Attack on Titan's END CREDITS Explained 

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You forgot to mention that a theory is in the end, when the boy finds the tree, it’s kinda the opposite of Ymir. Ymir found the tree while being chased by dogs while the boy found it by being led by a dog.

Anyone who still has the "Then it was all for nothing" mindset didn't truely understand Zeke and Armin's conversation in the path. Life isn't just about multiplying and dying, its about having the choices to enjoy whatever makes you happy and feel alive no matter how pointless whatever you're doing is in the grand scheme of life whether its racing with your friends or just throwing a ball and catching it with a friend over and over again. Eren gifted all his friends the privilege of doing that, to live life

I just realized. If thousands of years have passed in the end credits scenes, then by the time the city in Paradis became a metropolis before being decimated by war, then the story of the Titans and Eren and the others have probably faded into legend. A story parents read to their children at night before they went to bed. I find myself smiling and looking up at that thought.

Amazing how Hajime Isayama explained the human condition through the series and finished it off fully embracing that idea of cycles/choices.

9:30 someone had an amazing comment about that last scene that I think is what’s actually happening. It’s a scene of hope that the cycle is NOT repeating. Ymir found the tree looking for shelter and to escape death and a life of slavery, while all alone. That boy found the tree out of curiosity and while he was already happy and free and not alone. What he’ll find is not what Ymir found. The titans were the way they were because of Ymir and Fritz. The power the boy finds will probably manifest into something much better for humanity

Ymir found the Shining Centipede while she was being hunted she was scared for her life. So the creature reacted to her emotions and gave her eternal life and the power to resist her enemies. The kid at the end was exploring happily with their puppy. They found the creature full of wonder and excitement so he may not get destructive powers maybe they get the power to push humanity forward. So to me its kind of a hopeful ending.

I lost my friend 5 years ago and they loved attack on titan. i got into anime because of them and i wish with all my heart they could have seen this ending. I love you, dear friend. We did it! I finished it tonight and i had you in mind the entire time.

Kinda sad that at that point the story of Eren and titans is most likely viewed as some type of fairy tale that people dont believe in since those who knew the truth have long passed away.

The fact you can briefly see large airliners in the modern era of Paradis makes me think that in fact, Armin and the others succeeded and Paradis was able to make peace with the outside world. After all, airliners like that are mainly used for traveling large distances like _international_ travel, not just to various other cities on the island.

I hated the ending with a passion two years ago, but now I see the genius behind the ending and I love it.

Although the end credits proves that as long as humans are there, the notion of true world peace cannot be achieved, and the cycle repeats itself.. I think Zeke and Armin's conversation is the thing that gives hope the most.. to live for the small moments with our loved ones is one of the best things we can do with our lives.

The end credits were a trip man. I did not expect to see a cyberpunk dystopia in Attack on Titan. Looking at the big picture, the titan wars are just a blip in the grand scheme of things. The ending isn't devoid of hope though. Someone pointed out how Ymir found the tree as she was chased by dogs. The future guy comes across the tree with a dog companion. It might seem like we never make any progress, but eventually humans do grow more civilized.

Imagine your wife visiting her ex's grave and wearing her ex's scarf her entire life and then gets buried next to her ex's grave, lol. Totally wife material XD

The ending is so simple yet intelligent: Eren gives Humankind a new start. It’s totally up to them to decide what kind of future they want to be in. Apparently with all the lessons and knowledge lfrom the Titan era, humankind learns nothing. Eren free everyone from war for many generations. But again, humankind is a species with great hatred. Eren has done his job as best he could.

Regarding Mikasa dying single - in that closeup of her being put to rest with the flowers and Erens scarf around her neck, you can actually see that she is wearing a silver ring on her finger. Its barely visible between the stalks of the flowers, but it is definitely there!

this ending really stuck. the music made it hit so hard too

Now that AoT is over, I realize how much I took Seatactic’s videos for granted.

It’s a great ending because it makes you think and because it’s realistic…. Gives me the same feeling as the ending of Oppenheimer.

Hello, I have something to add. In my opinion, the last credits show something a bit deeper than "History repeating itself, or the cyclical nature of violence and war." My take is that it shows how in spite of the inherent violence of mankind, the future can also be something different, something more positive than a titan. For example. Ymir was being chased by dogs, escaping death in desperation and that's how she fell into the tree's roots. But now we see a boy who is an explorer, is not fear but curiosity that is driving him to go inside the tree, and even the dog instead of chasing him now is a companion. In other words, more than cyclical is like a spiral, sometimes can go upwards or sometimes downwards, and the details in this new kid explorer led me to believe that the world was ready to go upwards a bit.

The end credits rolling through the future with Linked Horizon playing. Absolutely masterful.

knowing mikasa's character mikasa not marrying is perfect interpretation of that scene but isayama intentionally made it look like that so that fans can consider mikasa to be married or unmarried in their own way just to prevent backlash from fandom lol , but if you consider mikasa to be married that will not only be opposite of mikasa's character and contraindicate ymir curse breaking plot but also will be so unfair for her husband & eren lol So best interpretation of that scene is man is armin with his son or mikasa's adopted son , Also it'll become poweful ema scene !! But it's open ending so you are free to interpret it on your own

Beren: the next generation 💀

It takes a mature Person of experience to truly appreciate this ending and understand its over all message,I am glad I gave this series a chance a decade ago,will treasure this Story always,Fight on my fellow scouts life is not for sheep or more appropriately,cattle.

Throughout the show AOT showed me that things in life are never as good as they seemed to be but somehow the ending showed me things are also never as bad as they seem and that this life is worth living😢. And hearing the line “A world without titans” coming from Historia’s voice cured my depression😭. The fact alone that Eren erased all the titans and cured all eldians from being able to turn into titans, severing they’re connection to the paths and in a way achieving his original goal from the beginning of the series is the happiest possible ending that I’d never could’ve guessed was possible. Overall I felt like what remained of the cast got off super well compared to what I expected like actually the complete opposite. Especially how not only Armin and the warriors were saved but their parents plus Connie’s mom as well. Also Paradis being destroyed hundreds of years in the future couldn’t bother any less. It serves the story’s message perfectly without taking away anything from the main cast because It’s so far out in the future it doesn’t concern them, it’s past their time so it’s out of their control, they did their part and succeeded. Kinda like how it’s the grandson or great grandson that runs the family business into the ground lol.

Isayama shows that NO ONE gets away with anything in this series. Even if you are forgiven, there will be a reckoning for your sins.

At 6:12 old man could possibly be Armin because he’s always the last one when racing to the tree. So possibly he’s the last one that’s still alive.

Greatest story ever told.

Here's the thing about the tree in the end. Since it's a little open ended, I like to think that the hallucigenia wouldn't just automatically make this boy have titan powers. I feel like it could be anything.

Thank you for that explanation video you did. Keep the grind going!

Mikasa did NOT marry anyone that guy is Armin who's just accompanying Mikasa to visit Eren's grave and in the manga it was very CLEARLY shown that Mikasa's wrist was still hidden which means she didn't pass down her crest to her descendants so that kid is adopted. On Eren's grave she wrote "Here forever Rest peacefully My most BELOVED My DEAR 854" and she was literally buried next to Eren's grave and in the ending song we can see that Eren and Mikasa got reunited in the afterlife which also proves that Mikasa didn't get married and stayed single

It's honestly those last end credits scenes that change my entire feeling on the ending. Without these, I don't think I would actually enjoy the ending that much at all, but with them, it's one of the more satisfying endings I've seen in a while.

I think the story was damn near flawless. A beautiful ending too. Wraps up nicely now Eren can rest in peace along Light and Lelouch. The honored trio

After watching this breakdown I was able to appreciate the ending even more than I already did. Even though the credit was explanatory the little details made all the better. I really am going to miss the show and the messages it gave, it thought me so much about myself and the world R.I.P AoT.❤️

She died unmarried The white lillies and the chastity ring symbolize her purity and virginity and her loyalty till death toward eren

Even when I read the manga two years ago I liked the ending. The dialogue between Eren and Armin especially needed a fix-up and the pace was really fast, but the themes and everything were great.

As a a manga ending passionate hater... I loved the anime ending ❤. That dialogue chabge between armin and eren was the thing Isayama needed to fix to save the ending... and also the fact that Paradis reached the Cyberpunk era 😂

Jean and Mikasa's relationship is not true

It is comical at this point that there are people crying about the ending 😂 “it was all for nothing “ during the 10 year period, this series made it blatantly obvious that there would not be any fairytale endings

It was a wonderful journey. Loved the ending

I like the idea that the boy at the end is a DISTANT descendant of Mikasa That the Akerman and Mikasa's mother's leniage managed to persist as it's always have no matter the strife

The boy or girl also has their hand wrapped up like Mikasa had, covering her family tattoo. Mikasa's mom said "When you have a child you'll bequeath it to him or her." So maybe a descendant.

The beauty of the ending is, that Isayama now can have his next story play in god knows what setting and let it play sometime in the timeline of AoT and we would barely notice except for some easter eggs he could lay here and there :D It would also be inconsequential for either story because they can very well be too far apart.

Eren achieved what he wanted. All he wanted was to see his friends live a happy, long life. A life where they can just be themselves enjoying life to the fullest. He wanted mikasa to be free, start a new life which she did. Isayama really made me cry with this ending. Knowing that life moves on and we simply are the children of sinners making the same mistakes over and over again is surely saddening. But that's what was always gonna happen no matter what. But if we focus on eren's goal only, he surely did accomplish them

6:11 Old armin visiting eren and mikasa's grave😢

Congratulations on all of your success. I've been following your AoT videos for a while and I've even started watching other anime shows because of this channel. So thanks!

What's so genius about these credits is that you could apply them to practically any story. Heck, one iconic example: Game of Thrones. Robert's Rebellion was like the classic rebellion and topping an evil king. But the story isn't about that, it takes place after that initial war. It's main purpose is to subvert our expectations. Another series, Harry Potter: That's pretty much the "happy ending" some people wanted so badly, but others complained that it was too happy. Harry defeated Voldemort, but that doesn't mean there wont be other Dark Lords in the future. Or maybe a war will eventually break out between wizards and muggles. Imagine if there had been credits in Deathly Hallows Part 2 that did a similar timelapse that eventually showed Hogwarts getting destroyed by a nuke. The Internet would go nuclear. Another example, Lord of the Rings. One of the most cited examples of a happy ending, but Interesting fact, J.R.R. Tolkein began writing a sequel to LOTR, but he cancelled it. This was his reasoning: _"I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless - while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors - like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow - but it would have been just that. Not worth doing."_ Kinda sounds similar to the complaints that some people have with these credits. But maybe that's our biggest problem: we look so much at the huge picture that we miss the little things.

It took me 3 days to finish it, thats how emotionally invested I was in this series. Ive never connected with a story besides this one. Loved the whole thing

In ep 2 eren loses it and goes on a rant about killing all the titans and calls Armin weak, only for Mikasa to come in and stop him by punching him in the head. I like to think this is foreshadowing to eren losing it and going on a rant about killing humanity, yelling at Mikasa and Armin in season 4, and Mikasa stops him again by cutting off his head

Amazing video. Absolutely loved the end as well, what an amazing send-off for a series like Attack On Titan. Thank you so much for the countless impressive videos you've put out, astounding work. Keep it up!!❤

The possible ring that is on mikasa on her deathbed is clearly 1) silver 2) on left ring ringer and 3) had no gems/bedazzling details. basically, this makes it a chastity (virginity) ring which implies mikasa chose not to marry and have kids after eren's death.

SeaTactics, thank you so much for these past years. I truly cannot explain how much these breakdowns meant to me. Attack on Titan is arguably the most precious thing to me in life, and watching your videos truly made my experience all that more better. I’m glad to know someone appreciates the show just as much as me. Again, thank you, and here’s to the end of the arguably the best story of modern literature!

@SeaTactics I agree with your view and perspective on the ending credits. The only thing I differ with is Jean being the person that mikasa end up marrying the reason, I said it because lot of different source material whether manga or anime contradict that. Like you mentioned in the video Aot rewards the viewers for paying close attention to the details. Whether it be the writing on Eren gravestone, the meaning of the flowers and number of flowers plus in chapter 139.5 Mikasa never removed her bandages showing azumbito heritage. So, it’s at best left to interpretation if not leaning towards she remained single.

It would make more sense if it was mikasa and armin that visited eren's grave over mikasa and jean, mikasa doesnt strike me as the type to move on so im guessing she died a virgin and adopted a baby(probaly named the baby after eren too) other than that you did a great job explaining the ending, what a legendary series with the most realistic ending, it will stay with us for as long as we live

Seeing Mikasa pass away has screwed me up so much mentally. And you can see for a second there's a frame of Armin visiting Mikasa and Eren's graves, which totally broke me. I hate this show 😭

I watched it the day it came out, and a week later I’m still grieving, not the death of eren (it’s still sad though) but the end of aot, and the story. Omfg it’s just so sad.

Thank you for not over-analyzing the end credits like the rest of the fandom.

Mikasa doesn't marry anyone. Bro at least says that it's not confirmed who is with Mikasa. You are saying it's 100% Jean 😂 Don't expect this from you

I really like the bittersweet ending here. Life sucks sometimes. Either personally or in the big picture. And to have an ending where things were just happy forever, well, that wouldn't be life. The show has never been afraid to shy away from the horrors of life, so why do anything different in the end? But I do like that there is hope. That we can make the world around us better. And that we can embrace the small moments with each other.

I honestly wouldn’t mind a sequel set in the future but I think that should come like during the next generation to witness (IRL)

i dont think its jean. probably armin and the little girl probably a child mikasa adopted. remember historia has a orphanage, if mikasa single she can be the one who run it while historia has her own family and ruling a nation mikasa still wore that red scarf, implying she didnt move on, also the flower on her grave is white, while white flower often implying virginity

I’m still in the camp that she didn’t marry and likely adopted, as there would be many orphans as there were already. Could be Jean or Armin or whoever with her but that’s just my belief. I also don’t think that’s Jean.

If Mikasa really married someone, why did she meet earn in the afterlife? What about her so-called husban and she was buried right next to him She kept visiting his grave all of her life put yourself in this so-called husband shoes. How would you feel about it? your wife is not buried next to you, but to the person that she love and keep the 🧣 till death i’m not against her being married but I don’t think that’s what happened I’m just saying, make it make sense

I think u missed a small detail! Armin does visit both Mikasa and Eren’s grave, now old himself! He was the last one always to race to the tree after all. Reflects on him being the last out of the three who lived EDIT: nvm, u mentioned it later 😂 hmm good point, civilization did evolve to the point where too much time passed for Armin to still be alive. BUT if only a few 80 -100 years passed (before the Paradis turned all futuristic) i think it would also fit too

Thank you once again for your great video, and for claryfing the obvious. Thank you for your great work all these years!❤

The whole ending gave me major “A Street Through Time” vibes. It’s a great book that is even fun to look through as an adult.

manga community are literally just a bunch of wannabe elitists who make unsolicited opinions because they think they "know the whole story". this is why anime adaptations are important and why I'll ALWAYS be anime-only... can't leave interpretation to a bunch of nerds

Imagine only finding your channel after AoT has ended. AoT is probably the most important of the anime i grew up watching simply because it covered so much of my life. The manga ended around the time i was graduating from university and I recall not particularly liking the ending, but understanding and being at peace with it. I do like the anime ending better because Isayama managed to more clearly indicate what he meant with it. Also, everyone is shouting about who Mikasa ended up with, and I'm betting either nobody (Isayama loves his symbolism and there is plenty of that saying she died a virgin) , married an unnamed blonde man or even ended up with Reiner and not Jean

This channel is my way of not moving on from AOT.. Thank you for the constant posts ❤❤

Bro ur channel deserves more recognition

I’m just sad Eren didn’t get to leave Mikasa a child 😢 he did this for everyone and the only thing he left behind is the memories of him but his bloodline won’t live on

Another great video SeaTactics. I'll miss these AOT analyses. ❤️

Thanks for breaking some points in the credits, and I hope that this little guy/girl in the end with the dog will continue AoT, and even if that not happen, I want to see some previous stuffs like life of Eren Krueger. He was interesting character. Also, I subbed you. Keep up the good work!

Why are you saying like the one with mikasa is definitely Jean? Don't you think it is more reasonable if he is Armin? 😂

You forgot to mention the ring on Mikasa hand at her funeral, you can see the silver ring between her finger and the Flowers

2:58 where do you think armin is? Wouldn't he visit his bestfriend after so much sacrifice he made for them

Those final scenes made me sad for real it almost made me cry lol It made me realise that all our worries and problems are temporary and death is permanent that is why we should live the best life as much as we could. Be happy and have peace with us.

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A dope observation I saw on some comments: the titans power all started with founder Ymir running away from dogs hunting her and then entering the tree. In this new future, this boy has a dog companion with him calmly exploring and entering the tree. A sign of hope that things improve perhaps?

It is Eren's gravestone is it not? He was born 835 and died during the Rumbling at age 19 at the year 854?

Damn, I thought it was about titans, the ending is more on war cycle.

Aot is one of the best things that happened in my life

By the way the "history repeats itself" part isn't just implied in the symbolism, it is literally said during the credits, just in German. There is a song that plays while we see futuristic paradis being destroyed. It kinda reminds me of Rammstein stylistically, but I'm not sure if it's them as I'm not super familiar with their catalogue. Anyway as we see the missiles the singer says "Geschichte wiederholt sich" which is just german for history repeats itself. Thank you for all your analysis videos! I've just finished the show, having absolutely adored it including the controversial ending and your videos helped me realise so many details that I would have missed otherwise. Keep up the awesome work, loads of love from Munich ❤

The guy standing by Mikasa was genuinely left to be ambiguous to keep us wondering, very well could be Jean-heard many different theories. Also theories of whether she ever got married, moved on, was that her kid(possibly adopted etc). Hopefully one day we will know😭

Those who think it was all for nothing don't realize that that's the point. Humanity will never learn from its mistakes, no matter how harsh a lesson the Rumbling is.

I dont think that's Jean with Mikasa at the end. I feel like they showed him cutting his hair on purpose.

My analysis - Jean and Mikasa are pictured so far down the road because no one from the group stayed in paradis, except Mikasa, who would never leave Eren, and Jean, who stayed due to his feelings for her. The chid you see is someone she adopted due to them looking familiar to Eren, helping to ease her time without him. Maybe its wrong? But its what makes me happy 😂

As a florist, I have to debunk the carnations being a symbol of purity. We use carnations is alot of our funeral arrangements, for almost every funeral, for mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandparents, ect. Its a sturdy, hardy flower that can withstand alot of things.

Great words towards the end, I definitely think most people dont think about how far we have come as humans. Great video 💪🏾

I think one thing to note is that Eren didn't get everything he wanted, the thing he wanted even before a peaceful life for his friends was freedom, but he never got to experience that. Ymir didn't have the strength to kill king fritz, she wanted someone to show her that it was possible to love someone like that and still have enough strength to kill them. So she pushed Eren to become what he had become, she manipulated him into thinking there was no other way possible since he said that there might have been another way, but he wasn't able to think of it. This makes more sense when you think that Eren never wanted to do a genocide and do whatever he had to do. Coming back to Ymir and Mikasa when Ymir sees that it was indeed possible and Mikasa killed Eren she is able to move on and hence all the titan powers were gone from the world. Because if Eren could do that, why not do it at the start and try for a more peaceful method. Finally, coming back to the main point, in the story Eren suffers the most, he wasn't able to have a peaceful future with Mikasa, he wasn't able to become truly free until his last breath and the only solace he had was that his friends were able to experience the peace he never got to. One more point I want to put forward was that the peace they found wasn't completely built on mutual understanding, but it took so long to restore the population back to stable size before attacking Eldia again. Think about it, he took out 80% of the population, we can argue that it took that long to get the population to its original size before they launched another attack to completely destroy Eldia and maybe finally put an end to that conflict which was going on for so long. This also is a reference to Erwin saying peace will not be achieved until the population hits 1 or less than 1 and since Eldia was destroyed that specific conflict was put to an end I'm not saying this to sound depressing and stuff, but it was interesting to see that the story unfolded in such a way that the only character who wanted to be free all of his life was bound as a slave. And no matter how much people want peace, it eventually loops back to conflict

Something i noticed nobody saying so far is how the tombstone is nameless, and how Mikasa mentioned burying what was left under that tree so he could have a proper burial.

it could be Jean with Mikasa during the end credits, but i'm glad the picture is low detail enough it's not 100% clear, cause I honestly kind of prefer it to be someone we don't know. partially because the main point of that section of the sequence is to show that while she did move on with her life and find someone else, she did always remember Eren, who exactly she ended up with isn't important. And also because I think it's better for Jean as a character to have moved on from that crush on Mikasa, which hadn't really come up much by seasons 3 and 4 anyways. but hey, if you want it to be Jean with Mikasa at the end, its just detailed enough that if it's someone we know it could be Jean. it being open to interpretation is something I like about that part. because, again, WHO she ended up with isn't the point of the scene.

I’d love to see like some short film or video lesson of some short depicting or explaining that futuristic paradis war

IMO. I don't think that everyone needs to marry or new love to find happiness. remember that they lived together in paths for 4 full years. I personally think that strengthen their bonds further as it already much. symbolism also has been used in the end credits. for example flowers on her deathbed- on her deathbed we see 6 carnation flowers, carnation flowers in general symbolizes love, commitment and devotion. similarly those 3 white flower represents innocence and purity of a women, and those 3 light blueish represents devotion and true love. it pretty much conveys that mikasa still waiting for eren. everybody seems to look over these symbol. again remember that eren wanted mikasa to be free and be happy, so she is free. she also chose to love eren till her last moment that's is also her own free will. what about happiness that eren always wanted for mikasa? well, since she is free, she chose to love eren that is also her happiness. back to the point of that not everyone needs to marry to find happiness. a lof of movie also conveys this. might not be obvious I can think of one and this one is well know too. John Wick his wife has died, he still stay happy by thinking about her and remember her. where is armin? it wouldn't make sense for armin to visited eren once and then disappeared. I believe that the guy besides mikasa is armin all along. they also buried next to each other, and I think that the old man is armin as he is the last to died. just like in their childhood armin was the last one to reaches the tree.

Too much money involved to not create a sequel. Can’t wait to do it all again!

Funny that you think thats Jean.

I just finished attack on titan 11 years after it came out. And the themes are still relevant to today. I understood the message conveyed in the end scene and appreciated it as a writer. Truly genius. Also great video!

mikasa isn't married, the flowers she is buried with represents purity and virginity, the kid is porbably from historia's orphanage, she probably adopted the kid as she was adopted as a kid, jean being in that scene just means he didn't stop being in love with mikasa but it not represents that they are together (i don't think it's jean, i think it's armin)

isayama could write a mini serie about the events after the death of eren , following the life of connie , pieck ,reiner ,annie , jean ,mikasa , and maybe historia as the queen. It could be interesting too.

Thx