@@TheodoreBotman yeah it's one form of love for sure.. but that "love" made her suffer for 2000 years. So it's not actually love. Because it wasn't reciprocal anyway. She just had Stockholm syndrome. I guess you know what that means.
@@truthseekertitan3986 She had stockholm syndrome for 2000 years so she kept making monsters that killed her descendants rather than stopping it and then waited 2000 years just to see Mikasa kill Eren even though she knows that's gonna happen anyway as she can see the future.
The fact that they didn’t animate eyes for her until Eren gave her the will to roam freely is a great storytelling detail. Edit: some of y’all pointed out that it’s the same for everyone in the flashback and my interpretation was that the king was a slave to his greed and the people were his slaves. Also yes I’m aware it’s like that in the manga too. I mean to say it was great detail in both the anime and the manga.
@@nuzereta4471 that is wrong. I believe it was a style choice by the mangaka to establish that she is not free. She was just moving as told until Eren freed her. If you look at the manga, I believe it is the same there.
The connection with norse mythology in this anime is mind blowing. So basically Ymir enters Yggdrasil (tree of life) and become the first titan or Giant. If you see the connection in Norse myth, Yggdrasil connects all nine realms, including Jotunheim where giants live. If we look closer to the myth, you will find that Aurgelmir, also called Ymir, in Norse mythology, the first being, a giant who was created from the drops of water that formed when the ice of Nifhleheim met the heat of Muspelheim. And also according to the legend, some giants are also able to see the future, this explains the attack titan ability. Kudos to Hajime Isayama for his amazing imagination 👏
Hey Cool description for norse mythology you got there .. but I was wondering if u could explain the significance of that white flower first shown at @1:32 and then at @2:54
@@hadiazia7266 i think it's just a way to show us that in this world, the world is beautiful and yet cruel hence the blood, unfortunately that was all Ymir know from the moment she open her eyes until the final moment she closed them, at least that is what i think :)
@@horizonX90 same, however i personally knew that aot has something with norse mythology after i watched this, and you made it basically clear. Now i appreciate the serie even more 😌
Yeah she cared about others but what they didn't know is that she cared so much that she didn't value herself. Being a tool for her husband, a sacrifice for her daughters, an excuse for others to lash out, a slave who made the titans and by the end, she herself lost what it means to be human, because she is too good until after she finally got what she wanted, and that was when she unleashed unspeakable hell upon the world. Never be too selfless, if so then you'll be like lady Ymir, a slave to one or countless other's ambitions...
Agreed...especially during her short introduction and backstory, it really made me feel sympathetic towards her character and how she got to this point of the story
Ymir probably the most brainless char i have seen. Wiling to serve the man kill her parents, drowning her life to dead, he doesn't even have 1 single intimate gesture with her and...she love him lol. Fk that Stockholm syndrome, all i see here is the fking lazy writing. Surely i could find better writing mindbreak/oldman genre in some hentai/echi anime .
@@stevenkaranov6801 i cant see anything but lazy writing and victim blame here.if isayama did it more detail and give me some logical reasons then i dont mind.
The real villian of AOT is the lack of empathy and boundless greed of human soul picturized by that scumbag of a King Fritz. People like him starts the cycle of endless hatred, retaliation and pain. Because he couldn't even feel an ounce of love or empathy or companionship with Ymir, she chose to die in vain and continue to struggle in the coordinate and became a slave forever until Eren "the chose one" freed her.
Ymir is also a villain. She didn't have a brain. She knew very well that the king was cruel, merciless demon. When she got powers, she could easily crush that demon to death. But instead of doing that she obeyed him. Killed millions of people. King and ymir both are culprits.
@@arandomperson9142 dude she is slave , what do you expect , after all the prosperity she expected to be free but human cruelty gave her tragic end to her physical life
@@yunidhkumar5571 she could simply stop serving him tho? But she didn't. Why? Because she had an unconventional attraction towards the King, we see that when he jumped in front of him and protected him from getting hit by the spear.
The absence of pupils symbolise they are slaves with no freedom. When Eren hugged her and freed her she open her eyes , thats when she becomes truly free.
Episode 1, the number of tree branches on which Eren dozed off is nine. Episode 1, the only page number written in this work is the 13th page of the first episode of Volume 1. Episode 87, The alias "owl" of Eren-Kruger, the Attack Titan heir, represents the number 13 in the ancient Egyptian language. The number 13 is considered an unlucky number in the West. In Norse mythology, when the gods held a banquet, they invited only 12 guests, but the 13th uninvited guest was a giant named Loki, and this giant triggered the final war known as Ragnarok. The year 1155 B.C., or 2000 years before 845 A.D., was the year that the Kassite dynasty fell in ancient Babylonia and the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt, Ramses III, died. Slavery was practiced in ancient Babylonia and ancient Egypt at that time, reminding us of the founder, Yumir, who lived in the era of slavery.
Yea I would think he would inspire a coup or something. Especially after Ymir died but no. Apparently they let him die of old age peacefully in his bed
@lawrencelawrence8553 thats part of the irony of the myth that Marley had told in their histories. That Helos took down a titan and led to a revolution against the Eldians but in reality was just a soldier who died in a failed assassination attempt which inspired no one at the time
I’ve always found it quite eerie and tragic that Frieda wanted Historia to believe that being a lady was like being Ymir, especially since Frieda likely had access to memories that went back to Ymir’s life as the holder of the Founding Titan. Ymir Fritz’s life is not one that should be emulated by any means.
the whole story is about how bad extremist ideologies are. people like fritz are extremely selfish and cruel, while people like ymir are extremely self-sacrificing and passive. both contributed to the misery for the next 2000 years. perhaps frieda thought that if historia had to be one of those two evils, she should be the lesser one.
Yeeee I feel like sort of the point of the story and Historia’s arc. Frieda tells her she needs to be kind and basically a sacrificial Virgin Mary/ lamb like Ymir was her whole life. But Historia ultimately rejects that to live for herself and not be the tool or pawn of someone else (Rod Reiss).
I feel like ymir had a dream of having a marriage just like the couple at the beginning of ymir flashback arc, thus when king fritz bestowed her the "right" to bear his children, she accepted it, thought it was love. This implies the nature of slave in inside her had turned into love, but once she realized king fritz didn't love her back she accepted death and being imprisoned in coordinate, serving the next generation of eldian's royal bloodline as a primal slave, and then created the 13-year curse.
I really hate the greed of the king he used and abuse her even when she saved his life . And what's even more disgusting is that he feeding his daughters their mother flesh
Well you gotta keep the story going. Im glad he did that. If it wasnt for that King we wouldn't have this great anime to watch. Somethings were meant to be, even assholes.
Can you image what would happen if she would have let him get hit by the spear? Would her founding titan just die off after her? Bc tbh who would have the idea to eat someone to keep it goinf other than an evil king @gtguy181
@@sidology1.0 Not really. A titan shifter's power goes to a random person in the world if the shifter dies without passing it on. So once Ymir died, someone else would've gotten it.
This show went really fucking dark so quick It was already dark but they really hit me with this and in the best way possible showed armegaddon and the feeling of true despair . Really well done .
2:26 RESPECT TO THIS ONE BRAVE SOLDIER HOMIE CAME IN PREPARED HE WAS SURE THAT HIS PLAN WOULD WORK AND IT WOULD HAVE HE NEARLY SAVED THE ENTIRE WORLD BEFORE THE MAIN CHARACTERS DID
He was the true ' Helos' , who killed a Titan with just a spear ... But unfortunately, nobody knows the true story. He was much like Eren , who leaves everything behind and jumps into inevitable death .
One of the toughest things to acquire freedom is to convince slaves that they should be free. Ymir was a slave in body and soul. She was given power which she could have used for her freedom but she chose to let it be exploited by a tyrant. She’s by no means noble, just a nobody who became a tool for tyrants to exploit.
I think the mindless titans were created to more humanely transfer the power of the titans and that is why the shifters lose their memories before eating the owner so that they do not see the dying suffering of a relative. And that is why for them to be in the mindless titan state is like a nightmare.
Freida : What does it mean to be lady like, well I'd say this * describes the most horrifying things that could happen to a person * Every woman in AOT : yep, that tracks
It resembles the tune of looking for something which is an eternity apart, e.g. like this bird looking for a mate th-cam.com/video/x2KH5AoyeBc/w-d-xo.html
I'm currently rewatching season 2 and in the end credits they show an illustration of the scene where Maria, Rose and Sina are eating Ymir. Like, what the fuck? HOW?
It showed the entire back story of Ymir and King Fritz’s pact for the Eldians without saying a word. Once I saw it I was mind blown how much info was there and I didn’t noticed. This show is a masterpiece
I already knew that this middle age ending meant something but I didn't know what, they always put spoilers in front of us like this but we can't understand the meaning, they had put some from episode 1. At each end of episodes we could already see the map with the titans and the other side of the sea
The one thing that bothers me about this is how did King Fritz know that the power would be passed down if Ymir's daughters would consume her flesh, specifically the spine.
@@cadetm6970 I heard a theory where it's actually the other way around. It was this act of cannibalism that made it so that the titan powers were transferred through cannibalism.
I completely understand Marley’s grudge and fear to the point they’re eager to annihilate the Eldians. But blaming the children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren for what happened before they were conceived is illogical and irrational. If only they weren’t drown by fear and give Paradis people a chance. Things would’ve been different I guess.
Tbf, Paradis went fully genocidal in a snap. They were a legit dangerous foe with a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of a teenager. If Eren wasn't set on his vision, the rest could have managed to talk things over and try something akin to the European Coal and Steel community. But for Eren, his future was as unchangeable as his past.
@@tarnw3301if they hadnt been attacked we wouldnt be at this point tho, yea he coilda have made the rumbling, but its not like it was 100 years after the walls went up
@@TimothyGod at the end of the day, Paradise was a nation just a fascist away from committing omnicide. The rest of the world needed to get rid of Paradisians ASAP and swiftly. They couldn't and so, they got destroyed.
It's Karl Fritz's fault. He should have paid some kind reparations or at least apologized for what the enpire had done for 2000 years but he ran away instead.
They created this monster though. Had they left the ppl of the island alone and not ensalge ppl not responsible for jack shit then the hatred and violence wouldnt have come back to bite them in the ass. They did exactly what eldiana did @tarnw3301
Hey, I'm ballparking here but isn't it safe to say the one who threw the spear was "Helos"? Technically he was the first human to slay a titan...the founder and mistakenly no less 😂
It's amazing how because of her desire to be loved,when she was given powers she decided to help the people that made her a slave to gain their favor and even let King Fritz become her master instead of exterminating them or becoming the ruler of the world,sad how she just bowed down to a man that only had greed in his heart
and because she was brainwashed into being a slave. even after gaining immense power she could not make her own decisions. she did not know how to live for herself.
2:43 Ymir should have transformed due to damage or regen that damage due to excessive regeneration. But now that I'm thinking is she weak because of the 7 years titan curse?
Maybe the whole reason the curse kills after 13 years in the first place is because that's how long she lived after becoming a titan. She wasn't limited by it; she founded the limit as a curse upon those who used her power and kept the cycle going.
Never understood how, with all this power, ymir thought to herself "You know what? I think I'll go back to the slave master, build stuff for him and make him kids. Sounds like a good life"
her love for king fritz made her a slave for generations, and it was an unbreakable cycle. it's truly sad how mikasa had to free her - (and kill eren in the process). mikasa did not show a single resemblance of ymir, so i simply don't get why ymir needed mikasa, but it is what it is.
Yes, it's really illogical. The only thing that makes sense is she was still a kid and perhaps didn't know better, didn't know she could make her own choices. Still, at least as she grew older she could have changed her mind and murdered that psychopath fritz with one giant titan foot.
There’s numerous cases of people in the real world choosing to stay in abusive relationships. Some would go as far as to defend their abusers (whether as an adult or a child). I’ve witnessed it myself. It’s awful, but more common than you think
It’s easier from an outsider’s perspective to judge the person for not leaving when it’s obvious even to themselves that they should, but many fail to understand the psychological complexity of the abused individual
If Ymir has removed her slave mentality after transforming to a Titan, none of this would've happened... I wonder how old is she to get pregnant when she's a child herself.
I really liked the ending but I have a different interpretation of the final scene. Seeing the child find the opening to the tree similar to how ymir did really made me feel like Eren became the centipede thing that ymir found and that the cycle of titans would begin again. I mean the creator clearly made the opening of Erens tree look like Ymirs tree intentionally. It also begs the question of how many cycles of titans there has been I mean just because Ymir is the first we see in the story doesn’t mean she was the first ever. It could be she was just the latest at that time to discover the power after countless advanced civilizations wiped each other out and restarted just like we see in the final scenes of the series. This is however my interpretation and to me makes the most sense.
Worth noting the titan power only existed because ymirs desires were to no longer feel small, to live, etc. So the giant and healing relates to that. The boy in the ending represents a new hope, in my opinion - while ymir fled dogs who bit her and arrows, she fell into the tree. The boy meanwhile has a pet dog he's probably good friends with accompanying him. I see the contrast as important, while humans are capable of great evil born from suffering, aot is also full of heroes. And perhaps the boy is one too
In a sense civilzation and gun fire warfare occurs because a few monkey decided to learn how to control fire with stone and woods. Yea things that mundane can have crazy effect on world history.
At the time, every available resource was crucial to preserve because it took months to communicate between distances, maintain stable supplies and fend off invasions. It made cattle more valuable, but Fritz punishment was completely savage regardless
Those pigs were deemed more valuable, not just because they'll eat anything you give them, but are livestalk humans can eat as well, and sell. Thats basically letting the money run away. A regular human slave can't be food to other humans the same way--fritz only did that because ymir was a titan and wanted control over that power should any or all three of his daughters obtain their mother's powers.
This backstory is so dark man. The ending is especially f*cked up, I remember watching for the first time thinking wtf. Man really forced his daughters into cannibalising their mother just so he could retain the power it gave his kingdom.
So the water Alien gave Yamir the power and the humans corrupted it by basically canablised yamir, and the water Aliens power so Yamir was chosen to be a god and no 1 else should have had it, was this a test the water Alien was doing....testing human behavior or seeing what they would do....
Interesting interpretation, although most of the usage is by King Fritz. Also I like to think the thing is a BOW (Bio Organic Weapon) from a war long time ago and far away, crashed landed in AoT world.
The wosrt part of al??? According to the show, when a shifter dies his titan is passed automatically to another member of the Eldian folk, and the real reason why the royal family ate each other was to control the founding titan inheritance. That means that when ymir was killed by the spear, her daughters obtained naturally her power as they were the only Eldians at that point. That basically means Rose, Sina and Maria were forced to eat their mothers corpse for no reason, as they already had the titans
We don’t know if that started after Ymir’s power was split apart or before. After all, if Ymir’s power automatically went to her daughters, it only would have gone to one of them, not all.
Its interesting to note that Ymir could've really just gotten back up after being speared in the heart if she wanted... or maybe it staying there is what causes her to fully die? Regardless, it seems like she willingly dies because she believed she would finally be free for once in her life. Only to then be met with the "paths" where she never got the peace she wanted, instead, forced to roam it for a near eternity, never being allowed to interact with her children after, nor allowed to explore the world. Stuck in basically an eternal desert. Where all she can do is create more or new titans. Often by the orders of the new founding titan that had taken the power... still never free of slavery until Eren shows up hundreds to thousands of years later.
spoiler : in the manga we can see modern looking kid infront of the same looking tree ymir gained her power from around 50 years after the ending, implying history will repeat again.
Considering the Eldians existed before Ymir and that the term "Subjects of Ymir" only refer to her descendants, means Eldians and Subjects of Ymir are not always synonymous with each other. This would explain why some lineage like the Ackermans cannot be affected by the Founding Titan's scream despite being Eldians themselves. The Ackermans are indeed Eldians because Eren was able to talk to the Ackermans through the path. Those non-Subject of Ymir Eldians are probably the descendants of the other Eldians who did not bred with Ymir and her descendants or those who came from King Fritz and her other wives.
And gave the Eldians the future that was stolen from them. And to be fair, the Rumbling was the only way it was ever going to end. Ymir and Eren really did save the world by ending the various empires which were all too happy to see the Eldians slaughtered.
@@nathanjones6638 Saved the world? They wiped out 80% of the population and destroyed most of the Earth's biosphere. Why do you all keep victimizing the Eldians. They were a barbaric tribe that through the power of Ymir established a brutal empire that terrorized the planet for nearly 2000 years, from antiquity all the way to the late modern period. Whatever happened to them in the 100 years since their evil empire fell, they did worse to everyone else for 20 times as long before the tables finally turned for a mere century. They canonically killed billions of people during the time of their empire.
AOT world just makes you want to scream and rage at all the injustice. Injustice so bad, that good people doing something would do nothing against evil. No wonder it ended the way it did.
@@bishal0069 idk i said that 5 months ago but I'm pretty sure I meant the way the story was it was rlly disturbing but in some way beautiful not all anime has this
Yeah, when you see THIS backstory it’s very easy to understand why she was swayed by Eren and allowed him to have the power to start the Rumbling. I’d want to destroy the world too. Especially if I had never seen anything good in it, only evil like she did.
So Ymir is the person Chrysta was inspired by ? 0:12 Seeing this kind of image I always thought that Ymir had made a pact with some kind of devil that she had baited with a fruit or something to get her powers but I was wrong
King Fritz is the metaphorical Devil since he was not only a horrible person, but he also "rewarded" Ymir for her service by giving her his seed, which started the Eldian race. That's what the Devil exchanging an apple with the girl is supposed to symbolize.
It's strange to me that someone like Eren actually understood Ymir, he is the embodiment of extreme freedom, to the extent he was a slave to it, but in his mind, he always saw himself as free, people like Ymir and her warped love and obedience to her captor should make her one of the people that Eren hates the most yet he not understood her emotions but sympathized with her too.
This is by far the saddest backstory in the anime. Ymir was granted powers but she was used by taking her kindness for granted
It's not that sad bro, She loves him for 2000 years, she must have been happy.
@@TheodoreBotman being a slave doesn't mean being in love . True love liberates us not the other way around ❣️
@@truthseekertitan3986 What? Ymir loved Fritz. It's canon.
@@TheodoreBotman yeah it's one form of love for sure.. but that "love" made her suffer for 2000 years. So it's not actually love. Because it wasn't reciprocal anyway. She just had Stockholm syndrome. I guess you know what that means.
@@truthseekertitan3986 She had stockholm syndrome for 2000 years so she kept making monsters that killed her descendants rather than stopping it and then waited 2000 years just to see Mikasa kill Eren even though she knows that's gonna happen anyway as she can see the future.
The fact that they didn’t animate eyes for her until Eren gave her the will to roam freely is a great storytelling detail.
Edit: some of y’all pointed out that it’s the same for everyone in the flashback and my interpretation was that the king was a slave to his greed and the people were his slaves. Also yes I’m aware it’s like that in the manga too. I mean to say it was great detail in both the anime and the manga.
Oh I didn't noticed that😯
"The eyes are the window to the soul" is not just a poetic statement.
or it took too long to animate it
it's already like this in the chapter
@@nuzereta4471 that is wrong. I believe it was a style choice by the mangaka to establish that she is not free. She was just moving as told until Eren freed her. If you look at the manga, I believe it is the same there.
The connection with norse mythology in this anime is mind blowing. So basically Ymir enters Yggdrasil (tree of life) and become the first titan or Giant. If you see the connection in Norse myth, Yggdrasil connects all nine realms, including Jotunheim where giants live. If we look closer to the myth, you will find that Aurgelmir, also called Ymir, in Norse mythology, the first being, a giant who was created from the drops of water that formed when the ice of Nifhleheim met the heat of Muspelheim. And also according to the legend, some giants are also able to see the future, this explains the attack titan ability. Kudos to Hajime Isayama for his amazing imagination 👏
Hey Cool description for norse mythology you got there .. but I was wondering if u could explain the significance of that white flower first shown at @1:32 and then at @2:54
@@hadiazia7266 i think it's just a way to show us that in this world, the world is beautiful and yet cruel hence the blood, unfortunately that was all Ymir know from the moment she open her eyes until the final moment she closed them, at least that is what i think :)
True, but does that mean that midgard and jotunheim are fused together?
Because ymir being the first giant that humanity has witnessed
@@kvoartr9963 haha yeah not like that, i meant the inspiration for this story is from norse lore which i really appreciated
@@horizonX90 same, however i personally knew that aot has something with norse mythology after i watched this, and you made it basically clear. Now i appreciate the serie even more 😌
Yeah she cared about others but what they didn't know is that she cared so much that she didn't value herself. Being a tool for her husband, a sacrifice for her daughters, an excuse for others to lash out, a slave who made the titans and by the end, she herself lost what it means to be human, because she is too good until after she finally got what she wanted, and that was when she unleashed unspeakable hell upon the world. Never be too selfless, if so then you'll be like lady Ymir, a slave to one or countless other's ambitions...
I only ymir was more resentful and hold grudge, all of this wouldn't happen
Agreed...especially during her short introduction and backstory, it really made me feel sympathetic towards her character and how she got to this point of the story
Ymir probably the most brainless char i have seen. Wiling to serve the man kill her parents, drowning her life to dead, he doesn't even have 1 single intimate gesture with her and...she love him lol. Fk that Stockholm syndrome, all i see here is the fking lazy writing. Surely i could find better writing mindbreak/oldman genre in some hentai/echi anime .
@@td7804 you have to read some rl slave stories around the world to understand the morality of ymir
@@stevenkaranov6801 i cant see anything but lazy writing and victim blame here.if isayama did it more detail and give me some logical reasons then i dont mind.
Fandom: There are no true villains in AoT
Me: *looks at King Fritz*
They'd come up with justifications to keep that view..
But Ymir could finish him, however she was in love with him
Or the city guards who set the dogs to maul on Grisha sister
Eren is also a true villain
@@ceaselessroad9294 no
The real villian of AOT is the lack of empathy and boundless greed of human soul picturized by that scumbag of a King Fritz. People like him starts the cycle of endless hatred, retaliation and pain. Because he couldn't even feel an ounce of love or empathy or companionship with Ymir, she chose to die in vain and continue to struggle in the coordinate and became a slave forever until Eren "the chose one" freed her.
Eren :))
Ymir is also a villain.
She didn't have a brain.
She knew very well that the king was cruel, merciless demon. When she got powers, she could easily crush that demon to death. But instead of doing that she obeyed him. Killed millions of people.
King and ymir both are culprits.
@@arandomperson9142 dude she is slave , what do you expect , after all the prosperity she expected to be free but human cruelty gave her tragic end to her physical life
@@yunidhkumar5571 she could simply stop serving him tho? But she didn't. Why? Because she had an unconventional attraction towards the King, we see that when he jumped in front of him and protected him from getting hit by the spear.
@@samarjeetbhonsle6000 you should read about abuse. Almost all abused people would defend their abusers. It doesn't make them villains.
I love how they made all the people in a flashback not have pupils
Yeah...I also love that...really sets off a dark tone to it
It makes everyone look sort of disturbing but I love it
The absence of pupils symbolise they are slaves with no freedom. When Eren hugged her and freed her she open her eyes , thats when she becomes truly free.
It reminds me of the movie Caroline
@@Dsole1217 did you mean Coraline?
“As a reward, I shall give you my seed” is just so wild, especially since Ymir was still a child.
That is a really simple and quick way of telling the audience how awful he is, without having to actually showcase it
1:06 the 13 fingers representing the lifespan of a titan shifter. Tiny details like this make AoT so great.
Episode 1, the number of tree branches on which Eren dozed off is nine.
Episode 1, the only page number written in this work is the 13th page of the first episode of Volume 1.
Episode 87, The alias "owl" of Eren-Kruger, the Attack Titan heir, represents the number 13 in the ancient Egyptian language.
The number 13 is considered an unlucky number in the West.
In Norse mythology, when the gods held a banquet, they invited only 12 guests, but the 13th uninvited guest was a giant named Loki, and this giant triggered the final war known as Ragnarok.
The year 1155 B.C., or 2000 years before 845 A.D., was the year that the Kassite dynasty fell in ancient Babylonia and the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt, Ramses III, died. Slavery was practiced in ancient Babylonia and ancient Egypt at that time, reminding us of the founder, Yumir, who lived in the era of slavery.
This show is crazy
1:32 also the petals on the flower represents the Nine Titans
2:25 massive respect to this soldier who sacrificed his own life to defy the asshole king. He died as hero but unfortunately his sacrifice got wasted
The true Helios
Yea I would think he would inspire a coup or something. Especially after Ymir died but no. Apparently they let him die of old age peacefully in his bed
His probably from an Enemy kingdom that is just as brutal as Fritz . Probably everyone was brutal in that era
@@unknownbannana8241 yea and judging by the real life time period this era is based off, that makes a lot of sense
@lawrencelawrence8553 thats part of the irony of the myth that Marley had told in their histories. That Helos took down a titan and led to a revolution against the Eldians but in reality was just a soldier who died in a failed assassination attempt which inspired no one at the time
I’ve always found it quite eerie and tragic that Frieda wanted Historia to believe that being a lady was like being Ymir, especially since Frieda likely had access to memories that went back to Ymir’s life as the holder of the Founding Titan. Ymir Fritz’s life is not one that should be emulated by any means.
the whole story is about how bad extremist ideologies are. people like fritz are extremely selfish and cruel, while people like ymir are extremely self-sacrificing and passive. both contributed to the misery for the next 2000 years. perhaps frieda thought that if historia had to be one of those two evils, she should be the lesser one.
At thst point she didn’t have those memories of the founding titan yet
She didn’t have the memories of the founding titan yet when she said that to Historia. It was Frieda’s own character and personality.
Yeeee I feel like sort of the point of the story and Historia’s arc. Frieda tells her she needs to be kind and basically a sacrificial Virgin Mary/ lamb like Ymir was her whole life. But Historia ultimately rejects that to live for herself and not be the tool or pawn of someone else (Rod Reiss).
I feel like ymir had a dream of having a marriage just like the couple at the beginning of ymir flashback arc, thus when king fritz bestowed her the "right" to bear his children, she accepted it, thought it was love. This implies the nature of slave in inside her had turned into love, but once she realized king fritz didn't love her back she accepted death and being imprisoned in coordinate, serving the next generation of eldian's royal bloodline as a primal slave, and then created the 13-year curse.
I really hate the greed of the king he used and abuse her even when she saved his life . And what's even more disgusting is that he feeding his daughters their mother flesh
Pretty dark stuff. This anime is simply amazing.
Well you gotta keep the story going. Im glad he did that. If it wasnt for that King we wouldn't have this great anime to watch. Somethings were meant to be, even assholes.
Can you image what would happen if she would have let him get hit by the spear? Would her founding titan just die off after her? Bc tbh who would have the idea to eat someone to keep it goinf other than an evil king @gtguy181
@@sidology1.0 eggzackly. End of story. No ATOT. But it was destiny, just as Eren saw it through the memories.
@@sidology1.0 Not really. A titan shifter's power goes to a random person in the world if the shifter dies without passing it on. So once Ymir died, someone else would've gotten it.
This show went really fucking dark so quick
It was already dark but they really hit me with this and in the best way possible showed armegaddon and the feeling of true despair . Really well done .
fr tho, i remember thinking ONE colossal titan was the villian
@@eyemakejokes Same! Bertolt's Colossal Titan is kind of the mascot of Attack on Titan, though.
Props to that Roman soldier who sacrificed his life defying the eldian scums. The true helos of the story.
He was a legend, if only he was around during the Rumbling arc.
He is a hero of humanity.
*Marleyan
Still tho, he is a true man.
He is a marlyen soldier
What the f*ck are you talking about
Imagine the whole aot tragic history and world wars happened cause a little girl freed a few pigs
The irony is..she should have just been kind to the pigs Rather then setting them free. Everything is caged in the world of Aot
She likely didn't even do it
@@Niyuki. in manga chapter 137 hes the one who released it
Even in real history a war happened because someone from the other side/village stole a freaking basket!
@@I_love_sexy_black_gay_men chapter 135
She's so kind and she can love someone. What a dreadful situation to be in, especially in a world where serving yourself is to survive.
Her story is so heart breaking. Did she just chose to die when the spear hit her? Not that you blame her.
Or she could’ve let her king get killed
Fuck Ymir
I've heard long ago that it was because she actually kind of loved the king
@@frosta1184
Yes, she really loved him
WOMEN! lol
@@name-ip2kt Eren was the first person to acknowledge that she was just another person. After 2 millenia, it's all she really wanted to hear.
Not love, but Stockholm Syndrome.
Greed and Power is the enemy in AOT.
Also Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath
The enemy of humanity
@@leylaylka4230 Humanity is always been filled with Greed and Power.
And above all, hate.
@@jadeorbigoso5212 Fullmetal Alchemist all over again.
A titan can regenerate as long as they have the will to live and survive. The fact that she let herself die after the spear says a lot.
2:26 RESPECT TO THIS ONE BRAVE SOLDIER HOMIE CAME IN PREPARED HE WAS SURE THAT HIS PLAN WOULD WORK AND IT WOULD HAVE HE NEARLY SAVED THE ENTIRE WORLD BEFORE THE MAIN CHARACTERS DID
He was a Marleyan soldier
He was the true ' Helos' , who killed a Titan with just a spear ... But unfortunately, nobody knows the true story. He was much like Eren , who leaves everything behind and jumps into inevitable death .
Absolute gigachad rebelling till the end
One of the toughest things to acquire freedom is to convince slaves that they should be free. Ymir was a slave in body and soul. She was given power which she could have used for her freedom but she chose to let it be exploited by a tyrant. She’s by no means noble, just a nobody who became a tool for tyrants to exploit.
That Marleyan soldier was a real OG. Shame Ymir threw herself in front of the spear.
Eren with the appility to control past and future :*makes master plan to destroy the world*
me : *just dont let that damn pig escape*
No just stromp up that bastard king
@@aisouno Exactly, should have just told Ymir to stay still
Pig u meann that King?
The Attack Titan can't see that far back since that Titan didn't exist during that time.
then she would be a slave forever
i wish i could give her a big hug :(
Same bro... same :(
Same
@Google Bot tf is wrong with u
@Google Bot then why did you say it? Seed means "sperm" in this context. It can also mean "semen." I hope you're old enough to know what that means.
@Google Bot Jesus christ, either you're an actual bot or a pathological liar.
All four of those girls, Ymir, Maria, Rosé and Sína (Sheena)... they didn't deserve that. Poor girls.
Sina, Maria and Rose didn’t deserve but Ymir did. She was fking in love with the psycho king
@@jobaermolla911i think ymir wasnt in love with king fritz and was forced. she prob took the spear bc her whole job was his slave
@@jobaermolla911 saying an abuse victim deserves abuse because they have Stockholm syndrome is a psychotic take
@@alittlebeanandtoesYmir loving the king is unfortunately manga canon, although it’s NEVER shown in the show
I think the mindless titans were created to more humanely transfer the power of the titans and that is why the shifters lose their memories before eating the owner so that they do not see the dying suffering of a relative. And that is why for them to be in the mindless titan state is like a nightmare.
Freida : What does it mean to be lady like, well I'd say this
* describes the most horrifying things that could happen to a person *
Every woman in AOT : yep, that tracks
The lesson to be learned:
It really sucks to be a lady
The history told was fabricated afaik I doubt they'd include those parts
1:34 this tune is so mysterious, ancient, haunting and soothing at the same time, I can’t explain the way it makes me feel
I hear you
It resembles the tune of looking for something which is an eternity apart, e.g. like this bird looking for a mate th-cam.com/video/x2KH5AoyeBc/w-d-xo.html
It just fills me with anger when he says "get up" after she jsut saved his life. And then he doesn't even try to save her.
I'm currently rewatching season 2 and in the end credits they show an illustration of the scene where Maria, Rose and Sina are eating Ymir.
Like, what the fuck? HOW?
Yeah, the amount of foreshadowing this show has is truly genius
Also rumbling
shit was literally being foreshadowed years before it showed up in the manga
It showed the entire back story of Ymir and King Fritz’s pact for the Eldians without saying a word. Once I saw it I was mind blown how much info was there and I didn’t noticed. This show is a masterpiece
I already knew that this middle age ending meant something but I didn't know what, they always put spoilers in front of us like this but we can't understand the meaning, they had put some from episode 1. At each end of episodes we could already see the map with the titans and the other side of the sea
Bro imagine being forced to be in the paths because they decided to fucking eat you and keep this shit going, bruh
The one thing that bothers me about this is how did King Fritz know that the power would be passed down if Ymir's daughters would consume her flesh, specifically the spine.
@@cadetm6970he was just desperate
@@cadetm6970 I heard a theory where it's actually the other way around. It was this act of cannibalism that made it so that the titan powers were transferred through cannibalism.
This is why being kind is also not good for yourself, there are people out there who will use you for their own sake
yet we see being unkind is bad too just be reasonable kinds that's all
I completely understand Marley’s grudge and fear to the point they’re eager to annihilate the Eldians. But blaming the children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren for what happened before they were conceived is illogical and irrational. If only they weren’t drown by fear and give Paradis people a chance. Things would’ve been different I guess.
Tbf, Paradis went fully genocidal in a snap. They were a legit dangerous foe with a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of a teenager.
If Eren wasn't set on his vision, the rest could have managed to talk things over and try something akin to the European Coal and Steel community. But for Eren, his future was as unchangeable as his past.
@@tarnw3301if they hadnt been attacked we wouldnt be at this point tho, yea he coilda have made the rumbling, but its not like it was 100 years after the walls went up
@@TimothyGod at the end of the day, Paradise was a nation just a fascist away from committing omnicide.
The rest of the world needed to get rid of Paradisians ASAP and swiftly. They couldn't and so, they got destroyed.
It's Karl Fritz's fault. He should have paid some kind reparations or at least apologized for what the enpire had done for 2000 years but he ran away instead.
They created this monster though. Had they left the ppl of the island alone and not ensalge ppl not responsible for jack shit then the hatred and violence wouldnt have come back to bite them in the ass. They did exactly what eldiana did @tarnw3301
After reading the comment section I just realized how aot actually included the 7 most deadly sins
You mean in the plot or lady ymir?
@@Hisuie-m7f plot
@@AubreyAlia oh. Yeah ur right
@@AubreyAlia I know it's weird, and I'm not stupid.
Buuuut... Can u please mention each action in aot and what sin it represents??
@@Hisuie-m7f Lust, Envy, GREED, Pride and Wrath you can search all of the meanings and you can tell what part from the anime is represents
Hey, I'm ballparking here but isn't it safe to say the one who threw the spear was "Helos"? Technically he was the first human to slay a titan...the founder and mistakenly no less 😂
There isn’t anything the manga that says that he was, but you can assume he was based on helos.
Helos is a made up story made between Karl fritz (the King who made the three Walls) and the tyber family. This happened way before
Well myth and legends always take inspirstion from the past. But Helos happened 1900 years after this.
Yes, that is the Helos the Marlayan’s story is based off of. Within every children’s tale there is an element of truth.
I’m more than sure that King Fritz based Helos off of this specific memory
“I shall give you my seed”
What a charmer…
This a work of Art! Absolutely amazing!
It's amazing how because of her desire to be loved,when she was given powers she decided to help the people that made her a slave to gain their favor and even let King Fritz become her master instead of exterminating them or becoming the ruler of the world,sad how she just bowed down to a man that only had greed in his heart
and because she was brainwashed into being a slave.
even after gaining immense power she could not make her own decisions. she did not know how to live for herself.
“Mikasa is a reflection of Ymir”
NO. LOL.
Yeeeeaah no, Ymir chose to save the person she loved, mikasa killed hers.
Who voiced ymir? The whimpers as she ran and fell sounds amazing
Chiyuki muira... hasn't voiced many characters tho.
The same one that voiced faye yeager
thank you i was looking for this it felt like a little girl felling the pain and fair of being hunted.....having to feel what an arrow hitting you.
Dude her VA voiced Hatsune Miku💀💀
@@lyndabe6757no that's the black hair ymir's voice actor
So sad. Make you wish you could just take her away and give her to a loving family that will hold her tell her everything will be all right
The one who threw the spear to king is my hero 👑
It's Marley soldier
The eating scene gave me goosebumps.
It’s even more chilling in the manga
2:43 Ymir should have transformed due to damage or regen that damage due to excessive regeneration. But now that I'm thinking is she weak because of the 7 years titan curse?
no she chose to die at that point she had no will left to live
She literally asked herself what was the point of life living as a slave
Imagine a curse of Ymir being longer then 13 years...
She choose death. I mean, who can blame her?
Maybe the whole reason the curse kills after 13 years in the first place is because that's how long she lived after becoming a titan. She wasn't limited by it; she founded the limit as a curse upon those who used her power and kept the cycle going.
ost at 0:33 that others might be looking for is SymphonicSuite[AoT]Part2-2nd:ShingekiNoKyojin
Thank you❤
FINALLY! I’ve been looking for this for so long! Thanks so much!
There will always be 2 kinds of people.
Kind people like Ymir.
People who abuse kind people.
3
People who fight like Eren
"I shall give you my seed" 💀💀💀💀💀
They have some strange pickup lines in AOT universe
@@smikkelbeer7890 or maybe get laid line🤣🤣
they pulling some sao type shit
🗿
she was definitely underage
Never understood how, with all this power, ymir thought to herself "You know what? I think I'll go back to the slave master, build stuff for him and make him kids. Sounds like a good life"
her love for king fritz made her a slave for generations, and it was an unbreakable cycle. it's truly sad how mikasa had to free her - (and kill eren in the process). mikasa did not show a single resemblance of ymir, so i simply don't get why ymir needed mikasa, but it is what it is.
Yes, it's really illogical. The only thing that makes sense is she was still a kid and perhaps didn't know better, didn't know she could make her own choices. Still, at least as she grew older she could have changed her mind and murdered that psychopath fritz with one giant titan foot.
@@Neha-zc4yq bro fcking spoilers jesus christ
There’s numerous cases of people in the real world choosing to stay in abusive relationships. Some would go as far as to defend their abusers (whether as an adult or a child). I’ve witnessed it myself. It’s awful, but more common than you think
It’s easier from an outsider’s perspective to judge the person for not leaving when it’s obvious even to themselves that they should, but many fail to understand the psychological complexity of the abused individual
If Ymir has removed her slave mentality after transforming to a Titan, none of this would've happened...
I wonder how old is she to get pregnant when she's a child herself.
I loved how they used old music.The name is Tkt
I really liked the ending but I have a different interpretation of the final scene. Seeing the child find the opening to the tree similar to how ymir did really made me feel like Eren became the centipede thing that ymir found and that the cycle of titans would begin again. I mean the creator clearly made the opening of Erens tree look like Ymirs tree intentionally. It also begs the question of how many cycles of titans there has been I mean just because Ymir is the first we see in the story doesn’t mean she was the first ever. It could be she was just the latest at that time to discover the power after countless advanced civilizations wiped each other out and restarted just like we see in the final scenes of the series. This is however my interpretation and to me makes the most sense.
100% thought the same!
Worth noting the titan power only existed because ymirs desires were to no longer feel small, to live, etc. So the giant and healing relates to that. The boy in the ending represents a new hope, in my opinion - while ymir fled dogs who bit her and arrows, she fell into the tree. The boy meanwhile has a pet dog he's probably good friends with accompanying him. I see the contrast as important, while humans are capable of great evil born from suffering, aot is also full of heroes. And perhaps the boy is one too
@@bajscastbest analysis
The OST Its EVERYTHING
Yep T-KT is pretty good
What is it called?
@@nailahsipad T-KT
@Masaru nop🥺
@dlane not released yet
Everybody has a sad story and tragic
But this one is the saddest
This was def one of the most disturbing moments in AOT, seeing them cutting her to pieces and her daughters eating her
I feel sorry for Ymir bearing the suffering alone.
She gained the power to destroy slave masters, but she just continued to be a slave.
So your saying that everything that hapend in aot happend because some king was mad that a girl had some sympathy?
In a sense civilzation and gun fire warfare occurs because a few monkey decided to learn how to control fire with stone and woods.
Yea things that mundane can have crazy effect on world history.
At the time, every available resource was crucial to preserve because it took months to communicate between distances, maintain stable supplies and fend off invasions.
It made cattle more valuable, but Fritz punishment was completely savage regardless
There is possibility there was titan before ymir's era
@@Lara-mo5oy Season 2 opening song.
Those pigs were deemed more valuable, not just because they'll eat anything you give them, but are livestalk humans can eat as well, and sell. Thats basically letting the money run away. A regular human slave can't be food to other humans the same way--fritz only did that because ymir was a titan and wanted control over that power should any or all three of his daughters obtain their mother's powers.
This backstory is so dark man. The ending is especially f*cked up, I remember watching for the first time thinking wtf. Man really forced his daughters into cannibalising their mother just so he could retain the power it gave his kingdom.
One of my favorite scenes in this show bc it finally explains how everything started
So the water Alien gave Yamir the power and the humans corrupted it by basically canablised yamir, and the water Aliens power so Yamir was chosen to be a god and no 1 else should have had it, was this a test the water Alien was doing....testing human behavior or seeing what they would do....
Interesting interpretation, although most of the usage is by King Fritz.
Also I like to think the thing is a BOW (Bio Organic Weapon) from a war long time ago and far away, crashed landed in AoT world.
Fun Fact that's actually not alien creature. That creature called Hallucigenia
@@jadeorbigoso5212 ?
@@asura2877 a simple google will answer your question
@@jadeorbigoso5212 ?
She was beaten down by life so badly that she just never got back up ;-; poor girl
無垢の巨人が喋ることが出来ないのは、始祖ユミルが奴隷として舌を切られ、自由に話せなかったことが影響していると思われます。そして、無垢の巨人が夜に活動できないのは、始祖ユミルが地下水に溺れた時のトラウマが影響していると思われます。
漫画では、ユミルの登場のページから、槍で死亡したページまで13ページ使用されており、これは「ユミルの呪い」を表しています。
"i shall give you my seed" LMFAO
She looks like she's about 12. Bit sus from Mr. Fritz(l)
" as a reward" 💀💀
Messed up if you think about it.
What are you 12?
@@mar1m3I don’t think people at that time cared about the American constitution lol
The soundtrack in this show is incredible.
The wosrt part of al???
According to the show, when a shifter dies his titan is passed automatically to another member of the Eldian folk, and the real reason why the royal family ate each other was to control the founding titan inheritance. That means that when ymir was killed by the spear, her daughters obtained naturally her power as they were the only Eldians at that point. That basically means Rose, Sina and Maria were forced to eat their mothers corpse for no reason, as they already had the titans
We don’t know if that started after Ymir’s power was split apart or before. After all, if Ymir’s power automatically went to her daughters, it only would have gone to one of them, not all.
bruh you are completely making shit up
titan powers started to pass on from consuming Ymir's body + fritz's desire
That Eldian King is the true villian in AOT.
Poor ymir, she suffered so much 😞
I can't explain how much i hate the King..
Its interesting to note that Ymir could've really just gotten back up after being speared in the heart if she wanted... or maybe it staying there is what causes her to fully die? Regardless, it seems like she willingly dies because she believed she would finally be free for once in her life. Only to then be met with the "paths" where she never got the peace she wanted, instead, forced to roam it for a near eternity, never being allowed to interact with her children after, nor allowed to explore the world. Stuck in basically an eternal desert. Where all she can do is create more or new titans. Often by the orders of the new founding titan that had taken the power... still never free of slavery until Eren shows up hundreds to thousands of years later.
She really got sent to her own personal hell just for trying to please others
and Eren was the one who could rescue her who truly lived for himself.
Bro ngl, the part at 2:25 has HELLA 300 vibes to it. Props for that dude that tried to merk the king lol
Man they shouldve just let the pig not escape and then we good.
I wish the King would’ve died…
spoiler :
in the manga we can see modern looking kid infront of the same looking tree ymir gained her power from around 50 years after the ending, implying history will repeat again.
Chapter no:?
@@zehbinify last chapter
if that kid became a titan im pretty sure he would get nuked easily with modern technology
Well, it is said that the power of the Titans have left the world? So mayhaps Titans won't return, but something else will.
That is,mikasa's daughter supposedly
Even in death she suffered as a slave, that’s beyond horrifying.
I would never understand why Ymir tolerated so much bs when she had the power to destroyed everything.
Because she loves fritz that's why she stayed as his slave
Have to give it to that Marlyen soldier that threw the spear at King Fritz, he died a warriors death.
You can feel her pain through the music, so freaking good. Kohta is a legend.
Considering the Eldians existed before Ymir and that the term "Subjects of Ymir" only refer to her descendants, means Eldians and Subjects of Ymir are not always synonymous with each other.
This would explain why some lineage like the Ackermans cannot be affected by the Founding Titan's scream despite being Eldians themselves.
The Ackermans are indeed Eldians because Eren was able to talk to the Ackermans through the path.
Those non-Subject of Ymir Eldians are probably the descendants of the other Eldians who did not bred with Ymir and her descendants or those who came from King Fritz and her other wives.
i don't know, why i like ymir fritz titan screams
2:48 yeah that dialogue is enough to show how evil King Fritz is, he never love Ymir he still called her a 'slave'
Basically her falling into that hole made her life even more grueling for 2000 more years...
And gave the Eldians the future that was stolen from them.
And to be fair, the Rumbling was the only way it was ever going to end.
Ymir and Eren really did save the world by ending the various empires which were all too happy to see the Eldians slaughtered.
@@nathanjones6638
Saved the world? They wiped out 80% of the population and destroyed most of the Earth's biosphere.
Why do you all keep victimizing the Eldians.
They were a barbaric tribe that through the power of Ymir established a brutal empire that terrorized the planet for nearly 2000 years, from antiquity all the way to the late modern period.
Whatever happened to them in the 100 years since their evil empire fell, they did worse to everyone else for 20 times as long before the tables finally turned for a mere century.
They canonically killed billions of people during the time of their empire.
In paths, Time moves slowly ,So it must be more than 2000 years
This is the real,
Fables and Fairy Tales always make it seems better than what it really is,
Legends are never what it's made out to be,
Such incredibly effective story telling. Stunningly animated. OST was fittingly grand and dark.
AOT world just makes you want to scream and rage at all the injustice. Injustice so bad, that good people doing something would do nothing against evil. No wonder it ended the way it did.
my fav character 1) sasha braus, 2) Ymr Fritz( even though we don't know much about her ), 3) mikasa
Mikasa is just ereh dog without opinions or meaningful scenario except ereh
Interesting, because Ymir is the first Living creation (Giant) of Niflheim/Muspelheim in the nordic mythology.
Why is "Karl Fritz" always the name of the terrible Eldian kings?
The king should've left ymir to live in peace after her death , but instead he still continued to torment her , poor ymir...
13 fingers pointing at her 9 pedals on that flower
This is soo disturbing yet beautiful ig
Beautiful?💀
@@bishal0069 yep
@@MTPFAN06 what beautiful thing u see here
@@bishal0069 idk i said that 5 months ago but I'm pretty sure I meant the way the story was it was rlly disturbing but in some way beautiful not all anime has this
2:26 That spear move goes so hard.
Yeah, when you see THIS backstory it’s very easy to understand why she was swayed by Eren and allowed him to have the power to start the Rumbling. I’d want to destroy the world too. Especially if I had never seen anything good in it, only evil like she did.
So Ymir is the person Chrysta was inspired by ?
0:12 Seeing this kind of image I always thought that Ymir had made a pact with some kind of devil that she had baited with a fruit or something to get her powers but I was wrong
King Fritz is the metaphorical Devil since he was not only a horrible person, but he also "rewarded" Ymir for her service by giving her his seed, which started the Eldian race. That's what the Devil exchanging an apple with the girl is supposed to symbolize.
I also subscribe man I really love your edit SO MUCH
no I feel so bad for ymir 🙁
It's strange to me that someone like Eren actually understood Ymir, he is the embodiment of extreme freedom, to the extent he was a slave to it, but in his mind, he always saw himself as free, people like Ymir and her warped love and obedience to her captor should make her one of the people that Eren hates the most yet he not understood her emotions but sympathized with her too.
when she cooks you a good meal 2:08
the music for ymir moment is great! i love it!
the cycle continue
I believe so
the bird that don't know it is free is still caged bird
Did any one mind thai yamir daughter name are the name of wall in paradise. Like wall maria wall rose
King karl named walls after the daughters of ymir