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@@EVRIEONE1yeah I do think the birds were important symbolism throughout. I love the thought of them being unattainable. Just the fact they could travel the world freely, while eren and them (who wanted to see the world) were confined to the walls was definitely a great parallel. It was really fun rewatching the series and noticing all the moments that birds were emphasized
@@mikasasgarden because...visuals would be: Birds -> then boom(some trajedy)...eg Berthold in titan form and the trailer for season 4 with Falco speaking/referring to a bird saying, "...it's dangerous here..." ie the battle field...etc etc
I disagree with your video. I think AoT ending is perhaps one of the worst ending in fiction. However I want you to have your own opinion. I was wondering what you think about how devisive it is. 50% think it is awful and 50% say it is good. I honestly thought that everyone would really dislike the ending. Unfortunately for me I tried to justify it but I couldn't bring myself to believe it. I fully believe Isayama changed his original planned ending and that is why there is so many untied ends. The plot is loose and the characters were all ruined. For me personally I just can't stand AoT. I will never recommend it to anyone I will never watch it again or listen to its soundtracks and it is kind of crazy I think like this because at season 3 it was my favourite show ever and I recommended it to everyone. I think this is also one of the crazy things that the super fans of AoT completely hated the ending and turned against it 100%. I feel like the more casual watchers were just meh about the ending. Also after AoT I just completely stopped watching anime. I realised the medium is extremely overrated and toxic. Any criticism you have of a series and you are just called a hater. Funnily that doesn't happen with western series much. Look at the One Piece, MHA, JJK, Demon Slayer fandoms etc. They are all childish and toxic. I think I have officially grown out of anime. Thanks for the video but it doesn't change my mind one bit about how awful the ending was. I'm glad you enjoyed it and accept your opinion.
you might already know this, but Isayama has publicly said that "Bystander" is his favorite episode, and the best episode he was lucky enough to be a part of. Although I love that episode, he seemed to be giving a clue as to the importance of it...and I think you nailed it! Thank you for helping me finally fully understand its full significance. (Btw I love the rest of your video too! You have more relevant and deep ideas in a 12 minute video than most TH-cam videos express in an hour!)
I remember loving that episode so much and then finding out it was Isayama's favorite had me so excited haha Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm glad you liked the video. Appreciate you! 🙏🤍
So the message of AOT's ending was always "abandon your dreams and die" it doesn't matter what you do you will always be a slave to endless cycles, you should just submit until it consumes you Whole the same way it consumed Eren. Yeah, of course! totally not a bad ending and a perfect conclusion to Mr freedom peak fiction because nihilistic endings are always good.
No, the message is that life is always unfair and it is part of human nature to hate and fight. But being an obsessive maniac that wants to change this hate by killing and hating even more will not lead anywhere, that it is stupid and will only hurt yourself and your loved ones. The correct way to change someone in this cycle of hate is to show how we are all the same and that it is just unfair to be treated differently, just like Kaya did with Gabi.
I agree, the ending just made sense, especially with humanity going into war again. Most of the hate for the ending came from that one armin line in the manga and from edgelord yaegerists who wanted eren to be the chad god titan to wipe out humanity. They didnt understand the character at all
Nort really man. Alot of hate also came from how rushed the ending is and how almost all the rules are forgotten with strange plot holes. I really think this ending genuinely ruins the writing and Eren's Character.
100% agree. The line in the manga was over focused on and Eren was super misunderstood. There’s a lot people missed I think. Appreciate your comment and support 🙏🏼
@@mikasasgarden He probably just means that the ending introduced a lot of important plot details which were never expanded upon nor explained further such as Ymir's relationship with MIkasa. I think it's fine if those things were left up for interpretation
OK, but how do you explain Mikasa never changing and simping for Eren until the very end? Seems a bit counter-intuitive, since she kills Eren, suggesting she has finally moved on from him, only for that to be shown to be false after the ending scene.
She let go of her unreasonable attachment, not her love. Think of the last Airbender when Aang has to unlock his last chakra by letting go of his attachment to Katara to fulfill his role as avatar, because he cannot favor one life over another since he is the symbol of balance and a bridge and whatever. This did not mean he stopped caring for her. It meant he would not be blind to the bigger picture. This is how I take Mikassas story, Erin is always the one who showed her how to fight for herself. But only in the end is she able to separate the boy who helped her at her weakest from the monster who needs to be stopped. He is both but she is no longer blind to the latter.
Do you forget about a loved one when they die? DO you throw away their belongings? Her character massively progressed in thinking beyond eren with reason to do the necessary but that doesnt have to go along with her letting go of her love at all.
@@ogstef It's like your parents to pass away, you keep on living and visit their grave to show respect and how much you loved them in life. This act doesn't mean you haven't moved on.
Kenny’s line is so important for understanding the ending “Everyone had to spend their lives drunk on something. Everyone was a slave to something… even him”
I think I’m lucky I watched attack on titan as my first anime ever, I knew nothing about it besides the colab in FORTNITE. I saw no trailers knew no spoilers, no fan theories between seasons I went in completely blind. It took me 2 weeks to finish the entire series cuz I just couldn’t put it down. And I loved every second of it. The feeling of watching something new and blind at a show of this quality was insane. I had no idea people hated the ending. Until watching this vid. This is also the only vid I’ve seen if someone explaining AOT
Honestly that's a pretty awesome way to get introduced to the show and to anime in general! Watching something blind without being aware of where the community stands definitely is a blessing. I'm honored to be your first and only explanation video! Hope you enjoyed, really happy you came across it!
I feel like being Eren is a lot of peoples fantasy. They are angry at the world and they think if they were just more powerful than everybody else combined they could live the life theyve always dreamed of. But violence can never be the answer to violence. Eren tried to solve a problem and never understood that the change had to come from within. The ending is realistic and Eren was trapped in his mind and like you said never free at all.
Imagine eating a delicious meal but the last bite is literal dog shit. You are telling me you are eating that as your favorite meal and sharing it with others knowing the last bite is dog shit.
Ik this vid is old, another point that people seem to miss, the boy walking into the tree was not chased in there by people hurting him, hunting him, hes curious and he has a little dog companion, a completely different circumstance from ymir going into the tree. also the singing when the scene is taking place translated is repeating the sentiment "children getting out of the forest". Its a bleak, nihilistic, brutal ending, but there is the chance for optimism, maybe the story we witnessed was for nothing...or it planted the seeds for a possibly better future.
@@Iamthesword995 You're just regurgitating what the echo chambers on Reddit like to say. AOT's themes are still there at the very end. Nothing is "reduced". If you think Eren never loved Mikasa, you should have paid more attention. Did you forget the scene where Eren literally says "you guys mean more to me than anything"???
@gigabit6226 Idc abt eremika bro it was never that deep and it's a love story we only saw it from eren side at the end and yeah they were reduced to friendship and stocklohm syndrome
Also, its established that the "titan power" is tied to intent. Ymirs intent was to survive in a desperate situation, so she needed destructive power. The kid was just being curious.
Well said. One of the best pieces of media to watch again and experience a completely new perspective from it. It really is a fantastic show, and I’m thankful to have had the chance to experience its greatness.
I finished this show literally ten minutes ago. This was my second anime ever. All I knew going into season 4 was that the ending was controversial. I cried my eyes out, and I hated the fact that it had to be this way in the story. But it was a good thing. You as the viewer are SUPPOSED to be heartbroken. And in the end, Eren got the ending he wanted. This story was so tragic and beautiful. The greatest show of all time.
It was stupid AF I mean what's the meaning of delaying war and distraction why don't just finish one race he already killed 80%. Also ending literally ruined, absolutely butchered Eran's character he went from gigachad to stupid emotional crybaby in one episode. Saying I am stupid,I don't know what I am doing,I don't know why I killed 80% of humanity.
Great essay, made me think (even though I already loved the ending). A side note about the "I'll kill them all!" line. Even if you disregard time loop shenanigans and take him as only meaning Titans... it's still a chilling portent. Eren was always shown as intensely hateful and violent in a way that freaked out people around him, many of whom had lost just as much as him. It was accepted by them because he was either their friend or a useful ally, and by us because he's the protagonist. It's no surprise (okay, I was surprised, but with hindsight) that his genocidal rage didn't abate just because the conflict turned out to be with the rest of humanity. It's like you said, he never grew out of that childish impulse that he could only solve problems with violence.
For real. I’m rewatching the show currently and damn, Eren’s character really hit different the second time around. In season 4, we all hate Gabi, but she essentially who Eren is in seasons 1-3, but we didn’t hate him then. He was the hero, overcoming the enemies and fighting for his friends. It isn’t until Gabi feels that same hatred towards the characters we know and love and Eren starts going off the deep end that we start to question it. But the red flags were always there. His extremism was just aimed at those who the narrative showed to be enemies, but in Eren’s mind that narrative changes to be the rest of the world.
This was a brilliant analysis. Been watching many videos analyzing the ending ever since it aired almost 3 months ago and you've brought up elements that I had not seen so far but that make perfect sense
Thank you so much! I’m really glad you liked it, this comment means a lot. My goal was to touch on things that others hadn’t already so I’m happy to hear I did 🙏🏼
This video is 10/10. You actually changed my mind about the ending with this. For me Ymir’s story felt a little out of left field and I had a hard time reconciling it but you really brought it into perspective for me. Eren didn’t know how to be free. Ymir didn’t know how to be free. The characters who make it out to the end are the ones who have the resolve to confront the things that chain them and change as people. Brilliant.
The ending does the same thing the Cellar episode did. Huge twist that can take a while to process but upon rewatching makes so much more sense. I remember when I first saw the revelation of the world beyond. I was past being shocked. I was confused. It took me a while to process what I had just learned because the show had already changed its identity several times up until that point and then we hot hit with that. It was insane. I feel the same way about the ending. It really does make sense if you watch the show as a whole. If all you have in your memory is the show since the cellar reveal then I can 100% see why you'd be disappointed. But when you remember where we started it makes more than perfect sense. Perfect show. 10 out of 10.
@@mikasasgarden Definitely. I prefer the dub and while the last episodes were taking FOREVER to be dubbed I decided to re-watch. Made all the difference in the world.
I loved the ending. So much. Many tears cried. But also, I was really disappointed with how side-lined Historia was. Her character never felt fully fleshed out after her losing Ymir and killing her father and becoming queen (even just proxy queen). By the end it was great that she was happy in motherhood, but that was ALSO forced on her just in case they needed to continue passing on titans. I really really wanted just a little something to wrap up her character. Annie felt a little jipped too. I mean, think of how much Reiner was developed. Albeit Annie was in crystal for years, but also something felt missing. I LOVED Annie. Would have loved to see more with her, too
She wasn't forced into motherhood, she chose it so that she could avoid inheriting the beast titan by delaying it long enough that Eren could go through with the rumbling thus making it no longer necessary to inherit it.
Can't believe it's over what a journey it was. It will always be close to my heart and remain my favorite story. Believe me or not i was before watching it i used to be kind of a hater and I never would've guessed it would be the best watch experience i had watching a show. this was a amazing analysis
While I did enjoy hearing your analysis and do, in fact, agree that Eren was never actually free, there is still something else to consider. One of the biggest issues is that the ending makes the entire story deterministic. Predeterminism would actually be the most accurate term to describe the laws of aot, based on how it ended. I mean, Eren didn't just see visions of the future; he saw MEMORIES of the future, and that makes the future even more set in stone than just visions or premonitions. Plus, "he" was also able to change or influence events in the past. I put he in quotes there because Eren didn't technically change those events. Because "Eren" changed the past, those subsequent past events are what lead him to get to the point where "he" altered those events (thus making it predetermined). You also did bring up scenes that actually showed us that Eren had no say in the matter; he described times where he wanted to change the future memory he had seen, but he still ended up acting in a way that was conducive to the predetermined events. That's kind of why I didn't love the last few episodes of the series. But I did enjoy watching your video. 😊
But the pretederminism in aot doesn't work like is a greek myth. This isn't an Oedipus situation where Eren tries to change the future and that's what leads to it. Eren can't change the future he sees because deep down it's what he wanted. This is seen really well in the scene with Ramzi. He knows he will save the child at that moment, thinks that if he doesn't he will successfully change the future, and still saves him on his own volition. Because Eren is the type of person that cannot bear to see a child beat up and not do something while being capable of trampling that same child when his own freedom is on the line.
Aot is literally deterministic because of eren himself bro It’s because he can’t change Remember the ramzi scene ? There if he hadn’t saved him then future could have changed but eren saved him because deep down he couldn’t let him be beaten up by those people
Honestly it reminds me of a reflection of addiction. It's the weakness of humans that we can easily know and understand what would be the best choice, or at least a better choice, but we will still choose to dig ourselves in a deeper hole because, well, we are weak in some regards. Our habits/nature rule some of us.
It's... quite meta. As in, Eren's dangerously close to making commentary on being a fictional character devised by a man who draws comics for a living.
@@angelamengualcortinas3614 Predeterminism is still predeterminism regardless of how it is carried out. The reason why I find the ending unsatisfying is because everything became pointless when it was stated that everything has already been set in stone and Eren couldn't change his future or the future of humanity. The author tried the copout of "well, even though it is predetermined it is the future Eren wanted". If Eren did want that future, then why did he "time-travel" into the past to try to change it? The ending makes the story contradict itself. I believe the author got so lost in his own threads that he just wanted a quick ending and move on to another project.
Incredible analysis. Incredible summary collecting the most relevant and important data about the series and its characters, the message that Isayama tries to give us with each of them, and with the history of SNK. As we say in Spain "Bravo". Thank you very much for making such good content of this piece of work of art. Masterpiece in every rule! Greetings from Barcelona.
This is the best video about the ending I've seen. I encourage you to make more attack on titan videos. Maybe a broader video about attack on titan that goes over the genius writing touching on all the insane plot twists, foreshadowing, paradoxes, character arcs, etc. Something that I can send to people who don't give it a 10/10 lol, already actually been doing that with this video
Really appreciate that! I will definitely try to make more attack on titan videos in the future. Excited to read the new levi chapter! Thanks so much for your support
What a beautiful summation as to why this ending was absolutely perfecto! So much thought and care put into explaining a lot! Definitely gonna do some shorts now…inspired…thanks for the inspiration and great content!
I thought it was perfect and kinda the only way they could have ended it. Imagine being, they're 19 by then end right? Don't quote me but all the sudden he gets the power to see the past present and future all at once, and all the trauma on top of that, I mean how would you deal? It's the stuff I think people forget.
Agreed. People forget that Eren literally is still at teenager dealing with trauma at 19. I’m not sure why some people think it’s so controversial for Eren to feel like he’s an idiot, because the reality is, why should we expect at 19 year old to know how to solve global centuries-old issues of conflict, violence and racism?
Brilliant POV! will save and share this video for future discussions when i need to show the depth of the storyline and ending. you explained the complexity and beauty of every plot. i think it's a masterpiece and to people who says otherwise, fight me!
Eren has the same motivation of freedom throughout the show, and the only reason it is "futile" is because he keeps learning more and the scope of the situation changes. He has to learn about the outside world and all the new threats. But when he touches Historia's hand and then when he gets the founding titan's powers and begins the rumbling, it is no longer futile. He finally has all the knowledge and all the power necessary to get the freedom he always wanted, to be free of the oppression against him and his people. Just saying "Eren is childish" is very, reductive. All the examples you give are literally Eren fighting for freedom. He wasn't some suicidal maniac or just extremely childish. He was extremely driven towards his goal of freedom. That's what defines his character. Eren's future visions massively changed him. Why are you saying all the character development not happening is actually part of a good story? Eren isn't a slave to hatred, and wasn't ever since touching Historia's hand and experiencing life in Marley. A slave to freedom doesn't even make sense, so it's weird people say it so much. He is being oppressed. He wants to be free. This is somehow a bad thing? When he finally gets free, he will no longer need to fight to be free. You can't talk about Eren being powerful and then say that he has no power. That makes no sense. Either Eren can choose, or he can't. And why does everyone get causation backwards and say that he can't choose because determinism", forgetting that his choices are what determines the outcome. Ymir can't fathom freedom, but Eren doe so very well, hence being driven towards it. Eren does utilize his power correctly. The story makes it clear that the entire world is about to go and destroy Paradis. It's them or the world. Eren chooses to save Paradis. Ymir makes the past titan shifters fight. That isn't standing back and doing nothing. How would Eren be free by running off with Mikasa? Eren was literally trapped in walls, not free, hence his driving motivation, and only by fighting did he start to escape them. Mikasa did not let Eren go though. She kissed his head. She constantly visited his grave, dragging her family with her. She was literally buried with her scarf. It's fine to say it is just the ending which is unenjoyed, but given that the ending retcons so much, it retroactively ruins the rest of the show for many people.
The mental gymnastics AOT fans tell themselves to justify an ambiguous ending is wild. Switching themes past the midpoint of the story is a recipe for mediocre writing which is what this show became. Stop defending the indefensible look many video essays there are parroting that this show is masterpiece its so cringe. You Fanatic fans need an echo chamber, cause no one who watched the show is going to rate this a 10 with that bozo ending. *the story intentionally ends unresolved- OMG its perfect a masterpiece.... yikes AOT fans how far you've fallen
love how people will defend an anime where the mary sue tries to mirror ymir by letting go and she cant even let go of eren. its great to know that after 4 seasons mikasa hasnt changed at all and still talks to his literal grave. "masterpiece" lol, have these diehard fans even watched anything else?
Fr bruh, people don’t see the beauty of this show before they would put it down for its controversial ending. You said it right that they are slaves to their expectations lol. The symbolism in the show was beautiful, as well as the pace and development.
I am.scared to say, but the more I think about it, the true main character is Mikasa, and Eren was the driving force of her journey. Everything was riding on Mikasa, what she did and how she did it would lead to either the end of the Rumbling, or to the end of humanity completely She changes through the show, despite her love for Eren. Eren may be seen as the main character, but the thing is Eren never really changed. He was never given the chance or the choice to change. In reality, Eren is was the unwilling villain while Mikasa was the unintentional heroine of the story. They both need each other, yet only one was going to actuallybring Ymir peace, and in the end, it was Mikasa's act of killing the love of her life that ended everything.
Absolutely perfect video man, even down to the calling out to the people doubting the ending reminding us we are also slaves. Wonderful tie in and in depth explanation of the beauty of this show.
The ending is great when considering what they cooked up in S1 - S3. The author said himself that he started the story with the ending in mind. I understand this, but people just like to see a happy end. I won't pretend I'm not like this too, I would've loved a happy ending, there wouldn't have been such a discourse between the fans. Such "happy end" was however basically imposible from the very beggining because of the way the story was headed.
Great video. You did a phenomenal job breaking down why the ending was the most natural conclusion to the story. I’ve found it hard articulating to friends who disagree why and now I’m just going to send them this video!
Attack on titan is one of the greatest stories ever told. It asks questions that most authors are afraid to ask, and because of this it is up there with the works of people like J.R.R Tolkien and Shakespeare.
Bro do not compare it to Shakespeare All the questions it asks has already been done before it's a good anime with a good premise but nowhere near the big 3 let alone Shakespeare
Eren’s last scenes are reminiscent of Bertholdt’s death. Even when Bert man’d up, he still was ultimately a 17 year old facing death. Of course you can expect him to cry out like a child, he still was one. Both put into the terrible rock and hard places but knowing they had to at least act, even if they didn’t want to (double entendre).
He is a slave to ymir and attack titan..his action is the inevitable..his choice was like dr. strange’s choice, the only possibly acceptable future..that’s what people never understand, always thinking that Eren has becoming a villain..it’s mentioned clearly, he has played the scene in his head again and again and again, and this is the only way
The entire story makes zero sense whatsoever the moment you realize ymir can time travel and change the past The entire "oh she was waiting for mikasa to free her" is completely pointless once you take into account her ability to change the past
That is the whole point, despite having great powers, Ymir was powerless because of her being unable to make choices on her own. She was the bystander, following orders, exactly as she is shown everytime she appears on screen or manga panels. Despite all her powers, she comes back to serve her abuser King Fritz.
@@Tatakhaenope. ymir can travel back in time and change the past She could have just done that once she became free in the end and just didn't for no reason And it's not only ymir, but all the founding titans as well (at least the ones pre king Fritz)
I totally agree. Most people just want a happy ending for everything and cannot handle the fact the ending wasnt that even though eventually for the whole situation it had a slight positive note as eren did create a short time of peace, which ofcourse slowly gets on course towards the ouroboros of repeating history. Also symbolicly it was perfectly set up for this, which I sometimes have a feeling a big portion of viewers symbolic stuff flies over their head.
I never heard a single person complain there wasn't an happy ending If anything people complain it was too happy Have you ending enjoyers ever bothered to actually listen to some criticism?
The ending was epic, people just don't even understand the meaning of "WAR". Erwin explained it best in season 2: "there can only be peace when there's only 1 human left on this earth" - so no matter what Eren does or doesn't do (wiping 100% of humanity excepts for Paradis) - they will start their own civil war like what we've seen earlier in the show.
Reasons to why it’s a terrible ending. 1 How did his friends survive the titans? They lose Sasha to 3 titan shifters and 2 kids but lose no one against 100s of titan shifters? 2. Zeke dying shouldn’t of stopped the rumbling. Ymir’s goal was to destroy the world so why didn’t Ymir just continue the rumbling after zeke died?’ 3. Zeke should of stopped the rumbling earlier because his dad telling him “ please stop Eren” didn’t give him motivation to die so he can stop it but armin showing a ball did? 4. How did mikasa free Ymir?😂 and no it isn’t because she was able to kill her lover and move on no no no she didn’t move on for crap she still had that scarf on and got buried next to Eren. 5.Ymir doesn't have Stockholm’s syndrome, if she did why did she not heal herself when a spear went through her? If she had Stockholm’s syndrome she would of had the will to live for the king. Ymir’s character is terrible. She is in the paths because she is a slave to Fritz but disobeyed him ? 6 Eren ch139 (last 30 mins) “ I’m an idiot” “I don’t know why I did the rumbling” “ I moved forward for mikasas choice” “ I did it to portray u as heroes” 💀💀💀💀 “ I would of killed them all if u didn’t stop me” Pre ch139 “Ill keep moving forward until I destroy my enemies “ “The only way to end the cycle of hatred is to bury it”😂 7.Ain’t no soul answering this question. If Ymir can see the future then why did Ymir wait till mikasa kills Eren who somehow frees her when she can see the future and knows that mikasa will kill Eren? Why did she wait for it to happen when she knows what the result is? She should of been free since she entered paths 8. What was the point of destroying 80%? eldia got destroyed. What did he achieve by doing that? He made the outer world hate eldians more and doomed paradises safety which he promised ( Eren only cared about Eldias safety not cycle of hatred so eldia bombing themselves is irrelevant for him) 9. What was the reason for the rumbling ? It defo wasn’t to make them look like hero’s because Eren said if u didn’t stop me I would of killed them all which is a contradiction. 10. Erens mom death was pointless. He already said he killed her because it wasn’t bertholdt time yet which means it wasn’t to fuel his hate for titans💀He already had the determination to lead him were he already is. When mikasa’s parents got killed he said “ if anyone tried to take away my freedom I won’t hesitate to take theirs” he also said to his dad that the kidnappers were scum and animals that needed to die. Eren before his moms death wanted to join the survey corps and venture outside the walls. If he found out the world wants to kill him he would of started the rumbling because they tried to take his freedom and we knew what Eren thinks about that. Erens view of freedom was killing everyone outside the walls so he 100% has the determination to do the rumbling. (Anyone who says Eren view of freedom wasn’t killing everyone u need to rewatch the last episode where he was talking to ramzi the kid 11. In ch130 ( episode where the ships get destroyed in Marley) Eren thinks about his mom getting eaten by the titan and it being his main motivation for the rumbling which makes no sense since Eren should know that he killed his mom because this is when he sent armin to paths and told him everything. 12.The whole Eren at the cabin scene. How did eren interact with mikasas memories? She is an Ackerman he Shouldn't be able to do that. people who are saying this is a different timeline pls provide ur proof. If it is a different timeline why does Eren have titan marks? Why do they also grow bigger the closer Eren gets to death? They become massive when she is holding erens head representing that it was a fake memory. The bigger the titans marks the closer she gets to reality 13. Eren crying like a baby for mikasa is a retcon. When did Eren ever cry like this for mikasa? He alway pushed mikasa away from him. When Eren found out he has a 8 years to live mikasa was in jail with him, did he care about her then? No he didn’t even care about mikasa when he found out he dosnt have long left to live even isayama said mikasa is a mother figure for him so how exactly does him crying like a baby fit his character? 14. Eren said to armin he will show them the memories after he gets killed but shows it to mikasa before he gets killed? 15. How did Eren turn into the collosal titan after zeke died and the worm left him ?😂😂😂 16. There was literally no point in the rumbling, the outside worlds wants to kill then because their just eldian. What makes Eren think destroying 80% of the world then letting armin kill you to look like a hero does? Stop them from hating eldians? No😂 they will hate u more
@@aotgoat3267 by you just asking the 1st question then I already know that you don't understand the whole story at all. Eren is just another arrogant, selfish and a fool (which 80% of us are) that wants nothing but to see his friends and the people he cared for on the island live longer, so why would Ymir and Eren let their own titans kill off his friends ???
Sasha dies because according to Eren's future memories-which bounds to happen and out of his control, if he hadn't execute the attack on Marley, Sasha and his friends will be alive for a few more months before the entire world execute their attack on Paradis, which would have been too late -Sasha's death was crucial for this to happen and Eren knows it (Hence the laugh in S4 part 1 where he failed to stop his visions to becoming reality) -Fun fact for you, she was meant to die in Season 2 when she saved that little girl Kaya, the Titan was meant to use his hands and crack her head in two but the editor broke down in tears and begged Isayama to prolong her life even further to this point
@@aotgoat3267 Hange dies because that's her own free will, is to "Exit in the coolest way possible" while bursting out the tears of joy and curiosity, she was ready to meet Erwin and her comrades
Exactly. Eren was no genius or tactical or battle mastermind. He was just an above average kid. Heck, if he wasn’t a titan shifter his story would’ve ended in the Santa Claus titan.
I think Eren never got more choices on pursuing his freedom, saving his friends, fighting Marley or ending the Titans even if he not used Rumbling but lived his life peacefully as we can see on one last scene with Eren and Mikasa where both are living together but then Marley army attacked Paradise Island..Imagine seeing all the future alternatives where only massacre is a choice to save your friends but you with your human emotions can’t act on it this contradiction is what Eren felt when seeing all the future scenes. I gotta agree with you on this point Eren represents Us Humanity with all the contradictions. Loved this video I think Isayama wanted the show this as you’ve explained.
An ending on par with Game of Thrones, And just like GoT we have AoT fans who can't help themselves except to ignore all of the plot armor, plot convenience, retcons, and terrible execution of the ending.
i knew aot fans were annoying but ever since i ended up watching it and seeing the amount of fans calling it a masterpiece i knew immediately that the fanbase ignores flaws
@ nah not all of them. i specifically said masterpiece because ive seen many AOT fans say that across several comment sections. i mean i can even say in jojo, the fandom doesnt do that. im pretty sure many people know that part 1 jojo was widely disliked, and thats in the community so it wasnt too divided
We hate the ending because of how they handle eren character in the finale They changed him into an idiot loser Before the eren crying scene, Eren was a guy who literally ripped off his leg and eyes for the future of paradise
It feels like a complete waste of time, a decade long investment. What was the point of all that fighting? Eren is a tragic character, with the addition of Mikasa's descendant and the creation of a new line of titans by Eren (Titan tree). They should have stuck with the original manga ending...it all feels so rushed (new ending) in attempt to prolong the story further for money.
@vintage2983 The point was that Eren did end the threat of the titans for a long time and most of the people he loved lived happy lives. He was never going to secure eternal peace or ensure Paradis survived forever because human beings fight each other. The whole point of Armin's chat with Zeke was pointing out that tiny, beautiful things make life worth living in a world of cruelty, and that his (and by extension Eren's) obsession with purpose and inability to enjoy those things ruined both of them.
I think the concept is fine but Eren being in love with Mikasa was just fanfiction this is pretty obvious. And his motivation is quite I don’t know why I did it I just felt like it that was his final reason
is that really the theme of the story that isayama came up with? "war never ends, humans will always fight" or is that just a easy copout for a character that he completely ruined when he made eren say "its all because im an idiot". If the theme really is that war never ends, why did he make eren do all these things and suffer in his life in order to complete the rumbling, but in the end have him state that he did it just because he wanted to. Is that how humans act during war? Are wars started and ended just because "they can" ?? Is the boy at the tree in the end gonna start a rumbling again and state on his deathbed "I did all this because im an idiot"? Its a tone-deaf way to approach the theme of a continuous loop that forgets to acknowledge that you have to have true motivations for war. Violence isnt started because you want to see the world burn, its done due to suffering that you have faced. Its because your mom died, your house gets destroyed, your city gets toppled. All things that motivated eren to go and accomplish his goal of revenge. But in the end you have to forget all these motivations and realize that its all for nothing, its all a facade for a boy that just wanted to do it just because. What a idiotic end to one of the greatest stories ever, a theme that was so forced by bad writing that people had to resort to calling it the point of the story. The theme has always been fight, fight no matter what you face or what is blocking your way.
its a 3 step clock cycle (war restoration peace) that the human race has followed and always will follow you sound like an idealistic ignorant idiot. Eren was an idiot from the start of the show and then started seeing past present and future all at once, even if you were a genius your brain would be in shambles. The point of Eren killing the world was really simple, to let his family live in the time of restoration and peace, a freedom that Eren chased but could only give to his family and friends and well 20% of the population, and your idea of "fight fight no matter what" is only a piece of the human endurance which is just a human nature its just best showcased when people are in times of war. its not an overarching theme; the overarching theme being the cycles that humans operate in, and as long as life prevails, so does death. Its just funny to me that you think you know how to wrap up Hajimes absolute masterpiece of a story better than the genius himself who spent his life working on it, and clearly knew where he was going from the start.
PS: when I speak of "the cycles" Im referring to far more than the clock cycle I spoke of at the beginning things like the repetition of shortcomings and dream chasing and inabilites, and failures through stupidity, a trait demonstrated by all but most obviously a parallel drawn between Ymir, and Eren. Or how temporary it all is, theres much to "cycles" and I didnt realize until making this that it would likely fly over the head of someone of your intellectual caliber: you.
@@data7170ah yes, he went crazy when he accessed the paths, unlike all the named character in the story that did the same thing without loosing their minds, lol
@@randomusername3873 oh wow another dun ce who thinks they know how to finish a masterpiece better than its creator. Sadly youtube has the dumbest anti keyword and flags the most base line insults. So im not repeating my 2 page essay to you sadly only my PS will be your argument as your even more unintelligent than the commentor I responded to if you genuinely could only muster up that as an argument, which in itself is only proof of your inability to pay attention to anyone and anything but the main character.
You are speaking the truth, Eren was always imposed and was always doomed to the path he was going for. The rumbling was a perfect example of pointless action done by a person who never grew up and refused to see beyond the world they see. The only problem I had was the fall of Paradis. I strongly believe that Paradis should have been destroyed in the manga over the anime destruction of Paradis, it gives me a bad taste in my mouth that 1000s years have passed by yet Paradis still stands in peace without paying a price for the rumbling gives a horrible message and this part of the Manga is the one thing I want to keep. It makes more sense that only 50 years have pass instead of 1000s.
How man ?, the 20% humanity left, they need time to recover from the rumbling first, before attacking paradis again, this explains the 1000s years, and finally they nuke the island just for revenge and payback...thus continues the cycle of hate.
In the manga, the author added 5 pages that showed paradis getting destroyed in like 50yrs. In the anime it transitioned way better into that part. Also armin saying we'll join you in hell instead of thanking eren for killing 80% of the world was way better. Mikasa romance and ymirs stockholm syndrome is still mad cringey but what can you do
Mikasa is literal npc only things say Eren! But mikasa s1 better than this ermika fan fiction ending story is about end cycle of hatred/racism not a love story .That's way extra confirms people who read knows this will happen before it was add
I don’t really agree much since I think it would diminish the rest of the allies and paradis who didn’t condone the rumbling and tried to stop him. They were set up at the end to try and negotiate peace talks with both sides and it’s nicer to know they had some amount of success rather than none. I can partially agree that it’s weird they went all the way to futuristic before war struck again it should’ve been only a couple hundred years, but I do think it’s a harsher end to have paradis get destroyed immidietly because not everyone in paradis is responsible. It’s the same as saying the rumbling was deserved because the every person in the world is responsible for eldian oppression
@maxlewis234 its less about it being deserved and more about the fact, other countries in the world would most likely want retribution for what happened. I can imagine a ceasefire happening since they might still be afraid of the titans but once they realize their out of the picture, their leaders and government might use that as a chance to get revenge on paradis
Kenny also achieved freedom, tho after the point his dream was unattainable. That episode is also the crucial for the overarching theme n msg of the show
I agree with most of it, but i also see that youre missing a lot out of the story. In 3:30 he wasnt conflicted on whether saving the kid is futile or not, what really happened was that he was trying to convince himself that saving the kid is futile because if he didnt save the kid, it would prove that he can change his predetermined future, but he did, and he realized that he couldnt change his fate. And yes, he was always immature, always a kid, and he was an idiot, but the way people obsess over the fact that he was an idiot ignore the fact that if he had succeeded a happy ending, even with the same dumb actions, no one would be calling him an idiot. It seems idiocy is completely dependent on results rather than the process. You see, Eren is like any other human, he is simply conditioned by his own set of circumstances, just like everyone else. The reason why so many people cant see this is because we want to believe that we're different, that we're smarter and can clearly see out own faults when we commit them. The truth is, you are doing the same "idiotic" things as eren all the time, you just don't see it because it comes from your own reasons and circumstances. You do things based on your current situation and capabilities, and looking at it retrospectively eliminates the ressoning behind those actions and leaves us with our dumb results, ignoring all the effort and thought we put in them.
I would like to disagree, the ending heavily contradicted the buildup to that point in the story: Eren mentioned numerous times that the cycle of hatred can only be eliminated if all life outside the walls were eliminated. Then he suddenly switched to 80% and then claims that his reasoning is because "hes an idiot".
@cobraz3845 false, he didn't switch to 80%, he said that the plan was to destroy everything but paradis, but in the future he saw that he would have been stopped when he had already destroyed 80% of the world and was happy with that because it meant paradis would be save for his friends' lifespan. Also realized that the hatred can't be stopped for a long time (even inside the walls there were factions that killed each other), he just wanted to make his friends' lives better and "free", doesn't care about the future. He's an egoistic character and did an egoistic act, no contradictions.
Reasons to why it’s a terrible ending. 1 How did his friends survive the titans? They lose Sasha to 3 titan shifters and 2 kids but lose no one against 100s of titan shifters? 2. Zeke dying shouldn’t of stopped the rumbling. Ymir’s goal was to destroy the world so why didn’t Ymir just continue the rumbling after zeke died?’ 3. Zeke should of stopped the rumbling earlier because his dad telling him “ please stop Eren” didn’t give him motivation to die so he can stop it but armin showing a ball did? 4. How did mikasa free Ymir?😂 and no it isn’t because she was able to kill her lover and move on no no no she didn’t move on for crap she still had that scarf on and got buried next to Eren. 5.Ymir doesn't have Stockholm’s syndrome, if she did why did she not heal herself when a spear went through her? If she had Stockholm’s syndrome she would of had the will to live for the king. Ymir’s character is terrible. She is in the paths because she is a slave to Fritz but disobeyed him ? 6 Eren ch139 (last 30 mins) “ I’m an idiot” “I don’t know why I did the rumbling” “ I moved forward for mikasas choice” “ I did it to portray u as heroes” 💀💀💀💀 “ I would of killed them all if u didn’t stop me” Pre ch139 “Ill keep moving forward until I destroy my enemies “ “The only way to end the cycle of hatred is to bury it”😂 7.Ain’t no soul answering this question. If Ymir can see the future then why did Ymir wait till mikasa kills Eren who somehow frees her when she can see the future and knows that mikasa will kill Eren? Why did she wait for it to happen when she knows what the result is? She should of been free since she entered paths 8. What was the point of destroying 80%? eldia got destroyed. What did he achieve by doing that? He made the outer world hate eldians more and doomed paradises safety which he promised ( Eren only cared about Eldias safety not cycle of hatred so eldia bombing themselves is irrelevant for him) 9. What was the reason for the rumbling ? It defo wasn’t to make them look like hero’s because Eren said if u didn’t stop me I would of killed them all which is a contradiction. 10. Erens mom death was pointless. He already said he killed her because it wasn’t bertholdt time yet which means it wasn’t to fuel his hate for titans💀He already had the determination to lead him were he already is. When mikasa’s parents got killed he said “ if anyone tried to take away my freedom I won’t hesitate to take theirs” he also said to his dad that the kidnappers were scum and animals that needed to die. Eren before his moms death wanted to join the survey corps and venture outside the walls. If he found out the world wants to kill him he would of started the rumbling because they tried to take his freedom and we knew what Eren thinks about that. Erens view of freedom was killing everyone outside the walls so he 100% has the determination to do the rumbling. (Anyone who says Eren view of freedom wasn’t killing everyone u need to rewatch the last episode where he was talking to ramzi the kid 11. In ch130 ( episode where the ships get destroyed in Marley) Eren thinks about his mom getting eaten by the titan and it being his main motivation for the rumbling which makes no sense since Eren should know that he killed his mom because this is when he sent armin to paths and told him everything. 12.The whole Eren at the cabin scene. How did eren interact with mikasas memories? She is an Ackerman he Shouldn't be able to do that. people who are saying this is a different timeline pls provide ur proof. If it is a different timeline why does Eren have titan marks? Why do they also grow bigger the closer Eren gets to death? They become massive when she is holding erens head representing that it was a fake memory. The bigger the titans marks the closer she gets to reality 13. Eren crying like a baby for mikasa is a retcon. When did Eren ever cry like this for mikasa? He alway pushed mikasa away from him. When Eren found out he has a 8 years to live mikasa was in jail with him, did he care about her then? No he didn’t even care about mikasa when he found out he dosnt have long left to live even isayama said mikasa is a mother figure for him so how exactly does him crying like a baby fit his character? 14. Eren said to armin he will show them the memories after he gets killed but shows it to mikasa before he gets killed? 15. How did Eren turn into the collosal titan after zeke died and the worm left him ?😂😂😂 16. There was literally no point in the rumbling, the outside worlds wants to kill then because their just eldian. What makes Eren think destroying 80% of the world then letting armin kill you to look like a hero does? Stop them from hating eldians? No😂 they will hate u more Additional: In s2 ep 12 why was Dina there?💀💀 the wall rose never fell. She’s meant to be in wall Maria. Only the titans zeke created should be in wall rose.
@aotgoat3267 man you are just the average twitter user that would send death treats for fun to mappa staff♿️ Literally every point that isn't ymir related is explained in the show and makes sense and every character is always in-character, you just misunderstood eren and didn't pay much attention to the show I guess. For the ymir ones there is ambiguity since it is a freakin mute character, how do you expect to make a fair point on the psychology of a mute 2000 years old character lol, that's just dumb. You can criticize the concept of said character, which is a deus ex machina, but you can't make real concrete points about her in the story, a fanboy could make shit up and you couldn't demonstrate him being wrong since we know nothing about her. It was a cheeky way to shortcut and justify a lot of stuff, not the best but it works 🤷🏻♂️ Stay mad and rewatch it since you just proved my point lol
Reasons to why it’s a terrible ending. 1 How did his friends survive the titans? They lose Sasha to 3 titan shifters and 2 kids but lose no one against 100s of titan shifters? 2. Zeke dying shouldn’t of stopped the rumbling. Ymir’s goal was to destroy the world so why didn’t Ymir just continue the rumbling after zeke died?’ 3. Zeke should of stopped the rumbling earlier because his dad telling him “ please stop Eren” didn’t give him motivation to die so he can stop it but armin showing a ball did? 4. How did mikasa free Ymir?😂 and no it isn’t because she was able to kill her lover and move on no no no she didn’t move on for crap she still had that scarf on and got buried next to Eren. 5.Ymir doesn't have Stockholm’s syndrome, if she did why did she not heal herself when a spear went through her? If she had Stockholm’s syndrome she would of had the will to live for the king. Ymir’s character is terrible. She is in the paths because she is a slave to Fritz but disobeyed him ? 6 Eren ch139 (last 30 mins) “ I’m an idiot” “I don’t know why I did the rumbling” “ I moved forward for mikasas choice” “ I did it to portray u as heroes” 💀💀💀💀 “ I would of killed them all if u didn’t stop me” Pre ch139 “Ill keep moving forward until I destroy my enemies “ “The only way to end the cycle of hatred is to bury it”😂 7.Ain’t no soul answering this question. If Ymir can see the future then why did Ymir wait till mikasa kills Eren who somehow frees her when she can see the future and knows that mikasa will kill Eren? Why did she wait for it to happen when she knows what the result is? She should of been free since she entered paths 8. What was the point of destroying 80%? eldia got destroyed. What did he achieve by doing that? He made the outer world hate eldians more and doomed paradises safety which he promised ( Eren only cared about Eldias safety not cycle of hatred so eldia bombing themselves is irrelevant for him) 9. What was the reason for the rumbling ? It defo wasn’t to make them look like hero’s because Eren said if u didn’t stop me I would of killed them all which is a contradiction. 10. Erens mom death was pointless. He already said he killed her because it wasn’t bertholdt time yet which means it wasn’t to fuel his hate for titans💀He already had the determination to lead him were he already is. When mikasa’s parents got killed he said “ if anyone tried to take away my freedom I won’t hesitate to take theirs” he also said to his dad that the kidnappers were scum and animals that needed to die. Eren before his moms death wanted to join the survey corps and venture outside the walls. If he found out the world wants to kill him he would of started the rumbling because they tried to take his freedom and we knew what Eren thinks about that. Erens view of freedom was killing everyone outside the walls so he 100% has the determination to do the rumbling. (Anyone who says Eren view of freedom wasn’t killing everyone u need to rewatch the last episode where he was talking to ramzi the kid 11. In ch130 ( episode where the ships get destroyed in Marley) Eren thinks about his mom getting eaten by the titan and it being his main motivation for the rumbling which makes no sense since Eren should know that he killed his mom because this is when he sent armin to paths and told him everything. 12.The whole Eren at the cabin scene. How did eren interact with mikasas memories? She is an Ackerman he Shouldn't be able to do that. people who are saying this is a different timeline pls provide ur proof. If it is a different timeline why does Eren have titan marks? Why do they also grow bigger the closer Eren gets to death? They become massive when she is holding erens head representing that it was a fake memory. The bigger the titans marks the closer she gets to reality 13. Eren crying like a baby for mikasa is a retcon. When did Eren ever cry like this for mikasa? He alway pushed mikasa away from him. When Eren found out he has a 8 years to live mikasa was in jail with him, did he care about her then? No he didn’t even care about mikasa when he found out he dosnt have long left to live even isayama said mikasa is a mother figure for him so how exactly does him crying like a baby fit his character? 14. Eren said to armin he will show them the memories after he gets killed but shows it to mikasa before he gets killed? 15. How did Eren turn into the collosal titan after zeke died and the worm left him ?😂😂😂 16. There was literally no point in the rumbling, the outside worlds wants to kill then because their just eldian. What makes Eren think destroying 80% of the world then letting armin kill you to look like a hero does? Stop them from hating eldians? No😂 they will hate u more
That was a nice video (although the narration a bit too fast for me). I agree with the overall analysis as I had almost zero complaints with the ending myself.
@@mikasasgarden I made the critique with good intentions. The fast-paced narration is a quite common style in youtube. I don't feel comfortable with it, even in my native language, but maybe it's just a personal preference. Again, that was an interesting analysis about AoT's ending!
Those people who think that the ending of AOT was perfect, they don't know anything about writing imo. I am sure that these people will also say that the ending of Game of Thrones was perfect🤣🤣
Thank you so much for this video! So many people just do not deep dive into the symbolism and meaning in the ending. Especiallywith Eren's character, hardly anyone understands the dualtiy in his nature and the choice of his action, I loved the Mikasa analysis, even I had not thought of it that well. Fantastic Video!
Thank you so much for making this video, it's a very welcome and refreshing change from all the commentary disparaging the ending. I thought your analysis of Eren's character was particularly on point! Very refreshing and validating for me personally as someone who always thought the ending was perfect.
I’m glad you liked it ! And appreciate your kind words. I really felt like the end got way more hate than it needed to get, felt like I had to say my piece about it
I see where you coming from bro but naw bruh ending was still ass ain't no lack of understanding cus you missed hella plot holes and everything before ending was 10/10 but ending was still horrible af
THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING AAAAAAAAAAAAH perfect video, great delivery and audio quality, solid editing and beautiful analysis! Now go watch FD signifier and ROAR AND SCREAM like I did.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words. I just searched the video you’re talking about up on TH-cam and from the title and thumbnail alone I’m already prepared to scream 😭
absolute percent of people who hate AoT dont understand it and i feel sorry for them, for not beeing able to apreciate the ultimate art. for me, this show is the GOAT
I get that Eren was supposed to have been a slave to his nature, but I don't understand how a character that doesn't change or learn anything is interesting. It's just not a very good character arc. In the end, the show tries reallllyyy hard to make me empathize with a genocidal asshole and it just doesn't work at all. The idea that killing someone like Eren at the end is presented is a difficult decision...idk that just came across as kinda laughable to me.
how did Mikasa get back to the island with Eren's decapitated head decomposing did she walk across on the ocean the flying boat got destroyed we saw that in the anime I'm just curious if anyone can tell me I'm pretty sure they did not show the scouts arriving on the island in anime I guess isayama didn't know how to explain it so he's just put a three year time skip problem solve lol you guys gotta stop defending this and just admit that are some flaws in the ending that doesn't make any sense a example will be when eren ask reinar why he's mom had to die when he knew the answer to that the question
This same question can even be raised on how Eren ran away from the scouts and stayed in Marley. Dumb to nitpick on something thay does not even matter to the story as a whole, "oh how did she reach Paradise?" .
Excellent video! Love the camel analogy. My sister and my mom and I all watched the show together from start to finish. We more or less guessed what was happening in the end. The specifics were muddled, but ultimately the foreshadowing worked. Eren went on a wild rampage, Armin had to help figure out how to stop him and find help and Mikasa as always saved him from himself. An echo of their first interactions in the first episode. We also guessed Eren was pushing them away so he could make them heroes. And yet the ending is dumb to some people. We figured it out but I think you're right. Some folks were slaves to their own wishful interpretations. I loved it and I can't wait to rewatch and see all the stuff I missed. Thanks for defending what was a cruel, but beautiful anime.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it! That's awesome you wathced with your mom and sister, I agree, the foreshadowing really did wonders. Rewatching it is so fun, there's so many scenes that just hit differently now. Appreciate your love and support 🙏🤍
I think some of the hate resulted in us Manga readers having to wait a month for each chapter and all the theories and expectations for the final chapter. I wasn’t expecting to get the ending I imagined however so it didn’t anger me like it did other readers. In the end, this ending made sense and I’m glad they redid the conversation between Eren and Armin.
gorgeous video, straight to the point, fast enough to understand and to keep our squirel atention span focused great conclusion, 1000000% golden, had to verify ur subs and almost 1.000 how is this possible ill sub you for these types of videos , with that aot knoweldge and video content art, can you make aot most asked questions? for example, some of us had the pain of mikasa dying and the others, where they in the afterlife? is that the same place where the path is? what is the path? like the cammel in the desert or ozymandias quote, can you find the parallel to match what the author thought about to make such a thing?
Thanks so much! I appreciate the love and support. You’re words mean a lot. I do a lot of anime content in general. Got some other videos planned out right now but I would like to do more aot content videos! If you wanted some new AOT stuff though, I did drop a video for the new chapter that came out about Levi! Love the ideas! And glad to have you here as a subscriber 🙏🏼🤍
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this is really a very nice analysis!
Do you think the Birds that were in all the seasons represent Freedom that can't be attained?
@@EVRIEONE1yeah I do think the birds were important symbolism throughout. I love the thought of them being unattainable. Just the fact they could travel the world freely, while eren and them (who wanted to see the world) were confined to the walls was definitely a great parallel. It was really fun rewatching the series and noticing all the moments that birds were emphasized
@@mikasasgarden because...visuals would be: Birds -> then boom(some trajedy)...eg Berthold in titan form and the trailer for season 4 with Falco speaking/referring to a bird saying, "...it's dangerous here..." ie the battle field...etc etc
I disagree with your video. I think AoT ending is perhaps one of the worst ending in fiction. However I want you to have your own opinion. I was wondering what you think about how devisive it is. 50% think it is awful and 50% say it is good. I honestly thought that everyone would really dislike the ending. Unfortunately for me I tried to justify it but I couldn't bring myself to believe it. I fully believe Isayama changed his original planned ending and that is why there is so many untied ends. The plot is loose and the characters were all ruined. For me personally I just can't stand AoT. I will never recommend it to anyone I will never watch it again or listen to its soundtracks and it is kind of crazy I think like this because at season 3 it was my favourite show ever and I recommended it to everyone. I think this is also one of the crazy things that the super fans of AoT completely hated the ending and turned against it 100%. I feel like the more casual watchers were just meh about the ending. Also after AoT I just completely stopped watching anime. I realised the medium is extremely overrated and toxic. Any criticism you have of a series and you are just called a hater. Funnily that doesn't happen with western series much. Look at the One Piece, MHA, JJK, Demon Slayer fandoms etc. They are all childish and toxic. I think I have officially grown out of anime. Thanks for the video but it doesn't change my mind one bit about how awful the ending was. I'm glad you enjoyed it and accept your opinion.
you might already know this, but Isayama has publicly said that "Bystander" is his favorite episode, and the best episode he was lucky enough to be a part of.
Although I love that episode, he seemed to be giving a clue as to the importance of it...and I think you nailed it! Thank you for helping me finally fully understand its full significance.
(Btw I love the rest of your video too! You have more relevant and deep ideas in a 12 minute video than most TH-cam videos express in an hour!)
I remember loving that episode so much and then finding out it was Isayama's favorite had me so excited haha
Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm glad you liked the video. Appreciate you! 🙏🤍
>mikasa apologist
>thinks ending is good
that's everything i need to know, i don't need to watch this video, lol
out of all the characters defending mikasa is wild
I won't lie, when I saw this dude's username, I already knew... lmao
I still watched a good chunk of it tho.
@@B0BBYJ4CK ikr. naming yourself (character) garden is stooping so low and naming an ending as perfect without addressing the major flaws
@ its giving... fanboy.
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@ fr, can you imagine if someone was named "gojo garden" 😂😂
or "makima garden" 🐶
So the message of AOT's ending was always "abandon your dreams and die" it doesn't matter what you do you will always be a slave to endless cycles, you should just submit until it consumes you Whole the same way it consumed Eren. Yeah, of course! totally not a bad ending and a perfect conclusion to Mr freedom peak fiction because nihilistic endings are always good.
No, the message is that life is always unfair and it is part of human nature to hate and fight. But being an obsessive maniac that wants to change this hate by killing and hating even more will not lead anywhere, that it is stupid and will only hurt yourself and your loved ones. The correct way to change someone in this cycle of hate is to show how we are all the same and that it is just unfair to be treated differently, just like Kaya did with Gabi.
I love how the closer to the end of the video you get, the more chapters and unnecessary breaks there are. Truly beautiful story telling
This video is the best summarized explanation of AoT's brilliance I've ever seen
Appreciate the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
broooooooo...!
agree.
I agree, the ending just made sense, especially with humanity going into war again. Most of the hate for the ending came from that one armin line in the manga and from edgelord yaegerists who wanted eren to be the chad god titan to wipe out humanity. They didnt understand the character at all
Nort really man. Alot of hate also came from how rushed the ending is and how almost all the rules are forgotten with strange plot holes. I really think this ending genuinely ruins the writing and Eren's Character.
@@danko6712 okay tell me what’s wrong wit it?
100% agree. The line in the manga was over focused on and Eren was super misunderstood. There’s a lot people missed I think. Appreciate your comment and support 🙏🏼
@danko6712 what parts did you feel were rushed ?
@@mikasasgarden He probably just means that the ending introduced a lot of important plot details which were never expanded upon nor explained further such as Ymir's relationship with MIkasa. I think it's fine if those things were left up for interpretation
OK, but how do you explain Mikasa never changing and simping for Eren until the very end? Seems a bit counter-intuitive, since she kills Eren, suggesting she has finally moved on from him, only for that to be shown to be false after the ending scene.
She let go of her unreasonable attachment, not her love. Think of the last Airbender when Aang has to unlock his last chakra by letting go of his attachment to Katara to fulfill his role as avatar, because he cannot favor one life over another since he is the symbol of balance and a bridge and whatever. This did not mean he stopped caring for her. It meant he would not be blind to the bigger picture. This is how I take Mikassas story, Erin is always the one who showed her how to fight for herself. But only in the end is she able to separate the boy who helped her at her weakest from the monster who needs to be stopped. He is both but she is no longer blind to the latter.
Do you forget about a loved one when they die? DO you throw away their belongings? Her character massively progressed in thinking beyond eren with reason to do the necessary but that doesnt have to go along with her letting go of her love at all.
@Just_a_30 bro she literally died on his grave and visited it often if not every day. That is NOT moving on.
@@ogstef It's like your parents to pass away, you keep on living and visit their grave to show respect and how much you loved them in life. This act doesn't mean you haven't moved on.
Kenny’s line is so important for understanding the ending
“Everyone had to spend their lives drunk on something. Everyone was a slave to something… even him”
I think I’m lucky I watched attack on titan as my first anime ever, I knew nothing about it besides the colab in FORTNITE. I saw no trailers knew no spoilers, no fan theories between seasons I went in completely blind. It took me 2 weeks to finish the entire series cuz I just couldn’t put it down. And I loved every second of it. The feeling of watching something new and blind at a show of this quality was insane. I had no idea people hated the ending. Until watching this vid. This is also the only vid I’ve seen if someone explaining AOT
Honestly that's a pretty awesome way to get introduced to the show and to anime in general! Watching something blind without being aware of where the community stands definitely is a blessing.
I'm honored to be your first and only explanation video! Hope you enjoyed, really happy you came across it!
You are blessed to have watched AOT without being tainted by haters ruining the experience in between episodes of the last season
lol just check the final episodes ratings, its almost universally loved.
terrific video, love the pace & presentation throughout
i've watered mikasa's garden 🧑🌾
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I feel like being Eren is a lot of peoples fantasy. They are angry at the world and they think if they were just more powerful than everybody else combined they could live the life theyve always dreamed of. But violence can never be the answer to violence. Eren tried to solve a problem and never understood that the change had to come from within. The ending is realistic and Eren was trapped in his mind and like you said never free at all.
Honestly super facts. I agree and love the take!
So self defense bad, got it
Really scary
@@randomusername3873 stop 😂
“Perfect”? Lmao 😂
Imagine eating a delicious meal but the last bite is literal dog shit. You are telling me you are eating that as your favorite meal and sharing it with others knowing the last bite is dog shit.
This video is amazing. It summarizes all of the complex themes and motivations in such a concise way. Wow, just wow. Hats off to you, sir.
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Ik this vid is old, another point that people seem to miss, the boy walking into the tree was not chased in there by people hurting him, hunting him, hes curious and he has a little dog companion, a completely different circumstance from ymir going into the tree. also the singing when the scene is taking place translated is repeating the sentiment "children getting out of the forest". Its a bleak, nihilistic, brutal ending, but there is the chance for optimism, maybe the story we witnessed was for nothing...or it planted the seeds for a possibly better future.
I'm also late and the ending is still bad all of aot themes and complex story reduced to eren random love at the end
@@Iamthesword995 You're just regurgitating what the echo chambers on Reddit like to say. AOT's themes are still there at the very end. Nothing is "reduced". If you think Eren never loved Mikasa, you should have paid more attention. Did you forget the scene where Eren literally says "you guys mean more to me than anything"???
@gigabit6226 Idc abt eremika bro it was never that deep and it's a love story we only saw it from eren side at the end and yeah they were reduced to friendship and stocklohm syndrome
Also, its established that the "titan power" is tied to intent.
Ymirs intent was to survive in a desperate situation, so she needed destructive power.
The kid was just being curious.
Well said. One of the best pieces of media to watch again and experience a completely new perspective from it. It really is a fantastic show, and I’m thankful to have had the chance to experience its greatness.
Feel the exact same ! Appreciate you
I finished this show literally ten minutes ago. This was my second anime ever. All I knew going into season 4 was that the ending was controversial. I cried my eyes out, and I hated the fact that it had to be this way in the story. But it was a good thing. You as the viewer are SUPPOSED to be heartbroken. And in the end, Eren got the ending he wanted. This story was so tragic and beautiful. The greatest show of all time.
Same i finished 5 min ago i cried but i still wanted eren to win to do what he wants to destroy everithing or gets peace i just wanted that he wins
Finally someone who agrees the ending was actually a genius. But your explanation is very well done which justifies this reason even more.
It was stupid AF I mean what's the meaning of delaying war and distraction why don't just finish one race he already killed 80%. Also ending literally ruined, absolutely butchered Eran's character he went from gigachad to stupid emotional crybaby in one episode. Saying I am stupid,I don't know what I am doing,I don't know why I killed 80% of humanity.
Great essay, made me think (even though I already loved the ending). A side note about the "I'll kill them all!" line. Even if you disregard time loop shenanigans and take him as only meaning Titans... it's still a chilling portent. Eren was always shown as intensely hateful and violent in a way that freaked out people around him, many of whom had lost just as much as him. It was accepted by them because he was either their friend or a useful ally, and by us because he's the protagonist. It's no surprise (okay, I was surprised, but with hindsight) that his genocidal rage didn't abate just because the conflict turned out to be with the rest of humanity. It's like you said, he never grew out of that childish impulse that he could only solve problems with violence.
For real. I’m rewatching the show currently and damn, Eren’s character really hit different the second time around. In season 4, we all hate Gabi, but she essentially who Eren is in seasons 1-3, but we didn’t hate him then. He was the hero, overcoming the enemies and fighting for his friends. It isn’t until Gabi feels that same hatred towards the characters we know and love and Eren starts going off the deep end that we start to question it. But the red flags were always there. His extremism was just aimed at those who the narrative showed to be enemies, but in Eren’s mind that narrative changes to be the rest of the world.
This was a brilliant analysis. Been watching many videos analyzing the ending ever since it aired almost 3 months ago and you've brought up elements that I had not seen so far but that make perfect sense
Thank you so much! I’m really glad you liked it, this comment means a lot. My goal was to touch on things that others hadn’t already so I’m happy to hear I did 🙏🏼
This video is 10/10. You actually changed my mind about the ending with this. For me Ymir’s story felt a little out of left field and I had a hard time reconciling it but you really brought it into perspective for me. Eren didn’t know how to be free. Ymir didn’t know how to be free. The characters who make it out to the end are the ones who have the resolve to confront the things that chain them and change as people. Brilliant.
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The ending does the same thing the Cellar episode did. Huge twist that can take a while to process but upon rewatching makes so much more sense. I remember when I first saw the revelation of the world beyond. I was past being shocked. I was confused. It took me a while to process what I had just learned because the show had already changed its identity several times up until that point and then we hot hit with that. It was insane. I feel the same way about the ending. It really does make sense if you watch the show as a whole. If all you have in your memory is the show since the cellar reveal then I can 100% see why you'd be disappointed. But when you remember where we started it makes more than perfect sense. Perfect show. 10 out of 10.
100% agree. Rewatch from the start really increases the overall impact and context for the ending
@@mikasasgarden Definitely. I prefer the dub and while the last episodes were taking FOREVER to be dubbed I decided to re-watch. Made all the difference in the world.
I loved the ending. So much. Many tears cried. But also, I was really disappointed with how side-lined Historia was. Her character never felt fully fleshed out after her losing Ymir and killing her father and becoming queen (even just proxy queen). By the end it was great that she was happy in motherhood, but that was ALSO forced on her just in case they needed to continue passing on titans. I really really wanted just a little something to wrap up her character. Annie felt a little jipped too. I mean, think of how much Reiner was developed. Albeit Annie was in crystal for years, but also something felt missing. I LOVED Annie. Would have loved to see more with her, too
She wasn't forced into motherhood, she chose it so that she could avoid inheriting the beast titan by delaying it long enough that Eren could go through with the rumbling thus making it no longer necessary to inherit it.
Oh my god, finally someone who understands the genius behind the ending. Amazing video
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Can't believe it's over what a journey it was. It will always be close to my heart and remain my favorite story. Believe me or not i was before watching it i used to be kind of a hater and I never would've guessed it would be the best watch experience i had watching a show. this was a amazing analysis
This was a really good breakdown of the ending and puts it in a new light for me thanks!
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While I did enjoy hearing your analysis and do, in fact, agree that Eren was never actually free, there is still something else to consider. One of the biggest issues is that the ending makes the entire story deterministic. Predeterminism would actually be the most accurate term to describe the laws of aot, based on how it ended. I mean, Eren didn't just see visions of the future; he saw MEMORIES of the future, and that makes the future even more set in stone than just visions or premonitions. Plus, "he" was also able to change or influence events in the past. I put he in quotes there because Eren didn't technically change those events. Because "Eren" changed the past, those subsequent past events are what lead him to get to the point where "he" altered those events (thus making it predetermined). You also did bring up scenes that actually showed us that Eren had no say in the matter; he described times where he wanted to change the future memory he had seen, but he still ended up acting in a way that was conducive to the predetermined events. That's kind of why I didn't love the last few episodes of the series. But I did enjoy watching your video. 😊
But the pretederminism in aot doesn't work like is a greek myth. This isn't an Oedipus situation where Eren tries to change the future and that's what leads to it. Eren can't change the future he sees because deep down it's what he wanted. This is seen really well in the scene with Ramzi. He knows he will save the child at that moment, thinks that if he doesn't he will successfully change the future, and still saves him on his own volition. Because Eren is the type of person that cannot bear to see a child beat up and not do something while being capable of trampling that same child when his own freedom is on the line.
Aot is literally deterministic because of eren himself bro
It’s because he can’t change
Remember the ramzi scene ?
There if he hadn’t saved him then future could have changed but eren saved him because deep down he couldn’t let him be beaten up by those people
Honestly it reminds me of a reflection of addiction. It's the weakness of humans that we can easily know and understand what would be the best choice, or at least a better choice, but we will still choose to dig ourselves in a deeper hole because, well, we are weak in some regards. Our habits/nature rule some of us.
It's... quite meta. As in, Eren's dangerously close to making commentary on being a fictional character devised by a man who draws comics for a living.
@@angelamengualcortinas3614 Predeterminism is still predeterminism regardless of how it is carried out. The reason why I find the ending unsatisfying is because everything became pointless when it was stated that everything has already been set in stone and Eren couldn't change his future or the future of humanity. The author tried the copout of "well, even though it is predetermined it is the future Eren wanted". If Eren did want that future, then why did he "time-travel" into the past to try to change it? The ending makes the story contradict itself. I believe the author got so lost in his own threads that he just wanted a quick ending and move on to another project.
I've never understood the hate the ending received
Incredible analysis. Incredible summary collecting the most relevant and important data about the series and its characters, the message that Isayama tries to give us with each of them, and with the history of SNK.
As we say in Spain "Bravo".
Thank you very much for making such good content of this piece of work of art. Masterpiece in every rule!
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You summarized this perfectly! Thank you 👏🏼👏🏼
This is the best video about the ending I've seen. I encourage you to make more attack on titan videos. Maybe a broader video about attack on titan that goes over the genius writing touching on all the insane plot twists, foreshadowing, paradoxes, character arcs, etc. Something that I can send to people who don't give it a 10/10 lol, already actually been doing that with this video
Really appreciate that! I will definitely try to make more attack on titan videos in the future. Excited to read the new levi chapter! Thanks so much for your support
What a well written Analysis! Beautiful!
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Great explanation, also I'm glad he said how he felt about Mikasa
What a beautiful summation as to why this ending was absolutely perfecto! So much thought and care put into explaining a lot! Definitely gonna do some shorts now…inspired…thanks for the inspiration and great content!
The line about the walls walking with him was amazing!! I had to rewind that line. 6:09
I thought it was perfect and kinda the only way they could have ended it. Imagine being, they're 19 by then end right? Don't quote me but all the sudden he gets the power to see the past present and future all at once, and all the trauma on top of that, I mean how would you deal? It's the stuff I think people forget.
Agreed. People forget that Eren literally is still at teenager dealing with trauma at 19. I’m not sure why some people think it’s so controversial for Eren to feel like he’s an idiot, because the reality is, why should we expect at 19 year old to know how to solve global centuries-old issues of conflict, violence and racism?
Brilliant POV! will save and share this video for future discussions when i need to show the depth of the storyline and ending. you explained the complexity and beauty of every plot. i think it's a masterpiece and to people who says otherwise, fight me!
Eren has the same motivation of freedom throughout the show, and the only reason it is "futile" is because he keeps learning more and the scope of the situation changes. He has to learn about the outside world and all the new threats. But when he touches Historia's hand and then when he gets the founding titan's powers and begins the rumbling, it is no longer futile. He finally has all the knowledge and all the power necessary to get the freedom he always wanted, to be free of the oppression against him and his people.
Just saying "Eren is childish" is very, reductive. All the examples you give are literally Eren fighting for freedom. He wasn't some suicidal maniac or just extremely childish. He was extremely driven towards his goal of freedom. That's what defines his character. Eren's future visions massively changed him. Why are you saying all the character development not happening is actually part of a good story?
Eren isn't a slave to hatred, and wasn't ever since touching Historia's hand and experiencing life in Marley. A slave to freedom doesn't even make sense, so it's weird people say it so much. He is being oppressed. He wants to be free. This is somehow a bad thing? When he finally gets free, he will no longer need to fight to be free.
You can't talk about Eren being powerful and then say that he has no power. That makes no sense. Either Eren can choose, or he can't. And why does everyone get causation backwards and say that he can't choose because determinism", forgetting that his choices are what determines the outcome.
Ymir can't fathom freedom, but Eren doe so very well, hence being driven towards it.
Eren does utilize his power correctly. The story makes it clear that the entire world is about to go and destroy Paradis. It's them or the world. Eren chooses to save Paradis.
Ymir makes the past titan shifters fight. That isn't standing back and doing nothing.
How would Eren be free by running off with Mikasa? Eren was literally trapped in walls, not free, hence his driving motivation, and only by fighting did he start to escape them.
Mikasa did not let Eren go though. She kissed his head. She constantly visited his grave, dragging her family with her. She was literally buried with her scarf.
It's fine to say it is just the ending which is unenjoyed, but given that the ending retcons so much, it retroactively ruins the rest of the show for many people.
The mental gymnastics AOT fans tell themselves to justify an ambiguous ending is wild. Switching themes past the midpoint of the story is a recipe for mediocre writing which is what this show became. Stop defending the indefensible look many video essays there are parroting that this show is masterpiece its so cringe. You Fanatic fans need an echo chamber, cause no one who watched the show is going to rate this a 10 with that bozo ending. *the story intentionally ends unresolved- OMG its perfect a masterpiece.... yikes AOT fans how far you've fallen
Literally so true
I love how it's accepted that the titans will come back, like wtf
love how people will defend an anime where the mary sue tries to mirror ymir by letting go and she cant even let go of eren. its great to know that after 4 seasons mikasa hasnt changed at all and still talks to his literal grave. "masterpiece" lol, have these diehard fans even watched anything else?
Fr bruh, people don’t see the beauty of this show before they would put it down for its controversial ending. You said it right that they are slaves to their expectations lol. The symbolism in the show was beautiful, as well as the pace and development.
Wow.. you absolutely killed it with this video. Great work. Wonderfully articulated points. Love it
That was legitimately one of the best videos ive seen on this platform
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@@mikasasgardenso your telling me mikasa was the first person in 2000 years to let go pf her dream
I am.scared to say, but the more I think about it, the true main character is Mikasa, and Eren was the driving force of her journey.
Everything was riding on Mikasa, what she did and how she did it would lead to either the end of the Rumbling, or to the end of humanity completely
She changes through the show, despite her love for Eren. Eren may be seen as the main character, but the thing is Eren never really changed. He was never given the chance or the choice to change.
In reality, Eren is was the unwilling villain while Mikasa was the unintentional heroine of the story. They both need each other, yet only one was going to actuallybring Ymir peace, and in the end, it was Mikasa's act of killing the love of her life that ended everything.
Amazing video, thank you❤
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Absolutely perfect video man, even down to the calling out to the people doubting the ending reminding us we are also slaves. Wonderful tie in and in depth explanation of the beauty of this show.
I love how you said that Eren is still trapped within the walls
That was a brilliant video, well done you got a new fan!
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This review it's just AMAZING.
The ending is great when considering what they cooked up in S1 - S3. The author said himself that he started the story with the ending in mind. I understand this, but people just like to see a happy end. I won't pretend I'm not like this too, I would've loved a happy ending, there wouldn't have been such a discourse between the fans. Such "happy end" was however basically imposible from the very beggining because of the way the story was headed.
Great video. You did a phenomenal job breaking down why the ending was the most natural conclusion to the story. I’ve found it hard articulating to friends who disagree why and now I’m just going to send them this video!
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Attack on titan is one of the greatest stories ever told. It asks questions that most authors are afraid to ask, and because of this it is up there with the works of people like J.R.R Tolkien and Shakespeare.
Bro do not compare it to Shakespeare
All the questions it asks has already been done before it's a good anime with a good premise but nowhere near the big 3 let alone Shakespeare
Honestly I agree with this lmao my personal opinion is that it’s probably one of the best stories ever told across all mediums
@@StudioReinernowhere near the big 3? That's crazy
wdym the big 3 are the big 3 for a reason aot not surpassing them anytime soon if ever@@user-qx1id1dt8x
What kinda crack you are sniffing?
That was an amazing review very well, executed I like what you said. Amazing I love them man really
Eren’s last scenes are reminiscent of Bertholdt’s death. Even when Bert man’d up, he still was ultimately a 17 year old facing death. Of course you can expect him to cry out like a child, he still was one. Both put into the terrible rock and hard places but knowing they had to at least act, even if they didn’t want to (double entendre).
He is a slave to ymir and attack titan..his action is the inevitable..his choice was like dr. strange’s choice, the only possibly acceptable future..that’s what people never understand, always thinking that Eren has becoming a villain..it’s mentioned clearly, he has played the scene in his head again and again and again, and this is the only way
this is the best video that describes my thoughts perfectly its like you reached into my skull thank you
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The entire story makes zero sense whatsoever the moment you realize ymir can time travel and change the past
The entire "oh she was waiting for mikasa to free her" is completely pointless once you take into account her ability to change the past
That is the whole point, despite having great powers, Ymir was powerless because of her being unable to make choices on her own. She was the bystander, following orders, exactly as she is shown everytime she appears on screen or manga panels. Despite all her powers, she comes back to serve her abuser King Fritz.
@@Tatakhaenope. ymir can travel back in time and change the past
She could have just done that once she became free in the end and just didn't for no reason
And it's not only ymir, but all the founding titans as well (at least the ones pre king Fritz)
I totally agree.
Most people just want a happy ending for everything and cannot handle the fact the ending wasnt that even though eventually for the whole situation it had a slight positive note as eren did create a short time of peace, which ofcourse slowly gets on course towards the ouroboros of repeating history.
Also symbolicly it was perfectly set up for this, which I sometimes have a feeling a big portion of viewers symbolic stuff flies over their head.
I never heard a single person complain there wasn't an happy ending
If anything people complain it was too happy
Have you ending enjoyers ever bothered to actually listen to some criticism?
@@randomusername3873 Ending enjoyers???? Are we a fucking type of animal or something??
The greatest thing this show accomplished in the end was that it made stupid people feel smart 🤣🤦🏻.
Yeah definitely, especially people that cannot differentiate good writing and character consistency from retcons and plot contrivances 💀
they just end up writing essays on why erenmikasa is good and crucial to the plot lmao
good analysis, good quality video as well. Very underrated!
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The ending was epic, people just don't even understand the meaning of "WAR". Erwin explained it best in season 2: "there can only be peace when there's only 1 human left on this earth" - so no matter what Eren does or doesn't do (wiping 100% of humanity excepts for Paradis) - they will start their own civil war like what we've seen earlier in the show.
Reasons to why it’s a terrible ending.
1 How did his friends survive the titans? They lose Sasha to 3 titan shifters and 2 kids but lose no one against 100s of titan shifters?
2. Zeke dying shouldn’t of stopped the rumbling. Ymir’s goal was to destroy the world so why didn’t Ymir just continue the rumbling after zeke died?’
3. Zeke should of stopped the rumbling earlier because his dad telling him “ please stop Eren” didn’t give him motivation to die so he can stop it but armin showing a ball did?
4. How did mikasa free Ymir?😂 and no it isn’t because she was able to kill her lover and move on no no no she didn’t move on for crap she still had that scarf on and got buried next to Eren.
5.Ymir doesn't have Stockholm’s syndrome, if she did why did she not heal herself when a spear went through her? If she had Stockholm’s syndrome she would of had the will to live for the king. Ymir’s character is terrible. She is in the paths because she is a slave to Fritz but disobeyed him ?
6 Eren ch139 (last 30 mins)
“ I’m an idiot”
“I don’t know why I did the
rumbling”
“ I moved forward for mikasas choice”
“ I did it to portray u as heroes” 💀💀💀💀
“ I would of killed them all if u didn’t stop me”
Pre ch139
“Ill keep moving forward until I destroy my enemies “
“The only way to end the cycle of hatred is to bury it”😂
7.Ain’t no soul answering this question. If Ymir can see the future then why did Ymir wait till mikasa kills Eren who somehow frees her when she can see the future and knows that mikasa will kill Eren? Why did she wait for it to happen when she knows what the result is? She should of been free since she entered paths
8. What was the point of destroying 80%? eldia got destroyed. What did he achieve by doing that? He made the outer world hate eldians more and doomed paradises safety which he promised ( Eren only cared about Eldias safety not cycle of hatred so eldia bombing themselves is irrelevant for him)
9. What was the reason for the rumbling ?
It defo wasn’t to make them look like hero’s because Eren said if u didn’t stop me I would of killed them all which is a contradiction.
10. Erens mom death was pointless. He already said he killed her because it wasn’t bertholdt time yet which means it wasn’t to fuel his hate for titans💀He already had the determination to lead him were he already is. When mikasa’s parents got killed he said “ if anyone tried to take away my freedom I won’t hesitate to take theirs” he also said to his dad that the kidnappers were scum and animals that needed to die. Eren before his moms death wanted to join the survey corps and venture outside the walls. If he found out the world wants to kill him he would of started the rumbling because they tried to take his freedom and we knew what Eren thinks about that. Erens view of freedom was killing everyone outside the walls so he 100% has the determination to do the rumbling. (Anyone who says Eren view of freedom wasn’t killing everyone u need to rewatch the last episode where he was talking to ramzi the kid
11. In ch130 ( episode where the ships get destroyed in Marley) Eren thinks about his mom getting eaten by the titan and it being his main motivation for the rumbling which makes no sense since Eren should know that he killed his mom because this is when he sent armin to paths and told him everything.
12.The whole Eren at the cabin scene. How did eren interact with mikasas memories? She is an Ackerman he Shouldn't be able to do that. people who are saying this is a different timeline pls provide ur proof. If it is a different timeline why does Eren have titan marks? Why do they also grow bigger the closer Eren gets to death? They become massive when she is holding erens head representing that it was a fake memory. The bigger the titans marks the closer she gets to reality
13. Eren crying like a baby for mikasa is a retcon. When did Eren ever cry like this for mikasa? He alway pushed mikasa away from him. When Eren found out he has a 8 years to live mikasa was in jail with him, did he care about her then? No he didn’t even care about mikasa when he found out he dosnt have long left to live even isayama said mikasa is a mother figure for him so how exactly does him crying like a baby fit his character?
14. Eren said to armin he will show them the memories after he gets killed but shows it to mikasa before he gets killed?
15. How did Eren turn into the collosal titan after zeke died and the worm left him ?😂😂😂
16. There was literally no point in the rumbling, the outside worlds wants to kill then because their just eldian. What makes Eren think destroying 80% of the world then letting armin kill you to look like a hero does? Stop them from hating eldians? No😂 they will hate u more
@@aotgoat3267 by you just asking the 1st question then I already know that you don't understand the whole story at all. Eren is just another arrogant, selfish and a fool (which 80% of us are) that wants nothing but to see his friends and the people he cared for on the island live longer, so why would Ymir and Eren let their own titans kill off his friends ???
@@LukeNguyen174 Eren already got his friends killed😂😂😂 Sasha and hange💀😂😂
Sasha dies because according to Eren's future memories-which bounds to happen and out of his control, if he hadn't execute the attack on Marley, Sasha and his friends will be alive for a few more months before the entire world execute their attack on Paradis, which would have been too late -Sasha's death was crucial for this to happen and Eren knows it (Hence the laugh in S4 part 1 where he failed to stop his visions to becoming reality)
-Fun fact for you, she was meant to die in Season 2 when she saved that little girl Kaya, the Titan was meant to use his hands and crack her head in two but the editor broke down in tears and begged Isayama to prolong her life even further to this point
@@aotgoat3267 Hange dies because that's her own free will, is to "Exit in the coolest way possible" while bursting out the tears of joy and curiosity, she was ready to meet Erwin and her comrades
Brilliant. Not a single wasted word.
Appreciate this 🙏
Exactly. Eren was no genius or tactical or battle mastermind. He was just an above average kid. Heck, if he wasn’t a titan shifter his story would’ve ended in the Santa Claus titan.
Attack on Titan overall 9/10 story, 5/10 manga ending, 7/10 anime ending.
Perfect? Nope.
true, "perfect" is a hyperbole. It's just a good show. But there isn't any show that is legitimately "perfect"
I think Eren never got more choices on pursuing his freedom, saving his friends, fighting Marley or ending the Titans even if he not used Rumbling but lived his life peacefully as we can see on one last scene with Eren and Mikasa where both are living together but then Marley army attacked Paradise Island..Imagine seeing all the future alternatives where only massacre is a choice to save your friends but you with your human emotions can’t act on it this contradiction is what Eren felt when seeing all the future scenes.
I gotta agree with you on this point Eren represents Us Humanity with all the contradictions.
Loved this video I think Isayama wanted the show this as you’ve explained.
An ending on par with Game of Thrones,
And just like GoT we have AoT fans who can't help themselves except to ignore all of the plot armor, plot convenience, retcons, and terrible execution of the ending.
i knew aot fans were annoying but ever since i ended up watching it and seeing the amount of fans calling it a masterpiece i knew immediately that the fanbase ignores flaws
@@chillfrosted2670 To be fair, all fanbases do that and it will never not be annoying.
@ nah not all of them. i specifically said masterpiece because ive seen many AOT fans say that across several comment sections. i mean i can even say in jojo, the fandom doesnt do that. im pretty sure many people know that part 1 jojo was widely disliked, and thats in the community so it wasnt too divided
Really good explanation!
People hate the ending because they think it was all for nothing. But they fail to realise that's exactly why it's the perfect finale
We hate the ending because of how they handle eren character in the finale
They changed him into an idiot loser
Before the eren crying scene, Eren was a guy who literally ripped off his leg and eyes for the future of paradise
@@titasreference964And? What, you think someone can't have regrets and insecurities while also being capable of doing badass things?
@@titasreference964 Boo hoo, Eren cried about the fact he’ll never see his loved ones again. He’s not a chad anymore wah wah
It feels like a complete waste of time, a decade long investment. What was the point of all that fighting? Eren is a tragic character, with the addition of Mikasa's descendant and the creation of a new line of titans by Eren (Titan tree). They should have stuck with the original manga ending...it all feels so rushed (new ending) in attempt to prolong the story further for money.
@vintage2983 The point was that Eren did end the threat of the titans for a long time and most of the people he loved lived happy lives. He was never going to secure eternal peace or ensure Paradis survived forever because human beings fight each other. The whole point of Armin's chat with Zeke was pointing out that tiny, beautiful things make life worth living in a world of cruelty, and that his (and by extension Eren's) obsession with purpose and inability to enjoy those things ruined both of them.
phenomenal insight, I agree to it all, it expresses my thoughts exactly, thank you
Thank you right back !
Seriously brilliant mate. This is is spot on. I love this show.
I agree I love the ending attack on Titan so much
I think the concept is fine but Eren being in love with Mikasa was just fanfiction this is pretty obvious. And his motivation is quite I don’t know why I did it I just felt like it that was his final reason
I've always loved the ending. I don't care about the controversy because i know its a masterpiece. Thank you for this video its amazing 🔥
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video and the ending 🔥
is that really the theme of the story that isayama came up with? "war never ends, humans will always fight" or is that just a easy copout for a character that he completely ruined when he made eren say "its all because im an idiot". If the theme really is that war never ends, why did he make eren do all these things and suffer in his life in order to complete the rumbling, but in the end have him state that he did it just because he wanted to. Is that how humans act during war? Are wars started and ended just because "they can" ?? Is the boy at the tree in the end gonna start a rumbling again and state on his deathbed "I did all this because im an idiot"? Its a tone-deaf way to approach the theme of a continuous loop that forgets to acknowledge that you have to have true motivations for war. Violence isnt started because you want to see the world burn, its done due to suffering that you have faced. Its because your mom died, your house gets destroyed, your city gets toppled. All things that motivated eren to go and accomplish his goal of revenge. But in the end you have to forget all these motivations and realize that its all for nothing, its all a facade for a boy that just wanted to do it just because. What a idiotic end to one of the greatest stories ever, a theme that was so forced by bad writing that people had to resort to calling it the point of the story. The theme has always been fight, fight no matter what you face or what is blocking your way.
its a 3 step clock cycle (war restoration peace) that the human race has followed and always will follow you sound like an idealistic ignorant idiot. Eren was an idiot from the start of the show and then started seeing past present and future all at once, even if you were a genius your brain would be in shambles. The point of Eren killing the world was really simple, to let his family live in the time of restoration and peace, a freedom that Eren chased but could only give to his family and friends and well 20% of the population, and your idea of "fight fight no matter what" is only a piece of the human endurance which is just a human nature its just best showcased when people are in times of war. its not an overarching theme; the overarching theme being the cycles that humans operate in, and as long as life prevails, so does death. Its just funny to me that you think you know how to wrap up Hajimes absolute masterpiece of a story better than the genius himself who spent his life working on it, and clearly knew where he was going from the start.
PS: when I speak of "the cycles" Im referring to far more than the clock cycle I spoke of at the beginning things like the repetition of shortcomings and dream chasing and inabilites, and failures through stupidity, a trait demonstrated by all but most obviously a parallel drawn between Ymir, and Eren. Or how temporary it all is, theres much to "cycles" and I didnt realize until making this that it would likely fly over the head of someone of your intellectual caliber: you.
@@data7170ah yes, he went crazy when he accessed the paths, unlike all the named character in the story that did the same thing without loosing their minds, lol
@@randomusername3873 so I take it your an idiot?
@@randomusername3873 oh wow another dun ce who thinks they know how to finish a masterpiece better than its creator. Sadly youtube has the dumbest anti keyword and flags the most base line insults. So im not repeating my 2 page essay to you sadly only my PS will be your argument as your even more unintelligent than the commentor I responded to if you genuinely could only muster up that as an argument, which in itself is only proof of your inability to pay attention to anyone and anything but the main character.
You are speaking the truth, Eren was always imposed and was always doomed to the path he was going for. The rumbling was a perfect example of pointless action done by a person who never grew up and refused to see beyond the world they see. The only problem I had was the fall of Paradis. I strongly believe that Paradis should have been destroyed in the manga over the anime destruction of Paradis, it gives me a bad taste in my mouth that 1000s years have passed by yet Paradis still stands in peace without paying a price for the rumbling gives a horrible message and this part of the Manga is the one thing I want to keep. It makes more sense that only 50 years have pass instead of 1000s.
How man ?, the 20% humanity left, they need time to recover from the rumbling first, before attacking paradis again, this explains the 1000s years, and finally they nuke the island just for revenge and payback...thus continues the cycle of hate.
In the manga, the author added 5 pages that showed paradis getting destroyed in like 50yrs. In the anime it transitioned way better into that part. Also armin saying we'll join you in hell instead of thanking eren for killing 80% of the world was way better. Mikasa romance and ymirs stockholm syndrome is still mad cringey but what can you do
Mikasa is literal npc only things say Eren! But mikasa s1 better than this ermika fan fiction ending story is about end cycle of hatred/racism not a love story .That's way extra confirms people who read knows this will happen before it was add
I don’t really agree much since I think it would diminish the rest of the allies and paradis who didn’t condone the rumbling and tried to stop him. They were set up at the end to try and negotiate peace talks with both sides and it’s nicer to know they had some amount of success rather than none. I can partially agree that it’s weird they went all the way to futuristic before war struck again it should’ve been only a couple hundred years, but I do think it’s a harsher end to have paradis get destroyed immidietly because not everyone in paradis is responsible. It’s the same as saying the rumbling was deserved because the every person in the world is responsible for eldian oppression
@maxlewis234 its less about it being deserved and more about the fact, other countries in the world would most likely want retribution for what happened. I can imagine a ceasefire happening since they might still be afraid of the titans but once they realize their out of the picture, their leaders and government might use that as a chance to get revenge on paradis
Kenny also achieved freedom, tho after the point his dream was unattainable. That episode is also the crucial for the overarching theme n msg of the show
I agree with most of it, but i also see that youre missing a lot out of the story. In 3:30 he wasnt conflicted on whether saving the kid is futile or not, what really happened was that he was trying to convince himself that saving the kid is futile because if he didnt save the kid, it would prove that he can change his predetermined future, but he did, and he realized that he couldnt change his fate.
And yes, he was always immature, always a kid, and he was an idiot, but the way people obsess over the fact that he was an idiot ignore the fact that if he had succeeded a happy ending, even with the same dumb actions, no one would be calling him an idiot. It seems idiocy is completely dependent on results rather than the process. You see, Eren is like any other human, he is simply conditioned by his own set of circumstances, just like everyone else.
The reason why so many people cant see this is because we want to believe that we're different, that we're smarter and can clearly see out own faults when we commit them. The truth is, you are doing the same "idiotic" things as eren all the time, you just don't see it because it comes from your own reasons and circumstances. You do things based on your current situation and capabilities, and looking at it retrospectively eliminates the ressoning behind those actions and leaves us with our dumb results, ignoring all the effort and thought we put in them.
I firmly believe that whoever disliked the ending, didn't actually like or pay attention to aot. No other explaination tbh
I would like to disagree, the ending heavily contradicted the buildup to that point in the story:
Eren mentioned numerous times that the cycle of hatred can only be eliminated if all life outside the walls were eliminated. Then he suddenly switched to 80% and then claims that his reasoning is because "hes an idiot".
@cobraz3845 false, he didn't switch to 80%, he said that the plan was to destroy everything but paradis, but in the future he saw that he would have been stopped when he had already destroyed 80% of the world and was happy with that because it meant paradis would be save for his friends' lifespan. Also realized that the hatred can't be stopped for a long time (even inside the walls there were factions that killed each other), he just wanted to make his friends' lives better and "free", doesn't care about the future. He's an egoistic character and did an egoistic act, no contradictions.
Reasons to why it’s a terrible ending.
1 How did his friends survive the titans? They lose Sasha to 3 titan shifters and 2 kids but lose no one against 100s of titan shifters?
2. Zeke dying shouldn’t of stopped the rumbling. Ymir’s goal was to destroy the world so why didn’t Ymir just continue the rumbling after zeke died?’
3. Zeke should of stopped the rumbling earlier because his dad telling him “ please stop Eren” didn’t give him motivation to die so he can stop it but armin showing a ball did?
4. How did mikasa free Ymir?😂 and no it isn’t because she was able to kill her lover and move on no no no she didn’t move on for crap she still had that scarf on and got buried next to Eren.
5.Ymir doesn't have Stockholm’s syndrome, if she did why did she not heal herself when a spear went through her? If she had Stockholm’s syndrome she would of had the will to live for the king. Ymir’s character is terrible. She is in the paths because she is a slave to Fritz but disobeyed him ?
6 Eren ch139 (last 30 mins)
“ I’m an idiot”
“I don’t know why I did the
rumbling”
“ I moved forward for mikasas choice”
“ I did it to portray u as heroes” 💀💀💀💀
“ I would of killed them all if u didn’t stop me”
Pre ch139
“Ill keep moving forward until I destroy my enemies “
“The only way to end the cycle of hatred is to bury it”😂
7.Ain’t no soul answering this question. If Ymir can see the future then why did Ymir wait till mikasa kills Eren who somehow frees her when she can see the future and knows that mikasa will kill Eren? Why did she wait for it to happen when she knows what the result is? She should of been free since she entered paths
8. What was the point of destroying 80%? eldia got destroyed. What did he achieve by doing that? He made the outer world hate eldians more and doomed paradises safety which he promised ( Eren only cared about Eldias safety not cycle of hatred so eldia bombing themselves is irrelevant for him)
9. What was the reason for the rumbling ?
It defo wasn’t to make them look like hero’s because Eren said if u didn’t stop me I would of killed them all which is a contradiction.
10. Erens mom death was pointless. He already said he killed her because it wasn’t bertholdt time yet which means it wasn’t to fuel his hate for titans💀He already had the determination to lead him were he already is. When mikasa’s parents got killed he said “ if anyone tried to take away my freedom I won’t hesitate to take theirs” he also said to his dad that the kidnappers were scum and animals that needed to die. Eren before his moms death wanted to join the survey corps and venture outside the walls. If he found out the world wants to kill him he would of started the rumbling because they tried to take his freedom and we knew what Eren thinks about that. Erens view of freedom was killing everyone outside the walls so he 100% has the determination to do the rumbling. (Anyone who says Eren view of freedom wasn’t killing everyone u need to rewatch the last episode where he was talking to ramzi the kid
11. In ch130 ( episode where the ships get destroyed in Marley) Eren thinks about his mom getting eaten by the titan and it being his main motivation for the rumbling which makes no sense since Eren should know that he killed his mom because this is when he sent armin to paths and told him everything.
12.The whole Eren at the cabin scene. How did eren interact with mikasas memories? She is an Ackerman he Shouldn't be able to do that. people who are saying this is a different timeline pls provide ur proof. If it is a different timeline why does Eren have titan marks? Why do they also grow bigger the closer Eren gets to death? They become massive when she is holding erens head representing that it was a fake memory. The bigger the titans marks the closer she gets to reality
13. Eren crying like a baby for mikasa is a retcon. When did Eren ever cry like this for mikasa? He alway pushed mikasa away from him. When Eren found out he has a 8 years to live mikasa was in jail with him, did he care about her then? No he didn’t even care about mikasa when he found out he dosnt have long left to live even isayama said mikasa is a mother figure for him so how exactly does him crying like a baby fit his character?
14. Eren said to armin he will show them the memories after he gets killed but shows it to mikasa before he gets killed?
15. How did Eren turn into the collosal titan after zeke died and the worm left him ?😂😂😂
16. There was literally no point in the rumbling, the outside worlds wants to kill then because their just eldian. What makes Eren think destroying 80% of the world then letting armin kill you to look like a hero does? Stop them from hating eldians? No😂 they will hate u more
Additional:
In s2 ep 12 why was Dina there?💀💀 the wall rose never fell. She’s meant to be in wall Maria. Only the titans zeke created should be in wall rose.
@@lorenzodidac465bro he knew what would happen the second he got the founding titan power activated😂💀😂😂
@aotgoat3267 man you are just the average twitter user that would send death treats for fun to mappa staff♿️
Literally every point that isn't ymir related is explained in the show and makes sense and every character is always in-character, you just misunderstood eren and didn't pay much attention to the show I guess.
For the ymir ones there is ambiguity since it is a freakin mute character, how do you expect to make a fair point on the psychology of a mute 2000 years old character lol, that's just dumb. You can criticize the concept of said character, which is a deus ex machina, but you can't make real concrete points about her in the story, a fanboy could make shit up and you couldn't demonstrate him being wrong since we know nothing about her. It was a cheeky way to shortcut and justify a lot of stuff, not the best but it works 🤷🏻♂️
Stay mad and rewatch it since you just proved my point lol
Aot ending is ass the only thing you need to Unterstand that is a brain which many of the aot stans dont have
I love the ending. But I don't think others saying they don't like it means, "They're lying to you."
Reasons to why it’s a terrible ending.
1 How did his friends survive the titans? They lose Sasha to 3 titan shifters and 2 kids but lose no one against 100s of titan shifters?
2. Zeke dying shouldn’t of stopped the rumbling. Ymir’s goal was to destroy the world so why didn’t Ymir just continue the rumbling after zeke died?’
3. Zeke should of stopped the rumbling earlier because his dad telling him “ please stop Eren” didn’t give him motivation to die so he can stop it but armin showing a ball did?
4. How did mikasa free Ymir?😂 and no it isn’t because she was able to kill her lover and move on no no no she didn’t move on for crap she still had that scarf on and got buried next to Eren.
5.Ymir doesn't have Stockholm’s syndrome, if she did why did she not heal herself when a spear went through her? If she had Stockholm’s syndrome she would of had the will to live for the king. Ymir’s character is terrible. She is in the paths because she is a slave to Fritz but disobeyed him ?
6 Eren ch139 (last 30 mins)
“ I’m an idiot”
“I don’t know why I did the
rumbling”
“ I moved forward for mikasas choice”
“ I did it to portray u as heroes” 💀💀💀💀
“ I would of killed them all if u didn’t stop me”
Pre ch139
“Ill keep moving forward until I destroy my enemies “
“The only way to end the cycle of hatred is to bury it”😂
7.Ain’t no soul answering this question. If Ymir can see the future then why did Ymir wait till mikasa kills Eren who somehow frees her when she can see the future and knows that mikasa will kill Eren? Why did she wait for it to happen when she knows what the result is? She should of been free since she entered paths
8. What was the point of destroying 80%? eldia got destroyed. What did he achieve by doing that? He made the outer world hate eldians more and doomed paradises safety which he promised ( Eren only cared about Eldias safety not cycle of hatred so eldia bombing themselves is irrelevant for him)
9. What was the reason for the rumbling ?
It defo wasn’t to make them look like hero’s because Eren said if u didn’t stop me I would of killed them all which is a contradiction.
10. Erens mom death was pointless. He already said he killed her because it wasn’t bertholdt time yet which means it wasn’t to fuel his hate for titans💀He already had the determination to lead him were he already is. When mikasa’s parents got killed he said “ if anyone tried to take away my freedom I won’t hesitate to take theirs” he also said to his dad that the kidnappers were scum and animals that needed to die. Eren before his moms death wanted to join the survey corps and venture outside the walls. If he found out the world wants to kill him he would of started the rumbling because they tried to take his freedom and we knew what Eren thinks about that. Erens view of freedom was killing everyone outside the walls so he 100% has the determination to do the rumbling. (Anyone who says Eren view of freedom wasn’t killing everyone u need to rewatch the last episode where he was talking to ramzi the kid
11. In ch130 ( episode where the ships get destroyed in Marley) Eren thinks about his mom getting eaten by the titan and it being his main motivation for the rumbling which makes no sense since Eren should know that he killed his mom because this is when he sent armin to paths and told him everything.
12.The whole Eren at the cabin scene. How did eren interact with mikasas memories? She is an Ackerman he Shouldn't be able to do that. people who are saying this is a different timeline pls provide ur proof. If it is a different timeline why does Eren have titan marks? Why do they also grow bigger the closer Eren gets to death? They become massive when she is holding erens head representing that it was a fake memory. The bigger the titans marks the closer she gets to reality
13. Eren crying like a baby for mikasa is a retcon. When did Eren ever cry like this for mikasa? He alway pushed mikasa away from him. When Eren found out he has a 8 years to live mikasa was in jail with him, did he care about her then? No he didn’t even care about mikasa when he found out he dosnt have long left to live even isayama said mikasa is a mother figure for him so how exactly does him crying like a baby fit his character?
14. Eren said to armin he will show them the memories after he gets killed but shows it to mikasa before he gets killed?
15. How did Eren turn into the collosal titan after zeke died and the worm left him ?😂😂😂
16. There was literally no point in the rumbling, the outside worlds wants to kill then because their just eldian. What makes Eren think destroying 80% of the world then letting armin kill you to look like a hero does? Stop them from hating eldians? No😂 they will hate u more
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That was a nice video (although the narration a bit too fast for me). I agree with the overall analysis as I had almost zero complaints with the ending myself.
Appreciate your comment and the critique about the narration being fast. Will try to keep it in mind for future videos 🙏🏼 glad you liked the video !
@@mikasasgarden I made the critique with good intentions. The fast-paced narration is a quite common style in youtube. I don't feel comfortable with it, even in my native language, but maybe it's just a personal preference.
Again, that was an interesting analysis about AoT's ending!
Those people who think that the ending of AOT was perfect, they don't know anything about writing imo.
I am sure that these people will also say that the ending of Game of Thrones was perfect🤣🤣
You must be the Gordon Ramsay of writing
@pimmemaster6173 who tf is Gordon Ramsay imo😒?
Thank you so much for this video!
So many people just do not deep dive into the symbolism and meaning in the ending. Especiallywith Eren's character, hardly anyone understands the dualtiy in his nature and the choice of his action, I loved the Mikasa analysis, even I had not thought of it that well.
Fantastic Video!
This is a masterful video
Thank you so much for making this video, it's a very welcome and refreshing change from all the commentary disparaging the ending. I thought your analysis of Eren's character was particularly on point! Very refreshing and validating for me personally as someone who always thought the ending was perfect.
I’m glad you liked it ! And appreciate your kind words. I really felt like the end got way more hate than it needed to get, felt like I had to say my piece about it
The commentary about the ending has been mostly positive, this video doesn't even have dislikes yet
Finally someone who gets it 😭
I see where you coming from bro but naw bruh ending was still ass ain't no lack of understanding cus you missed hella plot holes and everything before ending was 10/10 but ending was still horrible af
THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING AAAAAAAAAAAAH perfect video, great delivery and audio quality, solid editing and beautiful analysis! Now go watch FD signifier and ROAR AND SCREAM like I did.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words. I just searched the video you’re talking about up on TH-cam and from the title and thumbnail alone I’m already prepared to scream 😭
absolute percent of people who hate AoT dont understand it and i feel sorry for them, for not beeing able to apreciate the ultimate art. for me, this show is the GOAT
True
I get that Eren was supposed to have been a slave to his nature, but I don't understand how a character that doesn't change or learn anything is interesting. It's just not a very good character arc.
In the end, the show tries reallllyyy hard to make me empathize with a genocidal asshole and it just doesn't work at all.
The idea that killing someone like Eren at the end is presented is a difficult decision...idk that just came across as kinda laughable to me.
Thank you i really needed it
BEST FICTION IN HISTORY!
great video! i loved the ending!
how did Mikasa get back to the island with Eren's decapitated head decomposing did she walk across on the ocean
the flying boat got destroyed we saw that in the anime I'm just curious if anyone can tell me
I'm pretty sure they did not show the scouts arriving on the island in anime
I guess isayama didn't know how to explain it so he's just put a three year time skip problem solve
lol you guys gotta stop defending this and just admit that are some flaws in the ending that doesn't make any sense
a example will be when eren ask reinar why he's mom had to die when he knew the answer to that the question
This same question can even be raised on how Eren ran away from the scouts and stayed in Marley. Dumb to nitpick on something thay does not even matter to the story as a whole, "oh how did she reach Paradise?" .
@@Tatakhae exactly bad writing it's a plot hole it's doesn't make sense
You can't replied cuz it is bad writing
@@Tatakhaethat's not a nitpick, lol
The fact that she was even allowed back on the Island is insane
“MIKASA IS FREEDOM” this video had perfect analysis
Excellent video! Love the camel analogy. My sister and my mom and I all watched the show together from start to finish. We more or less guessed what was happening in the end. The specifics were muddled, but ultimately the foreshadowing worked. Eren went on a wild rampage, Armin had to help figure out how to stop him and find help and Mikasa as always saved him from himself. An echo of their first interactions in the first episode. We also guessed Eren was pushing them away so he could make them heroes. And yet the ending is dumb to some people. We figured it out but I think you're right. Some folks were slaves to their own wishful interpretations.
I loved it and I can't wait to rewatch and see all the stuff I missed. Thanks for defending what was a cruel, but beautiful anime.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it! That's awesome you wathced with your mom and sister, I agree, the foreshadowing really did wonders.
Rewatching it is so fun, there's so many scenes that just hit differently now. Appreciate your love and support 🙏🤍
I can debate you on how you’re wrong factually
I think some of the hate resulted in us Manga readers having to wait a month for each chapter and all the theories and expectations for the final chapter. I wasn’t expecting to get the ending I imagined however so it didn’t anger me like it did other readers. In the end, this ending made sense and I’m glad they redid the conversation between Eren and Armin.
gorgeous video, straight to the point, fast enough to understand and to keep our squirel atention span focused
great conclusion, 1000000% golden, had to verify ur subs and almost 1.000 how is this possible
ill sub you for these types of videos , with that aot knoweldge and video content art, can you make aot most asked questions?
for example, some of us had the pain of mikasa dying and the others, where they in the afterlife? is that the same place where the path is?
what is the path? like the cammel in the desert or ozymandias quote, can you find the parallel to match what the author thought about to make such a thing?
Thanks so much! I appreciate the love and support. You’re words mean a lot. I do a lot of anime content in general. Got some other videos planned out right now but I would like to do more aot content videos!
If you wanted some new AOT stuff though, I did drop a video for the new chapter that came out about Levi!
Love the ideas! And glad to have you here as a subscriber 🙏🏼🤍
@@mikasasgarden