Review of Attack on Titan: Final Season - The Final Chapters

t is a fitting ending for the series, both in its positives and negatives. The plot still remained contrived, with many events and character actions clearly serving to push the story in exactly the direction the author wanted. Regardless, it retained some of the positive momentum carried over from the previous season, including narrative causality and coherence. The story itself was fairly predictable, which took some emotional weight out of the action scenes, as it was often obvious who would live and who would die. Still, the emotional payoffs were there, they were built upon the foundation of the previous four seasons, and many of those arcsculminated in the finale.

It wasn’t anything exceptional, but it maintained the lukewarm quality the show had established since the beginning. And with the writing slightly improved compared to the early seasons, it served as a decent conclusion to an okay-ish series.

Its strongest points are definitely the emotional payoffs; sadly, its biggest weakness is how contrived the writing had to be to get there, which definitely cheapened their impacts.

Still, it can be quite enjoyable if you're willing to overlook the conveniences and the painful number of idiotic decisions. Honestly, it feels like everyone’s IQ in this universe is halved compared to ours.

On the more subjective (and less consequential) side, the visuals have improved since Season 4, making the fights look pretty good (even if there weren't any real stakes in them). The music is as awesome as ever, and the voice acting remains top-notch, just like it’s been throughout the series.

7.3/10