I never happened lol

@@clintonanwah3438 You meant to Write “it” or you saying you never happened? 🤨

yeah, you already forgot that mikasa is an ackermann? eren is not able to control her mind through paths but yeah, plot holes are literally everywhere as soon as the rumbling arc started. horrible

@@Jallium there is literally no plothole here. Eren simply pulled Mikasa into the paths while she was on falco and spend what amounted to four years in the paths. It’s simply about paying attention

@@hitrapperandartistdababy yeah, how about you pay attention to what i just said? Im not going to repeat myself twice. No wonder people like you enjoy the ending since you literally turn a blind eye to all the plot holes, plot convincences, unexplained sideplots, character assasinations that the last arc offers. The last arc is full of bs and this was just one of all those things. Sorry to tell you the objective fact that your favorite series turned out to be shit.

They didn't live together for 4yrs. This scene was a made up environment by eren to talk with mikasa inside the paths. The same way happened to armin and the rest.

@@mineyu-sl1qf They lived 4 years together and in peace, its a memory bro, I mean it could be a dream if that ur interpretation but for me, they were older in the cabin that when they run away, eren said the marlyan war ended 2 month ago so its means they live quite a bit there and dont forget Zeke waited for 10 years in the paths for eren so its a good interpretation. It more tragic though, mikasa killed the person she lived and love for 4 years when the memory came back. She literally said to armin "you got ur memories back too" cant mean it better than that

What the fuck? Are we even in the same page? Are you living in a alternate dimension?

@@Scripps-on2nx its an open interpretation my man, we cant be in the same page bro if you believe its a dream then good but for me it isn't. Mikasa herself said to armin" you got ur memories back too" so its memories bro, she cant said better than that

It's a fake memory created to erase Mikasa doubts and regrets to allow her to kill him. This thing didn't happen it's not open to interpretation what you think is simply wrong because Ackermann memories cannot be modified. Eren can create a fake one/ dream he cannot remove a real memory like he did with the others just like Carl Fritz killed all the Ackermann because he could not make them forget. This is the truth period

It's not an alternate ending but a what if ending

@@iciclewinds1930 Most definetely not. It happened, at that very instant he pulled her into the paths and lived with her. Otherwise she would not be talking about her “home” with him or ask Armin if he “remembered the times Eren came to see us” Seeing as Ackermannd aren’t affected by the memorie wipes he must’ve pulled her in at that moment whereas wirh the others he visited earlier at various times then wiped their memory.

Yes, you're right. It is NOT an alternate ending. I sort of analogize like it happened all at the same time, but different times in paths.

@@shenaglar56 Yeah, I think it’s intentionally made vague so people can form their own speculations with the exception of one thing. It definetely happened and was not alternate. It would kind of imo loose all meaning if it was a pointless what if scene.

yeah and uhm, ackermanns are suddenly able to get controlled by the founding titan XDDD

he is selfless to his friends, but he is a selfish person , because it wasnt his only reason, he also wanted to rumble the world.

not true, he didn't want to kill anyone, he had to. @@user-df8lp9zq8s

Lmao. No. There is nothing tragic or heroic about Eren. He could have done many different things to get the same results. He kills hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Some of his own people too. No.

@@princesstab33501 there is many tragic things about him, but nothing heroic at all . ( In the end)

@@princesstab33501 Did you even watch the show? to ended up in this such results is only he chose this path, cuz everything was already determined. Why Ymir even needs Eren and Mikasa then if not for this final moment???

The whole point was to give the ppl he cared about freedom & he accomplished that

@@wheezy3596 thats just your way of thinking in what was said in the narrative of thr anime, but think about it for a moment. He give his friends freedom yes but the outside world isolated his people due to titan powers. So what will happen if the world knew that Paradise alreadt knew the existence of people/cities beyond their prison island and they killed or took over the seaport built by guards to monitor them? It wont take long that the whole world will take the war to Paradise and Eren MIGHT not have known how to do the rumbling or was killed off first by possible sleeper spies.

@@vince3918 the whole world is mainly the ppl in paradise island. So they will Have peace

Lol that's not the case, he went back 100x in the past changing what would happen to get the result he wanted, and killing 80% of the population, making eldia and marley kill him so they are the heroes and casuing peace. I like your theory but this was literally shown in the manga and anime lol@@vince3918

No, originally he killed all 100%, but it's a loop, he then managed to reduce it to 80%, who knows, now he knows theres a way to disappear all titans, he might be able to stop it altogether at some point in a different future loop, isayama makes it seem like it's set in stone but it really is not, as we know he at least changed it once

Stop lying to yourself. Sounds like an excuse for you to be nihilistic

@@KadenHartley I’m not even lying tho 💀

And the issue is, it is very one sided, since Paradis is so behind on everything. Eren had to reset civilization so that in the future, if a conflict were to occur, everyone would have equal footing

Which gave Paradis a chance to catch up and survive in the future

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well it's a good thing you didn't write this then, otherwise you would've just ended things like every other tacky no consequence cliche anime around

​@@TRPB-I am quite sure bruv would've also preferred that titan powers go away when,eren for some reason, decides to enter war like a shounen protogonist, and kicking ass and magically ridding the world of the power of titans. Attack on titan ended in a way that made it diffrent from other anime. Heck, eren was dead the moment his head was blown off by gabi, he wasn't gonna get regenerated his entire damn body. He was basically on life support, and somehow people fukking thought there will be an ending where mikasa and eren got together. It's honestly insane man

Good thing you re not a manga artist then, cause that ending was a masterpiece

@@TRPB- being "different" won't justify bad writing.

That's the feeling I get too. The story was always not destined for a happy ending. Eren never changed as a character, so he ended tragically. People really just don't understand the story.

The rumbling doesn't happen in this timeline, idk why you thought it would. For the rumbling to happen Eren has to come in contact with someone of royal blood who isnt affected by king fritz's will. That's Zeke and in this timeline Eren and Zeke have only met once on paradis and no rumbling there. So if Eren and Mikasa stay out in the woods in some cabin in the middle of no where the rumbling cannot happen because Eren has the founding meaning yes he prevented the rumbling by just not doing it. Or more accurately it was Mikasa confessing her love that stopped Eren on the path to the rumbling.

I still don’t get why couldn’t he simply not do the rumbling?

Rumbling didn’t happen in this timeline, but Paradis was carpet bombed by the alliance killing everyone there

@@acecream1411 he says it at this part in the last episode, because he didnt do the rambling in this alternate outcome , Marley would attack paradise Island and kill everyone , therefore he did it to protect his friends and to make sure they gonna live the rest of their lives free and without having to worry about war, war still happened but after all his friends / Mikasa died from old age . also the reason he wanted his friends to be the ones that killed him is so they become the heroes that stopped him so everyone remembers em.

@@acecream1411 Marley vs paradis again (paradis probably loses) , Armin, Reiner, Annie dying in few years, historia also made a titan(dies in 13 years) eren dies(another founder, may start rumbling or let eldians die or reverse euthanasia plan and be hated by all eldians), paradis destroyed or titan curse continues, and on top of that, eren will have betrayed his friends and people, HOW THE FUCK IS THIS ENDING GOOD?

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Bro no one attacked you

thats because he wanted to look good for mikasa

nope i think he looks way better with longer hair

He wants to look like his father

@@yntaohe looked ridicules with hair that long

Bruh for real?

@@Fair_enough1 It's what Eren said remember. Something like we chose to ran and spend our lives quietly here, abandoning all of our other comrades. He told this to Mikasa. But because when she said Eren is 'family'. It isn't enough to make him stop it. Thats not what he wanted to hear. But here in the path? well, this could have happened.

@@MICROKNIGHT3000 It isnt a dream, it actually happened in the paths. Eren spoke to them all but spent 4 years with Mikasa

​@@stealth7516 I don't get it, what are the paths anyway if it isn't the alternative timeline?

@@liamia1060 It is an alternate timeline but it wasn't a dream,.. it actually happened. Mikasa and Eren spent 4 years together in the paths. But time goes alot slower in the paths so 4 years there is like a minute IRL so no one noticed. They got their memories of it back after Eren was killed.

It's better than Armin thanking Eren for being a mass murderer

fr and they also say eren is with mikasa in afterlife like huh

4 yrs left

And the final is the most shit of the history of the anime

Not to mention Armin dies in that world. Armin dies painfully, Eren dies and probably Mikasa too.

Eren choosing genocide as the only option is entirely because he's an idiot who couldn't come up with a better idea. Or the Author really wanted the genocide ending and came up with any excuse to go for it. Eren can stop any invasion for a long period of time by simply using the Rumbling to destroy the Allied fleet sent against Paradise. Remember, Paradis is an island nation. No fleet no invasion. With the fleet destroyed it would be a massive loss to every country that participated in manpower and resources to the point Paradis could probably sue for peace. In the time it takes for the outside world to build another invasion force or if peace was successful, use the time to fortify the island. Bunkers, tunnels, coastal defenses, mandatory conscription of all able bodied adults, 3d gear with guns and rpgs for everyone. Aerial bombardment is incapable of defeating an enemy alone. Tge US tried this for 20yrs in Afghanistan it failed, Isreal is doing this now in Gaza they still have to move in ground forces. Why? CAVES, TUNNELS, AND UNDERGROUND BUNKERS. Dig it deep enough not even bunker busters can touch you. Eren can create near impervious structures out of that titan crystal, use that to reinforce underground shelters. The founding titans powers: why doesn't he just remove the warrior's powers, then bestow them onto others after he's dead (via cannibalism) or better yet turn the entire Paradis Eldian population into Ackerman super soldiers. 3d maneuver gear, literally allows Paradis troops to bypass obstacles like barbed wire and land mines. They could mine the entire coastline with trenches, tunnel networks and abuse the fact their infabtry can simply fly over such defenses and harass any enemy that attempts to land on their shores. Make the island far too costly for anyone to want to invade. Eren should have given the founding and attack titans powers to someone far more capable like Armin.

​@@CountKibblesNBits^This 100%. Everyone praising the ending for being "unique" and "edgy" are completely ignoring how fucking dumb and illogical it is if you give it two seconds of thought.

​@@CountKibblesNBits I think you're ignoring the key component of the entire ending being Ymir. Eren already stated he tried to change the events of the future but couldn't, he goes on to say that this vision was a what if. He had been stated that the Founder is looking for something out of all her descendants that being Mikasa. And all you're explaining is exactly what everyone knows. It's literally what King Fritz wants, he knew eventually that Marley or some other outside force would come to exterminate them. The most peaceful ending for this show is for the Eldians to just fucking die and you can't argue against that. They're the problem, and their extinction WOULD be the solution. But we got to know each character inside the walls and now we can't just watch them all get killed without feeling depressed about it. I think anyone who thinks this ending is a sham is just annoyed the show is over, it had to end. Armin using the Founder.. like what, it just gets the same results. If Marley and the other countries attacked Paradis then they'd just kill them or unleash the wall titans on them or an enemy country. Eren had the balls to put an end to a war that would've lasted thousands of years, with Ymir up the Eldians asses and the other countries afraid and hating the Eldians. It would never end, people are racist in real life over skin tone alone. And they still are angry over that 200+ years later. Now these human beings who essentially turn into giants and kill mass amounts of people.. yeah.. I think believing that you could trust that in your society is a delusional prospect.

@@sayweebs1889 Ah yes, Ymir and the paths all of which culminates into: Erens ability to see the future. The entire concept of Erens premonition is simply put, a narrative vehicle to LOCK a character into a single course of action to achieve a specific outcome, no matter how foolish or avoidable it is. There are many ways for the Eldians of Paradis to survive an onslaught given preperation, their own unique technology and physiology, and clever uses of Titan powers; as I have already stated. The objective of which is to transform their island into a fortress that could easily bleed their enemies should they come to take it, to make "The Juice not Worth the Squeeze" No country no matter how much they Hate a group of people will risk a military slough to eradicate those people. A prime example is the current conflict in Isreal, a country surrounded by people and countries that HATE them and who have several times banded together to destroy it and lost everytime. Why? Because Israel puts a large amount of effort and funding into its military and defense to the point their army is Designed to fight a war on multiple fronts. With the current campaign in Gaza, both Iran and Hezzbolah (a large well equipped terrorist group with its own standing military to the north) have declared they will not be getting involved/attempting to invade Israel ON Hamas' behalf probably due to the cost outweighing the rewards. Back onto my main point, I say all this to illustrate that their are multiple solutions to the problems that Paradis faces, but the Author chose genocide. The author gave Eren the ability to forsee the future for the sole purpose of justifying genocide as the ONLY option. Eren the character who has fought for freedom his whole life, is not a Slave to Freedom, but a Slave to Fate/Plot. Taking away all of his agency as a character, to achieve this ending. There's also another motive by the author, he wants the Genocide ending to happen no matter what but also for the perpetrator (the main character, Eren) to be sympathetic to the audience. The author wants us to sympathize for the genocidal madman, because it wasn't his choice. That ruins Eren as a character, as every choice and action he made after discovering that power was all for the sake of plot. It was not driven by his own needs or wants but by the driving force of Plot. Eren as a character no longer drives the plot, but is Driven by the plot to an end the Author wants.

agree lol

BIG ASS HEAD ON EREB BRO

His proportions are crazy in that scene with Mikasa and then most of them look a bit weird at the beginning of the ending scene when they’re going to paradis

I actually think they drew their faces really nicely in this scene, it's just that the body proportions were kinda weird, like Eren's neck 💀 But I still think that this is one of the best moments when it came to how well they drew their faces. I also think when Eren asked Mikasa about his feelings for him in Marley is when they drew them nicely as well

@@aleenakhan6230erens neck and how short mikasa is in that scene is just ridiculous

that sounds like hell

@@stealth7516 and heartbreaking ironic. He's all talking about living free when in fact his whole life is a time looped prison...

@@KRISIS1451 Im personally not a fan of that twist and storyline. I feel like they tried way too hard to make Eren evil. Alot of it doesnt make sense and Eren contradicts himself about his motives many times. Still a top tier show tho.

Basically every future he saw it ended in war. That one couldnt be changed, so he just picked one that made his friends live long.

because the future is already determined, and Eren can only play his "role". he doesn't really have the power to change anything. it's like to see a movie about your future, and get to know everything, and being unable to change a thing. why can't you change it? it's hard to answer, but from my point of view, Eren wasn't alone in control of everything. the power of the founding titan was controlled by three forms of "will": eren's, ymir's and the parasite's. although Eren didn't want to kill innocent people and die, his desire to crush everything, and ymir's desire to be free from her love for king Fritz, and also the desire of the parasite to keep living attached to humans, all of that determined the future. When Eren saw everything, and had years to think about all of that, he changed his mind (you can see he relates himself to Reiner, and considers the people from outside world normal just like the eldians from Paradis) but he couldn't change what was already fit. the founding titan lives the past, the present and the future simultaneously. so everytime we see him, we just see partially of what he's living. he's at the same time sending the smiling titan to his mum, his talking through Kruger, he's fighting Armin... It's complex, but I always come to this interpretation

"Anime things" is the answer. One of those stories where you can say that a character definitely didn't have to do some stupid shit; but, if they don't do the stupid shit, the audience doesn't get their story. No story. No anime. So...Eren or the writers have a dumb scenario play out lol AoT ain't the only anime where dumb stuff like this happens.

​@@ricardomelo9014this is the closest interpretation of what life is, atleast from what I read from my holy book. Sounds a bit religious, but it is what it is.

Thank what doctor strange saw the possibility of future in infinity war and Eren experience every possibility to end up doing this last option

Bro 😭

He broke & healed that poor girl’s heart 😢

she doesnt. She dies an old lady its seen in the closing credits

@@zee8166 I specifically meant in the alternate ending/timeline, obviously.

I think he uses the founding's power to talk to them in the past and then he makes them forget everything. That's why they remember all those conversations after Eren dies.

​@@juancamilomazocastro4809Mikasa can't have her memories erased, she's an Ackerman. They are immune to the Founding powers. This is probably a Paths experience they had in the middle of that battle. 4 years in 1 second... Just like Eren and Zeke experienced years of Grisha's memories in a sec.

​​​​​@@mandykitty5745 no, it's the Paths . Unfortunatly this is one of the things Isayama rushed , but he kinda of gave an explanation . 1) It was stated that Ackerman can't have their memomries erased not that they are immune . Infact everyone except Levi and Mikasa, they had their conversation before on the boat while these two they had it in real time 2) The few headaches Mikasa had during the series , it was stated by Mikasa herself it was Ymir trying to contact Mikasa through the Paths . Even during final battle Mikasa had a haedache , because Eren through the Paths told Mikasa where his head was . Now here comes the rushed part ... we don't know why Ymir failed to go in Mikasa head and Eren succeded. Love maybe ? Because I think Mikasa was more spiritually connected with Eren then Ymir. Also the headaches are probably because they have a resistance but not immunity P.s. i re-read your comment and i think you pretty much said what I said . I read it wrong but I don't wanna eliminate this long ass message sooooooo sorry

​@@hope7237Why do you think Ymir didn't succeed? She was trying to see from her eyes when she was going through traumatic experiences, and nothing suggests she didn't manage to

@@mwndjddjdhdbbf8408 i don't remember the details , but the whole point is Ymir manipulated Eren all those years to see what Mikasa was ready to do in the name of love . I have to read again the manga , but for now I am not sure about Ymir succeeding or not , so don't mind it too much

But tbh. Mikasa been dropping mad hints from day 1. Like this dude is pretty dense

@@charlesmartiniii1405 Eren was totally dense, but to be fair, he had no interest in Mikasa or love in general. He showed zero interest in women and couldn't even empathize with others when it came to love talk. Boy was too busy trying to train to fight titans.

I mean, we see the result of that in this scene. It's sad because it's clear Eren isn't happy in this scene, but he isn't happy no matter when ending he gets though.

????? Eren is Denser than a rock. It wasn't Mikasa's fault. Eren has Shounen Protag levels of dense.

Meanwhile, in a different universe What If Mikasa R@p3d Eren that night XD

Yes

If Gabi didn't decapitated Eren, nothing would have changed. Except, we would have seen a full body founding titan that can actually fight rather than a skeletal centipede.

That's factually untrue lol

It is because Eren refused to regenerate his body even though he has the ability to do so.

The rumbling was going to happen either way it doesn't matter that Gabi shot him that just make his Founding Titan incomplete

Man, people really will make any excuse to hate on Gabi for no reason even if that excuse doesn't make sense whatsoever.

only thing that ruins it for me is the fact that eren was, apparently, in love with mikasa but absolutely never showed it

@@martinalegre5524 He always was, he just didn't want Mikasa to be involved with what he was doing because there was a good chance of her getting killed

@@tenmaok4548 “he always was” yet he never showed it in early seasons and never after timeskip too

@@martinalegre5524 that because he couldn’t, he had to suppress those emotions to reach his goal

@@tenmaok4548 even when he didn’t know about the whole rumbling plan? Before he kissed historias hand?

You took the words right out of my mouth. I loved the series up till season 3, but was so disappointed with the final season. It was such a huge shift in the story telling that if I had known about it when going into the series, I don't think I would have watched it at all. I enjoyed the crazy apocalyptic titan world vs the more realistic WW2 era setting. Though that is just my preference. The ending did feel rushed as well. I totally agree with the Naruto comparison too. Not just about Eren being revenge obsessed like Sasuke. Mikasa pines over Eren the entire series just as Sakura does for Sasuke. Neither boy shows any interest in them even when they find out they like them. Then, by some miracle, both boys return their feelings with zero explanation. I don't care who Eren ends up with in the series, but if you're going to write a romantic subplot, you need to at least show BOTH character's inner thoughts. We never get any information from Eren as to why he suddenly loves Mikasa. At what point in this series does this change? What was it that was the trigger? What does he like about her? It's just basic romance writing 101.

@@Momoyue Yeah. I think all that sums up to no replay value either. The plot of where the Titans come from is such a huge focal point of the story that, if you're aware of it, how can a viewer go through this anime twice? I don't think this show has replay value in the same way that Spirited Away, Lord of the Rings, Shrek, etc., have.

@@Momoyue what are you talking about? I read the manga and saw the anime and it was clear to me that Eren loved Mikasa even before the end came out.

Holy shit, y'all need to start using your heads more. It's not just to carry hair, you know.

@@Kris-ev3yl It wasn't obvious at all; it came out of nowhere. It's like Naruto and Hinata. It's random and forced because the people in charge of storytelling realize they gotta wrap it up; they ran out of time.

He probably tried, he said he tried everything and the only thing that works a little bit is killing 80%.

The outcome would still be the same. The Eldians on Paradis would spread out to a world theirs for the taking, and not to soon, you'd have new budding settlements, then towns, then cities, and eventually countries, which would demand independence from Paradis, and you can imagine where things would go from there. Can't kill what makes our species so insidious that easily.