On the subject of it being called Attack ON Titan in English, when Isayama was told, he was asked what the title *should* be in English and he thought "Attack On Titan" sounds really cool, let's keep it. That's it. Isayama: Every Little Detail Matters A LOT. Also Isayama: Except the title. That's just vibes.
yeah here its not that hard to traduce to english the key word is the particle の or no that its used to indicate posesion of something or to categorize something, in this case is the second, so in other words it can be used to say: my(の) name or watashi no name for the first case and lemon pie here the の indicates that the pie is made from lemon, it works better in spanish since whe say pie de limon, here the "de" indicates that the pie belongs to the category of lemon, here there is only one meaning for shingeki no kyojin because to use the posesive funtion of the particle の you should have to say something like boku no shingeki no kyojin (my attack titan) so the only way it works is in the category funtion: the role of the titan is to attack (a more precise way to say it ofensive advance or something similar since the "shin 進" part by himself means advance and the "geki撃" part is used to say things like hit, attack, and other ofensive actions
Yeah, but Attack ON Titan, does just kind of work better in English. It's used in the same way that you would say Paradis' Attack ON Marley or the terrorist's attack ON whatever. As a person watching the show from the beginning, you just take it to represent the scouts attacking any titan that gets in the way. It fits without giving away too much of the story. We really don't need to know or even care to know that Eren's titan has a name early on in the story. The reveal of the name at the end of season 3 is perfect as is.
@@ermatthe the part I would say doesnt fully word is the "attack" part of the series since in jappanese i would say it use the 進 on pourpouse since it indicates more of an movement or ofensive advance instead of using 襲 or shu that would be the more close world to attack, this make sense when you remmember that eren says he always moves forward no mater what and I think its a really cool detail that sadly cannot be properly translated to english since it would sound weird
Funnily enough, the Italian title is simply "L'attacco dei giganti", so "Titan Attack", or "The Attack of the Titans". While it makes sense and is grammatically correct, it would be cool if it retained the double meaning. It would have been pretty hard to do that, though, especially because the Attack Titan is called gigante d'attacco, which has an extremely different meaning from the title. I wonder if there are languages other than Japanese where it would work
When I first watched the scene with Grisa and Kruger, I thought Eren was just sending memories to Kruger, but he's also doing it to his dad at the same time. He's literally having a conversation with himself through two people. Mind blown.
Shouldn't that be "second" time watching the scene? By this point, nobody knew about Eren's timey wimey future paths shenanigans. (unless you're a manga-first enjoyer)
@@RedFloyd469 To me it was clear that Eren was receiving Kruger's memories, but at the end of the episode when Kruger outright said "If you want to save Mikasa and Armin, etc", it was clear Eren was talking through Kruger. That made it clear that this was different than just a previous shifter receiving past memories. This was the future going to the past.
Native level japanese speaker here. Shingeki in japanese is the combination of 2 kanjis, 進(to advance) and 撃(to strike). Shingeki no Kyojin means to us, initially, something like "the attacking/advancing/assaulting titan(s)", which was weird at first, because the context of the word 進撃 is used in situations where "advancing/attacking" was something to cheer for. Years later, it finally made sense. We weren't meant to cheer for the titans outside Wall Maria attacking Paradis, but rather The Attack Titan alone. But Shingeki no Kyojin definitely did not mean "to mount an attack ON the titans"
Maybe it's the naivete in me, but the idea that Armin, Mikasa and Eren never got to be happy again after the end of the story is sad. It is realistic and there is no going back after what happened, but that's part of what makes the first S3 opening such a hard hitting song to me.
A titanshifter having 2 or more titans but dying without being eaten is a pretty good explanation of why Marley lost the attack titan. They couldn't track the inheritor down.
I always imagined they simply didn't manage to secure this one in the mess that happened after king Fritz suddenly proclaimed he dismantles the Eldian empire. But the 2 titans 1 shifter explanation works too.
Ymir was one titan, her body was eaten by her three daughters, now there are the Nine Titans. At some point there must have been just three, right? Like, a primordial Colossal-Female-Founding Titan, Armored-Warhammer-Attack Titan, and Jaw-Cart-Beast Titan. I wonder how early that happened, and how intentional it was. Did they try to split off into more shifters, but weren't able to, or it started to weaken them somehow? Did they start similar, then each generation prioritized different things, like size vs endurance, armor and weaponry vs flexibility and adaptation? Or did they spontaneously change form when they split off? And are those differences related to the different types of basic titans we see? The size classes, the Abnormals, the Wall Titans?
i imagine it was something along the lines of Ymir -> rose, maria, sheena; then those 3 were all forced to have 3 kids and do it again so it went rose - children 1, 2, 3 maria- children 4, 5, 6 sheena- children 7, 8, 9 and from there i imagine the cycle repeated again where each child was forced to have 3+ kids, except at this point only one child of each generation received a titan, and after doing that for a bit and seeing no results it stopped being required beyond each titan being intentionally fed a new user
@@simonholmes841 i think thats up for interpretation. Idk maybe it cuts off at 9 for some reason. As the number 9 has many meanings in aot. But to me it feels like another lovecraftian part of the story, just like the worm of origins. Isayama was a big lovecraft fan. That aside, knowing why or not doesnt really impact the rest of the story. But then again, maybe there is an explanation but its just burried in subtext, like a lot of aot.
I don't think Eren is using the founding titan to talk to Grisha through Krueger. He's using the Attack Titan's powers to send memories back; the idea that it's technically the founding titan's power is a tautology - ALL titan powers come from Ymir, she builds the Warhammer's weapons, she builds all the shifter bodies, so yes, she gives the attack titan the power to send memories through the paths, but the Attack Titan can only show memories, it can't fully talk to them ("whose memories are these?") as opposed to how directly he affects Grisha in the catacombs. Eren specifically says he couldn't use the attack titan's powers to travel the paths without Zeke. So here, he's using the Attack Titan powers to get Krueger to pass the mission on to Grisha; Krueger mentions Armin and Mikasa without Eren mirroring that part of the speech. He doesn't have the Founding Titan yet and THIS Eren can't use them to directly control or talk to Krueger and Grisha. I say "this Eren" because there's essentially three Erens: Eren I - This Eren has no clue what the hell is going on. We know as much as he does. He's completely sincere. He can't really use the Attack Titan properly and absolutely can't access the Founding Titan. Then he kisses Historia's hand. Eren II - This Eren knows everything that his future self has shown him. He wants to change things, but he can't. So he completely disassociates, trusting that his future self knows what he's doing, or rather, he will understand when he gets the Founding Titan's power (hence the whole "yeah, I thought I was being mean to you and Mikasa" - he was just playing his part in the hopes it would make sense. It's why he doesn't know what's going to fully happen when he gets to the paths).This Eren has total control of the Attack Titan, but still cannot use the Founding Titan and the one giving memories to Krueger to pass on to Grisha. Then Eren get's Ymir's power. Eren III - This is Eren can fully access founding titan's powers. He's just a kid. He can't cope with all the memories. He doesn't know what he's doing and he's literally trying to keep things on track as they happened because he can't work out what else to do other than he just kinda wants everything to end; the curse of ymir, the world... In the conversation he has with Armin in the paths, he realises the tragedy that he's still just reacting, stops disassociating, breaks down in tears, and takes some control back by wiping memories and talking to everyone simultaneously and giving those memories back when he dies as a way of letting go of all of this. Great series btw. :)
@@anndroid5147 Thank you. Yeah, he’s completely messed up. He’s basically a walking manifestation of generational trauma, carrying the past trauma into the future and ruining the present. :( Also, if you were to break it down into past, present, future, he would STILL be screwed up I - Present (he’s completely living in the present) II - Future (totally obsessed with what’s going to happen) III - Past (he’s going back in time to mess with things) Eren’s timeline is never smooth XD
Multilayered Eren! Thank you for your great analysis on the character 😊 . That’s why I have complex feelings for Eren as a human being, but I praise Isayama for writing such a brilliantly written character
While on the subject of names with this episode: Our dear MC is Eren Yeager. Yeager is German for "Hunter". The first lyric of first OP is "Are we the prey? No, we are the hunters". And Yeager has Attack Titan that goes for the hunt to exterminate everything outside the walls. I'm just saying.
@@theblazinken3501 I thought about it too! I only speak a tiny minor bit of German, but I always found it funny the way they sound so similar lol so who knows
I just realized that the conversation Eren had with Mikasa and Armin at Nicolo's restaurant is less than a week away from the finale of the series. I have no idea how I missed that for suh a long time, but my mind is blown.
32:09 that pose looks like the one where Kruger is picking up the syringe and speaking to Grisha in the end, although he is not holding his wrist 🤔 Yeah, I just looked at the scene again. It is the same pose as Kruger when he says “love someone inside the wall” to Grisha. He is facing the opposite side while filling that syringe. That’s the dialogue just before he says “to save mikasa and armin” 41:05
"Shingeki no Kyojin" translates into English as either "Attack of the Titans" or "The Attack Titan". Japanese audiences assumed the former meaning, initially, but the plot twist in this episode is that the latter meaning was always the proper one. Also, the japanese word "Shingeki" is made of the kanjis for "attack" and "advance". If the English title just had a hyphen in the middle, it would be the literal translation of "Shingeki no Kyojin", as in "(the) Attack-on Titan". Although, it would have spoiled the plot twist, so I guess the hyphen-less "Attack on Titan" was the best possible solution for that...
Something subtle i noticed about the scenes which focus on his eyes when he's talking about "killing them all" is that the audio for his voice sounds layered, like you're hearing both present eren and adult eren (possibly founder eren's consciousness bleeding through). There's several points like this but you can for sure hear it during erens first conversation with levi & erwin before the military tribunal, and when he gets all hyped up & bloodlusty to fight annie in stohess
Eren isn't stuck in a predetermined path because of some outside force. He explicitly states that everything that happened up to that point was something he personally wanted. However, that's precisely why it couldn't have ended any other way. Eren has always been himself, and his strife for freedom was ultimately what bound him to act exactly as he saw in his memories of the future. Whenever he tried to change said future, like when he tried to walk away from Ramzi getting beaten up, he always ended up acting as his memories told him. This isn't because he succumbed to them, but because the future set before Eren is the only future Eren himself would've ever accepted. AoT's timeline is predestined because people will always be slaves to what they want, and if their will doesn't bend to accommodate others, then the only solution left is for them to fight. Also, Eren wanted the rumbling. Saving his friends and the island were definitely reasons for him to act upon his desires, but he explicitly states that those were just excuses to indulge in his desire to eradicate humanity outside the walls due to his disappointment. When Eren tells Reiner they're the same, he means precisely that. Reiner admitted to Eren that saving the world wasn't the reason he kept going with the plan to breach the wall. What he actually wanted was to fulfill his childish desire to be respected by others and be considered a hero. Eren knows that what he's doing is wrong, and tries to cover up his selfish desires behind more noble ones that he also cares about, which is why he could only enjoy the rumbling by regressing to his child self. Also, just to be clear, Eren didn't plan on being stopped from the get go. When he realized he would've been stopped, he still decided that he would've tried the full scale rumbling anyway, as he explains to the others in paths. He wasn't lying when he told them that he was hell-bent on destroying the world, and the only way to stop him was to kill him. He knew that their beliefs couldn't be reconciled, and that even if he got killed, he would've still managed to protect his friends and ensure peace for paradise for a lot of time. However, he admits that if nobody came to stop him he would've simply continued with the genocide. Not only that, but he's aware that his desire to complete said genocide is what brought about the deaths of Sasha and Hange in the first place.
After reading your essay, i have a few things to say: 1. (Of least importance but i find it interesting) the correct word is strive, not strife. Google the definitions of both 2. Although what you say is indeed backed up by what is said in the manga, it's all from the last few chapters, in which eren acts in a brain dead way contradicting everything he stood for, his mindset, values, and just the entirety of his character. No fucking person does the rumbling because he finds it funny to watch. The reasons he did it were clearly stated beforehand. He wants to save his people and resolve somehow the conflict between his and the other nations. At NO POINT before the ending is his reasoning "wouldnt it be cool if..". Thats not what aot has been at any point before the last chapter. The story has always ben about the paradoxes of war, not eren retardedly simping for a woman he hasnt ever shown romantic intentions towards. Which isnt something you have stated in your comment but its still connected to the main point
@@itram99 didnt he said to ramzi 'to save paradise BUT THERE IS MORE TO THAT when i realised that outisde world wasnt the same as armins book I WAS DISAPPOINTED' ???? my comment was only to direct at those people who blindly says eren was a puppet and wasnt acting on his own free will for eren and mikasa's relationship well they are subtle BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE and its crazy how you freaking bring up all of erens motivations in the end as him not being with mikasa lol and he also says to armin that DONT TELL ALL THIS TO MIKASA because if mikasa hear this she will be sad and he also says before this to mikasa to forget about him and move on he also himself says he wants to be with mikasa AND EVERYONE ELSE as well you like to ignore it huh? for this i know you havent brought up but still saying about MISUNDERSTANDING OF ERENS CHARACTER where eren says 'I DONT KNOW WHY' and 'ITS BECAUSE I AM AN IDIOT' him saying he was an idiot was because HE RESPECTS HIMSELF he literally punched himself in s3 when he realized that he was WEAKER than historia who he thought was a weak and small girl and for other thing which he says 'i dont know why' i think many people have missed this but THIS IS A CALL BACK TO S3 EP13 when he says to armin 'I DONT KNOW WHY but getting back the freedom gives me confidence' same thing is said by armin 'I DONT KNOW WHY but seeing the ocean gives me courage' them saying 'i dont know why' is simply because its in their nature you cant tell yourself why you are more nicer or more cruel than other people and also strife means conflict strive means struggle so both meanings are same in this case
@@-yetanotherpotato- well you are missing a key aspect of erens character which many people ignore and for this reason they call eren as mid or good character when in fact he is a great character (for me one of the goats of anime including guts,thorfinn,lelouch ,subaru,aizen)
@@-yetanotherpotato-did you really see a great description of Eren, scroll down, remember you're illiterate, crack your knuckles and go "hehe **ctrl-c ctrl-v** the funny comment when lots of words hehe 🐒"
15:00 the idea of a child being born already having Eren's future memories is a fascinating story. A child growing up knowing way more than any child should know, and with a plan to start a chain of events to enact omnicide hundreds of years in the future. Id watch a spinoff prequel show about that.
32:35 my take on this pose was him looking at the hand he bites to transform into the attack titan. Like when you have a scar and someone talks about the incident that gave you the scar and you brush over it or look at it.
As I grow older and have less time to "watch" things, these yappenings are one of, if not my favorite things to just put on as i make breakfast, study, or drive. Attack on Titan is like peak, and the detail you have for explinations of the lesser known things people tend to miss is just so interesting. I NEED longer videos fr mam🥳✨️
The fact that you can talk about Liberio (pardon my spelling 😅) and it's now within the grand scheme of things on the horizon hit harder than I thought. Thank you so much Korotos for all of the amazing work you've put into this series. I have been here since I think the third episode and to realize how far you've come as a creator and even in my own life even since then is remarkable to reflect on. Thank you once again and give your heart 🫡
I might be jumping the gun a little, but now that you referenced it at 12:30, when Ymir saw that flower, I thought "what if they share their worldview?". When she saw that flower, I could envision her first thought as being, "it's beautiful" just as she was being cruelly punished.
Man does this show just hit me in all the feels. I hold onto this show with both hands and I cannot wait until the next video drops. Keep trucking, my friend!
I just wanted to say that I appreciate this series so, so much. I'm a writer, but I've always found it a bit difficult to fully analyze media and ask myself questions about it. So overanalyzing helps a lot when I ask myself what my readers will think. Thanks!
Im gonna stay up late to watch this :3 Btw the title of the series can be read as "attack on, titan" as in "contuining to attack, titan" continuing that double meaning. Which is pretty cool
no way, 1 hour late?! i was just rewatching the series. MAN that first transformation really was insane, still shivering with that scene where mikasa just gets ready to fight two 15 meter titans with half a sword, then Eren's just... BANG!!
I'll leave the only thing I have to say in your own words "10/10, no notes". I simply love this series, so thanks for keep your awesome work going!!! 😁
This one was an absolute banger. Thank you Koroto for making these. I’m obsessed with the show and dissecting all the layers, but the part about Eren changing his sitting styles to match Grisha and Kruger is insanely subtle, yet extremely important… forshadowing? Is that what we call it? Either way, it gives context to show that the Eren we knew isn’t going to be the same anymore. Insanity. Anyways, thank you again for making these, your work is absolutely incredible and I look forward to every single video you make on AOT.
Eren isn’t able to straight up possess other titan shifters. We saw this with Grisha, when Eren tormented him and made him kill the Riess family. The likely extent of Eren’s influence on Kruger would be sending memories from the past and future, making it so he becomes quite skilled in being undercover but also influencing him by showing him future memories of Grisha so Kruger will know Grisha is important. I just feel like you are way too quick to assume that something is the result of Eren’s doing from the paths than letting the story do it’s own thing. Like Grisha more than likely just named Eren after Kruger, there’s no way that Eren cares enough about his own name just to make sure Kruger gets named “Eren”, just so Grisha could name Eren that name.
I think the "save Mikasa and Armin" line comes from the loop; Eren Y heard that same line from Grisha when he was inyecting him, so he send that line to Eren K so Grisha can hear those tow names, and that way make sure Grisha stayed in Shiganshina (otherwise, since Grisha was a respected doctor within the walls, he would probably move closer to the center, and the entire episode one would not happen)
When talking about the attack titan and founding titan breaking the chain. I had read a "what if" where Grisha loses his fight with Frieda. This caused Ymir's chains to break early, and for Frieda to be able to renounce the kings vows.
Another great video, fantastic work as usual. The thing with the determinism vs predetermined stuff is that I think AoT is in-universe deterministic, but Eren's 5th dimensional influence on it causes it to appear predetermined because the story is told and happens within the limits of where his choices made it go. As an audience we get some of that outside perspective but because we don't get to see it specifically from Eren's outside perspective it is easier to make sense of it still from the perspective of the characters and people within the world like Armin. It's like Armin says at the end in the sea of blood; "Been determined? Didn't YOU determine it?" Even Eren himself wasn't able to change it because he is a product of his own making, but is still limited by his own limits like everyone else is. Every attempt to change the future only further solidifies the future he already saw, because the future he already saw was the one that is created by the path history takes (including the attempts to change the path that he makes). What he saw wasn't a possible end point he could attempt to avoid; it was THE end point that was coming after all the attempts to change it had occurred.
All I'm gonna say is that Hugh Jackman talks in detail of how he preps for his shirtless scenes and he straight up doesn't eat or drink water for like 3 days and that's how he gets himself over that last hump to be as shredded as possible. So 3 days could be enough time for a noticeable change for Mikasa as well especially given their rationed food situation.
Yoooo wait that makes sense, Kruger and Eren being one and the same. He totally could have intervened BEFORE Dina was changed into a titan, but he chose not to. He allowed her to be changed because she was the titan to eat Eren’s mother.
I just came up with a theory: the idea that a newborn inherits the power of a Titan from a holder must be predestined. What if the baby destined to inherit Eren's powers was Historia's child, but he was saved because the curse ended with Eren?
I somehow just realized that the curse of Ymir would mean that a baby randomly chosen to inherit a titan would only live until age 13. That's kinda bleak. I mean, it's AoT, but still...
just correction the curse of Ymir is started by the first Eldian king, king Frits. it all happend formed and rumored by, the dead of Ymir that wont regenerate after het throwed spear at
I love every single episode of this overanalyzing series. Been following every episode from the start. Found your channel from a walking dead video and fell in love with the overanalyzing series.
This is another one of those episodes I've been dying to see your analysis on. You never disappoint Koroto! keep it up man, I can't get enough of this series
in russian dub the name of the series means “attack on titan” and “attacking titans” and “titans attack”, depends on how you want to understand it, and it makes so much fun thinking about it while going deeper into the series
43:15 I think the lives and memories of not just Krueger, Grisha and Eren, but also *all* the attack titans are not a loop. More like a predetermined straight line from the enslavement of Ymir all the way to her liberation. When the power of the titans no longer exists at the end of AoT, she no longer has to spend eternity in the paths doing the bidding of king Fritz’s descendants.
Speaking of that Attack on Titan name thing. Transformers did something similar. Dark of the moon makes zero sense as a title. But the film is about the space race and the moon, mainly the dark side of the moon. So Dark of the moon is a more catchy and stylised way of saying Dark side of the moon.
Me watching this at 1:04 a.m. "I'm gonna break the 4th wall it's 1 in the morning and we're talking about time travel shenanigans" he DOES have the power of the nine!
In honour of overanalyzing, 33:40 if Ackermans are the result of titan science to enhance their habilities like super-human speed, strength and reaction time, then their metabolism is probably elevated to super-human levels as well. Meaning yes, she could theoretically have lost some noticeable weight in a few days. Even if very little, it would be enough for someone who loves her, like Eren, to notice. ... Or, you know, she just looks weak. Because she is depressed, and doesn't eat.
When you think about it, AoT's universe is set on a fixed causal loop, where time related happenings always happen. Eren can influence the previous attack titan weilders because he already did, he can set events in place to lead exactly to the rumbling because he already always did. This means that from the moments Ymir became the first founding titan and the human/titan time connection was formed, Eren was there too, enacting the rumbling to save Ymir. For as long as there was Ymir, there was Eren. One destined to be chained and enslaved for eternity, the other a slave to his own freedom. Almost like a yin and yang of sorts.
After learning that if a Shifter dies without passing on the tita it'll be inherited by a random Eldian newborn, and then learning about Marley, I thought back on Reiner saying their goal was to ensure the extermination of humanity within the walls. I just thought it was funny how Marley (or at least the Warriors after failing to locate the objective) basically was gonna game the respawn mechanics to capture the Founder
The extent to which I'm invested in these overanalyzing series has me thinking "damn i gotta put them on my resume".... and btw i was here for a 50 min series like you posted you gotta account for the missing 4 min man, time is of the essence
19:40 yesss, in order to start the loop, Erin had to have the founding titan once in some other timeline. Meaning either someone else (could've been Grisha) set it up for him to get it or he did get it the first time when he was older and changed history so he gets it earlier. What we see is the end result of Eren keeping to change the past (and seeing the result of it in the future to change it again) until he got what he wanted.
Ok, Hear me out. What if that pose from when Erin was in the cell and said "...its called The Attack Titan.", is a mix of Erin's mind being in Grisha and Kruger at or near the same time! I think the pose comes from when Grisha rubs his wrist after Kruger cut the restaints off him mixed with when Kruger had the syringe to pass his titan on. Note that Grisha had no fingers, yet Erin's fingers in the pose is in the same position as Kruger's while having the syringe. Some kinda phantom limb X paths shenanigans I bet! I think this is proven correct by your observations of how Erin was sitting puts him in both their heads, i mean it went from Erin being Grisha hearing Kruger tell him info and simultaneously relaying it to current Erin, to Erin being Kruger and telling Grisha info literally AT THE SAME TIME as Mikasa and Armen.(i literally never noticed that before. Thank you for enlightening me!) Thats how Kruger was able to know the names of people he'd never meet, all threes minds are mixed and surface in Erin via that ridiculous pose lol
You CAN noticeably lose weight over a few days if you eat little to nothing considering that your sodium levels will affect your water retention, which can be like 3-5 lbs. you’ll also probably lose an actual lb of non water weight if you don’t eat for a few days.
Mikasa lost weight because of Ackerman genes. Ackerman have a titan’s qualities and as we know titans often depends on sunlight. That’s why being locked up in dangerous takes tall on her. For very same reason Levi is so short, because he grew up in underworld
"won't I just forget everything that just happened here?" "not necessarily, someone could be watching down the line." because eren was listening (and also talking?) and could give those memories to grisha later on
I think "Attack on Titan" is an okay-ish translation that can have the double meaning.Only realized it when I say it split as "Attack-on Titan", as in, the Titan that attacks-on
32:42 I think there’s two options. First, it’s Kruger holding the titan syringe. It would probably be weird for Hange to see. Second, it could be him rubbing his wrists because his hands are cut off via Grisha.
One thing that was changed in the anime from the manga is that the Ymir flashbacks are dropped right at the letter sequence. Since they hadn't gotten anywhere near that part in the anime, they had to censor things like the syringe to avoid blatent spoilers. You can imagine what it was like for manger readers like myself getting blasted by Ymir's story out of nowhere
Kruger's final speech is one of the most important scenes in the series, as it foreshadows how Eren, Zeke, Erwin, Kenny, etc. all attain freedom through a selfless act of love, breaking free from their selfish dreams that enslaved them.
I still remember watched that scene when he mentioned Armin and Mikasa. I remember having to playback and thinking I misinterpreted everything and that it wasn’t actually a flashback.
Another strange hypothetical, if Dina or Historia ate Eren in season 2/3 and the Attack Titan is immune to the founder a) Would holding the Attack Titan also allow royals to bypass the will of 145 KF, b)would say if Eren had the Armoured Titan and the Founding Titan, even with help from a Royal without the Attack Titan in play at all, all Eldians would just bow to 145KF vow of peace.
I'm pretty sure we see exactly that play out when Zeke overcomes the curse in the paths. Eren accesses the founding power by using Zeke while Zeke simultaneously uses Eren to free himself.
7:56 It makes even more sense in the manga that they are "The same person" due to being influenced by memories due to the fact that in the manga Eren has gray eyes.
What I understood was that Eren, during the Convergence, effectively wrote the whole history from the moment of the Founding Titan fragmentation. He was responsible for guiding every single Attack Titan holder (his past self included) to the objective at the end.
Subtext for "Attack on Titan" is "Attack on Japan" (A-Bom...bed) . So the author Hajime Isayama wanted to depict Japan (Titan) becoming an Attack Titan(Japan) attacking back 1:48 !
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my midterm that I've barely studied for is in an hour but overanalyzing aot just dropped
GO STUDY. If you don't pass, this series ends. You are the main character now. 🗿
@@KorotoOur Father has given you an order, devote your heart!!
Don't you dare fail on us
AND AS WE STUDY TO CERTAIN DEATH WE TRUST OUR SUCCESSORS TO DO THE SAME FOR US
Study hard so that you may rest easily
Eren made Eren say that, Eren was doing Eren things the whole show
AoT is kinda hilarious when you think about it lmao
I love the scene where Eren narrates Eren telling Eren to give Eren the shingeki no kiojin.
@@Koroto That's what makes it diffErent
@@ColonialSun-mg6tq “that was truly our Shingeki no Kyoujin”
On the subject of it being called Attack ON Titan in English, when Isayama was told, he was asked what the title *should* be in English and he thought "Attack On Titan" sounds really cool, let's keep it.
That's it.
Isayama: Every Little Detail Matters A LOT.
Also Isayama: Except the title. That's just vibes.
yeah here its not that hard to traduce to english the key word is the particle の or no that its used to indicate posesion of something or to categorize something, in this case is the second, so in other words it can be used to say: my(の) name or watashi no name for the first case and lemon pie here the の indicates that the pie is made from lemon, it works better in spanish since whe say pie de limon, here the "de" indicates that the pie belongs to the category of lemon, here there is only one meaning for shingeki no kyojin because to use the posesive funtion of the particle の you should have to say something like boku no shingeki no kyojin (my attack titan) so the only way it works is in the category funtion: the role of the titan is to attack (a more precise way to say it ofensive advance or something similar since the "shin 進" part by himself means advance and the "geki撃" part is used to say things like hit, attack, and other ofensive actions
Yeah, but Attack ON Titan, does just kind of work better in English. It's used in the same way that you would say Paradis' Attack ON Marley or the terrorist's attack ON whatever. As a person watching the show from the beginning, you just take it to represent the scouts attacking any titan that gets in the way. It fits without giving away too much of the story. We really don't need to know or even care to know that Eren's titan has a name early on in the story. The reveal of the name at the end of season 3 is perfect as is.
@@ermatthe the part I would say doesnt fully word is the "attack" part of the series since in jappanese i would say it use the 進 on pourpouse since it indicates more of an movement or ofensive advance instead of using 襲 or shu that would be the more close world to attack, this make sense when you remmember that eren says he always moves forward no mater what and I think its a really cool detail that sadly cannot be properly translated to english since it would sound weird
tbh that title sorta gave me the idea initially that "titan" was ALSO gonna be a location which was pretty cool
Funnily enough, the Italian title is simply "L'attacco dei giganti", so "Titan Attack", or "The Attack of the Titans". While it makes sense and is grammatically correct, it would be cool if it retained the double meaning. It would have been pretty hard to do that, though, especially because the Attack Titan is called gigante d'attacco, which has an extremely different meaning from the title. I wonder if there are languages other than Japanese where it would work
When I first watched the scene with Grisa and Kruger, I thought Eren was just sending memories to Kruger, but he's also doing it to his dad at the same time. He's literally having a conversation with himself through two people. Mind blown.
Average Game Master experience.
@rubixman7x7 😄😂
Shouldn't that be "second" time watching the scene?
By this point, nobody knew about Eren's timey wimey future paths shenanigans. (unless you're a manga-first enjoyer)
@@RedFloyd469 To me it was clear that Eren was receiving Kruger's memories, but at the end of the episode when Kruger outright said "If you want to save Mikasa and Armin, etc", it was clear Eren was talking through Kruger.
That made it clear that this was different than just a previous shifter receiving past memories. This was the future going to the past.
21:56 .. "when has logic ever stopped hatred?" goes hard
Please never stop making these, even if it’s one time every year in the future. We can’t let this legendary story die 😢
It will never die so long as there are those who fight for freedom
He won't stop, we're going right down to the final movie 🎊
Native level japanese speaker here. Shingeki in japanese is the combination of 2 kanjis, 進(to advance) and 撃(to strike). Shingeki no Kyojin means to us, initially, something like "the attacking/advancing/assaulting titan(s)", which was weird at first, because the context of the word 進撃 is used in situations where "advancing/attacking" was something to cheer for. Years later, it finally made sense. We weren't meant to cheer for the titans outside Wall Maria attacking Paradis, but rather The Attack Titan alone.
But Shingeki no Kyojin definitely did not mean "to mount an attack ON the titans"
The man Isayama just liked the title after the fact is so funny with how much it would mean later
I love the thought that we are meant to cheer for the attack Titan alone as the one who advances the cause of the Eldians.
did not expect to see this posted 18 seconds ago now my lunch break is elite
yuuup perfect amount of time too :)
I find it more interesting with the head canon that carla came up with the name Eren and grisha would’ve had a heart attack hearing that at first 😂
This is what I always assumed lol. Karla came up with it and then Eren somehow manipulated the past in such a way that Mr. Krueger was also named Eren
“This is the story you started…”
The best line in fiction
Maybe it's the naivete in me, but the idea that Armin, Mikasa and Eren never got to be happy again after the end of the story is sad. It is realistic and there is no going back after what happened, but that's part of what makes the first S3 opening such a hard hitting song to me.
I agree 💔
Oh boy oh boy, I guess here goes the last of my phone battery in the middle of a blackout.
Your bars and lifes for the cause!
@@movieclipsvideos1781lol
You have bars and/or a working router in a blackout? Mmk
@@Daneki mobile data?
A titanshifter having 2 or more titans but dying without being eaten is a pretty good explanation of why Marley lost the attack titan. They couldn't track the inheritor down.
I always imagined they simply didn't manage to secure this one in the mess that happened after king Fritz suddenly proclaimed he dismantles the Eldian empire. But the 2 titans 1 shifter explanation works too.
Ymir was one titan, her body was eaten by her three daughters, now there are the Nine Titans. At some point there must have been just three, right? Like, a primordial Colossal-Female-Founding Titan, Armored-Warhammer-Attack Titan, and Jaw-Cart-Beast Titan.
I wonder how early that happened, and how intentional it was. Did they try to split off into more shifters, but weren't able to, or it started to weaken them somehow? Did they start similar, then each generation prioritized different things, like size vs endurance, armor and weaponry vs flexibility and adaptation? Or did they spontaneously change form when they split off?
And are those differences related to the different types of basic titans we see? The size classes, the Abnormals, the Wall Titans?
I'm now imagining a large donkey with a long back and a very strong jaw.
i imagine it was something along the lines of
Ymir -> rose, maria, sheena; then those 3 were all forced to have 3 kids and do it again so it went
rose - children 1, 2, 3
maria- children 4, 5, 6
sheena- children 7, 8, 9
and from there i imagine the cycle repeated again where each child was forced to have 3+ kids, except at this point only one child of each generation received a titan, and after doing that for a bit and seeing no results it stopped being required beyond each titan being intentionally fed a new user
@@simonholmes841 i think thats up for interpretation. Idk maybe it cuts off at 9 for some reason. As the number 9 has many meanings in aot. But to me it feels like another lovecraftian part of the story, just like the worm of origins. Isayama was a big lovecraft fan. That aside, knowing why or not doesnt really impact the rest of the story. But then again, maybe there is an explanation but its just burried in subtext, like a lot of aot.
I don't think Eren is using the founding titan to talk to Grisha through Krueger. He's using the Attack Titan's powers to send memories back; the idea that it's technically the founding titan's power is a tautology - ALL titan powers come from Ymir, she builds the Warhammer's weapons, she builds all the shifter bodies, so yes, she gives the attack titan the power to send memories through the paths, but the Attack Titan can only show memories, it can't fully talk to them ("whose memories are these?") as opposed to how directly he affects Grisha in the catacombs. Eren specifically says he couldn't use the attack titan's powers to travel the paths without Zeke. So here, he's using the Attack Titan powers to get Krueger to pass the mission on to Grisha; Krueger mentions Armin and Mikasa without Eren mirroring that part of the speech. He doesn't have the Founding Titan yet and THIS Eren can't use them to directly control or talk to Krueger and Grisha.
I say "this Eren" because there's essentially three Erens:
Eren I - This Eren has no clue what the hell is going on. We know as much as he does. He's completely sincere. He can't really use the Attack Titan properly and absolutely can't access the Founding Titan. Then he kisses Historia's hand.
Eren II - This Eren knows everything that his future self has shown him. He wants to change things, but he can't. So he completely disassociates, trusting that his future self knows what he's doing, or rather, he will understand when he gets the Founding Titan's power (hence the whole "yeah, I thought I was being mean to you and Mikasa" - he was just playing his part in the hopes it would make sense. It's why he doesn't know what's going to fully happen when he gets to the paths).This Eren has total control of the Attack Titan, but still cannot use the Founding Titan and the one giving memories to Krueger to pass on to Grisha. Then Eren get's Ymir's power.
Eren III - This is Eren can fully access founding titan's powers. He's just a kid. He can't cope with all the memories. He doesn't know what he's doing and he's literally trying to keep things on track as they happened because he can't work out what else to do other than he just kinda wants everything to end; the curse of ymir, the world... In the conversation he has with Armin in the paths, he realises the tragedy that he's still just reacting, stops disassociating, breaks down in tears, and takes some control back by wiping memories and talking to everyone simultaneously and giving those memories back when he dies as a way of letting go of all of this.
Great series btw. :)
Wow, this is a super insightful comment! Also three Erens: Past, Present, and Future. It's like his brain is a 4th dimensional scrambled egg
Probably one of the best depictions on Eren that I’ve read
@@iqra99mafi01 thank you very much. That’s kind of you.
@@anndroid5147 Thank you. Yeah, he’s completely messed up. He’s basically a walking manifestation of generational trauma, carrying the past trauma into the future and ruining the present. :(
Also, if you were to break it down into past, present, future, he would STILL be screwed up
I - Present (he’s completely living in the present)
II - Future (totally obsessed with what’s going to happen)
III - Past (he’s going back in time to mess with things)
Eren’s timeline is never smooth XD
Multilayered Eren! Thank you for your great analysis on the character 😊 . That’s why I have complex feelings for Eren as a human being, but I praise Isayama for writing such a brilliantly written character
While on the subject of names with this episode:
Our dear MC is Eren Yeager.
Yeager is German for "Hunter".
The first lyric of first OP is "Are we the prey? No, we are the hunters".
And Yeager has Attack Titan that goes for the hunt to exterminate everything outside the walls.
I'm just saying.
We spell it "Jäger"
@@TheNomad94or, yyyyeeegaaahhhh, as in eren yegahh
@@TheNomad94 my bad, i dont speak german
@@theblazinken3501 I thought about it too! I only speak a tiny minor bit of German, but I always found it funny the way they sound so similar lol so who knows
@@FlorPeralta6No, Yaeger was just a misspelling from fan sites who had no idea. Jäger is the canon pronounciation
I just realized that the conversation Eren had with Mikasa and Armin at Nicolo's restaurant is less than a week away from the finale of the series. I have no idea how I missed that for suh a long time, but my mind is blown.
Less than a week away? It’s like 2-3 days 😂
32:09 that pose looks like the one where Kruger is picking up the syringe and speaking to Grisha in the end, although he is not holding his wrist 🤔
Yeah, I just looked at the scene again. It is the same pose as Kruger when he says “love someone inside the wall” to Grisha. He is facing the opposite side while filling that syringe. That’s the dialogue just before he says “to save mikasa and armin” 41:05
Here it is
nice catch
"Shingeki no Kyojin" translates into English as either "Attack of the Titans" or "The Attack Titan". Japanese audiences assumed the former meaning, initially, but the plot twist in this episode is that the latter meaning was always the proper one.
Also, the japanese word "Shingeki" is made of the kanjis for "attack" and "advance". If the English title just had a hyphen in the middle, it would be the literal translation of "Shingeki no Kyojin", as in "(the) Attack-on Titan".
Although, it would have spoiled the plot twist, so I guess the hyphen-less "Attack on Titan" was the best possible solution for that...
Something subtle i noticed about the scenes which focus on his eyes when he's talking about "killing them all" is that the audio for his voice sounds layered, like you're hearing both present eren and adult eren (possibly founder eren's consciousness bleeding through). There's several points like this but you can for sure hear it during erens first conversation with levi & erwin before the military tribunal, and when he gets all hyped up & bloodlusty to fight annie in stohess
Iseyama wrote the manga backwards and then released it the other way around.
He even drew it sloppier and less detailed on it went on, so that it would appear as though he got better at drawing over time! How clever!
Eren isn't stuck in a predetermined path because of some outside force. He explicitly states that everything that happened up to that point was something he personally wanted. However, that's precisely why it couldn't have ended any other way.
Eren has always been himself, and his strife for freedom was ultimately what bound him to act exactly as he saw in his memories of the future. Whenever he tried to change said future, like when he tried to walk away from Ramzi getting beaten up, he always ended up acting as his memories told him. This isn't because he succumbed to them, but because the future set before Eren is the only future Eren himself would've ever accepted.
AoT's timeline is predestined because people will always be slaves to what they want, and if their will doesn't bend to accommodate others, then the only solution left is for them to fight.
Also, Eren wanted the rumbling. Saving his friends and the island were definitely reasons for him to act upon his desires, but he explicitly states that those were just excuses to indulge in his desire to eradicate humanity outside the walls due to his disappointment.
When Eren tells Reiner they're the same, he means precisely that. Reiner admitted to Eren that saving the world wasn't the reason he kept going with the plan to breach the wall. What he actually wanted was to fulfill his childish desire to be respected by others and be considered a hero.
Eren knows that what he's doing is wrong, and tries to cover up his selfish desires behind more noble ones that he also cares about, which is why he could only enjoy the rumbling by regressing to his child self.
Also, just to be clear, Eren didn't plan on being stopped from the get go. When he realized he would've been stopped, he still decided that he would've tried the full scale rumbling anyway, as he explains to the others in paths. He wasn't lying when he told them that he was hell-bent on destroying the world, and the only way to stop him was to kill him.
He knew that their beliefs couldn't be reconciled, and that even if he got killed, he would've still managed to protect his friends and ensure peace for paradise for a lot of time. However, he admits that if nobody came to stop him he would've simply continued with the genocide. Not only that, but he's aware that his desire to complete said genocide is what brought about the deaths of Sasha and Hange in the first place.
Damn that’s a lot of words
It’s a shame I’m not gonna read it
After reading your essay, i have a few things to say:
1. (Of least importance but i find it interesting) the correct word is strive, not strife. Google the definitions of both
2. Although what you say is indeed backed up by what is said in the manga, it's all from the last few chapters, in which eren acts in a brain dead way contradicting everything he stood for, his mindset, values, and just the entirety of his character. No fucking person does the rumbling because he finds it funny to watch. The reasons he did it were clearly stated beforehand. He wants to save his people and resolve somehow the conflict between his and the other nations. At NO POINT before the ending is his reasoning "wouldnt it be cool if..". Thats not what aot has been at any point before the last chapter. The story has always ben about the paradoxes of war, not eren retardedly simping for a woman he hasnt ever shown romantic intentions towards. Which isnt something you have stated in your comment but its still connected to the main point
@@itram99 didnt he said to ramzi
'to save paradise BUT THERE IS MORE TO THAT when i realised that outisde world wasnt the same as armins book I WAS DISAPPOINTED' ????
my comment was only to direct at those people who blindly says eren was a puppet and wasnt acting on his own free will
for eren and mikasa's relationship well they are subtle BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE and its crazy how you freaking bring up all of erens motivations in the end as him not being with mikasa lol and he also says to armin that DONT TELL ALL THIS TO MIKASA because if mikasa hear this she will be sad and he also says before this to mikasa to forget about him and move on
he also himself says he wants to be with mikasa AND EVERYONE ELSE as well you like to ignore it huh?
for this i know you havent brought up but still saying
about MISUNDERSTANDING OF ERENS CHARACTER where eren says 'I DONT KNOW WHY' and 'ITS BECAUSE I AM AN IDIOT'
him saying he was an idiot was because HE RESPECTS HIMSELF he literally punched himself in s3 when he realized that he was WEAKER than historia who he thought was a weak and small girl
and for other thing which he says 'i dont know why'
i think many people have missed this but THIS IS A CALL BACK TO S3 EP13 when he says to armin
'I DONT KNOW WHY but getting back the freedom gives me confidence'
same thing is said by armin
'I DONT KNOW WHY but seeing the ocean gives me courage'
them saying 'i dont know why' is simply because its in their nature
you cant tell yourself why you are more nicer or more cruel than other people
and also strife means conflict
strive means struggle
so both meanings are same in this case
@@-yetanotherpotato- well you are missing a key aspect of erens character which many people ignore and for this reason they call eren as mid or good character when in fact he is a great character
(for me one of the goats of anime including guts,thorfinn,lelouch ,subaru,aizen)
@@-yetanotherpotato-did you really see a great description of Eren, scroll down, remember you're illiterate, crack your knuckles and go "hehe **ctrl-c ctrl-v** the funny comment when lots of words hehe 🐒"
I was about to eat;
checkt my subscriptions for this one...
nothing...
I take the Pizza out the furnace...
It's here
per-fec-tion
15:00 the idea of a child being born already having Eren's future memories is a fascinating story. A child growing up knowing way more than any child should know, and with a plan to start a chain of events to enact omnicide hundreds of years in the future. Id watch a spinoff prequel show about that.
32:35 my take on this pose was him looking at the hand he bites to transform into the attack titan. Like when you have a scar and someone talks about the incident that gave you the scar and you brush over it or look at it.
I thought “Attack On” meant like “always continues to attack” or basically the “always moving forward “ titan
Yeah, like “march on” or “press on”. Like an offense marching up a football field toward goal. That how I pictured it.
My day always feels better when Koroto drops
Also this is one of the best episodes in Aot
As I grow older and have less time to "watch" things, these yappenings are one of, if not my favorite things to just put on as i make breakfast, study, or drive. Attack on Titan is like peak, and the detail you have for explinations of the lesser known things people tend to miss is just so interesting. I NEED longer videos fr mam🥳✨️
The fact that you can talk about Liberio (pardon my spelling 😅) and it's now within the grand scheme of things on the horizon hit harder than I thought. Thank you so much Korotos for all of the amazing work you've put into this series. I have been here since I think the third episode and to realize how far you've come as a creator and even in my own life even since then is remarkable to reflect on. Thank you once again and give your heart 🫡
I might be jumping the gun a little, but now that you referenced it at 12:30, when Ymir saw that flower, I thought "what if they share their worldview?". When she saw that flower, I could envision her first thought as being, "it's beautiful" just as she was being cruelly punished.
Man does this show just hit me in all the feels. I hold onto this show with both hands and I cannot wait until the next video drops. Keep trucking, my friend!
I just wanted to say that I appreciate this series so, so much. I'm a writer, but I've always found it a bit difficult to fully analyze media and ask myself questions about it. So overanalyzing helps a lot when I ask myself what my readers will think. Thanks!
Im gonna stay up late to watch this :3
Btw the title of the series can be read as "attack on, titan" as in "contuining to attack, titan" continuing that double meaning. Which is pretty cool
I now bestow this series to satistfy my medieval royalty urge to have entertainment while Im eating.
no way, 1 hour late?!
i was just rewatching the series. MAN that first transformation really was insane, still shivering with that scene where mikasa just gets ready to fight two 15 meter titans with half a sword, then Eren's just... BANG!!
About hallucigenia, I think it is just a theatrical staging for the world, just like saying "you are the hero who defeated the devil."
I'll leave the only thing I have to say in your own words "10/10, no notes". I simply love this series, so thanks for keep your awesome work going!!! 😁
This one was an absolute banger. Thank you Koroto for making these. I’m obsessed with the show and dissecting all the layers, but the part about Eren changing his sitting styles to match Grisha and Kruger is insanely subtle, yet extremely important… forshadowing? Is that what we call it? Either way, it gives context to show that the Eren we knew isn’t going to be the same anymore. Insanity. Anyways, thank you again for making these, your work is absolutely incredible and I look forward to every single video you make on AOT.
This man is doing God’s work overanalyzing. This show about a show has saved my life.
Eren isn’t able to straight up possess other titan shifters. We saw this with Grisha, when Eren tormented him and made him kill the Riess family. The likely extent of Eren’s influence on Kruger would be sending memories from the past and future, making it so he becomes quite skilled in being undercover but also influencing him by showing him future memories of Grisha so Kruger will know Grisha is important. I just feel like you are way too quick to assume that something is the result of Eren’s doing from the paths than letting the story do it’s own thing. Like Grisha more than likely just named Eren after Kruger, there’s no way that Eren cares enough about his own name just to make sure Kruger gets named “Eren”, just so Grisha could name Eren that name.
I think the "save Mikasa and Armin" line comes from the loop; Eren Y heard that same line from Grisha when he was inyecting him, so he send that line to Eren K so Grisha can hear those tow names, and that way make sure Grisha stayed in Shiganshina (otherwise, since Grisha was a respected doctor within the walls, he would probably move closer to the center, and the entire episode one would not happen)
When talking about the attack titan and founding titan breaking the chain. I had read a "what if" where Grisha loses his fight with Frieda. This caused Ymir's chains to break early, and for Frieda to be able to renounce the kings vows.
Another great video, fantastic work as usual.
The thing with the determinism vs predetermined stuff is that I think AoT is in-universe deterministic, but Eren's 5th dimensional influence on it causes it to appear predetermined because the story is told and happens within the limits of where his choices made it go. As an audience we get some of that outside perspective but because we don't get to see it specifically from Eren's outside perspective it is easier to make sense of it still from the perspective of the characters and people within the world like Armin. It's like Armin says at the end in the sea of blood; "Been determined? Didn't YOU determine it?" Even Eren himself wasn't able to change it because he is a product of his own making, but is still limited by his own limits like everyone else is. Every attempt to change the future only further solidifies the future he already saw, because the future he already saw was the one that is created by the path history takes (including the attempts to change the path that he makes). What he saw wasn't a possible end point he could attempt to avoid; it was THE end point that was coming after all the attempts to change it had occurred.
All I'm gonna say is that Hugh Jackman talks in detail of how he preps for his shirtless scenes and he straight up doesn't eat or drink water for like 3 days and that's how he gets himself over that last hump to be as shredded as possible. So 3 days could be enough time for a noticeable change for Mikasa as well especially given their rationed food situation.
I love your videos man.
I wish this story wasn't over.
I've not found anything else that grabbed me like AOT
You keep my love for AoT alive my man!!! Enjoy every episode you do 😌
Yoooo wait that makes sense, Kruger and Eren being one and the same. He totally could have intervened BEFORE Dina was changed into a titan, but he chose not to. He allowed her to be changed because she was the titan to eat Eren’s mother.
You blew my mind with the Eren speaking through Krueger piece, I love this.
I just came up with a theory: the idea that a newborn inherits the power of a Titan from a holder must be predestined. What if the baby destined to inherit Eren's powers was Historia's child, but he was saved because the curse ended with Eren?
This sounds more plausible than the theory some suggest, that he was born at the same time Eren died because he is his son.
I somehow just realized that the curse of Ymir would mean that a baby randomly chosen to inherit a titan would only live until age 13. That's kinda bleak. I mean, it's AoT, but still...
just correction
the curse of Ymir is started by the first Eldian king, king Frits. it all happend formed and rumored by, the dead of Ymir that wont regenerate after het throwed spear at
I love every single episode of this overanalyzing series. Been following every episode from the start. Found your channel from a walking dead video and fell in love with the overanalyzing series.
This is another one of those episodes I've been dying to see your analysis on. You never disappoint Koroto! keep it up man, I can't get enough of this series
in russian dub the name of the series means “attack on titan” and “attacking titans” and “titans attack”, depends on how you want to understand it, and it makes so much fun thinking about it while going deeper into the series
Welp there goes my essay due today. New overanalyzing dropped
17:41 could this be a conclusion reached by titan scientists?
I’m so glad that you do these!!! Please don’t stop! This was fantastic!
43:15 I think the lives and memories of not just Krueger, Grisha and Eren, but also *all* the attack titans are not a loop. More like a predetermined straight line from the enslavement of Ymir all the way to her liberation. When the power of the titans no longer exists at the end of AoT, she no longer has to spend eternity in the paths doing the bidding of king Fritz’s descendants.
Man do i get the goosebumps every time a new overanalizing video drops
32:42 it could also be mirroring Kruger holding the syringe 😊
Ymir(slave) showed the Ymir(lesbian) memories to give HISTORIA closure, not us. It was love.
I am very glad this series is as long as it is
Speaking of that Attack on Titan name thing. Transformers did something similar. Dark of the moon makes zero sense as a title. But the film is about the space race and the moon, mainly the dark side of the moon. So Dark of the moon is a more catchy and stylised way of saying Dark side of the moon.
Me watching this at 1:04 a.m. "I'm gonna break the 4th wall it's 1 in the morning and we're talking about time travel shenanigans" he DOES have the power of the nine!
All I can say is I appreciate you making these videos, stops me from a 111th rewatch
40:49
Nothing to add, just so damn gratifying to hear
In honour of overanalyzing, 33:40 if Ackermans are the result of titan science to enhance their habilities like super-human speed, strength and reaction time, then their metabolism is probably elevated to super-human levels as well. Meaning yes, she could theoretically have lost some noticeable weight in a few days. Even if very little, it would be enough for someone who loves her, like Eren, to notice.
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Or, you know, she just looks weak. Because she is depressed, and doesn't eat.
Had the most stressful weekend ever and this literally put a smile back in my face ❤❤❤ Your content is always a joy to watch!
When you think about it, AoT's universe is set on a fixed causal loop, where time related happenings always happen. Eren can influence the previous attack titan weilders because he already did, he can set events in place to lead exactly to the rumbling because he already always did. This means that from the moments Ymir became the first founding titan and the human/titan time connection was formed, Eren was there too, enacting the rumbling to save Ymir. For as long as there was Ymir, there was Eren. One destined to be chained and enslaved for eternity, the other a slave to his own freedom. Almost like a yin and yang of sorts.
Finally it’s been getting very dry on my feed so happy to see Koroto show up
lack of Mikasa romantic feelings obsession
lack of Armin obsession with the Sea issues lol
BABE WAKE UP NEW OVERANALYZING DROPPED
My birthday is tomorrow (10/10) so a new video is perfect. Keep up the great work man, take care and be safe
Dude I can’t believe how consistent you are, very impressive
After learning that if a Shifter dies without passing on the tita it'll be inherited by a random Eldian newborn, and then learning about Marley, I thought back on Reiner saying their goal was to ensure the extermination of humanity within the walls.
I just thought it was funny how Marley (or at least the Warriors after failing to locate the objective) basically was gonna game the respawn mechanics to capture the Founder
The extent to which I'm invested in these overanalyzing series has me thinking "damn i gotta put them on my resume".... and btw i was here for a 50 min series like you posted you gotta account for the missing 4 min man, time is of the essence
19:40 yesss, in order to start the loop, Erin had to have the founding titan once in some other timeline. Meaning either someone else (could've been Grisha) set it up for him to get it or he did get it the first time when he was older and changed history so he gets it earlier. What we see is the end result of Eren keeping to change the past (and seeing the result of it in the future to change it again) until he got what he wanted.
Ok, Hear me out. What if that pose from when Erin was in the cell and said "...its called The Attack Titan.", is a mix of Erin's mind being in Grisha and Kruger at or near the same time! I think the pose comes from when Grisha rubs his wrist after Kruger cut the restaints off him mixed with when Kruger had the syringe to pass his titan on. Note that Grisha had no fingers, yet Erin's fingers in the pose is in the same position as Kruger's while having the syringe. Some kinda phantom limb X paths shenanigans I bet!
I think this is proven correct by your observations of how Erin was sitting puts him in both their heads, i mean it went from Erin being Grisha hearing Kruger tell him info and simultaneously relaying it to current Erin, to Erin being Kruger and telling Grisha info literally AT THE SAME TIME as Mikasa and Armen.(i literally never noticed that before. Thank you for enlightening me!) Thats how Kruger was able to know the names of people he'd never meet, all threes minds are mixed and surface in Erin via that ridiculous pose lol
Kruger holding the syringe like he is giving salute in the paradis style. So in a way in that moment both Eren’s are sharing memories. 17:04
You CAN noticeably lose weight over a few days if you eat little to nothing considering that your sodium levels will affect your water retention, which can be like 3-5 lbs. you’ll also probably lose an actual lb of non water weight if you don’t eat for a few days.
Mikasa lost weight because of Ackerman genes. Ackerman have a titan’s qualities and as we know titans often depends on sunlight. That’s why being locked up in dangerous takes tall on her. For very same reason Levi is so short, because he grew up in underworld
Or future Eren made her loose weight so present Eren could notice.
"won't I just forget everything that just happened here?"
"not necessarily, someone could be watching down the line."
because eren was listening (and also talking?) and could give those memories to grisha later on
I think "Attack on Titan" is an okay-ish translation that can have the double meaning.Only realized it when I say it split as "Attack-on Titan", as in, the Titan that attacks-on
No one in my life likes anime, let alone wants to talk about it. I appreciate your videos and editing very much. Thanks for sharing them with us!!
"Advancing Giants/Titans" is one translation which makes far more sense, and it even foreshadows The Rumbling.
32:42 I think there’s two options. First, it’s Kruger holding the titan syringe. It would probably be weird for Hange to see. Second, it could be him rubbing his wrists because his hands are cut off via Grisha.
Yessir! I’ve been waiting, dang near rewatched your whole series last night in preparation.
Kruger shows up, changes the whole story, then promptly dies. Goddamn chad lmao
I was about to mention ksaver for the 13 year rule but then you just mentioned it and I'm so happy you did lol
One thing that was changed in the anime from the manga is that the Ymir flashbacks are dropped right at the letter sequence. Since they hadn't gotten anywhere near that part in the anime, they had to censor things like the syringe to avoid blatent spoilers. You can imagine what it was like for manger readers like myself getting blasted by Ymir's story out of nowhere
Kruger's final speech is one of the most important scenes in the series, as it foreshadows how Eren, Zeke, Erwin, Kenny, etc. all attain freedom through a selfless act of love, breaking free from their selfish dreams that enslaved them.
Another great video analyzing the one of the greatest shows ever. Keep up the good work man.
wow okay this needs a rewatch.
Was a hard one to follow through all the time haha. Love it.
I still remember watched that scene when he mentioned Armin and Mikasa. I remember having to playback and thinking I misinterpreted everything and that it wasn’t actually a flashback.
I've never been so early,
This will make a fine addition to accompany my dinner
Another strange hypothetical, if Dina or Historia ate Eren in season 2/3 and the Attack Titan is immune to the founder a) Would holding the Attack Titan also allow royals to bypass the will of 145 KF, b)would say if Eren had the Armoured Titan and the Founding Titan, even with help from a Royal without the Attack Titan in play at all, all Eldians would just bow to 145KF vow of peace.
I'm pretty sure we see exactly that play out when Zeke overcomes the curse in the paths. Eren accesses the founding power by using Zeke while Zeke simultaneously uses Eren to free himself.
I need 2-hour long videos of this
7:56 It makes even more sense in the manga that they are "The same person" due to being influenced by memories due to the fact that in the manga Eren has gray eyes.
I appreciate the memes you make specifically for the videos lol
What I understood was that Eren, during the Convergence, effectively wrote the whole history from the moment of the Founding Titan fragmentation. He was responsible for guiding every single Attack Titan holder (his past self included) to the objective at the end.
Subtext for "Attack on Titan" is "Attack on Japan" (A-Bom...bed) . So the author Hajime Isayama wanted to depict Japan (Titan) becoming an Attack Titan(Japan) attacking back 1:48 !