Ight Isayama recently conceded his writing for the final chapter wasn’t great. There was a lot of thematic regression too. If wanna discuss/debate please join my discord. Link in description. The ending do be bad. Don’t text, Discord. It was all set in stone. His future was unchangeable. So could never surpass his father and break out of his roles and forge a new future like what he was setup to do since the uprising arc. He was never born free.

Imagin saying "I don't know" when asked why did you kill 80% of the world.

So this is what Grisha saw? No wonder he asked Zeke to stop Eren.

« Thank you Eren for turning into a mass murderer » I can’t believe that this line exists.

So mikisa apparently swam back to paridise with eren stinky head in her hand because they had no planes left right isayama.

I thought when Isayama said he wanted to hurt his readers, it was by killing all of his characters, not their characterizations...

Eren in ch. 139: I just keep moving backward..... until My character arc is destroyed.

Damn honestly I'm disappointed, not because my ending didn't happen but because it just left me confused. Isayama said Eren saw Mikasa as mother figure rather than a love interest and thought people who grew up together being lovers was weird. And now all of a sudden, he makes Eren randomly have feelings for her even though it was never shown in any case. He even gets questioned why he did and says he doesn't know why, just destroys his character. Everyone who became a titan now suddenly turning back to normal just ruins the moment. Honestly what was the point of making Historia having a baby such a big deal then, it just turned into a random subplot. If Eren manipulated Dina then why did he question Reiner why his mother died? It makes no sense whatsoever. In my opinion AOT has a disappointing ending and that's a shame.

"Fight", "Keep Moving Forward", "Until all my Enemies are destroyed", "I was born into this world", "Freedom", All these quotes and we get this ending ffs

Isayama had all these years just to choose this ending

This cannot be the same man who wrote chapter 121

Now I wish this chapter should’ve been released on April 1

Eren: why reiner? Why was my mother eaten by a titan? Also eren: so anyway im gonna sacrifice my mother to unite the world

"Look at how they massacred my boy"

You know who Eren reminds me of? The fake king from season 3. They set him up like this all knowing mastermind that has seen through the past, present and future, the director, the badass that knows everything. But in the end he knows jack shit about it. 😂

This like if Davinci painted the Mona Lisa and then right before he finished the last brush stroke he took a shit on the canvas

Levi saluting his old comrades after finally completing his promise is the only thing I liked about the chapter

I think Isayama was pissed beacause the fans theorised all of his ending possibilities.

Should have just done Zeke's plan.

the saddest thing is that Hisu was downgraded to an idiot ship war, Eren used it and in the end he didn't even remember her, he's an idiot

Today we finally got the final episode and Eren looked just as pathetic.

Worst ending i've ever seen in my life This was character assassination of the highest order.

A masterpiece that ends in the bad fan fiction ending.

Isayama basically tried a Code Geass ending but failed miserably.

Eren's like naruto. Ignore the girl throughout the series, and in the end, oh surprise, he always loved her.

I feel bad for mappa having to animate this

Eren is just ungrateful hypocrite He claimed that he cared about his friends but he let sasha died easily, he knew about wine plan with floch and Zeke, but he didn't care, he just let all survey corps superior like pixis and nile die too, he didn't care about levi who saved his ass many times ( in court, against female titan, jaw titan, Kenny squad) and let him alone against 30 titans, beast titan. Hanji died because of his titans. Connie was about to die in last battle but levi saved him sacrificing his leg . he said he wasn't sure if his friends survived or not lol.

When Isayama said he wanted to betray his readers I didn’t think he meant by giving us such a bad ending. the fact people were saying “you guys just don’t know eren!” is such bullshit too because from the uprising arc you can see eren begin to mature and develop and this chapter is an abrupt heel turn from what character he’s been consistently portrayed to be. There is not a single coherent argument in existence that could convincingly explain how this Eren is the same Eren in 139. These are completely different characters, written with two completely different endgames in mind. Completely fucking heartbroken. Has there ever been a greater character assassination than this? In the history of story-telling?

It was doomed the moment they introduced the time travel paradox bullshit

such an awful ending. I jokingly told my friend during the start of the Marley Arc in the manga "Eren is pulling a Lelouche haha. Nah seriously they wouldn't do something lame like that would they...?"

I know it won't happen but if Mappa makes a different ending I swear I'll love them to death.

We can only hope the anime has better ending or really changes

Next chapter is gonna be isayama point of view, I am calling it, we are in April anyways.

My God, how can a man destroy everything he's built for the last 12 years. It's mind boggling that Eren's character has been reduced to shipper bait when theres so many incredible themes and possible motivations but we get a "I don't know, I just wanted to do it" and "Mikasa can't love another man, I want her to think about only me". This sounds like a joke. To be able to completely demolish a character like that... GG Isayama, now that's something new and... "artistic" I guess. This goes next to Lost, Game of Thrones and Prison School honestly.

The mfs saying this ending is good r coping.. don’t @ me

So all this happened because ymir fritz was a fu*kin simp for karl Fritz The same man who treated her like dog shit and all these years she waited because she could see mikasa kiss eren's severed head so she could finally satisfy her weird fetish and be "freed" , at first I almost thought that this was a prank by isyama .

If this truely the end Eren might go down as the biggest clown in anime history good god 😂

This ending is flat out disappointing but it’s an alright ending IMO. I would love to see Isayama put out an alternate ending which is the original ending he had in mind when he created the series.

4:35 Armin: Why’d you do it Eren: 🤷‍♂️ AOTard: 🤓 peak ending Eren doesn’t even know why he did💀

Ymir “loved” king Fritz because she had “Stockholm syndrome”. Living all her life as a slave without knowing freedom, she tried to found some kind salvation which was the guy who used her as a tool.

I can’t believe that so much people liked the ending, finally fanservice won and I can’t handle that. I thought it was an april fool

What if isayama read all of the theories, and decided to just give us all the big finger.

So what happened to all the quotes that he says “I’ll keep on moving until my enemies are destroyed” “freedom” “fight fight fight” and we actually get Eren throwing hissy fit instead cause all this time Mikasa family zoned him

Kudos to people who liked the ending but in my humble opinion, it was trash. Eren's character was completely massacred beyond repair. Isayama had the whole manga to develop eren and Mikasa's relationship which he always portrayed to be one sided on mikasa part now all of sudden in the LAST chapter he shoves this news that Eren was a simp all along? All his character development went right in the trash. The world is still fighting. Paradis is still on jeopardy. It's sickening. This chapter feels like a completely different manga wtf. You can see the shift from 123 onward in the story. No one cant tell me Isayama had to change his original ending because this ending is so mind boggling and wtf. No hate to Isayama but I personally will forget aot ever existed

and now imagine: Isayama did this "not good" ending on purpose and releases out of no where another chapter with the real ending

Zeke's plan was 50x better than Eren's. Eren literally massacred billions....and doesn't even know why. If he did it to end the curse of titans that could have easily occurred under Zeke's plan.

Lmfao the ending smacked us in the face

Eren grew up reading stories about Lelouch 😝

I am sorry but this ending was so bad and so ridiculous. Pure trash. I am so dissapointed !

Mikasa and ymir ruined everything 🤦

This ending still doesn't make sense to this day lol

Eren was my comfort character. He helped me get through so many bad days. Yes, its just an anime but the reason i was so attached to him was because i understood his character. A little boy once filled with rage wanting to get revenge, to a man who became what he was most afraid of. He was one of the best written protagonists. Seeing his character arc get destroyed made me heartbroken.

I’m... fine with the ending, but I can’t help but feel disappointed

The ending is really really disappointing and unsatisfying. Eren and Historia's characters were completely ruined... It honestly feels like there was supposed to be a totally different ending, but something happened and Isayama changed it to this shit somewhere during the last couple of chapters. I don't know if it was the editors or whatever but this can't have been Isayama's real vision, it just makes no sense.

Eren in 139: "I don't know, I don't care, I don't wanna die, I don't want mikasa to be free." How they butch our boy. :(

Yall just didnt get it

Its just so depressing..like i love attack on Titan. The soundtracks, the story, the characters..all of it..and then we get this ass ending. The funny thing is, i actually liked the ending when i first watched it, bit the next few dayd after i started to realize i was just wanting to like it.

I feel almost exactly as you do. I was so emotionally invested in this show and it ends in such an empty manner. You’re SPOT ON when you say that this was totally unexpected and right at the end. I completely agree with that. I felt like every second of the show was immaculate until the final episode. He abandoned all his themes and left us wondering what the show was really all about. I feel like he ruined it on purpose, like you said. My theory is that he’s a twisted cynic who is incredibly talented and wanted to rob us of the magic we held in our hearts for years. I feel utterly betrayed. I’ve been writing for 3 days since finally binging the show in its entirety throughout the past month. I’ve watched all the seasons multiple times. I rewatched everything including all of the OVAs EVERY time a new season came out. All of that energy and love just spat on. I cried painfully. The day after I watched it I couldn’t stop thinking about how they ruined it and how it can never be corrected. I still haven’t been able to stop thinking about it and I’ve been watching videos about the ending non-stop trying to find a way to accept it, but I can’t. I’ve been looking for closure, but I won’t get it. This will forever be an open wound. Just for the sake of understanding the gravity of my pain, I’d like to clarify that I’m not a weaboo or an incel; I’m not a cringy person who is unhealthily obsessed with anime. I’m a hard-working married man in my late 20s with an eclectic panoply of interests including philosophy, psychology, anthropology, yada yada... I just really love art and beauty. To see such a masterpiece be violated the way it was is heart-shatteringly tragic to me. Thank you for this video. I’m selfishly glad I’m not alone in this.

Why did historia ask erens opinion about having a child if she loves the farmer who knows . Apparently it’s mikisa who saved eren that day the worst girl in the world not historia.Why did eren think about historia when zeke mentioned love, who knows . Why didn’t we get erens reply to historia question who knows . Why did hange bring up historia to eren in prison when apparently eren loves mikisa the whole time who knows. Why did eren massacre humanity idk 🤷‍♂️ . So historia lied about her date of conception for no reason she also didn’t marry the farmer. But hey we got Reiner sniffing historia letter worst ending. So mikisa was the chosen one not eren. No problem I’m not watching aot ever again. Mikisa was the main character eren got Butchered

I really wouldnt have minded if Eren became a pure antagonist and was using the rumbling because he was actually fucking sick and tired of everyone looking at him and Eldians as devils. Coupled with the fact that Paradis was messing around and wasting time with other solutions to fix their relations with the entire world (literally no one would have stopped hating them) and how, again, the world depicted them as devils served as a catalyst to his mothers death- would progressively make Eren more pissed off and more desperate to the point where he truly believes is the right and only way. So why wouldn't he be a pure villain, no, they made him into a washed out forced anti hero, which overlooks the idea that horrible events can shape people into villains if given the pressure and time.

3:55 sorry I couldn’t help but laugh, we had conspiracies that he would be the Father of Historia’s child but he most likely died a virgin.

The f***kin intro had me crying😂😂😂

You know how Gabi saw a plane at the end? I bet the Jägerists sent it to kamikaze the Alliance on the boat, shouting, "SHINZOU WO SASAGEYO!"

I don’t understand how people are defending this ending. It’s absolutely atrocious. It’s an ending so bad it kinda ruins the series for me because it completely diminishes Erens motivations.

Ymir is in love with the man that destroyed her village, tried to kill her and used her as a tool to further his own goals. she then gets trapped in the paths dimension and continues to serve him for a ungodly amount of time, Isayama you sure know how to write women.

Whenever I see clown Eren, or just any clown meme about Eren, I can't help but chuckle and laugh in such a way that hurts my chest. Ineedhelp.

Lol what's even more shocking is that levi isn't even angry at annie for killing his whole squad, hes like ok cool lets team up with the girl who killed my whole squad , and murdered a lot scouts

Moral of the AoT story: if you’re being oppressed, suffering injustice, and the world is trying to kill you, just accept it. You were born to be a loser and will die a loser and there’s NOTHING you can do about it because that’s your fate.

at this point i"d be happy if mappa pulled a promised neverland and change this

It's official, Eren "Pulled a Mordecai". He's now a bird and a simp.

really thought this series would be a masterpiece

Basically "Your lie in April" 😂😂😂

The last chapter hit me like a fcking truck... 🥲 Idk how to feel anymore 😭

Eren failed to do what Lelouch succeeded at. Unlike Lelouch and how he was able to distinguish himself from everyone becoming the devil and was all alone in death erasing everyone's crimes by showing that it was just him and no one else, Eren failed to distinguish himself from the Eldians and his friends meaning not only did he erase the defense mechanisms of his people that's still years behind the world, he left a world where Eldians are still hated because of him. Like that commander said this was the karma coming to bite the world's ass for hating Eldians. Not just Eren Yaeger, ELDIANS. With Lelouch everything was pinned on him and ONLY him and his empire. So when he died, the world moved on and they were able to move on because he didn't leave the world in shambles. How the hell does the world cope with an 80% loss of humanity? Thus the blame still falls on Eldia not just Eren. Then what was the point of cutting the rumbling short? They're still hated after this whole ordeal. If anything cutting the rumbling shows the world that they're hate specifically they're fears were justified. Humans aren't as easy and that was showed in the 2 millenia that the world hated Eldians but this last chapter makes us want to believe that the world is okay and not just want to nuke the whole fucking Island. The trauma of the rumbling will not just go away just like that. 3 years and society is okay with letting Eldia still flourish especially with the Yaegerists? HELL NO! Eldia wouldn't even survive a year after the rumbling with the whole world after its ass for the trauma. If anything, it might've conviced me if the Yaegerist didn't flourish? But they did so now not only does the world hate them for the trauma they also have a regiment that represents an extremist mindset born out of an individual's misunderstanding that spiraled into the Yaegerists. A common enemy of humanity is a common enemy of humanity if said enemy has no ties to humanity. With this logic Eren failed where Lelouch succeeded. Lelouch killed himself and dragged everything which made Britain meaning all the hate was towards him but Eren's death only dragged the titan's end. He thought that the whole world's hate would be focused on him but not with how fast everything was going. I mean even Lelouch waited for 3 months to let the world's hate focused on him. With Eren? The declaration of war literally only happend 2 to 3 days ago. Like if anything Willy Tybur was doing them a solid in letting the world know that instead filling hate fear jug towards Eldians, fill this jug of hate and fear towards Eren Yeager instead and only him distinguishing Eldia and Eren but Eren attacking immediately while the Eldians helping him made Willy Tybur's distinguishment of the two were null and void. Eldia basically had nukes and now.. they're in the bottom of the food chain because they're just not well equipped to fight back against a world way more advanced than them. In short, Lelouch used water as to where Eren used gasoline.

I'm going to start self-deluding that aot ended on ch 131, no one can stop me.

great video man

Spoiler alert to you: Paradis got absolutely bombed the shit out of a while after Eren died. This can be seen in the ending credits of the final episode. So yeah you were right Eren screwed his own people by doing the rumbling and removing titans from the world.

Straight facts bro

Eren: So why on that day my mom... Reiner: Don't u F ask Meeee! meanwhile, Reiner not painful anymore and don't want punishment anymore, smell an envelope like a F freak

Crazy how some people think a man who knows he is gonna die, crying his heart out to his best friend for the last time about the person he loves, makes him an incel simp. He's 19. A child. He doesn't want to die and leave everyone behind, but he knows he doesn't deserve to live. So crying and showing human emotions makes someone an incel. He wasn't a god. He was a human being. It's not like he told Mikasa to never move on. He did the exact opposite. He specifically told her to move on and find someone else. MIKASA chose not to. He kept what he really felt to himself despite what he wanted. And there have been many clues that Eren liked Mikasa. It wasn't random. He was just a kid who didn't know how to love someone or show love yet. And when he finally learned how to, he had to push them away. Eren's character is so tragic, and it pains em seeing people simplify him to being a simp.

My condolences for all those who get massacred by isayama's work. Just like he said "the ending would be tragic" and there you go. We know that an isayama caliber can come out with something way better to end this story. But we also know that this guy enjoy our pain and struggling. He just did this chapter intentionally. To achieve his evil desires. He litterally said that he wanted to hurt the reader

I think isayama was forced to write this ending I cannot accept he did this on purpose

thanks for this you put into words exactly what I'm feeling

We wanted a dark ending man. We didn't want to see everyone living happily ever after when Mikasa and Eren are suffering alone

All the amazing journey we went through just for SIMP Eren. My god

When eren said he didn't know why he did it i think he just meant what he said in 131 "when i learned humanity lived outside the walls i was disappointed...i wanted to wipe it all away" he probably didn't say it because he knew armin wouldn't relate to this scenario because it is something personal to him. That is my interpretation at least.

this is like game of thrones all over again

I appreciate the last bit about art, it adds a lot of nuance to your take. Whatever Isayama thinks he has done with 139, he did it on purpose.

Would love to see the eren character analysis

AOT has zero re-readability after this chapter. And if the anime has this exact ending the anime will also have zero re-watchability. Such a boring and generic ending to an incredible story, such an empty end.

Requiem, High School, Time Loop, hell, _even the Madagascar ending_ would've been a better ending for Eren's character than this.

This made my day much better, for context today was the worst day of 2021... The day I read Chapter 139 something died inside.

Iseyama made such a dis-service to Eren and fans with this ending that I don't have any words. This is frankly pathetic

Chadness was an Act. Eren be simping hard for his hot asian sister. Lol. WTF man? What the hell is this?

Founder Ymir basically fell in love with King Fritz even though it was a toxic relationship.

Im glad that im not the only one who is disappointed at the ending of aot....

Please let this be a late April fool's joke and the official chapter which comes is completely different

All the shitty characters getting a happy ending cheapened the story for me

Eren is thanos but instead of killing 50% he kills 80% of the people and the 80% doesn't come back Edit: Ah fuck Gabi is back she might use aim bot again

I love how Dina Fritz is both in the first chapter and the last one