I watched the new episode. CLEVER by Zeke.

Holy s***, this might aswell be the ending, f*** what Isayama says

yoooo

So im assuming all titan serum that marry had in supply was just taken from zeke/past shifters? It wasnt anything that they manufactured

wonder how many strokes eren lasted

Who wanna place bets??

Ima say 8

RIP Bean

Wtf

The best reaction to 138

youtu.be/NrIfqyWIEN4

I've always thought it was strange how there were two characters named Ymir. You rarily see a writer recycle names. But in this context, it makes perfect sense. Isayama rlly is a master with these set-ups.

I mean she got the name from a restorationist cult that thought she looked like OG Ymir after all. Personally speaking, not a fan of fan theories they are too Aizen-esque, where he suddenly is in control of everything that happens in the world, it kind of defeats his love for freedom if everyone is just his pawn in the end. It's just thematically s\*\*\*

We'll find out soon enough

But to your second point, one could argue Eren's actions, althought seemingly contradictory, were necessary, seeing as he's ultimately breaking the vicious cycle/chains the Founding Titan has imposed on humanity.

there are so many parallels between characters the possibilities for different time loop endings are insane to me

so many parallels between eren-gabi, reiner-falco, armin-erwin-zeke, ackermans

The ackerman awakening could be part of this. Eren tells mikasa the real mikasa disappeared in the hut. The idea of awakenings is not exclusive to ackermans though, when eren is on the wall waiting for rod reiss he sees three kids who remind him of mikasa, armin and him and he starts punching himself saying he hopes the old eren is dead. Reiner also has a similar awakening, when he say reiner is dead and he'll be marcel, and also sees himself in the new warrior candidates after the war on marley is over. Ymir also had the moment when she said she would only live for herself.

I could just be looking too far into good character development. Also all these parallels and awakenings could fit into that probable theory, eren and mikasa both escaping back to their pre awakening selves when they were kids, eren with short hair and mikasa with long.

I'm hoping theres some kind of short term time loop with only a few characters living out the lives of everyone in the story

I also have hope for a long term time loop where ymir is born again and the 2000 years repeats but they escape their current fate the second time around. Although it seems like people are over this one after the last chap.

I could write an essay about this lmfao

need next chapter

That final panel is crazy.

The next AOT anime should be a prequel showing the evil s*** eldians did 100 years in the past

we have enough bro i need to see what isayama has up next

There's really only one chapter left

if he wanted to break the cycle of the founding titan, he would have gone along with Zeke's plan, he's not doing anything for the world if he's leaving it as a smears. As for the cycle of hate, think it's from even before the titans came into the picture, King Fritz was pretty f\*\*\*ed up, without the curse

Willy Tybur was right to be honest

Are we ready for that convo though? Who the greatest character was in the anime? Like undoubtedly?

Cuz you know who I’m finna say, and it might surprise y’all

And so was Eren.

The beauty of it is - it’s the exact depiction of real genocidal war. Whoever wins, gets to decide what was right.

The truth that will live on, depends on who survives.

A great Titan war spin off

End it with King fritz retreating to the walls

Not sure about Eren Willy gathered the world against Paradis on the premise that the founder in Eren's hands posed an existential threat, and in the end he was right, everyone was justified in declaring war. Whole nations have been wiped out the map. Een's mission is no longer self-preservation it's elimination if it were anything else, he'd have gone for military bases and not kill indiscriminately.
I can appreciate Eren as character, and his development so far, but his actions aren't justifiable in my eyes, He's "let's feed my daughters their mother" King Fritz level