WHY ATTACK ON TITAN’S ENDING IS SHIT 4/4

As for the actual anime adaptation of the ending – well, it sure benefits from covering a whole lot more than just Chapter 139, and doing it well. We’re provided with such an epic, awesome spectacle and even with enough genuinely good and touching character moments, that by the time we get to the Bullshit, the whole episode/movie has garnered enough good will that I can definitely understand people being inclined to just go along with it, to do the Cope Job and convince themselves that nah, this isn’t shit, it actually kinda makes sense. Those who defended Chapter 139 back in the day had no such excuse.

The anime does make various minor changes, some for the better, some for the worse. I do think Levi and especially Reiner get a better showing during the final battle, which Reiner in particular really needed (he’s been Jobbing so hard, for so long), and which makes you remember him for something else than sniffing letters.

The notorious manga line where Armin thanks Eren for becoming a mass murderer for their sake has been completely changed, and instead became the monologue about Eren and Armin always being together, in hell. Honestly, this is much better, and far more appropriate given the events we just witnessed.

Some extra scenes of the outside world people rebuilding after the Rumbling, several of the shots making the ending feel even more like a Code Geass ripoff.

The big change to the final part of the ending is making it look like Paradis survived for something like 1000 years after the Rumbling, at which point we can’t know if the Rumbling was even the reason for why Paradis eventually got nuked. In the manga Paradis can’t have survived for more than 100 years at most, meaning that it absolutely got destroyed because Eren was a cuck and Survey Corps elites turned traitors. This also makes Eren’s 80% gambit look far more successful than in the manga, which is dumb on a number of levels, strains credulity and ends up making the ending pro-genocide after all.

In the end, Ardainian was right in saying that they didn’t actually fix the ending, they just polished a turd, and also surrounded it with plenty of genuinely good fucking food – which doesn’t save the overall meal, because there’s still an actual turd in there.

And never forget, Floch Was Right.