The following contains spoilers For the whole anime “Attack on titan” and the manga. Beware reader.

Even years after its end, “Attack on Titan” continues to shock and surprise the public. The extremely popular anime based on the best -selling manga of Hajime Isayama is a modern classic. It’s a show where Each season is built and improves on the previous oneOffering enormous twists and turns of the intrigue which recontextualized everything that the public thought of knowing. It is a show with an amazing animation and epic action scenes, memorable characters and a hell of a soundtrack.

If you have never been able to watch “Attack on Titan”, stop reading now. There are (obviously) huge spoilers to come, and we will simply discuss directly to discuss the end of the show. Do yourself the favor of the experience of the decisive anime of the 2010s – which also There is a perfect introduction to anime for newcomers.

After a race of almost 10 years, “Attack on Titan” ended in 2023 with a truly epic final that saw the protagonist Eren Jaeger unleashed an army of thousands of colossal titans in the world, triggering a catastrophic genocide that killed 80 % 80% humanity. Only the combined powers of the ancient friends and enemies of Eren managed to bring it down and, in doing so, destroy the power of the Titans forever. The series then ends with an epilogue showing the cycle of violence continuing over the yearsWith the hometown of Eren, Shiganshina becoming a ruin torn by the war and ultimately a desolate forest.

Now, the compilation film “Attack on Titan: The Last Attack” which combines the last two episodes of the anime in a final of epic feature film, gives the public a final touch. This is in the form of a post-key scene which is both a brilliant joke and a final sting for the public to discuss and theorize.

After the credits in “Attack on Titan: The Last Attack”, we cut a cinema where Armin, Eren and Mikasa seem to watch the same film as the public. Except that it is not the same Amin, Eren and Mikasa that we know – Armin is a nerd with graphic t -shirts and glasses, Eren is lonely, and Mikasa is a Goth. (We also see a dead Marco sitting behind them.)

The post-key scene is full of intelligent heads at anime as well as to the cameo. We see Levi as the cinema concierge making impressive combat movements while cleaning the walls. We see Niccolo apart from what seems to be his own lobster restaurant. We even see Ymir walking on the street with his three daughters, finally without Fritz.

As they leave the theater, Armin and Mikasa talk about their reflections on the end of the film they saw. Mikasa says that she appreciated the way the end paid all the prefigurations earlier in the series, and praises the story for allowing the public to say goodbye to the characters. Meanwhile, Armin argues that the end was rather predictable if you followed discussion discussions online and that it failed to reverse expectations. Eren, however, was just happy to have been able to see the film with his friends.

Then, while they walk in the street, Armin shares his disbelief that the titans really existed 100 years earlier, and the group wonders how the film was based on historical facts and if the main characters of the film really existed . The film ends while the camera is put in place and we see the giant tree that Eren is buried in the background. This apparently confirms that the post-key scene is really taking place in the same Chronology as the events of the anime And we have looked at a story in the world of events for a long time.

It is a fun and crazy scene, which makes fun of the reaction at the end of the anime – which was quite polarizing – while finishing on a classic twist of the intrigue “Attack on Titan”. Or is that?

You see, the post -key scene is not half a gag, it is the culminating point of a little long duration in the manga – “Attack on School Castes”. This is a manga of gag with parody set published at the end of each volume of original manga from Hajime Isayama “Attack on titan” on an alternative universe in which each character of “Attack on Titan” is only a normal high school. The manga is very funny: a way for Isayama to comment on his own manga, mocking the heads he used, in his own characters – while teasing what was going to happen in the main story.

For years, the fans hoped to obtain an appropriate answer on the question of whether the parody was canon, given how the two seemed to be linked – we have even seen A Gothasa cameo in the anime From “Attack on School Castes”. Of course, the last issue of the parody manga looks like a final response if you take it at its nominal value. The idea that, ultimately, the history of the Titans and Eren unleashing Armageddon with the rumble I would transmit to legend and children would only learn the event that killed 80% of humanity through a film has a lot of meaning. It also makes a pretty little Coda to the story of Isayama on the cycle of violence and hope that even perseveres in the worst circumstances.

However, given all the stupid shenanigans in the rest of “Attack on School Castes”, the public should not really take this final revelation at its nominal value. After all, the problem immediately before it is just a large gag on the saunas being the best thing in the world. Instead, the public should resume the post-key scene as a last chance to see Eren, Mikasa and Armin, and follow the words of Eren in the scene: no matter what you thought of the show and its At the end, what matters is the relations we have established along the way.