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You forgot to mention that a theory is in the end, when the boy finds the tree, it’s kinda the opposite of Ymir. Ymir found the tree while being chased by dogs while the boy found it by being led by a dog.

Anyone who still has the "Then it was all for nothing" mindset didn't truely understand Zeke and Armin's conversation in the path. Life isn't just about multiplying and dying, its about having the choices to enjoy whatever makes you happy and feel alive no matter how pointless whatever you're doing is in the grand scheme of life whether its racing with your friends or just throwing a ball and catching it with a friend over and over again. Eren gifted all his friends the privilege of doing that, to live life

I just realized. If thousands of years have passed in the end credits scenes, then by the time the city in Paradis became a metropolis before being decimated by war, then the story of the Titans and Eren and the others have probably faded into legend. A story parents read to their children at night before they went to bed. I find myself smiling and looking up at that thought.

Amazing how Hajime Isayama explained the human condition through the series and finished it off fully embracing that idea of cycles/choices.

9:30 someone had an amazing comment about that last scene that I think is what’s actually happening. It’s a scene of hope that the cycle is NOT repeating. Ymir found the tree looking for shelter and to escape death and a life of slavery, while all alone. That boy found the tree out of curiosity and while he was already happy and free and not alone. What he’ll find is not what Ymir found. The titans were the way they were because of Ymir and Fritz. The power the boy finds will probably manifest into something much better for humanity

Ymir found the Shining Centipede while she was being hunted she was scared for her life. So the creature reacted to her emotions and gave her eternal life and the power to resist her enemies. The kid at the end was exploring happily with their puppy. They found the creature full of wonder and excitement so he may not get destructive powers maybe they get the power to push humanity forward. So to me its kind of a hopeful ending.

I hated the ending with a passion two years ago, but now I see the genius behind the ending and I love it.

Kinda sad that at that point the story of Eren and titans is most likely viewed as some type of fairy tale that people dont believe in since those who knew the truth have long passed away.

I lost my friend 5 years ago and they loved attack on titan. i got into anime because of them and i wish with all my heart they could have seen this ending. I love you, dear friend. We did it! I finished it tonight and i had you in mind the entire time.

The fact you can briefly see large airliners in the modern era of Paradis makes me think that in fact, Armin and the others succeeded and Paradis was able to make peace with the outside world. After all, airliners like that are mainly used for traveling large distances like _international_ travel, not just to various other cities on the island.

The end credits were a trip man. I did not expect to see a cyberpunk dystopia in Attack on Titan. Looking at the big picture, the titan wars are just a blip in the grand scheme of things. The ending isn't devoid of hope though. Someone pointed out how Ymir found the tree as she was chased by dogs. The future guy comes across the tree with a dog companion. It might seem like we never make any progress, but eventually humans do grow more civilized.

Now that AoT is over, I realize how much I took Seatactic’s videos for granted.

Greatest story ever told.

Imagine your wife visiting her ex's grave and wearing her ex's scarf her entire life and then gets buried next to her ex's grave, lol. Totally wife material XD

Although the end credits proves that as long as humans are there, the notion of true world peace cannot be achieved, and the cycle repeats itself.. I think Zeke and Armin's conversation is the thing that gives hope the most.. to live for the small moments with our loved ones is one of the best things we can do with our lives.

Regarding Mikasa dying single - in that closeup of her being put to rest with the flowers and Erens scarf around her neck, you can actually see that she is wearing a silver ring on her finger. Its barely visible between the stalks of the flowers, but it is definitely there!

It’s a great ending because it makes you think and because it’s realistic…. Gives me the same feeling as the ending of Oppenheimer.

The ending is so simple yet intelligent: Eren gives Humankind a new start. It’s totally up to them to decide what kind of future they want to be in. Apparently with all the lessons and knowledge lfrom the Titan era, humankind learns nothing. Eren free everyone from war for many generations. But again, humankind is a species with great hatred. Eren has done his job as best he could.

this ending really stuck. the music made it hit so hard too

The end credits rolling through the future with Linked Horizon playing. Absolutely masterful.

Thank you for that explanation video you did. Keep the grind going!

At 6:12 old man could possibly be Armin because he’s always the last one when racing to the tree. So possibly he’s the last one that’s still alive.

Congratulations on all of your success. I've been following your AoT videos for a while and I've even started watching other anime shows because of this channel. So thanks!

Amazing video. Absolutely loved the end as well, what an amazing send-off for a series like Attack On Titan. Thank you so much for the countless impressive videos you've put out, astounding work. Keep it up!!❤

Thank you once again for your great video, and for claryfing the obvious. Thank you for your great work all these years!❤

SeaTactics, thank you so much for these past years. I truly cannot explain how much these breakdowns meant to me. Attack on Titan is arguably the most precious thing to me in life, and watching your videos truly made my experience all that more better. I’m glad to know someone appreciates the show just as much as me. Again, thank you, and here’s to the end of the arguably the best story of modern literature!

It takes a mature Person of experience to truly appreciate this ending and understand its over all message,I am glad I gave this series a chance a decade ago,will treasure this Story always,Fight on my fellow scouts life is not for sheep or more appropriately,cattle.

Beren: the next generation 💀

Another great video SeaTactics. I'll miss these AOT analyses. ❤️

Isayama shows that NO ONE gets away with anything in this series. Even if you are forgiven, there will be a reckoning for your sins.

I need to saviour and take my time watching your videos on this... Absolutely love them ❤️❤️! Thank you!!

Jean and Mikasa's relationship is not true

knowing mikasa's character mikasa not marrying is perfect interpretation of that scene but isayama intentionally made it look like that so that fans can consider mikasa to be married or unmarried in their own way just to prevent backlash from fandom lol , but if you consider mikasa to be married that will not only be opposite of mikasa's character and contraindicate ymir curse breaking plot but also will be so unfair for her husband & eren lol So best interpretation of that scene is man is armin with his son or mikasa's adopted son , Also it'll become poweful ema scene !! But it's open ending so you are free to interpret it on your own

Hello, I have something to add. In my opinion, the last credits show something a bit deeper than "History repeating itself, or the cyclical nature of violence and war." My take is that it shows how in spite of the inherent violence of mankind, the future can also be something different, something more positive than a titan. For example. Ymir was being chased by dogs, escaping death in desperation and that's how she fell into the tree's roots. But now we see a boy who is an explorer, is not fear but curiosity that is driving him to go inside the tree, and even the dog instead of chasing him now is a companion. In other words, more than cyclical is like a spiral, sometimes can go upwards or sometimes downwards, and the details in this new kid explorer led me to believe that the world was ready to go upwards a bit.

Thanks for explaining everything. I really appreciate your time and effort to do so.

Thanks for this upload. You pointed out stuff that I even missed.

After watching this breakdown I was able to appreciate the ending even more than I already did. Even though the credit was explanatory the little details made all the better. I really am going to miss the show and the messages it gave, it thought me so much about myself and the world R.I.P AoT.❤️

Here's the thing about the tree in the end. Since it's a little open ended, I like to think that the hallucigenia wouldn't just automatically make this boy have titan powers. I feel like it could be anything.

Thank you for that breakdown. You deserve that 100k. I am still in shock have finished AOT last night. You have helped me piece together my fragmented mind

I love your channel. I won’t stop loving it

Throughout the show AOT showed me that things in life are never as good as they seemed to be but somehow the ending showed me things are also never as bad as they seem and that this life is worth living😢. And hearing the line “A world without titans” coming from Historia’s voice cured my depression😭. The fact alone that Eren erased all the titans and cured all eldians from being able to turn into titans, severing they’re connection to the paths and in a way achieving his original goal from the beginning of the series is the happiest possible ending that I’d never could’ve guessed was possible. Overall I felt like what remained of the cast got off super well compared to what I expected like actually the complete opposite. Especially how not only Armin and the warriors were saved but their parents plus Connie’s mom as well. Also Paradis being destroyed hundreds of years in the future couldn’t bother any less. It serves the story’s message perfectly without taking away anything from the main cast because It’s so far out in the future it doesn’t concern them, it’s past their time so it’s out of their control, they did their part and succeeded. Kinda like how it’s the grandson or great grandson that runs the family business into the ground lol.

It's honestly those last end credits scenes that change my entire feeling on the ending. Without these, I don't think I would actually enjoy the ending that much at all, but with them, it's one of the more satisfying endings I've seen in a while.

Great video! I pretty much fully agree with you on everything said!

I really appreciate what you have done. Thank for the video 😊😊😊❤

I think the story was damn near flawless. A beautiful ending too. Wraps up nicely now Eren can rest in peace along Light and Lelouch. The honored trio

Thanks for breaking some points in the credits, and I hope that this little guy/girl in the end with the dog will continue AoT, and even if that not happen, I want to see some previous stuffs like life of Eren Krueger. He was interesting character. Also, I subbed you. Keep up the good work!

Great words towards the end, I definitely think most people dont think about how far we have come as humans. Great video 💪🏾

Thank you for making this video. Just Thank you.

She died unmarried The white lillies and the chastity ring symbolize her purity and virginity and her loyalty till death toward eren

Even when I read the manga two years ago I liked the ending. The dialogue between Eren and Armin especially needed a fix-up and the pace was really fast, but the themes and everything were great.

Thank you for the explanation!!!!!

Firstly, whoever gifted me a channel membership I thank you! I love the videos they are amazing SeaTactics!❤I can’t believe it’s over! I think the ending was perfect! Especially the closing credits, and the scene at the end! Thank you AoT!❤😭

I like the idea that the boy at the end is a DISTANT descendant of Mikasa That the Akerman and Mikasa's mother's leniage managed to persist as it's always have no matter the strife

It took me 3 days to finish it, thats how emotionally invested I was in this series. Ive never connected with a story besides this one. Loved the whole thing

Nicely explained bro

Beautiful analysis ❤

It was a wonderful journey. Loved the ending

This channel is my way of not moving on from AOT.. Thank you for the constant posts ❤❤

Bro ur channel deserves more recognition

Congrats on all the new subs!

It is comical at this point that there are people crying about the ending 😂 “it was all for nothing “ during the 10 year period, this series made it blatantly obvious that there would not be any fairytale endings

As a a manga ending passionate hater... I loved the anime ending ❤. That dialogue chabge between armin and eren was the thing Isayama needed to fix to save the ending... and also the fact that Paradis reached the Cyberpunk era 😂

Thanks seatactics ❤

I just finished attack on titan 11 years after it came out. And the themes are still relevant to today. I understood the message conveyed in the end scene and appreciated it as a writer. Truly genius. Also great video!

The beauty of the ending is, that Isayama now can have his next story play in god knows what setting and let it play sometime in the timeline of AoT and we would barely notice except for some easter eggs he could lay here and there :D It would also be inconsequential for either story because they can very well be too far apart.

The boy or girl also has their hand wrapped up like Mikasa had, covering her family tattoo. Mikasa's mom said "When you have a child you'll bequeath it to him or her." So maybe a descendant.

Grats on the 1 mil! 🎉

I’d love to see like some short film or video lesson of some short depicting or explaining that futuristic paradis war

Eren achieved what he wanted. All he wanted was to see his friends live a happy, long life. A life where they can just be themselves enjoying life to the fullest. He wanted mikasa to be free, start a new life which she did. Isayama really made me cry with this ending. Knowing that life moves on and we simply are the children of sinners making the same mistakes over and over again is surely saddening. But that's what was always gonna happen no matter what. But if we focus on eren's goal only, he surely did accomplish them

I loved how the ending symbolises the entire message AOT had going for it. No matter how horrific an incident occurs between human beings, the conflict will never go away as wars and violence will continue on forever as human beings will find some excuse for it because it's simply in our nature. We know moral wise war is not a good thing but we still do it anyways as that's how the world is and always was. Whether it was 2000 years ago before or 20,000 years ago later. Eren archived his goal of bringing temporary peace to Paradis so that Mikasa, Armin and everyone else can enjoy life to the fullest in their lifetimes (hence that's also why Eren only wiped out 80% of humanity to bring civilization outside of Paradis island to the samw level as them so thay Paradis would have a higher chance to survive in the future because even Eren said that conflict will never go away even if the Rumbling was 100% eradication of humanity) as it was hinted by Zeke and Armin's final conversation in the Paths. What happened after all of Eren's friends and loved ones passed away wasn't Eren's concern anymore since his goal was already achieved (as I mentioned above). That's what most people I feel like missed about the ending of AOT.

Well done, great analysis. Loved the ending. Sad it's over. The end credits were brilliant.

@SeaTactics I agree with your view and perspective on the ending credits. The only thing I differ with is Jean being the person that mikasa end up marrying the reason, I said it because lot of different source material whether manga or anime contradict that. Like you mentioned in the video Aot rewards the viewers for paying close attention to the details. Whether it be the writing on Eren gravestone, the meaning of the flowers and number of flowers plus in chapter 139.5 Mikasa never removed her bandages showing azumbito heritage. So, it’s at best left to interpretation if not leaning towards she remained single.

What's so genius about these credits is that you could apply them to practically any story. Heck, one iconic example: Game of Thrones. Robert's Rebellion was like the classic rebellion and topping an evil king. But the story isn't about that, it takes place after that initial war. It's main purpose is to subvert our expectations. Another series, Harry Potter: That's pretty much the "happy ending" some people wanted so badly, but others complained that it was too happy. Harry defeated Voldemort, but that doesn't mean there wont be other Dark Lords in the future. Or maybe a war will eventually break out between wizards and muggles. Imagine if there had been credits in Deathly Hallows Part 2 that did a similar timelapse that eventually showed Hogwarts getting destroyed by a nuke. The Internet would go nuclear. Another example, Lord of the Rings. One of the most cited examples of a happy ending, but Interesting fact, J.R.R. Tolkein began writing a sequel to LOTR, but he cancelled it. This was his reasoning: _"I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless - while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors - like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow - but it would have been just that. Not worth doing."_ Kinda sounds similar to the complaints that some people have with these credits. But maybe that's our biggest problem: we look so much at the huge picture that we miss the little things.

6:11 Old armin visiting eren and mikasa's grave😢

Great story, everything that you said makes perfect sense on Attack on Titan 😃👍🏾❤️.

I love your take. It explains in words my emotional reaction. All life travels in cycles. It's not bad. It just is.

Mikasa did NOT marry anyone that guy is Armin who's just accompanying Mikasa to visit Eren's grave and in the manga it was very CLEARLY shown that Mikasa's wrist was still hidden which means she didn't pass down her crest to her descendants so that kid is adopted. On Eren's grave she wrote "Here forever Rest peacefully My most BELOVED My DEAR 854" and she was literally buried next to Eren's grave and in the ending song we can see that Eren and Mikasa got reunited in the afterlife which also proves that Mikasa didn't get married and stayed single

In ep 2 eren loses it and goes on a rant about killing all the titans and calls Armin weak, only for Mikasa to come in and stop him by punching him in the head. I like to think this is foreshadowing to eren losing it and going on a rant about killing humanity, yelling at Mikasa and Armin in season 4, and Mikasa stops him again by cutting off his head

love this

I came here just to find the ending credits zoomed in because I was so interested in the story that passed in like 3 minutes. I missed so much in the credits so I'm so glad I came here!

I watched it the day it came out, and a week later I’m still grieving, not the death of eren (it’s still sad though) but the end of aot, and the story. Omfg it’s just so sad.

I think Mikasa‘s husband is not Jean, but a random unnamed man that we don‘t know

I subscribed and liked this video!!!!

The possible ring that is on mikasa on her deathbed is clearly 1) silver 2) on left ring ringer and 3) had no gems/bedazzling details. basically, this makes it a chastity (virginity) ring which implies mikasa chose not to marry and have kids after eren's death.

Mikasa doesn't marry anyone. Bro at least says that it's not confirmed who is with Mikasa. You are saying it's 100% Jean 😂 Don't expect this from you

The whole ending gave me major “A Street Through Time” vibes. It’s a great book that is even fun to look through as an adult.

Damn, I thought it was about titans, the ending is more on war cycle.

Thx

I’m still in the camp that she didn’t marry and likely adopted, as there would be many orphans as there were already. Could be Jean or Armin or whoever with her but that’s just my belief. I also don’t think that’s Jean.

Thank you for your videos! I love that song that you used at the end of the video. What is it called?

Those final scenes made me sad for real it almost made me cry lol It made me realise that all our worries and problems are temporary and death is permanent that is why we should live the best life as much as we could. Be happy and have peace with us.

I really like the bittersweet ending here. Life sucks sometimes. Either personally or in the big picture. And to have an ending where things were just happy forever, well, that wouldn't be life. The show has never been afraid to shy away from the horrors of life, so why do anything different in the end? But I do like that there is hope. That we can make the world around us better. And that we can embrace the small moments with each other.

I honestly wouldn’t mind a sequel set in the future but I think that should come like during the next generation to witness (IRL)

Something i noticed nobody saying so far is how the tombstone is nameless, and how Mikasa mentioned burying what was left under that tree so he could have a proper burial.

A dope observation I saw on some comments: the titans power all started with founder Ymir running away from dogs hunting her and then entering the tree. In this new future, this boy has a dog companion with him calmly exploring and entering the tree. A sign of hope that things improve perhaps?

Imagine only finding your channel after AoT has ended. AoT is probably the most important of the anime i grew up watching simply because it covered so much of my life. The manga ended around the time i was graduating from university and I recall not particularly liking the ending, but understanding and being at peace with it. I do like the anime ending better because Isayama managed to more clearly indicate what he meant with it. Also, everyone is shouting about who Mikasa ended up with, and I'm betting either nobody (Isayama loves his symbolism and there is plenty of that saying she died a virgin) , married an unnamed blonde man or even ended up with Reiner and not Jean

Seeing Mikasa pass away has screwed me up so much mentally. And you can see for a second there's a frame of Armin visiting Mikasa and Eren's graves, which totally broke me. I hate this show 😭

Thank you for not over-analyzing the end credits like the rest of the fandom.

You have changed my mind on this whole ending