Anime 40028 Shingeki No Kyojin The Final Season Reviews Filter Check 2

To me, aot ended at the last episode of season 3. After that point, it just wasn’t attack on titan anymore.

Let me start by getting something straight. The plot for this season was not bad. In fact, it was actually good. However, the transition from season 3 to final season took away most of what I loved about aot. Most of the things I loved about aot was the whole tone, with people dying left and right, and humanity fighting a losing battle against titans. I also enjoyed the reveals of when a trusted ally was actually a titan all along. It’s these moments ... that I enjoy of aot, as well as the hype. Another problem might have been the fact that season 3 part 2 was the peak of the show. The problem when a show has their peak a lot earlier than the end of the show is that everything after that peak just seems so stale. Everything that came after s3p2 felt like it didn’t hit as hard as it, and wasn’t a proper successor. I couldn’t help but compare every episode to those pure hype and emotional and mind blowing moments from s3p2. Which is why I think that if aot would have ended there, I might have liked this anime a lot more.

Now ik that a lot of things were unresolved at the end of s3p2, but if the story was written differently, the anime definitely could have ended when they saw the ocean for the first time. As I said, this season had a good plot, but just because it had a good plot doesn’t mean I found it entertaining. The amount of politics felt like a bit too much, and the whole Marley arc felt pretty dumb to me. The entire theme of the show changed, which put me off.

Now, I might have liked this season if everything that came before it didn’t exist. I went into the season preset in my mind everything I like about aot, and none of that was present here. I enjoy different shows for different things. If a traumatizing anime like re zero were to turn into a comedy, I wouldn’t like it. I’m not saying I don’t like comedy, but I just don’t enjoy it in a show like re zero. Same thing here for aot. I enjoyed them fighting titans and the big reveals and that pure hype, none of which was present here. There were a few episodes that were actually good, which prevented me from rating this season lower.

When I think of aot, I think of s1-3, because I know for a fact that this is not aot.

5/10 theres so many exciting moment in the manga that the anime can't deliver, the marley arc , levi vs zeke and atttack vs war hammer theres no energy on 3d manuever animation full of slow motion and the titan cgi fights always remind me of 2016 berserk i hope they just give the anime to ufotable or bones they can do better and their camera movement animation is consistent same with wit studio 💯 the manga is prbly 10/10 best story but s4 is just 4/10 or.5 so many great moments just ruined , lets just pray mappa will net get the next arc

Attack on Titan is one of the most overhyped pieces of anime in recent history. Don't get me wrong, I still think the anime is quite good, with an array of good qualities to its name, but there is no doubt that it is overhyped. If you have any doubt, just take a gander at all the reviews with instant 10/10s after only watching 3 episodes, or the constant praise it gets on MAL and on social media, all of which have led me to write this review.

A little about my experience with AoT: I watched the first season of the anime weekly when ... it first came out, read the manga and watched the new seasons as they came out, and recently just finished rewatching the whole thing (right before season 4 released). Though, I did drop the manga a while ago.

Sound - 8.5/10

I do think AoT series has quite the good soundtrack. No issues here.

Art - 7/10

Edit: In light watching the 6th episode of the anime, I lowered my rating of "art" to 7/10, and subsequently my overall rating also from 8 to 7/10. The CGI was atrocious, especially the 3D maneuver gear. The scouts looked terrible, and for some reason different from the manga.

Story - 6/10

To me, the story is about the worldbuilding, the storytelling, and the execution. Without a doubt, in the beginning AoT had amazing worldbuilding with good execution, but I always questioned its storytelling. Right from the beginning, it heavily relied on plot twists and cliffhangers, almost to the point of dependency. It came to the point where it felt like the author could not progress the story without a twist somewhere in there. Plot twists are generally really good, especially if done well. However, too much of anything is bad, especially if it's not even done well or lazy in the case of some of the plot twists in AoT, particularly the basement reveal. I was not a big fan of the direction the anime suddenly took in that reveal.

Although the execution was good in the beginning, it felt like it slowly degraded throughout the show, particularly around the middle. There came a point where each time a new manga chapter (or anime episode, if you were watching weekly) came out, I would have to look for someone on reddit or in the comments to summarize and explain what the episode was talking about, in addition to providing background information to what those points were about. I don't have a bad memory, I promise you, AoT is just that convoluted and complex for no god damn reason. It is not a problem if you binge it, but that's a fallacy in of itself. Basically, alongside the aforementioned point of bad/excessive plot twists, it creates this feeling of fake hype, where you're only really into it if you're binging it or watching it with friends.

Just compare AoT's storytelling and execution to something that's ACTUALLY good at the storytelling aspect, like Oda's One piece, Masaaki's Yojouhan/Ping Pong, or FMA B

Characters - 4/10

I mean, I know some might disagree, but yeah. The characters are simply not that great. Eren is obnoxious, Historia is trash, Reiner is a deux ex machina, Annie is poorly written, Mikasa is one dimensional. Levi & Armin are decent, Erwin is great. Everyone else is irrelevant or just comic relief. Aside from Erwin, each character is simply a plot tool or one dimensional, generic, has no character development, or poorly written. I particularly hate Erin because his character is heavily inconsistent while his motivation and morality is questionable at best. Not really into an MC who is insane, inconsistent, and also doesn't know right from wrong.

Yes, I think the characters are the worst aspect of the show. To be honest, it shouldn't be a surprise. Think about it for a little, compare it to other anime that ACTUALLY have good characters. Just look at Tengen Toppa, Steins;Gate, Ping Pong, or Psycho Pass. ACTUAL bad ass characters that Levi could never compare to, ACTUAL character development, ACTUAL depth, TOP TIER execution. I mean AoT could never compare

Enjoyment - 5.5/10

The show was enjoyable at one point, particularly in the earlier seasons where the direction was resolute and the plot was world-driven. Now, it's driven by the aforementioned mediocare and below average characters, which makes the enjoyment and story significantly less enjoyable.

Overall - 6/10

In short, the show is decent, just overhyped. Definitely doesn't deserve a 10/10, or a spot in the top 30 on MAL, at least in my opinion. At the end of the day, just take a break from all the hype and actually compare it to other good anime. You think the action aspect is good? The characters? The style? just compare it to Gurren Lagann, One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Mob Psycho or FMA B. They're all action, and AoT just pales by comparison. I'm not trying to be an elitist, just stop being a sheep and use your brain. I can write an essay about how good Gurren Lagann's characters are, but I don't think I could write a small paragraph about AoT's characters without keeping a straight face. From cringing. Erwin is goated tho. GGs

So recently my review got taken down for fair reasoning, so I decided to rewrite my review so I solely focus on more of the actual show itself than just shitting on the community for no good reason. This wall of text has been edited.

So let me start off by saying I do like Attack On Titan I think the first few seasons are really good examples on the anime and manga medium but as we all know the most recent season dropped. Dropped hard. At first, I didn’t think there was much wrong with it just a little awkward CG and sort of weird ... audio mixing but other than that eh it was a decent start.

Then after the Attack On Marley episodes started airing, is when my problem soon started to rise. The Warhammer Titan. The animation of the Warhammer Titan is not good. Not good at all. Actually the titans in general are extremely poorly animated. Also just as a side note I really dislike the animation of the opening I just want something cool but let’s be real it was pretty lazy. The song is a fucking bop but the actual animation of it is really disappointing compared to literally any other AOT Opening. The animation overall is poor. It isn't good. While I understand the schedule and how unfortunate it is, but I am reviewing what I am seeing and what I am seeing is weird line work, sloppy movement, terrible fight scenes, and even bad character models. It is bad. Very bad.

The sound also really disappointing. Now let’s start off with the Soundtrack or the lack there of. There is literally just no good tracks besides from one they overused in the trailer. They don’t even utilise the best part of the song but they just overuse it for the sort of “ oh cool “ sort of stuff not the “HOLY SHIT” stuff. I remember screaming that at the reveal in AOT S2. The soundtrack was popping in my ears and it was just a good time. Though it’s not here that same feeling just isn’t here. Songs like ' You See Big Girl ' or other amazing tracks are barely used. Those are the tracks that personally get me going. They get me excited. Why am I not excited?

The story. Ok here is one of the problems with AOT itself. The story is a bit wonky. I feel 90% of the time AOT doesn’t know what it wants to be. Like it was a mystery survival horror which was what got me into the series then it wants to be a human vs human struggle which was fine. BUT NOW WE ARE STRAIGHT UP MILITARY STRUGGLE. Like damn. I think I just really miss the mystery of the show to be honest. Lets not even talk about the shit ass underuse of so many characters. Armin has literally done nothing all series besides from the last chapter it took him over 137 chapters to do something. Mikasa who had a fucking brand that we had no idea about no hint it was just there. That’s just fucking lazy. Plus she also does nothing but be like damn Eren for the whole series so cool. Levi. I like Levi but god damn I want him to do more cool shit. Eren is fine. All the side characters like Jean, Connie and others to me feel under-utilised as well who are just in and out of existence. A lot of characters just feel half baked.

Ok now the main reason why I wrote the original review the community. Now don’t get me wrong I can respect extremely passionate people about anime or manga, I am exactly like this with Berserk and I will not lie I have had arguments with people before over Berserk. However the overwhelming amount of Love and Hate this series gets is staggering. Look it’s not a life-changing masterpiece, but it is also not a extremely shit series with no substance. It is somewhere in between. Now I personally hate seeing ships in any series they just gross me out since it’s taking away from the source material of the story but when people ship Zeke and Levi or Eren it’s just annoying and gross man. There has been no indication of them having any sort of romance thing going on and it’s very fucking weird when people are into that shit. I don’t ship characters because I think it takes away from a lot of the stories because it is not what the original mangaka intended. Like shipping Griffith and Guts because of their backstories no. That’s not how it works. Plus the passionate some people put into the series is really off-putting and once again I am like this with Berserk to a fault but it is a lesson we need to learn. That while we love our anime and manga we need to just let people have their own opinion and if they are willing to discuss then discuss but if not just leave it you don’t need to validate your own opinion but changing someone’s else’s.

Overall AOT doesn’t deserve the immense amount of hate but it also doesn’t deserve the immense amount of love it is just somewhere in the middle. Be reasonable with your reviews folks it’s not 1 but it is definitely not 10. There are many problems within the story itself and with the fanbase but that is any anime to be fair. Thanks for reading.

(I apologize in advance for my poor English)This season of AOT was really overhyped by the fandom and any criticism of it just means that people say you are too dumb to understand it OR "you should be grateful for what you have got ".

Animation - Hands down the worst it has been in the 4 seasons of AOT. Very choppy animation at some places (for example the forest fight), along with hideous CGI for ALL the titan shifters this time, the camera angles and the editing all feels so amateur and like it is done with no passion at all. Still frames for ... most of the dialogue scenes with that boring brown filter ... I thought we were done with that. If you look at the various shots and camera angles that WIT gave us, along with the audiovisuals they were absolutely stunning, but MAPPA is just a step-down. And it's not that they can't do it, just look at the CGI of dorohedoro and the animation of jujutsu kaizen. The war hammer titan fight was an absolute joke, I was laughing my ass off during the fight. They hyped us up with the trailer only to completely under deliver. I will definitely not be trusting the trailer of S4 part 2.


Soundtrack- Soundtracks have always been one of the strongest areas of AOT, but this season the same soundtrack that was revealed in the S4 trailer is SPAMMED FOR EVERY SINGLE ACTION SCENE (maybe with a few small changes ). It feels really weird and lazy. Not only did MAPPA come up with no new tracks for this season but they don't even use the full arsenal available from previous seasons. K21 during the forest fight and the piano soundtrack before the war declaration were the only fitting soundtrack moments this season. Kohta Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Sawanos partnership obviously didn't work out this time.

Character- In this season we are introduced to many new characters who are basically like mirror images of the ones we knew from Seasons 1 to 3.Gabi especially is supposed to be like a younger Eren hotheaded, brainwashed and ANNOYING. I understand the intention from Isayama but it all feels very heavy-handed and not subtle at all. Characters are now just info-dumping machines and have a grim face 24/7 (Eren I am talking about you ). Zeke is supposed to be the smartest character in the AOT universe but the number of times he has gotten his ass handed to him by an amathophobic Beyblade (ya I think Levi is really an average character) now is ridiculous. The author has obviously dumbed down a LOT of the characters for certain others to take the spotlight. Mikasa has to be one of the worst female characters I have ever seen. She is like a pokemon whose only cry is "Ereh". After 3 seasons I still know nothing about her character. Historia is now just sidelined and her only job left in the story is to give birth. Annie is irrelevant, still in that crystal just waiting for the final battle so she can make a comeback. Reiner is the only redeeming character in this mess, his development and perspective that we get to see from both sides are brilliant although the plot armour Isayama has given him is pretty ridiculous. All in all the bland new characters we are introduced to along with a drastic change of the ones we already knew without really seeing much of it doesn't make me very happy.



Story- I never really like the barebones politics in AOT. The story just feels like a mash of Norse mythology, Nazi-Jew racism, code geass(you'll know what I mean), Gender Blue etc. The world-building is so shallow. 3/4 seasons we spend on an island that we are made to believe is the only part of the world with life and after the basement reveal everything changes so drastically that I am sure anime-only watchers must have found it jarring. TBH I don't even care about the rest of this "world". Isayama must have a good story in his mind but the way that it is told in this convoluted mess is not fun to watch at all. The flashbacks have also increased tenfold in this season. The biggest problem I have with AOT is the concept of PATHS. Every single asspull is conveniently explained away using PATHS. This gets worse and worse as the story progresses. Eren is the GOD of this world now with the attack titan, war hammer titan and founding titan and there is absolutely no sense of danger at all. The only way he can be beaten is if he does something stupid himself since he already knows how everything is going to end. I just want to ask Isayama - how many more times will we see Eren vs Reiner, with Eren beating his ass and then Reiner being saved by plot armour ?? But one thing I have to give Isayama credit for is the foreshadowing .

Enjoyment / Overall - Considering all the other mediocre anime this season, I thought AOT would be a ray of hope but the obvious step down in animation and soundtrack, along with the completely different cast of bland characters, info-dumping and flashbacks galore - it felt like i was reading a boring history book and finished it just for the sake of it. This anime doesn't deserve to be #1 on MAL. Season 3 part 2 was better in almost every single aspect - animation, soundtrack, character moments, dialogue, story etc

Oh boy. Possibly the most over-rated series this season by a long shot. As someone who has enjoyed the Shingeki series quite a bit I was so disappointed by this final season, and I really don't understand why it's receiving such raving reviews. #2 of all time? Really? It's going to be a sad day when this inevitably overtakes FMA Brotherhood in the #1 spot that's for sure.

Where to begin... there's so many things I dislike about this season.

The majority of this season follows the story of side characters we've never seen before and honestly don't care about at all. Most them are extremely one-dimensional ... and very dislikeable with few redeeming qualities. What little screen time the main characters get is super underwhelming and none of them are even remotely the same people from the previous seasons. This season may as well have been a totally separate cast from a different point in time.

The story is a mess and really uninteresting. The exciting action between humans and titans is basically non-existent and is replaced by boring politics. Perhaps reading the manga makes the story good, but if your anime requires the viewer to go out of their way to do extra research on the side then honestly it's just bad writing.

The art is pretty bad in comparison to the previous season. This is largely due to a different studio handling this final season. Shingeki already suffered terribly from character individuality and MAPPA really haven't done a good job making characters unique. Everyone has the exact same face.

The sound is fine I suppose. The theme songs suck though.

All in all very disappointing. Give it a watch so you can add it to your list but it's far from the masterpiece the fans are making it out to be.

We are always expecting the best from Shingeki no kyojin. Still, this season won't be at our expectations. a lot of CGI; they use the traditional drawing when the camera close up to some char or titan but always using the CGI, this applies to the fights, but familiar scenes are always with the drawing.

I started with the art as it's the only bad thing this season. The sound is quite acceptable. Also, I won't talk about the story as it's the best; I mean, what do you expect from AoT. AoT provides the best drama and psychological ideas.

The other issue we have here is ... how this studio would combine all the remaining chapters from the mange to the anime. It's impossible; I read the manga, but the last arc is full of new chars, and a unique style in telling the story also needs a genius to make this anime narrators this fantastic story. I hope they end this art with a movie because it will take like two years to be done as what I saw from the last arc to provide us with the best ending as their only issue this season is the time.

I do think this studio is drawing the last arc while giving us a piece of shit which is the CGI. If that was what they are doing, then they will participate in that big legend with WIT.

To sum up, if you want to have absolute enjoyment with this season, don't think of anything but put yourself in these characters' positions. Consider if you were in their place, what would you do. But if you can't do this, then read the manga; it will be better, I guess. I mean, I prefer the manga over the anime. Remember that AoT isn't the anime of this season, but jujutsu kaisen is what we all wait for.

What you have to understand about the final season is that it is divisive. Some say it's the best Attack on Titan has ever been with phenomenal art and animation, while others would disagree from the lack of traditional hand drawn titans to poor choice of music.

Story - 10
The arc is just perfect. This is the only arc willingly to take the time to explore the characters in depth, developing them and building up to a climax that pays off. Attack on Titan has grown from what it was in season 1 and the story reflects every bit of that.

Art/Animation - 2
It's not good. I ... was skeptical and hopeful when I saw that titans were CGI in episode 1. I thought they were saving resources for more important scenes later on. But, that simply isn't the case. Even humans are CGI now and honestly I don't have any hope left for the season. I understand that this is coming from absurd deadlines, but MAPPA did this to themselves. They willing agreed to animate knowing the schedule.

Sound - 7
I like the music, but it isn't on par to what season 1-3 have offered. It feels repetitive with most of the soundtrack being the one in the trailer, just remixed.

Character - 7
I'm giving this one a 7. This arc did develop existing characters, but even then, a lot of the main casts are under-developed and you kind of just forget about them all together. Maybe if Isayama is willing to develop more characters at the rate he kills them off, then we might like them more.

Overall - 6
Terrible CGI. Okay sound. Good story and character development, even if the latter feels more like a side dish than anything else.

I love attack on titan, the first seasons were beyond amazing, but now i totally lost interest on the new season and i will explain why:

i just lost interest like i can´t tell if the pacing is too fast or too slow, they gave a bunch of information in a single episode and the worse is that they use too much formal dialogue wich sometimes its hard to understand, like in season 3 « didn´t know that eren saw the future, i only knew because of social media wich is because the anime always rushed the informations but then later they explained but ... thats because of shock value, they want you too keep watching so they leave you on a cliffhanger or gave you extremely rushed information, attack on titan could easily end in 2 seasons if they didn´t use shock value.
also the "foreshadowing" isn´t really foreshadowing its just that the author throwns a bunch of things and later he tries to realize what he can do with that,thats why sometimes it can be very messy like season 3 part 1 was just terrible they just throw a bunch of information in the most rushed way possible . also how he sometimes adds a lil magic like, reiner should have died at lateast 3 times but oh boy the amount of plot armour he has, isayama even added a random magic so he can save the little boy, poor bertolhd all the plot armour goes to his friend.


STORY: 6/10 Characters: 4/10
nothing really happened this season that much and yeah i know this is only the first half of season 1 but c ´mon, like in 16 eps i wouldn´t say its filler but i feel like its going too slow, like the mikasa family or whatever that arc is, is extremely boring and uninteristing, first i was never interested in mikasa she is bland, uninsteristing, and dull for me, ye she is strong and all but still her personality is B L A N D but now levi he is also super strong but at lateast he has a personality and isn´t dull, yeah he is edgy but at lateast he has a personality.
Eren is one of the most bland main characters to exist, " Oh but he is a antagonist, he isn´t even bad or good" NO, being a antagonist doesn´t mean good, he totally bland he doesn´t even has a personality, i mean he never had but now its worse he is more edgy now and B L A N D, if i would do a top 10 aot characters he deffo wouldn´t be there, just because he holds a big role doesn´t mean he is the best anime characters of all the time, because he is bland, far away from being relatable, all of his motivations were thrown way, i can´t understand his character or nothing because he barely appeared in this season, and when he appears he just throwns a whole edgy conversation and messy, till this day i still don´t know why he "keeps moving foward till all his enemies are destroyed" it was never explained, like why?!? why he thinks like thats, i can´t understand a shit about his character, its just messy and rushed, most of people who hype him is the new gens or the girls in tiktok who simp for him, myself as a veteran anime watcher, eren ain´t even top 300 characters in all anime, Grisha is the real main characters in AOT, he was the one who did all the dirty stuff, he suffered but then he still lost but at the same time he won, he was the one did all the food , what eren is doing is just finishing eating that food. Eren is just a selfish edgy teen whose actions are unexplained.
as for the characters are dull for me, armin has a personality and development but its far away from being realistic, i mean none of the characters in AOT are relatable for me expect for bertolhd.
also i heard this season is going to leave on a cliffhanger so pratticaly nothing much happened in this season besides the long uninteristing dialogue.

5/10 animation is terrible, the art atmostphere everything seems generic, AOT doesnt have anymore that pleasing ART with that powerful colours, now they just dull, the cgg donne good but it doesn´t fix on AOT, AOT was so good with that animation now its terrible .

7/10 the soundtrack, it aint bad but nothing memorable, the ending is okay , opening is okay too

Honestly as a person who watched all AOT right before the new season came out I must say AOT is all hype and not a masterpiece. But do not mistaken this as me saying this anime is bad because it's not. The show to me is just average.

Story 6/10:(spoilers for people who havent seen past seasons)
We are left off with the people of Paradis Island discovering that another country has been attacking them all this time and Eren wants revenge. Interesting idea awful execution. The idea makes sense but there is flashback episodes before things that happened before the first episode of the season ... in later episodes of this season. The show goes all over the place and just makes the episodes feel out of order. There is alot of narritive dumping that just make the plot slow and boring at times. I do think the story it self is good but the way it was executed could have been so much better.

Art 5/10:
Noticeable dip in quality fight scenes aren't as clean character design isn't as polished needs to be way better

Sound 6/10:
Nothing much to say about it except unmemorable.

Character 5/10:
Every character in the main cast besides Eren are about the same just older Eren is completely different now but there isn't enough to know what triggered this drastic change in character.They add so many new characters this season and a majority of them are unlikable or bland. The shows tries hard for you to understand Gabi but it fails every time. Falco seems. interesting but there isn't enough development to know about him. All the other characters have interesting aspects but they don't have enough time to be developed. Leaves a lot to be desired.

Enjoyment 5/10:
Could be way better if it was executed better. I don't think its bad but I wouldn't say this is something that is amazing or a must watch I think its quite mediocre if not somewhat disappointing. I like some of the fights and some plot points about politics are interesting but besides this nothing special.

Overall 5/10

This anime is a perfect example of how to start out very good by widening the world further and further for basically 2/3 of a series and then when you actually have to deliver and fill the world with life, meaningful characters, impactful choices and a conclusion - and you fail.

The author clearly realized halfway through that he overdid it and couldn't lead all loose ends of the story into something useful together, so he just went by a completely stereotypical ending.

And the saddest thing is, he's trying to conceal the fact by the way how hes telling the story: You are quick-swapping ... constantly in between 20 years ago - Present - 5 years ago - 15 years ago - 50 years ago - Present - 2 years ago - Present and so on to confuse the viewer to hide the fact that its just your typical random boring ending.

Of course the Art and Sound is unique of this anime - no doubt about it - the production value is awesome. Some fights in this serious overall are the best you gonna see in Anime, but if you rate the characters and story - it's all just a big disappointment.

This could've been the anime that breaks the standard, but in the end it's just like all these one-hit-wonders: Yes yes, the first season is great and all, but then the thing happens that happens with so many animes like this: the quality of the story drops immensely and nobody really knows or cares whats really going on, as long as we see some nice fight - hence why this series is usually rated so damn high.

Welcome to the final season of Attack on Titan, except it isn't the final season there will be one final "final season" in 2022. So welcome to the panultimate season of Attack on Titan that they for some reason call the final season.

A more fitting name might be "The exposition season" since that is mostly what happens in this one a lot of exposition, new characters and the background for said characters. In between the exposition there's titan drama and fight scenes which look great as the story slowly builds up to the cliffhanger to the final final season.

Even though it is slow paced most ... of the time, due to the new character introductions and the fact that there is a few years time jump from the last season to this one, I don't feel it ever gets right out boring. This is mostly due to the investment I allready have in the story, the beautiful art and well animated fight scenes. However as it trot along and it became clear that this in fact was NOT the final season the sens of it simply beeing required reading grew.

Attack on Titan is still a solid show and I believe the final final season can be a 10/10, but this season left me slightly disappointed.

All right. What I am going to say is meant to make people understand that this isn't what they came for, nor will it ever be.

Attack on Titan was very good at the beginning. Even now, it isn't as bad as people make it out to be. It's a good show, but this clearly doesn't make it the best show out there. People aren't salty that their best show is run over and destroyed by "The Final Season". It's simply the fandom. They took over, trolled the reviews, gave FMA:B, Steins;Gate, Gintama, HxH and many more a 1 because why not (because that makes sense) ... and pushed the fact that this season was the best down our throats as much as they could. I'm sick of the fandom and their religious cult around this show. Many people just don't give a fuck anymore about the series because of some fans' delusions. This is beyond insanity, just like their favorite main character, Eren Yaeger. You haven't learned anything haven't you, AoT fans? A good season is a good season. Pumping it to first place just creates disillusions for other people. I fully understand that the show was full of tension and excitement, but this is beyond complete and utter brain rot. Downrating some of the best shows ever made simply shows that you can't take criticism and actual facts about your show. The Attack on Titan fandom is the worst fandom out there, and a simple person who read until now understands this all too well. Anyone would. I know I'm being salty and toxic, but somebody had to say this. And some of you should accept this fact.

Now that I'm done ranting and yelling at Eren Yaeger fans, I guess I should get into the review. Yes, it contains spoilers.

Attack on Titan is the first name someone would think of when hearing the word "anime". It's so popular that it attracted non-anime watchers and has made itself the so-called "face" of anime. And it sometimes lives up to the hype. The story and the characters evolved as intended, the visuals look nice and I enjoyed most of the show.

Starting with the plot: of course, it follows the manga very well, but it felt very stretched. I suddenly felt like I wasn't watching Attack on Titan at some point. The genre got completely switched from a full-action to a drama, and then back to full-action right at the end. It was meant to explain everything that was happening and evolve the plan of the Yaegerists. The story focused on only the scouts as the revolution began in the background, right behind their backs. It's a very well thought-out concept, but the execution was so poor that I almost died of boredom. 4 episodes were just talking, and talking, and talking, and oh my god, when was it going to end?! But, in spite of the very stretched dialogue and mediocre character development, these 4 episodes set up a good pretext for the revolution. It wasn't bad, nor was it good. It was too long, the characters got random character development and the drama went on and on until we reached the table scene. Other than that, there is symbolism. Like the argument between Nicolo and Sasha's father. The political problems of each country and their hatred took over Nicolo, making him a representation of Marley, meanwhile Sasha's father very calmly wanted to solve the issue, just like Eldians wanted to before Eren Yaeger came into play. It's a sweet little scene that caught my attention, and it was for a very good reason. +1 point for symbolism! Metaphors like this one are all scattered through the show, even if Mappa didn't highlight them as they should've. I'll let you find all of them.

Moving on! My favorite subject: the characters. First and foremost, Eren Yaeger is not the greatest character out there, nor is he the best protagonist to ever exist. He's simply a hollow corpse that shouts "Free will! Freedom! Euthanasia!" whenever he gets the chance, thinking he's a deep and philosophical character. Indeed, he is a very well thought-out character. The transition to a villain (from the Scouts' perspective) was very nice from the mangaka, a nice plot twist that has never been done before (clearly sarcastic). But the biggest flaw that he has is that there's no more substance to him. He has reduced himself to an empty shell, a character without remorse or feeling; basically close to complete insanity, if it weren't for Zeke. He abandoned his friends and the Scouts for the sympathy of a long-lost brother from the Land of Marley. Saving Mikasa from the you-know-what incident back when they were kids was just a front Eren used to put up back then. Now, he woke up to "reality", as he calls it, and chose to fight against his own comrades. A very strategic coup-d'état. But this doesn't obstruct the clear mistakes and flaws in his character. I never wanted to have a husk of a protagonist lead an amazing revolution (and somehow succeeding). I thought the show would have a more complex character for Eren, but I have been disappointed once again. Mikasa and Armin are basically a joke right now. Mikasa grew from never wanting to leave Eren to never seeing Eren again. For a couple of episodes. Armin, now possessing the Colossal Titan, actually got some decent character development; him agreeing with Eren's ideology will probably advance the plot even further, but the difference here is that Armin isn't a husk. The things he believed in before are still there, but the new methods of the Yaegerists infiltrated his mind only to fill him with doubt. At least that's how I feel about the last scene. The one I'm most disappointed in though must be Hange. She went from a complete fanatic that was obsessed with titans, an actual character that I cared about and one of the funniest characters from the cast to just a tool for the revolution. She doesn;t even do her usual skits or random sparks that strike greatness. No smart ideas came from her this entire season. Maybe it was meant to be, but I can't control what the mangaka wants. I just give my opinion on what was good and what was bad, right?

The sound design and animations are very clean. This time, Mappa had to deal with a massive show. The first 3 seasons were a very big milestone to achieve, and a hard one to overcome, but in this category (and this category only), they prevailed. The animations were a nice surprise, and the sound accompanying them couldn't be better. Unfortunately, this is the only side where Mappa actually did a decent job.

As for enjoyment, I guess saying that it didn't really satisfy me is a good conclusion. The story was as expected, with some plot-holes and mistakes (that were usually rare); the characters were a complete disappointment and the sound and animations were above expectations. People come to see a very good show, mostly when they see a (currently) 9.09 score; a show that is very close to number one. But this isn't what they should be greeted with. It definitely deserves an 8.50, maybe even an 8.75, but going as close as Steins;gate and FMA:B is a shame for the anime industry.

Maybe you'll find enjoyment in it more than I did. Maybe you're a Yaegerist reading this review only to flag it because of some harassment you thought I mentioned. Maybe you watched the series and didn't quite enjoy it as people said you would. I recommend we all rejoice and put a fist to our hearts, and one to our backs to say once again: "How in the ungodly fuck do you do a part 2 to a season called <<The Final Season>>?"

Story : 6
Art : 8
Sound : 7
Characters : 3
Enjoyment : 3
Overall : 5

this is a rewritten review since the original is taken down for some weird reason
this contains spoilers for the manga latest chapters too
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If you watched evangelion, gender blue , macross,any war movie or any gundam series and you know some norse mytheolgy you basically watched aot and no its not that it get inspirations from or paying hommage or even deconstract . it steals an aspect from each piece and put it into one giant plot
The word « masterpiece » realy lost its meaning in the weeb comunity didnt it ? now evreything is a msterpiece apperently black clover is a masterpiece ... , naruto is a masterpiece and now this
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aot fandom is not in any shape or form tolerant with criticism they will harrass you - probably send you some death threats- or they wont even cosider you a humanbeing for not liking their bible so I hope none of them finds out about this review I dont want to deal with those tards
as am gonna explain at the end of this why this has to be the single most toxic anime fandom ever
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so aot :
we all know the story so lets just jump into it
1- technical issues :
the rules when it comes to titans and especilly titan shifting is vague which allows the writer to come up with any asspulls and dieux ex machina for examples :
A- why didnt ymir turn into the jaw titan when she trunsforms instead she shifts into her normal (original) titan form
B- manga spoilers : how did falco turn into the bird titan how could this even happen can shifters now turn into anything they want to lol (the reason they made in the manga was that falco was exposed to Zeke's spinal fluid but that would make any human who turned into a titan be a beast titan of some sort but they all turned into normal titans ) and why a flying titan exactly ? why not a giant monkey like zeke ? or a huge turtle ? lol because its a dieux ex machina since it used to convieniatly helps the main characters to fly above eren
C- C - how did eren control ymirs power ? after he gave her two words into her ear ? so you telling me that this entity that lives only for serving the royal family for thousands of years change its loyality for eren just because he huged her and and literly sayed two words to her ??? this is talk no jetsu tooken to the extreme, this is a prime example of how the writer plays wth the rules to fool the audience and its cheap writing
D- world building flaws :
D1- why did marley send bunch of kids or even trust them with titan shifting powers to attack another nation I get it sending those eldian human teens to fight in war is understandable since they re sucrfising them without consider them as proper casualty also they’re under mature leadership commands but to actually trust them and send them alone and to wait for them to come up with results is just dumb( and they do fuck up btw and because of that they lost the female titan, the jaw titan and the colossal titan ) couldnt they just trust some older eldians to do it ? if they fear treason they could just wait for those chosed ones to grow up older and send them then
D2-(manga spoilers here I NEVER UNDERSTOOD how the power of wall titans WORKS EXACTLY IMEAN THE WORLD IS SO FUCKING BIG THIS PLANET IS 510.1 million km² BIG AND YOU TELL ME THAT SOME 50 METERS TITANS THAT WERE UNLOCKED IN A TINY PLACE IN A TINY ISLAND ARE TAMPING ON ALL OF THE surface AND HUMANs IN THIS WORLD are trapped without any shelter AND NO ONE IS LEFT??!!!! LOL THIS IS JUST TOO STUPID TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY
D3- ymir as a plot device is very inconsistent, the writer used her to come up with any convenience to plot armor the characters first they told us she obeys the royal family only and she have no will nor she can make any decision without a permission from a member of the royal family then eren told her three words to encourage her (talk no jutsu) and suddenly he possess her power then they told us that she wants freedom now even though it makes no sense but they changed her motivation again and told us that yumir wants the people to come together all along lol which results in power of friendship in the later chapters
E- the convenient amnesia that eren have doesn't even make any sense why did he lost his memory about his fathers part in the first place ?

2- characters :
to start with characters designs are bland, lame and forgettable for exception of very few you can take those designs and put them in any generic anime and they will fit in perfectly and no its not that it supposed to be realistic this isn't an excuse you can make realistic character designs and keep them look intresting some good examples of this are vagabond , berserk , slam dank , paranoia agent , monster……….
wait till you see the actual writing of these characters .
the writer use a very cheap method called « pre-characterisation building pieces » to write those characters you can notice that if you been watching anime and movies for long time the writer use pre-used pieces of characteristics in other works and put it with very little contribution to it and the result : characters that feels deep and original to the casual ppl who never saw much before but shallow and repetetive to those who acually excperienced stuff
also these charcters dont feel like actual peapole they feel like they belong only in shounen anime world
lets start with eren I guess :
eren :
* before his development:
this guy is the most two dimensional character you could ever see he eaither crying or angry and yelling at evreyone all the time he acts angry and yells even in a normal conversations and that makes him laughably bad
there are alot of stupid excuses for this that the fans come up with some of which are :
hE sAw HiS mOm DiEs aNd tHaTs wHy hE acTs likE tHiS :
- first of his mom dying doesnt make him two dimentional in fact it supposed to add more depth and dimensions to his character
-Second EVEN BEFORE HIS MOTHERS DEATH HE WAS ALWAYS ACTING LIKE THIS !!!!!!!!!!
bUt tHiS iS tHe POiNt tO mAkE hiM sOuNdS likE tYpiCalL sHoUnEn PRoTaGeNiSTs
THIS IS NOT AN EXCUSE you can do that gimmick without making your character so two dimentional
good example is gon from hxh this kid feels like your typicall shounen hero but he always felt like a real kid who ‘s been thrown in a fucked up world he was three dimentional with alot of nuances and subtlety from the beginning you notice he’s deffrent from other shonen heros without putting your finger on it his character development was inevitable due to the circumstances he encounters when he finally changed you know this is eventually gonna happen because of the hints that dropped through out the anime
No back to eren they showed that he was a psychopath from his childhood whe he saved mikasa by brutally killing those kidnapers but that didnt make any sense for a kid who grow up in a very loving enviremont hell his mom was very protective of him the worst thing that could happen to him in daily life were some bullies lol
This goes to show how the writer doesnt understand how human works nor he have some understanding of children psychology
another evidence of pre- characterization building pieces without understanding why those charcteristics he stole exist in the first place
• After his development :
he went emo mode its your typical naruto villain the good boy who turns into the super villain that wants to desroy the world we saw that millions of times
« bUt tHe diFFrEnCe iS tHat He’s jUstiFiEd « no shit he’s justified any one should be justified in any revenge story haveyou ever watched a revenge story with no justification ????
this trope of turning main protagenist into main antagonists is a common trope in writing

it was done better with lights character from death note he was the main protagonist and antagonist at the same time and he felt like a real humanbeing with god complex

hell kanekei’s devlopment in tokyo ghoul re manga is so identical to eren’s to the point that I would say that some plagiarism is happening here I wont be suprised if thats true consedring aots track record of stealing
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Mikasa : this girl literally have zero personality to her characeter im struggling to name one characteristic in her . I can summarize her character into one word « eren » thats it im sure now some aot tard is now typing a bible length essay to explain why she’s not this bland and why she loves eren
I mean I get it eren saved her and gave her a reason to live but thats not excuse to turn her into erens dog with no personality whatsoever this is just bad writing
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armin : armin has the most personality out of the three main characters I guess but thats it he’s you typical « im the weak guy but also the smartest guy in te room im gonna use my gigga brain to make up for my weak body and pesonality «
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Levi : the geniric cool badass senpai . much like eren he’s two dimensional he’s either too cool to do anything or just so pissed not as bad as eren though because there are some subtleties with him
his action scenes are the worst tho because they diverted from any logic and challenge the physics of this anime there are times when he turns into a humanbeyblade lmao IM not mentioning the almost mind isulting plot armor around this guy
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Erwin : behold evreyone - the worst leader to ever exist in fiction – to sum up his character imagine playing football and instead of coming up with strategies nd tactics and balancing the team to increase your ball possession or scoring chances you just order your team to go all attack at once even the Goalkeeper and go back all to deffense at once
this is his charcter he’s a jihadist if he dont manage for a suicidal attack his plans never works lol he sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his soldiers with no results for the most part with a reminder that they are runing out of human resources lol without help of levi or titan eren this guy cant achieve anything no wonder humanity coudlnt go any further under his leadership
the first plan to capture the female titan cost him the survey corps squad and almost losing eren against just one person
and his last time was in Return to Shiganshina arc when : first he went to the battlefield blindly without sending any scout unit to inform them forward of any sudden changes no moving army go blindly to enemies territory lol and the result of that they got trapped
second to figure out where is reinar and birtholt he trusted a hunch of a young soldier lol
he’s a terrible strategist how did they made this guy a leader lol
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Jean : a comic relief
Sasha :a comic relief
Connie : a comic relief
Hanji :a comic relief her death was stupid tho
there are alot of comic relif for a dark anime huh
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Historia : just a plot device she’s literally waiting just for someone to impregnate her now , thats her arc lol im not joking btw thats her entire arc after she became the queen or whatever
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Reinar :
Eisily the best character in the show this is the actual protagonist of the story he shows more emotions and self conflict more than any character here – he struggles with himself there ‘s a side of him where he has to prove himself among the Marleyans to clear his ancestors name but when he went to paradise and lived with the eldians for along time he grow an attach to them he learned they arent the demons as evreyone perceive them
great conflict and the fact that he has Schizophrenia is a nice little detail that ad depth to him and make him intresting
zeke : is good the second best character in the show –
I dont care about other characters and it seems no one does not even the writer lol
3- dialogue :
This has to be one of the worst dialogues out there – dialogue reflects its characters so you can tell whats the quality of this one lol
the dialogue in AOT feels the need to waste its time by explaining to the viewer directly the mentalities ,feelings and moralities of this characters instead of moving the plot further
a good dialogue should give you those informations about charcters -feelings and their personalities and their mentalities – indirectly you get those informations from how the character is talking or which words it uses all of that comes naturally in conversations . it never stops to tell the story nor it stop to flesh the characters out and that needs talent and experience
I gurntee that at least 70% of aot dialogue is just charcters keep explaining their feelings to other characters with little contribution to the actual plot this is the cheapest way possible to flesh the characters sometimes they spent entire epsoides with nothing happens just chatacters discuss their mentalities and idiologies sometimes they spent an entire arcs just about them discussing their feelings lol ( the recent arc is a prime example of this and this is the last arc of the series !!!!!)
that makes aot dialogue shalow it seems deep to those who dont know how actual dialogue works
You can take a huge chunk of its dialogue and the story wont change much . also its repetetive sometimes I can predict what the other character is gonna say or even worst I can tell from which movie or anime that piece of dialogue is originally taken from lol
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the characters sometimes stop the fight to have a typical shounen conversation discussing their ideologies in the middle of the battle lol
* things I acually like in AOT :
1- action : aot has some of best written action in recent memory due to its
A- fast pacing
B- the details that were put in the Vertical maneuvering equipment
the best kind of action is the action where characters have limited tools to fight with and the manoever gear represent that perfectly
the gas would run out which make it very fatal and the fact that the baldes are changable is very dynamic and logical since blade do get ruined when they used
the entire mechanism is very fascinating to me
C- the brutality of these deaths
D – the camera movement which put you in prepective of those soliders

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However it was ruined by the stupid monologues that we talked about erlier and the plot armor that surround certain characters

2- the worldbuilding I guess : its fine I guess since its just a mix up between macross and gender blue with norse mytheology but the writer managed to add his touch to it I liked some geopolitical plots but for the most part they are repetetive if you watched any political anime aot is taking from it
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3- the comedy : yes the comedy especially the unintentional ones – because the characters are sometimes over the top it manage to take a laugh out of me especially when it comes to eren mikasa and levi
also sometimes they go so extra with the titans and how chaotic they are
the the intenional comedy was good too

The grey area :
things Idont like nor I hate :
Background : I never in my life have I ever saw bacgrounds that looks so pretty and yet its so soulless the background( wit studios background) even though they put tons of effort behind them they still lacking so much in details especially visualising the « Mise-en-scène » it feels empty of life and just pretty boxs that contains our charcters
its really shame how they put so much effort in drawning those backgrounds but not to make them alive and dynamic

Dialogue 1/10
Charcters 4/10
Plot 5/10
worldbuilding 5/10
Art 7/10
sound 8/10
Action 8/10

Its far from good its just lil above average . its good for casual anime fans but if youre a hardcore anime fan I wont recomanded you’ll waste your time at least I GOT SOME ENTERTAINMENT FROM IT BUT YOU NEED TO DIG HARD VERY VERY HARD O FIND SOMETHING DECENT

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lets talk now about the fandom :
this is the fandom that :
1- harrassed / send death threats to the director just because he didnt include their favourite ost in a certain scene !!!!!!!
2- send hundreds of death threat letters for voice actor because she voiced a charcter that they hate
3- harrassed the staff members who puts alot of effort to make this anime for them
4- downvote evrey other anime just to make their anime rise to the top in rating sites
5- giving an epsode score of 10/10 before it even dropp lol
6- will harrss you annoy you disrespect you because you didnt like their midiocre cartoon
7- the biggest anime community with fujoshis second only to mha fandom
Do I need to say more this fanbase is terrible by all means

Season 4 is far below what we were used to having. And I’m not talking about the change of staff and therefore of style.
No this is the cause of a more than chaotic schedule and a huge lack of time.

I see a lot of people being very happy about the current season, but this joy is clearly not objective and is there because we are talking about snk which includes a huge hype.

But the facts are there, this season is below the other 3 in terms of quality, the action scenes are the proof with the use of the CGI to save time on deadlines.
The ... action scenes are incomparable to what we’ve had in the past.
The designs of the characters are also missed. And in this way, Eren is the big loser. In all key moments the character is ugly.
His titan is ugly. His human form is ugly. Practically none of the key moments concerning him are successful.

However being a huge fan of the show, I can not follow this season because I am literally disgusted with what snk became for money.
Just seeing it with a higher grade than the old ones when it’s the least good makes my heart hurt.

You have the right to love this season, everyone has the right to love what he wants, but this is insulting about the work of others. I don’t mean to say that the work of WIT is better than the work of MAPPA, the work of each animator is precious and you have to be passionate to do this job.
And besides, they did a good job for the time they had.
However thank MAPPA for this season will only encourage them to give even more close deadlines to them.

First of all disclaimer here. I can take it the inner problem about AoT S4 has. So in this review i just reviewing the most effortless that studio can do, cause it's not directly using his crew for this. Yeah it's a soundtrack or ost. Even though the director must check this project before the finish still this is the most effortless they do. Just hire some composer or band or whatever and tell them to make an ost that fit well on some scenes.

And what MAPPA did was a really lazyness B word that i see this year. Yeah what they did using some ... western Edgy song to make a scene that really didn't fit well. And this is really away from track that what AoT really did before. Instead using tragedy music to the scene that really tragedy, gory and sad, they used a f Edgy rap western song. Good job MAPPA.

I think they mix up the ost from Jujutsu 0 or chainsaw That i believe they're Edgy song to AoT. You know MAPPA i think you should rest. Don't make my OPM S3 later be such an garbage. So please take a rest. Do nothing. Sleep well. Check your condition health. Okay.

Yeah the ost really sucks 1/10 from me.

Anything beside ost i can take it because like i said the inner problem SH*t happened.

Shingeki no Kyojin, as known as Attack on Titan is an anime that everyone has seen at least 1 time and is very popular, well received and praised until today.
This is one of the best anime shounen that come to existence.
I always was a big fan of this anime series since the first time I saw it years ago.
I waited so long for this final season to arrive and when it did I followed the season week after week. And now I have to say that I'm kinda dissapointed...

The Final Season of Shingeki no Kyojin is overrated and overhyped.
It doesn't mean that it is bad ... or anything like that but it's not a masterpiece or really great as many people are saying and reinforcing to death.
Here I will explain why I think this season was not so good as it should be.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS!!! Be aware of that.

Story 7/10:

After 4 years have passed since the resumption of the Shiganshina district, we are now seeing the war between Marley and Mid-East Allied Forces.
The battle is finally over and the side that emerged victorious is Marley.
They are preparing new candidates to become the holders of the titan powers in Marley’s possession because of the end of Zeke and Reiner's 13-year tenure as the Bestial and Armored Titans. While some people of other countries are gathering there for an event to take place.

The plot of this fourth season is interesting but the narrative's structure is a mess.
First we see all the things that happen pos time-skip at once and only after the conclusion of the arc that we discouver the motivations that Eren had to left and attack at the declaration of War of Willy's Tybur.
Why should I care about this explosive conflict between Marley and the Eldians on the Paradis Island if all the things that brought them to this point in the first place were presented in a flashback after the arc of invasion? This doesn't make sense.
If I'm supposed to get attached to the history then make it that the things that made all this war happen in the first place are constructed step by step before the conflict finally explodes with those people that goes against each other.
The way that was built up is the reason that I find it unimpressive.

Another thing that I think it is a problem is the poor utilization and very few appearances of the pure titans.
Do you remember when they were dangerous, when they represented a constant fear and generated a sense of chaos, panic and insecurity? Not anymore! Why?
Because they never attack or appear at all, only when it is extremely convenient or necessary for the plot like in the forest arc that has the Levi vs Zeke battle.
Zeke invoked them by using the ability of his titan's power to create his own army of Titans. It's okay that he can do that because we saw it before on other situation.

I just think that the main reason why this show was unique and extraordinary once now is long gone. At least for me.
Their presence was natural and really important on the AOT's world and universe as a whole as well and now they're just a tool to be used sometimes (when they appear). Lame.
Now it is just a political conflict with war between nations without any Titans. :)

What about the Titan shifters? Oh, man!
I thought they were so strong and equally important but apparently they are not.
The majority of them are just useless and powerless against Eren.
Eren is invencibly. Do you know that he already has the power and abilitys of 3 titans?
After the time-skip he had a battle with the Warhammer Titan that was apparently far stronger that his titan's form and he actually winned the combat with the help of Mikasa.
One more time he wins a fight with in stupid way.
He had help to win that combat otherwise he would be dead by that point.
The only one that is actually a good and impressive Titan shifter is Zeke.
Reiner? He is a joke. Whenever he is fighting you know he will lose.
He's the armored titan but can't receive any damage whatsoever that he goes down 100%. Awesome! Always being destroyed in his fights. SUPER. \o/
What can we say about Annie that was literally frozen since season 1 after the final fight with Eren and never came back? Wonderful!
Why Isayama would have to develop or utilize properly her in any creative or productive way when he can pretend that she doesn't exist for many years? hahaha
Galliard is a guy that couldn't do nothing because he doesn't have any importance whatsoever, he will do anything against Eren even if he have some help of other Titan shifter. Do you know why?
Because Eren is the protagonist and he will always destroy him.
Jaw, Armored and Warhammer Titans were only there on the story to be defeated by Eren with virtually 0 effort. They were used as plot devices more than anything else.
Colossus Titan almost never appear. Don't wait for more transformations of Armin.
He once transformed at the invasion on Marley's arc and will transform only one more time next the end and that's it. ;D
I could spend all the day talking about the bad use of them by the author.
This is a shame. I would really like to see them being more important on the series.

Anyway, the story is good more for the connection established by the construction of the plot previously on the first seasons.
And for that I give here just a 7 out of 10.

Art - Animation 6/10:

Oh my God, I will have to be honest and tell the truth instead of those people that are pretending this part of the anime is amazing. It is not. Seriously.
The animation quality dropped so much compared to what we had on season 1-3.
Many scenes that you see the characters they are being static with few movements when they walking/ running or even fighting.
The characters actions are limited and the art design is also inconsistent. Characters that look good in one scene or episode on another moment doesn't.
The fight scenes are boring as fuck to watch.
Eren vs Warhammer on the trailer was SO MUCH BETTER that is so depressing to see them clashing on the anime. Those 3D models of them were crappy. Real trash.
The 2D Titan shifters were infinitely better looking than those new 3D Titans.
Levi vs Zeke was okay, but on the manga was way more intense and imersive.
On the previous seasons we had dinamic movements with fluid scenes of the DMT being used by the soldiers tropes, we had Annie vs Eren that was epic, we had top tier animation fights just like Levi vs Zeke (more like one-side fight but okay haha), we had the insane revelation of Bertholdt and Reiner as being respectively Colossus and Armored titan.
Hell, even those cool action scenes of Levi facing Kenny and the gang on the streets were absolutely crazy.
On this season we only have one or two scenes, three at max, that are great and very well animated on the episodes: Declaration of War, Sasha's Death and Zeke's past were 10/10.
Anything else are average of below that...sad but true.

Sound 4/10:

The OST's that are used on this Final Season are less impactful than ever.
I barely can even remember a moment when a song was playing that made it so remarkable as the many epic scenes with GOD tier soundtrack that we had before.
The poor mix of them doesn't help either.
Some moments we listen to OST's that felt totally out of place.
The new opening has an okay music but nothing compared to classic openings like:
Guren no Yumiya, Sasageyou and the underrated Jiyuu no Tsubasa.
The song of the season 3 part 2 opening also smash this new one, too.
The only thing that I found it amazing is the song of the ending, very good.

For being only decent and average at best that I give here a 4 of 10.

Character 7/10:
This is one of the best parts of the anime series but is not very good.
There are so many interesting and important characters like Armin, Hange, Zeke, Levi, Falco, Gabi; etc. I didn't mention the edgy lord MC cause I hate him.
The problem of AOT is that the characters doesn't get much development as they could receive and when they are developed we don't know how, when or what happened that made them change. Mikasa never gets any good treatment.
She is pretty much the same she always was. This is clear as the day when we saw her stopping Armin that was trying to go against Eren on their reunion.
That shit pissed me off. Armin is now someone who almost never wants to fight or plan an surprise attack on his enemies or make something tactically genius (like he constatly did before) and instead of those things he only wants to talk and to choose diplomatic solutions. I like him a lot, I always did, but I miss him being more active.
Eren...what can I say about this motherfucker? He is a completely different character now.
We didn't see him changing with our own eyes on the actual history itself, he changed off-screen on the time-skip process. We see some points here and there that may helped him to get to what he is now but only through flashbacks. His development is so sudden and radical that is almost unbelievable. Seems forced sometimes.
He choosed to left and disapear of Paradis Island, infiltrate the enemy's nation by himself, without any help and in the last hour he invited everybody for his rescue and backup for when he would being attack all the people there were present at the declaration of war.
He killed innocent people. He killed civilians that were Eldians slaves.
And he couldn't care less about what he did.
If Eren demonstrated any emotion or stop at any time whatsoever to think about his actions I think I could sympathize more with him. I know, war is war, right?
True but doesn't mean that when he is doing something I have to praise or accept anyway.
He didn't had a good development.
More than 3 seasons with almost 60 episodes and 10 years going by so he could grow up and do anything but cry and scream all the time.
But whatever, enough of talking about him.
Other characters like Connie, Sasha (RIP), Mikasa, Historia, Pieck, Galliard; etc doesn't get any good screen time to be developed.

Enjoyment 6/10:

It was okay for the most part but that's it.
Not epic or incredible anymore. I lost almost all the interest on this series.
The great old but gold times when I finished an arc or a season and get 100% hyped to continue watching is beyond gone.
I'm not even sad that this Final Season of the anime has finished, it's actually a relief that I will not have to watch this anime for a while.
If I would describe my enjoyment with this Final Season of AOT with one phrase:
"Worth it for being Shingeki no Kyojin, but if it was another anime with the same history and some ajusted things, would be a mediocre show."

Overall 6/10:
I would give at least an 8 or 7 but I actually give a 6.
It's an okay season, good at best. But not as good as anything that came before.
Sorry but that's what I think. I'm dissapointed with this season.
I'm not hyped as I was anymore and only thinking about AOT makes me sad.

If you are a fan of the series is a must watch.
If you are not than it's better to watch other anime instead.

I usually don't write reviews until I've seen the entire thing, but I just can't help but write this now when I've "only" seen 10/16 episodes.
Story 6/10:
The story itself isn't actually bad, it's actually quite good, if not for one problem, the flashbacks. About half of the episodes have left me with a feeling of "oooh, I want to see what happens next!" only to instead feature, almost exclusively, flashbacks to something that could have just been shown before whatever is currently happening chronologically was shown... There is also another more specific problem I have with these flashbacks, but discussing that would be a spoiler, ... let's just say that it kinda feels like the author (or screenwriters depending on how closely they follow the source) is trying to cheat the system...

Art 8/10:
People seem to complain a bit about the CGI, but it's honestly not bad. Not much to say.

Sound 10/10:
Great music, great voice acting.

Character 7/10:
Like the setting, like the characters, but there isn't anything particularly outstanding.

Enjoyment 5/10:
As discussed with the story, the frequent jumps from "moving forward" too "this happened a while back, but we didn't show it until now!" just feels awful (and a lot of the time, it doesn't even feel entirely necessary).

Overall 6/10:
The show is good when it is good, and even the flashback episodes I've talked about hating is "good" in isolation (mostly), but for the third time, I just can't stand how they suddenly just forgot how the linear progression of time works...

Attack on Titan will be probably go down in history as an anime “classic”. As much as some will dislike the show and this Season in particular there is no denying it. At this point it surpassed Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood as the highest rated show on this website (yikes this didn't age well), maybe partially because of the euphoria and hype for the next Season, but even with that taken into consideration it's a show loved by so many people. And while I enjoy the show I would not claim it to be "peak fiction" or even an extraordinary show.

There are some spoilers in ... this review, you have been warned.

This Season is a great shift in every sense of the word. At first, we don't even follow the main cast we knew up to that point, then this season is more dialogue heavy than the previous ones and characters take turns that many did not expect. When looking at how much changed this Season and will in the next one I think its remarkable how little Mikasa and Armin changed, who both are or at least were part of the main cast of this show.
Mikasa still being one of the characters I dislike the most. Her whole character arc revolves around Eren, given that she is an Ackerman that also somewhat makes sense in the series, however that does not make it a good character arc. Its also not even given that much attention, we see a glimpse of what might go on with her, but that's it. Her connection to Hizuru is mentioned but not really plays any role in the story or with her character.
Armin's only character trait at this point is that he ate Berthold and his connection to Anni, who still is frozen in that crystal. Everything that happened before this season is either forgotten or already taken as a "finished" character arc.

With those two characters that stayed more or less the same i will now go into the real meat of this Season. Starting with the new characters and the world building of this season as a whole.
We have 16 episodes that try to grasp a world that is multiple times bigger than what we knew up to that point. Given how many manga chapters are left to adapt there also is not much more after this season that could be done. I won't go into great detail on the worldbuilding, but I think it more or less does the "bare minimum" to not be considered bad or boring/generic. The concept introduced with the relationship between Eldia and Marley is interesting, its also conveyed somewhat believable. Aside from that however the world feels shallow. The war between Marley and the Mid-East Allied Forces exists I guess, Hizuru that seems to be influenced by Japanese History also exists. And aside from its relationship to Eldia and their hate for them, we also know barely anything about Marley. Instead of crafting an amazing world with great detail and rich cultures Isayama uses the world as a tool for his themes.

The new characters introduced with Marley are all not bad, but also far from revolutionary.

Gabi is very stereotypical, which is not bad (as we will see with Eren later on) and can get turned into something interesting. But Gabi until the very end of this season pretty much has a predictable arc. She was brainwashed and now slowly learns that not all Eldians are monsters. Also, only changing because she now knows what her hateful actions do to people (killing Sasha) seems like an easy way out, slowly developing her into noticing something is wrong with her ideology without using the death of Sasha would be far more interesting in my opinion. How its resolved now feels believable and is also not bad.

Falco is basically her counterpart, not being completely brainwashed but still being the victim in the end. I dont really have a strong opinion on him, i guess he is a fine character but due to a lack of development nothing special. The other new characters all are similar.

Reiner is by far the in my opinion well realized character in the entire series, from all the characters with internal conflicts his gets attention to the point his character feels pretty well-rounded. His character arc is not perfect by any means and also feels a little short at some point. However, the first four episodes and all the things we know up to now make for an understandable character. He almost feels like the embodiment of the central conflict of the show, knowing the good and bad of both sides and being conflicted.

Eren is what many claim to be the best character this season. And while i agree that what happened is interesting, i would not say its due to him now being a fleshed and less shounen like protagonist. His change is very in your face, he now has longer hair and is much more reserved. What makes all of what happened to his character a little underwhelming, is that we never really saw all those changes happen. We can suspect the reasons and theorize about them, not much more. What makes a great character in my opinion, is actually SEEING a change over the course of multiple episodes and seasons, slowly getting to know reasons for change. We saw more about Reiners reasons for change then we saw about Erens, even Reiners are not what, at least for me, would make a well fleshed out character but still more than Eren.

When it comes to the Audiovisuals this Season is below Attack on Titan standards, but still pretty well-made overall. The more moody color pallet and lighting might fit the overall feeling of the current season but compared to what we had before this season it, to me, feels inferior. Its just not as crisp. The CGI Titans are not much worse than the ones we had in the second part of Season three, they just appear more often.

The OST is not as enthralling as it was the last seasons, which makes sense given the change in tone, but still is pretty disappointing. The voice acting in general is superb, especially the ones of the old cast are really living their role.


Attack on Titan started pretty battle shounen like and in this season tries to move forward, beyond those classic character tropes and unremarkable themes. That alone is remarkable. It does not follow the classic Shounen story and more or less subverts our expectations that were set with the first season. I genuinely hope there are Manga artists getting inspired by Attack on Titan that will produce Shounen with a similar level of ambition in the Future, I would take something like this over the next My hero academia any day.

The biggest problems with this Season is the pacing or how this entire conflict was handled. The show introduces a big unknown world, tries to deliver intriguing politics and a very morally ambiguous story with even more characters. In the end however every single one of those aspects gets insufficient attention throughout this Season. The whole conflict between Eldia and Marley gets explained through a history lesson, every other reason and aspect to that conflict that may be there either is not mentioned or not noteworthy. Character change, as with Eren for example, get explained very vaguely and without much backstory. Trying many things, but not actually going in depth in any of them is the reason for this season being not as good as it could've been for me.

Don't get me wrong I still enjoyed this season. It's still like a fast-paced action movie, that now also tries to be a political drama without taking the time to make said drama believable and engaging. This political drama seems more like a tool to use when its necessary to progress with the story, it's not about the politics or about the world. What it truly is about we will see in the final final season when its core themes will hopefully get a satisfying conclusion that makes all this lackluster worldbuilding, character development and political drama worth it, and even if it's not worth for the themes at least we will still see bombastic fights (I mean that ending cliffhanger was nasty :). Attack on Titan could have been better, with at least 2 or 3 Seasons more on top of those 2 final ones. Its one of the few Shounen where more episodes could've really made a difference for the positive in my eyes.

*sigh* that was a lot of criticism.

I, for one, will watch the last Season and hope MAPPA take the time they need to make it the best Season it can be animation wise. Firstly because then at least the fans leave this series satisfied and secondly the series as a whole will not be remembered for the oh so mediocre animation in its last entry.

Ight bro I'm not saying this season is bad, its just that thus season pales in comparison to the other seasons. I was never to big of a fan of AOT in the first place(I think the show is good I rated the other season an 8). This season is worse. in everyway, the animation, story, animation, art, its all a step down. People be giving this shit a 10 an it isn't even close to a 10. Those people fucking tripping' n shit. But in all this season is straight ass, fucking boring, doesn't even compare to great anime's like SAO.