In 2009, a comic strip called Attack on Titan came out. Eleven years later, the manga ushered in a new era of glory for Japanese anime, leaving anime fans around the world eagerly awaiting an update from author Isayama. Long before the animated version of Attack on Titan was released in 2013, this wonderful story became the most discussed comic book in the world in just a few short years.
The animated version that followed was a step up to the sky, directly becoming the most popular animated series in the world that year! It has aroused heated discussion around the world.
Eleven years later, the comic version of Attack on Titan came to an end on April 9, 2021, and the anime ushered in its final season, which was released in two parts. In order to try to be more in the style of painting and special effects, the producers have undergone six months of adjustment. Although from a plot point of view, the "Attack on Titan" manga has exploded among anime fans with a tragic and bizarre ending, but because the animation was launched later, many fans held a glimmer of hope. I hope that under the auspices of the author Isayama, I can bring you a different animation version of the ending.
Unlike the previous opening procrastination, as soon as the second part of the latest "Attack on Titan Final Season" began, everyone suffered a series of critical hits! The first thing that makes fans most sad is that our handsome, but still one meter six soldier commander, let the tragic disfigurement, and the finger was also broken! Let everyone can't help but exclaim, can this season come more violently? This is clearly the season of abuse! Does this Mt. Ariyama really have no heart?
Attack on Titan, advanced painting style
Starting with the manga and then to the animated version of Attack on Titan, this work has maintained a rough drawing style. Although there are serious errors in the proportions of many scene paintings, they still maintain the feeling of a juvenile hot-blooded anime. After four seasons and different production companies, the style of the animated version has also been upgraded step by step.
Especially after the adjustment period of the last six months, the second part of "Attack on Titan Final Season" has shown a super conscience style that can compete with the big anime movies at the beginning! Coupled with the step-by-step rise of the wonderful plot, the whole story has reached the flashpoint of despair and rebirth, the thick atmosphere of doomsday, coupled with the cruelty of seriously injuring the commander of the soldiers, so that everyone can't help but want to continue to watch at the same time.
The filmmakers also obviously did not want to, and took out all the hole cards at the beginning. It is reported that the project team of "Attack on Titan Final Season" this time is very stingy, and only filmed the "ground song".
Although the story is here, it is enough for fans to look forward to, and with the influence of the work of "Attack on Titan", as long as the special effects are in place and the plot is slower, everyone can endure, the key is what kind of results will be brought about by dragging more. This point of the producer is indeed conscientious, and all the money is spent on the blade. Such cartoons are pleasing to the eye just by looking at them.
In addition to the continuous improvement of the painting style and production level, the excitement of the story of "Final Season" has also aroused the expectations of many fans. In this season, famous scenes such as the three giants besieging Alan, Di Ming, and the ancestor Yumir online have all surfaced. Among them, the three giants besieged Alan, and Alan confronted Reiner, which had a feeling of a fateful battle.
When the previous pit was filled in a little bit, the plot also echoed back and forth, and the gripping explosion point was ready to be launched, but what made everyone most worried was the final ending of the animated version.
Eleven years of foreshadowing, thus revealing the truth
In fact, a closer look at every season of "Attack on Titan" has been broadcast, it seems that "in the dark" is the real theme. In the first season corresponding to freedom, the second season of the pursuit of justice, and then to the war in the third season and the rebirth of the fourth season, the story of each season in the past is interlocked, and now in "The Final Season", the theme has become reversed or subverted.
In the final season of the manga, the story introduces a grander and more subversive concept, which seems to want to turn the hot-blooded juvenile manga into a grand epic manga. In the first part of the animation "Final Season", the story is constantly reorganizing the world of Attack on Titan in a way that is constantly flashing back, pushing the whole story in a more cruel and crazy direction.
On the author's enthusiasm for filling the pit, such a plot advancement is not unacceptable to everyone, but the key is that after the truth of everything is solved, the final ending is not what everyone wants!
In the new truth, the protagonist Alan's life with his mother from childhood is revealed to a king named Paradi Island. Humans there live within walls, and a high wall blocks giants that feed on humans.
Alan witnessed his mother being swallowed by the giants, and was determined to enter the Legion to fight the giants to avenge his mother, and then to work for the freedom of mankind. Such a story unfolds and advances, which is in line with our common style of "hot-blooded teenager comics".
At the beginning, many fans also entered the pit for "Allen's Growth". Who did not expect that Isayama did not limit the story to the battle of life and death between giants and humans, and the whole story bid farewell to the "fairy tale" trend and ended in another worldview.
It turned out that the humans on Paradi Island were actually known as the "descendants of demons" Eldian people, whose ancestors had used the power of giants in their bodies to torture and kill other races on the continent, such as the Malais, and as a result, they were attacked by the group and eventually fled to Paradi Island.
Later, the Malais injected some of the captured Eldians with spinal fluid, turning them into giants outside the high walls of Paradi Island, and the people inside the walls were devoured by giants. For years afterward, the Malais, still fearful of the power of the giants in the Eldians, planned to completely destroy paradis.
After the awakening of the giant power in Alan's body, he began to gradually inherit the memories of his ancestors and evolved the ability to spy on the future. After learning the creepy truth, he saw the future of paradis island where he grew up completely in ruins, and finally decided to adopt the "annihilation" plan, using his giant power to change the past, and controlled the giant to kill his own mother.
Seeing such a plot, who can not say that this is very outrageous! After all, the murder of his mother was the beginning of all things for Alan. But no one expected that all this was an opportunity of her own making. No one knows if this is the foreshadowing that Isayama had already considered as early as eleven years ago.
But if you think about it, all this seems logical, and it is really not broken! The world in which Allen lived was filled with all kinds of suffering, trepidation and injustice, and he did not expect to get better, so he voluntarily became a victim in exchange for the happiness of all people, which made sense emotionally! But can his plan really change the past and save the world?
After Allen's "fall", whether he was a "madman" or an idealist caused a huge debate among fans. In a bad world, should human beings who are destined not to be free suffer the "annihilation of the world"? Let the giants disappear, let the reasons for racial struggle disappear, and the people of future generations will surely be able to get peace and freedom? Does this destruction really lead to rebirth?
Allen has special abilities, and he also has the determination to bear the infamy and bear all the suffering, but his sadness and grandeur also reveal a strong sense of loneliness, which is in stark contrast to the thick atmosphere of bondage between humans and giants laid by the author throughout the work.
A tribute to the youth we once had
Looking back at the eleven-year anime series of "Attack on Titan", as well as the eight years of "Attack on Titan" animation process, this story that has brought shock and blood to countless teenagers has become a part of the vitality of many people.
We grew up with Alan, with his companions, in pursuit of freedom and justice, and after going to society, we understood the true meaning of the story of humans fighting with giants. It can be said that the fans who like this work have also experienced rebirth again and again. As a result, everything is now a joke!
Looking back at "Attack on Titan", in addition to Alan, in this world, we also met the handsome commander, the clever Armin, and the domineering Mikasa, who fought not only for Alan, but also for their own destiny.
Such a group of characters in the story are also fighting for our ideals, so everyone takes it for granted that they should also be saved by the author.
As a result, the ending of the comic tells everyone that the best way to overcome fate is to make yourself cruel and to stomp everything under your feet, including those who are closest to you.
Although this may be the essence of life, the audience still expects to see another ending. As for whether the end of the anime will be as everyone wishes, at present, we can still look forward to a little bit, and Isayama may suddenly find the heart and give us a slightly more reunion ending. But if not, it can only be so!
If you think about it, Attack on Titan is really saying goodbye now. After this time, we may never be able to reunite.
Finally, let's pay tribute! Salute to the brave and strong Allen, to those heroes who are fearless in the face of giants in the other world, and to pay tribute to themselves by the way, may the young man who firmly believes in the light in his heart always run tirelessly and happily between heaven and earth.