Eren isn't hard to understand, if you're willing to acknowledge your previous misconceptions about him were wrong. He is a brilliant character.

@@Omar_E11 Agreed. Tbh Eren didn't impress me much as a character until Season 4. That's when the intrigue of the character fleshes out.

Sorry but what was so complicated about his character? I actually can relate to Eren in many ways. When he turned "bad" to his friends, I already knew his reasons. He was always trying to protect them. But, because the human mind can't live both in the past and in the future, his brain was mess up from the founder. On top of the fact that the organism inside of him is constantly pushing that "flight or flight" response to save it's own skin, it had to make its will to survive, Eren's will. So when he said "I wanted to kill them." after explaining to Armin what his plan was, he's not saying "I'm a killer and I love it." that "desire" to "kill them all" comes from the need to reproduce and survive, so feeling good about killing all those people just comes from base instinct of the organism inside him, and he calls himself an "idiot who gained power" because that is exactly what he is, for letting this power control him. He's an idiot because he couldn't let the Island die, and by guessing what was in the end credits, the worm inside him knew that if it could make the island survive, the worm would have have a new host in the future even after the island gets bombed, there would still be Eldian survivors to infect. Eren's character, in relation to the organism, is a stepping stone.

@@jameseddleman6944 It's because a character with a non linear view of time would never be someone an audience can fully relate to. In part because their perspective brings up legitimate questions of free will and autonomy, making any discussion of his morality mired in additional layers of depth and nuance. Everything you're describing is surface level. He thinks in a way that no other character, that none of us, can fully comprehend. Eren, as a character, is fundamentally more complicated to discuss than most other protagonists in media because even to this day it's unclear if his hand was ever truly forced.

@@cale0176 I think you're wrong. First off, someone wrote "non linear" time characters before. Its not "such an unhuman" topic that no one can do mental gymnastics to get the grasp of, as most of us have through watching this show.... I mean purely by proxy of the show we are experiencing "that time" felt by Eren as we see somethings through his minds eye . Yes, by nature we can't actually "do it" but we are perfectly capable as humans to "do things for the future" however clear or unclear that is. We are able to imagine futures in our heads and then obtain that future, so is that not similar? I mean, if it comes true then did you not "see" that future from the past? Simply imagine that you have to use the bathroom and see yourself there... then execute... congrats you are able to see the future!... I jest. Secondly, I am writing a story too, and my character is immortal outright. So to make the story interesting I have to think about all the realistic bad that comes with being 100 yrs old, to 1 billions years old. What does one think about, how does your morality last after seeing humans repeat history over and over, do you love anything anymore? do you wish for death? All things I have to pretend to be immortal to "get". And why I think Attack on Titan is such a great story, is that we can pretend to be like Eren very easily. It's called "watching the show" lol Eren IS like a real world veiwer, aka us. He is a slave to his fate and we were all a slave to seeing this story all the way through to the end. He was very much an observer of his own life as it was laid out before him by him from the future, but that "future him" was made by all the choices of the world he was born in, so a real fate not some magical one. But no, seriously. If you watched it all, then go through it again, watch it again. Just by doing that you are experiencing both the past and the future (as it pertains to what you know as the viewer) Tell me I am wrong I dare you lol. You have the knowledge and emotions of the future, and you are re-watching Erens Mother die in episode 1... does that not make you both aware of the future, but emotionally you are in the past, still feeling sorry for her as she tells her kids to run? That's the kind of thing Eren is going through, like all the times he said "kill them all, every last one of them" he had no "knowledge" of the future, but emotionally he was in the future, just like an instict is just wells up and the feeling is there but he has no idea why that is (as a linear being). When he kissed Historia's hand, the emotions of the future were finally caught up to the knowledge of the future, hence the face he made because he felt like he was already stepping over all those people, and crushing Ramzi, while also apologizing to Ramzi for crushing him, while seeing Ramzi get beat up by those 3 merchants WHILE seeing his mother die again probably lol. Its just all the things all the time, and thats not impossible to imagine, just impractical to actually do. As you re watch the episode where Reiner and Bertholdt reveal who they are, do you still not get chills? do you not feel for Eren who keeps being betrayed by the people around him whom he called "humanity"? I still get up and say "YOU DAMN TRAITORS!" every time I see that part even though I know what happens in the end and why Reiner pushed forward. (Which is to be a hero, not to save the world) Seeing Bertholdt try to explain why he has to destroy them, with the knowledge you now have you can actually feel bad for him, instead of being like Mikasa who wanted nothing more than to chop off his head. That's all examples of this awesome story, making you into non linear being like Eren. written exactly that way to be felt retroactively while thinking about what happens later on in a different light. They practically spell it out when Eren sees his father kill the family, in like 3-4 different perspectives, what it's like for a Linear being to be semi Non Linear.

WE ALL ARE.

​@@CynicalJustin but for serious your video on resolve of attack attack the only one I seen I will continue watching you videos on anime

fr life doesn’t feel right

@@playfortoday I feel I lost part of myself before I always thought there next season but now I can't get out of my mind

Same

In stead of ‘to be continued…’ ya. Longest ‘to be continued…’ I’ve followed in my life so far.

@@otysb209one piece

​@@Betoruffoyou african?

I thought everything was ruined after I watched this show as well😂. I can still enjoy other shows, but deep down I know nothing else even comes close to AoT (except maybe Game of Thrones? I never watched it tho)

Dude, same. I revisit some other stuff..and im like.... "meh". Only thing vaguely on a par with this for me, is the Last of Us part 1 and part 2 game series.

@@brinu5341 did you just recently watch AoT? For a week or two after I binged the show, nothing else could entertain me at all. All I had on my mind was Attack on Titan and I couldn’t stop making references to it. I still make references and constantly compare everything to AoT, but I’m not on a full blown AoT high anymore.

@@brinu5341 did you just recently watch AoT? For a week or two after I binged the show, nothing else could entertain me at all. All I had on my mind was Attack on Titan and I couldn’t stop making references to it. I still make references and constantly compare everything to AoT, but I’m not on a full blown AoT high anymore.

@@giygas9305 Just finished it about a month ago. Been thinking about it ever since.

You lucky bastard, you.

@@Darksightkellar I just never started it but new it existed

Honestly, compared to the JJK fandom, Attack On Titan fandom was extremely respectful about spoilers.

Same here. I'm watching it again because it's so good.

congratulations this was my first ever anime and is now one of if not my favorite show of all time

Yeah, believe me when I say that I feel you there! The fact that it has been 10 years bothers me in a way that I can't begin to describe.

Saaaaammme, same same. Same. lol

congrats on having ur kid bro.

Monotolife. We call em expendable.

Same I started watching aot in 2015 when I was 13 now I am 21 in college close to graduating

tbh you just need to watch the news to realize just how fucked up the world can be

welp. guess you should stay far far away from Berserk

@@LuisSierra42exactly what’s going on now our world my not have long AOT especially season 4 is truly based on real human dark F UP nature of our world only reason most don’t believe this is because there ether sheltered by society or just flat out blind ignorant delusional Enough said

Honestly, AoT sorta reminds me of Gundam Wing despite it being one short part of the franchise. But in the way it dealt with the concepts of war and peace and can peace be achieved and how. It also had a main character who was a revolutionary terrorist and a murderer who accumulated children as collateral damage as a child. It also just deals with revolutionary ideology and freedom and with amoral people being willing to commit atrocities to obtain freedom or peace or so their side can win. The operation meteor is to crash the Battle Ship Libra into the Earth to deal a decisive blow to the Earth Sphere Alliance. Someone is willing to shoot down an entire space colony to prevent the same.

I get where you're coming from about not truly enjoying the show or not placing it top 5, and you're right because I also feel depressed watching certain episodes and moments. But one thing that always pulls me the other way, towards the light if you will, is Armin and what his entire character is about: "but there's more to it than that", there's more than just being drunk on and being a slave to something, there's more to it than just kill or be killed, there's more to it than just continuing the species. There is so much more to life than any of that. And that makes me genuinely happy to know that AOT, the best piece of media ever imo, taught me that.

Man, I hated GoT season 8. I had this whole thing in my head about how is should go. Like, I could give you a detailed version, but ultimately I thought that the White Walkers would never be stopped exactly. I thought that John and Danny would be pushed to Kings Landing like in the show, and Bran would learn about how the Whites can see into the future ...because they seemed to kill all those wildling season 1 episode 1 to leave behind symbols of the "pact" as if to warn humans that they are about to break the "pact" and they sent a White to go stop Sam from taking little Sam, Crasters incestuous son that he would sacrifice. The Walkers only sent one of their kind to go get it, SO I think the idea is that their future site is limited, possible to what happens around those White trees, while the "Green Seers" can see things that happen around the tree only, the Whites have "Blue seers" They sent one Walker to get their Prince that was Promised, Little Sam. They saw Big Sam in a vision maybe, saw that he was fat and a coward, like in that blizzard the one time so they thought one Walker would be enough. But they underestimated him, as well as couldn't see the future where Sam gains the courage to fight. So once little Sam was beyond the wall, the pact was broken I think, they made the last son of Craster turn into one of them, and then came down south themself. So I thought that in the end, they would try to fight in kings landing, but start losing and when the citizens die, they become the enemy right? so the back up plan that Bran comes up with as he "looks" through time... "Burn them all." and it's just my theory but Bran being stronger, would actually Worg trough the life of The Mad King which on top of the (book) torture the Mad king endured before I was just connecting the fact that Jammie said "He'd been saying the same thing for hours, 'burn them all'." Kinda like Hodar saying hodar for years. So now that the enemy has take Kings Landing, and the White Walkers could have never seen what happens at Kings Landing due to the tree being there. So I had two ending in mind, either they win by destroying everyone and everything Danny was trying to win, in order to actually defeat them. OR They don't die from Wilde Fire either, just most of their army. So then The White Walkers stop attacking but start to communicate using the symbols from season 1. Bran would see this, and be able to look in the past and see that in order to stop the Winter, a sacrifice of an incestuous son, with the caveat that Jammie and/or Cersei is dead and Danny/John being the last pair that could actually stop the world from ending by doing what Craster was doing, by doing what the Targaryens have done for generations.

Eh, you kinda right but thats kinda ruined by the crazy levels of plotarmor our heroes have during the event. Our heroes literally had to search for death (like hange) in order to get it. GoT and AoT are very similar with their tropes and good guys win relatively undamaged meme. Which is why I did not like the ending of AOT, while the musical score and art is fantastic, the bread and butter, the story, left me unsatisfied. Mikasa and Jon are both chosen one lover killers. Ugh what a bore, what AOT could have been.

@@shivanshsharma3487 First four seasons, hell yeah, without a doubt.

​@@jameseddleman6944 God that would've been an extremely better ending.

As the rumbling unfolded, I remember thinking "This is EXACTLY what I would expect from a show called Attack on Titan", one of my favorite aspects of the show is the aesthetics and how the titans are designed and interact, it's terrifying but at the same time very interesting

Spot on

There were a few other small inaccuracies, but overall I still thought it was very well written.

@@Free_3.0 yeah, they are small inaccuracies and not important to point out but annoying type A fans like me just have to point them out anyway.

@@elcee8 oh no my friend... My fingers were hovering over the keyboard as well. Your point was one I noticed, he also said that Zeke betrayed his parents in order to enact the euthanization plan (they came up with that plan years later) ... Actually now that I think about it, the other thing I started to comment was less of an inaccuracy and more of an interpretation. That one had to do with Ymir's cult and how I don't think that they actually betrayed her. Knowing what was revealed about founder Ymir, I think the cult always intended for her to be a scapegoat.

I think one of the most important character of Armin is that he never runs away from his fights. His reaction to his bullies in his childhood is symbolic to his later decisions, whether to face titans head-on (especially with Bertholdt), his war atrocities to Marley, his conflict with Eren. He always faces the truth despite how weak he is physically.

get this up to 88 likes \o

Thank you so much! I appreciate that a ton! Considering this video was practically another hour long at one point, you could have had that. Lol.

@@CynicalJustin btw it's pronounced "coo-day-tah" lol it ain't that hard to google a word XD

Jjk. Give it time to cook but I promise you good series. Also handles many mature themes.

Armin’s freedom is based on mainly non-violence and achieving freedom without getting his hands dirty and his mind he thinks he’s doing no better then his oppressors if he kills innocents. But Eren is different, he UNDERSTANDS the human nature and he knows that no matter what he does the HATE WILL continue so he knows that if he has to protect the ones he loves and if he wants to achieve COMPLETE freedom he has to destroy it’d enemies.

​@@user-kf5kh1np1l I really don't think eren understands the human psyche. He was only guided by his memories,if anything,it's armin who is a great psychological manipulator. He understood why great commanders like erwin and pixis sacrifice their humanities,why annie and her gang did what they did and understood zeke and eren's mind. Armin was an idealist while Eren was delusional.

yes!! love to hear other people say it

@@9eishitasharma501 eren didn’t understand the human psyche? That’s how he got grisha to kill kids right? That’s how he got an entire army to back him and how he got Zeke to act in accordance to his plan without realizing it right? Look, you may agree or disagree with what eren does but to write his character off as delusional and say he doesn’t understand people is kinda shortsighted.

@@9eishitasharma501 sometimes peace can only come from great suffering. What did Armin accomplish in s4? The world continued just the same as it always was, arguably worse as there's no way the world would forgive the Eldians after the Rumbling. Eren could have at least changed things.

no she doesn't.. after Eren showed her the alternate world where they both run away and live in peace for Eren's remaining years in the cabin.. She doesn't regret her choice after that and knows what she has to do to set the world free from this curse of titans and to finally put Eren to rest after all his suffering

I think Mikasa knows it wouldn't have happened. What Eren showed her was a dream, her's and his, it was an alternate dream, but I think she knew it never could have been a reality. One of the things I really loved was how S4 was Mikasa seeing Eren as he truly was, that was why she wore the red scarf less and less until she put it back on again. Armin had always known who Eren was, Mikasa had an idealized version of him. She truly loves him, but she had to come to terms with reality of Eren, and that meant knowing the beautiful dream could never be

@@Starburst514 I agree with everything you said except the part about Armin knowing who Eren was and Mikasa not. If you think about it, after Eren saved her from the traffickers and welcomed into his family, Mikasa was basically his care taker/babysitter. She would see him get beat up on a daily basis by bullies, being scolded by his mother and constantly having to save him. So I don't think it's possible for her to have Eren portraited in her mind as this white, glorious knight you know what I mean? I think she just likes him despite his flaws. If I remember correctly, only during the training arc she's wrong about what Eren's thinking (the scene where Eren finally manages to use 3dm gear). After that and the super rare harsh moments between them in early season 1, they have a pretty normal "situationship". They communicate with just glances in some occasions. And I think that's what her and Armin's story is in Season 4. They're trying to figure out "Why is Eren behaving like this all of a sudden? This isn't Eren". They both are taken by surprise by his sudden switch in personality after he leaves the group in Marley after the Eldian convention. The "actual" Eren pretty much died when he kissed Historia's hand. Then after the restaurant scene ofc Armin is the least emotional and smarter of the two so he's quicker to rationalize what is going on with Eren (also because Armin got hurt only physically while Eren attacked Mikasa emotionally, right on her weak spot, himself). And in the end I think that Mikasa gets "kinda" proven right about what Eren is. He loves them so much (he has massive flaws and is kind of a loose unit) that he would make them hate him just so they can be happy after he inevitably dies. So like, all her doubts about his motives, the people he actually cares about get disproven. Also, according to Mikasa's OVA episode, she knows Eren will die sooner than later and "even after eliminating all the Titans, he might still want to move forward" this is all before the Return to Shiganshina arc. So I'm of the opinion that Mikasa is aware of the true nature of Eren, she just loves him so much that she accepts his flaws and just wants to be beside him. Ultimately, they were cursed from the start because they had Fate itself against them, like you said so they both know that their dream scenario could've never happened, because when Eren pulls everyone in Paths when they're on the plane and says something like "no need for a discussion, kill me if you want to stop me" he's prioritizing what's best for Mikasa and Armin's future to his dream of having a happy 4 years with her. "Why does Eren always run away from us?" He's destined to get himself in trouble and killed eventually, I think that's the main problem with Eren and his impossibility of ever settling down with Mikasa. That's my opinion, I'd like to know what you think of it 👍

@@rckg7 I love your opinion

I don't agree personnaly. She knows he has flaws but mostly refuse to see them, or to acknowlegde them. For example in s3, I used to find Eren annoying for looking depressed most of the time and also bc he never spoke abt his friends about what was happening to him, but looking back I feel like even if he could, he wouldn't have confessed to his friends about what he saw anyway: there is that on escene when they're all eating in the canteen and Eren starts talking about some of his worries, and Mikasa just shut him up, not even delicately but just kinda force him too, like she doesn't want to hear it, which is ok but if Eren isn't doing well, shouldn't she listen to him and be concerned about his feelings? And that was before touching Historia's hand. The whole s4 is Mikasa slowly accpting that they were hints that Eren wasn't always doing great and had things planned, which she apparently decided to ignore for 4 years. Maybe she thought they had time but she also knew Eren would die soon anyway due to titans's powers.Maybe one of the point of her character is learning to cope with reality and accepting what she likes, not what "is". She was kinda selective with her perception of Eren. I was glad in those chapters when she started questionning her view of Eren, but it didn't really went anywhere so. My biggest problem with Mikasa's character is definitely the lack of her pov, which means when you try to analyse her you're suppose to create her own thoughts based on her behavior, which can work obviously but Mikasa is basically centered around Eren, the whole point of her character ended resolving around Eren and yet, she felt like the one who understood him the least. Everyone was able to make little analysis of Eren, it could be Armin, Annie, Jean, expecially Levi I think at some points but they would understand Eren's motive and will, while Mikasa never seemed to do so. I wish her last convo with Eren would have a deeper conversation, but it didn't either and was so confusing. Throughout the whole s4 she was basically trying to convince everyone that Eren was manipulated and then that Eren could just stop and things would go back to normal (cute dream but even with love, they're at war how could she expect such a thing afterEren started the Rumblings) and then killing Eren but not out of an internal thought, more bc he was going to die anyway. The OAV you mentionned was great bc at least she could give a proper description of what Eren is, I hated how her only way to remind why she loved Eren was bc of the day he saved her and the scarf stuff, it really felt like she only loved him bc of that one even that happened when they were 9 yo. Like you could replace Eren with Fritz and she would just feel the same, which obviously isn't the case, she probably had other reasons to love him, reasons we don't know: she never that she loved Eren bc of his free will, she never said she loved her bc he took care of her or anything (also he didn't take care of her in a very different way from how others can help her too so it's hard to make her moments with Eren special), Eren would even sometimes treat her badly without her having idk inner thoughts abt it, which made me think she only viewed him as a "sibling", or someone she needed to protect. As Eren's lover, I wish Mikasa feelings would have been more complex than what we got, I don't even remember her being angry at the Rumblings, being sad at the idea of killing her own ppl to save the world of whatever. s1 Mikasa would probably be dissapointed.@@rckg7

They're also both controversial and severely misunderstood cultural phenomena, despite being fairly simple narratives that spell out their themes. Hell, they're both kaiju series. Recall that the EVA units aren't actually robots.

@@seg162 what's funny is that I introduced my brother to attack on titan the same time he introduced me to eva. Shock to find how similar they were

@@kurokamina8429 Eren bursting out of the bearded Titan in his first transformation has major "EVA-01 bursting out of Leliel" vibes for me.

"Devil like ears"

I think it is not real forshadowing, but based on how bloody the 1st episode was, after watching it I was like: nah, the main character will not make it at the end... 😅 I was prooven right 10 years later

And it’s Armin’s Grandpa’s Grandpa’s fault for giving it to Armin’s Grandpa

Eren was whispering to Armin's grandpa to pass it to him XD

@@daniaaalGod knows how long Eren spent torturing the author to write the damn book in the first place.

​@@lProN00blloool

Exactly, and we don't know if he'll even get it too. The boy could just be going "that's a big tree" and then walk past it.

That means a lot to hear! Thank you so much for the back-to-back viewings! Lol.

Thank you so much! Taking your time to push it means a ton to me! Thank you again!

Thank you so much, bro! Means the world hearing that from you!

You have no idea how great it is for me to hear that! The last video I made had a lot of criticisms against the narration so I'm super glad to see that I've been able to course correct!

Thank you so much!

Thank you! I really appreciate that! Especially since I feel like my comedy can be super hit or miss. Lol.

All comedy is hit or miss xD

He's not. That was a while afterwards when Eren woke up in the Titans stomach

@@t.j.hampton6483why don’t you actually look lol

@@giygas9305 I've rewatched this series 5 times so far no including manga. Go rewatch. The Santa Titan walks away from Armin after eating Eren and then we see later it's in a different place walking aimlessly when eren transforms

@@t.j.hampton6483 but Armin is literally right there. Who else can that be?

@@giygas9305 bro that was a cut in the video. It didn't happen like that in the anime lmao. Nobody was next to Eren when he came out of the Titan. I can't tell you to rewatch enough. I literally just went back to check

That's awesome to hear! Thank you so much! Lol.

Same here! Such a great experience to binge watch everything

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

No worries! Thank you for watching! If the original script was still a good, I think I'd still be editing this video. Lol.

Thank you so much! There is definitely more to come!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much! It's been picking up a little bit so hopefully it continues to trend that way!

​@@CynicalJustin It's started to pick up, 20k by tomorrow 🙏

@@mustofaakmal7493 LET'S GET IT.

That means a lot to me! Thank you so much!

I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that there's something down the pipeline for that series... Stay tuned!

@@CynicalJustin IM SO HYPEDDDDDDDDD

We had to wait 10 years to know why Eren was crying under that tree. Built with such care that it's insane.

theres two different sets of subs, one of them sucks and the other (crunchyroll subs i think) doesn’t

@@pebble312 Yes, and there are actually far more than 2 sets. Especially for the OVA's.

guilty hero

Oh, man. The idea of editing a 10 hour long video has got to be the scariest thing I've thought of in a minute. Lol. But thank you so much!

YES. FIRST PERSON TO CATCH THE SIGNALIS STUFF!

@@CynicalJustin OMG i love that game... another deep and beautiful story.

Thank you!

I'm currently working on a video for it, too!