I haven't written a review since 2015 and honestly, I didn't plan to get back into it any time soon. However, all these smooth-brained takes have compelled me to make sure to tell you, an interested reader, to not be swayed by any negative reviews or discussions you may see surrounding the ending of this manga. I'd like to encourage you instead to read this manga on your own and form your own opinions, and with this review, I hope to at least help you know what to expect.
Attack on Titan's writing from beginning to end is nothing short of masterful, and it is the
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kind of experience that only gets better on multiple rewatches and rereads. This is the kind of story that deserves a 10 as a masterclass of character writing, world-building, and storytelling.
The art in this manga may start off very rough and hard to get into, but you can definitely see the 11 years of hard work Isayama put into it the more you read it, with probably some of the most beautiful panels and spreads I've seen in manga starting to show up around the second half of the runtime, with the most stunning visuals in the last quarter of it.
Most character's arcs were handled beautifully, and I feel every single one ended in the best possible way, however, unlike many other pieces of media all of them finish their arcs before and throughout the last battle instead of everyone together right at the very end. This turned the last arc of the manga into more of a series of character arc conclusions than just one big flashy fight which I feel turned off a lot of people who were hoping to see more dramatic titan action or a slow political drama instead of just character writing.
I wish I could discuss the plot itself more in-depth, and talk about my own analisys of the story and characters, but Attack on Titan also just so happens to be the kind of story where you can't really talk about any plot point without also spoiling major twists along the way. But I'm open to discussing it on DMS with anyone who feels like talking about it.
A lot of the drama stems from a supposed "drop in quality" from chapter 124 onwards (which I personally don't understand, so I won't comment on), and more specifically chapter 139 itself, which I feel is completely misguided.
I'm going to be completely honest with you, while the whole of Attack on Titan is definitely deserving of a 10/10, chapter 139 might be more of a 6/10. Thing is, the story ended in chapter 138, with chapter 139 acting as more of an immediate prologue and I feel like it's in extremely bad faith to review bomb a series just because... the prologue chapter was kinda mid???. Then again, this is the same fanbase that sent death threats to the staff working their asses off at Mappa to bring us the amazing adaptation we got in season 4 of the anime, so I don't exactly expect them not to act on bad faith.
Honestly, the Attack on Titan fanbase is probably one of the most loud and toxic in the entire community. I feel like most people's issues with this ending come from the fact that a lot of them had impossibly high expectations (stemming from the fact that the fanbase treated Hayame Isayama as some sort of godlike 10M IQ individual instead of just a regular newbie mangaka that just so happened to write a very good comic book) and they're mad that their headcanon 5D-chess MatPat theories didn't come true. Another issue probably comes from the fact that they completely misunderstood a certain character's arc and took obvious red herrings at face value because they wanted the character to be cooler than they actually are. This obviously didn't help when the honestly kind of predictable outcome actually happened, making a lot of these fans complain that the character was somehow "retconned" or "ruined".
Ultimately, I am personally very happy I've followed this story all the way to the end, and I am extremely grateful to Hayame Isayama for the amazing work he did all the way through, and I'm definitely looking forward to his next work.
Although I still get to spend a little more time with them thanks to the second part of the Final Season, I will miss everyone in the Scout Regiment, and I'm sure I will never forget about them.
Regardless of what anyone says, I will continue to recommend this to anyone who enjoys good entertainment.
Now and forever, I dedicate my heart to the masterpiece that was Attack on Titan.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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