Itterasshai

An aot manga supremacist who tries to write in-depth posts when I'm not ranting about the anime

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Ok, so maybe Eren loving Mikasa wasn’t a retcon afterall, but it just makes Isayama even more malignant for concealing it and the blatant EH baiting. 😡

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in the original draft, eren was meant to save krista from a titan's mouth instead of armin. but isayama changed it, thinking their meeting was too premature.

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EM lobby is too strong.

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Want to know how to tell a good lie? Mix in a little bit of truth from time to time.

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Before, I felt like the route Eren took was incompatible with his development, but post timeskip Eren didn’t deny this idea of everyone having a role to play. He wasn’t devolving and trying to carry everything alone. Even though he went against his friends, he still trusted in their roles and in their power to keep peace with what was left of humanity.

It turned out that he was the complete opposite of “the hope of humankind”, but Historia was still the worst girl in the world, Armin the one who would save world, Levi the strongest soldier, Mikasa, who despite her love for him would ultimately choose what’s right and Floch being the follower of the devil. Everybody has their role.

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I don't know who's worse between Isayama's fanboys who're infuriated at any fan take on the ending, or people who think the ending makes everything that came before also bad, but please try giving a chance to AoT no Requiem. It's not just fanfiction by salty fans, there's passion in it, beautiful art and it clearly understands the story. They aren't disrespecting anything, on the contrary, it's because the team behind Aot no Requiem respects what this story means that they're taking matters into their own hands.

I also did my own version of the ending, but I just edited the dialogue in some pages from the last chapter to make it more acceptable. Don't even know if it's worth posting it. I also prefer a route where Eren doesn't die, as I theorized before 139, but that would require much more editing and the requiem team is already kind of doing the job for me.

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Isayama made a fun panel about eren x historia🥰

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Isayama you son of a....

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Attack on Titan’s ending: Full Thoughts

Let’s talk about the ending of AoT and why I’ll never accept this ending. This will be an insanely long post (TL;DR in the end), because I don’t want to talk about it again if possible. I want to lay out everything I’m thinking and maybe stop being haunted by these thoughts a little. This isn’t the last time I’ll be talking about AoT, though, I just want to limit chapter 139 to this one post. I still had posts to make before it came out, and I still want to talk about other works, although not as much in depth, because no other work came close to the level of investment I have for AoT. So, among the points worth discussing, let’s separate the final chapter in the parts I can live with and the ones that absolutely ruined it for me.

The chapter starts with Eren explaining his plan to Armin. The rumbling would wipe out 80% of humanity and leave an incapacitated and scarred 20% left so that Paradis would have enough time to catch up without sacrificing Historia. That’s exactly what I predicted, and it was given more credibility by Armin’s argument in chapter 133 that the world would stay away from Paradis for centuries if Eren stopped at that moment.

After this they talk about Ymir, but that’s when things started going ass, so I’ll leave it for later.

It was also confirmed that it was Eren who lead Dina to eat his mother. Very disturbing. I thought it was Ymir’s doing, but it being Eren wasn’t out of the table either. It was probably after the Rumbling was activated.

It didn’t look to me like Eren did that willingly, he says how his head was messed up, and honestly, I can’t believe he would ever do that consciously, but he could have. Don’t know what I’m supposed think of this.

It also falls back again into that bootstrap paradox that I could never wrap my head around. Eren influencing the past only makes sense for me with multiple timelines, because the premise that teen Eren always depends on adult Eren to reach his adult phase means he can’t reach that stage by himself, needing outside interference to reach paths, which should be another Eren who failed in his timeline and wanted to change the past.

However, what we have is a closed cycle, but what allowed him to activate this cycle were those interferences, so it has a beginning, which is when he got control of the Founding Titan, but if he is already there and without alternative timelines to save, what is the point? It’s not like he would literally disappear or become a black hole if he didn’t mend with the past, right?

The fact that in this closed cycle, adult Eren gained control of the Founding Titan by himself eliminates the need of creating it in the first place. But maybe that’s just my limited knowledge of physics and science fiction.

But in any case, Eren manipulating everything may answer a lot of questions and erases many plot conveniences, such as Santa Titan not chewing on him; encountering Dina a second time, maybe even not accidentally transforming during the training days, but I don’t know if that’s also why he couldn’t remember Grisha’s memories before the basement. I don’t see how knowing about the world beforehand would’ve changed his path, and I doubt that making Carla die was even necessary for Eren to join the scouts as well.

Another thing that we absolutely needed answers for was the huge would-be Deus Ex Machina that was Falco’s flying titan, and although subtly, I do believe the manga wanted to say it was also Eren’s doing, if not the titan itself, at least the memory Falco received. There is plenty of evidence: from the memory shard of Falco reaching for a bird; to simply a flying titan being just way too convenient; it being brought up shortly after Reiner theorizes Eren wants to be stopped; the self-awareness in Connie calling it a flying miracle; to the page below. The seagull seems to represent Eren’s influence and the way the paneling cuts from the seagull to Falco’s wing makes the correlation stronger:

Although less critical, we also did kinda get an answer for the vow to renounce war. All inheritors of the Founding Titan from the royal family were brainwashed, possessed by that, but how? How can one king be more powerful than the others? The explanation never seemed to come to light, all we knew was that the 145thking, Karl Fritz, simply made a “vow” to the Founding Titan. It turns out that the first king of Erdia, when she was still just a tribe was also called Karl, so with this little crumb of information, plus the fact that Ymir loved the scumbag, we can only conclude that the 145th king used this in common with her loved one to sort of manipulate Ymir, thus gaining an advantage over his successors. It’s a simple, incomplete and a little underwhelming answer for a question that dragged on until the last minute, but there’s a hint of reasoning at least.

So, the ending does answer most of the important things I was worried about given the little time left, but see, they’re half answers that we can only reach by filling the gaps (and might still be wrong) and left unanswered a ton of important questions and lore, such as:

· What’s with the Forests of Giant Trees?

· How come Ymir touching the parasite created a special dimension that transcends time and space?

· Was the parasite really the first living being and origin of life?

· Were the wall titans people? If yes, what happened to them in the aftermath?

· How is the titan serum made, if it had been used for maybe over a millennium, why did it need technology and chemistry expertise?

· How does the hardening even work? Sometimes you need to drink from the bottle, other titans are just born with it and then there are the wall titans which hardening abilities make me question why the Reiss even needed those bottles.

· How are titan bodies light?

· Why did Falco scream?

· When did Eren start crushing on Mikasa?

· How did Mikasa knew Eren was in the mouth?

· How was her memory erased if she is an Ackerman (plot hole)?

It reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion’s endings, which leave so much up to interpretation, but in AoT the lore is just so important, it’s why I and so many people got into it in the first place. The series was built upon mysteries, they were always the main way to propel the narrative forward, so leaving out important pieces, (heck, even the small ones too), is a letdown and comes off as lazy.

On the topic of characters, I want to point out that while I was satisfied with the handling of most of the characters in the final arc, some felt wasted (not counting Historia, who wasted doesn’t even begin to describe it), mainly Reiner and Levi.

Reiner during the Mare arc was number two or three among my favorite characters. His parallels with Eren were so rich. He felt like a character who wanted to be redeemed and punished at the same time. His delusion with Mare, his guilt, his inability to die and the way the manga portrayed him heroically during the Liberio battle pointed at his redemption down the line, and while that’s kinda what happened, it far missed it’s full potential.

The adult Reiner mirrors Marcel. Marcel condemned Reiner to be a titan to spare his little brother, which led him into a life of misery, but in the future, instead of learning from this, Reiner does the same to Falco, only this time without a shred of remorse, and that’s coming from someone whose sole reason for still going on living were the kids!

He didn’t try to fight this messed up system, he completely submitted to it, which is not a good start if you want to redeem a character. I hoped he would’ve realized this flaw, but he didn’t, then I figured it was because of his defeatism and he would have a negative character arc, but neither happened. The story redeemed him without ever addressing what was still wrong with him.

Falco was extremely underutilized too by the way, but his character didn’t present much potential for development anyway.

Now onto Levi. Levi stole Connie’s revenge against Zeke. I always hated this, but at least Connie got some purpose in the final phase. My problem with Levi post time skip is that he should’ve realized that this promise to kill Zeke lost it’s meaning a long time ago. Had he killed Zeke in RtS, the volunteers would’ve never come to the island and Paradis would be done for. Making Zeke retreat and change his approach was for the best, so those deaths had already fulfilled their purpose. But Levi kept pushing forward in the name of a promise that didn’t make sense anymore. Yes, there were still reasons to kill Zeke, but killing him now wouldn’t give any meaning to the soldiers who died in the charge.

Levi’s obsession could’ve been developed well with the “they were all slaves to something” theme and Levi’s attachment to violence, but it was barely touched upon, instead, his schizophrenia was glorified and apparently killing Zeke did stop the rumbling (plot hole)? Any potential for Levi and Zeke as foils, underlining parallels and a change in their relationship due to Zeke handing the kill were also wasted.

Reiner and Levi had huge, wasted potential in how the story didn’t address or develop their contradictions and were still given positive, uninspired endings without twists.

I was talking about wasted potential, but the real end ruining material is now.

Rant Warning

Ymir loved Karl Fritz… what…?

Acknowledging the absurdity of it, but not explaining why doesn’t excuse it. Honestly, I’d be much more okay with her obedience being due to psychological trauma and lack of perspective, and the rumbling being her lashing out at the world that made her suffer so much, but ultimately regretting this decision after seeing the suffering of the innocents, but this is ridiculous. “I can’t claim to understand the depths of Ymir’s heart”. Me neither, she loved the bastard and there’s nothing to work with to make sense out of it. So instead of a compelling character, Ymir was just retarded.

One of the root problems in AoT was love? Wasn’t love being built up as the solution? And seriously, the parallel with Mikasa, where did it come from? It feels so random. Ymir was supposed to be an obvious parallel to Historia. Ymir was supposed to be trapped in that idea of being a good girl. Even my post about Ymir made more sense than the former.

When she released the pigs was it because of Karl Fritz? No! Seriously, this love bullshit feels like such a last-minute change.

Edit: Ymir may have just had Stockholm syndrome, which makes this a little less bad, but we’ll never know for sure. I can already see many people interpreting it as rape apology (already did see some) because it wasn’t fleshed out. This will be such a plateful for ill intended watchers like the ones who accused AoT of Nazism.

Eren loved Mikasa all along? No… FUCK NO! Tell me when. WHEN DID THIS MF LOVED HER AS A WOMAN?! Ok, in retrospect, when he asked what he means to her in chapter 123 was probably because he did think of running away with her, and his memory shards of Mikasa were also bigger, but really, that’s TOO weak and gets easily overshadowed by the blatant EH bait. So when did it even start? Because there’s nothing mutual before that, NOTHING, it was totally one sided. And if Eren had such a big crush on Mikasa he should’ve noticed her feelings way before. You could argue that he didn’t realize it because of his low self-esteem, but the real issue is how he feels and how this is so out of character and such a monumental asspull.

There’s even that comment of Isayama saying Eren saw Mikasa like mother figure. This panel is just insulting and unbelievable, even fanfics make more sense, as they generally start with Eren already liking Mikasa and not hinting at another direction. This was a whole ass parody. If you asked anyone before 139 whether Eren loved Mikasa, only the deluded shippers would say yes.

This possible cringiest panel in manga history followed AoT’s pattern of building up to something, leading the expectations our somewhere, only for the reveal to be in the opposite end, but I don’t think this works with romance, cause it has to be, you know, ROMANTIC. You can’t just treat romantic feelings like you treat plot mysteries, or at least not in the dirty way it was done.

But it gets even dirtier: there was no Historia reveal in the end; there was nothing that justified her absence, other than the fact that Isayama didn’t want to develop her anymore and wanted her to be this big mystery box to bait us with EreHisu. Really? Historia, that amazing character from the Uprising arc reduced to a sorry plot device?

We can’t even be sure of who the father is because that fucking NPC guy is always drawn far away. Initially this made it obvious that he was unimportant and the father was Eren, but now it’s another source for endless debate.

I didn’t hate the pregnancy plot from the beginning, people were judging it as bad and dropping the series solely because it invalidated their gay representation, but I argued that they couldn’t judge it without the full picture. And while the full picture was atrocious and my disappointment is probably up there with theirs, I still think Historia stayed true to her character, but the wasted potential; the sheer deceiving and disrespect; the grand and overarching birth and love motifs thrown in the trash make this the worst Red Herring in history.

Granted, Eren and Historia’s romance didn’t develop onscreen either, but it didn’t necessarily need to, it could begin even after the ending, as making a baby was something out of necessity and Eren, despite not being her boyfriend was infinitely a better choice than that stupid NPC.

This also undermines certain themes and throws motifs in the trash as I said, because cutting (or at least minimizing) this connection between Eren and Historia’s makes that grandiose contrast between the birth of the baby and the destruction of the rumbling come off as a bad taste joke. The parallelism with Grisha and Dina suggested at Eren and Historia’s union being important and the baby being a symbol of hope and surpassing the mistakes of the father. This child would be raised with love, unlike Zeke, and without being pushed to extremes by war like Eren.

We don’t even need to go so deep, just look at the story. At least half the reason Eren massacred humanity was so Historia wouldn’t be sacrificed in the 50-year plan. Why go this far, knowing all your friends except Mikasa could die trying to stop you, if Historia was just another friend? Any honest person will agree that the story was at the very, very least teasing EH and that EM was looking more and more unrealistic, but to EM shippers and Isayama’s bootlickers*, the most thematic coherent ending, that was actually being built up is the bad one and just hallucinations of EH shippers*², and we*³ couldn’t possibly write a better ending than this mess because we’re not God Isayama.

I could go on and on why EH feels like the natural route, but this post already did a perfect job at that: https://jeanandthedreamofhorses.tumblr.com/post/623102342269665281/erens-choice-mikasa-and-historia-between

Eren loving Mikasa doesn’t invalidate this meta, though, as I think it still adds up apart from romantic feelings, but Erehisu just had more groundwork, chemistry and thematic potential. Mikasa and Eren’s relationship does have its depth and a little progression (all the progression on Mikasa’s side btw), but romantically, really?

If I had to guess, Eren did friendzone Historia (the child’s nose is different from theirs, too), but if she wanted to have a baby by her own free will, wouldn’t doing it with a man she didn’t have any connection to kinda defeat the purpose? Or maybe having a baby instead of running or fighting was just to maintain her position as queen (despite the ship-bait twinkling eyes). Still, the NPC served as a perfect alibi, a convenient alibi who was trying to atone for his bullying, so I guess I’m still 50-50 about this.

I shouldn’t even bring up ships this much, as the biggest problem is Historia’s underusage and false promise of a bigger secret, but I can’t help it when it’s so tied with the themes and when I was baited so much.

Needless to say at this point that I ship EreHisu, but I’m not blind, with proper build up, even if Eren and Mikasa got married in the end I wouldn’t be hating it, but we got misled and played with in a way that’s nothing short of evil.

I’ll commit mass genocide for your sake.

You saved me mentally and physically. We’re enemies of mankind.

I can’t, nii-san, the story is implying I already have someone.

You getting pregnant by your own choice? Great, but don’t count with me for that, I have my waifu, Mikasa, or maybe we can have a one-night stand at least, Idk. Who knows wtf Isayama is thinking.

Those are my complaints, but I also don’t think Isayama fumbling so bad was just done to troll people. I believe there’re basically three reasons.

https://www.snknews.com/post/186093397822/final-shingeki-no-kyojin-attack-on-titan-manga

Betrayed and hurt describes exactly how I’m and many other fans are feeling, but I expected the attack on us being something more tragic, closer to the original ending, not shitty writing that doesn’t fit how well and carefully the story was being crafted. It’s hard to believe Isayama would self-sabotage, as it is hard to believe this was just a lack of capacity after so much prep and after going higher than most manga ever went. So, the only part I think was intentional were the EreHisu baits and concealing Eren’s feelings for Mikasa (maybe).

Another reason is the manga being rushed, something extremely recurrent in manga nowadays, but Isayama doing such a masterful work before and taking his time to develop things made me safe AoT would not fall victim to this fate, that was until chapter 126, one of the most hated chapters. That chapter was so bizarre and rushed, but why was it like this? 126 came out on february 2020, the year Isayama set for AoT to end. He still couldn’t end it in that year, but it’s pretty clear that’s when he started cutting corners.

It’s not that everything was rushed, I don’t feel volumes 33 and 34 were rushed, but there were definitely things cast aside from the story that peak Isayama would’ve taken his time to delve upon, like:

· Who was the girl in school uniform in the credits of season 3 part 2?

· Why was Keith so anti-Jaegerist?

· Did Historia refuse to have her memories erased in Paths?

· Why did Armin start crushing on Annie?

· What made Annie’s dad care about her all of a sudden?

· Falco, Magath, Yelena, maybe even Levi and Reiner’s arc could’ve been expanded upon and of course, lore.

Isayama never wanted AoT to be so long, it was supposed to end with 20 volumes initially, but there just kept popping up new things that he wanted to develop. That’s actually super normal in writing, you’ll always want to polish it, so it ends up getting longer.

But the manga industry is tough, mangaka is an extremely taxing job, so at a certain point Isayama was only willing to do the bare minimum to be able to finish it, ignoring that the scope of the series required more time. There’s an interview with him in 2018 showing his work routine, he looked like a freaking zombie (link bellow).

https://www.snknews.com/post/180237980767/news-livestreamlive-translation-of-jonetsu

And another interview in 2019, with Isayama outright saying he gave up fully exploring the world of AoT to the fullest: https://twitter.com/AoTWiki/status/1186778048693030915

So AoT’s case immediately reminds me of what happened with Tokyo Ghoul:re, another manga I love and whose author Ishida Sui was suffering from a burnout and just stopped caring about the manga eventually. But why didn’t they ever take breaks if they were burntout? Well, let’s just say Japan’s work culture is not very nice.

But Isayama might have also felt editorial pressure, even it was unintentional or veiled.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/it/anime-news/2021/01/04/attack-on-titan-manga-to-finish-in-april-2021

There’s also the possibility that Isayama changed the ending drastically with little preparation, or with little room to make it coherent, maybe just to please fans afterall, by sacrificing only Eren and making EM sort of canon? Whatever the reason it could’ve changed was, I stick with it being Isayama’s decision, because Kodansha didn’t seem to interfere with the story at all, he chose Kodansha precisely because it gave him more control than Shueisha.

What was supposed to be the final audio transpired in chapter 134. It was the final battle, but not the end, maybe because the rumbling was supposed to continue? Isayama’s remark about wanting to draw what he always wanted for closure also supports the possibility of a darker ending in the plans until not long ago.

The final panel was replaced from being the final page to a little panel in the middle of the chapter, even editor Shintarō was surprised by it. Maybe it was just the flow of the scenes that changed, but the former felt so important and fit so well with the messages of the story and the popular prediction of Eren returning to the island and holding his baby that I can’t help but think that the context might have changed entirely.

But why would it change? Isayama looked so certain about it and there was such a big marketing campaign for this ending. If it was a bad idea, then they wouldn’t have hyped it.

Honestly, I’d prefer an Akatsuki no Requiem-like ending so much more. It didn’t need to be word by word, but the idea of Eren going this far to save his friends, only for them to die trying to stop him and having only Historia and the baby left would be such brilliant irony and I strongly believe that was the plan at some point. Eren dying like he did in 138 was still insane, but I prefer something closer to AnR.

I don’t despise Eren’s true plan like most, but the ending framed it in a way that almost came off as apologetic. Armin’s “thank you” and all the Erdians conveniently coming from Liberio to Fort Salta and still making it out alive also contribute to that feeling (not to mention it felt “shōnen-ish” as hell, for lack of a better term).

So I think something definitely happened behind the scenes. It doesn’t change anything for the manga, and I’m sure that Historia trolling was deliberate, but I prefer to believe in a conspiracy theory than believing this was a natural ending, because it feels alien to me.

What a bizarre situation, Isayama had all the pieces needed to immortalize AoT as an otherworldly masterpiece and claim it’s place among the best. The story had already walked through this maddening morally complex, cathartic, tragic, epic and emotional final act. All that was left was to land that perfect final chapter and conclude it with respect and dignity. Sure, there were still a ton of inconsistencies and questions left, but they could have been all cleared up with a few more chapters, or in previous ones, so the problem was more a matter of intent and priorities than time.

There will be a few extra pages for 139 in the volume version, probably just four, but I don’t expect it to change my perception of the ending. Maybe the ending will be more fleshed out or even totally different in the anime, but it’s too late to save the anime for me for how many problems I have with the adaptations.

I of course still respect AoT, but I lost all respect for the creator, and I’m tired of people wanting to force everyone to respect Isayama when this was the most disrespectful ending I know of, even after him talking about wanting to make a responsible one. So, to those people I suggest they just respect themselves more instead and stop defending so faithfully someone who disrespected you.

I’m not angry because “iT DiDN’T gO ThE WaY YOu WaNtEd”, so if you’re gonna defend it, drop the fallacies. This is not a mere matter of personal taste, like when people don’t like certain decisions or routes. We were promised things for so long that we didn’t get and were lied to. I invested so much time in this series as a fan. I spent money, huge amounts of time discussing, theorizing, defending it from haters more than anyone, writing meta (before moving to Tumblr, too), drawing fanart, so the least I demand as a fan is to not be trolled.

AoT will remain in my heart forever, and I still consider it a 10/10 until chapter 138, because 139 can’t render everything before it bad. I’m trying to disconsider 139, like it doesn’t exist. It’s coping and I’m still depressed about the ending, but it works to an extent.

*I don’t mean to say all EM shippers and defenders of the ending are like that, and while I ship EH and disliked the ending, I don’t see myself as part of any group. My opinions would have to match 100% with a group for I to consider myself part of it, and I never see completely eye-to-eye with other disappointed fans and EH shippers.

TL;DR: ending sucked for the following reasons:

· Many lore and mysteries abandoned.

· Ymir loved her rapist.

· Eren loved Mikasa with zero build-up.

· BS Ymir x Mikasa parallels replacing the ones with Historia.

· EH was a bait.

· After nearly three years of mystery, the only thing Historia did was get knocked up.

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The fact that I hate this ending and can’t stop thinking about it is making me lose my sanity. It’s been hell ever since I read it.

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Very mixed feelings.

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Is that how Eren will survive? For years I have theorized that Mikasa is another way to use the Coordinate because of the scene in chapter 50, supported by the fact that she has the blood of two races who are immune to the memory wiping, but with the way the story developed I believed more that was just because touching Dina had a lasting effect of some seconds.

Also, isn’t the end of chapter 138 extremely similar to chapter 50? Mikasa is about to kiss Eren as a goodbye, but then he awakes the coordinate. In chapter 138 she’s able to land the kiss, but as a goodbye again. The only thing left is for Eren to activate the coordinate again and escape alive, but without killing Mikasa. I couldn’t picture Mikasa killing Eren either, but the story did build up on that, but with Eren it feels the opposite, he wants her to live free of him.

It’s strange how the characters never questioned how Eren used the coordinate the second time, but everything fits so well. It would make his whole genocide plan be in vain, so I don’t know if I still want this as much as before I edited this post, despite it playing in the theme of regrets, because it’s too much of a trolling.

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He still has to live to erase Historia’s memories, though.

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It’s the same hair length

Will this mf Eren really kill everyone? At first I hated being spoiled on the final panel, but what happened in chapter 138 made it intriguing to imagine how we’re gonna get to this ending. Like, why does his face looks so accepting? What do we make of the hints of Eren wanting to be stopped? How can he still survive without the Hallucigenia? It can’t be a fake head either because the hair length is the same as in the final panel.

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I’d like to think that Falco screamed because the centipede controlled him.

I discarded this possibility at first for how no one acts surprised, which is weird, too, because a pure titan being controlled is ok, but a titan shifter being controlled is unheard of; how this looked intentional from Falco’s part, like he had to do it, but it wouldn’t make any sense. It was also drawn as an anguish scream, which confused me as well, and to make it even more confusing, we didn’t see Falco’s reaction after the act, making it look even more like it was on purpose.

But the centipede thing is the Founding Titan. When Eren used the coordinate for the first time he couldn’t control RBY, but the centipede proved to not have the limitations of a titan shifter, all the more one restricted by not having royal blood.

As for how Falco did it, it probably worked under the same principle as Zeke in Ragako village, I just had forgotten Falco also inhaled the spinal fluid.

This situation in chapter 138 still needs more elaboration imo, but at this point I’m already resigned to the fact that many things will be left in the open, well, at least I think my conjecture removes one question of the pile that is left.

Edit: or maybe his scream really didn’t have any effect at all and was just emotional. The centipede kinda is the coordinate itself, right, so it makes sense that it wouldn’t need a scream. Wth is this level of fucking with our minds, Yams? There’s even light coming out from the Jaw Titan’s eyes and mouth, as if releasing power, which is reminiscent of when the Female Titan screamed: 

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Seems legit. Not that I like any aot adaptation besides visuals and directing, but really, the dedication of the other fanbases is so touching.

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Can parallels between Eren/Historia and Grisha/Dina reveal more than we think??

Historia has royal blood = Dina had royal blood

Eren has Yeagerists= Grisha had restorationists

Both couples share a similar moment. This one in particular:

In Grisha’s flashback, as Dina was hugging him he said: “The next year, the two of us married and were blessed with a son.”

If the parallels continue then it would be reasonable to theorize that the same thing happened with Eren and Historia. Meaning, the next year, after the meeting with Kyomi, Eren and Historia we’re married and blessed with a child.

I know it’s bold of me to insinuate that Eren and Historia are married (there’s a fair chance they aren’t), but at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if they were (especially since Historia didn’t marry the farmer).

I think one of the last parallels we’ll possibly see between these couples is in the last panel and this is where we’ll see the cycle being broken.

When Grisha first held Zeke, the first words he spoke to him were: “A child with royal blood. Someday this child will lead us to victory.”

He immediately put expectations on Zeke and trapped him in a mission he didn’t choose, the Restoration of Eldia. Making the same mistakes as his father, Dr. Yeager.

When Eren holds his child for the first time he will assure the child that they are free. Free from inheriting any burdens from either parent, free from the cycle of hate and revenge. Eren restored Eldia and kept his wife and child safe while doing it, which Grisha failed at. And by doing this, Eren will have broken the cycles and surpassed his father.

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At the cost of most of the human race, but AoT was always about sacrifices.

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I see this:

and recall that post of mine:

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Wtf did they do with The Promised Neverland anime? I give aot’s adaptations a lot of hate (justifiably so), but TPN was just next level. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a worse adaptation.

Oh, what a dream would it be if we didn’t depend on those putrid production committees and could fund anime by kickstarter as fans. The only instance of that happening I’m aware of was with the Little Witch Academia OVA’s.