But it all hits him hard when his own home is destroyed and his mother gets eaten before his eyes. In the beginning, Eren is nothing but a victim of the atrocities of the restricted world that he is confined to and though he does show signs of being slightly aggressive for his age, all of it seems to be rather undisciplined because of how naive he is towards the realities of the situation. After all, the Titans are nothing but a projection of those who now feel oppressed.
While it was pretty obvious in the first two seasons that the Titans are the main antagonists of the show, season 3 makes it clear that there is indeed no line that separates good from the evil. But season 3 brings new life to them by showing that these bland Titans were placed by no one but the government, Titan shifters and pretty much everyone from the entire cruel world. In one of my reviews of the previous seasons, I have criticized how the anime has some very bland one-dimensional villains who do nothing but cause mayhem in the human world. It’s this confinement that later drives him to become the freedom-seeking hero that he eventually turned out to be. Looking back at season 1, Eren was nothing but an oppressed character who was weighed down by his own ideas of escaping the walls that surround him.
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Apart from the Titans, there are ruthless serial killers, corrupt government officials, genocidal pacifists and most of all, the main protagonist Eren, who by definition are all the monsters of the anime. While this is exactly what the anime is all about in the first two seasons, the word “monster” gets a whole new meaning in its season 3. In simple words, ‘ Attack on Titan‘ is just about a bunch of giant monsters trying to take over a human civilization for fun. “Die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” Eren Jeager: Not Your Typical Shounen Hero What’s even more terrifying is the fact that the incident that led to Eren’s mother’s death is actually connected to the brutalities of both his dad and Zeke. This episode proves to be a turning point of the entire anime as it reveals that all the main characters, especially Eren, have been living a lie. This is the reason why Grisha Yeager tries to infiltrate the war just to gain control over the Founding Titan. A false idea of “the only humanity is within the walls” was then planted in their heads and the King threatened Marley that if he ever tried to attack the walls, he would be forced to unleash the army of Colossal Titans that he has kept hidden inside the walls. The King then decided to use the Founding Titan’s abilities to erase all the memories of “The Subjects of Ymir” and built three giant walls of Colossus Titans all around their Eldian territories. This led to their own downfall and almost all the Marleyan land, that was previously reclaimed by Eldia, was restored to its independent state. What followed was The Great Titan War, a civil war wherein all the specialty Titans battled against each other. But this uprising came to an end when King Karl Fritz decided to withdraw himself from all conflicts. These Subjects of Ymir then used their power to create their own nation known as Eldia and further expanded by creating a huge Eldian Empire. It all started with a race known as “The Subjects of Ymir”.Īccording to the official historical events of Marley, the titans were first created to destroy and conquer the world around them. Right from the beginning of the anime, there were minor cues here and there which suggested that Titans were nothing but actual humans transformed into their monstrous existence. It presents you the story of Erin’s father, Grisha Yeager, and it also finally reveals how the Titans were first created. What started off as one of the best anime hooks that received a mixed bag of reviews has now turned into one of the bleakest anime shows of all time that was surprisingly very well plotted out right from the beginning.Įpisode 57 of Season 3 Part 2 finally answers the most awaited question - where did all the Titans come from? Titled “That Day”, this episode takes you way back to the second episode of season one, “That Day: The Fall of Shiganshina”. I was personally quite lukewarm towards all the typical shounen elements that it initially offered but even for me, the recent seasons have proved that it’s easily one of the best modern anime shows. If you are one of those few people who did not buckle into the temptation of reading the manga, the value of your patience is probably hitting you now and you can finally go around telling people that “it was all worth it”.
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