Was The Ending EVEN GOOD?! (Attack on Titan Chapter 139 Breakdown/Analysis)

Levi's ending was amazing

I love how the eremika shippers like u completely skip the Mikasa jean scene of extra pages just like that 😂I mean I am not a fan of that scene either,but as ur making the video on it I think u should have included that as well..

I don't know... The ending is neutral for me, it's not the best. There's some things that i just don't understand.
How does Ymir love Kind Fritz, this is so weird, he was literally gonna kill her for letting out some pigs...
And after he used her in his invasions and wars he fed her to his children
True love 🥰

I think after seeing how eren's plan worked out we all must say that Zeke is the best lol
Eren killed 80% of humanity while knowing the outcome is just-
The extra pages of the manga shows that paradis got destroyed which is pretty predictable.

You know what, I'm not gonna talk about Eren, i wanna talk about the people of paradis especially the alliance when they found out that Eren is gonna kill everyone outside the island, WHY did they decide to stop him?? To save the world? To save the innocent children? How about the children of THEIR island?
It's either they stop him before his encounter with Zeke ( and they did the exact opposite ) or just never stop him, it was soo useless..
They saved the remaining 20% just to make them come back bomb the hell out of paradis and nothing more.

And i personally just don't like the alliance, especially the fact that Levi is teaming with Annie, who killed his squad in season 1, and was so hung up on killing Zeke so he can fulfill his promise and pretty much avenge Erwin. Levi seriously should've died when Zeke bombed the wagon, in my opinion i think it was gonna be better for him than to team up with Annie lol.

And just the fact that Ymir's tree is back " i think it's Ymir's" and the power of titans is back is just the icing on top 🤌
i just hate that the titan story is not over.

I See Clown EMOTES everytime if someone talks about capter 139.

i can’t tell if this video is sarcasm or not.

I followed your anime reviews and just came by to see how to found the manga ending and I’m surprised you actually liked it loool

I mean, Ymir was a slave all her life. The cruelty that King Fritz showed her would've felt like love at some point since she had a use as a titan and as a womb. She'd have never known anything different. Mikasa showed her what true, selfless love actually looked like.

The extra pages lil tree scene imo was a really good conclusion to the story

finally some good fucking common sense

AOT Requim, originally a fan project, is getting an anime adaptation. One chapter is available now in English to read online

The only bad thing about ending is that eren doing zero requiem instead of putting him as a bad guy to make others look like hero isayama should have simply made eren's goal as something like reaching a certain point in future where curse ended. Also his scene about mikasa felt forced he should have tone it down a bit without retconning eren

I don't hate Eren killing 80% of the World but at least let him suffer or face consequence like he murdered 80% of theworld - not looking like a hero. Let him be trap in the Paths for eternity or be unable to reincarnate, if he know he is going to suffer for his actions then he won't look like a PIECE OF SHIT.

I love the perspective you brought to this ending, definitely made me see it in a new light. Every review i read or watched always had some nitpick, especially how the story concluded in the last few pages (the eren bird...). However i fully agree with your insight to the ending, about how history always seems to repeat itself. Even if we try our best not to repeat devastation, we always tend to forget - which is why i actually like the pages that were added to the end with the tree being that symbol of the historic cycle that will always repeat itself.

The ending feels like a mixed bag with great ideas placed but the result was a questionable yet improper execution.I have to agree that the ideas were great,but it was rushed.

Finally!! Someone saying something positive about the ending.

I was boggled with the hate I got for liking the ending :'D

About the colossal titans of the rumbling i think they're just empty shells built by Ymir to fulfill Karl Fritz's wish for his vow. Like an army of insentient automatons fueled by the founder's will. I've never read about fritz sacrificing millions of eldians to become dormant colossals inside the walls. Then, about the last pages i think that the tree, which is the tree of life, represents that among humanity's destruction, wars and stupidity, life never surrenders and will go on, cycle by cycle. I don't agree with those who say that powers are still there since the hallucigenia fucking died behind Reiner in the panel where titans return humans. But even if powers get brought back Eren should be the new Ymir so he can just refuse to build them or just erase them. That's why I believe it's just a symbolic ending that underlines one of the main themes of AoT. Humans will always fight but life and hope for freedom will never end. And i like this view. Another thing, judging from the architecture and tree's dimensions of old mikasa panel and the bombing of shiganshina, it's obvious that it happens a century or more, more or less, after the rumbling, and we don't even know the causes of it. So, Eren and Armin didn't fail, they're not gods who can bring eternal peace for Eldia and the world

People who hate the ending claim to be the ones understanding the story and tell those who like it they don't understand the story, but they get mad and salty if someone does the same thing as them, telling them they didn't understand the story. Brief resume of AoT's fandom rn. Btw it's not a matter of understanding or not the story, it's a matter of liking or not isayama's choices. If isayama wanted the story to follow a certain path, than that's the actual canon story for you. But some people keep spreading hate and they'll probably continue for years but who cares. Aside from that, thank you isayama for this beautiful journey.

Nothing unexpected from a alliance asslicker who saw eren as a lolipop for mikasa and think his confession as a love rather than a toxic tantrum eren being used as a plot device

Wouldn’t the wall Titans only be a hundred years old, because king fritz made the wall a hundred years prior?

To be honest I think the ending sucks. My biggest points that I hate are Eren’s plan and the whole “humanity won’t ever stop fighting itself” stuff:

What I hate about Eren’s plan is that it’s just a copy of what the Tyber family did. The false story of the Tyber family had it so where they had rescued the world from Eldian tyranny and proved the the world that they were “good Eldians”. A story built on a lie that only switched the roles of oppressor and oppressed and didn’t really solve any current conflict as then the world just used it as a justification to continue opposition. I also think it pretty weird that we’re supposed to be glad that the Alliance basically proved that they were “good Eldians” when before that didn’t stop anything and I’m pretty sure that when Gabi stated similar things we were critical about how such a mentality is. So yeah it pretty terrible when you look at it from a social aspect about systemic oppression.

When it comes to when the second part is that I just don’t feel like the current conflict was solved or even had the possibility to be solved. And no, I wasn’t looking for the solution to world piece. But I was looking for a meaningful and believable ending to the story and I just feel like it didn’t deliver. Like I said earlier, all Eren ever did was give a justification for the conflict to continue. The world believed in the oppression of Eldians through the justification of what the Eldian empire did to them 100 years ago so to think they wouldn’t do it again to justify the complete destruction of Paradise 100 years later when they were perfectly okay doing it during the time of the beginnings the story is just fucking stupid. I know Isayama tried doing this thing of ambiguity with whether or not Armin succeeds, but I was so unconvinced Armin would be capable of doing so that I never entertained the idea. Armin never once proved capable to convincing people of anything without either being strong arming people or sacrificing himself. Neither are going to lead to peace and only postponed the problem. Something we see take place. He also just never showed the ability to be decisive about anything else has done recently that he has no charisma for it. I mean the guy couldn’t come to the choice of stopping global genocide with conviction.

I'm so glad to find people that have the same kind of reaction to the ending of this story as I did. Now I definitely agree with people that some parts of the ending could've been explained upon further, but I do think that the ending fits the story quite well. I'm really excited to see everything animated in winter 2022!

What a journey!! Great vid 👍🏼

I think anime onlies will love this ending. Manga readers treat it like its the spawn of satan, twerking in hell and doing backflips infront of the disabled.

This gives me hope that the anime community will enjoy the ending a bit more than the manga fans

I really don’t think he went too far the world hated them what was the next best option peace talks ?

The ending isn't perfect and has many flaws. But it's not God awful or complete dog poop either, it's in my opinion meh. But people should definitely not be harassing and sending Isayama death threats.

The way you immediately got what this chapter was trying to tell was so good.

i guess you were a clown after all

Finally, someone who I agree with lol. Also Ymir probably has a fetish similar to darkness but 10x more extreme, at least that’s how I interpreted it

I'm glad you enjoyed the ending! It's not perfect, but it was a satisfying 7/10 conclusion at least for me. Aot is still and will always be an incredible work of fiction. I hope you don't get a lot of hate. It's perfectly okay to not like the ending and have constructive criticism, but name calling, ruining other people's enjoyment of the series, and being overall toxic are completely uncalled for.

The people thinking Eren was a complete Chad for showing no emotions and starting wars and murdering 80% of humanity do not realize that wasn't Eren. It was like Morty holding the Death Crystal trying to figure out the ending that would make the most sense. He was mentally gone for 4 years trying to hold some sanity together.

I will say it... Mikasa and Jean better fucking pairing I loved that she ended up with someone who legit loved and cared for her. I like the ending cause it's reality. No matter if you wipe out some or all as long as two people exist conflict will remain.

i m the 139th like...lmao and 9 dislikes!!

I think the Yimir loving king Fritz thing was just Stockholm syndrome

Eren character end perfectly for me.
The whole arc feels kinda rushed (obviously because yams want to end at 13), but the rest is great. I mean, it's not like there are any different way. The extra pages didnt change anything, i know why ppl got upset, but im not a fan of millennialism and the theme of the whole series reject it as well. So technically it didnt ruin anything

I fully believe that anime-onlies will receive the ending much better than the manga readers. Besides the fact that it will be cooler to watch with movement and sound and music, I think anime watchers are a lot less quick to get mad about stupid shit than manga readers are. 9 times out of 10 when I’ve seen AOT fans getting riled up about something it’s not the anime watchers it’s the manga readers. Anime watchers, especially those who watch in dub, just generally act much less elitist and are much less likely to have the “I know how the story should go better than the author” mentality that permeates throughout so much of the manga community and really has been poisoning discussions among fans for years now. Remember how much manga readers hated on the Uprising Arc? Or the Marley Arc? What about all the anger from Serumbowl, or the CGI moments in the anime, or so many other minor things that 99% of anime watchers just rolled with and accepted and enjoyed. They will like the ending more than the manga fans I guarantee it.

I'm happy that you liked the ending. However for me though there were good parts (like Levi's part) there were a lot of plot holes. Like where did the hallycigenia go? And there was no evidence that eren liked mikasa and that part felt very random and out of the blue. After some research I found out that Isayama just threw that part in there as he was drawing. So it wasn't actually planned. Also why did Connie, Gabi and Jean turn into Titans?

Have people not heard of Stockholm syndrome?
Regarding Ymir:
A. She had no way to know better. She didn’t have a non-abusive relationship to compare Fritz to, she had no way to know how terrible Fritz was. That’s the only person that shows her any attention for 13 years and gives her a purpose. Does this justify Fritz in any way shape or form? Well obviously fucking not. But it is a very reasonable explanation. She had developed the mindset of a slave and she couldn’t escape that mindset. It’s supposed to be fucked up and make you feel sick when you hear Eren say she “loved” him. That’s the entire point. Isayama isn’t trying to justify Fritz’s behavior or make him out to be a good person, if you really thought that was his intention when writing 139 I think you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.

B. Ymir’s strange attachment to Fritz didn’t even have to be love of any kind. All we know is that Eren interpreted it that way. Eren wouldn’t have the knowledge to say “Ymir had Stockholm syndrome” he would only know to use simple words to describe the feelings he saw like “love”. Especially since obsessed duty to protect someone is exactly what he would believe “love” to be since that is exactly how Mikasa feels for him. That’s the only kind of “love” he’s ever experienced outside of his parents, so it’s understandable for him to interpret Ymir’s fucked up version of this kind of attachment and call it love.

The AOT community has become a place that is filled with toxic people who will put a bounty on your head if you say something they don't agree with, and it's pretty sad to see a good fanbases turn into nothing but a land of toxic people. I haven't seen the ending I'm only adding this comment to say what the AOT community has unfortunately become, not everyone acts like this but it's pretty much half the fanbase who now acts like this.

I think her love for Fritz is like a case of Stockholm syndrome

Stokehome syndrome is a bitch

Awesome analysis

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1. How people received the ending

The ending is really really divise, there was of course no way the ending could please everybody since we all have different opinions. There's no problem about liking it or disliking it, the problem comes more from the disrespectful people who think Isayama has no idea how to write a story, that he ruined 11 years of work and that it's trash now.

If the ending was the "AnR" ending all the haters wanted to see (basically, Eren killing all his friends and continuing with his genocide to kill 100% of humanity. Then returning to Paradis and being considered a hero and ensuring world peace forever ever after), I would have hated it as well because it's not in line with the AoT storyline ("if you want to save Armin, Mikasa, you need to keep moving forward but hold up, I'mma kill them now because I chase my delusional dream of genocide) and it's completely unrealistic and delusional to think one second mass murderer can achieve world peace and I would've made people hear my opinion. But never ever would I have stated that Isayama is a clown who doesn't know how handle a storyline. I'm not even mentioning the people who straight insult, threaten and harass him online. This is a level of ungratefulness I've rarely seen and I really see these people like the Marleyans racists, like Gabi (before she becomes amazing), Floch or like the extremists Jaegerists... Extremely stubborn, delusional and with no respect whatsover for the other.

2. My personal opinion about the ending

I liked the ending we get, for all the reasons stated in this video. To make it quick, Eren decided to make Armin, Mikasa and the others, the heroes of a post-apocalyptic world and made sure to free all the eldians from the curse which is the reason why the entire world feared them. Armin and Historia (leader of Paradise and the ambassador of the world) managed to reach a treaty of peace, Paradise got major technological development as a result, with the outside world trying to help them.

But eventually, many many generations after EMA's one, war struck back. Because it was only inevitable. War is written inside human's nature, we don't even know if it's related to the old conflict or if it's a brand new war for completely different reasons. But it doesn't matter a second, the conclusion is always the same. Humans will keep fighting each other and the only way of ensuring world's everlasting peace is to annilhate world's population to 1. If Eren truly wanted everlasting world peace, then he would have to destroy Paradise as well, to make sure no one's gonna fight anymore.

However, the means are completely out of proportion for the end that is just a mere dream. Freedom is just a utopia, there's no way you can be free. Eren tasted a bit of it in 131 and thought he managed it (while it was just an illusion) but he can't achieve it realistically. He at least gave his friends a world where they can't inherit titans anymore (in line with s4e10 when he said that he didn't want them to inherit a titan and he wanted them to have long lives).

Let's remember that Eren would have really enjoyed completing the rumbling if he could. Ymir believed she was in love with King Fritz, but she knew that what she felt was just a twisted feeling that shouldn't have existed in the first place. She worked 2000 years in the paths, creating titans for the king and the royal family, and she decided that if she saw how love really worked she would have finally put an end to this story.

That's why Ymir wanted to see Mikasa killing Eren, because it would have been the maximum demonstration that you can love someone but still go against them. Obviously she could see it happen in the paths, but she Understandably wasn't satisfied to only see one possible future, she wanted to make it real. This is why she showed Eren only the one future she wanted to realize, knowing that he would have followed it. Eren decided to go along with her plan, because in the future he saw Mikasa was alive, the paths were going to be destroyed and the rest of the world was so weak that would have left paradise Island alone for at least 100 years (it happen, paradise got destroyed when modern houses and weapons were invented). If he didn't follow her plan, he would have known how to proceed, and it would have put everyone even more at risk.

Obviously, peace will never endure. Just like Erwin said: "Humanity will never stop fighting itself.. until it shrinks to a size of one or fewer."

And wars would have continued even if the rest of the world was destroyed, because, just like Kiyomi Azumabito said: "all you are doing is making the world smaller, all these killings will surely continue as they always have"

Chapter 139 is underwhelming to me. That’s my opinion

Ymir had Stockholm Syndrome is why Ymir did everything King Fritz wanted this been a great journey

Dude... same I finished AOT manga like 30 minutes ago and I don´t understand the hate.
Loved everysingle thing that happened, amazing story.
Not sure about the extra pages, however the original story is amazing in my eyes

I think that I'm a part of a small minority who liked the original ending, and loved the extended ending way more.

For full disclosure, I got into the AoT anime back in 2015, after good 2 day bingewatch, I finished the first season. After waiting a few months, and seeing nothing credible online about the release date for Season 2, I gave in and read the Manga.

It was February of 2016, and chapter 78 had just come out. The one that ends on a massive cliff hanger after Bertoldt transforms in the middle of Shiganshina. That was when I learned, much to my horror, that AoT only released 1 chapter per month. So I've been reading it chapter by chapter ever since February of 2016.

I liked the original ending to the manga when it came out, but I can honestly say I love the extended ending more. The reason being that it fit the themes of the story better.

I see A LOT of people angrily saying that the new ending means that Eren did it all of that for nothing. And all I can say is what did you expect? The series has gone to great lengths to show us how every single attempt to achieve peace in the history of that world have always eventually ended in failure. From the Eldians opressing other races and cultures, to King Fritz taking his people to Paradis to create a peaceful world there, all ended in failure. Just like in real life, no war will ever be the war to end all wars. Because in the end Human nature never changes. And in my opinion, Eren somehow achieving a permanent peace would have gone directly against the themes of the story, and cheapened the series as a whole.

The Anime goes even further with the theme of humams never change, by adding in original scenes of Eren and Pixys discussing how it was thought once in the past that humans will stop fighting only when faced with a powerful enemy, AKA the Titans, but even then the survivors in the walls never stopped fighting each other. They even sent a 3rd of their population to die when the Titans invaded despite them believing that they were the last humans on Earth. Both Eren and Pixys agreed that in reality humans would never stop fighting each other until there are 2 or fewer people left.

So yes, in the context of the story, it makes perfect sense that even Eren's plan would fail in the end. But at the same time, did he really fail? He made it clear that his goal was not permanent peace, but rather to have his frends live long and happy peaceful lives. Which arguably, they all did! We see Mikasa grow old and have children and even grandchildren before dying of old age. So yes, he succeeded at giving his friends long peaceful lives. So the fact that the peace was never going to be permanent is certainly tragic, but not unrealistic.

Now, do I feel that the ending was a bit rushed? Yes. I think we could have benefitted from a few more chapters to make things feel better paced. Do I hope that the anime will expand on the final arc and the ending to flesh things out more? Of course I do. The ending was not without flaws, but for the most part I still enjoyed it.

Thank You, Hajime Isayama.