UNDER THE TREE

UNDER THE TREE is the 8th ending theme of the Attack on Titan anime, composed and performed by.

It replaced Akuma no Ko in THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 1 and was replaced by Ni-sen Nen... Moshiku wa... Ni-Man Nen-go no Kimi e in THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2.

Ending animation
It begins with only a black screen, followed by a shooting from above of the lower half of the body of a person walking down an unpaved path with grass on the sides. After a few tens of steps, the screen fades back to black.

After some more time, new, still images appear on the screen one after the other. They depict a flock of birds soaring in the sky above a forest, their loosened feathers fluttering in the air.

The camera goes back to the initial shooting, but at some point, as the person continues their walk, the image blurs and three stills are superimposed on to it: the tree under which Eren Jaeger was sleeping in Episode 1; the Coordinate at the center of the Paths, which also resembles a tree; and the tree beneath which Ymir Fritz obtained the Power of the Titans. The screen goes black one last time.

Video clips




Trivia

 * Although the person walking in the ending animation is unknown, the colors of their trousers and shoes suggest it is Eren Jaeger.
 * Although UNDER THE TREE is ostensibly an ending theme as it plays over the ending credits, official Japanese sources have never referred to it as such.
 * For example, the official YouTube upload on Pony Canyon's channel, the official Attack on Titan website's page for UNDER THE TREE, announcement tweets by the Attack on Titan and SiM Twitter accounts, and THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 1's end credits all refer to it as "theme song".
 * UNDER THE TREE's TV size version is also an outlier in terms of its length: it is 2:02 minutes long, rather than 1:30 like every other Attack on Titan opening and ending's TV size version so far.
 * The lyric "If I lose it all" is a reference to the opening of The Final Season Part 2, "The Rumbling."