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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 puts four roses, which means nothing will come between two people who love each other but can not 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. 5) In the ending credits where Eren and Mikasa were buried, an old man Armin still visited 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 reached the tree. 6) This is a very famous consideration. It is believed that the bird that last wrapped the scarf around Misaka's head was a bird known by its Japanese name, the "Tohzoku Kamome." Also, the english name of this bird is "Pomarine Jaeger
Although the end credits proves that as long as humans are there, the notion of true world peace cannot be achieved, and the cycle repeats itself... I think Zeke and Armin's conversation is the thing that gives hope the most.. to live for the small moments with our loved ones is one of the best things we can do with our lives.
When Eren broke down crying that he wanted Mikasa to want and only love him for years, I had always thought it was weird. But then you realize that Eren is just a kid. He wanted a relationship with Mikasa, but he was shackled to the future. As a child. And he never got to experience anything else.
from 12 to 17. he got no teenage years , he never got to experience love and heartbreak and all the things you do normally. hes an idiot given unimaginable power. he even says so.
@@Bridge2110 He absolutely did tho. He showed that he cared deeply for her several times. And he might not have directly tried to make out with her, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have any feelings for her. Different people express their feelings differently.
By the way, the final lyrics where the boy and the dog appear, say that we must stay away from violence and it is a hopeful song. There are some who believe that the titans will return, but they were born by the psyche, fears and desires of Ymir Fritz... as Zeke said. Therefore the titans will not return, since they were born by the desire of a slave girl with fears... the child at the end is the complete opposite, he is a free adventurer with a friend who is a dog... different from Ymir who A dog was chasing her to kill her.
Yeah I absolutely love the contrast between Ymir and the boy stumbling upon the tree. I think the point is that if he comes in contact with the hallucigenia a more hopeful power would be born that wouldn’t lead to the cycle of violence perpetuated by the curse of the titans.
Fun fact the first sentence from Mikasa in the Manga (it's different in the Anime) was "see you later Eren" like the last sentence to him when she kisses the severed head and you only see the bottom half of her head with short hair and when Eren wakes up from the dream in the first Manga part he says to her "when did your hair got so long" and then says he feels like he had the longest dream
@@saptomoNo, the point is that the long dream was a collection of his future memories, the last one being where Mikasa kills him and what she says in the paths. The anime shows stuff that happens early on in the anime but the point in the manga is that by the end you realise he got several years of memories flashing through his head incredibly quickly.
@@frogpaste The attack titan’s powers can send memories back in time so even if he didn’t have the attack or founding at the time he is still the attack titan, just before he inherited it. So upon death Eren may have sent the memories back towards himself in the past, it’s certainly possible, and then when he comes into contact with Historia is when he properly unlocks them and is able to make sense of what he is seeing.
The sequence when Armin is yelling at himself that leads into scenes from all over the world showing the rumbling, and then to the scene with the woman and child on the cliff and everyone is STILL trying to save the child despite how hopeless it looks is one of the most emotional sequences I've ever witnessed. The music, pacing, everything was on point. I love this show.
@@bornkinggamer3347 if it makes perfect sense then please walk me through it since I’m apparently so stupid, how is one tied down by freedom, which is by definition the complete opposite of being enslaved?
@@orangejuice8279 Uh, he's so obsessed with freedom that chasing after it took over everything else. Not that complicated man. "which is by definition the complete opposite of being enslaved?" Again, it's called irony
Congrats on finishing one of the most compelling stories in anime, when a show can make u so happy, mad, and sad at the same time u know it's because of excellent character development and writing
@@majincaveman2709 even got my first tattoo ever of Levi cause of this show lol. But it’s easily my favorite show of all time up there with avatar the last airbender
Completely underrated character due to how he was introduced as a "bad guy". He had a good heart, was always trying to be a good brother, smarter than anyone gives him credit for, had an excellent story, and was also absolutely lethal as we saw in shiganshina in season 4.
The only thing that really made me cry in this episode was seeing Levi cry. He has held it in for so long. He was numb. Seeing Levi crying was a kick on my heart. The only person who lost everyone he cares and the only survivors to his comrades. Levi, the last man standing
And it was so satisfying that how perfect ending he got. Like he gave meaning to his fallen comrades death . There life were not meaningless. Levi is the goat 🐐
@@colombinnekang5466 that's fair, and that's presumably why Isayama chose to keep him alive over and over again, but it makes the titans a lot less threatening knowing they can pretty much all be killed by 1 human with enough plot armor
@@rumfordc I feel the same way about Levi, I love to see my favorite characters die in a show. But I understand that in these type of shows, the really big ones with such fanbase, things like that happen. Levi is like Daryl in The Walking Dead, creators have to keep those type of characters alive and give them plot armor or else they'll be risking too much of their connection with the fans, they gave them such plot armor for so long that it comes to a point where it wouldn't even make sense to kill them anymore, there are greater things happening in the show that such death would just conflict and distract the fans from the main plot. There's no way around it, if even Isayama couldn't find a way to kill that type of character I don't think anyone can, I'll believe in that until I find a show where it goes the other way.
Ymir couldn’t kill the king as she loved him but Mikasa killed Eren as she loved him. That would be the true love if who you loved is a devil. That is why Ymir needs Mikasa.
It's like a dichotomy of would you allow the "poison" of intense love to affect you or would you cut it away to preserve your morality and your more pure true self(your true self that's not evil, yet can still be selfish). Mikasa managed to do that, hence healed Ymir's "poison" damage to herself. Basically, "love hurts". Ahaha 😂
as a manga reader since 2013 I cried so hard at the ending of the manga, but watching this and then seeing “The End” instead of “To be Continued” absolutely destroyed me. Cried for a full 10-15 minutes after this episode aired/ended 😢
@@wb6012 i bet you can’t even bite your hand and make it bleed. I can’t. Eren had to go through WAY worse than that. Bro can whine as much as he wants lmao.
@mk9beatz Not to mention, he was a 19 year old kid. He didn't even hit 20 years of age and yet had to burden the survival of ALL his people. He van whine and cry all he wants seeing as once again, he was still a kid and never made it to adulthood.
To you people who either wait for 7 month, 10 years, or 2000 years to reach the end of this show.... thank you! It's been a heck of journey. Don't be sad that it ends, rather be grateful that it happened. Sayonara, see you in the path
In ancient Eldia they also ran out of enemies, however they began to kill each other, genocide is not a solution, AOT is an anti-war message They are not telling you that ending 100% is the solution, but that violence is a double-edged sword, as the background music even says and at the end also introducing "Get out of the forest" (sasha's father's philosophy) when it appears the boy and the dog. Hallucigenia's powers were never really the problem, more how they used these powers to inflict wars, that child will bring times of peace with whatever power he desires. AOT always stay My heart ❤
The whole Eldian restorationist motivation was built on Ymir building and creating - prospering lives. And yet they did also oppress the world. Everyone in this show attempt peace through sharing and wisdom. But somewhere down the line military power takes hole. You cannot have a free world because someone is always vying for power. But that doesn't mean it's impossible.
I draw a lesson from Eren on that. Those who push themselves into this hell do so because they see something beyond it. It could be hope, or just another hell. But we must keep advancing no matter what, pursuing this naive hope. Even if we can't get out of the forest, we gotta keep trying.
Just to clear this up. The scene with Eren and Mikasa at the cabin wasn't Mikasa's imagination but Eren using the remnants of the founding titan's power he had to create it for them. Not sure if it's canon but it's believed they lived out the 4 years Eren would have had if Mikasa confessed her romantic feeling for Eren under the moon there before she gained she resolve to kill him in real world. Mikasa knows Eren is in the mouth because he himself told her that while they were in that path created fantasy.
@@mrtruman4339exactly-it's all consistent if you take it that Eren periodically visited his friends in Paths then locked away their memories until his death, but that he lived out those 4 years with Mikasa in that instant right before she kills him. That's why she goes from not being able to do it directly to not only being able to do it, but knowing where he is, and replying to Eren's telling her to forget him with "I can't."
@@theguyinblue2 Alter here means Ackerman's memory can't be edit and erased.. but you still can bring them to the path which doesn't have a concept of time. Mikasa's headache could be means Eren trying to erase but he couldn't.
What a pleasure it was re-experiencing and rewatching my favorite anime with you ladies. Much love to you ladies and may your channel reach new heights.
Mikasa's constant headaches were from Ymir btw. She was trying to find out more about Mikasa since the two of them were so similar in having a loved one that they felt so bound to. And in the end when Mikasa was able to turn against Eren and kill him, despite loving him so much... that was the outcome that Ymir was looking for.
I wanna thank you two. You guys were without a doubt the best AoT reactor. This show will always have a special place in my heart. It taught me to see things from others perspectives which, I think made me a better human. Now, for the last time, let's put our hands on our hearts and, Shinzou Sasageyo!
I'm glad you loved the ending. A lot of ppl missunderstand an ending you don't want with an ending you don't like/a bad ending. It's an amazing story with amazing characters, songs/voices, art direction, it's just great. The general though on it is that even tho the cycle repeats itself, it seems to be more positive. The boy with the dog isn't chased by soldiers/dogs, his life isn't in danger and has a friendly dog with him. Adventuring in the forest. Ymir created her titan body & the paths to protect her from being hurt/die. The boy doesn't need to have that. It's a positively cynical ending. Fit the show really well. What a masterpiece.
@@rumfordc AoT has always been a multi-faceted story. Trying to commit to one ending would just feel weird and wouldn't match the type of story AoT is.
You girls did a fantastic job reacting, commenting and watching. You should both be proud of how much stuff you picked up on and understood many themes that a lot of people miss. It was a joy to rewatch the whole series with you. Once you've recovered emotionally, I would highly recommend rewatching the whole show. There is an absurd amount of foreshadowing and secret little things you don't catch the first time that are hidden. Especially the first two seasons. As one of the original watchers of the show from 2013 this show was a huge part of my life remains my favorite show of all time. Having to wait a week between each episode was so painful sometimes I can't even begin to explain and don't even get me started on waiting for years between seasons. But it was all worth it in the end, greatest skydiving event of my life probably.
I'm so glad you commented on armins look as he jumped, that single look is so alien on armins and it seriously struck me insanely deep, but it's not mentioned super often. He is NEVER angry and determined at the same time until that moment and it's fucking awesome
I'll never get over how pretty Mikasa looks from Eren's POV.. She really represented the beauty in Eren's cruel world.. Also Eren didn’t fully close his eyes until he got one more look of Mikasa.. He didn’t care about anything else in this moment but her. She truly was the apple of his eye 😭💔
For the last few months, I have been watching AoT for the first time alongside your videos. I would literally watch an episode, then watch your reactions. And can I just say... what an amazing and wild ride this has been!!! I've absolutely loved this show from beginning to end and now I'm super sad that it has ended 😭😭😭😭😭 It's been such a pleasure enjoying the show with you 2! Thank you for all your amazing reactions and for letting me come along on this beautiful journey! 🥲❤
no matter how many times i've seen this show i would always cry, i cried with them during those emotional moments cause it hurts a lot 😭 This is such a beautiful journey with you two 🫶
10 years of a masterpiece and not a single second wasted. Eren made sure that everyone got somewhat of a positive outcome in the end. Mikasa got to see what life was like with her and Eren. Connie got his mom back. Eren went all Aladdin with Armin and showed him the world minus the magic carpet. And he made sure there were no titans left in the world like his brother Zeke wanted so they wouldn't be feared and hated at least for a while. Glad you two got to experience this masterpiece!
Just wanted to say it was great watching the show again with you two. Your insights and emotional clarity were the best AOT reactions I've ever seen. It's wild because I was sort of put off by the ending for a while but it clicked with you both instantly. It was a treat to see someone get it as it happened.
Eren; Someone who deliberately chose options, not because they were the most intelligent, nor because he was not aware that they hid selfishness, but rather chose those that gave him the greatest satisfaction and filled his desire for "freedom", wanted to feel that placebo. because yes, this is the story of an impossible and unattainable freedom and how the discourse between saving his loved ones and his people is mixed in the deepest desires of a character. Really i love it all episodes
Thank you ! Finally someone who doesn't reduce Eren to "I wanted to save my friends" (even if it's obviously one of the reason, but not the only One). I dont understand how some people still miss Eren dark motivations while he explicitly tells them to Armin. And that's why people shoudn't hate on Eren not giving a clear response to "why doing the rumbling", because he is himself lost in the many reasons he arrived to this resolution. If you followed the anime, understood all the POV of each character's on Eren and Eren's monologues, you know all the facettes of Eren and thus, why he came to this horrible ending. 🙏
@@rumfordc so you watched 4 season of them reacting even tho you’ve watched the ending already and hated it? Lmao I’m sure it hurts to know you belong to the minority who didn’t like it
@@gauthierkasongo180 you still think popular = good, you poor child. and that's correct i watched their reactions in spite of the shows bad ending. i've also seen the ending twice on my own just so i could be sure its bad and I wasn't missing anything. i've also watched rewarites of the ending. imagine that, eh? its as if a bad ending doesn't make it a bad show, or a reaction to it a bad reaction.
“I’m afraid you’re mistaken if you think Paradis island will be safe after this. All you’re doing is shrinking your world. And then you will continue to kill one another within narrower walls” - Kiyomi Azumabito, Ep#85
"Crush your enemy totally. Don’t go halfway with them or give them any options whatsoever. If you leave even one ember smoldering, it will eventually ignite. You can’t afford to be lenient." - Robert Greene
I would like to point out Isayamas writing prowess, the first ever page of AoTs manga shows the last thing Eren ever saw, Mikasa saying to Eren "'I'll see you later, Eren".
Even with Israel versus Palestine right now, war, hatred, resentment, revenge, racism, these things will always be a part of us. As long as there are two separate forces with opposing beliefs or goals, there will be war. Suffering. It is a cruel world. But the silver lining the show gives us is the baseball, or the leaf, or Mikasas scarf. It’s the little things that make the life worth living. Even with all the suffering that is inevitable. And those little things will always be attached to love. Aaron sacrificed himself for his love, so that Mikasa could live the remaining years she had left in peace without her freedom being stripped away. And as soon as she passes war begins. There’s obviously a lot more to his motivations/character, he is definitely one of the best well written protagonist/villains to any show that I’ve ever seen. The only character who literally wrote himself.
This sums up the show in a great way and the detail you pointed out about the baseball or lead is one I hadn't noticed so thank you. Btw, I think your autocorrect changed Eren to Aaron.
Remember way back in Season 1 when Mikasa thought Erin had died? And she had the flashbacks, and then said to herself " I can't die because if I die then I won't be able to remember you at all ". That is exactly why Ymir stayed "alive" for 2000 thousand years. She was in love with Fritz and dying would mean letting go.
But ymir accepted death didn't she? that's why she did not recover from that spear I guess. Or maybe was it like...she thought she wanted to die and in the paths realized she still wanted to serve the king. I still can't really figure ir out, cos on one hand she gave up and died, and on the other hand she continued serving him
@@leonardoespinoza8930 Ymir was always watching Mikasa, peering into her life, thats what the headaches are. Ymir peers in to see the way Mikasa handles the undying love she has for Erin. In the end Ymir witnesses Mikasa make the greatest sacrifice and kill the one she loved , which in turn gives her the knowledge/perspective to realize she could let go of King Fritz the way Mikasa is letting go of Erin. And since Time and space are all at once in the paths, Ymir was able to go back in time and let Fritz die where she originally sacrificed herself for him. So in the end she accepted death, but for 2000 years she didn't want to let go. When she was laying on the ground after being speared and she "chose to die", the only reason she did this, is because she wanted Fritz love, but all he did was say " youre not dead my slave" making her realize that no matter what she does, he won't give her the love she wants, heartbroken, she decides to just give up. ANd that is when she is eaten by her children.
@@CanWeSmash Hmmmmmmmmm. That makes sense. It never was clear to me what she was expecting from Mikasa, and why she was bothering her before eren "unleashed" her, but considering the time in the paths, it makes a lot more sense. Thanks man
@@leonardoespinoza8930 I love sharing AOT stuff. I don't know everything, but the more you think about the story the more you start to uncover. Glad I could help a little at least
I'm Japanese. It was really fun to spend the wonderful journey of AOT with you two. I'm really grateful to Isayama Hjime, MAPPA, the voice actors, and all the people involved for creating such a historic anime. Sorry for the Google translation...
11:03 This is the moment that saved Reiner's life, his sanity and finally made him realize he's neither a soldier nor warrior but a scout Such a beautiful scene.
Girls, at the end, we can listen for the first time, Eren and Mikasa singing together. The baby saved has the voice of the baby from the original Japanese voice of Eren. Crazy too. And tons of other things secrets just amazing in aot. This show is just perfect in all the way.
54:02 about the sky diving moment. In life I feel we have many moments like this. I see it as a culmination of all your different moments so you have times to relate back to those experiences. Literally built standing on the shoulders of giants 😊
48:15 Girl’s perception stats exceed Sung Jinwoo. This is a detail I got by reading the comments of a video after dozens of rewatches lol. Hats off. You’re brilliant.
Finally guys you reached the end. I never enjoyed watching reaction like that before!!! It is amazing to rewatch the show with you all these 7 month 😭💕
It’s been months since the ending, and I still cry every time I watch it😭😭😭 Thank you both for going into this Journey and sharing the beautiful experience with us.
Eren's eyes was closed when the rumbling begins for not seing the massacre that he did and when mikasa killed him he opened his eyes to see her for the last time
Also the fact that eren did all this was purely because he wanted it, well it's not like he wanted genocide coz it's fun or anything but like armin said, when he introduced the book to eren when they were kids, it rose eren's curiosity, eren started thinking once they kill all the titans he'll be able to experience the outside world properly, but apparently after finding out that there are humans outside the walls, he was disappointed, coz it wasn't the world he imagined or saw in armin's books. This was one of the main reason why Eren wanted to do the rumbling and he has admitted in the show before that he was disappointed of the outside world.
I interpret it as being largely involuntary and unconscious. He probably wouldn't have consciously chosen genocide, but the paths could tell that deep down what he truly wanted was for his friends to be safe and for there to be a big empty world for them to explore, and so that was the only possible future it ever showed him, leading him to think it was the only option.
it has been SUCH an amazing experience rewatching this with you guys!! your reactions, analysis, speculations, and everything were so enjoyable to watch!! can’t wait to see what you guys do next
There is an Attack On Titan Junior High series where they are like junior high students 🥹 for some nice "theyre not dead theyre actually imaginative school students
Many people thinks that the ending was bad, but actually i think it wasnt bad at all. It was a FITTING ending for Attack on Titan because it is CONSISTENT with the original premise of the show = "To Get Rid Of All Titans From This World" = That is AoT's origin story. Even though it was changed to humans being the actual enemies but still at the end we did get rid of all titans as well. The 2000 years history of Attack on Titan can be viewed as Founder's Ymir personal struggle to overcome her Stockholm Syndrome (A real mental struggle where the captors fell in love with the kidnappers). She knows she is supposed to hate King Fritz who burned down her village, killed her family, enslaved and torture her. But being born and living the life she had, she still yearned for love and unfortunately fell for the worst man possible. OVERSIMPLICATION yes but you get the main gist. She is struggling and wants to be free from her obsession. About Eren, Ymir is the only one with the power to decide what happens with the Titan's power. Even in the episode "From you, 2000 years ago" Eren only prompted Ymir's to decide. However, like Eren said, he is powerless from this, as the Attack Titan he can see and experience the past, present and future all at the same time, he had tried to look for alternative solutions but the vision of the future just WOULD NOT change. (See Eren's convo with Armin) He didn't wanna go through with the Rumbling (His personal struggle and monologue in the previous movie) but he had very little choice, his only way is to move forward, he is A SLAVE OF FREEDOM. Re: Eren blaming himself for directing Dina towards mom. What people need to understand is AoT's story is a fixed single timeline and cannot have TIME PARADOX. What happened has happened, THE PAST CANNOT CHANGE. Actually in that moment in time (mom gets eaten), Eren was neither the Attack Titan (Dad) nor Founding Titan(Freya). Future Eren can only speak to previous inheritors of Attack Titan (Dad) who was busy stealing Founding's power (He HAD to make his dad do it because that already happened, that is the only way he get founding powers and the only way he could see into the past). Future Eren couldn't do anything in a larger scale of things because it is a paradox. (If Eren asked dad to save his mom, mom didn't get eaten, Eren wouldn't become the Attack/Founding Titan and wouldn't see this memory and couldn't ask dad to save mom; It's a PARADOX; if he sees this memory then his mom has already been eaten), he is just watching it happen, powerless and can only blames himself. As Historia said: this is not Eren's choice, it's the consequence of everybody's action that caused the Rumbling. If the wall was never broken, mom never eaten, Eren never got Founding Power, Rumbling wouldn't happen. Imagine being Eren, you get to see all past, present and future at the same time but everything is set in stone, he can't change anything, he can only move forwards and see how the story plays out About Mikasa, she is the real person Ymir was waiting for all these while because Ymir sees herself in Mikasa. The "Runaway story" is like Infinite Tsukiyomi, it is only a VISION/DREAM of a possible future, the viewer experience it fully but it never happened in reality nor there is another timeline. Mikasa was presented with 2 scenarios 1) Give up on saving humanity and runaway with Eren, but this way Ymir continue to be a slave to King Fritz, Titan power remains and continue to terrorize humanity 2) Refuse to give up on humanity and sacrifice her love (she can still love Eren nonetheless), and Ymir can finally be free of Fritz command and choose to remove Titan Power from this world. Mikasa was able to influence Ymir to make the decision to be free from King Fritz. Hence in Ymir's vision she chose not to protect King Fritz (this is only symbolism, the past didn't change, only showing the change of Ymir's heart, once again, THE PAST CANNOT CHANGE) The whole conversation between Armin and Zeke is basically a discussion about nihilism thinking that basically says "what's the point of living if all things eventually die, why does anything matter if everything comes to an end/dies" To the fans who think "AoT's ending is meaningless because war and conflict continues anyway" -Your thinking is very much like Zeke - "what's the point of living if everyone dies? what's the point of peace if conflict perpetuate?" try to think of it this way - Zeke asked Armin "Why do you wanna go back to fight so much if everything's gonna die anyway? " and Armin/Isayama said to him "Every small moment and happiness in life is worth living, even though all good things come to an end" This is also why AoT and Isayama didn't choose to go with the EUTHANIZATION plan, because all lives born is free, there will be good things that happen to them, and we shouldn't take this away from them. MANY people missed this but THIS is also a BRILLIANT 4th wall break homage saying THANK YOU to the readers - "Even if AoT is about to end, every moment that we (Isayama and fans) shared together was WORTH IT" The Ending/Conclusion of Attack on Titan is spoke through Levi's monologue = the sacrifice of the hearts of the scout regimen was to reach this place - "A WORLD WITHOUT TITAN". This brings the whole AoT story to a FULL CIRCLE. It might not feel satisfying for some but it is a SUITABLE Ending consistent and come back to its origin - "Getting Rid of Titans from this world". Isayama didn't set out to provide a solution for human conflict, what he did was only pointing out through Pixis and Erwin that "human conflict will never end until there's only 1 man remain." He emphasized it once again through the end credits shots - nor matter what happens, human conflict never ends. Even if the Rumbling was complete, Paradis will still fight a civil war, even if Paradis was wiped out, the human remain will continue fighting". However to say this ending is MEANINGLESS was a misinterpretation, the whole discussion on the boat with Historia's letter is designed to specifically answer this - the scouts shall continue to fight in a world without titan, and they shall always fight for peace - Armin: "they will want to hear our story, how we used to fight as enemies have now come together to advocate for peace" This can be viewed as another 4th wall break talking about Attack On Titan, a story about conflict, about human cruelty, about war, about racism, despite EVERYTHING that happened, the ending comes down to both sides reconciling, advocating for peace and working for a better future. Now for the end credits where we see paradis getting destryed eventually and people mistake it as it was all for nothing but its wrong, eren always knew that the cycle of hate, war and conflict would never end but his actions did bought a peace of atleast 500-1000 years (the buildings looks so futuristic) eren did achieve his goal that was so at least his friends and people on paradis that he knew get to live a long peacefull life and die a natural death by growing older. After a 1000 years modern war happened and paradis was destroyed. It shows that the conflict and war is a never ending cycle, even if eren killed all 100% of humanity except for eldians, conflict would arise between eldians. it is a never ending cycle, we also saw a person in the end who went inside the tree as in a theory that the cycle is reapeating again just like how ymir went in the tree. So long as humans exist in this world, there will always be war and hate. conflict will only end untill we're down to one or less human. That is the reality of our world. I can understand if you can say it's not satisfying enough for everyone but there's 1000 Hamlets in 1000 people's eyes. It still doesn't takeaway all the GREAT PLOTWIST and BRILLIANT WRITING of ISAYAMA the GENIUS. Im also really glad that you both were also able to understand this show's complexity, you both really are smarter than 99% of any other reaction channels i've ever watched. It was indeed a great journey with you guys. Also i'd say you two can also try Stiens Gate if you like or wanna know about time travel. Imo its the best anime out there about time travel but its underrated. Thank you Isayama, Thank you Mappa and Wit, Thank you for all the staffs that worked on this MASTERPIECE. Just as Armin is glad to be born to race with Mikasa and Eren, and Zeke was glad to be born to play catch. I am glad I was born into this world to witness this Masterpiece.
I feel the people who don't like the ending are in the minority and the message of the show completely went over their heads. Anything different would have been extremely out of character for the show and the development of said characters. There was never going to be a happy ending, that's not what life is. This is a story of a kid who never grew up and was handed the ultimate power and all he wanted to do was fulfil his selfish dreams of his concept of freedom. I have to wonder how many people who watched eren's butchering of the kidnapper didn't give a second thought to what his true nature was. Kid was not normal from the start.
It's not that Eren is "stuck" and cannot do anything other than "watch things play out". He is a slave of freedom not because he is controlled by some invisible force, but rather because he is obsessed with the idea of freedom and is ready to do anything to obtain it (even if that means destroying the world). The only outcome he sees is what HE wants. Deep down he wanted to destroy the world because his idea of freedom was filled with EMPTY beautiful landscapes and oceans. I see a lot of people trying to find a "logic" to Eren's choice. But there isn't. Eren's decisions are based on his personality and mindset. There is nothing else to look at.
its been such wild ride with you two!!!! You guys are some of the smartest people to have reacted to this show and i am really glad u were able to wrap your heads around( in one way or another) the overall message the show was trying to convey! Thanks alot for watching the show and looking forward to JJK and other great reactions!!! ❤
THAT'S RIGHT, GIRLS! We've all witnessed a cycle that repeats itself over and over and over and over again! And it's not at all certain that what we've seen is the first time in this cycle, who knows how many times it has happened before!
I’ve watched this Season End to End multiple times by myself originally, with friends and with lots of ‘reactors’ on RUclips - your reaction series is one of the best I’ve seen, some great observations and rollercoaster of emotions on show 👍 Suggest you watch it back - off screen and appreciate like so many of us; just how brilliantly layered and plotted it really is.
Congrats on finishing this, what a wild ride and it's been a pleasure following along! If you can believe it you both have been some of the most understanding reactors, you caught so many key details early on and got a few predictions correct. Even after watching a decent number of people react to this, I always shed a tear at watching Levi (my goat) saying his final goodbye to his fallen comrades. They truly gave their hearts.
This is the greatest piece of fiction ever..... Both live action and anime.... The highs I experienced from this show will never be topped, it's downward from here.....
Probably the best show ever. Anyway don't be upset at the ending. Yes, that is the same tree Ymir fell in, and probably the hallucigenia is still growing in that tree, but that doesn't mean that the mysterious boy in the end will bring back titans, the power of the hallucigenia is not to create titans, is to create life. So even if the cicle repeat, and humans will never learn to be at peace, there's still hope for changing. Loved your reactions, you earned a new sub for life. Thank you girls. Shinzou wo sasageyo! 🤛
I have to say this has been the best reaction to AoT I have seen and I have seen a lot. I have thoroughly enjoyed your reaction since Season 1 Episode 1 and have not missed any of your videos every time you guys dropped a new one. This last video just recaptures everything I have felt when I watched the Finale the first time. Kudos to you guys for enjoying the show as much as I did.
I have to say, I think i enjoyed the last episode even more seeing it through your eyes than my own. You are both so sharp at picking up details, and also so tuned in emotionally. Have loved this whole video series, thank you!
80% of humanity being gone and titans being gone seems like it actually evened the odds between rival countries, so there was more peace for future generations, as shown in the time lapse in the credits.
I randomly found you guys when you first started reacting to aot all the way back in december. Thank you two for reacting to one of my favorite series of all time, it's been an absolute blast.
I finished watching the last season of Attack on Titan a week ago, but I've been rewatching every season with you guys. I cried the first time I watched it, and I cried again with you guys. I really miss Eren and Mikasa a lot. I also regularly watch your reactions and I'm up-to-date on One Piece, but watching it again with you guys feels amazing. Thank you for reacting to this amazing show. It feels like I'm watching it with someone when I watch your reactions❤
Fun fact: the name of our pilot "Onyankopon" means God, from the Akan dialete of the Ashanti empire. Isayama's idea of the Eldian race(subjects of Ymir) is diverse touching all continents of the world. We are all Subjects of Ymir, and this is our tragic evolving story.
Eren showed Mikasa alternate memories of his remaining 4 years living with her that's why she was getting severe headache due to overflow of memories. He showed that he would have died anyway after 4 years due to the curse of Ymir. And Mikasa, experiencing all those years, and watching him die, actually was the point where she was able to finally accept Eren's death and hence able to kill him in the actual timeline.
@JustinasPopovas So Ymir can peek through the memories that we saw in the cabins as well as the entire memories. We all know Eren gave memories to his friends. He fulfilled Armin's wish to explore the lands outside walls. He also gave Mikasa 4 years of his remaining time. That's why in the cabins, Eren says that this is all that she asked for, and Mikasa nods.
45:52 - I get chills every time I hear that chorus fading out as the boy finds the tree. For me it conveys so much. The mystery of what might happen or the ominous telling of the future. It's both beautiful and haunting . I love it!
i found your channel 4 days ago i binged your attack on titan reaction , i enjoyed it so much im so happy i didn’t have to wait for you guys to upload them 😭 im definitely subbing for jjk
We can't believe it's over! 😭💔
Thank you for sharing in our "Skydiving Moment". We appreciate all of your love and support along the way! This has been such an INSANE journey for us. Major props to Hajime Isayama's creative genius and Wit/MAPPA's efforts in bringing this story to life. Our reaction to all of the OP's and ED's will be up on Friday, and next week we start Jujutsu Kaisen on RUclips. You can join our Patreon if you feel like getting ahead!
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JJK!!!
The tissue throw at the end is so funny 😂 cycle of hatred
React to attack on titan ost -
Call of silence
Youseebiggirl
Name of love
Counterattack mankind
Ashes on fire
شكراً
Hopefully you watched the op/ed with subtitles because the lyrics add so much to them when you understand them.
Mikasa wrote “Here forever rest peacefully, my most beloved, my dear. 854" on Eren's grave. 🙂
What does 854 mean?
@@headhunter1958 the Year
@@headhunter1958 year
@@headhunter1958 year
@@headhunter1958 Eren's death year.
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 puts four roses, which means nothing will come between two people who love each other but can not 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.
5) In the ending credits where Eren and Mikasa were buried, an old man Armin still visited 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 reached the tree.
6) This is a very famous consideration. It is believed that the bird that last wrapped the scarf around Misaka's head was a bird known by its Japanese name, the "Tohzoku Kamome." Also, the english name of this bird is "Pomarine Jaeger
I was about to paste this from the comment section I found on the other reactors channel xd
@@GaavWoW sorry about that🙏😜
None of these are "fun" facts 😭
I thought she got married and had a family with Jean?
@@PlupertStop overthinking
“To the boy who sought freedom, goodbye.”
Farewell EREN
"To the boy who sought freedom, lmao skill issue"
who said this?
Although the end credits proves that as long as humans are there, the notion of true world peace cannot be achieved, and the cycle repeats itself...
I think Zeke and Armin's conversation is the thing that gives hope the most.. to live for the small moments with our loved ones is one of the best things we can do with our lives.
@@gg_sam7847 no one is free , no one can never achieve freedom. Everyone is a slave to something
When Eren broke down crying that he wanted Mikasa to want and only love him for years, I had always thought it was weird. But then you realize that Eren is just a kid. He wanted a relationship with Mikasa, but he was shackled to the future. As a child. And he never got to experience anything else.
from 12 to 17. he got no teenage years , he never got to experience love and heartbreak and all the things you do normally. hes an idiot given unimaginable power. he even says so.
Plus he has no choice in the rumbling.@@skyguyschannel
THANK YOU. Finally someone who understands that scene lol.
At no point during the entire show did Eren display any romantic feelings towards Mikasa.
@@Bridge2110 He absolutely did tho. He showed that he cared deeply for her several times. And he might not have directly tried to make out with her, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have any feelings for her. Different people express their feelings differently.
By the way, the final lyrics where the boy and the dog appear, say that we must stay away from violence and it is a hopeful song. There are some who believe that the titans will return, but they were born by the psyche, fears and desires of Ymir Fritz... as Zeke said. Therefore the titans will not return, since they were born by the desire of a slave girl with fears... the child at the end is the complete opposite, he is a free adventurer with a friend who is a dog... different from Ymir who A dog was chasing her to kill her.
Wow I didn't realize that with the dog
@@kristiangutierrez8287 damn, the symbolism of AOT are just top notch, aint they!
Yeah I absolutely love the contrast between Ymir and the boy stumbling upon the tree. I think the point is that if he comes in contact with the hallucigenia a more hopeful power would be born that wouldn’t lead to the cycle of violence perpetuated by the curse of the titans.
Oh my God! Thank you for this explanation! My world has turned upside down!
@@jo0rd73Yes, I think the same.
Fun fact the first sentence from Mikasa in the Manga (it's different in the Anime) was "see you later Eren" like the last sentence to him when she kisses the severed head and you only see the bottom half of her head with short hair and when Eren wakes up from the dream in the first Manga part he says to her "when did your hair got so long" and then says he feels like he had the longest dream
so it's all just a looping limbo
@@saptomoNo, the point is that the long dream was a collection of his future memories, the last one being where Mikasa kills him and what she says in the paths. The anime shows stuff that happens early on in the anime but the point in the manga is that by the end you realise he got several years of memories flashing through his head incredibly quickly.
@@jo0rd73 But it's still weird because Eren hadn't eaten Grisha yet, so he shouldn't have been experiencing memories of the future yet.
@@frogpaste The attack titan’s powers can send memories back in time so even if he didn’t have the attack or founding at the time he is still the attack titan, just before he inherited it. So upon death Eren may have sent the memories back towards himself in the past, it’s certainly possible, and then when he comes into contact with Historia is when he properly unlocks them and is able to make sense of what he is seeing.
@@jo0rd73 Ah, right, through the Founder because he even talked about sending Dina away from Bertholdt.
The sequence when Armin is yelling at himself that leads into scenes from all over the world showing the rumbling, and then to the scene with the woman and child on the cliff and everyone is STILL trying to save the child despite how hopeless it looks is one of the most emotional sequences I've ever witnessed. The music, pacing, everything was on point.
I love this show.
"Don't we have any titans with wings?"
- top brass Marleyan soldier, episode 2 of Season 4
Yeah, they didn`t deserve THAT.
do u mean the one who suicided from the roof
@@thejfcad9020 nah, the Mads Mikkelsen looking like dude iirc
@@thejfcad9020 nah bro.. he got bodied by eren titan in that concert
Kenny told us everything from that time when he was dying that "everyone is a slave to something. Everyone has to be drunk on something to move on"
@@AliasgharShadaloei and Uri told him in S3E10:
“Violence is the unavoidable truth of this world.”
"Eren was a slave to being free" okay bro
@@orangejuice8279 It makes perfect sense, sorry you have no sense of irony
@@bornkinggamer3347 if it makes perfect sense then please walk me through it since I’m apparently so stupid, how is one tied down by freedom, which is by definition the complete opposite of being enslaved?
@@orangejuice8279 Uh, he's so obsessed with freedom that chasing after it took over everything else. Not that complicated man.
"which is by definition the complete opposite of being enslaved?"
Again, it's called irony
Congrats on finishing one of the most compelling stories in anime, when a show can make u so happy, mad, and sad at the same time u know it's because of excellent character development and writing
It was perfect. Perfect, everything down to the smallest detail. 😄😭
Not just anime in any media I feel like
@needum9212 agreed, can't remember the last time a book/movie/show/game made me feel so many emotions throughout the journey
@@majincaveman2709 even got my first tattoo ever of Levi cause of this show lol. But it’s easily my favorite show of all time up there with avatar the last airbender
I think Attack on Titan is one of the best modern stories. Period.
Everyone laughs whenever Zeke dies, but in the background of things, he also sacrificed himself.
Yes, he closed his eyes meaning he is ready for Levi to kill him.
Completely underrated character due to how he was introduced as a "bad guy". He had a good heart, was always trying to be a good brother, smarter than anyone gives him credit for, had an excellent story, and was also absolutely lethal as we saw in shiganshina in season 4.
Yeah. all he wanted from the beginning was free Eldia.
Zeke is an angel disguised in devil faces ( remember the lyrics of season 4 part 1)
Hey you know what, I think he ´s a great dude xd. But he was too traumatized to see things clearly.
The only thing that really made me cry in this episode was seeing Levi cry. He has held it in for so long. He was numb. Seeing Levi crying was a kick on my heart. The only person who lost everyone he cares and the only survivors to his comrades. Levi, the last man standing
And it was so satisfying that how perfect ending he got.
Like he gave meaning to his fallen comrades death . There life were not meaningless.
Levi is the goat 🐐
levi surviving kinda ruined the show for me, made it feel corny like there was too much plot armor.
@@rumfordcnah Bro, I am here only for Levi, I would stop watching the show if he didn’t survive
@@colombinnekang5466 that's fair, and that's presumably why Isayama chose to keep him alive over and over again, but it makes the titans a lot less threatening knowing they can pretty much all be killed by 1 human with enough plot armor
@@rumfordc I feel the same way about Levi, I love to see my favorite characters die in a show. But I understand that in these type of shows, the really big ones with such fanbase, things like that happen.
Levi is like Daryl in The Walking Dead, creators have to keep those type of characters alive and give them plot armor or else they'll be risking too much of their connection with the fans, they gave them such plot armor for so long that it comes to a point where it wouldn't even make sense to kill them anymore, there are greater things happening in the show that such death would just conflict and distract the fans from the main plot.
There's no way around it, if even Isayama couldn't find a way to kill that type of character I don't think anyone can, I'll believe in that until I find a show where it goes the other way.
Ymir couldn’t kill the king as she loved him but Mikasa killed Eren as she loved him. That would be the true love if who you loved is a devil. That is why Ymir needs Mikasa.
It's like a dichotomy of would you allow the "poison" of intense love to affect you or would you cut it away to preserve your morality and your more pure true self(your true self that's not evil, yet can still be selfish). Mikasa managed to do that, hence healed Ymir's "poison" damage to herself. Basically, "love hurts". Ahaha 😂
It was a hard time to live in. Ymir is so brain washed to serve lol
as a manga reader since 2013 I cried so hard at the ending of the manga, but watching this and then seeing “The End” instead of “To be Continued” absolutely destroyed me. Cried for a full 10-15 minutes after this episode aired/ended 😢
Did you cry because of Eren's whining?
@@wb6012 i bet you can’t even bite your hand and make it bleed. I can’t. Eren had to go through WAY worse than that. Bro can whine as much as he wants lmao.
@mk9beatz Not to mention, he was a 19 year old kid. He didn't even hit 20 years of age and yet had to burden the survival of ALL his people. He van whine and cry all he wants seeing as once again, he was still a kid and never made it to adulthood.
To you people who either wait for 7 month, 10 years, or 2000 years to reach the end of this show.... thank you! It's been a heck of journey. Don't be sad that it ends, rather be grateful that it happened. Sayonara, see you in the path
Not sayonara, itterasshai..
In ancient Eldia they also ran out of enemies, however they began to kill each other, genocide is not a solution, AOT is an anti-war message
They are not telling you that ending 100% is the solution, but that violence is a double-edged sword, as the background music even says and at the end also introducing "Get out of the forest" (sasha's father's philosophy) when it appears the boy and the dog.
Hallucigenia's powers were never really the problem, more how they used these powers to inflict wars, that child will bring times of peace with whatever power he desires.
AOT always stay My heart ❤
The whole Eldian restorationist motivation was built on Ymir building and creating - prospering lives. And yet they did also oppress the world.
Everyone in this show attempt peace through sharing and wisdom. But somewhere down the line military power takes hole.
You cannot have a free world because someone is always vying for power. But that doesn't mean it's impossible.
I draw a lesson from Eren on that. Those who push themselves into this hell do so because they see something beyond it. It could be hope, or just another hell. But we must keep advancing no matter what, pursuing this naive hope. Even if we can't get out of the forest, we gotta keep trying.
Just to clear this up. The scene with Eren and Mikasa at the cabin wasn't Mikasa's imagination but Eren using the remnants of the founding titan's power he had to create it for them. Not sure if it's canon but it's believed they lived out the 4 years Eren would have had if Mikasa confessed her romantic feeling for Eren under the moon there before she gained she resolve to kill him in real world. Mikasa knows Eren is in the mouth because he himself told her that while they were in that path created fantasy.
They say that the Founder cannot alter Ackerman memories, so it's still up for debate I would say
@@theguyinblue2It cannot erase their memory, but they can still meet in the Paths.
@@mrtruman4339exactly-it's all consistent if you take it that Eren periodically visited his friends in Paths then locked away their memories until his death, but that he lived out those 4 years with Mikasa in that instant right before she kills him. That's why she goes from not being able to do it directly to not only being able to do it, but knowing where he is, and replying to Eren's telling her to forget him with "I can't."
@@theguyinblue2 Alter here means Ackerman's memory can't be edit and erased.. but you still can bring them to the path which doesn't have a concept of time. Mikasa's headache could be means Eren trying to erase but he couldn't.
What a pleasure it was re-experiencing and rewatching my favorite anime with you ladies. Much love to you ladies and may your channel reach new heights.
7 months?? feels like you started this a month ago😭. time do flies!!
can't believe were here, y'all come so far, so glad to be part of your journey ❤❤
me too
Armin saves the world in the most Armin way possible: He almost gets himself killed, then calmly discusses philosophy with a secondary antagonist.
It's his ninja way.
This was the 16th time I watched aot, and it still makes me cry at the last scene. What a Masterpiece...
Same, absolute peak
Mikasa's constant headaches were from Ymir btw. She was trying to find out more about Mikasa since the two of them were so similar in having a loved one that they felt so bound to. And in the end when Mikasa was able to turn against Eren and kill him, despite loving him so much... that was the outcome that Ymir was looking for.
I wanna thank you two. You guys were without a doubt the best AoT reactor.
This show will always have a special place in my heart. It taught me to see things from others perspectives which, I think made me a better human. Now, for the last time, let's put our hands on our hearts and, Shinzou Sasageyo!
I'm glad you loved the ending. A lot of ppl missunderstand an ending you don't want with an ending you don't like/a bad ending. It's an amazing story with amazing characters, songs/voices, art direction, it's just great.
The general though on it is that even tho the cycle repeats itself, it seems to be more positive. The boy with the dog isn't chased by soldiers/dogs, his life isn't in danger and has a friendly dog with him. Adventuring in the forest. Ymir created her titan body & the paths to protect her from being hurt/die. The boy doesn't need to have that.
It's a positively cynical ending. Fit the show really well. What a masterpiece.
its really not great. afraid to commit to any actual ending so tried to have a bit of all of them.
@@rumfordc AoT has always been a multi-faceted story. Trying to commit to one ending would just feel weird and wouldn't match the type of story AoT is.
@@torreywilliams6154 faceted =/= themed
You girls did a fantastic job reacting, commenting and watching. You should both be proud of how much stuff you picked up on and understood many themes that a lot of people miss. It was a joy to rewatch the whole series with you. Once you've recovered emotionally, I would highly recommend rewatching the whole show. There is an absurd amount of foreshadowing and secret little things you don't catch the first time that are hidden. Especially the first two seasons.
As one of the original watchers of the show from 2013 this show was a huge part of my life remains my favorite show of all time. Having to wait a week between each episode was so painful sometimes I can't even begin to explain and don't even get me started on waiting for years between seasons. But it was all worth it in the end, greatest skydiving event of my life probably.
18:46 "it's not cool anymore"
Had me laughing haha
I've been there TT
SAME😂😂
I'm so glad you commented on armins look as he jumped, that single look is so alien on armins and it seriously struck me insanely deep, but it's not mentioned super often. He is NEVER angry and determined at the same time until that moment and it's fucking awesome
I'll never get over how pretty Mikasa looks from Eren's POV.. She really represented the beauty in Eren's cruel world..
Also Eren didn’t fully close his eyes until he got one more look of Mikasa.. He didn’t care about anything else in this moment but her.
She truly was the apple of his eye 😭💔
What an experience it's been. Thanks for letting us re-experience the show through your eyes.
Fun fact: the baby crying was the son of eren's voice actor, and the woman singing in the last song was mikasa's voice actor
Throwing the tissue after the credits sent me😂
Armin's scream fuckin' broke me.
Honestly the MVP of this episode, cast-wise, and it's an episode with a lot of great performances.
Never fails to make me cry
For the last few months, I have been watching AoT for the first time alongside your videos. I would literally watch an episode, then watch your reactions. And can I just say... what an amazing and wild ride this has been!!! I've absolutely loved this show from beginning to end and now I'm super sad that it has ended 😭😭😭😭😭
It's been such a pleasure enjoying the show with you 2! Thank you for all your amazing reactions and for letting me come along on this beautiful journey! 🥲❤
no matter how many times i've seen this show i would always cry, i cried with them during those emotional moments cause it hurts a lot 😭
This is such a beautiful journey with you two 🫶
10 years of a masterpiece and not a single second wasted. Eren made sure that everyone got somewhat of a positive outcome in the end. Mikasa got to see what life was like with her and Eren. Connie got his mom back. Eren went all Aladdin with Armin and showed him the world minus the magic carpet. And he made sure there were no titans left in the world like his brother Zeke wanted so they wouldn't be feared and hated at least for a while. Glad you two got to experience this masterpiece!
Just wanted to say it was great watching the show again with you two. Your insights and emotional clarity were the best AOT reactions I've ever seen. It's wild because I was sort of put off by the ending for a while but it clicked with you both instantly. It was a treat to see someone get it as it happened.
Armin line "Sayonara,Eren" still make me goosebump 🥶
Eren; Someone who deliberately chose options, not because they were the most intelligent, nor because he was not aware that they hid selfishness, but rather chose those that gave him the greatest satisfaction and filled his desire for "freedom", wanted to feel that placebo. because yes, this is the story of an impossible and unattainable freedom and how the discourse between saving his loved ones and his people is mixed in the deepest desires of a character.
Really i love it all episodes
Thank you ! Finally someone who doesn't reduce Eren to "I wanted to save my friends" (even if it's obviously one of the reason, but not the only One). I dont understand how some people still miss Eren dark motivations while he explicitly tells them to Armin.
And that's why people shoudn't hate on Eren not giving a clear response to "why doing the rumbling", because he is himself lost in the many reasons he arrived to this resolution. If you followed the anime, understood all the POV of each character's on Eren and Eren's monologues, you know all the facettes of Eren and thus, why he came to this horrible ending. 🙏
"Our role as the watchers is to chase that understanding" - one of your best quotes Kiss
“It’s a cycle. Never ending.” Yep. That is the show.
nah the show was good up until the ending
@@rumfordcyet here you are
@@gauthierkasongo180 yep it turns out you have to watch things to know they're bad
@@rumfordc so you watched 4 season of them reacting even tho you’ve watched the ending already and hated it? Lmao I’m sure it hurts to know you belong to the minority who didn’t like it
@@gauthierkasongo180 you still think popular = good, you poor child. and that's correct i watched their reactions in spite of the shows bad ending. i've also seen the ending twice on my own just so i could be sure its bad and I wasn't missing anything. i've also watched rewarites of the ending. imagine that, eh? its as if a bad ending doesn't make it a bad show, or a reaction to it a bad reaction.
“I’m afraid you’re mistaken if you think Paradis island will be safe after this. All you’re doing is shrinking your world. And then you will continue to kill one another within narrower walls”
- Kiyomi Azumabito, Ep#85
"Crush your enemy totally. Don’t go halfway with them or give them any options whatsoever. If you leave even one ember smoldering, it will eventually ignite. You can’t afford to be lenient." - Robert Greene
I would like to point out Isayamas writing prowess, the first ever page of AoTs manga shows the last thing Eren ever saw, Mikasa saying to Eren "'I'll see you later, Eren".
Even with Israel versus Palestine right now, war, hatred, resentment, revenge, racism, these things will always be a part of us. As long as there are two separate forces with opposing beliefs or goals, there will be war. Suffering. It is a cruel world. But the silver lining the show gives us is the baseball, or the leaf, or Mikasas scarf. It’s the little things that make the life worth living. Even with all the suffering that is inevitable. And those little things will always be attached to love. Aaron sacrificed himself for his love, so that Mikasa could live the remaining years she had left in peace without her freedom being stripped away. And as soon as she passes war begins. There’s obviously a lot more to his motivations/character, he is definitely one of the best well written protagonist/villains to any show that I’ve ever seen. The only character who literally wrote himself.
This sums up the show in a great way and the detail you pointed out about the baseball or lead is one I hadn't noticed so thank you. Btw, I think your autocorrect changed Eren to Aaron.
The end of an era. Man these girls are the best reactor i have ever know in my life. Love you sisters.
about narrating when Armin semi-died in season 3 ,there was no armin narration because he didn't know what happened back there is insan!
No way.... every time I think I'm done learning something new about the show....
Remember way back in Season 1 when Mikasa thought Erin had died? And she had the flashbacks, and then said to herself " I can't die because if I die then I won't be able to remember you at all ". That is exactly why Ymir stayed "alive" for 2000 thousand years. She was in love with Fritz and dying would mean letting go.
But ymir accepted death didn't she? that's why she did not recover from that spear I guess. Or maybe was it like...she thought she wanted to die and in the paths realized she still wanted to serve the king. I still can't really figure ir out, cos on one hand she gave up and died, and on the other hand she continued serving him
@@leonardoespinoza8930 Ymir was always watching Mikasa, peering into her life, thats what the headaches are. Ymir peers in to see the way Mikasa handles the undying love she has for Erin. In the end Ymir witnesses Mikasa make the greatest sacrifice and kill the one she loved , which in turn gives her the knowledge/perspective to realize she could let go of King Fritz the way Mikasa is letting go of Erin. And since Time and space are all at once in the paths, Ymir was able to go back in time and let Fritz die where she originally sacrificed herself for him. So in the end she accepted death, but for 2000 years she didn't want to let go. When she was laying on the ground after being speared and she "chose to die", the only reason she did this, is because she wanted Fritz love, but all he did was say " youre not dead my slave" making her realize that no matter what she does, he won't give her the love she wants, heartbroken, she decides to just give up. ANd that is when she is eaten by her children.
@@CanWeSmash Hmmmmmmmmm. That makes sense. It never was clear to me what she was expecting from Mikasa, and why she was bothering her before eren "unleashed" her, but considering the time in the paths, it makes a lot more sense. Thanks man
@@leonardoespinoza8930 I love sharing AOT stuff. I don't know everything, but the more you think about the story the more you start to uncover. Glad I could help a little at least
I'm Japanese.
It was really fun to spend the wonderful journey of AOT with you two.
I'm really grateful to Isayama Hjime, MAPPA, the voice actors, and all the people involved for creating such a historic anime.
Sorry for the Google translation...
translation was perfect👌
11:03 This is the moment that saved Reiner's life, his sanity and finally made him realize he's neither a soldier nor warrior but a scout
Such a beautiful scene.
Nah man, the only thing that saved his life to this point, is plot armor😂
@@tanzim.haque7 True... Plot armored titan Reiner.
Girls, at the end, we can listen for the first time, Eren and Mikasa singing together.
The baby saved has the voice of the baby from the original Japanese voice of Eren. Crazy too.
And tons of other things secrets just amazing in aot.
This show is just perfect in all the way.
Armin has been the story teller like a history teacher...
Fun fact, the end song "Nisennen... Moshiku wa... Nimannen Go no Kimi e" is sang by Mikasa's voice actress
54:02 about the sky diving moment. In life I feel we have many moments like this. I see it as a culmination of all your different moments so you have times to relate back to those experiences. Literally built standing on the shoulders of giants 😊
I started following when yall started watching! Can't believe it is over, but loved yalls reactions.
エンディングは、人がいる限り争いは続くという無慈悲な現実を突きつけると共に、それでも「森から出ようとし続け無ければならない」というメッセージが込められているだろう。
交番勤務の警察官が「これ以上世の中良くならないよ」と言いました。実際そうかもしれません。
でも世の中良くしようと思って行動してる人たちが沢山いるのに、あの言葉で彼らの思想や行動が否定されたように思います。
私はその警察官が言ったことに対して凄く怒りを覚えました。
48:15 Girl’s perception stats exceed Sung Jinwoo. This is a detail I got by reading the comments of a video after dozens of rewatches lol. Hats off. You’re brilliant.
首だけになったエレンを見たアルミンが泣き崩れるシーン、何度観ても涙が出てくる。ミカサとエレンの愛も大好きだし、アルミンとエレンの友情もすごくすごく好き。
Your discussion before watching the ending was spot on. You two are the best reactor of aot so far
Finally guys you reached the end. I never enjoyed watching reaction like that before!!! It is amazing to rewatch the show with you all these 7 month 😭💕
It’s been months since the ending, and I still cry every time I watch it😭😭😭
Thank you both for going into this Journey and sharing the beautiful experience with us.
With someone with so much pain and grief, we only saw Levi cry once in the entire series
Eren's eyes was closed when the rumbling begins for not seing the massacre that he did and when mikasa killed him he opened his eyes to see her for the last time
it has been less than a year when we completed aot but i still can't get over it SAD
Also the fact that eren did all this was purely because he wanted it, well it's not like he wanted genocide coz it's fun or anything but like armin said, when he introduced the book to eren when they were kids, it rose eren's curiosity, eren started thinking once they kill all the titans he'll be able to experience the outside world properly, but apparently after finding out that there are humans outside the walls, he was disappointed, coz it wasn't the world he imagined or saw in armin's books. This was one of the main reason why Eren wanted to do the rumbling and he has admitted in the show before that he was disappointed of the outside world.
エレンには、衝動とも言えるよう純粋な自由への渇望がありました。
始祖ユミルには、誰かを愛したい、誰かに愛されたいという渇望がありました。二人は極めて原始的で私的な欲求に囚われていました。
だから、地鳴らしを行っている間、ユミルとエレンは、ずっと子供の姿でした。エレンは、様々な理由から地鳴らしを決断しました。しかし、その理由の根源は、自身の渇望に抵抗出来なかった。それを自覚していたから、エレンは自分自身を「馬鹿」と評しました。
ジャンは、自身の個人的な幸福と生活の安定を捨てて、地鳴らしを止める決断をしました。
エルヴィンは、地下室にあった「世界の真実」を捨てて、獣の巨人に突撃しました。
ミカサは、最も愛した男を殺しました。
それらは、人間の持つ強さと弱さの美しい対比になっていると思います。
I interpret it as being largely involuntary and unconscious. He probably wouldn't have consciously chosen genocide, but the paths could tell that deep down what he truly wanted was for his friends to be safe and for there to be a big empty world for them to explore, and so that was the only possible future it ever showed him, leading him to think it was the only option.
it has been SUCH an amazing experience rewatching this with you guys!! your reactions, analysis, speculations, and everything were so enjoyable to watch!! can’t wait to see what you guys do next
The fact that the AOT ending says how the human cycle will continue because humans are destructive to themselves😭
There is an Attack On Titan Junior High series where they are like junior high students 🥹 for some nice "theyre not dead theyre actually imaginative school students
Yesss I want them to react for this series 😭
Oh, yes! I want a reaction here to this!
43:52 These ladies are so smart.....yes...this whole show was armin telling the story
Specifically, this is Armin's retelling of Mikasa's story from Eren's perspective.
Many people thinks that the ending was bad, but actually i think it wasnt bad at all. It was a FITTING ending for Attack on Titan because it is CONSISTENT with the original premise of the show = "To Get Rid Of All Titans From This World" = That is AoT's origin story. Even though it was changed to humans being the actual enemies but still at the end we did get rid of all titans as well.
The 2000 years history of Attack on Titan can be viewed as Founder's Ymir personal struggle to overcome her Stockholm Syndrome (A real mental struggle where the captors fell in love with the kidnappers). She knows she is supposed to hate King Fritz who burned down her village, killed her family, enslaved and torture her. But being born and living the life she had, she still yearned for love and unfortunately fell for the worst man possible. OVERSIMPLICATION yes but you get the main gist. She is struggling and wants to be free from her obsession.
About Eren, Ymir is the only one with the power to decide what happens with the Titan's power. Even in the episode "From you, 2000 years ago" Eren only prompted Ymir's to decide. However, like Eren said, he is powerless from this, as the Attack Titan he can see and experience the past, present and future all at the same time, he had tried to look for alternative solutions but the vision of the future just WOULD NOT change. (See Eren's convo with Armin) He didn't wanna go through with the Rumbling (His personal struggle and monologue in the previous movie) but he had very little choice, his only way is to move forward, he is A SLAVE OF FREEDOM.
Re: Eren blaming himself for directing Dina towards mom. What people need to understand is AoT's story is a fixed single timeline and cannot have TIME PARADOX. What happened has happened, THE PAST CANNOT CHANGE. Actually in that moment in time (mom gets eaten), Eren was neither the Attack Titan (Dad) nor Founding Titan(Freya). Future Eren can only speak to previous inheritors of Attack Titan (Dad) who was busy stealing Founding's power (He HAD to make his dad do it because that already happened, that is the only way he get founding powers and the only way he could see into the past). Future Eren couldn't do anything in a larger scale of things because it is a paradox. (If Eren asked dad to save his mom, mom didn't get eaten, Eren wouldn't become the Attack/Founding Titan and wouldn't see this memory and couldn't ask dad to save mom; It's a PARADOX; if he sees this memory then his mom has already been eaten), he is just watching it happen, powerless and can only blames himself. As Historia said: this is not Eren's choice, it's the consequence of everybody's action that caused the Rumbling. If the wall was never broken, mom never eaten, Eren never got Founding Power, Rumbling wouldn't happen. Imagine being Eren, you get to see all past, present and future at the same time but everything is set in stone, he can't change anything, he can only move forwards and see how the story plays out
About Mikasa, she is the real person Ymir was waiting for all these while because Ymir sees herself in Mikasa. The "Runaway story" is like Infinite Tsukiyomi, it is only a VISION/DREAM of a possible future, the viewer experience it fully but it never happened in reality nor there is another timeline. Mikasa was presented with 2 scenarios 1) Give up on saving humanity and runaway with Eren, but this way Ymir continue to be a slave to King Fritz, Titan power remains and continue to terrorize humanity 2) Refuse to give up on humanity and sacrifice her love (she can still love Eren nonetheless), and Ymir can finally be free of Fritz command and choose to remove Titan Power from this world. Mikasa was able to influence Ymir to make the decision to be free from King Fritz. Hence in Ymir's vision she chose not to protect King Fritz (this is only symbolism, the past didn't change, only showing the change of Ymir's heart, once again, THE PAST CANNOT CHANGE)
The whole conversation between Armin and Zeke is basically a discussion about nihilism thinking that basically says "what's the point of living if all things eventually die, why does anything matter if everything comes to an end/dies" To the fans who think "AoT's ending is meaningless because war and conflict continues anyway" -Your thinking is very much like Zeke - "what's the point of living if everyone dies? what's the point of peace if conflict perpetuate?" try to think of it this way - Zeke asked Armin "Why do you wanna go back to fight so much if everything's gonna die anyway? " and Armin/Isayama said to him "Every small moment and happiness in life is worth living, even though all good things come to an end" This is also why AoT and Isayama didn't choose to go with the EUTHANIZATION plan, because all lives born is free, there will be good things that happen to them, and we shouldn't take this away from them. MANY people missed this but THIS is also a BRILLIANT 4th wall break homage saying THANK YOU to the readers - "Even if AoT is about to end, every moment that we (Isayama and fans) shared together was WORTH IT"
The Ending/Conclusion of Attack on Titan is spoke through Levi's monologue = the sacrifice of the hearts of the scout regimen was to reach this place - "A WORLD WITHOUT TITAN". This brings the whole AoT story to a FULL CIRCLE. It might not feel satisfying for some but it is a SUITABLE Ending consistent and come back to its origin - "Getting Rid of Titans from this world". Isayama didn't set out to provide a solution for human conflict, what he did was only pointing out through Pixis and Erwin that "human conflict will never end until there's only 1 man remain." He emphasized it once again through the end credits shots - nor matter what happens, human conflict never ends. Even if the Rumbling was complete, Paradis will still fight a civil war, even if Paradis was wiped out, the human remain will continue fighting".
However to say this ending is MEANINGLESS was a misinterpretation, the whole discussion on the boat with Historia's letter is designed to specifically answer this - the scouts shall continue to fight in a world without titan, and they shall always fight for peace - Armin: "they will want to hear our story, how we used to fight as enemies have now come together to advocate for peace" This can be viewed as another 4th wall break talking about Attack On Titan, a story about conflict, about human cruelty, about war, about racism, despite EVERYTHING that happened, the ending comes down to both sides reconciling, advocating for peace and working for a better future.
Now for the end credits where we see paradis getting destryed eventually and people mistake it as it was all for nothing but its wrong, eren always knew that the cycle of hate, war and conflict would never end but his actions did bought a peace of atleast 500-1000 years (the buildings looks so futuristic) eren did achieve his goal that was so at least his friends and people on paradis that he knew get to live a long peacefull life and die a natural death by growing older. After a 1000 years modern war happened and paradis was destroyed. It shows that the conflict and war is a never ending cycle, even if eren killed all 100% of humanity except for eldians, conflict would arise between eldians. it is a never ending cycle, we also saw a person in the end who went inside the tree as in a theory that the cycle is reapeating again just like how ymir went in the tree. So long as humans exist in this world, there will always be war and hate. conflict will only end untill we're down to one or less human. That is the reality of our world.
I can understand if you can say it's not satisfying enough for everyone but there's 1000 Hamlets in 1000 people's eyes. It still doesn't takeaway all the GREAT PLOTWIST and BRILLIANT WRITING of ISAYAMA the GENIUS.
Im also really glad that you both were also able to understand this show's complexity, you both really are smarter than 99% of any other reaction channels i've ever watched. It was indeed a great journey with you guys. Also i'd say you two can also try Stiens Gate if you like or wanna know about time travel. Imo its the best anime out there about time travel but its underrated.
Thank you Isayama, Thank you Mappa and Wit, Thank you for all the staffs that worked on this MASTERPIECE. Just as Armin is glad to be born to race with Mikasa and Eren, and Zeke was glad to be born to play catch. I am glad I was born into this world to witness this Masterpiece.
Best comment ever. I usually skip the long comments but this one was amazing. And same. I’m glad I got to experience this masterpiece
@@ainaraastigarraga5797 yeah.. Me too.. Nice explanations right there..
it was the most sensible ending to the story. it was a perfect ending imo....very sad though
I feel the people who don't like the ending are in the minority and the message of the show completely went over their heads. Anything different would have been extremely out of character for the show and the development of said characters. There was never going to be a happy ending, that's not what life is. This is a story of a kid who never grew up and was handed the ultimate power and all he wanted to do was fulfil his selfish dreams of his concept of freedom. I have to wonder how many people who watched eren's butchering of the kidnapper didn't give a second thought to what his true nature was. Kid was not normal from the start.
It's not that Eren is "stuck" and cannot do anything other than "watch things play out". He is a slave of freedom not because he is controlled by some invisible force, but rather because he is obsessed with the idea of freedom and is ready to do anything to obtain it (even if that means destroying the world). The only outcome he sees is what HE wants. Deep down he wanted to destroy the world because his idea of freedom was filled with EMPTY beautiful landscapes and oceans.
I see a lot of people trying to find a "logic" to Eren's choice. But there isn't. Eren's decisions are based on his personality and mindset. There is nothing else to look at.
its been such wild ride with you two!!!!
You guys are some of the smartest people to have reacted to this show and i am really glad u were able to wrap your heads around( in one way or another) the overall message the show was trying to convey!
Thanks alot for watching the show and looking forward to JJK and other great reactions!!!
❤
That ending was a symbol of what no matter what people do the wars will never stop.
私は姉妹がティッシュ箱を地ならししてジークのようにモニターへ投げつけたシーンで笑ってしまった。
それはそれとして気持ちの整理ができたならもう一度この素晴らしい物語を1話から見返して欲しい。
あなたたちは考察がとても素晴らしいので、恐らくすべてのシーンがさらに鮮明に見えるはずです。
THAT'S RIGHT, GIRLS! We've all witnessed a cycle that repeats itself over and over and over and over again! And it's not at all certain that what we've seen is the first time in this cycle, who knows how many times it has happened before!
I’m glad I’m not the only one (even after seeing it like 20 times now) that can’t make it through this finale without crying like…the ENTIRE time 😅🥲🙂
I’ve watched this Season End to End multiple times by myself originally, with friends and with lots of ‘reactors’ on RUclips - your reaction series is one of the best I’ve seen, some great observations and rollercoaster of emotions on show 👍
Suggest you watch it back - off screen and appreciate like so many of us; just how brilliantly layered and plotted it really is.
It was really cool to follow you on this adventure, all your reactions were really great !
The bird that wrapped the scarf around Mikasa is the embodiment of wings of freedom.
Congrats on finishing this, what a wild ride and it's been a pleasure following along! If you can believe it you both have been some of the most understanding reactors, you caught so many key details early on and got a few predictions correct.
Even after watching a decent number of people react to this, I always shed a tear at watching Levi (my goat) saying his final goodbye to his fallen comrades. They truly gave their hearts.
This is the greatest piece of fiction ever..... Both live action and anime.... The highs I experienced from this show will never be topped, it's downward from here.....
Probably the best show ever. Anyway don't be upset at the ending. Yes, that is the same tree Ymir fell in, and probably the hallucigenia is still growing in that tree, but that doesn't mean that the mysterious boy in the end will bring back titans, the power of the hallucigenia is not to create titans, is to create life. So even if the cicle repeat, and humans will never learn to be at peace, there's still hope for changing. Loved your reactions, you earned a new sub for life. Thank you girls. Shinzou wo sasageyo! 🤛
I have to say this has been the best reaction to AoT I have seen and I have seen a lot. I have thoroughly enjoyed your reaction since Season 1 Episode 1 and have not missed any of your videos every time you guys dropped a new one. This last video just recaptures everything I have felt when I watched the Finale the first time. Kudos to you guys for enjoying the show as much as I did.
You must fight! If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you don't fight, you can't win! My favorite dialogue from the show 🫡🫡😢
it was a real pleasure following you two and your journey with one of the GOATs of anime
I have to say, I think i enjoyed the last episode even more seeing it through your eyes than my own. You are both so sharp at picking up details, and also so tuned in emotionally. Have loved this whole video series, thank you!
You went through every kind of upset on this episode, just as Eren foresaw. Really amazing writing, perfect ending.
80% of humanity being gone and titans being gone seems like it actually evened the odds between rival countries, so there was more peace for future generations, as shown in the time lapse in the credits.
I randomly found you guys when you first started reacting to aot all the way back in december. Thank you two for reacting to one of my favorite series of all time, it's been an absolute blast.
I finished watching the last season of Attack on Titan a week ago, but I've been rewatching every season with you guys. I cried the first time I watched it, and I cried again with you guys. I really miss Eren and Mikasa a lot. I also regularly watch your reactions and I'm up-to-date on One Piece, but watching it again with you guys feels amazing. Thank you for reacting to this amazing show. It feels like I'm watching it with someone when I watch your reactions❤
Fun fact: the name of our pilot "Onyankopon" means God, from the Akan dialete of the Ashanti empire.
Isayama's idea of the Eldian race(subjects of Ymir) is diverse touching all continents of the world.
We are all Subjects of Ymir, and this is our tragic evolving story.
Eren showed Mikasa alternate memories of his remaining 4 years living with her that's why she was getting severe headache due to overflow of memories. He showed that he would have died anyway after 4 years due to the curse of Ymir. And Mikasa, experiencing all those years, and watching him die, actually was the point where she was able to finally accept Eren's death and hence able to kill him in the actual timeline.
mikasa always got headaches cuz ymir was peeking through her memories
@JustinasPopovas So Ymir can peek through the memories that we saw in the cabins as well as the entire memories. We all know Eren gave memories to his friends. He fulfilled Armin's wish to explore the lands outside walls. He also gave Mikasa 4 years of his remaining time. That's why in the cabins, Eren says that this is all that she asked for, and Mikasa nods.
@@mohidahmed4739so I believe ymir knows all of the future till the point of eren's death?
45:52 - I get chills every time I hear that chorus fading out as the boy finds the tree. For me it conveys so much. The mystery of what might happen or the ominous telling of the future. It's both beautiful and haunting . I love it!
諫山先生はまだ30代。
彼はデビュー作にしてこれほど超大作を作ってしまった。諫山先生が再び漫画を描いてくれることを願う日々だ😌🙏🌠
1:50 Kiss predicting the "slave to freedom" line before even starting the episode 🔥 these ladies understood the story so well
i found your channel 4 days ago i binged your attack on titan reaction , i enjoyed it so much im so happy i didn’t have to wait for you guys to upload them 😭
im definitely subbing for jjk
It's been an honor taking this journey with you. Thanks.
That said, should have picked Frieren instead of JJK!
I knew you guys were good reactors but never expected you would become my favorite. Thanks for the journey. Waiting for more to come.
the female singing at the end with mikasa is mikasa voice actor.
It was an incredible adventure. Thank you so much for some of the best reactions.
お疲れ様でした。AOTは今の混沌とした人間の歴史の作品です。
「歴史は繰り返す」このアニメは現代の人間の姿を如実に再現しているかもしれません。昨日トランプ元大統領が銃撃されましたが、銃撃後のトランプの「Fight、Fight、Fight」という言葉がエレン言葉と重なってしまいました。
皆様が生きるこれからの世界が、平和であるように願ってやみません。