link for that? There's so many things that need to happen to end in 4 chapters more.Apparently, the next volume will be the last.
My guess is that the next chapters will be about everyone trying to stop the Rumbling before it decimates the world.
Zeke is useless now, since Ymir ignored him. I guess the "save the world" ball will be on Armin, Reiner or Falco.
The legend goes that Ymir made contact with "the source of all organic matter."the deal with the devil was just a theory passed down by eldians and marleyans alike, then there was kruger's version in which og ymir stumbled upon 'the source of all organic matter'. Which seems to be exactly what happened? As to what that spiney thing is, no clue
So as it stands
Eren isn't the devil and on top of that, there never was a devil? Just the tree?
unless there was something else down there that we were never shown when she fell
I like this a lot more than the Eren oneI don't need Ymir to talk per se. I just need to see something more compelling. Of course you can fill in the gaps, and say "well she was a slave, Eren freed her, that's all we need to know" but that just doesn't really have any impact when it's done like this. Other emotionally poignant moments in the manga were absolutely built up more, related to more characters and had more detailed developments. They weren't simply introduced and resolved over the span of 30 pages, without any struggle or effort, by simply saying the correct lines at the correct time. Reiner's inner mental state was developed for an entire volume, let alone all we knew about him before that, before he met Eren again and broke down completely becoming unable to fight him. Even something as relatively minor as Rod's motivations was carefully built up over multiple chapters before his flashback, unlike here. The notion that the chapter as it exists is enough to make you feel sympathy with Ymir and get your hair raised when Eren "frees" her is totally alien to me, and from what I've seen on other sites, I'm not the only one who feels like this. It's delusional to think that more time devoted to this would just make it worse, an ad-hoc justification for the events as they exist.
Also, the idea that Ymir needed Eren specifically to free her contradicts the notion that it all came down to her slave mentality. Eren told her to choose for herself; is that, and saying "you're normal", really all it takes to undo the deep-seated psychological and ideological conditioning that a slave is subject to? We know Ymir didn't stop being a slave to herself even when she didn't have to, after getting the power. Why did she need to be freed, mentally, and couldn't do it herself? We never see any of this being developed, we just get a brief flashback showing how much of a slave she was (with no attention paid to her own psychology, again, it's not a matter of merely talking), and then suddenly her psychology is the most important thing when the conundrum is resolved so that Eren can get the rumbling going. It's just not up to the standards of SnK.
The "devil" was the Eldian king. The apple was her powers, hence the picture book showing how she is "giving" the apple to the "Devil". Notice how the Eldian king has a helmet with horns, just like the Devil in the picture book.
Very nice, I like this a lot.The "devil" was the Eldian king. The apple was her powers, hence the picture book showing how she is "giving" the apple to the "Devil". Notice how the Eldian king has a helmet with horns, just like the Devil in the picture book.
I'll be honest I think the last arc and especially the last 4-5 chapters have been... subpar, to put it mildly. It almost feels like Isayama wants to just be done with it, even the art dropped off a cliff.
lol, have you ever seen Detroit Become Human's ending.
The imagery could not be more clear.
Detroit Become Human and Bright are like the only pieces of media as dumb as Attack on Titan though Attack on Titan is less focused on race and is more focused on having Game of Thrones disease and obsessing over throwing random plot twists out every chapter or two.
These aren't random plot twists.Come on, at least try to be fair here. These twists have been well-built up for a while now.
Many of these are decently foreshadowed post-basement... I just really hate a lot of them. eg, memory travel was set up years ago in real time, I just really dislike the twist and these elements feel fairly random in adding to the series. Stripping away any internal Eren thoughts is solely a mechanic to allow for twists as well. The last several years have been "what is Eren doing? Who knows!" just so that Eren killing random people in a certain way can raise more questions for more plot twists and I don't think that is very interesting story-telling, especially since I hate the twists. Game of Thrones at the end also quit allowing the audience to see what characters thought to allow for more twists.
I do question when the post-basement plotline was written as Reiner's actions pre-basement make very little sense, especially with him referring to "Humanity" when revealing things to Eren.
I disagree completely, I think doing this was a fantastic narrative component. It made us feel like we were looking at things from Armin and Mikasa's perspective. We only knew where Eren came from and not what made him snap or what he was planning. Eren became so much more riveting and electric as a character.Stripping away any internal Eren thoughts is solely a mechanic to allow for twists as well.
The legend goes that Ymir made contact with "the source of all organic matter."
Alien? Primordial life? 4th dimensional parasite?
Whatever it is can essentially make a horrific giant flesh avatar version of you around you, putting human genetics, form, and flesh on full boost. It makes you wonder "who" was building the titans before Ymir was. The titan faces are way more interesting before Ymir took over. Skull faces, horse faces, whatever was originally building them on the other side had some interesting ideas about the human organism.
Either way, there are three possibilities as far as I can tell:
1) It was inert until it found a compatible host
2) It was a predator of sorts, laying in wait to take advantage of a compatible host
3) It was left there by someone who knew Ymir would be tumbling down if it ends up being involved in the time loop
It's gonna be a source of speculation forever if Isayama never explains the entity.
The "devil" was the Eldian king. The apple was her powers, hence the picture book showing how she is "giving" the apple to the "Devil". Notice how the Eldian king has a helmet with horns, just like the Devil in the picture book.
Eren post-basement steals every scene he's in, he has become a mesmerizing character. So yeah, Isayama has done something magnificent with him, but in the end it depends about his true plan, it needs to be something big to justify all the innocents he killed in Marley, but I trust Isayama, even Mikasa said to him that there's no coming back from that.
Yeah seriously. That closing is basically 70% of this chapter minus context. It's crazy how much forethought has gone into this.Holy. Fucking. SHIT.
ITS INSANE how much of this can be seen in the anime closing credits. That scene with Rose, Maria and Sinha was in the season 2 credits if I recall correctly.
It's weird and annoying as shit.It's hilarious that you always try to do this shit and it always ends in the same way
Attack on Titan's endgame has sure gotten interesting (full manga spoilers)
So a while ago, the main twist of the series was revealed that the series is a WW2 AU where the Titans are Jews. People had a variety of reactions to this, one claiming that since the Jews were still the main characters and sympathetic that the ability for Jews to turn into giant zombies isn't...www.resetera.com
I'm not sure this stuff makes much sense. All of this coordinate/ymir/timeloop thing is just so convoluted. In any case this kind of lore dumps aren't very satisfying to me.
Isayama is definitely not pulling this story out of his ass and I thank him for that.
It would not surprise me if he had laid out a fuck ton of key events from almost day one.It's insane how well planned this whole ride has been. What a fucking legend.
It's insane how well planned this whole ride has been. What a fucking legend.
It would not surprise me if he had laid out a fuck ton of key events from almost day one.
His editors are champs too for letting him tell the story at his own pace. Takes a lot of trust to let him do the shit he did and it's paying off spectacularly
Holy. Fucking. SHIT.
ITS INSANE how much of this can be seen in the anime closing credits. That scene with Rose, Maria and Sinha was in the season 2 credits if I recall correctly.
Helos was just a fucking dude who tried killing the King and accidentally killed Ymir (spear through the spine) instead. They explained EVERYTHING.
Holy shit, was this really the full circle moment?
I am in fucking shamblesWhich could mean Eren saw everything up until this final memory of Ymir. His last memory he saw that day was of Ymir starting the rumbling.
So, this is why I edited my post earlier, and this is my thoughts on thatCan you or someone explain this more fully?
Eren can see the past (attributable to the founder, or a common ability of all titans I think?) and the future (thanks to the attack). He can see the future of the next attack titan inheritor, but not his own. Nonetheless, he was able to use his ability to look into the past to see Grisha's vision of Eren's future? So that way Eren knew he would somehow reach the paths world? Is that right?
Now how does that relate to this:
If this is Eren's final memory (presumably from him using Grisha to see his future) does this suggest that this is where Eren dies?
So, this is why I edited my post earlier, and this is my thoughts on that
On that day specifically, Eren saw the memories only of the past founders. So the last memory of a past founder he had was of Ymir. So, in a way, he saw a little of his future at that moment. But the drawback was he couldn't remember it because when he woke up, he couldn't remember what had happened.
fast forward to when he made contact with Historia, Eren broke the game.. he can see into his future for god knows how far. Idk anymore. Maybe he saw into the last day of his life that day.
Given this theory, idk why he said mikasas hair was different in his dream. Maybe he was mistaking her for someone else or maybe he saw her through grisha's memories that first day they met her but I don't recall her hair being different then.
so it's not a perfect theory but it would be amazing if the first time we see eren in the series is when he wakes up when the rumbling occurs.
I'd really like that lol
and it would make sense given the name of the chapter
Motherfucker
He pulled the trigger on The Rumbling, goddamn I didn't think Isayama would actually do it
What an amazing payoff for Ymir's eyes being hidden all this time. Fuck this is going to be INSANE animated
Edit
Helos was just a fucking dude who tried killing the King and accidentally killed Ymir (spear through the spine) instead. They explained EVERYTHING.
Well, all we know is he saw something that day, there's no way of knowing everything he saw yet.How is Eren able to see Ymir then if he hadn't inherited any titan powers at the time (ch 1)? And how does touching Historia allow him to see further into the future? I thought the royal blood contact thing was for using the founding titan abilities, not enhancing the precogbition ability of a attack titan inheritor?
How is Eren able to see Ymir then if he hadn't inherited any titan powers at the time (ch 1)? And how does touching Historia allow him to see further into the future? I thought the royal blood contact thing was for using the founding titan abilities, not enhancing the precogbition ability of a attack titan inheritor?
Can you or someone explain this more fully?
Eren can see the past (attributable to the founder, or a common ability of all titans I think?) and the future (thanks to the attack). He can see the future of the next attack titan inheritor, but not his own. Nonetheless, he was able to use his ability to look into the past to see Grisha's vision of Eren's future? So that way Eren knew he would somehow reach the paths world? Is that right?
Now how does that relate to this:
If this is Eren's final memory (presumably from him using Grisha to see his future) does this suggest that this is where Eren dies?