Attack on Titan's Ending is a NIGHTMARE.. 

A moment of silence for all the horses, characters, potato girls and Attack on Titan fans that didn't make it to the end.

This story started because Ymir let the pigs loose.

It seems like anime only watchers havent been anywhere near as negative about the ending as manga readers so far

I think watching this whole thing as a movie really helps paper over the plot holes. I can't imagine reading it as it came out

My favorite part of the AoT was the fighter jets shooting down the attack helicopter. Imagine watching season one and you hear someone say that.

The ending scene(of development and Tree) directly or indirectly said "whether ending is good or bad after some time everyone forgot the Heros and War will begin once Again". That scene made me speechless

Eren didn't change anything in the past to possibly prevent the rumbling from happening because he actually WANTED to annihilate everything outside of the walls. He even says it himself. Protecting his friends and saving Paradis was always just a side effect of his true motivation, which was to completely stomp the outside world and turn it into the fantasy land Eren has been told about in Armin's books.

I mean at first I thought the same about the credits: “it was all for nothing”. Then I remember Armin with Zeke and how they talked about what made life worth living. War can still happen and the titans can come back but it’s not about the multiplying of life but about the little things that make life worth living, that make it all for something.

The answer to all the plot holes in the story is "it is what it is"

Don't let this distract you from the fact that Floch tried to save us from Chapter 139.

27:48 I always prefered this. I didn't need Eren to be this master, all-knowing puppeteer that manipulated his own father in the past to get him to be able to pass the Attack Titan powers in weird time paradox shenanigans. I was absolutely ok with Eren being the manifestation of all the hate the world threw against the Eldians coming to give some of that hate and violence back and Armin and Co. breaking the cycle and restoring peace for a while or at least ending the Eldian-Humanity conflict forever. Now humans could erase themselves without the intusion of giants. It would have been a more typical ending but The Last of Us showed us that you don't need an overly complicated plot to make a good story if the characters are good and I think AOT had that type of characters.

Wow, I didn't find all these problems, but the ending felt wrong to me because you have to bring these connections, these many loose threads together yourself, something that hasn't been the case to this extent in the whole story up to this point. It feels like one or more pieces of the puzzle are missing. In this context, to justify Ymir's actions for all these centuries ultimately through her love for the king seems implausible and incomprehensible to the audience against the backdrop of all the previous history. I never had a moment here where I thought "ok, that explains everything now". All in all, this is complaining on a high level, but if there's anything to criticize about the series, then in my opinion it's clearly the ending. It doesn't have enough satisfying explanations or the positive vibes to make up for it.

The problem is Eren needed to die and there needed to be a dramatic ending. Theoretically, just by having the founding Titan, Eren could have forced the Marleyans into a peace treaty by threatening them with a rumbling. Instead the author wanted a convoluted code geass ending, which didn’t land. This story was never meant to turn out happy, but nothing was achieved or gained by all of the loss. The author wanted to convey history repeats itself, which wasn’t needed directly after having the main character sacrifice himself and 80% of humans for peace. The ending seemed absolutely meaningless.

I think you misunderstood the Falco part. It's not that he happened to shift and fly off. He thought he might be able to fly and they chose to sacrifice the ship in hopes he could be of use in the fight. Annie got with them because she couldn't let the kids go into war alone while she alone stood down.

Ending was TERRIBLE. Don’t even get me started with the half-assed explanation of Ymir’s pure love over a man than Clapped her beloved family members, IN FRONT OF HER. StalkHolm syndrome is a stretch for me here. In abusive relationships, at least we see that there was grooming and good at one point. It was just all bad with her and the king…..

People that said the ending is good and that you don't understand the story ... conveniently doesn't try to explain why they liked it or what is the "true" understanding of the story.

Also i kinda like the whole war thing because they talked about it in the first season when the general asked eren if he thought one bad guy would unite all of the people and eren said it could for a little bit but human nature would cause more wars. I also like how the marleans still didnt trust the eldians because it shows that generational racism doesnt go away after a day and that they can say whatever they want but it takes time and effort before their mindset can truly change

Problems with the ending: 1. Eren killed his mother so he could have a reason to be mad as if watching your people get eaten by titans wasn't enough. This also means that he is a bigger monster than the titans. He is the reason his mother died so he should hate himself more than titans. 2. Ymir loves King Fritz, a guy who murdered and enslaved her people, alsmost killed her then raped her and used her to kill so many of people and enslave others. He also cheated on her. Good Lord... 3. Historia became totaly irrelevant for no reason. 4. Eren wants to save his friends, but doesn't stop the titans from killing Hanji. Also, he almost murdered every single one of them. 5. The alliance has way too much luck and convenient moments. 6. Eren "doesn't want to leave the future of Paradis to be in danger". He also does exactly that... 7. Only Ymir knows. 8. Eren doesn't know why he did what he did and just wanted to see the world burn even though he had plenty of good reasons to explain his actions. 9. "It was Mikasa"... Mikasa's character is one of the most neglected characters in the entire story and then she just suddenly becomes a reason for Ymir doing what she did... absolutely 0 sense. 10. "Eren, what a man you are."

The titan’s abilities seem to be different overtime due to mixing of spinal fluid and the intake of the predecessor abilities, this is backed up by experimentation with the Ackerman’s and with the consumption of the hardening serum by Eren. It’s also why Rod Reiss told Historia that he picked out a powerful titan for her and it’s also why Falco asked Annie if it was true the Female titan could mimic abilities of other titans after consuming a piece of them. It also explains why all the Jaw titans except for Ymir had a hardened face plate (because they were injected with spinal fluid of the Warhammer titan) and it also explains why Falco also has a face plate (He was injected with Zeke’s spinal fluid which he had hardening as shown with Levi vs Zeke battle). We also know every titan shifter takes on characteristics of themselves hence why Zeke is able to throw shit across the battlefield, why Eren is the attack titan and why Bertholdt and Armin were the Colossal titan (they didn’t want seek violence but yet given massive amounts of power). It’s also why when Eren uses the founder titan he becomes a titan that looks like a puppet on strings. So it’s not an ass pull for Falco to turn into a bird like titan since his name very much derives for “Falcon”, especially with zeke’s spinal fluid he’s able to manifest powers akin the beast titan’s form.

I for 1 loved the ending. For me it straightened the timeline, kinda brought eren back to the eren we knew and gave me the answers I needed to call it a day. Overall nothing short of a masterpiece.

**SPOILERS BELOW** As a reader of the manga, when it ended people had very similar reactions to how people are reacting now, and after all that time what I can say for sure is that this ending has grown into me afterwards, I can accept it and somewhat see how this was fated to be their resolution. Eren was never going to stop fighting to be free, and his freedom would never be reached in life without the extermination of humanity outside the walls. I hoped for a better ending for him, but the ending we got was appropriate for the story, and it was beautifully adapted and accturate to the source material (manga).

He tried to make this show realistic. Humans have been at war with each other ever since their creation. I like the ending because not every ending has to be a happy one. The message of the anime is, no matter what, humans are gonna hate each other for one reason or another and even a mass extinction won't change that. Eren knew that and of the thousands of scenarios he saw through his future memories, wiping 80% of humanity would give their friends enough time to leave a peaceful life until the other nations were strong enough to retalliate.

Although for it's not really stated and more headcannon, I felt that Ymir gets freedom through Mikasa by learning to be ok with holding your abuser accountable. That is to say, she loved the old king out of Stockholm or PTSD or whatever, doesn't really matter, but that relationship is mirrored in Mikasa. She also loves Erin (for whatever reason) but hes hurting her. Hes killing her friends, calling her out, bringing her pain. Through Mikasa both accepting that she does love Erin but also doing what has to be done, Ymir learns that she can still love the old king even if she acknowledges that he did terrible things to her. The moment where Mikasa kisses Erin after decapitating him is for me, that critical moment (so i didn't hate it) But! literally all of that was contrived and is never actually stated or really talked about in the show so i might be giving too much credit

But didnt he say in the last episode when he was talking to Armin, he tried many different times to change how things would end up, and it still ended up the same... the rumbling still happened everything he tried to change the way things played out...

"I don't know what happens after I die, but I know... you can make it to the other side of the walls. Humanity will be saved by you, Armin." Eren's last words to Armin, before he wipes their memories and leads them to his death.

it is hard to make a good ending for a unexpected success. yeah different plot points could have been taken to make it more cohesive.

This ending is a very good test to see how litterate people are.

Been a while since I enjoyed one of your videos, good one dawg

I will die on the hill that Isayama (under the influence of his editor) changed his planned ending to shallow and typical Shonen BS. There's just no explanation for the rushed ending and poor writing that suddenly happens after chapter 131. A show known for killing off characters can somehow have everyone survive a death battle at the end and other nonsense. It's so obvious he changed the ending.

I think Ymir could have definitely made easy work of everybody trying to stop Eren but i think she mightve held back because those were Eren’s friends. She could have easily taken Armin’s head off but clearly Eren already had plans for Armin with the memories coming back, she probably didnt want to get in the way of that.

22:01 he said he ran countless changes to the future this was the best one. He’d still get to annihilate the people outside the walls while giving his friends a chance to kill him of their own free will. Them being heroes was just a side note and an excuse.

The anime was actually slightly different that last convo between armin and Eren the slight shift in where things were said and reactions made a massive impact

The thing with eren distracting the smiling titain is that one time paradox (think it's bootstrap) where an event happens then a character goes back in time to that moment and realises that even isn't going to happen so makes it happen. So eren making the smiling titain eat his mum is because that's how he had it happen and how it needs to happen so his precived events can still occur. There was no other way that happened. Atleast that's how I think that all works I'm not exactly sure correct me if I'm wrong.

Ymir shouldn't have made any titans after the Doomsday titan to begin with, Eren literally freed her and told her it's alright to stop serving people that don't even know or care about you. Also the fact that killing Zeke stopped the Rumbling was strange as well considering that Ymir stopped caring about royal blood, but stopped the Rumbling because the royal blood disappeared

No hate, just love. Though I feel like you are purposely missing on major keypoints and context to make the ending plot sound purposefully worse. I don't know whether you are aware of how to truly analyze a stories plot from a international standpoint like those who literally spend their life doing it. Instead we are going to be watching a guy who watches one type of story over and over again, and if they don't go the typical "cultural norms" of other animes is a presumed a "bad ending" I'm going to build some of my own constructed keypoints at your weak critiscm of others. 1. What you stated at 3:11 goes against every slander and hit you attempted to take of those who enjoyed the ending. Which is really ironic for all the degrading comments and images you were showing that had no relevance to the plot itself but rather the divided community... If you are to really come from a unbias neutral standpoint. Start the video at 3:11 and end it on 3:31 because just those 20 seconds is the only time you have sympathize and chose to understand other standpoint. Besides that you are just tooting your own horn and other "like minded" of you. 2. AOT is one of the shorter of the known animes. So 4:29 got me raising my brow. With having 36 hours worth of screen time. It managed fit far far more than most animes. With only one other anime below that timestamp with a better reputation is FMA:B with only 25 hours of screentime. Now if you did a simple google search of comparing almost every running anime stories of todays time. From beginning and end of the story. That is no where near as dreadfully long as every other animes with just painful to watch filler episodes. Now don't get me wrong, shorter does not mean better. As shown with Demon Slayer with there story having little to no character development living in la la land, and thats just the tip of the iceberg with there overwhelming plotholes. Why does it feel long then? Well, thats because it has been slowly fed to us throughout a whole decade, with the Isayama perfectionism to not fuck up his first hit of a story. 3. Ok this is only the first "major point" and I am already banging my head on the desk. At 6:22 and those who blindly believe that Falco just out of nowhere could become a bird, please read the manga of the ship scene. It was cut of the anime for who knows why. But it explains in thorough detail in the story (in multiple occassions) that if someone inherits the memories of previous titans that they inherit their traits. So yes, there was a titan who could fly. Falco regained their memories, and now inherited their flying traits. It was theorized that it was due to ingesting Zeke's spinal fluid ultimately ending him in the whole situation in the first place. Now for the statement at 7:20 I am starting to think you are thinking of this with 0 understanding of what a "prophesied story" means. Ymir was not going to kill Armin, as it was all planned to free her from the 2000 year curse of love stopping her from passing on. Why is this not noticed? I am not sure? Quite literally was repeated over and over. There was a teaser of Eren inability to change anything of the future. But all of a sudden that isn't noticed? They sent Armin there knowing he wasn't going to die, and to explain him more of it all. It becomes more of a headscratcher at 8:05 . The object that Armin and Zeke were passing around purpose apparently also flew over your head like no other. Whenever the "leaf from that hill" or the "throw and catch baseball" was shown in the story. You completely undermined it's original meaning and gave it your own definition. It was for a micro purpose not a macro like you made it out to be. It was a warming reminder on why THEY not the world but THEIR very moment on why THEY should keep on living. Not for anyone else. Why? well because it was clear that Zeke and Armin had the same object but saw very different things from distant memories and scenes. Meaning it was a on a micro level. It was just a reminder on what moment made Zeke and Armin realize why they want to "live" At 8:44 and my brain is starting to... This man has created some sort of interepation of the plot like no other. It was stated clear as day that King Fritz and his bloodline are the only people who have the ability to have awoken titan ability. So as long as Zeke is being leeched off from doing much with Ymirs capability of restricting him, and Eren ability to leech off of his royal blood to awaken his powers. They can fulfill the prophecy. Eren lives in the future and the past, he shares the memories of Ymir, and every other founding titan after her up until Eren. So in conclusion, Eren and Ymir are on the same page, while Zeke was not in that very moment. Not until he was aware of the true meaning of it all. It was all destined. Why is this guy not aware of anything of this sort? I am too very very curious. I really recommend you reread of just the last two arcs of the anime before you make a half an hour video of just completely misinforming everyone. This essay of a comment is getting too long, so unless if its even regarded to anyone of importance that would be nice to know. Besides that I have many more to say, including of the clear bias understanding on why bittersweet endings exist, and why many do not approve of it. Until then, have a blessed day, I need to go outside and enjoy some socializing now

I love the ending. Very emotional. This reminds me of Code Geas. Also Eren’s plan was flawed and not full proof. The story owns this and is discussed between Eren and Armin. In the end Eren literally says this all happened because he’s an idiot. He also stated to have looked at other paths and that this was the only way (Dune vibes here). Everyone knew conflict wouldn’t end even if he destroyed the world conflict it would just be reduced to Paradis island. Eren just evened the playing field preventing the world from destroying Paradis. Even though it wasn’t everlasting, Paradis Island did know peace for 100s if not a few thousand years.

Eren is a powerful kid who never had a time to grow up.. and the future was already determined.

Anybody notice when Annie was refusing to fight and going to the ship, everyone except Levi waved her off?

Let’s say ur friend group in High School is constantly bullied. One of your friends of the group decided to sh00t up the school and kill 80% of the staff and student body betting you guys would talk him down for the police to nab him or to stop him yourselves, thereby making u the popular kids in school for the rest of your tenure there. To boot no one really saw it happen cuz they’re all too busy running away, dying or hiding in their locked classes. And u say aww damn man that’s fucked up but I get it dude. Better yet once I graduate I’ll join u in jail cuz besties 4 life. That’s what AOT finale basically did. What a terrible way to get a theme across of violent cycles, true freedom/free will and friendship. SMFH a 10-yr blue balls

Bro there’s been wayyyyy worse endings in anime imo it wasn’t bad at all imo and couldn’t have been much better

Not supporting the ending, but also not hating it either. Ymir was looking for 'connection', for companionship, friendship, togetherness, love. It is not uncommon or unrealistic that hostages or those in relationships with an abuser to feel what they think are feelings of 'love' towards them, it is well documented. Secondly, her love to Fritz gave her her Children, which again, gave her everything she sought. It is the contrast of that love, to the love Eren and Mikasa had, that 'ended' the power of the titans, Ymir had to be shown that there was another way, the love Eren and Mikasa have is not a romantic one as some are suggesting, it is very much a familial one, they are eachothers whole world, they have been together almost every day of their lives since Mikasa came to live with the Jaeger family, they of course love eachother, and maybe there are other feelings there too, but again, even that is not uncommonly found in history of siblings and/or close family who have suffered years of unending trauma or hardship to form that kind of relationship with one another, they are the only person the other one has, that has always been there, that they've always been able to rely on, and in the case of Eren and Mikasa the two are not even related, just because they grew up together does not make it in any way 'incestuous' or wrong. Back to my point, it was the fact that Mikasa was willing to kill Eren, the man whom she loved to save the rest of Humanity - something Ymir herself could not or could not bring herself to allow to happen to the man she claimed or thought she loved. This is what broke the curse and ended the power of the titans. In terms of an explanation / origins story? Why do you need one? This thing that made Ymir who she was exists because the writer wrote that it should exist in this world, we need not be given an answer to why or where it comes from as much as we'd like one, though, Zeke pretty much gave us the answer in his monologue to Armin, "life finds a way." The ending with Paradis being bombed literally just shows you what the story has been trying to tell you from the start, right from Erwin and Pyxis' conversation about humanity, there will never be peace until there is one human or less, secondly, everything in this universe is in an endless cycle of repetition.

Eren explicitly said that he’s looked at many different scenarios of how all of this could have gone and this was the only way to keep his friends from dying and for them to live long happy lives. He also made the smiling Titan eat his mom to trigger the chain of events that would lead to this. I do get your point about the power of the founder and the pause of the rumbling. That part is a little fuzzy

People don’t get the difference between an unwanted ending and a bad ending.

always thought the moral of the story is quite simple "War war never changes"

Personally I can appreciate how beautiful crafted the story and character building was throughout and I loved the ending. To take all your joy you’ve had for something for so long and decide it’s “trash” bc you don’t like it’s ending? Tough way to live and appreciate anything truly

Its been an honor to hope with all of u, hopechads

Eren tried to be like lelouch speed running

Bro, kudos for you to speak your mind, they will hate you for this. I saw a lot of RU-vidrs wouldn’t dare to criticise it. You got it man!

Persoanly, for me, I was watching a video regarding the final episode and this RU-vidr said something that made the waffling from eren make compete and total sense, since Eren is observing the past present and future simultaneously he is a child whilst also being 2,000 years old, hence why we got the scene of him acting like a little kid as a grown man, he even prior to that had said “my heads messed up” which reinforces this concept. I also have a question, what the hell would aot be if eren never sent the Titan that ate his mother, what is the original timeline then? How would have things panned out?

Lol I couldn't just imagine the outrage when one piece ends😅.. cuz I truly believe the more perfect a story is the harder it is to end it..

What i hate about this ending is how eren killing his own mother essentially removes any limitations on his time powers What made it cool to me at first is that he apparently was only able to control past attack titans, but now it is revealed that he can control ANY pure titan across time, which just introduces countless plot holes to the series which could have been easily avoided.

even if we hate the ending no one can complain about how well the topics and lessons of this show was handled. and done correctly.

i get it, its too complex for you to like,all you are suggesting is a fairy tale ending but i think author chosen more depressing and quite realistic ending,humans are not as loving and caring as naruto makes you think and there is nothing as pure evil or pure good and eren did lelouch here which everyone seemed to love and praise that as greatest ending of all time

I moment of silence for the anime onlys who we hoped a better future for.

Man I always had a bad feeling about the ending but the way you explain it all makes me realize just how bad it really is. WOW. what a failure to an amazing series.

I dont know what everyone is on about. I thought the ending of AOT was a fucking master class.

People don't understand that Isayama has the worst ending for AoT in OUR timeline, which is now canonically the worst timeline. In a world that is better than ours, there was a dope ending for AoT that cemented it as the greatest show ever.

After chewing on the ending of the manga for two whole years, reading it multiple times and watching the anime special, I believe the ending is not only good, but inevitable, and a payoff for MANY things in the story. I'm currently watching the entire show again with someone who's new to the show, and I can see all the seeds Isayama planted for this ending from the very beginning, as well as seeing how focused on Mikasa everything actually is. Wtching the show again you would almost feel like Mikasa IS the main character

Maybe I’m just a smooth brain, but all I wanted was Eren to successfully protect his friends. He did. I was satisfied.

I liked the anime ending. I think Nick’s problem with it is just him wanting it to have a straightforward good vs evil ending and storyline. A big point was that the two sides were NEVER going to coexist in peace. That’s why everything restarts at the end, that’s why the sides keep fighting for centuries at the end. Everything was “pointless” But it’s more of a commentary on the conflict of man. It’s extremely telling that the author named it The Battle Between Heaven and Earth - not the battle between heaven and hell

I'll say the animation was certainly and deservedly the best of the series, given the scale and significance. I'd read the manga so the ending did not hit me as hard as anime only watchers may have been. Its one of those endings that really don't satisfy you, but then there is no better ending to the series. My gripes were oddly more of the tonality and score. AOT was the anime that got me into the importance of having a great score, so it has really set standards for me. Here, I felt that the score and both the tonality was pretty much more Marvel-ly, with energetic, upbeat music. Certain scenes required really better accompanying soundtracks that could leave you feeling heavy. They did bring back some classics, but the impact was quite diluted. It almost felt they really wanted to milk out the action. Also the scene with Armin and Eren about Mikasa, pretty much turned into a meme, and really just abandoned the emotional weight Eren had. They did the scene with the 80% population trampled dialogue much better, and I wish the same tonality could have been utilized for that scene as well. The best scene for me was people lifting the crying baby. Very masterfully done. And I guessed it summarized the episode well. Great in bits and pieces. It's crazy. Aot has been my favourite anime since I started watching it, and its been a great story to watch unfold.

*The way they ditched the characters during the time skips is just outrageous!* *Not closing the circle for the characters and not few panels with Mikasa its messed up but novels could've fixed it!*

Erin DID stay evil. Just because he and his friends want to justify his actions as best they can, doesnt mean he isn't evil. Erin's motives never really changes. He wanted to destroy all the Titans: he did. He wanted to avenge Paradis: he die. He wanted his friends to come out the otherside of it all: a lot did.

To me the show became insubstantial after season 4, which is a shame, since the basement reveal was fucking genius. But the characters and the feeling that this was a human struggle ended after the introduction of the attack titans power; basically just a huge deus ex machina. There’s no better way to ruin an otherwise complex story than abuse themes just to make it seem even more complex. I felt like iyasama lost sight of his story after the reveal, it went beyond him into something he could not altogether control anymore; thankfully he’s a fantastic writer so he managed to keep things tidy for a while, but then all the themes went to hell and it felt like he was just trying to tie lose ends. I personally didn’t understand the need for the random omnipotent powers of the attack titan and in turn what they did to Eren; I think it was not necessary in order to raise the stakes.

Chapter 139 is what turned the majority of fans off.

Despite its shortcomings, this ending is still memorable and anime did pull off an outstanding feat in story telling.

Here are some plot holes/problems with the ending… 1.Zeke dying shouldn’t have affected eren’s control of the rumbling (Plot Hole) 2.Eren shouldn’t have been able to transform into a colossal titan without Zeke or the hullucigenia (Plot Hole) 3.Eren/Ymir shouldn’t have been able to manipulate Mikasa’s memories since she’s a Ackerman (Plot hole) 4.Falco shouldn’t have been able to master his titan within minutes to a few hours (Either plot hole or contrivance/bad writing) 5. The hullucigenia scene MAKES ZERO SENSE… all it wants to do is live so why the hell was it going after eren? The worm is a parasite… just think about it all it needed was a host and there were plenty people surrounding it, so why didn’t it just attach to one of the dozens around it. (Plot Hole) 6. Ymir also makes ZERO SENSE she should basically have a 4D perception of things and be able to see the past,present and future. So why would she want to make any of this happen and see Mikasa or have eren tell her something if she already knew what happens(Plot hole or just bad writing) 7. Mikasa just apparently walks to paradis across hundreds to thousands of miles and crosses the ocean on foot (Kind of knit picky but still kinda bad writing) 8. Reiner the plot armor titan shouldn’t have been able to survive the blast from the colossal’s transformation.( contrivance) 9.The hullucigenia is never really explained like at all and it’s a key and foundational part of the story. They just kind of introduced a worm that has the ability to manipulate space/time, create pocket dimensions and give form to peoples will and don’t explain much about it. All we know is that it’s a ancient parasite basically. (Bad writing) …Tell me if there are any plot holes I missed💀

I feel like theres two good enough in-universe answers to these questions and 1 meta one. In-universe 1 is maybe Eren needed Zeke until he died because of the Royal Blood baloney cause even though freed Ymir had some linger allegiance/Stockholm. But his death cleared that up and Eren then had full control of the Founding. 2 it’s kinda implied that Eren wanted even planned for his friends to stop and kill him becoming heroes and helping stamp their place in the world and taking all the blame on himself so that who ever he didn’t manage to kill wouldn’t gang up on them so he probably did things to throw the fight give ‘em a win. Meta reason is Eren was too OP for them to beat so the author had to throw some contrivances in there to give ‘em the dub

Ah yes neverending feud between Ending Enjoyers and Ending Haters Meanwhile me with popcorn

You know the ending is going to be shit when the bloody Mangaka the one who wrote the damn story has to apologize to their fans

As for the very ending. Zeke said life always keeps changing form. The boy that found the tree (and thus centipede) may not even transform into titan but have any other power up / transformation. So titans are no more, one of the main goals of Eren is still completed.

I think it was a beautifully done. Now why he says to armin that he doesn't know why he did what he did even though he obviously knew that it wasn't a cycle of hate that needed to be broken but a power struggle needed to be broken and the only way to do that was that the founding titan had to die. Now, the fact eren orchestrated it to where Mikasa would be the last person he saw before he died was beautiful It also spoke to yamir bc he showed how even though she loved the king fritz that she's should've killed him but it wouldnt has ended the power struggle of the world when the power struggle was determined by titans and not by actual human choice. Essentially if you had titans u had nukes and no one else could possibly make a nuke, just weapons to defend against nukes

The best answer I've got, and it's not a great one, is that having the past, present and future in Eren's head made him batshit crazy and thus completely unpredictable.

The ending of the Manga is a real black pill moment for humanity. I was hoping the Anime would use the coordinate to spin an alternate ending.

To be fair, if you look at it from the perspective that we as anime and manga enjoyers ARE the future generations looking back at the history of the world (ofc without erens understanding part) then that final battle 100% made the survivors the absolute legendary heroes of the world and the battle was so great that just like our real life legends sometimes sound almost unbelievable that human beings couldn't even accomplished such a feat. Aot was just fucking beautiful to me, bro. I loved it and it made me so sad that the creator gave a crying apology bc he felt that his work failed. I wish I could personally talk to him and tell him how much I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am NOT one to be this nice lol That's just how largely I enjoyed the entire anime and the ending

When I first saw the boy and his dog's scene I liked it because I interpreted it as showing that aot's world is a never ending cycle of hell

If the final chapter was like 200 pages long to explain all the plot holes, I would've been fine.

Chapter 139 is the biggest betrayal in a story I have ever seen. I hate it so much.

The fact marley used their airships to attack eren instead of evacuating civilian people further from the rumbling speaks volumes about their thinking abilities. I wonder how this country even survived within 2000 years

In the defence of Eren killing 80% of world. He wants his friends to live in peace, making him see the future he had no other choice. He also mentions he can change the past but the outcome was always the same. So I am convinced this was the best outcome for his friends to live in peace. With that known i understand why they went with that, ofc all other points you mention are correct :)

According to me the only good point you raised to which I agree with is "what exactly is founding Titan?" Every other point is up for interpretation. To me Eren doing the rumbling created peace and ended this eldian-Marlian issue. The scenes we see in the end credits is of way into the future may be 300-400 years ahead and as like Erwin said as long as two men are remaining they'll keep fighting so then fighting is not necessarily cuz of previous issue at that time. And lastly the kid going under the tree trunk is also up for interpretation, to me he is a kid like Eren and Armin who is just curious and wants to explore the world.

Tbh i am okay with the ending, don't get me wrong the ending did have it's flaws, But i really think this ending was the only way to end the whole series, Of course im REALLY sad it had to end this way, But looking back at it, It really was a Sad, heartwarming ending witch had to be done, But i do understand why it gets alot of hate, But thats just my opinion

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I think you should give Isayama some credit and try to understand why he would write the ending like that, rather than trying to assess how the ending matches what you think the ending should be. Because of this, you kinda missed the point of the ending and that's why your proposed alternative endings are so pedestrian. What you point out as plotholes are not holes at all (they cut off Eren's titan head, not Eren's actual head, that why he's able to transform again, just like any other titan shifter /// the Eldians turn into pure titans and then back into humans so both we the audience and the characters can see that the titan powers are gone -whether you like this delivery or not it does serve a purpose /// I could go on). Give the man some credit, this ending might not be satisfying in the moment (it wasn't for me) because there are many layers to it, and it takes time to digest, but you have to digest what's there, not what you think it should have been.

My thing was always, if you can control and manipulate titan powers, why not just turn them all into Ackermanns? No more titans and a built-in defense system for every individual if the situation calls for it. Otherwise theyre no different from everyone else!

The ending was beautiful. It was basically saying that conflict of war cant change and history repeats itself.

From the way it sounds, it sounds like he hasn't seen the anime ending which fixes and explains alot of these plotholes. Hes right about some of these but alot of this was addressed.

It is sad when popular RU-vidrs speak out on a topic in which they understand little and therefore misinform their significant audience. There are a huge number of errors in this video and the author is clearly not too well versed in AoT. Most of the "problems and plot holes" listed by the author are not such and have an explanation. It's a pity I watched this video too late and now it makes no sense to write a comment with an answer to all the author's claims, since no one will notice it anymore.

If i were a mangaka of a popular series and I saw that my ending didn’t do all that great I’d honestly let the anime change the ending This would legitimately be the best use of an anime only ending

The fact that almost everyone here who enjoyed the ending isn't even trying to refute the issues brought up in the video is telling in and of itself. It's not that the ending couldn't have worked as something that would be generally praised, it's that the execution here is riddled with overt convenience and frequent inconcistencies with pre-established titan powers. Saying "this is how the story was meant to end all along" doesn't undo the poor execution, regardless of your opinions on the ending itself.

Just so you guys know, this video is about the ending BEFORE he watched it in the anime. He made this video about the manga ending. After he watched the ending, he made another video in which he said that he liked it.

What was the point of Eren fighting back and calling all the ancient titans for battle? His plan was to get blown up, transform into a collosal and then get decapitated by mikasa, that would have happened anyways without having to fight and risk their life

I think it’s if you look at world glass half full of glass half empty. I only watched the anime and it looks they fleshed out some of these plot points. A lot still open to interpretation but it seems that the point was humanity is stuck in a perpetual cycle of hate. Humanity is stuck in a time loop. Even when all the power is there is all there to end it the problem will arise again sometime in the future. A depressing tragedy really. The power of the titan is just a accumulation of the malice in humanity.

Don’t forget Paradis got carpet bombed

I don't think Ymir was flip floping. I was pretty clear to me that she wanted to die. That's why she didn't kill Armin. That's why when the moment was right, she helped them destroy the power of the titans, finally freeing her from the paths, allowing her to die at last.

Your cadence was entertaining and hilarious. I enjoyed your take on this. I do understand and agree with your points. I am an anime only so I personally could not recall the key dialogue leading up to the finale, so I got to enjoy the finale for what it was. I agree with you it was a mess based on your points. But coming from someone who wasn't thinking of the plot and just enjoying what was in front of me. I enjoyed the spectacle for what it was. On a side note, writing wise, parasyte the maxim was wonderful for me. I am hoping Vinland Saga would be able to deliver the same way when (hopefully) the anime ends.

Isayama’s biggest fault was trying to turn his story into a romance

I was one of the dudes that said that attack on titan began as an amazing story. And ended like HOT GARBAGE

At the 22 min mark right now and i need to write this: Eren is stuck in a grandpa paradox. If Eren makes it so the Smiling Titan dosent eat his mom, the show as we know it dosent happen and Eren dosent get to the point where he can influence the Smiling Titan. In the whole show, Eren dosent have free will. He is trapped by his own future memories. For him, there is no "alternate timeline". This will happen, because they aren't premonitions, they are memories. He has to do what he does, because he has already done it. There is no way for him to not enact the memories exactly they are.

The anime was about humans and its history, and how history will always repeat itself. Story as old as time, but he did it his own way.