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

Shingeki no Kyojin, no matter if you hate it or if you love it, is definitely one of the most popular anime ever made. The first time it dropped it was an instant hit, being beautifully animated by Wit Studio and with the great directing of Tetsurou Araki, you could see that the people watching it were passionate about and it and even better the people working on it were too. Sadly, there was a studio change because Wit couldn't keep up with the schedule and the man behind the original story Hajime Isayama obviously didn't know how to have the story keep a momentum,as he didn't know how to end the series, and at the end it turned out to be one of the worst endings ever made, with people even comparing it to the absolute terrible ending of Game of Thrones for good reasons.

Telling you that I have ever at any point liked Shingeki no Kyojin would be a lie, but I have been following the series for a long time and while I wasn't a fan of the first couple of seasons, mostly because of things most people could surely ignore, once it turned into The Final Season and the studio changed from Wit Studio to MAPPA the series was no longer salvageable. I mean, even if Wit Studio adapted this part of the series with the beautiful animation and cinematography they gave to all other seasons as, unless they changed what happens after the timeskip almost completely, it would still be shit. After all, the writing of the Avengers Arc is just all over the place, Armin doesn't deserve to be called a leader in any sense of the word, as he only convinces people that were even opposed to him in the past because he mastered Talk no Jutsu to levels Naruto couldn't even imagine using, and he is in the right because every other side wants to commit genocide (as apparently you need your enemy to be Hitler). I mean, I'm sure I don't have to say this, because anyone who understand how war works must already know it: there is nothing wrong with defending your nation from other nations that want to destroy yours, what Eren does is not fully black unlike what the series tries to despict it as, even if it turned out to be pretty stupid and nonsensical on the long run.

I'm not even a fan of this series but I remember when the ending of the manga dropped a couple of years back and damn, after laughing my ass off to what I was seeing, it came to me that this is absolutely disrespectful for all the people following the series, and it almost seems like Isayama has no respect for his own work either pulling out an ending like this one. It is a complete catastrophe and people were rightfully pissed at it for doing character assasination left and right, giving us some of the worst quotes I have ever seen like "Thank you for becoming a mass murderer for our sake" or "No, I don't want that! Mikasa finding another man...?! I want her to think about me and no one else for the rest of my life! Even after I die... I want to be in the front of her head for a while! Ten years, at least!". Armin being an absolute idiot and suddenly going from "I must stop Eren!" to "Thank you for everything Eren!" is absolutely bottom tier writing, and all this happened because of the character assasination I mentioned before. Eren's plans was just nonsense since the start, "I'll commit world genocide, but I don't actually want to do it and want to be stopped halfway through", if you didn't notice it, this is dumb, specially because as the plan didn't actually get carried out it means that while his friends lived, a couple of generations later they would all be killed. Eren doing that last cry for Mikasa when he never had any romantic interest in her across the entire series where he talks as if he was an incel is also a point of character assasination, and don't get me started on the Dove Eren. There's just so much wrong that I can't, I can just wonder how Dove Eren felt when he saw Mikasa with another man I guess.

It was also clearly obvious from the level of production ever since the first part of the Final Season premiered that MAPPA didn't actually care and just got the series to have another cash cow to milk: ugly backgrounds, shoddy CGI, so many lines as shadows on the character's necks for no clear reason, bad animation, terrible color palette, everything bad you could ask in a production was there, and even if these last 2 episodes looked a little better because they took some more time doing them, it is still far below the work that Wit Studio did 10 years before, even worse, it was even less intense that the very manga they were adapting despite having the tools to make it stand out even more. People were coping for years that the ending would be changed, but MAPPA was obviously leaving it as it was no matter how bad it is, there was no way they were changing the ending.

Tell me, it doesn't matter if you are a hater or if you have been a fan of Shingeki no Kyojin for 10 years at least, this is the ending you really wanted? This is the ending one of the most popular anime ever made deserved? After some point, the ending isn't even funny, it is just completely embarassing.

Thank you for reading.