@@ZombieManF Well yeah that makes sense. But tbh it's very subjective anyways, at this point if Eren was like "I am your Father" to Armin slicing him the Hand of and throwing him back to his weirdly hairy Man-Bear-Pig I wouldnt even be surprised, because for me personally the scene with Grisha, Eren and Zeke was so impactful for me, that there is probably nothing else in this series that could shake me that hard.
Yeah its one of those things that cements that the attackers are not natives to the walls, even if some of them are infiltrated already. Although along with the suspected language barrier Zeke mentioning he is unfamiliar with the ODM gear also suggests a technological difference, which can also hint at a time difference. It seems like a lot of people thought this meant that the Beast Titan was some ancient being from the past that must've awoken to see the ODM as futuristic tech, but we then go on to learn that its quite the opposite and he finds the gear fascinating because outside Paradis that type of tech makes no sense to exist since the tech development in the rest of the world hasnt been stifled and they have more types of enemies than just titans, which leads to a lot more focus on cannons, guns, tanks, ships, airships, planes etc.
I started watching this show at around 17 and would play a lot of open world games… I was thinking I was watching an anime of a post apocalyptic world covered in titans but a few settlements of humans still out there fighting for mankind. The shocking truth was a whole lot better than my own little theories.
@@Qprah Well it's more so just the insanity that a whole difference BRANCH of tech evolved based on needs....kind of like "what if we reset people to 185 years ago but then fucked with them by creating issues and using tech they couldn't possible have imagined back then?" Shows the resilience that humans have as well, totally insane!
It really says something about how powerful Levi is that his first encounter with Zeke he sliced him up and had him dead to rights as well as traumatized whereas humanity’s SECOND strongest soldier was paralyzed with fear and couldn’t even take down the pure titans.
@@lukaslambs5780he’s literally an Ackerman , the comparison is not even close . Levi is carried by his genetics and frankly is a class of his own. He ain’t even human so of course he’s not gonna have the same reaction. Mike reached his breaking point
what I remember was people complaining that a "talking titan" ruined the show for them, probably the same people who say that about the ending lol one of the most painful aot related comments I've read was "I got disinterested as soon as the writer ruined his own story by introducing talking titans. Never watched past that season"
Miche's death will forever be the most horrible scene in all of AOT for me. That scene haunted me for a while. It is just done brilliantly and the way Zeke is introduced is perfect. Funny how he was so scary back then and now it's just monke who gets sliced by the captain
I remember thinking Zeke was some sort of God, and that all the people and titans were playthings in his sandbox. Especially with his ability to seemingly freeze titans in place. It was too much for my brain to fathom
I love it when you basically think what the characters would think in universe in stories. I thought he was the king of titans and turned a bunch of other animals into them as well as humans. The only reason there were so many humans were because he turned the whole island population into titans and the remaining ones who didn't change built the walls This series is amazing. It makes you think.
@@redmatzoo3280 Was jaw-droppingly profound. Maybe I got overfixated but watching the whole first three seasons in a row to start was some of the most mind-bending storytelling ever brought to my attention
@@redmatzoo3280 I thought the beast titan was some mystical ancient being and pure titans the revenge of nature on humanity because of nature's destruction. Why? Pure titans don't touch animals, the beast titan speaks maybe some titan/nature language & the intro scene with the beast titan together with animals trampling over humans. Quite unlike the reality
My initial theory after Miche's death and during the ED was that humanity made a blood pact of sorts with creatures that lived in the sea. There's a lot of imagery involving titan's coming from the ocean. That, at the time, lead me to believe humanity broke some kind of promise, and was being annihilated for breaking said promise or starting a war. I was under the impression that the Beast (at the time I called him Bigfoot titan) was merely an agent, acting on behalf of the Titan's that humanity broke its deal with. Needless to say I was very wrong on that prediction! Though the "blood pact" turned out to have some, rather horrifying truth to it.
@@htg98We never saw him fight another titan shifter but during the first half of season 3 when Zeke Reiner and Bert return to Shinganshina we were shown the aftermath of him beating Reiner one on one in a titan fight so he can't be that useless, we only saw him fight Levi
28:55 people saving a baby from the titans turned out to be a scene at the very end of the anime! absolutely crazy how Isayama made EVERYTHING matter in this ED
Yess the wait was insane. 😂I watched it right as it was released back in 2013 when I was like 11 hahah! Stopped watching anime in 2015. So I completely forgot about AOT. Just got back to watching anime this year. I had to rewatch season 1 and binge watch the rest after 10 years at 21 ! We all so grown now aww
I love the way Zekes titan crouches and the trees just sway back from the force of it yet he looks at Mike with a weirdly serene, kind expression. The contrast is just the perfect mix to make the whole thing insanely tense and unnerving
@@BrotherCaptain36 The shonen fanboys that were denied their sophomoric, adolescent power fantasies are still relentless years later. It's like you go out of your way to stick things up your rear to remain eternally butthurt.
I really wish we wouldve gotten more Miche before he got yeeted, he was canonically at the time the 2nd strongest soldier behind Levi, im sure Mikasa has long since passed him but the shock and terror of what he was witnessing, the unknown terror of being isolated with an intelligent titan was his downfall.
Not just an intelligent Titan since he knows those exist, but a Titan who can communicate. A commander of Titans, a demigod whose wrath might know no bounds.
I remember my jaw dropping the entire scene when Zeke first appeared because I just wasn’t expecting a TITAN to talk and just try to have a curious conversation with a Human back then. Crazy stuff man.
I even quit watching AOT after Zeke appeared. My friend got me into it again, and I watched from beginning to the end. He said, watch it, you will never know who is that titan. I am so happy that I watched AOT till the end.
This wasn't anything that special if you watched the OVAs for Season 1. There's a talking Aberrant in one of them. Perhaps it would've been better if they released that OVA later.
19:02 it’s interesting that you had a different take on this scene! I actually thought that Reiner was having a dissociative episode where he saw himself as a soldier and wanted to genuinely help Connie. When Reiner turned to Bertholdt, the fear Bertholdt had on his face was “oh shit, Reiner is playing ‘soldier’ again.”
I want to add something. Zeke grew up hearing his father's grief and rage about how Faye was killed as dogs torn her apart. Then Zeke goes to paradise, meets Mike and basically simulates that situation once again by feeding Mike to Titans who torn him apart. What a f'ed up thing to do. (Some people argue Zeke is really not a bad person, just have a different ideology. Bro he's f'ed up in the mind!)
EXACTLY! Zeke is a piece of crap and has been since he was a kid. He resents his father for being upset about his own aunty. Then proceeds to say he cares about Eren. I really do not like him.
@@thrilla72 he hates his father for ruining his childhood to make him a tool of war for his own personal revenge ambition. The irony is, as soon as Zeke found his own reason, he became the tool of war despite his entire childhood trauma. And the fact that he cares about Eren cause he thinks he's also a victim of Grisha is actually true. He kind of feels a sense of duty to rescue Eren from any brainwashing Grisha may have done.
@@thrilla72 zeke is a horrible person, but it was on grisha to just suck it the fuck up. zeke had nothing to do with happened to grisha's sister. he was an innocent child, and grisha treated him like complete shit, and was actively risking zeke's life (and his own parent's lives) by being involved with the restorationists. and in the end, grisha did walk away from that pain. he ended up in paradis, he got a new a family, and he learned from his past mistakes. it was too late to change anything for zeke, but it still shows that he knows what he did was wrong. everything that zeke became is nearly solely grisha's fault.
@@erikkemeey9144 Did I say Grisha was without fault? No, but to say he cares about Eren then at least as an adult he should understand what his Dad went through. Even then before Zeke knew about his Aunt, he looked down on Eldians and carried that same pompous attitude until the end. Had he only attacked his Dad, I could accept your point but look at how he killed Miche and the scouts
I’d never considered the parallel between Reiner leading Cornie to slaughter and Cornie leading Falco to slaughter in season 4. Brilliant story telling
I also think that the "second to Levi" dialogue is meant to make you feel hopeless, since the second strongest soldier has been wiped out esencially as a fly. Btw, absolute peak quality in this videos (:
One of the most intriguing moments was when Ymir reads the label of the Herring can while Reiner couldn’t due to being a different alphabet from what Paradis use. Not to mention that if Reiner was actually from Paradis he should have no idea what Herring is because they never saw the ocean. The ocean was just a myth as far as they were concerned.
The part where they hold up the baby happens in the Manga, a baby basically crowd surfing while the crowd of people between the rumbling and cliff gets smaller and smaller, people being trampled or falling over the ledge
I think its a reference to that iconic image from the Manga, although I believe this series of videos focuses mostly on the Anime, and only shows Manga points in reference to things shown in the Anime first. So its possible if this video was made after the 2nd half of S4P3 was released that would be added in. I'm almost certain that scene with the baby being held above the crowd on the cliff edge is going to be one of the opening scenes in the 2nd half (along side Historia giving birth)
@@Qprah true, I love how they adapted the rumbling in the anime, people on fire, fighting eachother, killing themselves, I just noticed the symbolism and I don't think he read the Manga, this episode came out before that bit of the manga was out, so I just think it's interesting
I still can't get over the season 2 ending spoiling so much stuff BEFORE IT WAS EVEN SHOWN IN THE MANGA. I remember watching that shit in the final season then going back to the season 2 ending in utter disbelief. It's just so fucking crazy to me and really shows that Isayama meant it when he said he's had the whole story planned from the beginning.
Before Levi joined, Miche was the strongest soldier the island had. Tragic how he got killed too early in the story in the most gruesome way. At least we have the OVAs and got a lesson from his way of exiting. EDIT: Remove the Ackermans since they are basically cheat codes.
@@pdpgb Before Levi joined, Kenny was the king's personal assassin, not an MP. Which, talk about hypocrisy. "Hello neices and nephews, I hired an assassin to silence the people the rule!" "Then are going to do anything about the Titans outside the Walls? Maybe turn them back into humans?" "No, because it would violate my Vow Renouncing War." "Isn't hiring a state assassin waging war on your own people?" "This conversation is getting boring, _memory erase!"_
Quick correction, the state of technology we see in the walls is very much what we would call "Early Modern", they are a pre-industrial society but are well developed, tough we do not see steam engines we do see rail tracks for the cannons, guns, and a lot of equipment such as the ODM gear that need high quality steel and precision forging and engineering. They are a good few hundred years past the end of the middle ages using our own historical timescale.
Sorry for the super late reply! Just a thought process, but maybe ODM hear was built off of previous tech that was locked away by the government of paradis?? Kindve like the thunder spears, hange clearly says that they’ve had these, but they were just recently cleared for use… so maybe they had basic propellant tech, and were able to build off of what they had before the government hid/destroyed all public knowledge of said tech
@@cambarnes8941 there is a spinoff manga about the creation of the ODM gear, written by other people it's quite chaotic, but it was in good part an actual engineering effort done in a place that this manga calls the "industrial city", so there's some decent amount of industrialisation within the walls, in some areas
It's easy to look at the ending as a spoiler in retrospect but at the time it's not like anything was actually spoiled for a anime only viewer. The narrative was that titans wiped out humanity outside the walls so all those shots of different civilizations getting eaten by titans could have simply been depicting that. The people migrating to the walls also makes perfect sense with what we already knew. The biggest spoiler is maybe Ymir's children eating her body which is how titan powers are passed over. And maybe that there are 9 titans if you overanalyze it. But there's also stuff like the Ymir making a deal with the devil which is depicting the Marley story, not what actually happened. The ending just gives you lots of stuff to think about. There is no way anybody's piecing together the entire story because of that ending. Just no shot. Speaking of, the OP shot of the Beast titan running with the whales and dinosaurs sparked all sorts of wild theories back in the day which all ended up being false because the shot was purely symbolic. Probably as simple as: "It's the beast titan so put him running next to other beasts". So even if you magically guessed the story based on the ED it would still be a wild theory until confirmed. No way of knowing otherwise.
Exactly. It's fun to overanalyze things and Korotos doesn't ever say he believes they actually did do it intentionally - he admits a lot of his overanalysis is a reach, but it's really annoying how he has never once admitted where the Manga is even at by the time these episodes were coming out. Like I SINCERELY doubt the writer told the animators the full season 4 story or ending lol. For reference, by the time this episode came out, they had no made it to the sea yet. 💀
it was a mind blown moment when that flashback chapter came out while doing a re-watch. everytime i went back with more knowledge, i would pick out a lot of little details, but that ending was crazy how it literally spells it out and i pretty much glossed over it.
I'm an anime only watcher and I remember replaying the second ending over and over again and analyzing every single detail I could. It didn't spoil anything for me. It only made me more intrigued. The story that I pieced together in my head at the time was that a human made a deal with the Devil, took a bite of a forbidden fruit, and turned into a Titan (sort of true). I also correctly guessed that after she died, her body was eaten by some other people to pass on the "Titan genes." But the shot of the Titans seemingly coming out of the ground misled me. I presumed that Titans were somehow born out of the earth. I also thought the Titans would wind up being Nephilim, the half-human and half-fallen angels depicted in the freaking Bible. Yes, seriously. But for real though, those ending credits were the best part of AoT. The music was so creepy. The way the art style mimicked the styles of Medieval to Renaissance to Victorian to Early Modern made the viewer know that this story was at least 700 or 800 years old. And just enough plot details to not spoil the story but to keep the viewer (like I did) trying to piece together an incomplete puzzle. Whoever designed that ending deserves a fucking medal. It's the most brilliant part of AoT.
@@TheGuzeinbuick I always thought the demon part was symbolic but I did piece together that eating humans must be what makes titan shifters. Probably not regular ones either since mindless titans do that all the time without becoming human. On that note a much bigger spoiler was Ymir's backstory being moved to here instead of when Historia read Ymir's letter like in the manga. Spoiled a lot of the situation in Marley and confirmed a very advanced nation outside the walls. We just didn't know the entire world outside Paradis was like that. I did speculate it once mostly as a "Wouldn't that be crazy?" scenario but it ended up being true. Other well positioned or walled nations existing seemed more likely at the time.
@@Sweetdude64 Late reply and probably source trust me bro moment, but I heard that Isayama actually worked/consulted with the anime studio during production. And by doing that, it includes getting ideas on how to continue the story. I think that was pretty cool
the beast titan's introduction was executed so splendidly and terrifying, truly one of the most provoking sequences. It's the show's way of saying "you thought season 1 left you with questions? That was just the beginning. You know absolutely nothing yet. Be afraid."
I recall on release thinking the beast titan was a 3rd party that created/controlled the wandering titans. Everything about the beast was so different from the viewer's perspective that it couldnt possibly have the same goals as the other titan shifters. At that time aliens, zombie(titan version) apocalypse, or other such things were still possibilities for how the plot had occurred. Even if Reiner's group were captured by the beast and forced into breaking the wall, it still perfectly fit the established story we had available at the time.
1. The statue at the beginning has crown made of roses, so it means that Wall Rose fell/break down. 2. In the opening there is a few second shoot (just before epic left-of of the scouts from the walls) showing "main" part od Survey Corps from side profile: Levi, Hange, Erwin, Mikasa, Eren, Armin, Jean, Sasha and Connie - Historia, Ymir, Berthold and Reiner are missing from this shoot, wondering why 🤔🙃
I actually don’t think the ending is talking about the present, it’s more of a recap of all of Eldian history until the creation of the walls, plus the very last shot of the bird which is the only future thing. Obviously the theme of history repeating itself is alluded to here, so I guess it counts too
I think the coastal village shown in the ending is a marleyan territory attacked by eldians long ago because later when we watched Grisha's life it's shown that his parents used that attack as an excuse to plant some self hatred as eldians in him
28:56 This also foreshadows what happens during the rumbling- when the people are being forced over a cliff by the advancing Wall Titans but collectively try to protect a baby from falling
18:00 Mike's super sense of smell is a little odd, but Sasha also has extremely good hearing and notices distant noises before other characters, so it's not completely out of left field.
The beast titan reveal is just another example of how good this series is at doing the whole answer your question while giving you several more strategy.
The flaming heart burning inside them actually is trying to help you connect the dots that it’s the same heart inside the armored Titan and so one of the scouts must be the armored Titan.
I am curious if you guys plan to cover the OVA's and if so are you planning to drop them into the release order in the time they were released or the time they were intended to watch? (Ilse's Notebook in early season 2 for connected references to Ymir and Hange, No Regrets P1&2 after season 1 but before season 3 part 1 for connected references to Levi and Erwin etc etc) I absolutely LOVE this series. Your style of video + editing + explanation + thinking are just perfect for unpacking how many layers deep AoT can get from moment to moment. Having a single channel that covers basically every detail of each episode so as to give us a near conclusive source of all the tiny interesting details and (more importantly imo) why so many aspects of the Anime/Manga work in subtle yet very intentional ways, is just such an amazing gift to the fan base. As usual the work of your team is second to none. No praise given could be high enough to match what you guys deserve. Thank you in advance for this series, I can only pray I get to see you make it all the way to the end of Season 4 Part 3 Final Chapters and the series conclusion.
I gotta comment. This is my favorite RUclips series in a long time. I like you other stuff but the way you go IN for this show (and TWD) is just so enjoyable. Keep it up man!!! ❤
The chess scene was probably bertholt and reiner talking to each other about what to do, without getting suspicious. they know scouts are on to them and their time is running out, but also they have more time, since if scouts knew who exactly they were, they'd be dead or getting interrogated.
7:26 I am surprised you did not mention how in the opening shows the Colossal titan's transformation releasing a massive amount of energy like it was hinted to in the first episode and would later do like 20 episodes later in the battle that happens in Shiganshina. In the anime this was not an ability that the Scouts nor the Watcher knew about however in the Manga the chapter when Bertolt vaporizes the scouts attacking Reiner released about a year before season 2 premiered. As you mentioned the actual capabilities of the Colossal titan is something made very inconsistent in part because the writer themselves was likely unsure about how what the colossal titan could and could not do (Example: Disappearing almost instantaneously) however WIT decided to showcase this specific attribute of the Colossal titan to make it less jarring to the watcher.
The Colossal didn't disappear instantly. Bertholdt started breaking down his body the instant Eren struck him. Plus Eren didn't pay attention to what was directly beneath or behind him
I always saw that statue of mother and child in the intro as symbolic of Carla and Eren, and how Eren's loss of her was his whole initial motivation to fight.
I've been waiting for this video to drop for so long. This was the episode that made me realise how good aot is and it's been my favorite anime ever since Also great video as always
7:34 Also for manga readers, when the rumbling is occurring we see a group of people on the edge of land before a cliff drop into water. These people were passing along a baby from one to another in hopes of keeping the baby safe. Therefore, I guess this imagery of the baby hand in another adult hand then being burned away form the season 2 opening, could also symbolize that.
I remember watching this episode during a marathon of season 2 back on Toonami. Zeke's introduction, plus the subsequent episodes of world being turned upside down was such an emotional roller coaster for me.
Around like 29:00 maybe a little after, you mention the person holding the baby up with a whole bunch of people around, I’m pretty sure that’s from the Special Episode when the Rumbling is happening they cut to a shot of a mother holding up her child above the crowd in hopes it’ll be saved.
Or maybe, centuries ago , these people were trying to save a baby from the apocalypse even when they were dying themselves, just like the one in rumbling! Even in a world full of cruelty, there is still beauty in the form of kindness ; it always has been this way .
8:13 I always took this part as 'the previous beast titans' as theyre all marching with Zeke in his heart. Because each beast titan took a different form, right? So I somehow pictured them all being the previous owners of the beast titan.
@@wmandthings if Marley had the whale Titan during the war with Mid- East , they would've won the naval war in an instant. The whale is useless only on land .
I remember the first time I watched this episode, and when Zeke mentions the idea of speaking the same language,it blew my mind. I love languages, I hope to be if not a linguist, some kind of historian, and I liked to think about how humanity being almost entirely wiped out culturally impacted the remaining "human language." But that single line blew it all into oblivion. Other titan people, who said that they speak the same language must mean there are different languages, and more people that speak them! My theory was quite different from the actual lore, but I honestly feel a little proud at how "close" to the mark I was ultimately. I thought the walls were somewhere on the Island of Britain, and when the Titans appeared, any continental Europeans (and by coincidence, traveling merchants from all over the world such as Asia) fled to the Isle, which would explain why French names, German names, Polish names and English names were all cramped together in the same vaguely Germanic environment, and any remaining people on the continent would have lost all contact with those In the Isle because their way of life would no longer suit long term outside exposure to travel. But all the same, it's so surprising just how much the plot revealed itself as we were all trying to figure it out beforehand.
Man, that scene between Miche and Zeke is one of the craziest to me to this day. Like, we're finally properly introduced to this veteran soldier and learn that he is literally the strongest they have after Levi, which is an insane title to have already. And it's like, oh hell yeah, we get to see this guy in action now! And then this new titan appears and Miche gets absolutely nuked within minutes. The second strongest soldier wiped out just like that. It goes back to this ping pong between hope and despair that the show is just so good at- We ended season 1 with gaining a titan shifter to fight, beating & capturing another titan shifter, while also being on a good track to luring out the other mole and generally discovering more about the titans and the world. Despite all the uncertainties, things seem like they might turn in paradis' favor. But then Zeke appears and you're brought right back down to earth with the crushing realization that even the strongest of soldiers don't actually stand a chance against this enemy they're up against. Like, if the second best they have is killed just like that, who the hell is supposed to fight this thing?! Well, the obvious answer would be Levi, which is exactly what will happen in the coming seasons, but this setup at the very start of season 2 already is so insane, especially when you consider that they don't even fight him again until halfway into season 3. All the first appearances of titan shifters have been insane so far, but this one might just be my favorite because they have made all that progress in season one yet the Beast's appearance awakes a feeling of hopelessness not unlike the Colossal's first appearance(s). Just beautiful. Edit: Oh, also. Him being introduced so early yet us only getting glimpses of him until season 3 gives him that "final boss" feeling you previously had with the Colossal. Of course, the Colossal ends up being far from the final boss, but with Eren and Zeke essentially being the last of the Nine that the main squad are now hunting down...he is at least KIND of the final boss. Love that.
At 16:50 I like to think that Reiners face is like that because this is the beginning of us seeing how he can't keep his two worlds straight and he is genuinely confused and worried as a soldier, not remembering he is first and foremost a warrior.
Zeke running with those animals just tell us the different types of version a Beast Titans can have, in zeke’s case the monkey was his favorite animal as a kid
Love your videos. They remind me of more than 25 years when we were going frame by frame on a VHS overanalysing the opening of Evangelion and looking for meaning, details, religious symbols and everything in between.
I like to think that canoncially whenever eren mentally went back in time, his child brain can't process it so he takes a lot of naps which is the real reason for the naps and not just lots of fights and healing.
season 2 really started with a bang revealing Zeke and how terrifying he is and how much he knew already. It’s crazy to think how maybe if miche actually did fight those last titans he may have been able to get away but that is himdsight and I’d also be shit scared in his situation despite how strong he was and for zeke to unknowingly killing one humanity’s finest the moment he arrives on screen is crazy I remember reading it in the manga then seeing it in the first episode and being quite surprised but it’s a great way to introduce zeke. What an opening from the song to the visuals perfectly showing off each character my favourite part of it has to be either all the scouts jumping from the walls or mikasa throwing eren into him transforming absolutely perfect. Thank you for another brilliant analysis great work as always korotos 👏👏👏
Calling foreshadowing "spoiling" is a little weird, but it's true that rewatching AOT leads to a lot of these moments. You start noticing huge clues about the mysteries of the world that you'd never noticed on first viewing. The biggest one for me is when Shadis is telling everyone that Grisha just "showed up outside the wall with no memories". And despite all the clues, I was still EXTREMELY SHOCKED at the basement reveal. That's still the biggest/craziest reveal in any story ever for me
Rewatching with my girlfriend who hasn’t seen it and it’s amazing seeing the foreshadowing, she is determined to predict all the twists and turns but as smart as she is, there’s no way she’ll predict some of the wild stuff down the road!
I already can't wait for u to finish this. Cuz i "re-discovered" a lots of infos i had and never really understood them. Then when the anime will be done, i'll finally read the manga and light novel to get all this epic infos.
16:00 Maybe the ever changing chess board symbolizes the fact that the pair’s plan keeps changing because of the new factors they have to consider(I.E. Eren and Ymir both being shifters, Annie being captured, Reiner almost dying twice, etc)
8:42 I was thinking that maybe this visual from the season 2 opening could be representative of the origin of the Titan powers. Eren Krueger says that Ymir Fritz got the Titan powers by getting in contact with the source of all organic material, and we later see that when Ymir was getting chased down by the Eldian king's soldiers, she falls into some lake in a tree stump, and gets this hallucigenia creature attached to her spine giving rise to the Titan powers. That hallucigenia is perhaps the source of all (or most) organic material. Anyway, this scene in the opening shows the glowing heart of Zeke's Beast Titan, and other creatures hearts glowing and all are charging in pace with each other going forward. This creates an association or link/connection between the Beast Titan and other creatures (prehistoric and modern). The Beast Titan could be representative of the Titan powers, and the other animals charging with Zeke here, are representative of the creatures from past and present. Notice that all of these creatures came after the Cambrian explosion. The Cambrian explosion occurred like 530 million years ago, and is like a "biological big bang" where there was a rapid development of unique multicellular biological creatures. The Hallucigenia is a creature from this Cambrian explosion time period. However, eventually these creatures did kind of go extinct, but some of them went onto evolve into newer species. The point is that it was after these creatures of the Cambrian explosion that all other creatures from the dinosaurs, ice age, and modern day animals came to existence. Therefore once could say that the Cambrian explosion gave rise to or led to all other creatures that ever existed after 500 million years ago. Therefore, in the context of Attack on Titan, one could say that the hallucigenia creature that attached to Ymir giving rise to titan powers, also gave rise to all the animals (dinosaurs, ice age, modern day) that existed, since this hallucigenia existed before any of those animals. Therefore the hallucigenia could be considered as "the source of all organic material" as after this creature all other animals came to existence and so did the titan powers. Therefore, the visual where the Beast Titan and the other animals are charging forward in same pace, with all of their glowing hearts could represent a connection between all animals and the Titan powers, in the sense that they are connected/related, because they all originated from the hallucigenia from the Cambrian explosion. This creature that existed before any of these creatures or Titan powers. Then again I'm probably being stupid, and just overanalyszing.
Thank you for making these videos. I actually thought Isayama was just making a generic shonen all those years ago, so this is so much fun to look back on!
30:53 omg same. I don't feel so alone now! Years ago I went into AoT completely blind having somehow evaded all spoilers when season 3 had just ended.. so I was already mind blown and on edge after binge watching that far, that ending song hit and I was so creeped out.
That ending was creepy AF omg Even more when I realized it was English. 30:57 aaaaand it just got creepier. If it's the words of Ymir... it's even more creepy.
I do believe the ED is an expression of Ymir's voice. Btw, in the ED I believe the giant at the sea shore depicts Armin marching as the colossal during the Eren-triggered Eldian attack on Marley. This idea, though, owes to the very brilliant overanalyzing here.
I also like the way the first time we see the beast titan, his dialogue can be interpreted in two ways Since like, back then we had no idea about anything about what it was outside the walls, and only barely understood what titan shifters were. So, we suddenly see a intelligent, speaking titan. With the way he talks about ODM gear and whatnot, I imagined when I first saw it that he was a pure titan, just one with intelligence, who was curious about ODM gear. This (incorrect) observation of a non-shifter titan being able to communicate would later be aided by the fact we see Titans talking later on to a small degree. It's funny how, when we were initially reading the story, the walls really felt like the whole world, that we just like the characters couldn't imagine people or societies living outside them, imagining it to be nothing but Titans all the way past them
thank you for this, wow, i overlooked so many of these scenes and AoT was already in my top 3. im so glad i found these analyses, its only deepening my appreciation of this masterpiece. subbed!
as far as the chess board, the pawn structure looks realistic for an intermediate game, though its a mystery what/where some of the pieces are supposed to be. bertholdt's completely undeveloped and reiner... idk
8:34 I think this is foreshadowing 2 things 1. The Beast Titan looks different per each inheritor. We see his predecessors Beast Titan was a Ram & the other Beast Titans through history are different animals. 2. Zeke’s ability to lead
5:04 is it just me or do all the titan shifters have the same glow, and the non titan shifters have a different same glow Is this In the actual OP? or is it edited for the video
mike was so hyped up in that episode. and then seeing that happen to him, you just know a meeting between Levi and the beast titan is coming. great episode.
He basically had everything written, other than an ending, which is flip flopped on, such as an ending where Eren doesnt get stopped, another where everyone dies including Eren and his friends etc.
![GEEK TIMË [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ry-6RvkH880/mqdefault.jpg)
Zeke talking as the Beast Titan was the most jaw-dropping moment in the entire series for me.
Yeah except for the certain scene, where Eren revealed to Zeke, that he was controlling Grisha. But other than that definetely.
@@blu3jaguar874 See I kinda screwed myself with that one because I read it in the manga first and ngl it didn't feel as impactful as the anime lol
@@ZombieManF Well yeah that makes sense. But tbh it's very subjective anyways, at this point if Eren was like "I am your Father" to Armin slicing him the Hand of and throwing him back to his weirdly hairy Man-Bear-Pig I wouldnt even be surprised, because for me personally the scene with Grisha, Eren and Zeke was so impactful for me, that there is probably nothing else in this series that could shake me that hard.
Same for me. It was insane
yeah i tought the beast titan was like the mastermind behind everything basically
Zeke was the absolute peak of terror when he first appeared. I love him
Reading through these comments feels like everyone’s complimenting me
@@zekedowling8001he has a sad backstory but Zeke is super hot
@@zekedowling8001Zeke best boi
And then Levi showed up
@@cajunking5987I love how he got killed off just like that, cus damn I was about to fuck off if he escaped somehow 😂
Another thing that gave away that Zeke was from outside the walls was that he had no idea what ODM gear was to begin with
Yeah its one of those things that cements that the attackers are not natives to the walls, even if some of them are infiltrated already. Although along with the suspected language barrier Zeke mentioning he is unfamiliar with the ODM gear also suggests a technological difference, which can also hint at a time difference. It seems like a lot of people thought this meant that the Beast Titan was some ancient being from the past that must've awoken to see the ODM as futuristic tech, but we then go on to learn that its quite the opposite and he finds the gear fascinating because outside Paradis that type of tech makes no sense to exist since the tech development in the rest of the world hasnt been stifled and they have more types of enemies than just titans, which leads to a lot more focus on cannons, guns, tanks, ships, airships, planes etc.
I feel so dumb for not realizing these things from the start. 😆
when I first saw beast titan speak I thought there was some titan-village and he was their boss or sum, I never thought of ppl from outside world
I started watching this show at around 17 and would play a lot of open world games… I was thinking I was watching an anime of a post apocalyptic world covered in titans but a few settlements of humans still out there fighting for mankind. The shocking truth was a whole lot better than my own little theories.
@@Qprah Well it's more so just the insanity that a whole difference BRANCH of tech evolved based on needs....kind of like "what if we reset people to 185 years ago but then fucked with them by creating issues and using tech they couldn't possible have imagined back then?"
Shows the resilience that humans have as well, totally insane!
When Zeke told those Titans to move, you couldn't help but feel scared for Mike.
Straight horrified no doubt
facts.
It really says something about how powerful Levi is that his first encounter with Zeke he sliced him up and had him dead to rights as well as traumatized whereas humanity’s SECOND strongest soldier was paralyzed with fear and couldn’t even take down the pure titans.
@@lukaslambs5780he’s literally an Ackerman , the comparison is not even close . Levi is carried by his genetics and frankly is a class of his own. He ain’t even human so of course he’s not gonna have the same reaction. Mike reached his breaking point
@@smileyent.3055that’s his point
Y'all remember when we all thought the Beast Titan was the final boss 🙌🏽😭
I remember when the colossal was the big big big big final bad 💀💀😂
i thought it was the collosal titan and i thought its gonna be a BIG BIG fight but it turned out not like i expected for tje first time 😭
what I remember was people complaining that a "talking titan" ruined the show for them, probably the same people who say that about the ending lol
one of the most painful aot related comments I've read was "I got disinterested as soon as the writer ruined his own story by introducing talking titans. Never watched past that season"
@@kiituriiso sad to hear that they missed out on such a masterpiece
Maybe not exactly, but was crucial to ending the final boss.
Miche's death will forever be the most horrible scene in all of AOT for me. That scene haunted me for a while. It is just done brilliantly and the way Zeke is introduced is perfect. Funny how he was so scary back then and now it's just monke who gets sliced by the captain
2nd for me, nanaba’s death really ducked me up
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Nah, nothing comes close to that tiny titan eating the girls mom alive in Sasha's village
@@randomname5585it was too disturbing
@@MrTDizzle240It gave me goosebumps when she was thinking it was her father punishing her
I remember thinking Zeke was some sort of God, and that all the people and titans were playthings in his sandbox. Especially with his ability to seemingly freeze titans in place. It was too much for my brain to fathom
I love it when you basically think what the characters would think in universe in stories. I thought he was the king of titans and turned a bunch of other animals into them as well as humans. The only reason there were so many humans were because he turned the whole island population into titans and the remaining ones who didn't change built the walls
This series is amazing. It makes you think.
@@redmatzoo3280 Was jaw-droppingly profound. Maybe I got overfixated but watching the whole first three seasons in a row to start was some of the most mind-bending storytelling ever brought to my attention
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@@redmatzoo3280 I thought the beast titan was some mystical ancient being and pure titans the revenge of nature on humanity because of nature's destruction. Why? Pure titans don't touch animals, the beast titan speaks maybe some titan/nature language & the intro scene with the beast titan together with animals trampling over humans. Quite unlike the reality
My initial theory after Miche's death and during the ED was that humanity made a blood pact of sorts with creatures that lived in the sea. There's a lot of imagery involving titan's coming from the ocean. That, at the time, lead me to believe humanity broke some kind of promise, and was being annihilated for breaking said promise or starting a war. I was under the impression that the Beast (at the time I called him Bigfoot titan) was merely an agent, acting on behalf of the Titan's that humanity broke its deal with. Needless to say I was very wrong on that prediction! Though the "blood pact" turned out to have some, rather horrifying truth to it.
Mike being second to Levi in skill sounds like a badge of honor to me.
@User12702man was caught off guard
@@raindancejam9466mikasa is very clearly second to Levi c’mon
@@Yethegoat10 I didn't think we were bringing her into this
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this was the early arcs
@@_Circus_Clapped_ even in early arcs they suck off mikasa and the ackermans
The Beast Titan gave you chills and scares until Levi made a fur coat out of it.
Zeke is still the survey corps daddy
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@@grishajaeger9827That’s not what I saw in the finale
bro was basically useless in close quarter combat
@@htg98We never saw him fight another titan shifter but during the first half of season 3 when Zeke Reiner and Bert return to Shinganshina we were shown the aftermath of him beating Reiner one on one in a titan fight so he can't be that useless, we only saw him fight Levi
28:55 people saving a baby from the titans turned out to be a scene at the very end of the anime! absolutely crazy how Isayama made EVERYTHING matter in this ED
It's a reference to Schindlers List one of the most acclaimed movies of all time.
He didn't make it? WIT did.
Bro that 4 year wait was crazy. I went from a 13 year old middle schooler watching his first anime to a 17 year old hyped to finally see season 2.
I didn't even know about AOT until season 2 came out so I guess I was lucky in a way. lol
Now you're pushing 90 still waiting for the end
Yess the wait was insane. 😂I watched it right as it was released back in 2013 when I was like 11 hahah! Stopped watching anime in 2015. So I completely forgot about AOT. Just got back to watching anime this year. I had to rewatch season 1 and binge watch the rest after 10 years at 21 ! We all so grown now aww
I watched the first season back in 2013 when I was 17, suddenly I was 21 and almost concluding college when season 2 dropped
I forgot what happened and had to rewatch every season lol
I love the way Zekes titan crouches and the trees just sway back from the force of it yet he looks at Mike with a weirdly serene, kind expression. The contrast is just the perfect mix to make the whole thing insanely tense and unnerving
Creepy
That unnerving smile was what convinced me that zeke was actually an ape Titan.
I was wrong but that’s alright.
The season two ending song is just so surreal watching now 6 years later, it shows SO MUCH to those that understand, Isayama knew what he was doing.
Season 2 released 6 years ago, not 10.
Too bad he flubbed the ending.
@@BrotherCaptain36 The shonen fanboys that were denied their sophomoric, adolescent power fantasies are still relentless years later. It's like you go out of your way to stick things up your rear to remain eternally butthurt.
@@BrotherCaptain36how did he flub the ending?
@@thrilla72 Almost every character had their arc assassinated. The only character that got off scot free was Hange.
I really wish we wouldve gotten more Miche before he got yeeted, he was canonically at the time the 2nd strongest soldier behind Levi, im sure Mikasa has long since passed him but the shock and terror of what he was witnessing, the unknown terror of being isolated with an intelligent titan was his downfall.
Not just an intelligent Titan since he knows those exist, but a Titan who can communicate. A commander of Titans, a demigod whose wrath might know no bounds.
@@jagnestormskull3178 "Knows no bounds" LEVI HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
I remember my jaw dropping the entire scene when Zeke first appeared because I just wasn’t expecting a TITAN to talk and just try to have a curious conversation with a Human back then. Crazy stuff man.
I even quit watching AOT after Zeke appeared. My friend got me into it again, and I watched from beginning to the end. He said, watch it, you will never know who is that titan. I am so happy that I watched AOT till the end.
This wasn't anything that special if you watched the OVAs for Season 1. There's a talking Aberrant in one of them. Perhaps it would've been better if they released that OVA later.
In fact, that happened in the chapter Ilse's Notebook, many people miss it because they adapted that chapter to an ova.
19:02 it’s interesting that you had a different take on this scene! I actually thought that Reiner was having a dissociative episode where he saw himself as a soldier and wanted to genuinely help Connie. When Reiner turned to Bertholdt, the fear Bertholdt had on his face was “oh shit, Reiner is playing ‘soldier’ again.”
I think Reiner just wanted to check out what was going on, not having ill intentions with Connt
I want to add something. Zeke grew up hearing his father's grief and rage about how Faye was killed as dogs torn her apart. Then Zeke goes to paradise, meets Mike and basically simulates that situation once again by feeding Mike to Titans who torn him apart. What a f'ed up thing to do. (Some people argue Zeke is really not a bad person, just have a different ideology. Bro he's f'ed up in the mind!)
EXACTLY! Zeke is a piece of crap and has been since he was a kid. He resents his father for being upset about his own aunty. Then proceeds to say he cares about Eren. I really do not like him.
@@thrilla72 he hates his father for ruining his childhood to make him a tool of war for his own personal revenge ambition. The irony is, as soon as Zeke found his own reason, he became the tool of war despite his entire childhood trauma. And the fact that he cares about Eren cause he thinks he's also a victim of Grisha is actually true. He kind of feels a sense of duty to rescue Eren from any brainwashing Grisha may have done.
@@28aminoacids Well, he should understand then that for Grisha to lose his sister like that is a pain that could not just leave him
@@thrilla72 zeke is a horrible person, but it was on grisha to just suck it the fuck up. zeke had nothing to do with happened to grisha's sister. he was an innocent child, and grisha treated him like complete shit, and was actively risking zeke's life (and his own parent's lives) by being involved with the restorationists.
and in the end, grisha did walk away from that pain. he ended up in paradis, he got a new a family, and he learned from his past mistakes. it was too late to change anything for zeke, but it still shows that he knows what he did was wrong. everything that zeke became is nearly solely grisha's fault.
@@erikkemeey9144 Did I say Grisha was without fault? No, but to say he cares about Eren then at least as an adult he should understand what his Dad went through. Even then before Zeke knew about his Aunt, he looked down on Eldians and carried that same pompous attitude until the end. Had he only attacked his Dad, I could accept your point but look at how he killed Miche and the scouts
I’d never considered the parallel between Reiner leading Cornie to slaughter and Cornie leading Falco to slaughter in season 4. Brilliant story telling
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why is he holding coffee with his toes?
You mean Connie?
*Corn Conholio*
Cornie 🌽
The "second only to levi" has been a joke in my friend group for the longest time.
"He's second only to levi, he'll survive!"
*dies*
I also think that the "second to Levi" dialogue is meant to make you feel hopeless, since the second strongest soldier has been wiped out esencially as a fly. Btw, absolute peak quality in this videos (:
I don't know if anyone will see this - But the point of the baby being held up at 29:00 - Is in the final episode , further adding to your point!
One of the most intriguing moments was when Ymir reads the label of the Herring can while Reiner couldn’t due to being a different alphabet from what Paradis use. Not to mention that if Reiner was actually from Paradis he should have no idea what Herring is because they never saw the ocean. The ocean was just a myth as far as they were concerned.
The part where they hold up the baby happens in the Manga, a baby basically crowd surfing while the crowd of people between the rumbling and cliff gets smaller and smaller, people being trampled or falling over the ledge
I think its a reference to that iconic image from the Manga, although I believe this series of videos focuses mostly on the Anime, and only shows Manga points in reference to things shown in the Anime first. So its possible if this video was made after the 2nd half of S4P3 was released that would be added in. I'm almost certain that scene with the baby being held above the crowd on the cliff edge is going to be one of the opening scenes in the 2nd half (along side Historia giving birth)
@@Qprah true, I love how they adapted the rumbling in the anime, people on fire, fighting eachother, killing themselves, I just noticed the symbolism and I don't think he read the Manga, this episode came out before that bit of the manga was out, so I just think it's interesting
Isn't this a spoiler ?
@@adelboukabous8225 ur moms a spoiler
But that wasn't even close to out yet.
So if the Manga had it, it is the Manga taking inspiration from this anime ending.
I still can't get over the season 2 ending spoiling so much stuff BEFORE IT WAS EVEN SHOWN IN THE MANGA. I remember watching that shit in the final season then going back to the season 2 ending in utter disbelief. It's just so fucking crazy to me and really shows that Isayama meant it when he said he's had the whole story planned from the beginning.
Hange definitely became my favorite character in season 2, I'm so glad she got to be around for a long time, and with an epic eye-patch to boot!
I started to like her when Eren stay all night with her explaining about Titans. She is crazy and positive. ^_^
Before Levi joined, Miche was the strongest soldier the island had.
Tragic how he got killed too early in the story in the most gruesome way.
At least we have the OVAs and got a lesson from his way of exiting.
EDIT: Remove the Ackermans since they are basically cheat codes.
Hmm if Kenny is counted at that point he'd definitely be the strongest soldier.
@@pdpgb I mean, if you could call him a soldier at all, then probably.
@@matewhatthefuck6516 Well he's technically kinda with the MP. Or I guess at that point in the story working directly under the king.
Miche is honestly how I bet Eren would have been if He was allowed to grow to 30 in the survey corp
@@pdpgb Before Levi joined, Kenny was the king's personal assassin, not an MP. Which, talk about hypocrisy. "Hello neices and nephews, I hired an assassin to silence the people the rule!" "Then are going to do anything about the Titans outside the Walls? Maybe turn them back into humans?" "No, because it would violate my Vow Renouncing War." "Isn't hiring a state assassin waging war on your own people?" "This conversation is getting boring, _memory erase!"_
Quick correction, the state of technology we see in the walls is very much what we would call "Early Modern", they are a pre-industrial society but are well developed, tough we do not see steam engines we do see rail tracks for the cannons, guns, and a lot of equipment such as the ODM gear that need high quality steel and precision forging and engineering. They are a good few hundred years past the end of the middle ages using our own historical timescale.
Sorry for the super late reply! Just a thought process, but maybe ODM hear was built off of previous tech that was locked away by the government of paradis?? Kindve like the thunder spears, hange clearly says that they’ve had these, but they were just recently cleared for use… so maybe they had basic propellant tech, and were able to build off of what they had before the government hid/destroyed all public knowledge of said tech
@@cambarnes8941 there is a spinoff manga about the creation of the ODM gear, written by other people
it's quite chaotic, but it was in good part an actual engineering effort done in a place that this manga calls the "industrial city", so there's some decent amount of industrialisation within the walls, in some areas
@@Eliphaser fucking cool man… I’m definitely going to check that out tomorrow since I’m off.. thanks for the info✌🏼❤️
The scene of them holding up the baby hits different now huh
Why? spoil it.
The beast titan speaking was such a crazy moment. Mind-blowing on the first viewing 🤯
It's easy to look at the ending as a spoiler in retrospect but at the time it's not like anything was actually spoiled for a anime only viewer. The narrative was that titans wiped out humanity outside the walls so all those shots of different civilizations getting eaten by titans could have simply been depicting that. The people migrating to the walls also makes perfect sense with what we already knew.
The biggest spoiler is maybe Ymir's children eating her body which is how titan powers are passed over. And maybe that there are 9 titans if you overanalyze it. But there's also stuff like the Ymir making a deal with the devil which is depicting the Marley story, not what actually happened. The ending just gives you lots of stuff to think about. There is no way anybody's piecing together the entire story because of that ending. Just no shot.
Speaking of, the OP shot of the Beast titan running with the whales and dinosaurs sparked all sorts of wild theories back in the day which all ended up being false because the shot was purely symbolic. Probably as simple as: "It's the beast titan so put him running next to other beasts". So even if you magically guessed the story based on the ED it would still be a wild theory until confirmed. No way of knowing otherwise.
Exactly. It's fun to overanalyze things and Korotos doesn't ever say he believes they actually did do it intentionally - he admits a lot of his overanalysis is a reach, but it's really annoying how he has never once admitted where the Manga is even at by the time these episodes were coming out.
Like I SINCERELY doubt the writer told the animators the full season 4 story or ending lol.
For reference, by the time this episode came out, they had no made it to the sea yet. 💀
it was a mind blown moment when that flashback chapter came out while doing a re-watch. everytime i went back with more knowledge, i would pick out a lot of little details, but that ending was crazy how it literally spells it out and i pretty much glossed over it.
I'm an anime only watcher and I remember replaying the second ending over and over again and analyzing every single detail I could. It didn't spoil anything for me. It only made me more intrigued. The story that I pieced together in my head at the time was that a human made a deal with the Devil, took a bite of a forbidden fruit, and turned into a Titan (sort of true). I also correctly guessed that after she died, her body was eaten by some other people to pass on the "Titan genes." But the shot of the Titans seemingly coming out of the ground misled me. I presumed that Titans were somehow born out of the earth. I also thought the Titans would wind up being Nephilim, the half-human and half-fallen angels depicted in the freaking Bible. Yes, seriously.
But for real though, those ending credits were the best part of AoT. The music was so creepy. The way the art style mimicked the styles of Medieval to Renaissance to Victorian to Early Modern made the viewer know that this story was at least 700 or 800 years old. And just enough plot details to not spoil the story but to keep the viewer (like I did) trying to piece together an incomplete puzzle. Whoever designed that ending deserves a fucking medal. It's the most brilliant part of AoT.
@@TheGuzeinbuick I always thought the demon part was symbolic but I did piece together that eating humans must be what makes titan shifters. Probably not regular ones either since mindless titans do that all the time without becoming human.
On that note a much bigger spoiler was Ymir's backstory being moved to here instead of when Historia read Ymir's letter like in the manga. Spoiled a lot of the situation in Marley and confirmed a very advanced nation outside the walls. We just didn't know the entire world outside Paradis was like that.
I did speculate it once mostly as a "Wouldn't that be crazy?" scenario but it ended up being true. Other well positioned or walled nations existing seemed more likely at the time.
@@Sweetdude64 Late reply and probably source trust me bro moment, but I heard that Isayama actually worked/consulted with the anime studio during production. And by doing that, it includes getting ideas on how to continue the story. I think that was pretty cool
bro the sasageyo op literally gave me chills just from the clip u played😭its so iconic and never gets old
Dude, his first appearance was flipping horrifying. Definitely the most scary thing in the show at that point.
the beast titan's introduction was executed so splendidly and terrifying, truly one of the most provoking sequences. It's the show's way of saying "you thought season 1 left you with questions? That was just the beginning. You know absolutely nothing yet. Be afraid."
I recall on release thinking the beast titan was a 3rd party that created/controlled the wandering titans. Everything about the beast was so different from the viewer's perspective that it couldnt possibly have the same goals as the other titan shifters.
At that time aliens, zombie(titan version) apocalypse, or other such things were still possibilities for how the plot had occurred. Even if Reiner's group were captured by the beast and forced into breaking the wall, it still perfectly fit the established story we had available at the time.
hearing him talk abt the shot in the ending with the people holding up the baby after watching the finale is crazy
1. The statue at the beginning has crown made of roses, so it means that Wall Rose fell/break down.
2. In the opening there is a few second shoot (just before epic left-of of the scouts from the walls) showing "main" part od Survey Corps from side profile: Levi, Hange, Erwin, Mikasa, Eren, Armin, Jean, Sasha and Connie - Historia, Ymir, Berthold and Reiner are missing from this shoot, wondering why 🤔🙃
I actually don’t think the ending is talking about the present, it’s more of a recap of all of Eldian history until the creation of the walls, plus the very last shot of the bird which is the only future thing. Obviously the theme of history repeating itself is alluded to here, so I guess it counts too
I think the coastal village shown in the ending is a marleyan territory attacked by eldians long ago because later when we watched Grisha's life it's shown that his parents used that attack as an excuse to plant some self hatred as eldians in him
29:00 now with the finale released, we know that the civilians trying to protect the baby from the titans is literally a scene in the finale 😂😂
28:56 This also foreshadows what happens during the rumbling- when the people are being forced over a cliff by the advancing Wall Titans but collectively try to protect a baby from falling
18:00 Mike's super sense of smell is a little odd, but Sasha also has extremely good hearing and notices distant noises before other characters, so it's not completely out of left field.
The beast titan reveal is just another example of how good this series is at doing the whole answer your question while giving you several more strategy.
I think the ending song is only a "spoiler" in hindsight. We just assume its depicting the titans attack on humanity leading to the walls being built.
The flaming heart burning inside them actually is trying to help you connect the dots that it’s the same heart inside the armored Titan and so one of the scouts must be the armored Titan.
Nah its about all of them being subjects of Ymir
@@smileyent.3055 so the giraffe is a subject of Ymir?
@@smileyent.3055 still waiting for your rebuttal
@@arclite95yes, it is
@@user-nq5vv8xn8b geez this show has been going on for years. I wonder if it will ever end…
I am curious if you guys plan to cover the OVA's and if so are you planning to drop them into the release order in the time they were released or the time they were intended to watch? (Ilse's Notebook in early season 2 for connected references to Ymir and Hange, No Regrets P1&2 after season 1 but before season 3 part 1 for connected references to Levi and Erwin etc etc)
I absolutely LOVE this series. Your style of video + editing + explanation + thinking are just perfect for unpacking how many layers deep AoT can get from moment to moment. Having a single channel that covers basically every detail of each episode so as to give us a near conclusive source of all the tiny interesting details and (more importantly imo) why so many aspects of the Anime/Manga work in subtle yet very intentional ways, is just such an amazing gift to the fan base.
As usual the work of your team is second to none. No praise given could be high enough to match what you guys deserve.
Thank you in advance for this series, I can only pray I get to see you make it all the way to the end of Season 4 Part 3 Final Chapters and the series conclusion.
I gotta comment. This is my favorite RUclips series in a long time. I like you other stuff but the way you go IN for this show (and TWD) is just so enjoyable.
Keep it up man!!! ❤
This series is done so well, love each part!
This videos are soo good. I get excited everytime i see a new one. Please make em faster i cant get enought of your AOT content!
I try, too few hours in the day! 😭😂
Haven't even started to watch the video and I already know it's going to be a BANGER!! Today is a good day 😎
The chess scene was probably bertholt and reiner talking to each other about what to do, without getting suspicious. they know scouts are on to them and their time is running out, but also they have more time, since if scouts knew who exactly they were, they'd be dead or getting interrogated.
7:26 I am surprised you did not mention how in the opening shows the Colossal titan's transformation releasing a massive amount of energy like it was hinted to in the first episode and would later do like 20 episodes later in the battle that happens in Shiganshina.
In the anime this was not an ability that the Scouts nor the Watcher knew about however in the Manga the chapter when Bertolt vaporizes the scouts attacking Reiner released about a year before season 2 premiered.
As you mentioned the actual capabilities of the Colossal titan is something made very inconsistent in part because the writer themselves was likely unsure about how what the colossal titan could and could not do (Example: Disappearing almost instantaneously) however WIT decided to showcase this specific attribute of the Colossal titan to make it less jarring to the watcher.
The Colossal didn't disappear instantly. Bertholdt started breaking down his body the instant Eren struck him. Plus Eren didn't pay attention to what was directly beneath or behind him
I missed this series, so glad I randomly got recommended one of your videos and started binge watching all the previous ones.
I always saw that statue of mother and child in the intro as symbolic of Carla and Eren, and how Eren's loss of her was his whole initial motivation to fight.
I've been waiting for this video to drop for so long. This was the episode that made me realise how good aot is and it's been my favorite anime ever since
Also great video as always
The first time watching this episode I was caught off guard by that ending. It was like 12 am or something.
7:34 Also for manga readers, when the rumbling is occurring we see a group of people on the edge of land before a cliff drop into water. These people were passing along a baby from one to another in hopes of keeping the baby safe. Therefore, I guess this imagery of the baby hand in another adult hand then being burned away form the season 2 opening, could also symbolize that.
Zeke's Titan appearance scared me when it got animated.
I remember watching this episode during a marathon of season 2 back on Toonami. Zeke's introduction, plus the subsequent episodes of world being turned upside down was such an emotional roller coaster for me.
Around like 29:00 maybe a little after, you mention the person holding the baby up with a whole bunch of people around, I’m pretty sure that’s from the Special Episode when the Rumbling is happening they cut to a shot of a mother holding up her child above the crowd in hopes it’ll be saved.
Ohh, must have missed that. Welp, just another one to add to the pile of mega foreshadowing then 😂😂
having just watched the ending, that scene with the baby being passed forward from the cliff genuinely fucked me up
Or maybe, centuries ago , these people were trying to save a baby from the apocalypse even when they were dying themselves, just like the one in rumbling! Even in a world full of cruelty, there is still beauty in the form of kindness ; it always has been this way .
8:13 I always took this part as 'the previous beast titans' as theyre all marching with Zeke in his heart. Because each beast titan took a different form, right? So I somehow pictured them all being the previous owners of the beast titan.
Ah man I'd love to see the whale one, equally cool and a bit useless 😅
I was really hoping we were gonna see the dinosaur one 😢
@@wmandthings if Marley had the whale Titan during the war with Mid- East , they would've won the naval war in an instant. The whale is useless only on land .
I remember the first time I watched this episode, and when Zeke mentions the idea of speaking the same language,it blew my mind. I love languages, I hope to be if not a linguist, some kind of historian, and I liked to think about how humanity being almost entirely wiped out culturally impacted the remaining "human language." But that single line blew it all into oblivion. Other titan people, who said that they speak the same language must mean there are different languages, and more people that speak them!
My theory was quite different from the actual lore, but I honestly feel a little proud at how "close" to the mark I was ultimately. I thought the walls were somewhere on the Island of Britain, and when the Titans appeared, any continental Europeans (and by coincidence, traveling merchants from all over the world such as Asia) fled to the Isle, which would explain why French names, German names, Polish names and English names were all cramped together in the same vaguely Germanic environment, and any remaining people on the continent would have lost all contact with those In the Isle because their way of life would no longer suit long term outside exposure to travel.
But all the same, it's so surprising just how much the plot revealed itself as we were all trying to figure it out beforehand.
@@johnfischer_2 - Would also explain the Imperialism 😂
Overanalysing videos like this makes attack on titan more good for me
Thank you very much
Man, that scene between Miche and Zeke is one of the craziest to me to this day. Like, we're finally properly introduced to this veteran soldier and learn that he is literally the strongest they have after Levi, which is an insane title to have already. And it's like, oh hell yeah, we get to see this guy in action now!
And then this new titan appears and Miche gets absolutely nuked within minutes. The second strongest soldier wiped out just like that. It goes back to this ping pong between hope and despair that the show is just so good at- We ended season 1 with gaining a titan shifter to fight, beating & capturing another titan shifter, while also being on a good track to luring out the other mole and generally discovering more about the titans and the world. Despite all the uncertainties, things seem like they might turn in paradis' favor.
But then Zeke appears and you're brought right back down to earth with the crushing realization that even the strongest of soldiers don't actually stand a chance against this enemy they're up against. Like, if the second best they have is killed just like that, who the hell is supposed to fight this thing?!
Well, the obvious answer would be Levi, which is exactly what will happen in the coming seasons, but this setup at the very start of season 2 already is so insane, especially when you consider that they don't even fight him again until halfway into season 3.
All the first appearances of titan shifters have been insane so far, but this one might just be my favorite because they have made all that progress in season one yet the Beast's appearance awakes a feeling of hopelessness not unlike the Colossal's first appearance(s). Just beautiful.
Edit: Oh, also. Him being introduced so early yet us only getting glimpses of him until season 3 gives him that "final boss" feeling you previously had with the Colossal. Of course, the Colossal ends up being far from the final boss, but with Eren and Zeke essentially being the last of the Nine that the main squad are now hunting down...he is at least KIND of the final boss. Love that.
Isayama was storyboarded the whole Ed. Most thing was not even in the manga at that time.
28:56 !MANGA SPOILERS!
The baby being held in the air reminds me of a panel from chapter 134, the rumbling coming towards people on a cliffside.
19:38 Idk why dude, the Homelander meme here kills me lmao. The videos are analytical as hell and your sense of humor is appreciated!
Zeke was absolutely terrifying... until we met him outside of his titan form, then he just become "monkee mahn" to me and friendos, haha.
In season 3, part 2, before Zeke told Eren they were brothers, i thought maybe that Erwins father figure and Zeke were the same person.
incase yall didn't know the season 2 ED is a visual representation of the story zekes granpa told kid zeke in season 4
At 16:50 I like to think that Reiners face is like that because this is the beginning of us seeing how he can't keep his two worlds straight and he is genuinely confused and worried as a soldier, not remembering he is first and foremost a warrior.
Zeke running with those animals just tell us the different types of version a Beast Titans can have, in zeke’s case the monkey was his favorite animal as a kid
Love your videos. They remind me of more than 25 years when we were going frame by frame on a VHS overanalysing the opening of Evangelion and looking for meaning, details, religious symbols and everything in between.
I like to think that canoncially whenever eren mentally went back in time, his child brain can't process it so he takes a lot of naps which is the real reason for the naps and not just lots of fights and healing.
season 2 really started with a bang revealing Zeke and how terrifying he is and how much he knew already. It’s crazy to think how maybe if miche actually did fight those last titans he may have been able to get away but that is himdsight and I’d also be shit scared in his situation despite how strong he was and for zeke to unknowingly killing one humanity’s finest the moment he arrives on screen is crazy I remember reading it in the manga then seeing it in the first episode and being quite surprised but it’s a great way to introduce zeke. What an opening from the song to the visuals perfectly showing off each character my favourite part of it has to be either all the scouts jumping from the walls or mikasa throwing eren into him transforming absolutely perfect. Thank you for another brilliant analysis great work as always korotos 👏👏👏
Calling foreshadowing "spoiling" is a little weird, but it's true that rewatching AOT leads to a lot of these moments. You start noticing huge clues about the mysteries of the world that you'd never noticed on first viewing.
The biggest one for me is when Shadis is telling everyone that Grisha just "showed up outside the wall with no memories". And despite all the clues, I was still EXTREMELY SHOCKED at the basement reveal. That's still the biggest/craziest reveal in any story ever for me
I love your videos bro, keep it up so I can keep info dumping my friends !
Rewatching with my girlfriend who hasn’t seen it and it’s amazing seeing the foreshadowing, she is determined to predict all the twists and turns but as smart as she is, there’s no way she’ll predict some of the wild stuff down the road!
I already can't wait for u to finish this. Cuz i "re-discovered" a lots of infos i had and never really understood them.
Then when the anime will be done, i'll finally read the manga and light novel to get all this epic infos.
Awesome, finally. It's my favorite season of the show
I see you are a man of culture as well.
Rewatching Zeke's indtroduction, I totally get why Yelena thought of him as a god.
16:00 Maybe the ever changing chess board symbolizes the fact that the pair’s plan keeps changing because of the new factors they have to consider(I.E. Eren and Ymir both being shifters, Annie being captured, Reiner almost dying twice, etc)
8:42 I was thinking that maybe this visual from the season 2 opening could be representative of the origin of the Titan powers. Eren Krueger says that Ymir Fritz got the Titan powers by getting in contact with the source of all organic material, and we later see that when Ymir was getting chased down by the Eldian king's soldiers, she falls into some lake in a tree stump, and gets this hallucigenia creature attached to her spine giving rise to the Titan powers. That hallucigenia is perhaps the source of all (or most) organic material.
Anyway, this scene in the opening shows the glowing heart of Zeke's Beast Titan, and other creatures hearts glowing and all are charging in pace with each other going forward. This creates an association or link/connection between the Beast Titan and other creatures (prehistoric and modern). The Beast Titan could be representative of the Titan powers, and the other animals charging with Zeke here, are representative of the creatures from past and present. Notice that all of these creatures came after the Cambrian explosion. The Cambrian explosion occurred like 530 million years ago, and is like a "biological big bang" where there was a rapid development of unique multicellular biological creatures. The Hallucigenia is a creature from this Cambrian explosion time period. However, eventually these creatures did kind of go extinct, but some of them went onto evolve into newer species. The point is that it was after these creatures of the Cambrian explosion that all other creatures from the dinosaurs, ice age, and modern day animals came to existence. Therefore once could say that the Cambrian explosion gave rise to or led to all other creatures that ever existed after 500 million years ago. Therefore, in the context of Attack on Titan, one could say that the hallucigenia creature that attached to Ymir giving rise to titan powers, also gave rise to all the animals (dinosaurs, ice age, modern day) that existed, since this hallucigenia existed before any of those animals. Therefore the hallucigenia could be considered as "the source of all organic material" as after this creature all other animals came to existence and so did the titan powers.
Therefore, the visual where the Beast Titan and the other animals are charging forward in same pace, with all of their glowing hearts could represent a connection between all animals and the Titan powers, in the sense that they are connected/related, because they all originated from the hallucigenia from the Cambrian explosion. This creature that existed before any of these creatures or Titan powers.
Then again I'm probably being stupid, and just overanalyszing.
great explanation
@@jcroyoaun Thank you.
Thank you for making these videos. I actually thought Isayama was just making a generic shonen all those years ago, so this is so much fun to look back on!
The Beast Titan speaking killed Mike before the Titans did.
30:53 omg same. I don't feel so alone now! Years ago I went into AoT completely blind having somehow evaded all spoilers when season 3 had just ended.. so I was already mind blown and on edge after binge watching that far, that ending song hit and I was so creeped out.
That ending was creepy AF omg
Even more when I realized it was English.
30:57 aaaaand it just got creepier.
If it's the words of Ymir... it's even more creepy.
I do believe the ED is an expression of Ymir's voice.
Btw, in the ED I believe the giant at the sea shore depicts Armin marching as the colossal during the Eren-triggered Eldian attack on Marley. This idea, though, owes to the very brilliant overanalyzing here.
I also like the way the first time we see the beast titan, his dialogue can be interpreted in two ways
Since like, back then we had no idea about anything about what it was outside the walls, and only barely understood what titan shifters were.
So, we suddenly see a intelligent, speaking titan. With the way he talks about ODM gear and whatnot, I imagined when I first saw it that he was a pure titan, just one with intelligence, who was curious about ODM gear. This (incorrect) observation of a non-shifter titan being able to communicate would later be aided by the fact we see Titans talking later on to a small degree.
It's funny how, when we were initially reading the story, the walls really felt like the whole world, that we just like the characters couldn't imagine people or societies living outside them, imagining it to be nothing but Titans all the way past them
I’ve only watched this after the ending and 29:00 they might have even spoiled the ending
Yup, we got that in the finale. This ED was mad lmao
thank you for this, wow, i overlooked so many of these scenes and AoT was already in my top 3. im so glad i found these analyses, its only deepening my appreciation of this masterpiece. subbed!
as far as the chess board, the pawn structure looks realistic for an intermediate game, though its a mystery what/where some of the pieces are supposed to be. bertholdt's completely undeveloped and reiner... idk
29:02 This was shown in the final episode
I was just about to say!!
8:34 I think this is foreshadowing 2 things
1. The Beast Titan looks different per each inheritor. We see his predecessors Beast Titan was a Ram & the other Beast Titans through history are different animals.
2. Zeke’s ability to lead
Babe wake up new over analyzing aot video
Finally someone talking about it! I am shocked literally no one ever discussed the season 2 ending when it freaking spoils everything. Ho. Ly.
5:04 is it just me or do all the titan shifters have the same glow, and the non titan shifters have a different same glow Is this In the actual OP? or is it edited for the video
Woah! @29:01 is the same scene at the last episode of aot final season
mike was so hyped up in that episode. and then seeing that happen to him, you just know a meeting between Levi and the beast titan is coming. great episode.
My favorite part is that the same thing happens with Nifa in S3 and I never saw it coming 💀😂😂
29:01 when you have seen the final episode 😥
28:38 I see this more as The Rumbling arriving at Marley on "The Dawn of Humanity", AKA the best scene in the series.
Loving this series! Please keep at it!
The impressive thing was that this was all done before the rumbling and Final Season anime content was even written in the manga.
Not true I'm afraid, Isayama had written all of AOT before he even began drawing it.
He basically had everything written, other than an ending, which is flip flopped on, such as an ending where Eren doesnt get stopped, another where everyone dies including Eren and his friends etc.