the big Eren reveal collapses the coherence of the overall plot.

[@davidf76363]

@@rustyshackleford1062 I do not think it lacks coherence. To me Eren wants to express his freedom the most he can, and the way he finds to do it is destroying the world. He became a slave to freedom, a slave to that wish. Destroying the world is the perfect way to express pure liberty, because it is free violence and pure evil. That mixed with a traumatised child that grows to hate the outside world, and that's someone who would actually destroy the world, to feel revenge and feel freer than anyone else before.

[@tjws255]

​@davidf76363 That's one way to interpret a character, though I will admit I think S4 makes his character too open for interpretation. But for me I never got the evil vibe mostly because he does care about what happens and he shows empathy, evil people don't do that. At least not in any show I've seen. He didn't seem like he enjoyed himself either. Not saying he doesn't have issues or he did nothing wrong. Because he definitely did do something extremely wrong. But that's just my take. Everyone has their own and that's a great thing.

[@davidf76363]

@@tjws255 I agree with you, to me he has a sort of split personality : his will to pursue freedom on one hand, that caused him doing the rumbling and killing people and Sasha at Liberio (and even killing the three dudes at Mikasa's house), and on the other hand his empathetic but also nihilistic side, that loves and cherishes his friends, that understands that people from both sides of the war are alike. You can say that according to my interpretation Eren developed a kind of schizophrenia. It actually checks out!!

[@krtkjkr]

13:25 My three arguments for it to be Levi: 1) We see this room where Erwin now lies during Levi's words about choosing this place for Erwin's death, so it makes sense that it was Levi who brought his corpse there, said goodbye and left the flower. 2) Isayama said that Levi eventually returned for Erwin's body to give him a proper funeral. So he knew where to find him, and again, it's just all very personal for Levi. 3) There is a voice drama where during the timeline of s4 Levi decides to take a single white flower for someone fallen. It can be a reference to him leaving this flower at Erwin's death bed. UPD: oh, and the fourth one is that along with that voice drama at the AfterParty you could also find Erwin's bolo tie with the message, "Someone is taking good care of this." I think it would only make sense for Levi to take it off Erwin privately and not right on the rooftop where everyone could see.

[@bloodysweetzombiegirl]

This is one of the few channels I wait to watch. Your over analysis of AoT is perfect bc there is So Much to look at. And the edits are honestly everything. I see them being used on other channels now, some with You being used as the little tea toe man. You’ve officially made it, Sir. 😊

[@Koroto]

Waaait, no way someone else has used the AoT tea toe man???? Gimme link

[@bloodysweetzombiegirl]

@@Koroto Omgosh! Hi! And, Yes way! I will have to go back and look as I didn’t make a note of it. However, I will see what I can do. It’s been in something I watched recently. 😬👍

[@merentori]

​@@Koroto lol I've seen a channel use that little toe tea guy, I was like "oh shit koroto"

[@SilentMystification]

You made it to the basement faster than the anime did 😂😂😂

[@Koroto]

Wait... that's actually true wtf 😂😂😂

[@jip5889]

Easiest click of the week. Thanks Koroto.

[@arcadia6081]

i was just a kid when aot came out...and now I'm chasing an artistic/storytelling dream and watching these still. thank you koroto!

[@mrtrue_darknesch6407]

maybe Armin also threw up because he literally cosplayed my chicken nuggets and was burnt to a crisp at 9:21

[@bonbons71]

"all you need is to know that the sun will rise again" was so fucking beautiful dude

[@zionisalive_]

My day is always improved when I see a new retrospective over analysis vid drops

[@asin8757]

this whole series of overanalyzing has been more than entertainment and a closer look into Attack on Titan for me. I've been following the series nearly since you started it and it has become and made the source material very important pieces of media to me and my views regarding story telling and the world as well as humanity as a whole. Without a doubt you are one of my favorite content creators and I'd gladly buy merch.

[@ColonialSun-mg6tq]

Erwin’s gone and I can’t keep talking about his balls😞

[@Koroto]

You better stick around until the end of this series with these comments 💀

[@stepasidebiaach]

Bruh 💀

[@krtkjkr]

Please keep talking about them 🤲

[@ItsFreakinHarding.]

4:20 Barbecue mumbling "It hurts." 😂 gotta admit I've never heard that word used instead of his name!

[@Memegod11779]

Me and my little sis have been binge watching this series since u started. It has been a great journey, especially since this was my first anime

[@Memegod11779]

Also, fun fact, all of this happened because of a few pigs

[@abcdef.fedcba]

Me overanalyzing: you keep yapping about everything except for the basement. Just like the anime did for 55 episodes.

[@Koroto]

p a r a l l e l s

[@joeybergamini8719]

I'm dead 😂

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

​@@Koroto i don't think I can express how much I laughed at this

[@AngelInTrainingTV]

Lmfaooooooooooooo😂😂😂😂😂

[@kaiizulolz9228]

7:08 if you really like to overanalyze this part, Armin waking up looks like the animation style in season 1, with thick outlines around the characters. When he gets his memories back, only then does it return to the animation style that we see in season 3. I like to think that the animation style reflects Armin's memories. Then again all this is just over-overanalyzing

[@daniellawson6449]

Maybe the spiderweb and shadows behind it in the basement represents titans connected by the coordinate - their shadows sort of loom briefly like meandering titans. Or even reference to the later Rumbling - marching figures tied to a spider-like Eren hanging on puppet strings.

[@j4dylan220]

19:37 I think this was all because of the manga panel version of this scene, she lowkey looked like she had a short hair in that flashback panel, and idk why the studio assumed it was short + without isayama telling them otherwise, it's weird

[@RowanTS]

There was an internment camp for Japanese civilians living in….(Asian country, border, I associate it being occupied by China, mind blanking, sorry, hope someone remembers it) where they where ghettoised and also had to wear armbands like that to mark them as Japanese. As a globe we have done that…multiple times to different groups. (And Japan both as perpetrator and experiencer [points to AoT’s themes in general]. Which isn’t to say I think the automatic armband-wearing we jump to is meaningless cus it isn’t and there’s definitely referencing there absolutely, but that at it’s core Attack On Titan is extremely Japanese, about Japanese people’s history, and the Japanese approach to nuclear weapons, etc. which we sometimes forget in our western-centric focus on our own countries’ history and culture. While the author does explore generally applicable ideas, it really is lazered in on Japan’s approach to war and weaponry, and the various effects of nuclear weapons(/power that imo the ending is about, that yes the danger could exist in the ‘rediscovery’ of the Titans/nuclear power, but we’re in a different more hopeful situation etc.) both using nuclear weapons, not using them, the risks in disarmament, the risks of not doing so, the weakness the populace feels knowing they’re out there, but the dangers of having your own etc. Like it’s /so/ Japanese, and there were very much internment camps where they had to wear armbands, so just making sure that’s out there cus it’s so easy to forget there’s huge chunks of history we’re not taught cus it’s not our own history, and we think everything is about our history even when it’s written by people in another country etc etc.

[@5001Fergies]

17:05 no i think you were right to spend a lot of time on this: this was a massive moment in the story and more specifically for armin’s character. and when armin is literally our perspective character throughout the entire story since its just him explaining what happened, its kinda instrumental to the entire story for us to understand armin on a personal level. also because armin’s my favorite character and anytime someone explains why him living is good i get happy 😂

[@Qprah]

Keep yapping dude, your videos are always worth the watch no matter how much you let yourself get derailed. Easily the best AoT commentary series in existence!

[@uufos]

I look forward to EVERY single video of this series you put out. Thank you!

[@dannyl434]

Just got home from a trip and finished the last episode of your series here in the last couple days, now there’s a new one today! Yay!!

[@Gvern100]

After 2 years I can’t wait for season 4 analysis

[@Daore05]

Oh yes, the most massive reveal in the whole history of Attack on Titan

[@jungleblazers1249]

It literally changed the genre of the whole show.

[@Daore05]

@@jungleblazers1249 I had to take 1-2 days off in order to process all the revelations

[@LuisSierra42]

so good

[@Nah-Idlose74]

You know what else is massive?

[@Daore05]

@Nah-Idlose74 no…

[@MrSnotrock3t]

22:23 that music is so hauntingly beautiful.

[@kutkuknight]

Im really happy Ive been around for these analyses, it’s been a lot of fun. The early episodes really gave me a lot of perspective and it made me rewatch the show with a friend who hadnt seen anything. I remember when we finally crossed the point somewhere near the end of season 1 of these videos not being ahead of us watching and how I was worried Id miss out on so many things now. But it really changed the way I appreciate the story. And even having seen Uniquenameosaurus‘ amazing rewrite of the ending I still overall love the story and Im happy that it’s one of the biggest and most popular anime/manga in the world. Although Id prefer it if not so many people, especially AnR fanboys would have such positive opinions about certain evil empires in history…

[@Darksightkellar]

2 years? I have followed this series since the first episode, and, dude, THANK YOU for doing this. Like I once said in one of the first couple episodes, this series should be a must watch for any reactors out there who finish watching AoT in the future. I can def see it happening.

[@exequielgaleano9947]

Thank you for your two years of hard work creating this awesome series!!! 😁

[@ricardo.i.i.i]

The fact that Burt Reynolds expected the scouts to help him after murdering their people is mind blowing to me 😂😂😂😂

[@TifffanyTaylor]

Rip to Extra Crispy Armin. Say hello to ultra ripped bad-boy Armin.

[@icarus4564]

Amazing video as always thank u sir, I’ve been so excited for season 4 over analyzing and I can’t wait

[@matercan5649]

This is one of my favourite episodes in the series. It'll be very interesting seeing how you analyse it

[@citiaii]

thank you for another banger 🙏🏽 always enjoy the way you describe and interpret the settings ♡

[@walkingdeat4]

I always like to think of the flowers, and the light, and any time a royal is shown with the light and combination of "church music" is almost like the "Power of Ymir" showing its grace. So really when I see the flowers in any scene it says to me some greater power has been at work in this moment P.S. I really love your analysis of this show, first time viewer.

[@moskinglo]

I can’t believeeeee you dropped this and I’m about to shower on my day off this is the bestttttttt

[@allanchon1361]

Love the tangent about book preservation. sometimes we gotta just take a moment and point out how based isayama's writing style is.

[@bennyk384]

27:52 the fade to the Skyrim opening made me giggle lol

[@rupix5089]

video just made my whole week 😭

[@andrex1456]

I remember I sort of had the basement reveal spoiled for me. Somewhere along the way I accidentally saw an image from the manga of the photo, and put two and two together I will say though; Having that previous knowledge, instead of questioning reality, the second I saw those armbands I knew where this was going and that it would not be good. I just… didn’t know just HOW not good things would be 😂

[@rivkl3872]

Damn we're only at the half way point?!?!?! 😂😂 oh well I'm all here for it. Thanks for the two years of work you put into this series 🙏🏾

[@a_ninja2376]

36:00 I remember seeing this for the first time as the ed was playing. Was sending a video to my friend to explain my feelings on the basement reveal and all of this arc and at the very end when this kicks in you see my face just drop. I go silent and am staring at the screen until I freak out and go “BLIMPS????” And the video cut off

[@JaketheMovieGeek]

Always appreciate the shout outs to the dub

[@hhdbhn302]

I love the overanalyzing series so much

[@ZancralthePariah]

Another KZbinr, A Man Of Many Cats, has a great video called “Who was right about Attack on Titan?” where they go into a lot of historical and social/political aspects of Japan around the time that Isayama was growing up and how that helped shape the Eldians inside Marley part of the story. I think some of their talking points would be beneficial for your future deep dive over analyzing retrospectives

[@jeremysaunderson6631]

I anticipate each and every one of these videos keep it up bossman. Can't wait for the merch! 😉😉

[@luckn.3371]

Ladies and gentlemen, we were blessed today with one of the biggest Korotos W’s in history. Top tier analysis as always!

[@personmens]

The yapping was turned all the way up for this one😭Great work, as always

[@qwertyno100]

They left Erwin's corpse in a random house in Shiganshina ? Imagine the people returning one year later to their homes and finding a skeleton lying on their bed

[@Sir_TophamHatt]

I’ve been waiting for this episode for forever!

[@jamsteroffthewheel4731]

Seeing the photo was one of the peaks of all fiction for me

[@nonime9566]

Was just looking for a new video on the channel :D

[@wyslanniknewworldorder9525]

Overanalysises of Season 4 (a.k.a "The final season") will be an 1 hour each?

[@Koroto]

Who knows what lies beyond the sea.... (yes, probably, and that really really scares me lmao)

[@wyslanniknewworldorder9525]

@@Koroto It not scares Me, but I am more *excited* about those :>

[@MsAriesQueen]

​@Koroto you got dis man! 💪 🖤 love your vids

[@eduardandrejev]

@@KorotoI‘m really looking forward to it 🤩 Keep it up 💪🏻

[@reachthroughreality]

18:30 just imagine it's exactly like your hair in this shot, but it's so dark you can't see the bun. Belief successfully suspended.

[@boiwifeyasmr4U]

I remember so clearly when I watched this episode. When I saw the photograph and the marlyean tech I shouted "ATTACK ON TITAN TAKES PLACE IN THE 20TH CENTURY" Clearly, that wasn't the point you're meant to focus on but to me that's still one of the greatest plot twists in fiction

[@onyxseal24]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE HELLLLLL YEAH

[@vertexedits1806]

when grisha starts talking at the end of episode i got goosebumps so hard that i started bleeding

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

Keep it up Koroto.... Amazing video as always❤

[@robomouse210]

The thing about all the shifters that I think is the most interesting is that all the shifters except the attack titan, are molded from the past shifters experiences and emotions, while the attack titan shifters are just molds of Erin due to the fact that he can show his past incarnations what he wants to show them of the future. They are all bound to the will of Erin (to the effect of being essentially "enslaved" to him), the freedom he wanted is what cause all of the previous shifters to fight for freedom. While the rest are just enslaved to their pasts.

[@sarahnova1567]

BASEMENT BASEMENT BASEMENT!! Ohhh, I am so hyped!! Especially since I am really, really so excited for the upcoming takes too lol.

[@scarfed5654]

Thank you for this series

[@suicidalfox_4292]

hey korotos ive been watching your series since you started pumping them out! big fan, i would love to see you do a retrospective of Parasyte the Maxim, I feel like that show has a lot to teach and a lot to analyze, just a suggestion! keep up the good content

[@lokimischievous1698]

This is why this is not just my favorite anime but my favorite show. Who else thought that the world was full of titans and that they were the last real humans left. Man, the reveal that the rest of the world is almost like ours on the other continents blew my mind.

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

Levy knocking down the door is one of the funniest things ever.

[@gojulas2009]

It’s happened with madara eyes regarding animation error where they showed him having the rennegan by mistake early when he first fought alot of the allied shinobi forces right before garra lifted madara up with the sand for a second. It was right before the reveal of madara having the rennegan showing the naruto and other characters being surprised in naruto shippuden

[@xhinoteque]

my bro Korotos pulling off that eren look clean AF

[@turtlebeach3116]

35:23 look at how concentrated that guy in the bottom right is

[@Koalabalaa]

Woahhh did not expect a cameo from my dude Illidian Stormrage 😭

[@carringtonbearden4479]

I remember watching this with my sister on Cartoon Network when it aired. She'd been following the series since the start and I didn't really understand her excitement. Needless to say we binged the everything leading up to this. The reveal was jaw dropping!

[@okami9484]

I'm a casual when it comes to modern anime so I had no clue this was Eren, my jaw dropped like Falco.

[@bigpapa7373]

epic yapping moment, look forward to your next big aot yap king.

[@DTS_I]

The false bottom was a callback to Death Note

[@aguy6707]

i hear you asking about Levi face looks kinda different, because it is. if you look closely earlier of this episode it have a thicker outline, like the early season of Attack on Titan

[@tiagomatias6667]

Thank god the word yaping became a thing on the internet, it fits so perfectly in overanalyzing Attack on Titan series lol

[@martinveras3054]

Love the content, keep it up❤️

[@Frongo]

Some thoughts i had about Grisha's writing and how it applies to what Erwin says about every word being chosen with precise intent: for patriotic language to be used so early on into Grisha's writing ("I hope whoever reads this is a fellow patriot") speaks to a potential for bias to be sprinkled throughout his writing, and since his books are the foundation for Paradis' knowledge of the outside world, it is possible that Grisha's restorationist ideology ended up being what Jaegerism was built on. Not to mention, the notions of "the world being our enemy" in the finale episode could have been picked up from the potential biases in these books.

[@ailius1520]

We also learned the Armin likes Mexican food. Put a Burrito in front of him and he'll devour it.

[@abarques]

30:35 my guy Gordon Ramseyed that plot, freaking fillet mignon that diary.

[@Frongo]

0:24 this shot is an amazing reaction image

[@MiamiGameHunter]

I managed to avoid getting spoiled on this while waiting for the dub, and I am SO glad I was able to do my mind could be blown.

[@MattPeterson17]

We are so back baby

[@androidunity994]

37:28 I saw a video few months back which, imo, gave a better explanation of this point. The situation Eldians find themselves in more closely mimics circumstances of Japanese settlers in asia after WW2, so it's possible that Jews under Germany were just a secondary inspiration. I think you should check it out. "Who Was Right About Attack on Titan?" by A man of many cats. It's a great video, feels really well researched, had me convinced for sure.

[@Koroto]

Ye, I'll definitely dive a bit deeper into all the historical references (and potential references) once we get to Marley 👍

[@kuhluhOG]

38:00 And on the topic of "war never changes", such armbands to dehumanize a group of people were historically not just used once (including multiple times against Jews even, even all the way back in Spain in the 15th century). Although without a doubt the yellow start armband is by far the most well known today.

[@brianachim2670]

Imagine if they made it to the basement back in season one like they were supposed to?😂👀

[@slynders]

Incredible content my guy I don’t understand how can I get to watch this for free

[@Sirscruggz]

Curse you Koroto for bringing up Carla’s animation error. Never noticed that till now

[@kvas6255]

11:47 Bro looks like their dad catching them stealing from the cookie jar