Ending and Epilogue | Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season - Kanketsu-hen 

*For the ones asking what music I used for the Epilogue scenes, it's "No. 6 In My Dreams" by Esther Abrami.*

A few fun facts: 1) Eren didn't open his eyes during rumbling, he opened his eyes in his last breath just to see Mikasa 2) Mikasa wrote “Here forever rest peacefully, my most beloved, my dear. 854” on Eren’s grave. The first two times Mikasa visits Eren’s grave she put four roses which means nothing will come between two people who love each other but cannot be together / tragic love. The last time she put one rose which means “you are still THE one". 3)A white flower was placed during her death, which symbolizes purity and virginity. So, taken together, Mikasa's flowers send the message that she won't forget Eren, she still loves him (but believes he can no longer love her back), she will remain devoted to him, and she is waiting. 4)They spent 4 years living together in Paths (ch. 138) And only when he “passed away” there, was she able to kill him in the real world. (it was a gift to them from Ymir) 5)In the ending credits where Eren and Mikasa were buried, an old man Armin still visiting their graves. He was the last to die from the trio, just like when they were kids running to the tree, he was the last one who reaches the tree.

I love how they all (Eren's friends) kept on visiting and lived their lives as Eren requested

The way Mikasa looks peaceful and content at first, but after recalling a memory of her and Eren’s childhood, she breaks down in tears, saying that she wants to see him again, fucking *broke me.* It’s such a poignant and gut-wrenchingly realistic portrayal of grief, I cried right along with her.

Seeing Armin being the last to go broke something in me. And the fact Humanity didn't learn a thing really speaks volumes about us as a species.

Sleep in peace Eren, Armin and Mikasa

This is the most honest and painfully the most realistic ending that attack on Titan ending can possibly offer.

For anyone curious about the manga’s version of the ending, it mostly plays out the same way. The key differences are the dialogues which have been extended and refine more in the anime, starting with the conversation between Eren and Armin in the path, and then there’s the visual difference that changes the meaning of the epilogue. In the manga, the future setting was close to ours, with modern skyscrapers and all. Since AOT technically takes place in the WW1 era, pretty much only a century has passed. Readers hated this because it shows that Eren and everyone else’s effort were in vain in protecting Paradise Island, and that the prejudice against them still exists and was the reason why the island was blown to bits. In the anime, the future setting is far more futuristic, creating a sense that the destruction of the island has nothing to do with Eldians’ history, for it was too long in the past that the modern day people don’t feel attached to it any longer. So this makes it feel like Eren did succeed in protecting his love ones, and proved his point about the human condition. The only thing he could do was to delay the inevitable so far into the future that it was worth it.

This series started under a tree and ended under a tree. I will never let this show out of my heart.

Seeing the boy back at the tree with the entrance/hole just like Ymir just gave me an unexplainable pain in my heart :(

Can’t believe it’s actually over. Nine years of my childhood watching this show and it’s finally over. Gosh I’ll miss it 😢

The fact that armin was able to see what humanity had accomplished with the first city buildings, truly warmed my heart. it shows us how far we have really gone in this world, and also, when it comes down with the futuristic city, holy crap. its astonishing, i wonder what our cities will look like in 2100.

Can you imagine the pain Mikasa felt throughout her life?? The only person she cared for and loved died at his own hands because she was forced to and its Eren own request.

1: Seeing Mikasa sad made me sad. 2:Seeing how far into the future it got, I'm pretty sure its hardly even about Eldians and Marleyans anymore, probably just humans being humans again. 3: Looks like Eren achieved his goal. His friends all lived peacefully till the end of their days.

I don’t think I’ll ever get over how tragic this ending was but that makes it all the more realistic. Our own world is like this, there’s never been actual peace. But what really broke my heart is Eren’s death.

I don't understand why Some anime/Manga Fans would hate this ending.. as this is Hajime Isayama's Meaning of that... "They finished the War, But the Damage has already done its job..." As Peace was only Shortly lived for their years... As Even after all Titans are Dead, Humanity still continued to Go at War at another... when Eren fought to Gain their Freedom back of "No longer being in a Cage" This seems a Pretty Realsitic Ending for a Manga that went on since 2010, to 2023... I feel like this is a Satisfying conclusion to a 10 or 11 year old Manga that's been going on....

The saddest thing is that Mikasa doesn't have a picture of Eren , meaning that after few years she will start forgetting him , his voice and his face .. 😢

It feels like a phase from your live is over.. when you watch a show for 10 years and you get used to it being around when its end.. it's just hits different

That ending gave me goosebumps. It just shows no matter how much we sacrifice for the world, we will always see it in a state of turmoil for generations to come.

The epilogue really captures the quote "The only thing that humans learn from history is that humans learn nothing from history."

The show started when i was 8 years old. I started watching it when I was 15 during the quarantine. I’m a adult now , this show will always have a special place in my heart ❤️.

The saddest part about this is no matter what sacrifices Eren did and other people during their time to stop the war and give everyone freedom, the ending shows that it will never end up until this generation wherein there's still racism, inequality, and war.

What a beautiful ending honestly, showcases how war will always happen no matter the era but life will always find a way to continue and rebuild itself, poetic and bittersweet, thank you Attack on Titan for a wonderful 10 years.

The way the ending was what really broke my heart 😢

Great ending to probably the last anime I'll ever watch. I grew up watching this stuff as a kid (back when anime was called "Manga Video" it was on VHS casette) now it's time to move on. Thank you for the memories.

Now that the entire show is released, I wish Eren can wipe my memory to start this show all over again…

The best example of “Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it”

Thanks Isayama and the countless staffs, voice actors and much much more individuals who worked hard to give us such a masterpiece. It's been a long ride, but all good things must come to an end 😢

This is the most realistic depiction of death in anime... My younger peeps, i promise you that this ending is going to hit WAAAAY different when you get older.

Seeing the ending, it really hits. Growing up with the show, it's painful to say goodbye, seeing life go on, not just in the show, but in real life too. Which is strangely fitting, in a melancholic way.

To everyone that started this series 10 years ago and stuck to it to the very end, no matter what changed in your life and within yourself, I’m so proud of you for making it this far to witness this finale with us. A moment of silence to those who aren’t with us anymore and couldn’t make it. I hope wherever you may be that you keep moving forward. 😊

It took 10 years, but the anime is finally finished and I am CRUSHED

Hits hard when still remembering the day 10 years ago watching the first ep dam thank you WIT and MAPPA

Mikasa and Eren 's tragic love story just breaks my heart everytime I see it. Thank you to everyone who worked on this beautiful story

I'm mostly intrigued by the scenes of the future here. I never thought I'd see any kind of cyber punk in Attack on Titan of all shows.

ain't nobody gonna talk about how 9/11 just happened in the distance? but damn this is one emotional ending seeing the tree stand there unchanged while the world changed behind it is amazing!!!

"If we don't end war. War will end us" - H.G Wells

I started this show at 17 in high school and ended it as an adult at 27. Thank you for the memories AOT

Can't stop crying when thinking that my favorite series has finally come to an end. I was so invested into this for 8 years. Thank you AOT.❤

Erens death wasn’t what made the ending sad for me. It’s that Mikasa and Erens love could never be.

A masterpiece. Thank you for the fantastic journey.

Fun fact: The person singing in the background was Mikasa's VA, Yui Ishikawa and the male voice is Eren's VA, Yuki Kaji.

This was so depressing, but so realistic. Thank you AOT. Thank you Eren, Mikasa and Armin. Rest in peace.

I still remember watching the first episode when i was so young, how time flies.....

will never understand the hate over this ending it perfectly captures the reality of the world we live in. Makes it so obvious that people hate it when reality is shoved into their faces like this. I mean I must agree it was a bit rushed and full of plot holes yet it was an overall amazing message. wars will happen, people will discriminate one another over “beliefs” and everyone will fight for their own freedom, they will reach their own happy ending in a way, fulfill their own desires in life in the peace they have earned through hard work and, die. But humanity does not stay still and is in constant state of progress, the lives of those who have achieved their own peace and their ideal free world will be pursued in that peace and come to an end eventually. new people will come and progress and along with those new conflicts, new wars, new views, new ideal worlds. Achieving complete peace in world is impossible because humanity never has and will never learn, greed, selfishness and their desire to exterminate anything and anyone who does not fit with their world view will always win over the good of their hearts, they will try erasing history and spreading false information about a certain group of people they don’t like to spread hate for them thus resulting in wars and battles. That’s why every human and each era is responsible of their own freedom, their own happiness and their own peace since our history and our current state clearly says that peace is not a permanent thing, one day everyone who has seen first hand how that peace was so hard earned will die and new people will come. This is the sad truth of our world and its my first time seeing it being told with such honesty in a media. Thats what makes AOT so beautiful. Also what Eren has done wasn’t in vain considering he wanted his friends to live happy long lives free of the threat of titans, and he succeeded in the end

For those saying they'll miss this show...what? I'm probably going to rewatch it all like 50 times, it isn't going anywhere. We have it now as a gift of creation.

To think that they add more into the anime of this final moment really hits me, I may have only got into this series for only two years, After seeing this alone I can understand how emotional this is To those who got into the series way longer, Thank you studio Mappa, Wit Studios, and Hajime Isayama, for having this incredible series come to life.

I just finished it and I am currently sobbing. It was an honor to be on this journey.

How can a simple talk add so much depth to the series. "Promise me you'll throw the scarf away when I'm gone". She never threw it away. She kept it with her forever, she remembered him for her whole life. She still kind of a slave to her love for Eren. However, she's different from Ymir. Ymir's love was a nightmare. Mikasa, on the other hand, ended her own nightmare - and her lover's nightmare - and went to live a calm and normal life, even if she never really found thorough peace with it... Is the bird trying to remove the scarf, or set the scar properly around her neck? She's such a complex character. This is a true masterpiece.

The fact that Eren went through all of this, went into the past/future multiple times to try and find a different solution. Knowing that if he didn’t strike first, then the Marleyans/the world would be the ones to go forward with the genocide of the Eldians and the destruction of his home on paradis. It really hits home, when he was begging and pleading with hange and armin to give him another solution that he couldn’t find himself. Either he runs away with mikasa and lets his people die or he saves his people and becomes the monster the entire world fears. Even then, he tells armin even after everything is said and done, this conflict will never end. Humanity’s want for power will never end, but atleast he can give his friends/people a chance to live longer lives.

1:16 I give this reference a 9/11 rating

I just can't get over it, the last scene between Mikasa and Eren was so sad. I ve rarely been touch like this. Thank you for all these feelings, all the greatness of your masterpiece.

Finished watching aot all seasons within a week, and the ending reflects our very reality, cycle never ends, history repeat itself. RIP eren, mikasa, armin ❤

Eren was right, Humanity will never stop tearing each other apart. No matter what sacrifices he made and other people did to stop the cycle of violence it still ended up being all for nothing. what a heartbreaking ending man.

The place where eren was buried was below the tree that grows after few decades into same kind of tree that ymir 2000 years ago came across..Meaning somebody probably buried or died at that place even before ymir's timeline and ymir got the powers. So the man and his dog going towards the same tree eren was buried shows that the cycle never ends and AOT has been probably happened so many times before...

i can’t believe this show ended, i truly love this show, thanks for the 10 years, i’ll miss this, hope eren finds peace

the coolest part of this is getting so invested in watching all these characters and their personalities, and then seeing that their story is 1000s and 1000s of years old So in essence, they are considered in that society like the faceless legends, like Conficious or Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great So maybe they remembered Eren or maybe they didnt, but it is just crazy to think how many of our ancestors must have had detailed battles and aspirations and relationships, and now are all just forgotten in the dust of the earth, or at best faceless legends and stories

1:51 Ah shit here we go again.

I can never forget how this show made me feel....i don't have anyone to talk or discuss about it...but i'll say my heart here...i am really gonna miss this, It leaves a void that can never be filled i guess....This is the most amazing thing that happened to me.♥️ I hope people start recognizing how much of a Masterpiece this Anime is🔥 ♥️ATTACK ON TITAN♥️

I just finnished watching attack on titan. And boy. It was one hell of a ride. And this scene is getting me. I mean the idea of everything that's happened after mikusa was long gone (including the others) is so impactful. Wow. They were right to recommend me this series. It's now one of my favorites

Love you, Eren, Mikasa Armin Sleep peacefully

At 01:53 you can see the parasite at the bottom left as the boy goes inside EREN'S TREE I think the post credit scenes delicts a new cycle of attack on titan. The boy walking into the tree must be similar to the founder Ymir. This scene is almost identical to the scene of Ymir walking into the tree and getting the power of titans from that parasite. If that is true, there must have been someone similar to Eren before Ymir in the past, who tried to change the world but failed to do so and got buried by a loved one like Mikasa. After that, that someone must have been morphed into a parasite (the original powerful form of titan) and Ymir must have gained her powers by the parasite. This shows that humanity can never live by without fighting and decimating each other, and how insignificant their (Eren's) efforts are.

0:54 This hit me like a truck RIP Mikasa

I start this anime when I was in college and now I am a mother of one daughter. This brings back a lot of memories. The ending is truly magnificent. I love how piano plays at the end of anime. It's sad but life should go on. And one lesson I get from this anime is ... there is always bad and good. As long as humans exist, we can't deny that. Because it's human's nature, to do bad and good things.

Love.... The Hope, pain, happines, future, past, and others . Just one word is enough for this ending.

On that tomb, in upside-down letters, it reads, "Beloved, here you are laid to rest forever."

And the fact we got see their reunion in the after life in such a beautiful way is magnificent, biggest w ever

One of the best anime i have ever watched i can't believe it's over now

Sad reality of humanity.. Humanity easily to forget about blood and suffering.. History repeat itself..

At least Eren made sure his friends live a long and peaceful life, and the world maintained peace long enough to develop into 22nd century. Although humans will always find reasons to kill each other, he broke, or at least halted, the cycle for maybe 200 years, long enough for several generations to enjoy peace. Ironically, he achieved this by sacrificing 80% of humanity population, an extremely cruel but effective measure.

1:45 Even after hundreds of years have passed, that tree where Eren's grave was still here.

Dont cry because its over smile beacuse it happened. Thank you isayama for creating this masterpiece that' has been apart of me ever since i started watching. I'll never get over aot. Ever.

"The End" hits so hard... never imagined I'd see the day.

NOOOOO LITTLE TIMMY!!! Don't go into the Eldritch Tree of Trauma!!!!

It's hard to explain how much I love this show. I first started watching it around 3 years ago, it's hard to believe that this masterpiece has ended. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible. I feel sad that it has ended, but I'll re-watch it a good number of times as the years go by, and if possible, I'll show this to my to-be-kids in the future. We'll always remember you Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Levi, Jean, Connie, Reiner, bertholdt, Annie, Erwin (and all the other awesome characters, can't name everybody)

I started watching Aot about 3 years ago, it's just beautiful to see how far we've come and now it's over. I know there will be many great shows coming out after it, But there will always be only one AOT, thankyou isayama, thankyou WIT studios and Mappa for giving us something so beautiful and memorable. All I want to say is Thankyou AOT❤

So long AoT... my first dive into Anime all the way back in 2018.

Aquellos que no aprenden de los errores del pasado estan condenados a repetirlo

I started this show in highschool as a senior. Im now 28 wearing a ring and got to watch the finale with my wife after convincing her to watch the entire show with me before it ended. Such a wild experience

No matter how mamy times eren tries to tell mikasa to forget him, she doesnt

Thanks 4 this experience

Damn it turned into Cyberpunk city at the end only to get destroyed in war

Rest in peace Eren, Mikasa, Armin and everyone else who we all knew throughout the whole series. You all did a wonderful job on the final episode. You will be missed.🌺⚔️

This is the best anime ever. ❤

Having music, sound, and veteran voice acting greatly improved the ending. I was filled with anger after 139, but this poignant music and direction managed to heal the emotional wounds.

Remember Eren said to Mikasa in season 2 ?? He will wrap that scarf around her as many as she want. Forever as much as she want. He always kept her promise till he die. He wrap the scarf around her once last moment just like he did when they met each other while they were kids. The scarf that he gave her, make sure that she feel safe and always be with her till the end. That hit me so hard 😢😢

Man what a ride can't believe it's over

When it says “the end” it’s sooo emotional and sad because wow…. With a show that great like this come to an end, it just hits sooo differently. 10 years in the making and it’s finally finished.

Started watching as a 10 year old to a 20 year old who is now witnessing this ending !some thing here is aching my heart ...taking out some breath 😢! Really loved have alot of feeling towards this anime .....

My heart was broken in so many pieces. The ending was so beautifully sad!!Only AoT can make me feel like this

Uploader really put this one together beautifully - I'm not a huge AOT fan but the imagery in this scene really hits home Especially replacing the original soundtrack with this minimalistic yet emotional piano piece does it for me, since to me it is somewhat reminiscent of something Joe Hisaishi would write - combine that with the visuals of the decaying remains of the city and nature taking back what was taken from it gives me that Nausicaa / Castle in the Sky Vibes

Just finished aot.. It was a part of me and my life for several years now. Realizing the journey is over broke my heart in two pieces.. I'm literally drowning in tears. Sacrifice your hearts! ♥

Such a bittersweet moment. One last night with the whole fandom together. No other story has impacted me the way AoT did. It changed my view in storytelling. Its world, its characters & the journey they went through will be forever engraved in my soul. I'll cherish this forever. See you later, Shingeki No Kyojin.

Started watching AOT during pandemic 2020, the story kinda depressing but it saves my anxiety tbh. I always thought that watching this series gave me courage when i felt i am hopeless and wanted to give up. Thank you AOT. Forever in my heart ♥️

In every time, in every age the deeds of men remain the same

Will always be the best anime out there. Very deep and emotional

I'm only 2 years into Attack on Titan, yet I can't explain how much I'm gonna miss this. Thank you Hajime Isayama, Wit, MAPPA and Everyone who gave us this masterpiece of an anime. The void that ending had left in my heart can never be filled. I wish it never ended. It will always be my favourite anime. SHINZO WO SASAGEYO ✊.

It's hard to write this, but the end of Attack on Titan had a healing effect on me. The last few years have been hell in the real world, but... Seriously, it's like I've been to therapy. History is cyclical, wars never ended, in a conflict everyone has their own truth, this is life. Thanks Isayama for an amazing anime!

"War, war never changes..."

The kid entering the hole in the tree like ymir will bring back titan power to the world? It's just an endless circle then