Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190708230504/@comment-35822279-20190715204043

@Cheng The Nerd I definitely agree with what you said  dealing with Marley and especially the rest of the world is an entirely different matter as getting rid of the devil blood won't resolve the issues everyone has with them as they will still think they are marked with sin. It's why I think this will be one of the trickiest series to end in recent memory as it feels like the only options (at least for me) is a punt on the Marley/World conflict with Eren succesfully performing a back breaker of a military operation with the help of the Wall Titans (a colossal loss of soldiers and resources sends the world back decades but doesn't resolve the conflict, possible sequel series 40-50 years in the future continues the story) and I would consider this the most realistic ending, Paradis kills the rest of the world which is nihilistic but also not particularly satisfying, another Watchmen clone emerges and is once again lacklustre compared to Alan Moore's OG work, we get a rushed ending where Marley and Paradis make up real fast (the worst of the bunch) in the span of two chapters, or complete subversion Magath is still alive and wins the conflict shows genuine mercy and just annexes Paradis after getting rid of Zeke/Eren and the Eldians are slowly but surely integrated into Marley as equals fulfilling Willy's Helos plan but this is extremely unlikely (a 1% chance in my book). I have to say that most satisfying endings for long form I've seen have either gone with arrogant god like big bad goes boom (The traditional Anime/JRPG route) because of its simplicity (it's easier to beat something that is "evil" rather than solve a societal evil), a personal small stakes story where the hero gets to the end of the rainbow (for good or ill) in a concise logical fashion  (The Breaking Bad route), the never ending route where the larger conflict ends and characters get good send offs but the world continues spinning leaving room for more stories (I'll call this the Fallout type ending as most endings in this series have the player character solve the conflict at hand but "War Never Changes" and by the time we revisit the West or East in a sequel the NCR or BOS will be engaged in a new conflict and have changed in the years since the last conflict against the Enclave or The Master for example), and finally I have mentioned the nihilist route before and when done right it is quite good (conflicts based in horror and realism are usually the good ones) but most series don't stick to it either resolving it in a sequel series or saying that was a alternative timeline because for most its inherently unsatisfying. Attack On Titan on the other hand is leaning towards a permanent end despite being a sociological series and I honestly haven't ecountered a single series that has pulled this off (most recently a very high profile flop bombed hard because of its inability to solve complex problems instead coming up with a bizarre solution that probably made things worse) so I don't envy Isayama because this is honestly the hardest ending to nail but hopefully he pulls it off.