Why Rod's Reiss's Titan Was SO BIG - Overanalyzing Attack on Titan & Retrospective

[@marka.alvareznieves9213]

When Annie was being attacked in the forest of giant trees by pure titan, Erwin mentions there's a lot of steam, and that provides a cover for Annie to escape. That could be Annie's use of the colossal titan power.

[@orbboom6119]

She also doesnt have skin like the colossal, muscles exposed.

[@LuisSierra42]

@@orbboom6119 and has a giant ass

[@SA80TAGE]

@@orbboom6119 armoured also doesn't have skin.... just exposed muscle covered in hard armour.... no actual skin.

[@BARDI77]

I think the steam was caused because the scouts started to kill a lot of the titans around here before stoping

[@Tortuga2223a]

​@@orbboom611970 likes?? This world is doomed

[@finitoackermann]

Fun fact In the manga the bottle of spinal fluid actually said “colossus titan” rod being the idiot he is was tryna turn Historia into a wall titan sized founding titan

[@Koroto]

I need to get better about checking the manga whenever these things pop up 😂 But yeah, guess that just solidifies the whole spinal fluid effect theory.

[@orbboom6119]

COLOSSAL GYATT😳

[@TadanoCandy]

I think he said it’d turn historia into a large, powerful one lol he wasn’t lying

[@katamas832]

I have a theory on that. Maybe it's because they had to take the spinal fluid out of a wall titan? Think about it, they probably get the Titan spinal fluid out of the current user when someone is about to inherit the Titan, so when a new founder is about to be made, they transform and have someone take out their Titan spinal fluid, and give it to the inheritor. But what happened? Grisha killed Frieda, and took away the Titan spinal fluid to use it on Eren. So now Ross had no Titan spinal fluid to use on Historia. And where is the only place he can get it from safely? By taking it out of one of the wall titans. It might be from the crack Annie made, or they might have secretly made a small hole at the nape of a colossal Titan around one of the walls to get it from.

[@finitoackermann]

@@katamas832 That or the first king of the walls just brought loads of spinal fluid with them ( if they ran out they could just take more from the founder )

[@cehdeh3423]

Annie pretty explictly states that Marley made her eat all kinds of stuff to see what the Female Titan could adapt, when she‘s talking to Falco and Gabi on the Azumabito ship. Iirc she even says that they performed similar experiments on the other Marleyan shifters. So an Armored Colossal might very well have been something Marley had in mind, master war criminals that they were - it just didn‘t work out for some reason or another.

[@ErenKruger-qx3dt]

That just seems redundant Like why would it need armor

[@SA80TAGE]

@@ErenKruger-qx3dt I mean....Burrito literally gets cut from the colossal after Armin exhausts his steam capacity.... his steam power isn't fool-proof. Why WOULDN'T you want that extra layer of protection?

[@ろうにん浪人]

From what I've seen, only the beast and founder titan had multiple titan powers. Yes I know the jaw titan took in the beast, and not the other way but still. Beast feels more of a commander style and the the founder is the well, founder. I wonder if those are the only two that can mix powers?

[@thrilla72]

​@@SA80TAGE Because it would make the colossal even more slow to the point of having no movement. The weight aswell. Even if he only activated it sparingly it would be a huge energy drain and maybe the heat from the colossal would just make it weak anyways

[@3hosubnautious498]

​@@thrilla72That, and the armor can't be burned up for stream unlike muscle, and it would get in the way of trying to burn up muscle for stream

[@FerociousMit]

If you read the Manga, Levi actually had to torture Historia in order for her to become the Queen. Historia punching Levi had more impact, simply because he probably kicked the shit out of her, in the same way he kicked Eren.

[@Draco.Requiem]

Zeke had a limited form of hardening, and you could argue that the face mask of the jaws was kinda the same, considering Ymir didn't had it. I like to think that Marley experimented and gived what they could to the other shifters. Maybe the Colossal used too much energy just maintaining its form and heat expulsion, so hardening would be too much for him

[@Koroto]

Hmmm, yeah, I kinda like that line of thinking.

[@friedkeenan]

Except Falco also had the hardened jaw, without any special serum. I think Ymir's lack of a hardened jaw probably comes from her not having trained like the Marleyan warriors. Also I have a bit of a theory that an interpersonal connection between the eaten shifter and the new shifter makes the new shifter's titan more powerful. That would add some extra texture to why titan shifters tend to be passed down between family members, and would fit with the theme of the founder Ymir seeking connection. So maybe because Falco and Porco were buddies beforehand, it helped power up Falco, but since Ymir didn't have any connection to Marcel then she didn't get as powered up. Or maybe because Ymir was in titan form for 60 years, her sense of identity was so tied to that form, so when in shifter form it stayed very close to that. Who knows. I think your Zeke point is pretty good, though.

[@adelboukabous8225]

​@@friedkeenan Falco had Zeke's spinal fluid in him which contains everything the beast had including hardening.

[@JulianDanzerHAL9001]

I mean it seems very clear he has no skin so he can get rid of all that heat add armor to that and its just gonna pressurecook itslef to death

[@natterbot]

@@friedkeenanI do think that the explanation for Ymir seems to be that she was in her pure Titan form for so long so that was pretty much the same form she remained in. Also that and that the Jaw Titan hadn’t been properly designed when she first appeared. Similar to how the cart titans appearance changed e.g. the shifter originally being meant to be male

[@mikila94]

Fun fact: In the manga, not long before his death, Dino Reeves is the one to tell Historia to "punch Levi and then tell him to hit back if he dares, for she's the mighty queen", which I think was way better than what they did in the anime. Plus, the actual punch scene is weak in the anime.

[@makubesohaan3922]

It was weak in the manga as well, really. Considering she's military trained, Historia should've been able to hit harder, though I still doubt it'd hurt Levi.

[@Astral_Incarnate]

idk, i didnt mind a more light hearted moment like that after all the shit that happened in the first half of season 3. plus i always interpreted it as mikasa suggesting it as revenge for levi beating up eren in season 1 lol

[@GhostofCumberland]

​@makubesohaan3922 My neighbor is a military woman and she'd likely throw a punch with similar power to Historias punch.

[@enumaelish8247]

I think the reason Rod's titan is so weird has less to do with any logical explanation, and more to do with something he said. He was asked at one point why he doesn't just become the founder himself, and he replied "I must not become a titan." but didn't elaborate further. I think there is something that works in their line, similar to the vow, where certain members of the family are not able to become proper titans for whatever reason, or their transformation is a lot more extreme if it ever happens, therefore they're never chosen to inherit the founder. It also explains why only certain people from each generation get picked, rather than just going trough everyone in order (which is something that everyone ignores for some reason, when talking about this).

[@situationvolatile]

I was just coming here to see if anyone mentioned that! So weird that he said ‘I must not become a Titan’ then became a Titan that’s just BONKERS!?

[@WalkerVA]

Ngl, I thought he was just being a wuss and didn't want to commit to shortening his life

[@SA80TAGE]

only 1 problem with this line of thinking..... you can't know what the transformation is going to be like before it has happened. Reiss has never transformed before, he didn't eat a shifter to become human again before all of this.... so how would he or anyone else know that the transformation would be "more extreme"? His line, to me at least, just further pushes the trope of the cowardly noble rich guy that doesn't want to do the dirty dangerous stuff himself.

[@enumaelish8247]

@@SA80TAGE That's not true tho, the soldiers from Marley could change people into whatever titans they wanted, and Marley as a whole barely knew anything about titans, so I'd assume the family of the person who held the founding titan for generations would know more than Marley.

[@jayteeblues]

He’d never transformed and had no idea what it would be like. Except the watching the process and being like no for me. It is complicated and fun to think about.

[@YmmSemi]

I always assumed that the reason Rod can lick the titan fluid and transform immediately is because Kenny cut the inside of his his mouth right before he freed Eren and the titan fluid got into his blood stream via open cuts.

[@DavidGarcia-fe7lv]

Wasn't expecting you to go off the hook at the end to talk about determinism and all that free will shit in philosophy, I absoutely love it, there's so much in AOT that could be brought up in a philosophy teacher's classroom when explaining certai topics, you should do that more often!

[@Koroto]

Ohh don't worry, we have more than a couple of those coming up very very soon. I thought Historia's choice of duty was a nice jumping off point for all of those conversations as that lack of freedom becomes more and more explicit (of course climaxing with Eren). 👍

[@Zaidr0n]

@@Korotoin general there are alot of underlying philosphical themes and i think that ultimately AOT is more on the deterministic side of things and this is clearly represented through eren. no matter how hard he tries he cannot change the future because everything that has come before him has shaped him and the world along with the circumstances in which he must act. its sort of a reverse look on free will in a way. if you had the ability to see the future, would it actually change anything at all? IMO, isiyama is proposing that it doesnt actually change anything because we are not the master of our own fate. Kennys last word are gold too and also very much in the court of shoppenhauer, albert camus etc. we have to spend our lives drunk on something because if we dont, we face the sobering realisation that ultimately we are a footnote in the lifespan of the universe and nothing we do actually matters. kenny has clearly read camus, because as he poignently proclaims: there is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

[@LuisSierra42]

@@Koroto Make a video about the parallels between AoT and Dune

[@AstralObservatory1]

9:03 iirc Connie mentioned his Mom having a bad back, so that could also tie into her state.

[@preciousreiannebucocatherine]

oh yes

[@defenderws]

Good video, guess my Attack on Titan phase will never end

[@EdgarHernandez-xr5co]

Upload 57 seconds ago and I couldn’t wait to watch. Thanks for blessing my morning!

[@blazingblueinferno4673]

rod riess had his tongue cut by Kenny

[@yoridetth856]

Wym

[@ED11169]

Nah, it was a knife BJ

[@aurelia_the_jelly]

@@yoridetth856 While Kenny was talking to Historia before she was going to inject herself Rod's tongue gets cut by Kenny's knife. So here, the titan spinal fluid does enter Rod's bloodstream, instead of taken orally as most assumed.

[@exequielgaleano9947]

Honestly, I was fine just taking the whole image of him transforming as an artistic depiction that didn't necessarily need to be accurate... But that little detail you mentioned escaped me and now I see how it makes total sense. This story just takes into account so many tiny details that's scary, hahaha. Great catch!!!

[@Koroto]

Uhhh, I don't think being injected right into the bloodstream is the same as touching it with your bleeding tongue. Pouring disinfectant on an open wound is very good, injecting it into your bloodstream wouldn't end well lmao 😂😂 But if we're talking purely titan magic shenanigans, then yeah, I guess that would be another conduit for the transformation.

[@bradleygrahl1264]

These are the only videos on KZbin I like before watching them. My favorite series on KZbin

[@Koroto]

🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[@johndaniels4623]

I’ll be honest, I was not having a good week. But I didn’t realize you were gonna have an AOT video today, so thank you. My week is better now. Take care, be safe, and keep up your great work

[@tristanh5270]

I cant wait for you to cover return to shigashina arc

[@movieclipsvideos1781]

I know right!

[@R0bilicious]

I think the armor vial is spinal fluid from an old War Hammer Titan that gifted it to the royal family before closing the gates of Paradis. The hardening abilities that Eren gets from that vial are more reminiscent of the WH than the Armored.

[@Setsunako6587]

19:29 Hi Korotos 🙋🏾‍♀ it's "Vola Girl" again (actually, I just played oboe for long enough to know what a viola sounds like out of context, but whatever 😅). I continue to unironically LOVE the way you describe music!! I never thought of describing that sound as a "breathing in," but you nailed it! I think it's just a recording of some strings played backwards, but until I know for sure, I'm fine with just letting the magic be magical 💕

[@lady_magnoliauwu1169]

Eren is a slave of freedom Historia is a slave of duty Mikasa is a slave of love Erwin is a slave of ambition/ knowledge Etc. I thought about and i thought it sounded cool lol

[@erikshure360]

Slave, or just purpose 🤔

[@BertoPlease]

25:45 this song actually sounds to me like the song that plays when Grisha reveals the Attack Titan's power in the Eren and Zeke memory delve scene as well, which yknow... Kinda big too

[@firepunchman]

You put so much efforts and love in these videos it’s insane! Love from Italy

[@Nerazmus]

Saying the random farmer is a badly written story, would imply there is a story. Which there isn't. The author just needed to get her out of action and so he made get prego with some random farmer person because everyone from the main cast who could have concievabely had a relationship with her was already taken. Obviously a missed opportunity, since having a soon-to-be-father going to fight Eren in the final final final season would add yet more personal tension. But can't blame the author for not seeing that far ahead.

[@lukasalbrecht8341]

After watching the last episode, Eren told us that he was the one sending Dina straight to their house, because Berthold should have not died yet. Also we see that most abnormals behave much faster like having a goal that they want to reach. Also also we see in season in the end of season 2 when Eren commanded Titans they immediately stopped being normal and all behaved just like abnormals much faster, because they now have a goal. That was also the case for Zeke commanding his Titans (in Season 2, 3 and 4). Especially in Season 2 we saw all Titans just moving around like no other Titan and then they just turn and run into the Scouts. With this observations I made up the theory that all abnorals are commanded (maybe by Eren), because all of them have an important part in the story to end like this, so they behave not normal. Then I looked back to at least some but not all of the (seemenly not commanded) Titans with abnormal behavior and saw that all of them at least seems to have a relevant porpuse for the story. First we have the abnormal Titan that killed Levy friends (idk their names) that got then destroyed by Levy. That one gets Levy to become loyal to the scouts and trusting Erwin. Then we can take a look at the speaking Titan from ilse's notebook. That one catches Hange's curiosity and more than less leads to the scouts catching Titans in Trost. Then we have the abnormals in Trost that killed Erens squat. I mean they are pretty obvious. Yeah they were relevant for "humanity" to discover Eren's Titanpower. And you might even argue that he has to be found by Mikasa or he would have been killed by ignorance immediately. (also by cutting of Erens limps, they discovered that Titanshifters not just exist but also can heal like almost everything) We also have the Abnormal Titan in Trost that runs straight at the civilians that was killed by Mikasa. You can say on the one hand say that this Titan kill by Mikasa motivated the little girl (im sorry but i dont know her name) to go to the millitary AND you'd might argue that she is relevant for season 4. On the other hand Mikasa was able to see the merchant blocking the way for evacuation, because of the Titan kill. And just Mikasa has the balls to get him to make the way free for the people. And yeah it was important for the evacuation to be faster. And then Rod. Yeah he was relevant to get killed by Historia so the people of the walls would accept her as their queen. I dont know what exactly whats exactly the point of the Titan crawling on all fours trying to catch Sasha. Or the otherones wiping out Scout soldiers. You can argue that they were just there to nerve the scouts because otherwise they would be to strong? So yeah I know. The theorie has its flaws because we simply just not have enough information about everything inuniverse, so we cant really proof or disproof it. Edit: Oh yeah I forgot about Ymir. She was relevant because she ate Marcel or what ever he was called. And with Marcel the Marley squat might really just have f**d Paradis.

[@ScarDry]

I love all your videos keep up all the amazing work. You really make my day with these uploads. I’m at work rn but I don’t care I’m still going to watch.

[@FrankTheTank17]

So two things I remember from the show: for Annie, I remember she mentioned in the second to last episode that she was made to drink different substances when she got her titan. That conversation happened when she was talking to the azumabito lady on the ship. And the for the colossal with armored abilities, Eren’s colossal seemed to have hardening on his hands on the final episode.

[@liriosogno6762]

I love your videos so much. I'm always looking forward to you over analyzing

[@Egg0fTheKing]

i’ve been using this playlist as my white noise while i sleep for a few months. i kid you not i fall asleep and wake up to attack on titan retrospectives. and i’d have it no other way

[@damiendelatour4843]

Thank you for continuing this AoT overanalyzing despite of some new interesting shows. You’re the best. Love watching you

[@abriefsummaryofhistory7449]

Keep your content up its insanly good

[@Koroto]

Will do! 🙇‍♂️

[@skeleskor]

Just realized I have been waiting on your uploads… Love your analysis!

[@abecerra81000]

Historia doing the jotaro“ora” is my new head canon😂 3:41

[@Mitch-xo1rd]

3:00 my head canon is that the size of the pure titan is inversely proportion to the amount of spinal fluid. Meaning that if you inject enough it is human size, but a less than a drop = big AF titan. And it makes sense through the lense of titans primary goal being to return to being human, more titan fluid making them closer to human.

[@He-Man00]

Or the fact that it contained spinal fluid of a colossal titan (seen in the Manga) Given that he consumed it incorrectly, had royal blood, had a broken back, and some got in his blood stream through the cut on his tongue. Yeeeah recipe for disaster.

[@diegobeusekamp3887]

Yeah finally, i was waiting for the next one. Thank u good sir

[@wickedrank1739]

Wake up babe, Korotos uploaded AoT content

[@emildemaeyer6513]

These videos on AOT are so good! Have been binging them all in about a month😭😭😭

[@jacksontaylor290]

I kinda assumed how much fluid was injected determined their size and maybe why some were abnormal.

[@lorenzobortolani5286]

7:46 is the perfect picture to explain your level of obsession towards aot. Appreciate it tho, learning a lot more complex things about this masterpiece than I did alone, nice job.

[@PhantomHalf]

I really hope that this is it for AOT. I love this series with my soul, it is my favorite story hands down. Having this one show just end completed with no milking will fill me with peace.

[@slapsmans6900]

24:26 you don’t need a Titan-Lawyer… you need a TITAN LAWYER!!

[@GattoPanco]

Koroto, I'm begging you to read the recently published "Determined: A Science of Life without Free will" by Sapolsky. It ties perfectly with everything you have said about lack of free will in the ending bit of the video, and a much recommended reading in general!

[@MysticMylesZ]

Wooo yeah baby! 1:40 that ova messed with me a bit The levels of mental "HUH?!" were wild

[@jordannoone1131]

You nailed the causal deterministic explanation of free will here. Love how you applied it to this episode and AOT in general. It aligns with the overarching concept of freedom and choices, and is only magnified by Eren’s attack titan abilities. Great stuff K!

[@theneeerd]

All is right in the world when a new AoT Koroto video is up!

[@traverserred]

I think it’s pretty heavily implied that Marley did experiment with mixing Titan powers. With what Annie said and the fact that most of them had hardening abilities. The hardened masks on their jaw titans and the lack of one on Ymir means they probably gave them supplemental injections of other titans to weaponize them even more. Marley had access to armored spinal fluid due to them having the armor in their possession. They could take spinal fluid from their shifters and give part of that power to each of them. The reason that the colossal didn’t have hardening is because it wouldn’t work with the colossal powers since it’s ability is to use its flesh as a weapon, hardening it’s flesh would weaken or even make using that power impossible. The cart Titan looks similar to the jaw titans and has the ability to emit steam as well so it’s probably mostly cart endurance with jaw agility and colossal steam emissions.

[@neropanic1882]

I really can't wait till you get to the last season I really love your breakdowns

[@MeuesenexD]

To your end question: I hope they make a live action with a massive budget. No rushing the visuals, no CHANGING the story (im looking at you AoT movie), and just giving another viewing option...so many people I tell should watch AoT complain as it's a "cartoon" in their eyes. I think a live action shot for shot series would do amazing if they take the time to do it right.

[@baki484]

Good way to end my Saturday.

[@Koroto]

Happy Saturday! 😄

[@jaspershepherdsmith9047]

Same dude. Just knocked off, got flu, gonna let this lull me to sleep. Thank you, Koroto!

[@hungryboi3585]

And a great way to start mine

[@doublesoul862]

About that free will part: I actually had a phase not long ago when this line of thinking was making me very unhappy. Not because it was false, but because I wanted to believe it to be false despite having no arguments in my mind against it. It made it difficult for me to judge people, to judge myself, to judge any action, because nobody really had a say anyway, right? It got to the point where I had a little bit of a mental breakdown and I actually wrote a message to my philosophy professor from my University, explaining my situation, arguments etc. He invited me to talk about this in person, so in some time, we met. He provided a very interesting counterargument to humans having no free will: emergent qualities of complex systems. He explained that the more complex a system gets, the more qualities it gains which are impossible to predict from analyzing the system's parts and individual interactions between them. The impossibility, crucially, does NOT stem from a lack of data or computational power: even if we understood everything about the elementary parts of the system and their individual properties, and had infinite computational power to simulate their interactions, we could not predict the emergent properties of the resultant system. This was a very weird idea to me because it's completely counterintuitive, but he cited some books and he is a very knowledgeable guy, so I trust his expertise on this. Now, the reason this matters in the discussion about free will is the issue of causality. There can exist two things: true randomness or causal effect, with no inbetween. Both are outside of our control. This law, however, does NOT neccessarily apply to the inner workings of human brains. They are incredibly complex systems which we don't nearly understand yet. We don't understand where conscious experience comes from, where subjective experiences of different states, or sensual experiences come from. Our brains, the complex system they are, COULD have an emergent quality which allows a decisional instance to be inserted somewhere along the chain of effects. This is counterintuitive, but many other things are as well. Laws we considered fundamental have been proven wrong many times before, and this may be no exception. This fact introduced enough uncertainty in my mind about the lack of free will that I was able to put that idea behind me and live normally again. I hope you read this long comment and it allows you to get a new perspective as well!

[@josephpizzati8325]

Your reviews are so well done and still stupid underrated!

[@Qprah]

I particularly like the theory that Connie's mom is the way she is because she was pregnant when she was transformed, and the big-head bug-eye titan that helps kill Mike was the unborn child. We see Connie's dad slowly eating Kaya before Sasha saves her, and we see the 2 small child-like titans that were seemingly playfighting, ripping an ear off of the other and slapping its face. It seems perfectly reasonable we'd see Connie's whole family; Mother, Father, 2 Younger Siblings and the Unborn. It would also explain why that one bug-eyed titan is seemingly the only one of Zeke's titans that isnt compelled to follow his commands perfectly, possibly because it wasnt born yet and didnt understand language as a human yet. This theory also backs up the hesitation the military has to turn Historia in the final season. If they even suspect that turning her while pregnant could do that to her and the child, they wouldnt risk turning them both since they'd have to kill one even if they fed Zeke to the other. In the Manga Sergeant Gross says that he is an "abnormal" person when explaining to Grisha why he is a psychopath that has no remorse for killing literal children. I think the mental and physical health of the people that are turned has an effect on the titan forms too. Mental Health issues would cause abnormal behavior that makes their pure titans act erratic and dangerously, where as physical health issues might cause their titans to be deformed in a way that makes them unable to walk upright like Rod and that sad thing the Scouts pass on the way to the sea. Also I think Rod turns right away because Kenny had cut his tongue when he had the knife in Rod's mouth. It is more deliberately shown in the Manga compared to the Anime, but it makes sense if licking the serum instantly caused a transformation. Although we also know the injections dont turn people instantly, they turn after a handful of seconds. I love the theory of mixing types of titan serum to get more specific shapes and sizes of titans, although It may just be that injections from different members of the nine cause the pure titans it creates to form at a similar size. Cart and Jaw making the 2-5m versions, Female making 7-10m, Armor, Attack, Warhammer making 13-15m. I think in the Manga the writing on the vial that Rod gives to Historia says "powerful titan" or something like that on it. So it probably is just that it was serum extracted from the Colossal, which is probably quite rarely harvested. Marley wouldn't risk creating pure titans that big as it would risk breaking the Walls and releasing the Wall Titans, although maybe thats how the Wall Titans were made, or what is effectively the same physical procedure except done at 1mil x speed by the Founder. The Beast making all types of titans with the gas and wine is probably an outlier, or it might be because the Beast is shown to not have a standard size that carries over between generations of shifter. It's size seems based on the type of beast it styles itself on each time. Perhaps thats why Zeke's titans are all shapes and sizes as well. I assume Frieda was turned using Female titan Serum just based on her appearance being as uncanny as it is. Another theory I like is that shifters are turned specifically with the serum of the power they will inherit, possibly directly taken from the person they will be eating. If family bloodlines can make it easier to inherit memories then surely using the former X titan's spinal fluid would have some sort of beneficial effect. Perhaps thats why Freckles Ymir doesnt get the cool faceplate like Marcel and Porco do, because she wasn't originally turned with Jaw fluid. maybe she was originally using cart or beast fluid.

[@AKoolBean]

I like to believe that when they are in that cave future eren used the founding powers when touching zeke and was whispering in his ear “their all gonna die” which convinced him to save them

[@vertexedits1806]

man the overanalyzing is so good i cant put it into words that how good it is

[@exequielgaleano9947]

Thanks a lot for this amazing content! I do feel like it could be possible that the end was the end. Personally, I hope that's the case, but wouldn't mind if something else pops up as long as it has a certain level of quality. After how enjoyable on different levels this story was I wouldn't like to see anything less. At the same time, it took so long to get here and the whole story (at least for me) had such levels of uniqueness and perfection that that might as well just be it and we could just accept that (when I say perfect I mean it in a very peronal way, not really in the "cultural" idea of "perfection", haha). That said, I totally undesrtand your feeling of still wanting to expect more or hoping for it. Your series here is my way of still enjoy this series, as I take it as a sort of continuation. Like a documentary that extends my enjoyment of this great story! So, again, lots of thanks to you!!!

[@tamirisgaelzer1902]

I dunno what to do now that I've caught up with the series 😭😭 Subscribed to wait for the next ones, really hyped for it

[@Koroto]

Welcome aboard! Next one is coming very soon! 👍

[@ryanreviews8566]

the actual explanation (i think): Rodd is of ROYAL blood who took a colossal titan shifter serum which is MANMADE(extracted) so it is imperfect. He also doesn't have the founding titan (aka the worm) in him so the resulting combination is basically a "proto doom titan" which Eren completes and shows us during the rumbling. also, eren and ymir probably decided on this form too so the story could progress.

[@Lycox15]

It wasn't shown in the anime, but in the manga, the serum Rod ingested was labeled strongest titan, so where or not his transformation was done incorrectly, it seemed it was intended for Historia to be that large.

[@He-Man00]

Yeah I think so too. He was clearly desperate and wanted a strong weapon. I wonder tho, if she was injected properly, would she turn THAT big ? Destroying the chapel, and probably Eren along with it. Or would correct injection turn her BIG but not huge. The size we see is probably a mix between the collosal serum, royal blood, the fact that some of it got into his stomach, and some into his blood (he had a cut on his tongue)

[@TripleExposurePhoto]

I think the way titan powers were shared is that the founder was split by her 3 daughters, creating the first 3 shifters. Then 9 of their children did the same. But was no further split, but sharing spinal fluid spreading the titan power would be scientifically acurate based on brain diseases, prions.

[@joeprice999]

I live for these videos

[@doctorsuss2k24]

Maybe you’ll get to this topic in latter seasons, but the origin and purpose of the pure titans always got me thinking a lot. Maybe the three Sisters (Maria, Rose, Sina) created them as a way to facilitate the inheritance process (so their children wouldn’t have to feel or remember eating them), but got repurposed as a weapon later by the Fritz.

[@theturnip1937]

15:28 we love you buddy bless your heart❤ keep up the good work

[@maintrain527]

Actually the reason Mikasa tells Historia to punch Levi is because in the manga, Levi grapples Historia & tells her to be queen in front of everybody much to everyone's distress. They didn't adapt that part so her saying in the anime just comes out of nowhere with no build up.

[@retrigot2207]

This series is so good

[@ciboria1]

A reason for not wanting to test if an Armored Colossal titan is viable for Marley; If they then decided to attack Marley, how the hell would they even try to stop it?

[@Kaika433]

In the first final chapters special Annie mentions that they made her shallow a lot of stuff because of her titan speciality, I think other titans can in fact use things like hardening but the female titan is just better than the others at mimicking abilities, the colossal might be the complete opposite and that’s why we didn’t saw Bert or armin using hardening although Eren used it in the last episode so I guess it depends on the ability of the user or it could just be an anime original scene, I don’t remember if Eren used hardening as a colossal titan in the manga

[@colincrusoe9423]

If you're a fan of the causality, determinism, free will shenanigans here, I can rather safely assume you'd enjoy the major themes of Berserk. 10/10 would recommend to every living soul on the planet

[@matthewvido3902]

21:40 My guess would be since they already have the Armor and Annie who can both do it, you don't need to add another. It would be like adding an M4 mount to your tank.

[@trevortorbeck2910]

The wall titans, the cgi horses, the crystal catacombs. Like all the the inside jokes

[@pegaferno4429]

Ay boys, new Koroto vid dropped

[@etunimisukunimi7747]

"why no armored colossal titan?" Weight.

[@ienvyblaq3922]

I would so read something you write.

[@bigbru4644]

21:41 If I had to guess, probably because of how hot the colossal titan can be. If hardening was applied to the colossal then, all of that heat would get trapped within the hardened layer or surface of the colossals skin (muscle). Which either means the hardening shatter like glass due to the heat, cook the colossal titan, or melt the colossal titan. Either way, if there is a human inside, they would literally be toast. But that’s just my hypothesis.

[@BananaJuice-ue6pi]

Graaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh the wall titans are 50 meters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 Edit I love these videos. This is like to only channel that likes to go in depth about stuff like how transformations work and the looks of titans and stuff while ALSO talking about the story!

[@slapsmans6900]

THIS VID 🔥🔥🔥 I’m stead on your AOT & Breaking Bad VIDS!!! Can’t wait for the next Walter white!!! Then Eren, then Walter & and Eren and JESSE!!!!!

[@provokator3870]

small note on the comment from mikasa to historia: that said comment, where mikasa says to punch levi when historia becomes queen may seem a bit odd when only watching the anime. i think in the manga there was a scene before that, when historia was told by levi to become queen, she was forced to by levi. in the anime they changed that to historia just changing her mind on her own

[@twilightsparkle75]

At 3:20 i thought they could control the size of titan by using different titan serum. Like the jaw titan would make smaller titans, and cart titan would make the ones that move on all 4s like the one that ate thomas.

[@ggwp638BC]

21:30 - I think the answer for that is that Marley DOESN'T want the titans to be even more powerful. When we truly find out about it it's around the time that other nations are starting to catch up technologically and being able to harm titans, but the power gap is still massive. Just now Marley is starting to think about a post-titan warfare world, so it's safe to say that for the past several years that wasn't a concern. If titans being defeated isn't a concern, then the bigger concern are titans being undefeated and turning on Marley. At worst case Marley can trust the Warhammer titan to be loyal and put down any rogue shifters, so by all means they DO NOT want to power them up unnecessarily (and by extension, also they wouldn't want to power up the Warhammer in case they go rogue).

[@cookie-linus2614]

What I don't understand is why would rod have a colossal serum in his hand. He wanted to give it to Historia. Why would he give her colossal serum? That is why I don't think he had colossal serum but there is a different reason for his form

[@verrufen2642]

He did. There was a label in manga, and he does say it's a particularly big and strong titan

[@SarahSoupster]

I like to think the reason there isn’t other mixtures is because it’s kinda anti-synergistic Like the attack and female titan work because just based off titan forms they’re very basic, so any help is appreciated The colossal itself is meant as a nuke, but something like armour would only leave less muscles to burn and reduce its mobility even further The armoured is meant to be a shield that takes hits, so having something like a nuclear explosion or a strong jaw goes against its ideals (though the cart would help with stamina) The jaw is meant to be nimble, fast, and strong, so adding other titans would go against at least one of those The cart only works if it has high endurance and something to support it, but having a nuclear explosion or an armoured back would make it so the cannoneers couldn’t pilot her You get the gist, the plans and equipment that Marley made would be ruined by mixing tons of titans together

[@SarahSoupster]

Obviously all combinations wouldn’t be harmful, like the beast having a minor form of hardening in desperate situations or (in my mind) the cart’s endurance in the armoured (because how the fuck can Reiner regenerate like 4 times in a single fight without changing titans otherwise?), but some would definitely be harmful

[@Lukusprime]

AOT is such a deep and expansive world, the lore could easily be expanded on for decades like Star Wars, LoTR, etc. Maybe years down the line we’ll get these answers, like how random elements and throw-away lines from other franchises now have completely rock-solid canon explanations. Like, we didn’t know why the clones just randomly obeyed Palpatine after years of fighting alongside the Jedi until CW and TBB really fleshed out the Inhibitor Chip lore

[@LordIronfist]

If I had to guess as to why falco was the one who gained the ability: The jaw Titan was the only one with the agility to pull off flight. The previous jaw (I can't remember his name, but he was the most capable of the jaws we saw and, ya know, falcos brother) nearly had the flight ability without having it. He was more of a frog than a bird, but the speed and ability to correct instantaneously as he landed, that's basically the kinda skills needed for winged flight like Falco, whereas the beast titans seem to be much more lumbering and easily outmanoeuvred by highly agile opponents like Levi, as we all saw.

[@DrProfNoNo]

Personally one theory I had for why some titans may be abnormal is due to them being former military or highly trained. Since all the soldiers turned titans with zeke's scream were highly agile. I believe zeke can't necessarily impact that, but its due to the soldiers being quite skilled themselves

[@lukaslambs5780]

There are so many parallels between Paul Atreides and Eren, that would be a very interesting discussion!

[@Koroto]

I've only very recently begun dipping into Dune, but yeah... there are some... interesting parallels 😂 When I get my loremaster levels up to snuff, maybe I'll make some content on it! 👍

[@ethanlackey8048]

I think anytime you ask why the titans aren’t a certain way, such as when asking why the colossal isn’t armored has a simple solution. The creator is only human and didn’t think of it. Honestly a lot of things about the titans are messy like that.

[@CrashBandicootFan100]

*spoiler warning of Final Chapters part 2 and the manga ending* What you said about Rod being our main example of how Titans see. So many cling on to how Dina maintaining her will to "find Grisha no matter what". In a plausible sense that she could focus on his "light", there's STILL NO reason for her to recognize Carla. This would have to extend an assumption that: due to her desire to find Grisha, she could see his life with Carla and devour her out of jelaousy. Or know where his house is. Grisha is far away from Shiganshina, if his light was her goal she could see it's actual location is FAR AWAY. Despite this she STILL attempts to eat Bert like a regular Titan would. Same with Hannes. Only detail I notice with her in particular is Carla being crushed before being eaten, as if a mercy kill. Generally folks get eaten alive. Rod. He is a ROYAL like Dina and his "Titan sight" may be the same as any pure Titan's. I always assumed that Eren forcing Dina towards his mother WAS due to rectifying this plot hole based on Pure Titan mechanics. Also pushing a full circle punishment on Eren for causing the Rumbling. Edit 1: Ok his failed transformation could also be a factor but I believe they still see every person as a "dot" in the Paths. Edit 2: tho most Titans operate on distance x amount of humans in their viscinity, so the lights could still be the exact same.

[@Spawn3582]

Spoiler ahead just in case someone hasnt watched But im fairly certain that Annie talked about how the Female can take on the abilites of the other 9 by eating parts of them. I think she says something along the lines of "You shouldve seen the things they fed me"

[@ryanreviews8566]

i still feel like this manga was going a different, more shounen route during the first half with all the vials, types of squads and titans, odm and titan training and eren getting new buffs and what not. such a weird change but still cool lol

[@ghostbearr1]

It may be down to belief of titan or the belief in themselves. Rod Reiss is a megalomaniac who thought he was a god, so he would be absolutely gigantic. Where a normal but proud person could be the normal 15 meter titan, where a 3 to 4 meter titan could be a person with low self-esteem. Where an abnormal titan could be a person that is nuerodivergent.

[@guillermoestebansanchezgar5839]

Just in time for

[@bboi1489]

For what? 😟

[@movieclipsvideos1781]

What if connies mum and the other one, just had royal blood but it was way way way filtered down

[@chuck600]

4:10 wait that's not how you're supposed to look like at 19? Guess I'm normal then

[@ChikenTendies]

In regards to Annie’s titan: The female titan’s unique ability is being able to absorb and use one of the other nine’s powers, albeit watered down So her endurance can be the Cart Unhinging jaw from the Jaw Roar from the Founder/Beast Healing from the Attack Lack of skin + heavy steam (captured in the woods) from the Colossal Hardening from the Armor I don’t think the Warhammer was used at all with her, if I’m not mistaken, the Tybur’s very rarely exhibited the Warhammer, let alone allow Marley to take spinal fluid The reason for other shifters NOT mixing with another could be that it can cause malfunctions. The Female titan is meant to absorb others abilities, so maybe if others tried it wouldn’t work. It doesn’t make *too* much sense because to take another titans powers you have to consume their spinal fluid anyways (for example Eren eating the Warhammer). If other titans can’t mix with each other like the female, why could he take the Warhammer, and why could Grisha take the founder? Maybe there’s a difference when taking the fluid while in or out of titan form, but if you start going down that route there’s the issue of Ymir and her children, 3 children. If it has a higher chance of working, whatre the chances of 3 children eating their mother to evenly split the powers? They also could’ve just never tried to mix titans other than Annie, or saw no real reason to? (Even though higher endurance is good for all of them) but even this isn’t a theory that holds much weight since Marley has its own titan testing group, so they’d probably try mixing titans eventually? (Overthinking after commenting edit:) There’s a chance that spinal fluid won’t work on some titans based on size and endurance of their titan. Like the example of armored colossals, maybe the body is just way too big that the armor wouldn’t be effective / can’t be used properly alongside the already taxing colossal powers. Also, when a shifter dies, if their power isn’t consumed it goes to a random eldian. Maybe the shifters powers are easier to absorb if they’re killed, and also maybe the titan power can’t be fully used between 2 shifters, only a partial use and a full use. Basically something something Ymir magic causing only one shifter to use the power to its fullest

[@tareknasser8565]

I agree that there is alot of world building the could be explored within the world of AOT, I mean there was already before the fall which is great so I hope they are able to write more around the concept of the great war or titan history and science in general

[@verrufen2642]

Before the fall has titans running about at night, which seems like a big continuity error considering that travelling at night to avoid titans is a big plot point in the main series. Really liked before the fall otherwise though

[@rohansharma138]

I have also always thought that there can be many stories told in the worrld of AOT like The Great Titan War... I hope someday we get to see some of them as the World of Aot has great potential for many stories..

[@TheFerg714]

I love these videos so much, but I feel like you're missing out by not reading the manga alongside the anime.

[@JamieEhh]

I just thought it looked liked that because Historia broke Rod's back

[@xvx_K1r1t0_xvx_killmeee]

I kinda wanted Erin and Historia to get together.

[@star_astrid]

the WoW to AoT pipeline is real, this was my first anime

[@Peacock__]

I was about to watch this video - I'm saving it for dinner

[@Dante...]

I would think that having armor would interfere with the colossal titan's steam attack. It would also probably make it even slower than it already is.

[@makiroll218]

Omfg. I remember when I first watched the episode where the Titan on all fours go after Sasha and I freaked the fuck out. I thought she was a goner for sure.