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

The final attack on titan incarnation came out as two one hour and one and a half hour episodes that kind of feel like a movie. It’s best to watch them in one go with a movie experience in mind. The episodes conclude the story but are famous for having a not so good ending, I don’t think the ending is bad but it’s just that the ending is poorly executed with some other bad choices that we’ll talk about. Characters/plot: After the last season our main characters are on their way to stop Eren and the rumbling all they need to do now isget the ‘flying boat’ ready and head straight down for a final battle. The main characters still receive some character development, there’s some interesting highlights in Annie, founder Ymir and especially Eren. Most of the second episode from the series is pure thrilling action.

Ending: I think the main faults of the final episode and its plot is not the plot itself but how it was executed. It’s confusing to say the least. I’ve been reading some posts on reddit about a more in-depth explanation of the ending where people have made some conclusive points that explain much of the ending than the manga or anime managed to explain.
The ending is very human, Eren’s reasons are very human, Armin’s reactions are very human. Nothing is black and white but it’s a mess of emotions like confusion, regret, guilt. I still think Zeke’s plan was the best solution to the problem but Eren himself says that he is a “Backyard variety idiot” and he couldn’t find a better way to end it. There is a mess of time travel memories shenanigans, what was morally right or wrong, characters with severe depressive traumas; like founder Ymir you should have just gone to therapy instead of finding answers by killing 80% of the world's population; LOL. You need to give time to digest the ending and understand that these characters have real human faults, and the ending is filled with real human faults. Nothing is perfect or conclusive, it's just human.

Animations: You know for these two final chapters I read the manga first and I have to say that I imagined it way cooler in my mind but still this was very good, I adore the scenes in the manga where the rumbling is taking place and its effect on world population, and I think this was done very well. There were a few extra scenes added into the rumbling scenes that weren’t in the manga. Another scene that I loved from the manga was the baby on the cliff scene and I love how they did this whole monochrome thing for the scene.
After seeing Levi injured in the previous scenes, I didn’t think Levi would get some solid action scenes, but still they managed to show Levi overpowering Titans and gave us some nice 360 scenes with Levi and Mikasa. Overall, the animations were great, and I have no qualms with anything.
A thing I highly disliked is that they play credits while showing the final scenes of Paradise’s evolution in the process making the screen inches small. Those scenes were precious to me because they showed a world we loved and its mysteries that intrigued us pass away into nothingness. They were very melancholic, but the small size made it hard to decipher what was actually going on.

Overall, great action animation as always.

Sound/Ost: During the second episode I noticed they are playing small segments of all the original Ost back-to-back; it was a really cool tribute to all the great soundtracks that this show has given us throughout the years. Though I’m still angry that even in the final episode they didn’t play the melodies from “Vogel Im Kafig” that was the definitive music of the series. The other thing I’ve noticed that I kind of disliked is the use of vocal driven rocks songs in some critical scenes. They were fine for action scenes, but some emotional scenes deserve a more emotional soundtrack. Overall, great voice acting, sound effects and nice choice of OST.

Final:
So, this is the last time I write about Attack on Titan, the show has been a masterpiece of seinen action driven storytelling. The final episodes are amazing, beautiful and very emotional. There might be some confusion because the ending is not very self-explanatory, but you have to spend some time with and dig deeper into the motives of all the characters and their human nature to slightly understand it better. It's best to read other people's thoughts and opinions on the ending that explain the situation better before joining the bad ending group.