In hindsight, the glitchy ending could be Armin, as the narrator, trying to remember what happened around the time he became a titan as he was only kind of alive when he transformed
I also love how both Levi and Mikasa let go of Erwin and Eren to set them free from being slaves to something. There are a lot of parallels between their stories.
@@ASDeckard Yeah, herd immunity and all, but still, imagine the shock, he gives you a shot and you have a reaction because you never knew you were allergic.
Erwin screaming before the Scouts leave for the mission is one of my favourite scenes. One of the the very few things which gets me more hyped than a new AoT overanalysis episode dropping. Especially after seeing Erwin so tormented and exhausted throughout all of season 3, him still being able to build up such charisma and power, as well as genuine excitement for seeing the basement, is just so inspiring, Levi's reaction says everything. And it makes it so much more tragic when he eventually chooses to sacrifice his dream.
I love that Erwin was really just in it for himself and the guilt he has over his father's death. This man did all THIS, had all these people die, think 4 seasons ahead... just because he wish he had shut his mouth.
Not really, his final decision is him prioritizing his duty as a leader. He easily could’ve sent them to die and seen what was in the basement, so in the end he really was in it for everyone else.
@@sliiifertheskydragon9790 He couldn't have sent them to die, Erwin said he had to lead the charge or the scouts wouldn't do it. What he could have done however is taken the scouts over the wall and abandoned the horses to die, gambling on them being able to defeat a titan they could use to ride home.
28:23 Literally had goosebumps as you mentioned it, it’s dope to see such a calm character shout on pure adrenaline. Just like when his arm was bit off.
everytime you upload an episode of this series i get excited (and more obsessed with aot). i don't know what i'm gonna do once you're done overanalyzing attack on titan ! life will be empty 😔 (seriously your series help sm with the grief of aot being over lol)
watch AoT again armed with all this knowledge.... it's helped me notice so much small but important details I missed on first viewing. Watched it twice and never once noticed Burrito away to bite his hand in the tower episode until watching these vids
@@elywahl9520 there's no way you got everything. There's so many tiny details that at the time seem completely irrelevant, like Eren saying he thought he'd been in the titan eating place before.
I was a manga reader when this episode came out and remember looking at the anime-only thread on reddit and loving every single reaction to that glitch ending. Good times.
I LOVE that glitchy ending that teased season 3 part 2 genuinely TERRIFYING and seeing this as an anime only at the time actually made me thinking everything went completely wrong for the scouts and pretty much everyone died (ironically the same theory you said in the video) in hindsight…I was wrong but I guess I predicted there was a lot of death lol.
Imagine just dropping banger after banger with no signs of getting dull. Keep the superb content coming my guy, I will be here to absorb it all like a sponge
I literally had never seen the glitch credits cause I usually skim the last 10 seconds for frames with my mouse for after-credit scenes, so I just went back and watched it and got fucking chills LMAO - I would've freaked if I saw that years ago
I think the image of Erwin on his horse also could represent dying in battle. Statues of militery people on horeses represent how they died. And when it showcase the horse on it's backlegs they died in battle.
Not really, that's more of an urban legend. Someone did a study a few years back looking at every statue they could and how the person died and there was no correlation. For example, damn near every statue of Napoleon has the horse on it's hind legs. But he died in bed in the South Atlantic. Though, they did tell us there was a big thing with statues in boot camp. There was this big thing where if the horse had this leg up they were wounded, if this leg was up they were wounded and died after the battle. It even went so far as "If their sword is high they won the battle, if it's lower they lost the battle but won the war, etc..." But all just legend. The artists just did either what the client paid for or what they thought was cool.
I’m so glad this video exists. Armin is one of my favorite characters in fiction and I was always kind of mixed up on exactly how Levi decided to choose him in the end.
levi responded both when floch asked him "why did you choose armin" and later, when armin asked him "why did you choose me?" it should be clear, don't rely on videos like this the work itself should be enough. levi replied that he didn't want to make erwin suffer anymore, call him back to that hell and force him to be the devil. Levi said it
@Lauraneri. Thanm you so much for this response. Dont get me wrong, i love this overanalyzing of one of the greatest anime stories ever told, but thats just it, an overanalyzation. The show literally said Levi wanted to let Erwin finally rest.
Another interpretation on overanalyzing the idea of the horse being a symbol of the personification of death is that Erwin, being it's rider, is leading the scouts to their deaths each time he leads them. matching with the pile of bodies he stands upon for his accomplishments.
Thank you for your work. This detailed level of analysis is exactly what I'm craving and it makes me so happy to see so many people being interested in this, because most people these days only care about superficial things in anime. But it's the beautiful storytelling and use of narrative elements that, at least for me, make anime worth watching and to see someone actually CARING about the details and foreshadowing like you do, inspires me a lot in my own analyses. Thank you 💜
You have no idea how much this mean to me. Im watching every ep and have been sitting on the last one for about a month now. What you said about finishing a show / meeting life goals hits HARD. Im about to finish college in less than a week and you just helped me understand this feeling of fear of completing my "big goal"... life goes on.
9:15 my first round of reading attack on titan, i had a similar-but-not-really hypothesis of grisha, the doctor, being the one administering some sort of injection that turns people into titans (that's why he always travelled as well as conveniently leaving shinganshina before the very first attack) (funny how as i was reading more the concept of titan fluid was revealed)
I don't really see the future Kenny analogue at all, I just thing Erwin was very obviously already broken from trauma and survivors guilt and in the end Levi realized that he could not bring the true suicidal maniac of AOT back to life as the colossal Titan doomed to be weaponized like a nuclear bomb. I don't think the differences in Armen and Erwin's ideology or perspective had any consideration for Levi, I think that from a cold, cost/benefit analysis Erwin is the obvious choice bar none, Flock was right superficially but while Flock knew Erwin's legend Levi knew the man and realized that the Erwin that got them to that point was already more or less gone before Erwin's final charge and that resurrecting the man as the Colossal wouldn't really bring him back. Erwin had simply seen and done to much at that point, sacrificed to much. He had nothing left to give and if he was given the colossal titan he'd probably ended up feeding himself to another Titan or just disappearing and living in seclusion once paradie started making contact with the outside world. He wanted to die, simple as, and Levi couldn't bring himself to torture him with the colossal's resurrection no matter how valuable his mind was to them.
Oh yes, I remember I was about to skip the outro and I think I wanted to call it a day for AoT, but then this "glitch" happen. So I watched it with some "what... what the..." feeling, and thought I absolutely needed to watch another episode right away. ;]
back then i was up to date with the manga but i still got shocked and full body goosebumps when i saw the glitchy trailer in the ed, it completely caught me off guard like i never thought they'd include a scene and specifically That Scene from the next season 💀 isayama and wit really said "we dgaf yall should've already read this in the manga" because wtf was that
So I fall asleep to this playlist every night and I turned over to fall asleep and heard hanges “eurruen” at 0:44 I had to roll back over to make sure I was on the right side of RUclips
A nice little detail I noticed during this episode was that they teased the thunder spears already in 1: there's someone in the dinner scene who says someone sucks at the spear so they should get the meat instead 2: when they ride out, someone carrying the quiver of thunder spears
I want to say, before I begin, Erwin says some eps before something along the lines of "Armin is our hope for humanity." To Levi. They never bring it up in the flash back.
BTW do you think Sina, Rose, and Maria got differentiated Titans? I haven't seen this anywhere, but I imagine in going from Ymir's original titan to the Nine passed down separately, there must have been intermediate stages with fewer than nine. We know they take slightly different forms with each shifter. Maybe Ymir's daughters had a proto-Colossal-Female-Founding titan, a proto-Armored-Warhammer-Attack titan, and a proto-Cart-Jaw-Beast titan. Then whoever shared in eating them (to get from 3 inheritors to 9) got further differentiated versions, changing with how each successive shifter used their powers.
God I love this series, it's just so damn cool seeing the little hints and details you don't see the first time watching. Once you're done with AoT I think it would be really cool if you covered Re:Zero. That's all for my yap sesh, take care!
kroto i gotta thank you for this series man, aot is already my favorite story to be told and just having you perfectly point out everything i missed and make just about every little thing make absolute perfect sense just makes it even better, also my own little theory, what if the size of the titan correlates to where they where injected in the spine?
I don't think so because both in the anime and the Manga all the eldian are injected at the tip of their spine in their neck and they all transformed into different sizes (when all the people get turned in front of Grisha)
Levi later explains that he didn't choose Armin, but rather chose for Erwin to die then and there, because of his 私情 aka "personal feelings" (that part sadly wasn't translated quite accurately). Eren also pointed out that Levi wasn't rational on that rooftop at all. That being said, didn't Levi let Erwin free of his suffering, DESPITE what was better for Humanity's victory? We also will hear a lot in s4 that Hange, Armin and others would often reflect on that Erwin would have been a much more capable option for the command. And finally, in all the interview with the author and the cast the main focus when speaking about Midnight Sun episode is always Levi giving Erwin a mercy of peace (he was just about to inject Erwin after all, but what finally stopped him was Erwin himself and his gratitude for letting him go) and never choosing Armin as "the better option". Levi will literally say, "You can never replace him."
It’s begun… 😂 Jokes aside, I’ll talk about all of that when we actually get to the decision, clearly it wasn’t as simple as Levi already having been convinced, but I think it’d be silly to say that the events of this episode don’t weigh on him. Plenty more on that though 👍
@@Koroto thank you for reading my yapping 😅 Yeah, I'm sure there's more to come, it's just that when you said Levi's mind is already 99.9% made up on that night, it left only 0,1% of the weight for all the upcoming events. I think Midnight Sun is known to be the ultimate episode about a choice for a reason, while the Night Before... to me is more about Levi feeling the inevitable and failing at trying to convince Erwin to live 😢 He's definitely not ready for that choice at the time.
@@Koroto Also, Levi doesn't know yet that Flock and others see Erwin as the devil and wish him hell on earth. One of the biggest things he will spare Erwin from.
The glitchy ending is actually similar to something that happens in both the NieR:Automata game and anime, although there it isn't exactly an ED, but it's cool and has kind of the same energy to it.
i like the white pale erwyn horse but just a little fun fact most ppl don't know.. the "pale" horse is actually pale green (or pale greenish grey, like a rotting decaying corpse. that's why it's rider is death) not pale white like most people think.
I think when Erwin smiled at the end of season 2 was because his father's question was answered and by extention his. Everything he's done in S3 is to set the path for the people that could finally share his and his father's dream to uncover the truth, he was not alone anymore, everyone will now the truth, and unfortunately he won't be there to see, he knows how dangerous the mission would be... also, nobody really fulfill their dreams in aot
In regard to what you stated near the end, about desperately needing more AOT content to think about: Shingeki Fly, a 35th volume of sorts, is coming out within a day. It’s going to have 18 new pages involving more of Levi’s backstory.
Can't wait for your breakdown on the Battle of Shinganshina. I wonder how its gonna go. Are you gonna go by episode by episode, or are you gonna do separate breakdowns for each side of the skirmish?
I'm sorry I saw the title and felt like fucking crying. I can't do this right now, I'm still sensitive to these episodes, give me a while to mentally prepare and then I'll watch the video.
Little tip I've since picked up if you tend to do this (afaik it applies to all anime): if you see the "to be continued..." End card before the credits, (95% of episodes) it's safe to skip the ED and go to the next episode. If you don't; then watch the ED as there's still more to watch.
People in the comments say that Levi chose the future over the past, but do they realize that Levi himself got stuck in the past after Erwin's death? 🙁 Isayama: "He is currently like a balloon dangling in the air rather aimlessly. To Levi, staying with Erwin until Erwin's last minute gave him a feeling that his has accomplished everything he needs to. I think he still has the goal of killing the Beast Titan." Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi's VA): "Levi hasn't changed. The loss of Erwin is so huge that afterwards he feels like he's just living out the rest of his years" Daisuke Ono (Erwin's VA): "After Erwin's death Levi always seemed lonely."
I think it's the blown back hair and jacket (even though Barturoto also has the same jacket), but no, that's definitely Berotorotorto. 😅 If there were any other instances were Marcel is brought up like that, I think you could make a case for that, but here I think it's just the wind blowing back his hair and the odd angle that kinda makes him look a bit off. I think the headshape is kinda a giveaway for that - Marcel's face was a bit more round/blocky, Bertolts is a lot more oval. (Could also be different animators or something like that. This episode does have a few distinct frames too. Mikasa on the stairs looks a tad different to the usual close ups. Erwin's framing in the Levi scene also changes a little bit etc)
Hey ! If you love overanalysing so much you should DEFINITELY watch the Monogatari series. Besides, I love your videos on Avatar and AOT, keep it up man !
I have a theory that future Eren actually sent that memory of Erwin in his fathers class to him in that moment so Levi would choose armin. Love to hear yours and anyone else’s thoughts on this or perhaps you’ll talk about it in a future video.
Nah. Commanders advertising themselves as the commander was actually the norm throughout history. Kings would wear crowns on their helms, or gilded armors; generals would wear extremely fancy horse-hair mohawks and feathers, and occasionally fancy scarlet capes. The morale boost to the soldiers, especially if the commander is fighting on the front alongside them, was incredibly potent, and would prove to be instrumental in winning battles, often-times. It was also the case that in the same way flags (or other symbols representing the division of the army you are fighting in such as the Romans' golden eagles) represented a central point to rally around and ensure cohesion in the unit, commanders would often need to be a central figure to ensure that is readily recognizable in order to make sure their orders are carried out. They just had to rely upon their fellow soldiers to protect them and hope no one got a lucky throw with a javelin or shot with a gun/bow/crossbow/slingshot or whathaveyou. It was only after modern communications tech was put into play that generals really had the luxury of hiding away from the battlefield and directing things from elsewhere. Even if most commanders preferred to fight from the rear when it wasn't necessary to join their men at the front (because they did know that losing the commander would likely cost a potential victory, and typically didn't want to put themselves in danger unless they felt it necessary, as such), they would still wear distinguishing markers to make it very clear who was in charge.
Levi is one of the best written characters in fiction simply because every little detail about how he behaves and does things ties back to his upbringing and background. He’s the strongest but far from perfect. He chose the future over the past here
Thats not true... levi responded both when floch asked him "why did you choose armin" and later, when armin asked him "why did you choose me?" it should be clear, don't rely on videos like this the work itself should be enough. levi replied that he didn't want to make erwin suffer anymore, call him back to that hell and force him to be the devil.
I agree with most of your points but I don't think he had 99 percent made his choice , I think it was weighing heavy on him and he was considering all those points you made but I think with erwin's sacrifice and choosing Levi as the sole survivor to avenge him and the others made him almost guilty to the point where seeing erwin alive (barely) when he assumed he was dead made him double think himself and want to give the syringe to erwin and it was erwin's final hand raise that made him realize what the right choice actual was
I was wondering what you'd make of Eren saying "why isn't anyone stopping us?". If you'll indulge me, let me share some of my thoughts: To me, this line speaks volumes about how Eren views himself, his own combative nature, aggression, and impulsive, and the role he has come to rely on the others around him to play in that. Throughout the series and in pretty much every flashback of Eren's life, we see him jumping feet first into every conflict, be it with the Shiganshina bullies, with Hannes and the garrison soldiers, with Mikasa's captors, and later with Jean and various other cadets of the 104th, and while in almost every situation he gets in way over his head, but there's always some one around who's stronger, faster, and/or more level-headed than him to bail him out of trouble (usually Mikasa). We will later see him do this again when he hides out in Liberio, makes a charge for Zeke, and of course, The Rumbling; Eren is always counting on his friends and comrades to pull him back before he goes too far. Here, we see what happens when no one comes to his rescue: instead of stopping himself, like he knows deep down he should probably do, he just keeps right on going, allowing the inertia of his impulsiveness carry him forward long after the heat of the moment has cooled down. In a very sneaky way, this, I think, foreshadows Eren's actions in starting The Rumbling not just as a show of force to make a point but as the global cataclysm everyone feared it would be, and once again he relies on his friends to stop him and pull him back before he completely wipes out all of humanity outside the walls. It's one of AoT's signature blink-and-you'll-miss-it seemingly innocuous moments that ends up carrying so much narrative weight, and in my opinion, is one of the most telling and important lines of dialogue in the entire story.
Speaking of achieving goals: It's a bit silly, but my lifelong goal has been to have a full Living Pokedex. Around the time of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Marshadow was the last Pokémon I needed to get and once I got it, I honestly felt empty. Also also, if you're looking for something AOT to dig into, have you seen the Historical footage videos someone made featuring key moments from the series?
By most of history, over 90% people were doing farming. Add to this, that only some parts can be actually use for farming, and only part of that can be use for farming efectivelly. And there are so much more problems with this. Most likely the best land for farming is outside of wall Rose. And whan I get this bird-view of walls, and seeing how much of this are mountains, that are not good for farming, they must have really have large problems with this.
As far as this commanders in old times, they were very easy to spot, since they usually were something difffrent than regular soldier. Roman Centurion is best example, with there very diffrent helmet, but others had that too. Very fancy decorations, staying close to flag of the unit, specialistic weapons, and so on. This blending in the regular troops, and heaving only minor changes is reacent. First half of XX century you still could easly spot Russian political commissars. And The GOAT Commander had this horse since they were fighting only mindless titans, so he could only be seen by his own men. Really no reason to hide.
I’ll be the first to in line to agree with Levi’s decision, but there are some factors that I see between Erwin and Armin that makes a big difference. I think that Erwin has two traits that Armin is lacking; his charisma and his poker face. Armin’s biggest weakness was his tendency to rely on empathy.
Hi Koroto and co. Great episode as always. So I am dumb and don’t remember, why/when did Erwin lose an arm??? Also, I somehow feel justified and unjustified in skipping ED’s because this is the first I’m learning of such an ending to an episode and good grief it is creepy. I cannot imagine how over the top it would have been for people watching live and unable to rewind to THEN overanalyze
Erwin's arm got chomped at the end of season 2 during the Eren chase. My video on the episode: ruclips.net/video/7O0vUI2xAPk/видео.html And for the EDs, I've been lucky enough to always have a pretty good sense that something more might be coming (usually abnormal run time or something like that). Seeing this for the first time was nuts 😅
@@Koroto I see, I see. I’ve not done a proper rewatch of AOT. I just can’t with all the deaths. I’ve still not gotten over my beloved potato girl XD keep up the great work and make sure you take care of yourself
In hindsight, the glitchy ending could be Armin, as the narrator, trying to remember what happened around the time he became a titan as he was only kind of alive when he transformed
Nice way to see it but I also think it’s eren because he also said has it already been four months meaning his warp of time is everywhere
I think it is the Attack Titan's future memories coming into play, especially for the basement reveal.
@@hessiankyojinthanks it’s almost like you just reposted exactly what I said hours later 😂
@@DarkMasterJo Who are you?
@@DarkMasterJo-🤡
I also love how both Levi and Mikasa let go of Erwin and Eren to set them free from being slaves to something. There are a lot of parallels between their stories.
6:14
Grisha introduces penicilin to the wall
Suddenly he is the saint that cured the biggest plague in the walls (a mild flu)
Tfw you're allergic to penicillin
@@nabuchodonosormcgalapatram6941 damn, guesd you die xD
Penicillin is an antibiotic. The flu is caused by a virus.
@@nabuchodonosormcgalapatram6941 You still benefit massively by the disease becoming far more rare.
@@ASDeckard Yeah, herd immunity and all, but still, imagine the shock, he gives you a shot and you have a reaction because you never knew you were allergic.
Erwin screaming before the Scouts leave for the mission is one of my favourite scenes. One of the the very few things which gets me more hyped than a new AoT overanalysis episode dropping. Especially after seeing Erwin so tormented and exhausted throughout all of season 3, him still being able to build up such charisma and power, as well as genuine excitement for seeing the basement, is just so inspiring, Levi's reaction says everything. And it makes it so much more tragic when he eventually chooses to sacrifice his dream.
I love that Erwin was really just in it for himself and the guilt he has over his father's death. This man did all THIS, had all these people die, think 4 seasons ahead... just because he wish he had shut his mouth.
Not really, his final decision is him prioritizing his duty as a leader. He easily could’ve sent them to die and seen what was in the basement, so in the end he really was in it for everyone else.
@@sliiifertheskydragon9790 He couldn't have sent them to die, Erwin said he had to lead the charge or the scouts wouldn't do it. What he could have done however is taken the scouts over the wall and abandoned the horses to die, gambling on them being able to defeat a titan they could use to ride home.
Return to Shiganshina Arc analysis is gonna be bonkers BRO.
i literally cannot fucking wait 😭😭😭
28:23 Literally had goosebumps as you mentioned it, it’s dope to see such a calm character shout on pure adrenaline. Just like when his arm was bit off.
-You cooked with this one, Koroto.
Narrator: He's lying. He knows Koroto always cooks in every single AoT video.
The glitchy outro scared me to death the first time I saw it
everytime you upload an episode of this series i get excited (and more obsessed with aot). i don't know what i'm gonna do once you're done overanalyzing attack on titan ! life will be empty 😔 (seriously your series help sm with the grief of aot being over lol)
I will Overanalyze Overanalyzing Attack on Titan! 😅👍
watch AoT again armed with all this knowledge.... it's helped me notice so much small but important details I missed on first viewing. Watched it twice and never once noticed Burrito away to bite his hand in the tower episode until watching these vids
@SA80TAGE wait actually was I the only one that actually caught it first viewing?
@@KorotoPlease do because I still remember the emptiness I felt when Aot ended and while watching this series I fear it will come back again
@@elywahl9520 there's no way you got everything. There's so many tiny details that at the time seem completely irrelevant, like Eren saying he thought he'd been in the titan eating place before.
I was a manga reader when this episode came out and remember looking at the anime-only thread on reddit and loving every single reaction to that glitch ending. Good times.
i was loving everyone who genuinely thought armin was gonna die lmao
Why don't I remember this?
That glitch ending was wild. So glad I got to see it unspoiled
I was thinking the same thing. It was nice being reminded just how amazing it was.
I LOVE that glitchy ending that teased season 3 part 2 genuinely TERRIFYING and seeing this as an anime only at the time actually made me thinking everything went completely wrong for the scouts and pretty much everyone died (ironically the same theory you said in the video) in hindsight…I was wrong but I guess I predicted there was a lot of death lol.
I think this is my favorite series on youtube right now
Imagine just dropping banger after banger with no signs of getting dull. Keep the superb content coming my guy, I will be here to absorb it all like a sponge
That ED glitch/teaser was incredible upon first watch.
I literally had never seen the glitch credits cause I usually skim the last 10 seconds for frames with my mouse for after-credit scenes, so I just went back and watched it and got fucking chills LMAO - I would've freaked if I saw that years ago
I think the image of Erwin on his horse also could represent dying in battle. Statues of militery people on horeses represent how they died. And when it showcase the horse on it's backlegs they died in battle.
Not really, that's more of an urban legend. Someone did a study a few years back looking at every statue they could and how the person died and there was no correlation. For example, damn near every statue of Napoleon has the horse on it's hind legs. But he died in bed in the South Atlantic.
Though, they did tell us there was a big thing with statues in boot camp. There was this big thing where if the horse had this leg up they were wounded, if this leg was up they were wounded and died after the battle. It even went so far as "If their sword is high they won the battle, if it's lower they lost the battle but won the war, etc..."
But all just legend. The artists just did either what the client paid for or what they thought was cool.
30:21 omg yesss someone mentions the glitch teaser 🔥
I was just thinking of when the next AOT vid would be out and, like magic, here it is :)
Warriors.... I found the Attack Titan... he's not aware the full extent of his power yet. Shift forms and move in, we have him!
Do it again I’m ready for the next episode lol
"Everyone's a slave to something." *- Kenny the Ripper*
I’m so glad this video exists. Armin is one of my favorite characters in fiction and I was always kind of mixed up on exactly how Levi decided to choose him in the end.
levi responded both when floch asked him "why did you choose armin" and later, when armin asked him "why did you choose me?" it should be clear, don't rely on videos like this the work itself should be enough. levi replied that he didn't want to make erwin suffer anymore, call him back to that hell and force him to be the devil. Levi said it
@Lauraneri. Thanm you so much for this response. Dont get me wrong, i love this overanalyzing of one of the greatest anime stories ever told, but thats just it, an overanalyzation. The show literally said Levi wanted to let Erwin finally rest.
@@giggusmaximus2167 yes agree 100%
I'm so mad I missed that teaser ending during my first viewing. Caught me off guard during my rewatch.
There's something about your videos man,once you start watching them you can't stop😊
Another interpretation on overanalyzing the idea of the horse being a symbol of the personification of death is that Erwin, being it's rider, is leading the scouts to their deaths each time he leads them. matching with the pile of bodies he stands upon for his accomplishments.
Thank you for your work. This detailed level of analysis is exactly what I'm craving and it makes me so happy to see so many people being interested in this, because most people these days only care about superficial things in anime. But it's the beautiful storytelling and use of narrative elements that, at least for me, make anime worth watching and to see someone actually CARING about the details and foreshadowing like you do, inspires me a lot in my own analyses. Thank you 💜
You have no idea how much this mean to me. Im watching every ep and have been sitting on the last one for about a month now. What you said about finishing a show / meeting life goals hits HARD. Im about to finish college in less than a week and you just helped me understand this feeling of fear of completing my "big goal"... life goes on.
Babe, wake up, Koroto's Mystery Shack Posted
9:15 my first round of reading attack on titan, i had a similar-but-not-really hypothesis of grisha, the doctor, being the one administering some sort of injection that turns people into titans (that's why he always travelled as well as conveniently leaving shinganshina before the very first attack) (funny how as i was reading more the concept of titan fluid was revealed)
I don't really see the future Kenny analogue at all, I just thing Erwin was very obviously already broken from trauma and survivors guilt and in the end Levi realized that he could not bring the true suicidal maniac of AOT back to life as the colossal Titan doomed to be weaponized like a nuclear bomb. I don't think the differences in Armen and Erwin's ideology or perspective had any consideration for Levi, I think that from a cold, cost/benefit analysis Erwin is the obvious choice bar none, Flock was right superficially but while Flock knew Erwin's legend Levi knew the man and realized that the Erwin that got them to that point was already more or less gone before Erwin's final charge and that resurrecting the man as the Colossal wouldn't really bring him back.
Erwin had simply seen and done to much at that point, sacrificed to much. He had nothing left to give and if he was given the colossal titan he'd probably ended up feeding himself to another Titan or just disappearing and living in seclusion once paradie started making contact with the outside world. He wanted to die, simple as, and Levi couldn't bring himself to torture him with the colossal's resurrection no matter how valuable his mind was to them.
not the true suicidal maniac lmaooooo
Oh yes, I remember I was about to skip the outro and I think I wanted to call it a day for AoT, but then this "glitch" happen. So I watched it with some "what... what the..." feeling, and thought I absolutely needed to watch another episode right away. ;]
Armin represented the next generation and how the next generation should move forward.
back then i was up to date with the manga but i still got shocked and full body goosebumps when i saw the glitchy trailer in the ed, it completely caught me off guard like i never thought they'd include a scene and specifically That Scene from the next season 💀 isayama and wit really said "we dgaf yall should've already read this in the manga" because wtf was that
Fun fact: Hajime Isayama stated in an interview that Erwin would've given up if he became the Colossal Titan.
Source please? As far as I can tell, this is blatant misinformation.
@@akamered4483people when misinformation is being spread for a hypothetical scenario in a fictional world
Wdym given up?
@@okuyasuniijimuraHe'd have nothing to live for
@@okuyasuniijimurabut it was horseshit, so don’t worry about it.
So I fall asleep to this playlist every night and I turned over to fall asleep and heard hanges “eurruen” at 0:44 I had to roll back over to make sure I was on the right side of RUclips
A nice little detail I noticed during this episode was that they teased the thunder spears already in 1: there's someone in the dinner scene who says someone sucks at the spear so they should get the meat instead 2: when they ride out, someone carrying the quiver of thunder spears
What a great episode. I didn't even remember the whole glitching ed thing so that was cool to see
The return to Shiganshina and all that follows is PEAK Attack On Titan. I can't wait for the next couple of videos!
ngl for erwin's white horse, i always thought it was a reference to napoleon but it could just be my french blood
I always drop everything as soon as one of these videos come out 🤩
Just wanted to say that I love this video series and it deserves far more attention. Keep it up!
Eren be like: Connie spinal cord sword!
I want to say, before I begin, Erwin says some eps before something along the lines of "Armin is our hope for humanity." To Levi. They never bring it up in the flash back.
omg I’ve been impatiently waiting for this series to get to RtS arc 🙏🙏
This is awesome!!! Would love more video essays on Levi
BTW do you think Sina, Rose, and Maria got differentiated Titans? I haven't seen this anywhere, but I imagine in going from Ymir's original titan to the Nine passed down separately, there must have been intermediate stages with fewer than nine. We know they take slightly different forms with each shifter. Maybe Ymir's daughters had a proto-Colossal-Female-Founding titan, a proto-Armored-Warhammer-Attack titan, and a proto-Cart-Jaw-Beast titan. Then whoever shared in eating them (to get from 3 inheritors to 9) got further differentiated versions, changing with how each successive shifter used their powers.
Thanks for letting us know about the Night trilogy in the series.
Really enjoy your analysis.
I absolutely love your videos, always top tier ! pls don't stop !
God I love this series, it's just so damn cool seeing the little hints and details you don't see the first time watching. Once you're done with AoT I think it would be really cool if you covered Re:Zero. That's all for my yap sesh, take care!
kroto i gotta thank you for this series man, aot is already my favorite story to be told and just having you perfectly point out everything i missed and make just about every little thing make absolute perfect sense just makes it even better, also my own little theory, what if the size of the titan correlates to where they where injected in the spine?
I don't think so because both in the anime and the Manga all the eldian are injected at the tip of their spine in their neck and they all transformed into different sizes (when all the people get turned in front of Grisha)
@elywahl9520 guess I overlooked those moments thank you for reminding me
Levi later explains that he didn't choose Armin, but rather chose for Erwin to die then and there, because of his 私情 aka "personal feelings" (that part sadly wasn't translated quite accurately). Eren also pointed out that Levi wasn't rational on that rooftop at all. That being said, didn't Levi let Erwin free of his suffering, DESPITE what was better for Humanity's victory? We also will hear a lot in s4 that Hange, Armin and others would often reflect on that Erwin would have been a much more capable option for the command. And finally, in all the interview with the author and the cast the main focus when speaking about Midnight Sun episode is always Levi giving Erwin a mercy of peace (he was just about to inject Erwin after all, but what finally stopped him was Erwin himself and his gratitude for letting him go) and never choosing Armin as "the better option". Levi will literally say, "You can never replace him."
It’s begun… 😂
Jokes aside, I’ll talk about all of that when we actually get to the decision, clearly it wasn’t as simple as Levi already having been convinced, but I think it’d be silly to say that the events of this episode don’t weigh on him.
Plenty more on that though 👍
@@Koroto thank you for reading my yapping 😅 Yeah, I'm sure there's more to come, it's just that when you said Levi's mind is already 99.9% made up on that night, it left only 0,1% of the weight for all the upcoming events. I think Midnight Sun is known to be the ultimate episode about a choice for a reason, while the Night Before... to me is more about Levi feeling the inevitable and failing at trying to convince Erwin to live 😢 He's definitely not ready for that choice at the time.
@@Koroto Also, Levi doesn't know yet that Flock and others see Erwin as the devil and wish him hell on earth. One of the biggest things he will spare Erwin from.
The glitchy ending is actually similar to something that happens in both the NieR:Automata game and anime, although there it isn't exactly an ED, but it's cool and has kind of the same energy to it.
YES YES YES ITS MY GOAT KOROTO
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@@Koroto i actually physically screamed out when i saw this video
Lmao glad you're excited! 😂
Was schoked too.. Did koroto say 15 days? Can.t w8 for bis part of AOT Shimi arc..After thad i can die happy :)
@@kiffu94 ahh yes peak of slap on giant the shimi arc
i like the white pale erwyn horse but just a little fun fact most ppl don't know.. the "pale" horse is actually pale green (or pale greenish grey, like a rotting decaying corpse. that's why it's rider is death) not pale white like most people think.
I have watch all the aot videos at least 3 times now, keep up the good work man!
The fact we are only a little over halfway through the series is kinda crazy
30:00 god I remember watching this live and that’s when I decided to read the manga
I think when Erwin smiled at the end of season 2 was because his father's question was answered and by extention his. Everything he's done in S3 is to set the path for the people that could finally share his and his father's dream to uncover the truth, he was not alone anymore, everyone will now the truth, and unfortunately he won't be there to see, he knows how dangerous the mission would be... also, nobody really fulfill their dreams in aot
Little bit shocked here after read the title, i thought i missed your series cause the last time i see you still at s3 lol
7:54 I respect the Hacker T Dog reference.
I wish I got to see levi yell at Erwin and him change his inner philosophy. But I I love the plot line chosen either way.
I love it every time you play the clip of the dude writing heat lmao
8:45 you could argue that they took this theory and applied it to the live action adaptaion
In regard to what you stated near the end, about desperately needing more AOT content to think about: Shingeki Fly, a 35th volume of sorts, is coming out within a day. It’s going to have 18 new pages involving more of Levi’s backstory.
Can't wait for your breakdown on the Battle of Shinganshina. I wonder how its gonna go. Are you gonna go by episode by episode, or are you gonna do separate breakdowns for each side of the skirmish?
I'm sorry I saw the title and felt like fucking crying. I can't do this right now, I'm still sensitive to these episodes, give me a while to mentally prepare and then I'll watch the video.
WOOOO KOROTO STARTING THE RAMBLING ONCE AGAIN
So sad that I always skip ED, so I missed the glitchy one.
Noooooooooooooo, that's such a shame. Seeing it for the first time was truly something else.
Little tip I've since picked up if you tend to do this (afaik it applies to all anime): if you see the "to be continued..." End card before the credits, (95% of episodes) it's safe to skip the ED and go to the next episode. If you don't; then watch the ED as there's still more to watch.
People in the comments say that Levi chose the future over the past, but do they realize that Levi himself got stuck in the past after Erwin's death? 🙁
Isayama: "He is currently like a balloon dangling in the air rather aimlessly. To Levi, staying with Erwin until Erwin's last minute gave him a feeling that his has accomplished everything he needs to. I think he still has the goal of killing the Beast Titan."
Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi's VA): "Levi hasn't changed. The loss of Erwin is so huge that afterwards he feels like he's just living out the rest of his years"
Daisuke Ono (Erwin's VA): "After Erwin's death Levi always seemed lonely."
In the dub, when the thunder spears pierced Reiner, he screams “I don’t want to die!” Which reminds you that these guys are human
11:36 you saying that gives me Stephen King Dark Tower vibes... Death, but not for you gunslinger... never for you
29:46 is that burrito? I always thought it was an adult Marcel being dreamed up by Reiner
I think it's the blown back hair and jacket (even though Barturoto also has the same jacket), but no, that's definitely Berotorotorto. 😅
If there were any other instances were Marcel is brought up like that, I think you could make a case for that, but here I think it's just the wind blowing back his hair and the odd angle that kinda makes him look a bit off. I think the headshape is kinda a giveaway for that - Marcel's face was a bit more round/blocky, Bertolts is a lot more oval.
(Could also be different animators or something like that. This episode does have a few distinct frames too. Mikasa on the stairs looks a tad different to the usual close ups. Erwin's framing in the Levi scene also changes a little bit etc)
😂😂 loved the Connor and Chris reference. Didn’t know you were a fan👍
What can I say, they're very affable gentlemen
@@Koroto 😂😂good one
Me watching this for the 5th time to overanalyze the overanalyzing
Levi: How important is that basement to you, Erwin?
Erwin: It’s more important that eatin’ food. It’s more important than drinkin’ water…
beeen w8ting soo long... And Korotos cocking again ...
Hey ! If you love overanalysing so much you should DEFINITELY watch the Monogatari series. Besides, I love your videos on Avatar and AOT, keep it up man !
when are you making a video on the ones who live?? this channel got me into the walking dead
I Wish i didn't get spoiled about this episode
God Damn It! XD
I recently made a new layout for my thumbnails and I really love how good it looks, it's basically identical to yours, oops....
When that new retrospective drops you know it’s a good day
I have a theory that future Eren actually sent that memory of Erwin in his fathers class to him in that moment so Levi would choose armin. Love to hear yours and anyone else’s thoughts on this or perhaps you’ll talk about it in a future video.
Hate having to delay watching these around my girlfriend as I wanna avoid spoilers as I still hold hope I can get here to watch it.
Nah. Commanders advertising themselves as the commander was actually the norm throughout history. Kings would wear crowns on their helms, or gilded armors; generals would wear extremely fancy horse-hair mohawks and feathers, and occasionally fancy scarlet capes.
The morale boost to the soldiers, especially if the commander is fighting on the front alongside them, was incredibly potent, and would prove to be instrumental in winning battles, often-times. It was also the case that in the same way flags (or other symbols representing the division of the army you are fighting in such as the Romans' golden eagles) represented a central point to rally around and ensure cohesion in the unit, commanders would often need to be a central figure to ensure that is readily recognizable in order to make sure their orders are carried out. They just had to rely upon their fellow soldiers to protect them and hope no one got a lucky throw with a javelin or shot with a gun/bow/crossbow/slingshot or whathaveyou.
It was only after modern communications tech was put into play that generals really had the luxury of hiding away from the battlefield and directing things from elsewhere. Even if most commanders preferred to fight from the rear when it wasn't necessary to join their men at the front (because they did know that losing the commander would likely cost a potential victory, and typically didn't want to put themselves in danger unless they felt it necessary, as such), they would still wear distinguishing markers to make it very clear who was in charge.
Levi is one of the best written characters in fiction simply because every little detail about how he behaves and does things ties back to his upbringing and background. He’s the strongest but far from perfect. He chose the future over the past here
Thats not true...
levi responded both when floch asked him "why did you choose armin" and later, when armin asked him "why did you choose me?" it should be clear, don't rely on videos like this the work itself should be enough. levi replied that he didn't want to make erwin suffer anymore, call him back to that hell and force him to be the devil.
Lol I never thought about what'd I'd do after this series is over oh God I'm not ready
I agree with most of your points but I don't think he had 99 percent made his choice , I think it was weighing heavy on him and he was considering all those points you made but I think with erwin's sacrifice and choosing Levi as the sole survivor to avenge him and the others made him almost guilty to the point where seeing erwin alive (barely) when he assumed he was dead made him double think himself and want to give the syringe to erwin and it was erwin's final hand raise that made him realize what the right choice actual was
These videos are peak literally peak
I was wondering what you'd make of Eren saying "why isn't anyone stopping us?". If you'll indulge me, let me share some of my thoughts:
To me, this line speaks volumes about how Eren views himself, his own combative nature, aggression, and impulsive, and the role he has come to rely on the others around him to play in that. Throughout the series and in pretty much every flashback of Eren's life, we see him jumping feet first into every conflict, be it with the Shiganshina bullies, with Hannes and the garrison soldiers, with Mikasa's captors, and later with Jean and various other cadets of the 104th, and while in almost every situation he gets in way over his head, but there's always some one around who's stronger, faster, and/or more level-headed than him to bail him out of trouble (usually Mikasa). We will later see him do this again when he hides out in Liberio, makes a charge for Zeke, and of course, The Rumbling; Eren is always counting on his friends and comrades to pull him back before he goes too far. Here, we see what happens when no one comes to his rescue: instead of stopping himself, like he knows deep down he should probably do, he just keeps right on going, allowing the inertia of his impulsiveness carry him forward long after the heat of the moment has cooled down.
In a very sneaky way, this, I think, foreshadows Eren's actions in starting The Rumbling not just as a show of force to make a point but as the global cataclysm everyone feared it would be, and once again he relies on his friends to stop him and pull him back before he completely wipes out all of humanity outside the walls.
It's one of AoT's signature blink-and-you'll-miss-it seemingly innocuous moments that ends up carrying so much narrative weight, and in my opinion, is one of the most telling and important lines of dialogue in the entire story.
Two days until the new Levi chapter!
Speaking of achieving goals: It's a bit silly, but my lifelong goal has been to have a full Living Pokedex. Around the time of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Marshadow was the last Pokémon I needed to get and once I got it, I honestly felt empty. Also also, if you're looking for something AOT to dig into, have you seen the Historical footage videos someone made featuring key moments from the series?
I dare you to make one of this videos for a Slap on Titan
It's gonna be WILD😂😂
By most of history, over 90% people were doing farming. Add to this, that only some parts can be actually use for farming, and only part of that can be use for farming efectivelly. And there are so much more problems with this. Most likely the best land for farming is outside of wall Rose. And whan I get this bird-view of walls, and seeing how much of this are mountains, that are not good for farming, they must have really have large problems with this.
As far as this commanders in old times, they were very easy to spot, since they usually were something difffrent than regular soldier. Roman Centurion is best example, with there very diffrent helmet, but others had that too. Very fancy decorations, staying close to flag of the unit, specialistic weapons, and so on. This blending in the regular troops, and heaving only minor changes is reacent. First half of XX century you still could easly spot Russian political commissars.
And The GOAT Commander had this horse since they were fighting only mindless titans, so he could only be seen by his own men. Really no reason to hide.
I’ll be the first to in line to agree with Levi’s decision, but there are some factors that I see between Erwin and Armin that makes a big difference. I think that Erwin has two traits that Armin is lacking; his charisma and his poker face. Armin’s biggest weakness was his tendency to rely on empathy.
Oooooo we're getting close to s4 boys
Man I love this shit!
Hi Koroto and co. Great episode as always. So I am dumb and don’t remember, why/when did Erwin lose an arm??? Also, I somehow feel justified and unjustified in skipping ED’s because this is the first I’m learning of such an ending to an episode and good grief it is creepy. I cannot imagine how over the top it would have been for people watching live and unable to rewind to THEN overanalyze
Erwin's arm got chomped at the end of season 2 during the Eren chase. My video on the episode: ruclips.net/video/7O0vUI2xAPk/видео.html
And for the EDs, I've been lucky enough to always have a pretty good sense that something more might be coming (usually abnormal run time or something like that). Seeing this for the first time was nuts 😅
@@Koroto I see, I see. I’ve not done a proper rewatch of AOT. I just can’t with all the deaths. I’ve still not gotten over my beloved potato girl XD keep up the great work and make sure you take care of yourself
20:04 , did you just call Berthold ‘burrito’ because no one pronounces his name consistently? LOL
First time?
Also, if you know Levi’s backstory through the OVA, I think that is part of the reason he picked Arimin. Trio of pals!