finally someone had the balls to say it. I'm surprised you didn't mention her being a literal princess with a family symbol carved into her hand being thrown in last second
This is such a stupid take that I can’t stop laughing and let me tell you why. You’re annoyed that the Princess plot came out of nowhere in a story where in the first three seasons, the characters had never stepped outside their island and outsiders, minus the Worrior candidates and Marlayan soldiers, had never come in since the walls were made. AOT is a story where you find things out with the characters. I mean, a great percentage of the viewers didn’t even know that people were outside until the last three episodes of season 3 with those books in the basement. Since you hate it so much, tell me who and how you wanted the reveal to have been made? I mean, Nobody in the island knew what it meant. Just say you don’t like the character and stop trying to give a contrived reason. Also, not all characters need to have a Jean and Reiner level of character development for them to be good or not. Mikasa’s character arc was going from someone who would protect Eren from any and everything to being willing to kill him for the sake of others which is why that whole lie about the Ackerman bloodline and servitude was so believable. She started as a physically strong character so her growth was more emotional. Honestly a massive L take
This is such a stupid take that I can’t stop laughing and let me tell you why. You’re annoyed that the Princess plot came out of nowhere in a story where in the first three seasons, the characters had never stepped outside their island and outsiders, minus the Worrior candidates and Marlayan soldiers, had never come in since the walls were made. AOT is a story where you find things out with the characters. I mean, a great percentage of the viewers didn’t even know that people were outside until the last three episodes of season 3 with those books in the basement. Since you hate it so much, tell me who and how you wanted the reveal to have been made? I mean, Nobody in the island knew what it meant. Just say you don’t like the character and stop trying to give a contrived reason. Also, not all characters need to have a Jean and Reiner level of character development for them to be good or not. Mikasa’s character arc was going from someone who would protect Eren from any and everything to being willing to kill him for the sake of others which is why that whole lie about the Ackerman bloodline and servitude was so believable. She started as a physically strong character so her growth was more emotional. Honestly a massive L take
When Eren said she's just a dumb slave it did not surprise me at all because she is, in fact, just a slave to the main character. Now of course this was revealed to be one of Eren's little lies but... It's the truth 🤣
There was a seen in season 4 where Eren told Mikasa that her undying loyalty was an effect of her being of Akerman decent, if this was true it could have possibly saved her character entirely.
Mikasa and Levi are the same breed of characters. One was saved at childhood, one was not. The Ackerman who found someone to be loyal to, became a lapdog, someone their blood line was destined to do. The one without a master became his own man, and forged his own path and friendships. It’s a clear contrast and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that there are only two Ackerman in the survey corps to play this off. I have no clue how I would write Mikasa differently while Levi already dove so much into their bloodline. But hey they don’t pay me the big bucks :)
Mikasa is the worst. Even by the end, she takes Eren a war criminals head to bury it as a shrine for all his friends and her family to see instead of handing it over to the Marlayans as proof they are actually telling the truth.
@TheDon266 That @diamond7099 fanboy I spoke to even thinks that Levi is far worse written than Mikasa. At least Levi thinks things logically ( excluding the thunderspear) and knows what side his bread is buttered. He knows a war criminal when he sees one and would never forgive their actions. His emotions towards Zeke are way, way more justified than Mikasa's towards Eren.
😂 honestly in the story I can't even tell if she is a static character nor an actual relevant main character in the story, Mikasa feels more like a flat character that was just given a lot of screentime because the author wants to represent Japan.
Yknow I don’t necessarily disagree with you but at the same time, I don’t think she’s really a bad character. She’s simple and one note yeah, most of the time just a stoic badass, but I think that was done very intentionally. This shows themes of freedom and slavery play into this I think, since Eren freed her when they were kids, but all the while after that she’s been a slave to Eren for loving him too much. It’s like showing how strong bonds can restrict our freedom, which leads into Eren using this to convince her that the Ackerman blood was the reason she’s so subservient to him. Even despite this, it’s still ok to have a stoic badass take center stage just for animation prowess so I don’t think she’s bad just not that deep.
You know.... valid. As a Mikasa fan, I kind of 100% agree with you. I feel like in session 1, she was kind of the character that pushed the "The world is cruel and unforgiving... Deal with it and keep fighting" message. And it hit really well, especially when Eren needed to pull himself together to fight Annie She genuinely felt more interesting because she told off Eren and wasn't afraid to give him her brutally honest opinion while still being caring. And I feel like past session 1, she kind of just... stopped having that energy. It was almost a little weird how by session 4, she was taking all the verbal abuse from Eren that she did, and never really fought back. I like were she started as a character, but it just feels like it never really went anywhere meaningful.
What also didn't make sense was the excuse for "mikasa's choice", that ymir LOVED that heartless, rapist bastard fritz "You have been peeking in my mind all this time", really? Did she also peek in her mind when santa claus titan ate eren or when armin got burned to a crisp, because we're supposed to believe that ymir was messing with mikasa's head while she was having headaches
So I LOVE Mikasa and would just like to defend my girl a bit. I feel like you're making a bad assumption that a good character needs character development. Mikasa is a good character BECAUSE she's stuck in this limbo of love and/or stockholm syndrome. Her never really growing out of that isn't inherently bad; in fact it's very human. Not to mention the show does a brillant job of exploring her stagnant mental state. You're also forgetting that she is quite literally the most important character to in AoT. She was one that made the choice that ended the titan era. Mikasa's love for eren is directly paralleled with Ymir's love for King Fritz and this is one of the shows most fundamental dynamics. "To you, 2000 years from now" is directed to Mikasa. It's Ymir reaching out to Mikasa. She isn't just some add-on badass, Eren literally tells you she's the most important character in the universe during that talk with Armin. She, just like Ymir, has to choose between a dark unwavering love and her own moral compass. She, unlike Ymir, chooses latter and not the former. Ymir's, the founder, entire motivation throughout the show is getting to the point that Mikasa is quite literally to be either the one that kills Eren or let her love be complacent in a genocide. By the end of the show, everyone that isn't a titan is incapable of killing Eren including Levi. This is when she gets the displeasure of making the show's most important decision. Her killing Eren is quickly parallel with Ymir letting Fritz get killed by that spear. These character explorations and parallels are only possible because of how stagnant and unwavering her mental state is, just like Ymir's unwavering slave mentality. The gravity of her love wouldn't feel as real without three seasons of depicting just how unwavering it is. Mikasa is who she is for so long because it's necesarry to renforce those characters with the audience that much. We NEED to see how much she loves Eren to fully understand the gravity of her having to be the one to decapitate him.
If only she had something else to develop except for her obsession but she didn't which means it's pointless to be invested in her story and arc. The Azumabito subplot went nowhere just like her ackerman ethnicity and powers exploration, she didn't have chemistry with levi, armin, jean, sasha, annie and even eren. Why are we supposed to care? If she wasn't meant to let eren go, she shouldn't have had so much screentime
I was hoping you would say mikasa because her character was so bland and just there to empowerment and badass titan kills,its like after season 1 she was just there oversimping on eren at any breathing moment
Im glad someone finally speaks out about mikasa ... i dont like her very much. Yes the table scene with Eren was a Spiel to appear as the antagonist but he wasnt lying either. Mikasa is a slave to her feelings towards Eren and has little to no personality on her own. I get that shes a cool and strong female and thats liked by alot of girls these days ...BUT Hange has much more personality and is cool and strong as well. I favor her over mikasa
You can say all you want but I feel there is a lot of misconceptions about Mikasa’s character. She is not only a strong soldier in the Survey Corps. But a strong woman that is motivated by the people she loves. She has stick to that motivation consistently and did everything in her power to make sure her goals stay alive until she has to face the unfortunate reality that Mikasa is gonna have to betray her goals and motivation for the greater good. Her only regret I honestly believe is her not telling Eren her true feelings in the final season of Attack on Titan when she is so fixated on her role as his protector (as she promised his mother Carla asked her in Season 1).
In some way that's kinda the point, Eren even says because of her Ackermann blood shes like a slave that just follows orders for the person she needs to protect. Ever since he saved her, she's followed, listened, and protected him through everything without question. Only when it's something so horrible, is she able to question her loyalty. But yes she could have had more personality and charm
And really, well, on the fundamental level, that may be true, tho that’s only a setup for her growth/character arc, again, *on that front,* that basically all occurs throughout the very last, & all consecutively following one another, of the story’s arcs, ending with the ultimate final resolution of the story that she enacts (by sliding Eren’s head off); btw, she was And before that could ever happen, so as to prevent her from being ‘’stale’’, like how you’re denoting her, & give her character some additional depth & quality all throughout the story, & ultimately so as to strengthen that overall, superficial (but in no way aesthetic or shallow, by that term in its normal sense) layer to her character[‘s] development… I think that she has a lot of these other layers, like, & as in, those (relatively) little/smaller details to her -personality- *fundamental being/identity,* themselves growing during the story *up to/until that point,* that got their little moments, like appetizers, *preparations for* or just small embellishers/complementers/additions that specifically improve their final brethren : The final lesson of how to be able to let go of those you truly love specifically as/for who they are as such (e.g. Having to choose Erwin over Armin, is really a lot like how she had to be able to *cut* Eren - ‘’out of her life/future’’ - for good once given the proper chance)
yes, but that was a bluff, even when he commented zeke about this, he said that theres no confirmation of that statement, that is simply because she likes him enough to protect him.
i totally agree with this like somehow Pieck has more of a character than Mikasa (no hate against Pieck, i wish she got more screentime but for a character that got introduced at the end she still is decent)
I could be wrong, but I think Mikasa doesn't develop as a character because she is in survival mode. Her two best friends are a suicidal bastard and a weak genius, and the three are caught up in the most dangerous situations. So she probably doesn't dedicate time to develop her own personality. I think she will develop after the series is over and her obstacles are removed.
mikasa's character conclusion allows us to see love in a nuanced way just because you love someone, doesn't mean you have to follow everything they do, but just because the person you love has changed doesn't mean that you don't deserve to mourn the person they used to be. mikasa CHOOSES to oppose eren and fights for what she believes in, but that doesn't mean that she should hate him now. i dont know why people want mikasa's love for eren to be shown in negative light so bad, her love for him shows how love can be something poetically beautiful and how it can also lead to self sabotage or vulnerability. the moment mikasa wraps the scarf around herself before killing eren it's symbolic of where love should lie in our lives. rather than something that holds us back from being who we are, it should be something that helps us find who we are, mikasa's pride, her inner and outer strength and her deep belief that, in her own words "life is a miracle" are what make her character, and it's a shame that people trivialize and belittle her character arc just because they trivialize themes of love in general. anyways i could talk about her for hours, and she's definitely the most well written female character in the show and i can explain in detail why and what makes her so incredible.
While I have nothing to say about Mikasa here. The way you showed her relationship and bond with Eren just convinced me of one irony about Star Wars. In Star Wars, there are many Sith characters. But a few of them lived up to the Sith ideology like Darth Sidious. The irony here is that Eren Yeager himself here is the most Sith character and also the greatest enbodiment of the Sith ideology I ever seen to the point that surpassing many of the Sith characters in Star Wars as well.
honestly I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that, it’s always just Eren this Eren that Eren Eren Eren with her doesn’t she ever talk about anyone else or paradise or Eldia, does she even care about anyone or anything els other then just Eren, when Eren asked her “why are you so obsessed with protecting me?” and “what am I to you?” we can all agree it was a question worth asking but what’s also worth asking is “what are you without me?”
from what I know Manga Mikasa is more social & not as one dimensional as Anime Mikasa but I do not know for sure. Like Manga Mikasa barely interacts with anyone who is not Eren.
That's crazy how I got recommended this. Very well made, I do agree on some level with you on the treatment of Mikasa but the manga definitely did her better in the character development department. not by much but a bit. I know people will say your wrong and even tho i dont think she is the WORST i do understand your viewpoint. anyway, from one AOT fan to another, good job man.
When watching the Attack on titan movie, I'll say the most thing I've heard is: Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren..... I mean,cut that off it's been annoying me for so long when Mikasa only says Eren! I understand that most fans really like Mikasa but always she's overprotective and violence, doesn't care anything but only want to protect Eren instead of fighting for humanity. and sometimes will kill anyone if they dare to touch, harm, or even love Eren So I would like to thank you about this video
2:01 no son just no😂 the best protag in anime is shirou emiya for 1 he has 0 plot armor & ik reading is lot for people nowadays so my type-moon essay playlist has all the proof we need. My anime essay playlist also shows why while not bad aot does not have amazingly written characters. Especially its mediocre story like the ass pull of time travel l, when the original scenes in s1 & the manga don’t parallel the new scenes. Like the facial expressions for example, it was just a poor attempt to make the story seem as grand & cosmic as possible. Which it failed
Yeah, I loved her for her skill and all, but she seemed like just another girl they make to be the love interest of the main character and nothing more, I felt like they could’ve given her a better kind of role than what she got, maybe she would’ve even been more badass if she had been given something else as her character arc
I personally feel like the worst character in AOT was Historia. I understand a little bit more about what her role is in the series, but overall I feel like she was just set up to be one giant red herring. They kept dangling the idea in the last season that she was going to have a more important role, the two most obvious being that she would be eaten or that she herself would become a titan. Yeah, I know her family being royalty was integral for the plot, but I just feel like she has a character could’ve had a more interesting arc.
Listen i love Historia and i can understand your opinion but Historia still plays an important role and her relationship with Ymir is something to consider as well and with Frieda and her mother. However i do understand your opinion and i agree that she should have appeared more during season 4 . I felt like we were robbed of more Historia
@@bushraakther771 Yeah don't get me wrong, I think she is definitely an important character. I'm just shocked that she didn't have a more crucial role in the final season.
mmmm nahhh g, Mikasa is chill. Ymirs on the other hand, nuh uh. She was extremely unpredictable and generally came off feeling contradictory. Felt like she had a lot of unneeded confusion regarding her true nature and intentions. I've rewatched AOT a few times and I still feel dissatisfied with how her arc ended.
I know, right : *SHE NEEDED TO STAY IN PARADIS, SHE SHOULD’VE MARRIED OUR BEAUTIFUL LITTLE HISTORIA, SHE DIDN’T KNOW THAT MARLEY WOULD ACTUALLY GO AFTER PARADIS OR LET ALONE HURT HISTORIA IF SHE EITHER STAYED AND LET BERTOLD & REINER GO BACK BY THEMSELVES OR BROUGHT HISTORIA ALONG WITH HER AND THEM TO MARLEY, BOOHOOHOOOOOOO, GOD FUCKING DAMN IT, THAT’S SO SAAAAAAAAAAD !!!!!* 😭😭😭😭👩❤💋👩❤💙🖤💛💜💖💞💚🧡💓💘💔
Worse character for me, in someways, is Armin. Specifically because season 4, his character has a weird...un-develeopment? Season 1-3 Armin is fully on board the "Abandon your humanity to succeed" train and making ruthless decisions to survive and win. Than Season 4, he's suddenly acting like he wants to become a pacifist and that their enemies can be reasoned with, despite everything they learned saying the opposite. I honestly don't get why he and others thought peace would be an option with Marley.
You are forgetting that most of seasons 1-3 are them fighting an enemy that most think as mindless killing machines and in season 3 he tries to make peace talks with berthoult (idk how to spell) I think he was fine with sacrificing people that had signed up for war but not mass murder of innocents
Yeah, no. I'm sorry, I am, but I am SICK of this argument always coming up. She's not bland, she's not wooden, she's SIMPLE. My god, I don't get why this is so hard for people to get. Some people don't want or need a lot in life to be happy and content. In the AoT world, that is probably a good way to stay sane, find the thing that helps give you a reason to continue on. And of course its going to be Eren to Mikasa! I don't understand this HATRED for her simply being loyal to Eren, one of the last two people in her life after losing EVERYONE. I hate to break this to you people, but wanting to protect and NOT kill someone you love, regardless of what they've done, is perfectly NORMAL. People like you, that make these rants about a her "lack of development" are literally looking for any and all reasons to hate her character because you can't seem to aceppt that "simple" doesn't mean "bad" characters.
She's SIMPLY BORING. Zero development. If anything, she regressed. She was standing on businesses in the 1st three seasons. Now all she says is "Ereh" and "My ScArF. " Armin literally said he should've died and not Erwin, but instead of caring about her childhood friend's mental state during a crucial situation, all she was focused on was "ScArF." She was cold and uncaring towards Louise but compassionate and buddy-buddy to Annie of all ppl. She didn't even move on from Eren after killing him.
I'll be honest, for a moment I was really, really worried you were going to say Levi, which would make the video hard to watch for me, because like almost everyone who watches AoT, I'm a huge fan of his, for obvious reasons. The guy is just a super cool dude who beats everyone, it's not hard to like him, it's not at all. But I was worried because, even though I'm a huge fan of his, I can understand people who would say that he suffers from what I call the "Jack Sparrow Syndrome", which I use as a description for characters who don't really have any real visible development. and who, even in their first scene, are perfect and who can handle any situation without particular difficulty in most cases. Because this is Jack Sparrow, he appears in the first movie and he's a perfect already established character who's already perfect, as much as a drunken pirate can be perfect, but you know what I mean, there's no real development and for 3 sequels they just can't find a way to develop him in any way, this character is practically dead as a character. Unfortunately, the same can be said about Levi, in my opinion, I would not agree with 100 projects and would rather argue, but I can see how some people would say this as an argument, because for example - tell me what is the difference between Levi in season 1 and Levi in season 4, I'll tell you, nothing, he's the same. It can be argued that in season 3 he learned to be more understanding of the others and so on, but he had this quality from before, so I don't think that counts, and even if it counted, it's not much. Even so, I still think he's the best character in AoT, not the best written, oh no, but just,, this guy has some inexplicable charisma that just puts him above the rest for me, besides, he has the most badass scenes out of everyone, and he's way more badass than mikasa. But anyway, I digress a lot. Now on the topic. I, like most people, love AoT with all my heart, for obvious reasons, and I like everything about it, but that doesn't mean I can't give an objective opinion. With that in mind, yes, I agree with everything you said about Mikasa. I don't know she's really a very strange character, leave that she has almost no development in the whole series and almost nothing is known about her as far as things that interest her as a character other than that she more or less lives for Eren, leave that, but her behavior too she is very strange, sometimes she acts like a robot and not so much like a person, she is very strange and not in a good way. I agree with what you said and I even dare to add that even in the last season, even though her character development is supposedly starting, she still does almost nothing, she literally just stands there and looks shocked most of the time, which is actually what many characters do in last season mainly because of Eren, she occasionally fights and kills people and asks herself philosophical questions about her relationship with Eren , and of course the word Eren, is most of her dialogue. I still like her in general, because let's not lie, there's a lot to like about her, but she's not a good example of a well-developed character unlike her stepbrother and lover.
@@D14MBK You're a prime reason why Mikasa stans are a laughing stock. You just say other popular characters are the worst, just because you can't accept anyone pointing out the major flaws of her character. There's a reason why the fandom has downgraded her. She has done nothing of relevance for a main character. It would have been forgiveable if she was a side character, but no, she's a main character. Levi had done way more in one season than Mikasa has ever done in the entire series. Name me one thing Mikasa has done that's been more relevant than what Levi has done Mikasa had some good moments in Season 1 but as of now, she is a wrecked lapdog. Don't deny it.
So character that is well written but I just don't like Zeke Yeager, his whole Philosophy Is extremely flawed and He Just seemed to have a defeatist attitude on the world Plus He is the most sadistic out of The Titan shifters and showed no remorse for his actions such as Brutally having Miche torn apart by Titans, And how he took pleasure in murdering Hundreds of scouts. honestly Enjoyed watching Levi beat the crap out of him and he's the only Titan shifter I don't sympathize with too much, Like with Reiner, Annie and Bertholdt you Could see that they didn't enjoy what they were doing and they were Just doing what they had to And Obviously regretted it in Reiner and Annies case but Zeke never Apologized at all and Was Routing against his own people practically .
Yea no I’m gonna have to disagree. I personally view her as being one dimensional for most of the series as intentional. One of the main themes of the story is that people are always a slave to something and it’s when we let go of the thing that’s keeping us slaves, that we are truly free. We are shown that Mikasa is a slave to Eren through her own volition, but it never ends well for her. It’s only when she finally lets go of him that she finally is free herself. I will concede however that Isayama could have done better conveying this, but I’m not going to go as far as to say she’s a bad character.
You Mikasa haters are so annoying. Subtlety is a thing, you know? Not everything has to be about fireworks and explosions. You'll get it when you grow up.
finally someone had the balls to say it. I'm surprised you didn't mention her being a literal princess with a family symbol carved into her hand being thrown in last second
wit studio's fault, In the manga her hand was covered
That’s the studios fault man. Wit fucked up her whole character
@@joebidenjr5902she’s still a bad character in the manga IMO
This is such a stupid take that I can’t stop laughing and let me tell you why.
You’re annoyed that the Princess plot came out of nowhere in a story where in the first three seasons, the characters had never stepped outside their island and outsiders, minus the Worrior candidates and Marlayan soldiers, had never come in since the walls were made. AOT is a story where you find things out with the characters. I mean, a great percentage of the viewers didn’t even know that people were outside until the last three episodes of season 3 with those books in the basement.
Since you hate it so much, tell me who and how you wanted the reveal to have been made? I mean, Nobody in the island knew what it meant.
Just say you don’t like the character and stop trying to give a contrived reason. Also, not all characters need to have a Jean and Reiner level of character development for them to be good or not. Mikasa’s character arc was going from someone who would protect Eren from any and everything to being willing to kill him for the sake of others which is why that whole lie about the Ackerman bloodline and servitude was so believable.
She started as a physically strong character so her growth was more emotional.
Honestly a massive L take
This is such a stupid take that I can’t stop laughing and let me tell you why.
You’re annoyed that the Princess plot came out of nowhere in a story where in the first three seasons, the characters had never stepped outside their island and outsiders, minus the Worrior candidates and Marlayan soldiers, had never come in since the walls were made. AOT is a story where you find things out with the characters. I mean, a great percentage of the viewers didn’t even know that people were outside until the last three episodes of season 3 with those books in the basement.
Since you hate it so much, tell me who and how you wanted the reveal to have been made? I mean, Nobody in the island knew what it meant.
Just say you don’t like the character and stop trying to give a contrived reason. Also, not all characters need to have a Jean and Reiner level of character development for them to be good or not. Mikasa’s character arc was going from someone who would protect Eren from any and everything to being willing to kill him for the sake of others which is why that whole lie about the Ackerman bloodline and servitude was so believable.
She started as a physically strong character so her growth was more emotional.
Honestly a massive L take
When Eren said she's just a dumb slave it did not surprise me at all because she is, in fact, just a slave to the main character. Now of course this was revealed to be one of Eren's little lies but... It's the truth 🤣
There was a seen in season 4 where Eren told Mikasa that her undying loyalty was an effect of her being of Akerman decent, if this was true it could have possibly saved her character entirely.
Mikasa and Levi are the same breed of characters. One was saved at childhood, one was not. The Ackerman who found someone to be loyal to, became a lapdog, someone their blood line was destined to do. The one without a master became his own man, and forged his own path and friendships. It’s a clear contrast and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that there are only two Ackerman in the survey corps to play this off.
I have no clue how I would write Mikasa differently while Levi already dove so much into their bloodline. But hey they don’t pay me the big bucks :)
I agree, I thought I was the only one who noticed she had no character
Mikasa is the worst. Even by the end, she takes Eren a war criminals head to bury it as a shrine for all his friends and her family to see instead of handing it over to the Marlayans as proof they are actually telling the truth.
@TheDon266 That @diamond7099 fanboy I spoke to even thinks that Levi is far worse written than Mikasa. At least Levi thinks things logically ( excluding the thunderspear) and knows what side his bread is buttered. He knows a war criminal when he sees one and would never forgive their actions. His emotions towards Zeke are way, way more justified than Mikasa's towards Eren.
😂 honestly in the story I can't even tell if she is a static character nor an actual relevant main character in the story, Mikasa feels more like a flat character that was just given a lot of screentime because the author wants to represent Japan.
I honestly don’t think Mikasa is a bad character but I have to admit that compared to other characters her development left me a little disappointed.
Yknow I don’t necessarily disagree with you but at the same time, I don’t think she’s really a bad character. She’s simple and one note yeah, most of the time just a stoic badass, but I think that was done very intentionally. This shows themes of freedom and slavery play into this I think, since Eren freed her when they were kids, but all the while after that she’s been a slave to Eren for loving him too much. It’s like showing how strong bonds can restrict our freedom, which leads into Eren using this to convince her that the Ackerman blood was the reason she’s so subservient to him. Even despite this, it’s still ok to have a stoic badass take center stage just for animation prowess so I don’t think she’s bad just not that deep.
she's narratively irrelevant 95 % of her screentime
You know.... valid. As a Mikasa fan, I kind of 100% agree with you. I feel like in session 1, she was kind of the character that pushed the "The world is cruel and unforgiving... Deal with it and keep fighting" message. And it hit really well, especially when Eren needed to pull himself together to fight Annie
She genuinely felt more interesting because she told off Eren and wasn't afraid to give him her brutally honest opinion while still being caring. And I feel like past session 1, she kind of just... stopped having that energy. It was almost a little weird how by session 4, she was taking all the verbal abuse from Eren that she did, and never really fought back.
I like were she started as a character, but it just feels like it never really went anywhere meaningful.
What also didn't make sense was the excuse for "mikasa's choice", that ymir LOVED that heartless, rapist bastard fritz
"You have been peeking in my mind all this time", really? Did she also peek in her mind when santa claus titan ate eren or when armin got burned to a crisp, because we're supposed to believe that ymir was messing with mikasa's head while she was having headaches
I mean Eren called her off on what she was doing, Mikasa always following Eren.
So I LOVE Mikasa and would just like to defend my girl a bit. I feel like you're making a bad assumption that a good character needs character development. Mikasa is a good character BECAUSE she's stuck in this limbo of love and/or stockholm syndrome. Her never really growing out of that isn't inherently bad; in fact it's very human. Not to mention the show does a brillant job of exploring her stagnant mental state. You're also forgetting that she is quite literally the most important character to in AoT. She was one that made the choice that ended the titan era. Mikasa's love for eren is directly paralleled with Ymir's love for King Fritz and this is one of the shows most fundamental dynamics. "To you, 2000 years from now" is directed to Mikasa. It's Ymir reaching out to Mikasa. She isn't just some add-on badass, Eren literally tells you she's the most important character in the universe during that talk with Armin. She, just like Ymir, has to choose between a dark unwavering love and her own moral compass. She, unlike Ymir, chooses latter and not the former. Ymir's, the founder, entire motivation throughout the show is getting to the point that Mikasa is quite literally to be either the one that kills Eren or let her love be complacent in a genocide. By the end of the show, everyone that isn't a titan is incapable of killing Eren including Levi. This is when she gets the displeasure of making the show's most important decision. Her killing Eren is quickly parallel with Ymir letting Fritz get killed by that spear. These character explorations and parallels are only possible because of how stagnant and unwavering her mental state is, just like Ymir's unwavering slave mentality. The gravity of her love wouldn't feel as real without three seasons of depicting just how unwavering it is. Mikasa is who she is for so long because it's necesarry to renforce those characters with the audience that much. We NEED to see how much she loves Eren to fully understand the gravity of her having to be the one to decapitate him.
If only she had something else to develop except for her obsession but she didn't which means it's pointless to be invested in her story and arc. The Azumabito subplot went nowhere just like her ackerman ethnicity and powers exploration, she didn't have chemistry with levi, armin, jean, sasha, annie and even eren. Why are we supposed to care? If she wasn't meant to let eren go, she shouldn't have had so much screentime
I was hoping you would say mikasa because her character was so bland and just there to empowerment and badass titan kills,its like after season 1 she was just there oversimping on eren at any breathing moment
Im glad someone finally speaks out about mikasa ... i dont like her very much.
Yes the table scene with Eren was a Spiel to appear as the antagonist but he wasnt lying either.
Mikasa is a slave to her feelings towards Eren and has little to no personality on her own.
I get that shes a cool and strong female and thats liked by alot of girls these days ...BUT Hange has much more personality and is cool and strong as well. I favor her over mikasa
You can't be an antagonist when ur the protagonist of the story
You can say all you want but I feel there is a lot of misconceptions about Mikasa’s character. She is not only a strong soldier in the Survey Corps. But a strong woman that is motivated by the people she loves. She has stick to that motivation consistently and did everything in her power to make sure her goals stay alive until she has to face the unfortunate reality that Mikasa is gonna have to betray her goals and motivation for the greater good. Her only regret I honestly believe is her not telling Eren her true feelings in the final season of Attack on Titan when she is so fixated on her role as his protector (as she promised his mother Carla asked her in Season 1).
In some way that's kinda the point, Eren even says because of her Ackermann blood shes like a slave that just follows orders for the person she needs to protect. Ever since he saved her, she's followed, listened, and protected him through everything without question. Only when it's something so horrible, is she able to question her loyalty. But yes she could have had more personality and charm
And really, well, on the fundamental level, that may be true, tho that’s only a setup for her growth/character arc, again, *on that front,* that basically all occurs throughout the very last, & all consecutively following one another, of the story’s arcs, ending with the ultimate final resolution of the story that she enacts (by sliding Eren’s head off); btw, she was
And before that could ever happen, so as to prevent her from being ‘’stale’’, like how you’re denoting her, & give her character some additional depth & quality all throughout the story, & ultimately so as to strengthen that overall, superficial (but in no way aesthetic or shallow, by that term in its normal sense) layer to her character[‘s] development… I think that she has a lot of these other layers, like, & as in, those (relatively) little/smaller details to her -personality- *fundamental being/identity,* themselves growing during the story *up to/until that point,* that got their little moments, like appetizers, *preparations for* or just small embellishers/complementers/additions that specifically improve their final brethren : The final lesson of how to be able to let go of those you truly love specifically as/for who they are as such (e.g. Having to choose Erwin over Armin, is really a lot like how she had to be able to *cut* Eren - ‘’out of her life/future’’ - for good once given the proper chance)
yes, but that was a bluff, even when he commented zeke about this, he said that theres no confirmation of that statement, that is simply because she likes him enough to protect him.
It's so sad how the anime makes Mikasa so much flatter than the manga. At least her character is going somewhere with the ending.
mikasa is worst
i totally agree with this like somehow Pieck has more of a character than Mikasa (no hate against Pieck, i wish she got more screentime but for a character that got introduced at the end she still is decent)
Mikasa is actually an incredibly deep emotional character. Watch her emotional outbreaks
I could be wrong, but I think Mikasa doesn't develop as a character because she is in survival mode. Her two best friends are a suicidal bastard and a weak genius, and the three are caught up in the most dangerous situations. So she probably doesn't dedicate time to develop her own personality.
I think she will develop after the series is over and her obstacles are removed.
Other characters were in survival mode and still developed. Mikasa has zero development
mikasa's character conclusion allows us to see love in a nuanced way
just because you love someone, doesn't mean you have to follow everything they do, but just because the person you love has changed doesn't mean that you don't deserve to mourn the person they used to be.
mikasa CHOOSES to oppose eren and fights for what she believes in, but that doesn't mean that she should hate him now.
i dont know why people want mikasa's love for eren to be shown in negative light so bad, her love for him shows how love can be something poetically beautiful and how it can also lead to self sabotage or vulnerability.
the moment mikasa wraps the scarf around herself before killing eren it's symbolic of where love should lie in our lives.
rather than something that holds us back from being who we are, it should be something that helps us find who we are, mikasa's pride, her inner and outer strength and her deep belief that, in her own words "life is a miracle" are what make her character, and it's a shame that people trivialize and belittle her character arc just because they trivialize themes of love in general.
anyways i could talk about her for hours, and she's definitely the most well written female character in the show and i can explain in detail why and what makes her so incredible.
While I have nothing to say about Mikasa here. The way you showed her relationship and bond with Eren just convinced me of one irony about Star Wars. In Star Wars, there are many Sith characters. But a few of them lived up to the Sith ideology like Darth Sidious. The irony here is that Eren Yeager himself here is the most Sith character and also the greatest enbodiment of the Sith ideology I ever seen to the point that surpassing many of the Sith characters in Star Wars as well.
Hating Mikasa's character isn't a hot take tho
honestly I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that, it’s always just Eren this Eren that Eren Eren Eren with her doesn’t she ever talk about anyone else or paradise or Eldia, does she even care about anyone or anything els other then just Eren, when Eren asked her “why are you so obsessed with protecting me?” and “what am I to you?” we can all agree it was a question worth asking but what’s also worth asking is “what are you without me?”
video description made me laugh ngl LMAOOO, great video over all!
from what I know Manga Mikasa is more social & not as one dimensional as Anime Mikasa but I do not know for sure. Like Manga Mikasa barely interacts with anyone who is not Eren.
Thats 100% true. She is far more interesting in the manga and her development is more clear
Eren>>>>>>>>>>Mikasa
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That's crazy how I got recommended this. Very well made, I do agree on some level with you on the treatment of Mikasa but the manga definitely did her better in the character development department. not by much but a bit. I know people will say your wrong and even tho i dont think she is the WORST i do understand your viewpoint. anyway, from one AOT fan to another, good job man.
When watching the Attack on titan movie, I'll say the most thing I've heard is: Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren Eren..... I mean,cut that off it's been annoying me for so long when Mikasa only says Eren! I understand that most fans really like Mikasa but always she's overprotective and violence, doesn't care anything but only want to protect Eren instead of fighting for humanity. and sometimes will kill anyone if they dare to touch, harm, or even love Eren
So I would like to thank you about this video
“Breadcrumb character”?! Oh yeah ya execution is inevitable now.
2:01 no son just no😂 the best protag in anime is shirou emiya for 1 he has 0 plot armor & ik reading is lot for people nowadays so my type-moon essay playlist has all the proof we need. My anime essay playlist also shows why while not bad aot does not have amazingly written characters. Especially its mediocre story like the ass pull of time travel l, when the original scenes in s1 & the manga don’t parallel the new scenes. Like the facial expressions for example, it was just a poor attempt to make the story seem as grand & cosmic as possible. Which it failed
Thank u!! Someone agree, Mikase is the worst ever. She so freaking boring! I can’t stand her. 😆
Levi>>>>>Mikasa
That scarf saw things,
Too many things,but i may ask,did She ever washed it ?
Yeah, I loved her for her skill and all, but she seemed like just another girl they make to be the love interest of the main character and nothing more, I felt like they could’ve given her a better kind of role than what she got, maybe she would’ve even been more badass if she had been given something else as her character arc
I personally feel like the worst character in AOT was Historia. I understand a little bit more about what her role is in the series, but overall I feel like she was just set up to be one giant red herring. They kept dangling the idea in the last season that she was going to have a more important role, the two most obvious being that she would be eaten or that she herself would become a titan. Yeah, I know her family being royalty was integral for the plot, but I just feel like she has a character could’ve had a more interesting arc.
Listen i love Historia and i can understand your opinion but Historia still plays an important role and her relationship with Ymir is something to consider as well and with Frieda and her mother. However i do understand your opinion and i agree that she should have appeared more during season 4 . I felt like we were robbed of more Historia
@@bushraakther771 Yeah don't get me wrong, I think she is definitely an important character. I'm just shocked that she didn't have a more crucial role in the final season.
@@iamvoicelessmusic honestly same
Eren is the past, Mikasa the present and Armin the future. Those are their timelines.
Why is floch literally just starscream in aot??
Dumpest Aot video so far
mmmm nahhh g, Mikasa is chill.
Ymirs on the other hand, nuh uh. She was extremely unpredictable and generally came off feeling contradictory. Felt like she had a lot of unneeded confusion regarding her true nature and intentions. I've rewatched AOT a few times and I still feel dissatisfied with how her arc ended.
Oh my god i completely forgot about her
I know, right : *SHE NEEDED TO STAY IN PARADIS, SHE SHOULD’VE MARRIED OUR BEAUTIFUL LITTLE HISTORIA, SHE DIDN’T KNOW THAT MARLEY WOULD ACTUALLY GO AFTER PARADIS OR LET ALONE HURT HISTORIA IF SHE EITHER STAYED AND LET BERTOLD & REINER GO BACK BY THEMSELVES OR BROUGHT HISTORIA ALONG WITH HER AND THEM TO MARLEY, BOOHOOHOOOOOOO, GOD FUCKING DAMN IT, THAT’S SO SAAAAAAAAAAD !!!!!* 😭😭😭😭👩❤💋👩❤💙🖤💛💜💖💞💚🧡💓💘💔
Tip look at previous seasonal of mikasa and then look at look newer seasons maybe you can see the difference
Worse character for me, in someways, is Armin. Specifically because season 4, his character has a weird...un-develeopment? Season 1-3 Armin is fully on board the "Abandon your humanity to succeed" train and making ruthless decisions to survive and win. Than Season 4, he's suddenly acting like he wants to become a pacifist and that their enemies can be reasoned with, despite everything they learned saying the opposite. I honestly don't get why he and others thought peace would be an option with Marley.
I agree
You are forgetting that most of seasons 1-3 are them fighting an enemy that most think as mindless killing machines and in season 3 he tries to make peace talks with berthoult (idk how to spell) I think he was fine with sacrificing people that had signed up for war but not mass murder of innocents
Another good written character that i still dislike is Gabi, why did she had to shoot my favourite character...
As a manga fan, just wait
Yeah, no. I'm sorry, I am, but I am SICK of this argument always coming up. She's not bland, she's not wooden, she's SIMPLE. My god, I don't get why this is so hard for people to get. Some people don't want or need a lot in life to be happy and content. In the AoT world, that is probably a good way to stay sane, find the thing that helps give you a reason to continue on. And of course its going to be Eren to Mikasa! I don't understand this HATRED for her simply being loyal to Eren, one of the last two people in her life after losing EVERYONE. I hate to break this to you people, but wanting to protect and NOT kill someone you love, regardless of what they've done, is perfectly NORMAL. People like you, that make these rants about a her "lack of development" are literally looking for any and all reasons to hate her character because you can't seem to aceppt that "simple" doesn't mean "bad" characters.
She's SIMPLY BORING. Zero development. If anything, she regressed. She was standing on businesses in the 1st three seasons. Now all she says is "Ereh" and "My ScArF. " Armin literally said he should've died and not Erwin, but instead of caring about her childhood friend's mental state during a crucial situation, all she was focused on was "ScArF."
She was cold and uncaring towards Louise but compassionate and buddy-buddy to Annie of all ppl.
She didn't even move on from Eren after killing him.
I'll be honest, for a moment I was really, really worried you were going to say Levi, which would make the video hard to watch for me, because like almost everyone who watches AoT, I'm a huge fan of his, for obvious reasons. The guy is just a super cool dude who beats everyone, it's not hard to like him, it's not at all. But I was worried because, even though I'm a huge fan of his, I can understand people who would say that he suffers from what I call the "Jack Sparrow Syndrome", which I use as a description for characters who don't really have any real visible development. and who, even in their first scene, are perfect and who can handle any situation without particular difficulty in most cases. Because this is Jack Sparrow, he appears in the first movie and he's a perfect already established character who's already perfect, as much as a drunken pirate can be perfect, but you know what I mean, there's no real development and for 3 sequels they just can't find a way to develop him in any way, this character is practically dead as a character. Unfortunately, the same can be said about Levi, in my opinion, I would not agree with 100 projects and would rather argue, but I can see how some people would say this as an argument, because for example - tell me what is the difference between Levi in season 1 and Levi in season 4, I'll tell you, nothing, he's the same. It can be argued that in season 3 he learned to be more understanding of the others and so on, but he had this quality from before, so I don't think that counts, and even if it counted, it's not much. Even so, I still think he's the best character in AoT, not the best written, oh no, but just,, this guy has some inexplicable charisma that just puts him above the rest for me, besides, he has the most badass scenes out of everyone, and he's way more badass than mikasa.
But anyway, I digress a lot. Now on the topic. I, like most people, love AoT with all my heart, for obvious reasons, and I like everything about it, but that doesn't mean I can't give an objective opinion. With that in mind, yes, I agree with everything you said about Mikasa. I don't know she's really a very strange character, leave that she has almost no development in the whole series and almost nothing is known about her as far as things that interest her as a character other than that she more or less lives for Eren, leave that, but her behavior too she is very strange, sometimes she acts like a robot and not so much like a person, she is very strange and not in a good way. I agree with what you said and I even dare to add that even in the last season, even though her character development is supposedly starting, she still does almost nothing, she literally just stands there and looks shocked most of the time, which is actually what many characters do in last season mainly because of Eren, she occasionally fights and kills people and asks herself philosophical questions about her relationship with Eren , and of course the word Eren, is most of her dialogue. I still like her in general, because let's not lie, there's a lot to like about her, but she's not a good example of a well-developed character unlike her stepbrother and lover.
@@D14MBK You're a prime reason why Mikasa stans are a laughing stock. You just say other popular characters are the worst, just because you can't accept anyone pointing out the major flaws of her character. There's a reason why the fandom has downgraded her. She has done nothing of relevance for a main character. It would have been forgiveable if she was a side character, but no, she's a main character. Levi had done way more in one season than Mikasa has ever done in the entire series. Name me one thing Mikasa has done that's been more relevant than what Levi has done Mikasa had some good moments in Season 1 but as of now, she is a wrecked lapdog. Don't deny it.
@diamond7099 lmao funny how levi fans are all paranoids and thinks that ppl that hate levi are mikasa fans or either eren fans
@@D14MBKlmao funny how levi fans are all paranoids and thinks that ppl that hate levi are mikasa fans or either eren fans
nah, people hate levi and mikasa are yeagerist@@5uo689
@@szeweweh no
please get to the point quicker
Thank god someone said it
So character that is well written but I just don't like
Zeke Yeager, his whole Philosophy Is extremely flawed and He Just seemed to have a defeatist attitude on the world Plus He is the most sadistic out of The Titan shifters and showed no remorse for his actions such as Brutally having Miche torn apart by Titans, And how he took pleasure in murdering Hundreds of scouts. honestly Enjoyed watching Levi beat the crap out of him and he's the only Titan shifter I don't sympathize with too much, Like with Reiner, Annie and Bertholdt you Could see that they didn't enjoy what they were doing and they were Just doing what they had to And Obviously regretted it in Reiner and Annies case but Zeke never Apologized at all and Was Routing against his own people practically .
Honesty, I hate Levi. He's well written but i just find his entire thing of being the "Strongest Solider" Annoying af
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While you do have some valid points I’m still gonna have to say…… EXECUTE ORDER, 66
Yea no I’m gonna have to disagree.
I personally view her as being one dimensional for most of the series as intentional.
One of the main themes of the story is that people are always a slave to something and it’s when we let go of the thing that’s keeping us slaves, that we are truly free.
We are shown that Mikasa is a slave to Eren through her own volition, but it never ends well for her. It’s only when she finally lets go of him that she finally is free herself.
I will concede however that Isayama could have done better conveying this, but I’m not going to go as far as to say she’s a bad character.
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You Mikasa haters are so annoying. Subtlety is a thing, you know? Not everything has to be about fireworks and explosions. You'll get it when you grow up.
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i say Eren and Historia are the main Character's Both in theme and as Character's
Floch >>>>>>>> Gabi
well, get ready to apologize once the final part drops and explains why Mikasa is the way she is.
(I’ve finished the manga and stand by my statement)
@@YunkrousI have an idea on what you can review it is related to anime.
Erens the worst character
yeah but she’s hot
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I hate flocks hair