A BEAUTIFUL SENDOFF | Attack On Titan The Final Chapters Animation Breakdown 

We wanted Sawano,they brought him We wanted Imai,they brought him We wanted Linked Horizon,they brought them We wanted some tweaks in dialogues,they did it GREATEST CONCLUSION OF ALL TIME

The last IMAI(🐐) sequence in my humble opinion was the greatest AOT sequence. It not only had Peak animation but the details and drawing. It was perfect.

The final episode was phenomenal in every sense. Director Yuichiro Hayashi finally showed us what he and his team can do if given enough time.

Clicked faster than Levi

AoT and HAYASHI both have helped each other reach their peak....love to see that

Arifumi imai delivery another spectacular odm scene he's just amazing also the whole episode from start to finish was pretty much stunning too they delivered big time a incredible sendoff to one of the best shows ever

I have been rewatching that Imai ODM scene over and over. It is incredible. The entire episode was. Thank you Isayama, WIT and of course MAPPA for your work.

I just can't believe they pulled off animating rumbling. it's a hell to animate. hayashi and his team are mad lads. the people who are complaining that it took so much time don't know the shitshow we would've gotten with less time and studios with bad 3dcg. this gives me a little bit hope that one day we can get a good berserk adaptation.

I can’t wait for the blu rays for these two specials man! I sense that a lot of polish and some improvements will be made. That’s also a good idea for a video, you can make like a retrospective look back on the whole Mappa’s Final season when the last blu ray comes out.

The direction by yoichiro hayashi is brilliant, really love his cinematic storyboards.

Imai is my animation god, literally cried in that scene. Also love how he drew Mikasa, looked so beautiful and badass at the same time

Animation-wise S4 P3 is absolutely my fav out of the series. S1 is much less flawed, but the highs of the last 2 parts are something I didn't believe were possible to do. The rumbling scenes alone are a highlight of the medium for me. For the most part I absolutely felt the weight of characters, the speed of action, the scope of the scene and the dread in the atmosphere (rumbling and Eren's final transformation). Funnily enough the scene that made me the most emotional was Imai's sequence. Knowing that it was him animating the final and the best ODM scene, felt surreal. My criticisms (animation-wise) are pretty minor: -Digital lines. I am either positive or neutral about them for like 90% of scenes (becoz AOT has mostly pretty "intense" scenes whether emotional or action) but they absolutely take away from those few "beautiful" and "calm" scenes (Zeke-Armin, Cabin, Eren-Armin). -The Eren-Armin convo felt very "cheap" compared to the rest of ep. Too much off-model Eren, pretty basic compositing, nothing special direction-wise. The character acting was gr8, and some drawings looked were extremely detailed. But considering, its a "climax" scene, it does leave more to be desired. Ranking the parts from strictly Animation perspective : S4P3(both)>S1>S4P2>S2>S4P1>S3P1>S3P2 I have always preferred the newer artstyle much MUCH more than the older one. I also have a bias towards S4P1 coz I just like it a lot. Extemely thankful to the Hajime Isayama, the animators at Wit and Mappa, Yuichiro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, all the VA's (probably the strongest voice acting in any series, ever) and every SINGLE person involved in the making of this series. It has flaws, pretty visible flaws, but goddamn if it isn't the closest thing to PERFECTION I have witnessed.

This finale was absolute cinema, Yuichiro Hayashi you rock my world.

Really glad to excited for your video cuz I have absolutely no idea how Hayashi & his team were able to pull this special off. They really deserve the praise.

Imagine being a studio and animators that animated the attack on titan and jjk basically at the same time, insane

The Titan at 2:45 in the video is actually 3d-2d hybrid, the abs section and the head are 2d but drawn so fucking well it’s easier to assume it’s a part of the 3d model. The only thing that gives it away is the linework shifting if you look really close. There’s tons of this throughout the episode

Let’s gooooo I was waiting for this video!!! I love your breakdowns

Take a shot every time PP says, “Insane”

Also i don’t know if you noticed but the first three mins of the episode which feature the recap of the epic ending of the previous episode already contained a change (Beast titan’s eyes) and an improvement (CGI scene of Beast Titan about to throw rocks). That’a because they had 7 months to polish the prevous ep which also means that when the episodic format arrives on November 19 we might see improvements across the board for the previous special.

What an amazing breakdown and amazing attention to detail keep going my friend!

wait ive been watching u for quite a bit now but ive just now realized or remembered rather that u only have around 9.5k subs and i gotta say u are very underrated and u deserve way more keep it up my guy

I feel like the Imai scene has every good part of his previous legendary odm gear scenes. The Levi slide, foreshortening, insane camerawork and rotations, spacial awareness, maby the best timing yet (no details were compromised due to the speed), strong drawings ect. ect. I will miss the odm era of Imai.

I can't believe that this anime has ended. There are some anime which I liked more than this, but this is the greatest anime ever. There, I said it.

I remember (and still am) wondering how tf they're animating this final fight, and they just...did it? It felt delivered to my plate as if it's nothing out of the ordinary. It's hard to describe the feeling. I don't think I fully grasp yet how much effort this whole thing took...will be doing a third rewatch for sure.

thank you very much for the break down. Can you also make a story based breakdown, what you personally think the way the handled the ending etc.?

You're nearing 10K subs lessgoooo !!!!

Been waiting for it!

Although not the best ending in anime, I was really happy with this episode. The animation really was excellent and I like the way the story ended. Love how baby was inspired by Schindler's List, which is pretty fitting.

Loved It, What an amazing story, what an amazing ride❤

U DESCRIBED IT PERFECTLY. A ONCE IN A LIFETIME SHOW

This was a wild rollercoaster, I started watching aot when I was in elementary now I'm in 9th grade and man it hits hard

Maybe HAYASHI would make a studio of his own

The mid credits tree with changing seasons and time periods looked amazing

3d scenes and CGI in general was quite incredibly done in the new Onimusha anime.

Arifumi imai never fails to make me cream my pants 😔

Amazing show, amazing review

I knew going into this finale that the conclusion to AOT was going to be one of the most ambitious and hard to execute finales in anime history. The sheer insanity at the end of the manga, the scale of it all and the amount of moving parts definitely were a reason why Isayama himself apologized to the production team for how difficult it was going to be. Overall, this was an incredibly produced finale. Under Isayama's help with the script, they even improved the elements in the final chapter that I had mixed feelings about. I can say I left this final episode much more satisfied than I did its corresponding manga chapters. Thank you to Studio WIT, Studio MAPPA, and Hajime Isayama!

Imai should rename himself to "Umai" since his final work was tasty

12:09 Falco with 2D feathers looks so much better, I hope they can add this to more scenes in the bluray

i just cannot forget the times when the rumbling wasnt even a thing. NOBODY had any idea that a titan this big would ever be animated. and when the idea was borught in people were VERY anxious. I remember when this anime was just about killing the small humanoid titans, then eren came then annie, then bertolt and reiner and then rodd reiss and then the Beast, the scale just gradually increased. I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT THEY WOULD ANIMATE AN IDEA SUCH AS THE RUMBLING. THAT IN ITSELF IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT.

Actually I think the cut at 14:17 was made by the Vinland Saga director. He was involved in the final part.

Now mappa just needs to remake part 1 with this level of quality

Are we not gonna talk about how armin made a face with made us think they were gonna kiss

And they will never wake up again 🕊🕊🕊

"Because Imai can animate rotation in his sleep." Love the commentary 😂

Wasn't a fan of the occasionally inconsistent character designs but the animation and compositing was top tier

The armin rotation shots starts as 2d then transitions to cgi

Hayashi team is finally free...... for now

Thank u mappa

I love it

Idk but this has to be your longest video so far.

we will be miss aot

Hayashi truly showed the exaggerated swagger of a Japanese director

Bro when are you making a video on Pluto?

Thoughts on the new jjk episode?

Make a vedio on Pluto's animation breakdown

Plot whole how do Titan shifters keep there clothes after turning into Titans

So it's finally over at last huh.

immediately clicked this

I had more hype for this video than the episode (of course not)

Finally!!

11:10 is the OST

10:54 that guy : ah f*ck, is it mine now?

I'm still surprised that Eren vs Armin was mostly 3d lol. Either way, this entire episode looked pog oof

I still don't understand where all the rocks in the Imai sequence came from

What impressed me the most was CG fight, If you pause, Doesn't even look 3D most of the time Side note: Bro are you cooking JJK ep 16?

18:51 for us all bro!!!

You know it's good when you're crying from watching an animation breakdown.

AOT deserved the time they took to send it off the best way they can!

I have a question, why mappa use the digital lines on faces in AoT? It looks kinda awkward. Great video btw man.

Bro heard the news about miso kaisen?

hoping for jjk 16 breakdown soon

Yoo 💙

6k views and 23k likes. Nice RU-vid

Does anyone know any of the animators on the Final Opening of Attack on Titan?

The new jjk episode was insane, its safe to say this is mappas weaker team

dude what's your opinion of jjk s2 16?

I love how you can instantly tell when a scene is animated by Arifumi Imai. Literally everything about the cut becomes flawless

One question: why does it happen that sometimes a word is pronoumced by an AI like at 6:48?

One of the greatest fumbles in the history of fiction Isayama had an opportunity to create one of the greatest stories ever told and he blew it with a forced romance piece of shit ending. Eren died for nothing, he failed to protect Paradis from getting genocided by the outside world, he killed his own mom, turned into a stupid bird so that Jean can plow Mikasa, whucu mind you they show off their kid in front of Eren's grave! Literally SNL comedy skit right there! Lmfao Hagjme Isayama is the Todd Howard of mangakas, hope that failed internet cafe owner never makes a shitty manga ever again! This makes me love Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass much more! What a fucking Chad. He would be laughing so hard from hell with Eren right now. It was neck and neck for which anime was better, but this just sealed the deal. Also as usual, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood remains as the God Emperor of GOATED Anime endings. That pure Titan lookin' ass Isayama wishes Attack on Titan has a better ending than Hiromu Arakawa's masterpiece.

Pluto?

clicked too fast😅

"No, I don't want Mikasa with another man...I want her to think of me for 10 years atleast" I guarantee you if this dialogue didn't exist, AoT's ending wouldn't be that controversial and frowned upon. I never had a problem with Eren's death, but that cringey dialogue feels like something that should be on the first season on any anime, not last episode.

Bro is just repeating himself once every 3 sentence

I'd genuinely like to take a peek into Imai's head...

Aot is the main reason why jjk is fluctuating

I didn't like the end credit thats all. Like why did they stretched the ending to thousands of years in future? Now it's like all empty, seeing all of the aot characters die. 😢

You severely overhyped this but aight. Its impressive that it looked better than final season 1 ig

So much effort just to adapt one of the shittiest endings in writing history

character assasination and plot wholes made it mid