#SnK Ending

[lenok993]

[chenichin]

A last embrace

(and my last eremin fanart jsksjfjd from a year ago holy)

Snk last chapter was um... not what i expected haha but glad it finished :^) eremin you will always be in my heart 💖

[exosalt]

one of my favourite drawings ever, i’m really proud of this one!

💚❤️ eremika ❤️💚

these two have my whole heart 🤧

can’t wait to paint this!

from my art instagram: @rxza__art

[jiaa88]

If tomorrow would ever, if tomorrow would come What I’d give just to grow some flowers with you If tomorrow would ever, if tomorrow would come What I’d give just to talk about love with you

[melishade]

Attack on Prime New Poll.

Main Story

So....I'm going to take a huge ass gamble with this.

Updated on AOP first!

125,000 views! Exciting! But that's not what I'm here to talk about.

Normally at this point, I would put up a new pilot poll with the three remaining timelines, but I wanted to test out something first.

If you guys know, and remember, this is what I have left in terms of writing.

After the War

An Era of Peace

Goodbye

In between OVA

Wild Life OVA.

However the In Between OVA, which is supposed to be Primus' perspective on all of the AOP events and post AOP events, wasn't supposed to exist. This wasn't the original idea. The original OVA was supposed to be called.

Hundred Days OVA. And instead of this OVA focusing on Primus' perspective on the AOP, it was supposed to be...

Mikasa and Jean getting married years after the Final Battle.

I had this idea in the back of my head for a long time and even wrote some of the concepts down. The problem I encountered; however, was the release of chapter 139 and the additional eight pages that got released. During that time the manga chapters were released, there was so much discourse and chaos regarding Eren's feelings for Mikasa and who Mikasa was with when visiting Eren's grave. There was a lot of discourse between shippers and the chaos was really bad. I was questioning if I was doing both Mikasa and Jean a disservice going through with this idea. Should I just leave it open ended? Were they obligated to get together? I had decided to scrap the idea and replace it with the In Between OVA.

But the chaos has died down and I feel like testing the waters. In honor of AOP hitting 125,000 views:

I'm giving this poll a week. Place your votes in and check out Attack on Prime if you haven't?

[attack-on-titan-confessionss]

Tr: "The ending was not bad y'all were just delusional"

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[aotopmha]

Attack On Titan Final (Final?) Thoughts

With AoT now done done, I really want to give my final thoughts (season 4 part 27):

If it weren't for Attack on Titan, I would have never become as active talking about media online as I have.

I would have never met, talked to and followed cool people like @raelis1, @momtaku, @ghostmartyr, @tatakaeeren and many others, some who fell out of love with the series and some who yet love it in its (im)perfection.

(I actually started as an anon on @momtaku's blog.)

I currently have almost 1300 followers, most of who followed me for AoT.

For 10 years, the series has been an active, weekly/monthly/in general periodic part of my life and for all of the issues I take with it personally, I loved most of the time I followed this story.

I loved theorising about and analysing this delibrate (and less delibrate and flawed) mess.

It's a compelling and memorable first long-form story by a young author and I'd say you can do much much worse (but also much better) for your first outing.

And to think, I went into the first episode expecting to hate it because of an unfortunate encounter with a fan of the series. But from there I caught up with the anime and then the manga, followed by quickly getting endlessly fascinated by it – and from the start I was fascinated by what I considered the flaws of the series as much as the positives.

And since getting into the series, I really developed my taste: I truly love dark stuff with a heart buried within it. The definition of shock value differs so much from person to person, but to me AoT *generally* had a good balance of both.

It is a B-movie (horror) that also has sincere and complicated thoughts about humanity. It uses all the tropes in bad visual novels and manga aimed at teens and up, but sometimes also turns them upside down in really cool ways.

I think it ended up a slave to unfortunate tropes within its ilk of series, but only two stories have ever come close to make me invested like this one.

And for the most tl;dr version of my thoughts on the series, for probably the last time (might make this a yearly thing, might not; at some point I also want to finally redo my Favorite Character List from back when I started this blog):

I love it with all of its warts. I think the anime ending really solidified this very specific opinion about it I have.

All of the contradictions within this series' themes and characters are fascinating. And all of the straight-forward ideas powerful and burning fiercely.

Not new, not original, but to me absolutely still memorable and still meaningful.

And I have been saying this since season 1: I think the anime 100% ended up being better than the manga. If I'll ever be able to get a full version of the story, I'll be getting all of the anime.

(It's also better in case Isayama ever goes full trash person, but supporting the anime has its own issues.)

[sonofthesaiyans]

Who else here......

Is absolutely not going to watch the AOT finale?

I would sooner throw myself in the path of a speeding car. The ending is still a horrendous finish that doesn't begin to make up for so many plot holes and half assed resolutions that carried over from the manga ending.

You cannot hide its failings with Mappa's overblown, still rather ugly animation and self aggrandizing music.

Also fuck you Isayama, my girls Sasha and Hange should NEVER have been subjected to that kind of finish. Everyone deserves better.

Hell's got your reservation, pal.

[girlwtdragontattoo]

okay aot is over

i am genuinely happy with the entire story of aot. what a show and what a wild ride this has been!

i had some hopes that the anime would clear up a few things that were either mistranslated or hastily written in the manga (i def think the scene with armin and dummy eren has been massively improved)

BUT

wtf did this scene mean

idk man i am still so confused why this was in both manga and anime bc i don‘t get it and maybe someone who‘s smarter than me can explain???

look i thought isayama was gonna pull a „ymir will be reborn and given a chance, a life where she is finally free“ type of thing bc historia kind of looks like her and eren has ymir like in him pff idk so they were gonna reincarnate ymir this way

hey eren can literally loop and manipulate time itself this is not super out of the scope of possibility alright?! if he can scare his dad to kill kids, he can find a way to reincarnate someone!

also i think it would’ve been more poetic, like a part of him still lives on and is free of this titan shit world.

and yes i also see that it would be kinda weird for ymir to be born again in the fritz fam bc they were shit and awful but historia is not like that at all and proves that there is good within the family line (which is also part of ymir)

i also get that isayama probably didn‘t want to ruin the eren/mikasa dynamic by having him be the baby daddy of historia lol

and maybe historia wouldn’t be too happy to have her baby daddy be a mass murderer… ok i get why he chose not to go that route

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEEEAN why are they talking like this and what is the point someone free me

mikasa lol

[superjaegerbros]

So, this it is.

Attack on Titan is over.

It really was an amazing experience, all these years, reading the manga, watching the anime and creating content here and interacting with the fandom. It's so much more different and special than any other fandom I've been in, something I will never forget.

I will keep this blog alive, make some more content, catch up with people and any upcoming news, since we have volume 35 coming up.

I found the additions to the original manga ending really beautiful and fullfilling. Maybe I will analyse this in a post and you can also send an ask if you want to discuss.

To all of you who are still around, or you were, up to some point, thank you, it has been wonderful.

[daydreamingqueen1]

(Physicians concluded based on observations that a severed head could retain consciousness for 25 to 30 seconds.)

Her lips grazed his in the last seconds before his consciousness gave up. As his life dims, his brain doesn't panic as it should. The primal instinct to survive left behind with the rest of his body.

No, his mind does not turn frantic. It turns quiet, peaceful with a single thought: How sweet to taste heaven before descending to hell.

He exhales his last breath inside her mouth.

I can't stop crying since yesterday

[lenok993]

Source

[exosalt]

self care is rewatching junior high after finishing attack on titan 🤧

❤️💚🖤💚❤️

from my art instagram: rxza__art

[uncontrolledfission]

Attack on Titan final chapters spoilers ahead!

What a beautiful end. I can’t describe how I feel knowing that this is the actually it.

I have so many ideas to discuss, but I think that’s worth a separate post. For now, I just want to admire these stills.

[melishade]

So yeah, apparently from what I read so far from some reviews and articles (don't take it from me; just expressing my own thoughts as a fellow anime/TV shows fan), many people seemed to like how the AOT's anime finale wasn't debatable as Neon Genesis Evangelion's anime finale, abrupt as The Sopranos' finale, controversial as AOT manga's finale, or butchered for being disappointing like anime Death Note's or GOT's finale. Thoughts?

I think that the reason why the anime finale had a much more positive reception than the manga finale was because Isayama listened to the criticisms people had and fixed what he thought needed to be fixed.

So for some context, I was a manga reader. I followed the Aot manga since chapter 60, so before the coup began. I would wait every single month for a new chapter to drop, and during the gap in between, people who theorize what was going to happen next. Everyone, including myself, nitpicked every single little detail and came up with our own ideas. Now people already had criticisms over the time skip, the change in focus of characters. Assassin’s bullet is the most egregious offender in this. But majority consensus thought that the story was still fine…until chapter 139 dropped in April 2019 with mixed reactions. Some people liked it some people hated it, but they seemed to come to two conclusions: Levi had the best character arc and the ending felt rushed. There was a lot of information being thrown in the last chapter that wasn’t properly explained and felt out of no where. We didn’t have time to process it until the next bombshell revelation came about.

Then Isayama said he was going to drop an extra eight pages for chapter 139. People were fine with that and they thought that he was going to clarify and rework some of the dialogue he wrote and expand on a few things. But only two pages were dedicated to expanding on anything (Mikasa’s final conversation with Ymir). The remaining six was an epilogue following Mikasa’s life visiting Eren’s grave, the destruction of Paradis by about 200 years later, and the teen and dog coming to the tree, getting ready to kickstart everything over again.

Those eight pages divided the fandom even further. It felt cheap. It made it feel like everything was pointless and nothing mattered. I’ve watched analysis videos breaking down the last few chapters and those analysis videos did a better job at conveying what Isayama wanted to say than Isayama himself.

So why did the anime ending make anime people feel satisfied? A few things. One: people weren’t waiting month by month for each chapter to drop. I think the wait time mattered in the context of the situation. Sure, anime people had to wait longer for the episodes to come out, but when the season or episode dropped, it was week by week or movie length special, where they could frame the narrative better and fix and add extra details missing in the manga. Which leads to number two: Isayama listened to the criticisms and applied it.

One of the biggest problems many had with chapter 139 was Armin thanking Eren for destroying 80% of all of humanity. It felt rushed, and it didn’t feel honest to Armin’s character. Armin would not have been okay with Eren destroying the outside world, the world he always dreamt of seeing. But Armin, in the manga, seems to accept Eren’s sins and the framing of it makes it feel like he and other members of the cast are praising him for his crimes. The anime fixes that. It makes Armin have a much more visceral and furious reaction to Eren wiping out 80% of humanity. It makes Armin weep at the lives lost and Eren’s taste for violence. And Armin doesn’t thank Eren for being a mass murderer. But he does comfort him, and tells Eren that they will be together in hell for the roles they played in nearly wiping out humanity. Armin doesn’t forgive him, but he does mourn him.

There were also a few dialogue and scene changes changes that played into the epilogue a lot better than what happened in the manga, like Eren acknowledging the fact that his actions wasn’t going to end the cycle of violence, Historia’s letter to the Alliance, Levi and the others helping repair the world after the Rumbling, Eren’s friends being annoyed at what Eren did to ensure their safety, wondering if he ultimately put them at more risk, the fact that the destruction of Paradis took place thousands of years later instead of 200 years laters.

Simple changes like that matters, and I think for the most part, that’s what made anime watchers satisfied. Aot still has its flaws but the ending in the anime is still a significant improvement in my book.

[alienheartattack]

no pressure or anything, but i'm ping-pong-ing between walls thinking of your possible fix-it fic

I appreciate the enthusiasm! Enjoy my spitefic, To All Of Us, From 2000 Years Ago. There's also an AO3 link on that page.

Two major warnings: this is not a shipping fic (there's some light canon-adjacent Eren/Mikasa at the beginning but it's not very shippy considering she cuts his head off) and the story contains references to and non-detailed descriptions of rape.

Here's the summary I wrote for AO3:

An alternate ending to Attack on Titan, starting at the end of chapter 138 with Eren and Mikasa in paths. After killing Eren, Mikasa and Ymir speak and Ymir truly sets herself — and all of the Eldians — free.