User blog comment:San&Ashitaka/To be or not to be?/@comment-93.209.48.123-20140618073951/@comment-93.209.35.128-20140621222546

Sorry to say, but a successful series usually goes for a silly ending. Happens all too often. Remember Evangelion, which is by no way the only example? Please look at the source material. The Wall Titans are called "Illusion-Titans" or "Dream-Titans" ("Maboroshi no Kyoujin"). Could you please tell me why? Also, Ymir has said that Berthold and Rainer could "return home" once they reach "the place to which the Beast Titan is heading". That sounds like a "portal" to me.

Isayama is not a lot older than many of his readers. He spent his youth with games like Final Fantasy, or at least is aware of them. In such games, usually it turns out in the end that a lot of the weird stuff that is happening is due to alien involvement or due to an ancient and much more advanced civilisation. Like in FFVII, to name a prominent example. Final Fantasy X has a "Dream Zanarkand" - people living in an illusion of their past glories.

I do not say all of the world is fake. What I say is that their way to perceive reality is in some way twisted. That is rather lame compared to a full dream/coma world. Reiner called the people linving inside the walls "fools" when he revealed his true identity and implied they are on a lower level them himself. Something is wrong with this place. It's also strange that they say they have no information about what is beyond the outer wall. The people who have build the walls would have been mad not to keep such strategic information at all costs.

And you can't be "too complex" when it's Isayama. You can play his game, hit the ball and clearly miss the goal, which I maybe did.

@San&Ashitaka: You may have noted it yourself, but the Titans are not (!) the "only" pure fiction part. They have telepathy and memory manipulation by now. That totally fits in my explanation which is actually more realistic than "a wizard did it".