Now that it’s animated, man they really could have just had it been Ymir’s love for her kids and regrets about leaving them to their dad as the reason she still obeyed the Royal Line for 2000 years.
Instead we needed the True WUV of Mikasax Eren and Ymirx Fritz
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Here's a pretty interesting analysis on chapter 130 and how it sets up the ending and Eren's motivations
, making the argument that Eren isn't a slave to fate at all but instead following through with his own principles to the end. Sans 139. Interesting stuff.
So I am a bit new here and I used to really this manga once.
I dropped off during the ending arc, right around the last chapter as I just couldn't really grasp just how badly it felt like the ending arcs for this series was going. Honestly? I liked it up until the War on Paradis arc I think. The implication that Paradis had allies that were built off of countries that Marley subjugated seemed interesting, a World War 1 plot between Paradis and their allies and Marley and theirs. Oh and Titans are involved. Seemed like it'd be cool.
Then everything to do with the Yaeger brothers happen. Once the plot of the last arcs started laser focusing around Eren and Zeke I just...felt my interest dying. My problem with was not only were their plans horrid but it felt like the plot was just bending over backwards to justify Eren eventually committing planetary genocide. I just felt it was really disappointing. Isayama built up this possibility that Paradis had sympathizers or allies that'd help them in this war and potentially seek a better future with them and then just completely erased it with all the Yaeger brother stuff.
The ending chapters didn't help. Not only was Eren validated by his friends it felt in the end but Ymir's character was also botched really suddenly by having Eren insist that she loved the King which does not at all make sense at all within the own context of her backstory. Ymir literally let herself die after seeing the King treat her horribly despite saving him from a assassination attempt. That was already after being used as a tool and raped. Her thing also being regulated to shipping Eren and Mikasa was just....wha?
The bonus chapter also made me feel like the ENTIRE series was a waste of time. Any efforts Eren or the Alliance or whatever made were completely pointless as Eldians were destroyed in the future anyways and some random child is about to accidentally start another reign of Titans again. I genuinely have no clue what was the whole point of that whole bonus chapter. It turned an already pretty pyrrhic ending that was problematic enough into an really bad one.
Sorry I just had to get that off my back. I grew up with this franchise so it really frustrates me to see how it ended. Doesn't help that I am getting bombarded with stuff on the second part of the final anime season were I am getting yet another round of Eren stans everywhere.
Edited by Feyspeaker on Feb 13th 2022 at 10:59:25 AM
The random child is probably Mikasas descendant.
And I expecting that honestly because Norse myth IS cyclical, it’s the one thing I knew for sure would happen. The fact Worm-kin disappearing didn’t make any sense either yet there were people who acted like it did, so we get the exact same giant tree growing where Erens head was and where it finds it’s latest host, and better yet the implication becomes Ymir wasn’t the first.
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.On the bright side, there's no guarantee that whatever the child finds in the tree, if anything will bring the Titans back. Who knows how that hallucigenia may have changed due to how much time has passed? For all we know, it may no longer be able to make Titans but since life finds a way, it developed the ability to create something entirely different. Like it could give humans superpowers a la My Hero Academia or make dragons.
Heck the boy has a dog with him, so there's always the chance it could pull a Nina Tucker.
Edited by drakecake72 on Feb 14th 2022 at 1:17:33 AM
So I've been speculating this with some friends on Discord. Based on the revealed episode titles, there are going to be maybe 8 or so chapters left to adapt after this cour ends. Not enough to do an entire third cour...but more than enough to make a Big Damn Movie as the grand finale.
I say this because of how much bank Mugen Train and JJK 0 grossed at the Japanese box office and the precedent has been set to just put the canon manga material into theatrical movies now.

Yeah it’s still fantastic.
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.