What do you think happened to Eren? Did I change your mind?

Part of me wants the story to continue on because it’s such a amazing story but it’s because it’s such a good story that I think it should also just be put to rest, whatever happens next with that little boy should be left to our imaginations.

I want it to end. It's a beautiful ending.Considering the wars that are happening right now, it's a middle finger to what the actions of our leaders are leading us to.

My theory is that wherever someone who had obtained the power of the founder is buried, a new hallucigenia is born. That doesn't necessarily mean that new hallucigenia is Eren's reincarnation. I believe Eren is permanently dead and that kid at the end of the show will become the new Ymir.

As much as I want more of this amazing anime, I believe that sometimes, writers prefer to end with a little something for the readers to wonder about and make their own stories instead of giving them a non-questionable ending...It doesn't mean always that there will be a continuation...I do it in my books giving either hope or something to grab onto...

When Mikasa chopped off his head, i'm a 1000% sure he was already gone/rendered powerless and Ymir was just using his vessel/founding powers to do the Rumbling. When he opened his eyes (atleast to me) it seemed he was grateful he was being put out of the misery both for not being able to stop what was going on but also to stop his 'hurting' .. I felt like he was controlled ever since Gabi shot off his head and even though he stood behind the choice of starting the rumbling, i feel he wasn't the one in charge for most of it. I'm conflicted though.. the ending scene could mean 2 things, 1 it is an endless cycle that will keep happening as "this is a life lesson to us all IRL" or 2 there will actually be a sequel and this was the intro

I had a theory that this "Ymir's" centipide is basically "life will" itself, most likely this tree is supposed to symbolize the Yiggdrasil, 9 worlds, 9 titans etc... So the thing is, this centipide came to Ymir when she was dying and wanted to live, but it's also interesting that Ymir became slave to Fritz, I think she became slave to children / main goal of life - to reproduce. That's why she is slave in Paths dimension. But when Ymir is kind, liked living things, in flashbacks she said basically "you need to live that everyone likes you and help others", Eren is about freedom, freedom imo is also one of the main goals of life, so I think if he still alive he is not a slave like Ymir, but maybe more like a slave to freedom, so my thought is, if it supposed to represent Yiggdrasil, what if the The "Ymir" tree supposed to be "Asgard tree" like gods literally gave Ymir powers (it also might be the Midgard tree), but the Eren tree supposed to be Alfheim tree. So if Asgard tree spawned when there is wiil to live, Alfheim tree is spawned when there is will to freedom. It sounds like a complete nonsense (especially because English is not my native language) but it kinda holds... Well first of all, Eren has green eyes, sometimes ltblue, Elfs are often portrayed with either green or ltblue eyes, elf ears in titan form, and he is pretty tall looking titan. We know for a fact that some of the titan stuff is based on Scandinavian mythology. After rereading, looks like a lot of overthinking nonsense tbh.

I think yamir watching mikasa "do the right thing" and kill eren, allowed her to free herself from her self enslavement to the king. Since she couldn't help but love him, so she obeyed him.. but Mikasa showed her that she can escape that

I really hope we get like an hour long special sort of like the lost girls or something like that but in this timeline, Eren completes the rumbling.

even if attack on titan got a new story or same story with some same characters, it cant hit this much this is the maximum. it will never get as epic as this but i would really like to see the story continue. i might write my own story about what happens after that boy and the dog approaches the tree

I would actually love to see this. Considering that Eren admits himself that he has been going crazy because all time exists in up his head all at once, so I imagine after 2000 years he would be totally insane. That would be really cool to see in my opinion. As well as that, I feel like maybe he could be the next hallucinogenia because he was buried in that tree and the next person would at some time fall in and become the next founding Titan, completing Eren’s will.

Would be awesome to see a continuation of that final scene after the credits. Only thing is, it could result in something other than Titans this time.

So if u guys are big Aot fans you probably know Isayama’s biggest inspiration for Aot was a visual novel called Muv-Luv and it’s kinda crazy how many similarities the 2 series have Muv-Luv actually has multiple endings witch was one of the big calluses for the AOE theory’s (anime original ending) and basically Muv-Luv original ending is very similar to the ending of Aot but 3 years later they released Muv-Luv alternate and the alternative/ real ending was very similar to the ANR ( Akatsuki no Requiem) theory’s for how Aot was “supposed” to end according to the linked horizon music video that is supposed to symbolically foreshadow the ending of Attack on Titan. Basically my point is don’t be surprised if in 2026 something called Attack on Titan Alternate comes out.

my take on the end is that some of the founder's power remained with eren at his grave, then developed the tree again. fate dictates that the cycle repeats over and over again, that the struggle for freedom will continue endlessly (as said in the ending song lyrics) however it's unlikely that the titans would come back in their previous form, as look at the boy compared to ymir. while the boy is venturing here seemingly out of his free will and free of danger, ymir was desperately running away, injured, trying to survive. as zeke says, the paths and the titans were born out of ymir's will to survive, so she escaped to it after death. most likely out of the boy something better will come to be, something unlike the titans, showing there is still hope for humanity to escape the cycle after all this and no eren won't come back to life nor will the series continue, i'd rather it not pull a "somehow eren returned" thing

Could it be that Eren took all 9 shifter for himself like Ymir, I believe we will get sequel but it will be totally different Name and Characters but hopefully we get to see Eren

I will always believe Attack on titans isn’t over

DAMN bro you are really gaving me hope here! i REALLY hope it will happen! Indeed we have seen the kid and the dog as titans on erens founding titan so it does really give hope! 😲

No. In my personal headcanon, Eren is the reincarnation of the pig that was freed by Ymir, and as such, Eren's desire for freedom is an imprint of his last life. As such, he had to repay the favor to Ymir, and he DID. As such, I doubt any continuation will happen. The ending let all events come full circle, and storywise it wouldn't make sense to essentially rewrite the same parallels in a different plot; Isayama would be following the mistakes of Disney when they made the Star Wars sequels.

Yo I noticed the markings too. I thought eren died but that final scene of the kid and dog walking into eren’s tree aka burial site looked eerily similar to the tree where the titan parasite was found by Ymir. So yeah food for thought.

i had very different interpretations as a psychologist and author, however i really liked this theory. it was pretty logical and interesting. bravo! you had my attention

I love how this anime seems like it's real history and titans DID exist so far back that no one actually knows about them in current days

I think Eren has taken Ymir place in The Paths after she passed on peacefully watching the conclusion of Mikasa's action. Someone has to take her place in The Paths and there is none better than Eren, until that boy in the end with curiosity came. TBH, I don't want the series to be continue even though there are lots of potential; the ending gave very satisfying conclusion to Mikasa and all other hero that we love to live in peace and died an old age.

Omg you might just be right! A couple more points: - Gabby shooting Eren's head clean off clearly didn't kill him, so why would Mikasa doing the exact same thing do it? -Your answer to the previous point may be that Ymir/hallucogenia saved him as that's what grows out of his head. BUT remember they clearly did NOT kill the hallucogenia in the final episode! They even comment that it's not even worth trying to do so since it survived Armin's colossal/nuke blast. Sure Ymir might now have closure and be clear to finally pass on, but that doesn't include the hallucogenia. Oh wow that perfectly fits your theory! (Lol and I even commented on a thread immediately after the ending about Eren's head not decomposing, but I didn't think much of it! It also explains the tree at the end but I just assumed that that was just thematic.) I hope you're right, not only because I don't want the show to end, but also bc as much as I love the show and the ending, I just saw a great video about how too many people still are misinterpreting Eren's character, essentially excusing genocide and fascists (sorry "Jaegerists") because of a deterministic timeline. And yeah as clear as it is that we should not admire him as he is a "pathetic garden variety idiot that came upon power" and in his world he was the ultimate slave to the future that he couldn't change - we in the real world should not be living our lives assuming that the future is determined and that we have no free will...) Again I still love the show and ending above almost all others, but I think it could be even better if say, like Guts in the later chapters of Berserk Eren can learn to overcome his trauma and grow from his weaknesses...perhaps representing a hope that maybe humanity can eventually outgrow the "cycle of hatred/violence."...(or as Armin would say, even if that goal is not feasible we should still strive for it...)

I completely agree here. it was weird to me with the tree at the end but if it continues maybe we will see completely new titan type or why should there be only one entity that is capable of giving this power

Damn! Same thoughts especially about ymir damn I just love how different mangakas portray their view on life how the future present and past intertwine we repeating the same thing but in many different ways😭 I don't know if Im making sense but damn it's truly astonishing how uTa'Iseyama views things, and it's nice too to see that people have same views on Iseyamas view 😭🙌🏾 amazing "uTa' is my language by the way to show older brothers in a sense so yea big brother Iseyama RESPECT!

I think I felt more emotional when Mikasa died and the progress of AoT world into modern and futuristic warfare. The aftermath of nuclear war made me want to see new characters of this universe.

It's possible that traces of the hallucigenia was still in erens head and / or blood, and it has been slowly regenerating over the years, and as it regenerated, the tree formed into what it is.

an entire new series would be nice but i think it'd be best if aot would to end like this. undoubtedly the most entertaining & realistic anime. ties so much things from our world into a single anime that conveys love, hate, regret, basically everything in this world into an anime. a masterpiece.

Tbh, as much as I would love an ending or even an extension to the story - all good things must end. I feel that Isayama should just release the final ending of what happened to eren, mikasa, and armin afterwards. Extending the anime is like how Naruto got extended to Boruto. But, the theory u said makes a lot more sense as to what Ymir's and Eren's intentions were.

I think it's quite reasonable, part of the reason why the theme song is called "To you,2000 years...or 20000 years from now",and in the song Eren himself said that at the end. Probably Eren waiting for a person in the future

I saw a video that said the hallucigenia takes form of the persons greatest need or wish or whatever. Ymir wanted to be healed, so the hallucigenia gave her a big, strong, regenerating body. The boy at the end would obviously have no such desire, so he wouldn't be the beginning of another titan army. As to why the titan marks are still on Eren's face, I just imagine it's because he died that way. All the other shifters faces we see changed because they are alive. If we could've seen Zeke's face, it would be a bit easier to draw parallels. In the case Zeke didn't have his marks anymore, I feel like we could confirm Eren is indeed still alive. But we don't see him anymore after he dies, so we can never know for sure. Also, if we were to get an AOT spin-off, I'd prefer a prequel. Partly because I feel like a sequel would have all the characters mentioning the rumbling and everything over and over.

Word for word this is what I thought too as soon as I saw that tree and the face markings

I have another theory. remember it was said that the founding Titan can see the memories of the future Titan? Eeran saw far into the future and what he saw is that despite him destroying 80% of the world - the world will be rebuild and llife will continue, civilization grow, war and similar events happen down the road in history. so for him it made sense to take care of the friends despite the horrific immediate consequences coz he knew the history will make its path anyway as it always does.

As much as I wish for AoT to continue, I think this much is enough before something happens that fucks up the series.

If Isayama didn't write anything within the past 5 years when AOT was at peak, I would state that it's possible this is the end.

Wow..this is a plausible and amazing theory. I hope this would come true!

Earned a subscriber.

As much as i want a continuation it won't be the same. Mikasa, Armin.. i don't want to see Erin without them. It would have to be a compelling story. But i don't see the creator of AoT wanting to ruine this ending. Continuing would feel like a complete reboot. It's a sad ending yes but it's complete.

i dont want it to end. aot is one of my favorite anime. i watched it like 5 times. and still gonna watch it

Perhaps it would be somewhat like Tales of Berseria and Tales of Zestiria. With 1000 years being in-between the two, their stories were their own. But, some of the events that transpired all those years ago DID impact the new characters' journey

Waiittt bro make ur own fan anime series for aot

My doubt is why the Hallucigenia didn't just merge with Reiner, once it came out of Eren's neck after Jean bombed it? The Hallucigenia randomly merged with Yemir the first time as she was a host. So why it didn't randomly merge with Reiner or someone else instead of going for Eren?

"He died a virgin"😂😂wtf

If u listen the official song at the end of the last episode, there's a line at the end of the song "To you, 2000 years, maybe, 20000 years later."

Loved It, What an amazing story, what an amazing ride❤

Nah its over. And it should be. The ending is perfect, human vanity will never cease even if Titans are there or not. Thats the whole point of the show

That's an interesting perspective... It would be nice if we get something like a loop theory episode like What if.. What If Eren told everyone what he saw when he kissed Historia's hand. Or maybe reveal Eren to be the mirror man in the Mikasa OVA

Theres a part when he visited Armin in his memories where he said it doesnt end there. Like even after they defeat him. There will be peace for a while but it doesnt end there. So couldve meant it will resurge again. All organisms evolve to self preserve. hallucigenia organism will do whatever it can to thrive. So may have found a way to survive so it can attach itself again to another human. Unfortunately Ymir used Eren and mikasa to get herself out of slavery. She waited years for an anomoly to occur that she could use to free herself. That anomaly was eren and mikasa. Eren represented ymirs longing to be free and Mikasa represented Ymirs love for fritz and together they were the whole of ymir which allowed her to control the situation to create the freedom she wanted

To be fair, we all know deep down that we want a continuation of this series. But then, it would feel like they're just milking it and trying to piggyback off the success. I don't think there will be a continuation though, and I think the boy in the credits is supposed to symbolize that its a loop, the cycle never ends.

Believable, but improbable. Doesn't seem like sth Isayama would actually write. It fits with the lore of the series, but not with Isayama's vision. Not impossible for Isayama to choose to revisit this at the end of his career, but it doesn't seem like something he wants to do. As shown from tbe volume 34 extra story, it's clear that Isayam just went a simple "the end" with elements of open of interpetation for the viewers.

I just realize, the Armored titan 's real power is the ability to protect the user using it's extremely thick layers of plot armor, ( thicker than the MC ) , the physical armor is just a decoration

since it's all a cycle that repeats itself I'm wondering who Became a Titan before Ymir, what she or he looked like, maybe they had a civilization that was better than ours and it got destroyed and years later we see Ymir running inside that tree where a Titan was buried years ago. my brain hurts.

I doubt it, since in one interview Isayama said in an interview that the reason breaking bad is a masterpiece is because it had an ending and a conclusion and since he really likes breaking bad, I think this is the last of the attack on titan timeline.

I think he survived and he's the one making transformations now

in the ending eren talked to everyone of his friends and he said that the war would not end yet, the only way for him to know this is if he knew the future, how the attack titans ability's work is that it will share memorys to the past and or future of the user, this means that eren would have to be alive to create memory's of a war going o after the rumbling therefore he is still conscious and alive

watching these are gonna help ,me find clues in my english essays

I don't think Eren died a virgin... not after spending years with Mikasa ina cabin with the paths....

I went into this show not knowing what an emotional roller coaster this show is. One of my favorites shows ever but I don’t have the stamina to do it again lol

I heard someone say that at the end credits scene you could hear Eren's voice telling the boy to run away. Not sure if it was actually true since it is just second-hand information, but if that is true then it would make sense that he doesn't want this cycle to repeat. It might repeat with the little boy, but it's probably best to let AOT end here

Very good work❤

Tbh I wouldn’t mind a Season 5 or sequel of AOT.I’d love to see the new titans,characters,and overall plot.I’d love to witness mind boggling plotwists occurring and insane new scenarios.

The titan’s powers seemed to be restricted to the severe mental trauma Ymir grew up with.

This video was put together really good. Well done. I agree with almost everything but my opinion is I don't think the Titans will come back. The titans exists because it's what Ymir chose as her choice of power when she came into contact with the hallucigenia it was to put fear into the world. Eren will now take Ymirs place and just as Ymir was looking for someone to end her torment in the paths is what Eren could be doing now. Eren wants true freedom not temporary freedom, the boy in the future who comes across the tree is most likely either a descendant of Mikasa or Historia or he could be from both bloodlines. Isayama has so much room to create another great series I can't wait to witness it.

There better be more to aot, that ending credits scene of Paradis being destroyed kinda pissed me off...

Not a teaser for a potential next season, just an ending that points to that cycle beginning again. But I'd love to see an OVA about some of the loose ends. BUT I'd love way more to see the school chapters. 😂

He died a Virgin! that's gotta be the worst! for sure

HOW DID I JUST REALISE THE TREE TRUNK IS LIKE THE ONE YOUNG YMIR FOUND BEFOR SHE TURNED INTO THE FIRST EVER TITAN

I feel that I should not spoil all of you but,... 1. The boy with a dog is Eren's reincarnation (2:17), 2. The black-haired girl with a choker is Mikasa's reincarnation. (When Eren's get a glimpse of the future). 3. We saw Armin's reincarnation along with the choker girl.

He died a virgin 🤣🤣🤣!

I subscribe to you but haven't finished the anime yet title is spoiler

I totally agree, i think of it as some sort of reincarnation or something religious about being revived or history repeats itself but people who was involved and will play the roles are different..

now when i think about it after this video i feel like it all make sense now

In a world of constant sequels, prequels, and reimaginings I simply want to let this story end on a high note. There’s no reason for Isayama to continue the AoT story. He deserves a break or even better when he’s ready to write an entirely new story.

I would say the show is finished but they left it open so they can possibly reboot it years down the line

i hope they kinda revive this franchise because after the time of our protagonists we saw that the world didnt learn anything out of it and i hope there will be some anime/manga that ends it once and for all

I would love the next generation of AOT: Of course that makes me wonder with all the high tech we saw at the end of AOT which seems pretty close to our own if not more advanced - What would a titan do to air to surface mega missiles?

They better not Boruto this anime. I swear we will RIOT

HERE ME OUT, the continuation story is set in the future (ofcourse), but with tech being very advanced, to where they have Gundam like suits giving the illusion of "titans" still at war? You could still throw in the power of the titans coming back, and at that point it's like titans fighting mecha titans. Witht he right writting there could be something gold there.

I wouldn’t consider myself a hardcore AOT enthusiast, or anything more than a lowkey-fan. While I did finish watching this gem of a series from start to finish, I may not be able to pick up every small detail about every character, or fully understand every single scenario that went down during all 4 seasons-I do believe Isayama along with the anime directors, added the scene with the boy delving down into the tree in the end-credits for 2 main reasons. First reason being very niche, Isayama as a writer simply wanted to leave his fans with some sort of plot-armor or source material so they could come up with their own ending or headcanon as to what happens towards the end or future of AOT. Second reason would be that, just in case once day Isayama does decide to return to being an active writer again, he is able to use the scene with the boy entering the tree as a continuation of AOT if he still does not feel 110% satisfied with where the story has gotten so far. Or maybe, even use that scene with boy entering the tree as source material for another one of his new creations. Almost like a prequel but not really a legit prequel. Instead, a completely different story involving different characters but it’s just set in the universe of AOT with mutual history involving titan-like monsters and a deity figure like Ymir. Nonetheless, nobody knows what the future actually holds for Isayama or AOT itself…however, I do believe that Isayama has left us with a lot of loose ends when it comes to this series. I’m just as nervous and excited to see what this genius-excuse-of-a-madman ( Isayama ) has in store for his readers and audience in the future. One thing for sure, AOT has definitely grown to be one of my most memorable and liked animes of all time.

it could not be over but i think its more of no matter what we do this is just what human nature does in an endless cycle and it's depicting that. the purpous of life is enjoying all the small things. when Armin and zeke were talking earlier about what matters to them and what they had forgotten. running up to a tree with your friends. playing catch with a ball. the small memorys we make that stay with us and make it worth while.

If the titan marks still on eren's face that means the titan power is still on him...if he got injured somehow while he's in the ground idk if he can transform

Well the finale did suggest on the cycle repeating. But I'm not so sure about keeping Eren alive. If there is a sequel they could have Eren make an appearance towards the end similar to Ymir. And we know the attack titan can see future memories. But we don't know how far into the future. So it's possible maybe Eren knows that there will be a future successor after the destruction of Paradis. But those events happened hundreds or maybe thousands of years into the future. Not really sure if it's possible to look that far ahead. I would honestly like to see alternate routes/endings. We already got a glimpse of what would happen if Eren escaped with Mikasa. So what if Eren was actually able to completely flatten everyone outside Paradis? What if Erwin became the colossal? What if they went through with Zeke's euthanasia plan? I would love to see all these different outcomes get animated

I think the same thing I feel like maybe a few years from now it’ll be a sequel I kinda hope so but the ending was good and bitter sweet.

yes! i love this i really hope you're right!

The existence of that tree is hinting that the circle is possible to restart. Not sure if another story would bring anything new to the table, the message is simple and valid that you can try to fight and shape the world, but the world will never respect your efforts no matter what changes you made. Eren only fixed the mess that Ymir caused (really wrong choice, but i don't think that parasite cared), but not the world itself. It would be interesting to see different story in this universe, this Hallucigenia like parasite have to came from somewhere and i don't think it's first time it merged with host (symbiot), maybe in the different part of universe, those creatures are used for medical purposes or maybe it's artificial being from lab that brought doom on the creators and eradicated former humanity eons ago. The origins of the parasite could expand the world indefinetely since what happend of Earth might be just an episode or after effect of something greater happening in the universe.

JUST WATCHED THE FINALE...AND WISHED WE GOT A CONTINUATION EVEN IF IT WERE 100 YEARS LATER!!! I'D BE DOWN TO SEE MORE OF AOT'S WORLD NO MATTER WHAT!!!

Why does this Video make so much sense 😮

This makes me wonder. Since Ymir was a human and fell into the tree and the worm thingy attached to a her spine, would it work differently if a different thing fell in. Like instead of a human falling into the tree a dog did and got titanized.

The two trees with the pact with the devil :0

I wouldn't mind another story set in the same world but I would like to see other applications of the power. Or maybe even a story that has nothing to do with attack on Titan's plot and just takes place in the same world.

I can dig it. I believe Eren became the entity that merged with Ymir in the beginning but this time with a shell because Eren does know how to harden. I think it’ll definitely recycle because he did die… go to the future thennnn manipulate the past outta nowhere but it’s so much that can happen

i’ve been preaching this i hope this comes true

Yo! Titans in mech suits with cybernetic all kinds of futuristic stuff.... Titans with guns? Titans in mechsuits with plasma swords? They need to upgrade if they are going to fight modern war tech.

Take my vote for wanting more.

I'm pretty sure my response upon watching through the credits and seeing that giant tree was ... WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL

i think that if they're gonna keep Eren alive they need one heck of an explanation

You are right the announed a new season of aot

I like to think that That kid with the dog in the ending eventually stumbled upon the tree where Eren was buried and hallucinogena now resides, And if you remember what happened with ymir... The cycle may continue but in a more modern world

That end credits scene is literally the best ending twist I've ever seen in my life.

As said, history always repeats itself