Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (「進撃の巨人」完結編 THE LAST ATTACK Shingeki no Kyojin Kanketsu-hen THE LAST ATTACK?) is the series' fifth compilation movie, retelling parts 3 and 4 of the fourth season of the Attack on Titan series based on the manga by Hajime Isayama.
Overview[]
In the fifth compilation movie the anime's final two specials are retold, compiling their events into a 145-minute feature.
Summary[]
In the past, a young Eren Jaeger sits dozing under a tree and hears a short-haired Mikasa Ackermann tell him that she will see him later. Moments later, he wakes as if from a dream and Mikasa tells him they should head home from their task of gathering firewood. He does not remember the dream, but Mikasa points out that he is crying.
Chapter 1: The Rumbling[]
地鳴らし (Jinarashi)
Ramzi shows Halil his stash
In present day Marley, Ramzi shows Halil his hidden stash of coins where he plans to stash money until the sack is full. That will be enough for everyone in their refugee camp to live somewhere better. However, Halil is more concerned about what will happen if Ramzi is caught. Ramzi has already lost his right hand, and Halil is afraid he could lose his left as well.
Ramzi is undeterred though. The winters are hard for the refugees, and people die every year, which is why he wants Halil to give this money to everyone if he dies.
When they hear people coming, they hurry to hide the money, but are surprised to see the people are Marleyans who seem to be fleeing the city. Then, the two boys feel a Rumbling in the earth as the Wall Titans approach the port city to the east.
Eren ponders the destruction he will cause
Some time ago, when Eren first visits Liberio, he already knows that someday in the future he will kill these people, and that he is predestined to do so. He figures it will be because they cannot find another way for Paradis Island to survive. Everything in Liberio would be gone; the people, their homes, their animals, and their children. He wonders what his mother would think and if it would be better for Eldians to die instead, as the King of the Walls had thought. But even if the death toll would be far smaller if the Eldians die to solve the Titan problem, he finds he cannot accept things ending that way.
Just then he hears a scuffle in an alley and realizes he has seen this group of thugs beating up a boy in his memories of the future. The thugs tell him that this has nothing to do with him and he initially agrees. Despite knowing that his instinct is to save the boy, he finds the thought disagreeable with the knowledge that in the future he will kill him as well. Despite his feelings of hypocrisy, he saves Ramzi and concludes that the future does not change. Though Ramzi is grateful, Eren tearfully apologizes. He says the world outside the Walls is different from what he dreamed of, and he was disappointed, wanting to wipe everything away.
Back in the present, Ramzi's family calls for him and Halil because they have begun to flee the Titans. The refugees plan to head for the mountains, but Wall Titans have surmounted them and are coming from that direction as well. The refugees return to the city to find another avenue of escape. During the chaos, Ramzi's sack flies open, spilling its contents, and Halil turns back to save the money. Ramzi goes back for him, but the two boys are caught in the path of the oncoming Titans. Halil is killed by flying debris and Ramzi is crushed to death.
Eren imagines his freedom
In a prison, Jaeger and his wife feel the shaking and know something is terribly wrong. No one answers his cries and she believes Judgment Day has come for them.
As Eren guides the Wall Titans in their march, he considers how there has always been a wall of some kind before him. Armin Arlelt used to tell him of fantastic lands beyond the Walls, and Eren would imagine the people who could witness such things would be the freest people in the world. Now he has arrived at that view, and it is littered with the bodies of those crushed by the Titans.
Undeterred, his inner child turns to ask Armin if he agrees with him, and an adult Armin finds himself in the Paths with this child Eren.
Armin snaps out of it and finds himself back on the ship heading to Marley when Annie Leonhart asks him if his wounds are healed. He says they have and she asks him to sit next to her. She thanks him for having talked to her all those years she was inside her crystal. Hearing from him and Hitch Dreyse were her only joys inside her confinement, but she does not understand why Armin chose to spend that time with her.
Annie is confused about her feelings
He looks away and blushes, saying that he just wanted to see her. Annie presses him for a more concrete reason, to Armin's confusion and surprise, but when he looks at her sitting with her face up to her knees he sees that she is blushing as well and breaks off. She is uncertain why she is having these thoughts, when thousands if not millions of people are dying right now.
Annie then concludes that he only talked to her because he is a good person, the same person who even now would prefer to talk things out with Eren despite his friend's attempt to massacre the world. She gets up to leave, but Armin stops her, reminding her that he hates being called a "good person" given that he has killed so many people.
He still thinks about the outside world he and Eren wanted to explore as children. Like Eren he found it a much different place than he thought it would be, but he still hopes there is something that they do not already know about.
Hange and Kiyomi find Odiha empty
After nightfall, their ship arrives in Odiha, which has already been abandoned, even though the Titans have yet to arrive. As the Scouts, Warriors, and Azumabito clan work to prepare the flying boat, Armin suggests they keep the explosives the Jaegerists had previously strapped around it and bring them along.
As the night passes, Falco Grice comes to and realizes that Theo Magath, and likely his family as well, are dead since the Titans have already flattened the majority of Marley. Pieck Finger wants to comfort him, but does not have the words.
Outside, Mikasa suggests that Annie practice with the new omni-directional mobility gear since she is not used to it yet, but Annie does not see the point. She does not plan to continue on with them and has no urge to save humanity. Annie feels sorry for the Azumabitos, working so hard for any possibility of saving their country, but she no longer has the will to fight.
Mikasa figures out Annie
Mikasa notices Annie staring at Armin, and asks when "this" happened. Though Annie is not inclined to share, Mikasa is sympathetic and tells Annie that she is not alone, but Armin will be getting on the flying boat with them to chase after Eren. Annie is well aware, and asks Mikasa if she will kill Eren to save humanity. Mikasa says she will not. He has simply gone far away and she is bringing him back.
Elsewhere, Levi Ackermann has gotten up despite his extensive injuries because he wishes to be there when they question Yelena, who has woken up following the breaking of her arm.
When questioned by the gathered soldiers on the ship, Yelena tells them of a fortress in the mountains of southern Marley involved with airship research. She suspects that will be Eren's next target. He will want to remove any danger the airships pose.
Yelena acknowledges that between the two brothers, Zeke lost, but tries one last time to convince the group that what Eren is doing now is proof that the euthanasia plan was the only solution. Hange Zoë agrees, having failed to show Eren another way for their island to be safe.
Pieck leaves Falco and Gabi in Kiyomi's hands
As the combined forces prepare to leave, Pieck asks Kiyomi Azumabito to take Falco and Gabi Braun with her when she leaves on their ship. She will lock the two children in their cabin so they cannot leave.
Once the sun is up, Hange has the Scouts check their equipment, but Levi's hand shakes as he looks at his grip, given his missing fingers. Despite this, he says two is all he needs.
Nearby, the Warriors say their farewells to Annie, and Reiner Braun apologizes for dragging both her and Bertholdt Hoover into continuing their mission when they might have gone home instead. Annie tells him that she has had to stop herself from killing him multiple times, but smiles. He asks her to take care of Gabi and Falco, and she agrees. The Scouts wave to her as she boards the ship.
Reiner and Pieck ask to go with the Scouts
Pieck affirms to Hange that she and Reiner wish to go with them, following Magath's wish for them to work together for a solution. Hange is pleased, but Pieck refuses a request to ride the Cart Titan, causing Levi to note that Hange's affection for Titans is still unrequited. Hange asks Levi if their comrades are watching them, but Levi does not like how Hange is beginning to sound like him.
The Azumabitos begin to fuel the flying boat when Floch Forster staggers into the back of the hangar, having been pulled by their ship since it left Paradis. He shoots at the flying boat and the crew until Mikasa uses her ODM gear to shoot one of its hooks into his neck, but by then he has managed to puncture the boat's fuel tank. The Azumabitos work quickly to patch it, but they need an hour and the earth has begun to rumble beneath them. Floch dies, still believing in his cause.
When asked for a plan against the oncoming Titans, Armin volunteers to stay behind and slow them down. Reiner disagrees, saying that they will need him against Eren. Hange declares that Reiner will not stay either and that they need to save their Titan power. As their leader, Hange will take responsibility for having led them to this point and remain behind. They designate Armin as the next commander of the Scout Regiment and in a moment of levity, remind Armin that Levi is now his subordinate and that he should work him hard.
Hange prepares to fight the Titans alone
As Hange leaves, they walk by Levi, explaining that it is now their turn and they want to make as cool an exit as possible. Understanding, Levi lets them go without asking for more than for them to dedicate their heart, a phrase he has never used in front of them before.
Hange fights alone, toppling the foremost Titans to buy the crew enough time to fuel the plane, but they are not able to fill the tank before one of the engineers tells them to start the engine due to the proximity of the Titans. The heat from the Titans is immense, setting Hange's cloak on fire and ultimately consuming them. However, both the flying boat and the ship manage to escape the harbor.
Chapter 2: Sinners[]
罪人たち (Tsumibito-tachi)
Armin notices their fuel is only halfway
The flying boat is mostly silent as its passengers deal with their grief, but Armin notices that they only managed to fill the tank halfway before leaving. Responding to Armin's concern, Onyankopon swears that he will get them to Fort Salta. Armin states they are in his hands before going to the body of the flying boat to work out a plan with his companions.
Armin draws a diagram of the body of Eren's Founding Titan, but given the War Hammer Titan's abilities they cannot be certain that Eren will be located in the nape. Not knowing his location will not be a problem if Armin uses the explosive transformation of his Colossal Titan, but he wants to save that for after they have exhausted their attempts to talk.
Levi is fine with that as a last resort, but brings up the possibility of killing Zeke so Eren can no longer use his royal blood to control the Rumbling. However, that will mean finding Zeke somewhere inside Eren's Titan. He says he will kill Zeke, but needs their help in doing so. Jean Kirschtein agrees on behalf of the others, thinking of the lives they have taken and the sacrifices made in order to get here.
Conny asks if his experience is similar to that of Reiner and Bertholdt
The Scouts and the Warriors share a bond, understanding what it has been like to fight for a greater good that has involved betraying those they cared about. Reiner remembers how Eren had expressed a similar sentiment when they met in Liberio. Because of that he wonders if it is possible that Eren wants them to stop him.
Armin notes that despite having the power to revoke their Titan powers, Eren has not done so. For an unknown reason, he is allowing them to act freely. Reiner suspects that Eren could be suffering beneath the weight of the Founder's power and the mass murder of so many people.
Suddenly, the group is pulled into the sandy world of the Paths, but they are alone. Armin calls out to Eren, trying to bargain with him for the Rumbling to stop. When there is no reply, he begins shouting an apology to Eren. His friends join in.
Finally, Eren responds as a disembodied voice, saying that he will not stop the Rumbling nor leave Paradis Island's future to chance. Levi notices a child version of Eren standing at the base of the tree where all paths meet. His friends run to him, but they make no progress in coming any closer. Eren says he is taking away the freedom of the world to maintain his own freedom, but he will not take their freedom either, so they can choose to protect the world's freedom.
Eren and Ymir at the center of the Paths
After running long enough, his friends find they have looped around to meet up with Levi, Pieck, and Reiner again without ever having reached Eren. His friends see the child Eren is now standing beside Ymir.
Eren goes on to state that so long as they each hold unbendable convictions, they will continue to clash, so the only thing left is for them to fight. The only reason he called them here was to tell them there was no need for discussion. If they want him to stop, they will have to kill him, and he has given them the freedom to do so.
Cast back into the passenger section of the flying boat, the group comes to grips with Eren's words and Levi asks Armin for a plan.
Out at sea, Annie is on deck with Kiyomi, who fears that her country has already fallen. Kiyomi regrets bringing Zeke and Eren together, but when Annie asks if she would go back and not get involved in Eldian affairs, Kiyomi simply says that time will not turn back even if her sense of regret never ends. She says she did not do everything she could to help the Eldians, since she placed a greater priority on her clan's interests and family's honor. Kiyomi wonders how much they must lose in order to value others without putting themselves first.
Falco and Gabi realize that he might be able to fly
As Annie acknowledges Kiyomi's feelings of it being too late, Falco and Gabi come out on deck. Falco explains that he had a dream, or rather a memory, from Zeke, which he thinks is possible because he was turned into a Titan through Zeke's spinal fluid. That is why his Titan manifests bestial traits and in the memory he received, Falco sees himself flying. He thinks he can do this transformation.
In Marley, a train carrying fleeing Eldians from Liberio heads for Fort Salta and the airships they hope will be there. Annie's father has a pistol to the engineer, forcing him to drive. Though the engineer is skeptical they can escape that way, he tells the engineer that he had better hope so for the sake of his family, which is being held hostage by the Eldians.
Further back in the train, other parents of the Warriors and the Warrior candidates deal with their grief and fear for their children. One of the other passengers notices the airships leaving Fort Salta, causing Annie's father to urge the engineer on, as they can escape as long as there is just one airship left. Others notice the smoke cloud of the Rumbling approaching in the distance.
The fort commander addresses his soldiers
The train arrives at the fort to find no airships left. The train engineer then notices that the airships are heading towards the Titans for a bombing run. From his command room, commander Müller announces that this fort is the last bastion for humanity, but rather than rally his soldiers, he also tells them how the adults in society have failed them by nurturing their hate in the belief it would bring them salvation. Because of that, the monster in front of them was born. In the event they survive, he vows to never make that mistake again.
This and the sight of another mother with her child causes Karina Braun to remember how she raised Reiner and how he pleased her by becoming a Warrior. She falls to her knees, finally realizing how she had raised him in revenge rather than caring for him as her son.
As the airships' bombing bays open, Eren looks up and a ball of light shines from the tips of the spines in the center of his Titan's back. Seeing the glow, the commander calls for the bombing to begin, but the airships are too high up and many of the bombs miss. The light coalesces into the shape of Zeke's Beast Titan, which hurls a barrage of debris in a replica of Zeke's signature attack. It wipes out all the airships.
Armin orders the attack on the Beast Titan
Moments later, the flying boat emerges through the clouds, though its flight is uneven and jerky, since it is on the last of its fuel. Onyankopon tells everyone to get ready to jump, but refuses to go with them since he wants to make sure he gets them over the Founder. He dodges an attack from the Beast Titan and Armin orders everyone target it to stop the Rumbling.
They dive out once Onyankopon flies low enough and use their ODM gear to grapple on. Reiner transforms into the Armored Titan and tackles the replica Beast Titan, snapping it free of the tether that connects it to the Founding Titan. Pieck also transforms and lands, with the explosives taken from the flying boat now strapped across her Titan's torso.
Armin realizes he still has one question for Eren once they drag him out of his Titan, and that is in what way is Eren free.
Chapter 3: The Battle of Heaven and Earth[]
天と地の戦い (Ten to Chi no Tatakai)
The Beast Titan withers beneath the Armored Titan
The group soon realizes that the Beast Titan they defeated is an empty husk that withers beneath the Armored Titan. Armin surmises that Zeke must be using the same method as the War Hammer Titan to hide his actual location. Given the size of the Founding Titan, Armin plans to transform into the Colossal Titan to blow apart its body, which might give them a clue as to where Eren and Zeke might be hiding.
As the others get out of the way and charge ahead, Armin steels himself to confront Eren. However, another Titan takes advantage of his momentary distraction to grab him, wedging its prehensile tongue in Armin's mouth to prevent him from screaming or injuring himself to transform. It then swallows Armin and flees while Ymir watches.
Mikasa shouts his name, causing the rest of their group to turn around and realize that there are more grayish Titans emerging from the spines on the Founder's back. They recognize these are not ordinary Pure Titans, and Conny realizes they will run out of Thunder Spears if they try fighting them all.
Past generations of the Nine Titans
Since Armin did not transform, they know he is unharmed, but the Titan that grabbed him has run to the rear of the Founding Titan with numerous other Titans between them and Armin. Levi Ackermann warns Mikasa to stay under control rather than charging in. He intends to act as bait to draw them away, but Pieck stops him, saying that she has figured out what they are facing. These Titans appear to be replicas of past generations of the Nine Titans, though she is uncertain whether it is just their bodies or if their minds are there as well. It is possible the Founder could make as many of them as it wants.
Unconcerned about Armin's need to talk to Eren, Pieck dashes through the Titans, dodging their attacks as she runs not towards the tail, but the head and the nape of the Founding Titan. She has only one aim, and loops the explosives around the neck of the Founder. Pieck partially emerges from the back of her Titan so she can push the detonator and set off the explosives, but before she can, her Titan is speared and lifted into the air by the massive trident of a familiar War Hammer Titan. This causes her to drop the detonator. The Jaw Titans of the deceased Galliard brothers also appear and join the fray.
On the ground at Fort Salta, Commander Müller recognizes that even though the forces from Paradis Island have engaged the Founding Titan, they have done nothing to slow its speed. He orders his units to fire on the enemy with cannons. Though they lost most of their soldiers in the failed bombing run, he sees no reason not to try given how hard the others are fighting on the back of the Founder.
Armin struggles to remain conscious
As the Scouts and Warriors fight against previous generations of the Nine Titans, Armin struggles to stay conscious, wondering if Eren really intends to suffocate him to death, but he remembers seeing Ymir and concludes that this is not Eren's, but her doing. She approves of Eren's slaughter of humanity and thus is interfering with them, and Armin can do nothing to stand against her.
Above him, an apparition of Bertholdt Hoover sheds a tear.
Outside, Bertholdt's Colossal Titan appears above the battlefield, gray like the others connected to the Founding Titan. It grabs Reiner's Armored Titan and bites the head off before hurling the body down at the Founder's ribcage. The Scouts are scattered by the resulting impact, with most of them falling off the spines and into the ribcage. Reiner survives, though his ODM gear is broken, as is Jean's. He tells Jean to drop him since he can transform once more, but Jean refuses, knowing that even the Armored Titan will be trampled by the Colossal Titans marching below. Jean does not believe they have much of a chance, but reminds Reiner that they are Scouts who do not know when to quit.
Mikasa struggles to keep her friends safe when Jean and Reiner cannot move, and Levi and Conny are surrounded. She draws on a reserve of strength to continue fighting when Falco's now winged Jaw Titan swoops in behind her. It is carrying a net on its back. Holding on to it are Gabi and Annie, who help bring the Scouts and Reiner on to Falco's back so he can carry them to the relative safety of the air outside of the Founder's body.
Annie, Gabi, and Falco reunite with the others
The two groups are surprised to see each other. Annie tells everyone that Falco's transformation sunk the |Azumabito ship, but Kiyomi was still willing to let them try it, so they plan to repay her by stopping the Rumbling. When she asks where Armin is, Mikasa tells her that Armin was captured and they need her help. Pieck is also in need of assistance, having been isolated from the others during her rush to blow up the Founder's nape.
Levi divides their group into two teams; one to rescue Armin and the other to attack the nape. Mikasa hesitates though, not wanting to give up on Eren. Conny reminds her that without Falco's ability to fly they would already be dead. Jean and Levi also admit that they are at their limit, not because they want to give up on Eren, but because they are out of options. Seeing that Mikasa is freezing up beneath the weight of the group's decision to kill Eren, Annie tells her to focus on rescuing Armin.
The sight of the Jaw Titan flying overhead and then sweeping back around for another pass at the Founding Titan reinvigorates the Marleyan soldiers at Fort Salta and they prepare what few cannons they can to assist. But before they can fire, they spot refugees heading toward them, and from the unfaded parts of their left sleeves, the soldiers realize they are Eldian. Both sides raise their rifles, and Annie's father unsuccessfully tries to defuse the situation, explaining that they are only seeking treatment for their injured.
Jean takes advantage of the opening Reiner creates
The group heading back to the Founding Titan hear a gunshot as they depart, and their attention is quickly drawn back to their own battle as numerous War Hammer Titans fire arrows at Falco. Reiner and Jean are dropped off first near the Founder's nape, with Reiner transforming back into the Armored Titan to draw the attention of the various War Hammers. This gives Jean, who fixed his ODM gear with the working parts of Reiner's, an opportunity to get to Pieck.
Seeing the distraction the two are causing, Pieck escapes her impaled Cart Titan, and transforms once again to attack the War Hammer Titan that had caught her. Because of the Cart Titan's supreme endurance, she tells Jean not to worry about her. She can transform over and over again to keep fighting as long as her own body remains intact, so she directs him to go after the detonator.
Falco flies the remainder of their group towards the rear of the Founding Titan and Conny spots the Titan that captured Armin. Mikasa, Annie, and Conny drop as the second team and Annie transforms into the Female Titan. Gabi and Levi remain on Falco's back.
Mikasa, Conny, and Annie face Bertholdt's Colossal Titan
Conny and Mikasa try chasing after the okapi-headed Titan carrying Armin with Annie fighting the Titans around them, but their quarry escapes them and doubles back toward the head, forcing them to confront Bertholdt's Colossal Titan.
Meanwhile, Armin yells at his unmoving body in distress, trying to get himself to move. Then he realizes he has sand in his hands, and that if he was truly dead he would not have the luxury of thought. Armin is in the Paths. As he tries to think about how best to take advantage of this, he turns around and sees Zeke.
Zeke is subdued as he recognizes Armin's presence and surmises that he was also consumed by Ymir.
Chapter 4: A Long Dream[]
長い夢 (Nagai Yume)
Zeke explains his reasoning for life and Ymir's behavior
Zeke explains that long ago "life" came into being and survived because of its ability to multiply, changing form and adapting to different environments, eventually leading to humanity. Death and extinction run counter to the goal of multiplying, and life is deterred from meeting them through fear. Ymir is no different, and in her fear she created a bigger, stronger, immortal body and then escaped to a realm where death does not exist.
Given that information, Armin wonders what her objective could be, but Zeke has been unable to find an answer for that, noting that despite her power she did not defy King Fritz and had followed his will for two thousand years. He mentions though, that Eren understood what Ymir could not let go of, and that is why she sided with him.
Zeke does not believe it is possible to escape from here, and does not see the point, connecting the calamity affecting the world now with life's mindless struggle to keep multiplying. Regardless of what happens, everyone dies eventually. He equates the moment before death with being set free.
Zeke sees Armin holding a baseball
In the sand beside him, Armin finds a dried leaf, and remembers it from his childhood when he, Eren, and Mikasa were racing to a tree on top of a hill. It is a pleasant memory and he tells Zeke that in that moment he simply thought he had been born to race Eren and Mikasa up that hill. Whether feeding squirrels or going to the market with them, he found those insignificant moments precious, and as he says this, Zeke sees Armin is holding a baseball instead of a leaf. When Zeke asks him where he got it, Armin replies that he found it buried in the sand.
Zeke cannot understand why it would be there. Armin, still seeing the object as a leaf, does not know either, but tells Zeke that even though it is not required to multiply or anything else for life, he still finds it precious. This brings back memories for Zeke, of his time spent playing catch with Tom Xaver. There was no larger point to it, but Zeke agrees that it had meaning.
The two of them look up and see Xaver, Grisha, Eren Kruger, the Galliard brothers, and Ymir of the Scout Regiment.
Ymir's Jaw Titan helps Reiner
Outside, near the Founding Titan's nape, Jean saves Pieck after another of her escapes, though she says she can still fight once her arm heals. They try to retreat to Reiner, only to see that he has been overwhelmed by the multiple War Hammer Titans. Further down the Founder's back, Annie, Mikasa, and Conny continue to struggle when Bertholdt's Colossal Titan reaches down and sweeps their enemies away. By the nape, Porco and Marcel Galliard's Jaw Titans work to stop the smaller Titans from getting to Pieck and Jean. Ymir's Jaw knocks one of the War Hammers away from Reiner.
Mikasa does not understand the reason some of the Titans seem to have changed sides, but uses the opportunity to chase after the okapi-headed Titan. After Gabi wounds it with a headshot from her rifle, Mikasa succeeds in catching up to it and cutting its jaw open, causing Armin to fall out. The Titan spears his leg with its tongue to try keeping a hold of him, but he wakes up and kills it with a Thunder Spear. Annie catches him with her Female Titan.
As Grisha and Eren Kruger's Titans join in on the fight, Zeke emerges from one of the Founding Titan's spines and calls out to Falco and those on his back, in particular Levi. Armin explains to those around him that the Titans helping them are thanks to Zeke, who awakened them in the Paths. This was possible due to the Paths connecting all Eldians, and he suspects that Ymir is seeking connection as well.
Levi decapitates Zeke
Still connected to the Founding Titan, Zeke marvels at how nice the day looks and wishes that he had felt this way sooner, but understands that would be too much to ask given the amount of people he had killed. In the next instant, Levi beheads him.
With Zeke's death, Eren's connection to the Wall Titans is severed and the Rumbling stops. Eren's Founding Titan, however, keeps moving. Reiner throws Jean towards Eren's nape and Pieck clears a path. Jean grabs the detonator and with a final look at Eren, calls him a suicidal blockhead before depressing the plunger and setting off the explosives.
The Founding Titan's head falls, but a glowing centipedal creature emerges from its neck and attempts to reconnect the head. Reiner tackles it to stop it, and Conny yells for everyone save Reiner to get on Falco's back because Armin is going to transform and the Armored Titan should be able to withstand the resulting explosion. As most of their group flies clear, Armin thanks the deceased Titans who aided them and says good-bye to Eren before transforming in a massive explosion.
Falco and his passengers arrive at Fort Salta
Falco takes his passengers to Fort Salta, where the refugees are confused about what happened. As they wonder if Eren is dead, Mikasa gets one of her headaches, which reminds her of the last time she spoke with Eren. He had claimed the reason for her headaches was her imprinting on him as her master because of her Ackermann heritage. Eren had told her he hated her.
As Mikasa recalls her memories, Gabi spots her parents among the refugees. Falco and Pieck are reunited with their families as well. Conny says he has regrets, but seeing the tearful reunions he thinks the Scouts did the right thing in stopping the Rumbling.
They go to the edge of the cliff and to their delight they see Reiner and Armin's Titans emerge through the dust, but the giant centipedal source of all living matter is writhing at the foot of the mesa. As Reiner and Armin move to engage it, another transformation explodes behind them and Eren emerges in a new bipedal version of his Founding Titan. They realize that Eren and the source cannot reconnect or the Rumbling might start again, and Levi suggests they go after Eren, both because the wriggling entity has already survived an explosion from the Colossal Titan and because Eren is the driving force behind the Rumbling.
Müller helps Leonhart to his feet
As the centipede begins releasing a mist into the air, Müller helps Annie's father to his feet. The gunshots he had previously made had been into the air to stop the fighting between his soldiers and the refugees. The soldiers are now helping the wounded. The two men agree to cooperate as Annie runs up to reunite with her father.
The Scouts speculate on the purpose of the mist and Conny realizes to his horror that it could be like the mist used to transform the villagers of Ragako. Levi immediately orders Mikasa and Pieck to get on Falco so they can leave, because Ackermanns and inheritors of the Titans are immune to its effects. The four of them escape, but Pieck has to be held back by Mikasa as she does not want to leave her father.
Jean, Conny, and all the Eldian refugees transform into Pure Titans and join the squealing source of all living matter in a charge towards Reiner and Armin. Seeing this, Armin turns and his Colossal Titan grapples with Eren's equally sized Founding Titan.
Annie and Pieck join Reiner in trying to stop the giant centipede as Mikasa suffers from another of her headaches. Levi tries to get her to pull herself together since they are now the only ones who can kill Eren, but all she wants is to go back to a home where she and Eren are together.
Mikasa sees a reality where she and Eren remained together
She wakes up on a porch outside a mountain cabin. Eren begins cutting wood and tells her that she must be exhausted, but she says it feels more like she had a long dream. He begins to tell her to take it easy when he notices that she is crying. She initially does not know why, but feels like she should not be here. Eren says they cannot do anything about that now. They had given up everything when they fled Marley. He says he could not bring himself to condemn Historia Reiss to becoming a Titan or commit genocide on all humanity outside of Paradis. Eren asks to live out his remaining four years with just the two of them, without anyone else, just like Mikasa wanted.
After a moment, Mikasa agrees, and he asks her to make another promise, to throw away her scarf once he is dead. She will have a long life ahead of her and he wants her to be able to forget about him. As he asks her to forget, lines appear on his face as though he has been using his Titan.
Meanwhile, Eren and Armin's Titans fight, with neither getting the upper hand. On Falco's back, Mikasa apologizes and ties her scarf securely around her neck, telling Eren that she cannot forget him. She tells Falco and Levi that Eren is in his Titan's mouth and to help get her there. Falco drops them off close enough that Levi is able to shoot a Thunder Spear at the mouth of Eren's Titan, creating a hole through which Mikasa enters.
There she finds Eren's head, suspended from a long spine. She smiles to him as she cuts his head free and cradles it. Mikasa gives him a kiss as behind her, Ymir watches with a smile of her own.
Final Chapter: Towards the Tree on That Hill[]
あの丘の木に向かって (Ano Oka no Ki ni Mukatte)
Eren and Armin talk to each other through the Paths
Looking like children, Eren and Armin talk. Armin understands that Eren saw the future with the Attack Titan's ability, but is less sympathetic about Eren giving him a knee to the stomach. Eren sullenly admits he was doing whatever he could to push Armin and Mikasa away, even though he thought it was crazy too.
Eren's plan is to make his friends into heroes who killed him and saved humanity from annihilation. That way every human who survived would owe the "island devils" who went against Paradis. Armin stubbornly tells him that he and the others will not play the hero roles that Eren intends.
Instead of answering, Eren gets up and says he will take them to the places they wanted to go as children. As they watch lava that flows like a river, Eren tells him about Ymir and how much she had suffered under King Fritz but always remained subservient. When Eren touched her in the Paths, he realized that Ymir loved Fritz, and that is what kept her bound all this time. Still, she kept searching for someone to release her and finally she found them. It was Mikasa, though Eren does not know why. However the outcome Mikasa would bring about is what he has been striving for ever since he received his vision at their medal ceremony following the Battle of Shiganshina District four years ago.
Eren agonizes over the state of his mind and the things he did
He admits his head is now a mess, as one of the side effects of having the Founding Titan's power is that there is no past or future and everything happens simultaneously. Eren thinks back on things that he had to make happen, such as Dina Fritz's Titan ignoring Bertholdt the day the Warriors broke through Wall Maria so he could send it towards his own mother.
Armin stops Eren before he can go further and now they are adults looking out over the sea. He asks Eren if he thinks Mikasa will be able to forget about him and live happily with someone else. Eren feigns apathy, and Armin punches him, angered on Mikasa's behalf. Armin verbally tears into him and finishes with the suggestion that she should find someone better given how Eren has treated her, which finally gets Eren to tearfully admit he does not want her to find anyone else and for her to think only about him after he dies. Armin is shocked by the admission and Eren asks him not to tell her any of it, because he really does want her to be happy. Eren does not actually want to die and leave Mikasa or any of his friends.
Hearing this, Armin tries to convince Eren to find another way, but Eren says he is pretty sure "they" did not want to die either. The sea around them is now blood, and Eren will trample eighty percent of humanity. This will cause the world outside the Walls to drop to the same level of technology as Paradis, making a war of reprisal impossible, but even then, Eren does not see an end to the conflict.
Armin tries to convince Eren to choose another path
Armin asks if this means all they have done is pointless. He tries to get Eren to understand that he has not actually killed these people yet, so he can still make a choice, but Eren explains that no matter how hard he tried, everything always occurred exactly as he saw in his memories of the future. Armin refuses to accept this. Unmoved, Eren says he always wanted to level everything like this. He thought he was doing this to protect those he cared about, but people like Sasha Braus and Hange died because of him, and he kept setting his friends up for lethal confrontations with Floch. As he looks at bits of hair and gore he picked out of the blood water, Eren thinks he finally knows why everything turned out this way, and it is because he is an idiot who obtained an immense power.
Armin picks something out of the blood water and says he understands wanting to erase some people out of the world. Eren calls him a liar, but undeterred, Armin says he was the one who put the idea of a free world in Eren's head. The object Armin picked up was the seashell from when they first saw the sea. He hands it to Eren and thanks him for showing him what was beyond the Walls. He emphasizes that the two of them are responsible, so they will always be together in hell.
Eren is touched that their friendship remains unbroken, but tells Armin that he will erase the memory of this conversation until after everything is over.
Armin sees Mikasa and grieves over Eren
Armin wakes up, no longer inside his Titan, following the battle with Eren. The conversation he had with his friend had actually happened back on the boat ride to Odiha. Armin now remembers everything. Mikasa approaches him, carrying Eren's head, and causing Armin to finally realize his friend is gone. He tells her that the outcome of her choice would erase the Power of the Titans from the world.
Around them, Eldians are coming to their senses, human again. Eren's friends remember their own conversations with Eren and what he hoped for them. Families and friends reunite, with the living catching glimpses of those who have passed on.
Mikasa takes this time to let Armin know that she is leaving, because Eren would not be allowed a proper burial here. She suggests she will take Eren to the place he liked napping, and Armin agrees that would be a good spot.
Armin rejoins everyone to find the Marleyans and Eldians are at odds once again, despite the Eldians saying that they are ordinary people now. Müller demands immediate proof, and Armin tells him that proof is that if they still had Titan powers they would use them to resist. He introduces himself to Müller as the one who killed Eren Jaeger.
Mikasa meets Founder Ymir
As Mikasa leaves she sees Ymir, now looking like a young woman rather than the child in the Paths. She knows now that Ymir was the one who kept peeking into her head. Mikasa views Ymir's love as a long nightmare, but accepts that she exists because of the lives Ymir created. Ymir shares a glimpse of a reality where she did not save Fritz's life and remained alive with her children and then fades away.
Three years after the Battle of Heaven and Earth, the world is still reeling from the effects of the massacre. Paradis Island fears reprisals from overseas and has built up a military led by the Jaegerists. Conflict has not gone away. Eren told Historia what he knew of the future, however she is certain that this future was not the result of Eren's choices alone, but rather the cumulative choices of everyone. If they must continue to fight, it will be so that one day they will no longer need to.
Armin, Jean, Reiner, Annie, Conny, and Pieck are on a journey as ambassadors for the Allied Forces to Paradis, though they are uncertain of the welcome they will receive given that they have betrayed the island and killed Eren. Pieck and Reiner express mild surprise their ship has not already been blown out of the water, and Jean blames Eren for forcing them into the roles of "international heroes" while also asking them to live long lives. Armin is more philosophical, saying that this is their answer to Eren and as Scouts they are dreamers who do not know when to quit, though Annie points out that they were not all Scouts.
The former Scouts and Warriors head back to Paradis
Armin believes they will not be killed immediately because the people of Paradis will want to know their story and why people who tried to kill each other would now show up and call for peace.
In Shinganshina District, Mikasa sits beside Eren's grave beneath the tree. She tells him that the others will be visiting soon. Mikasa remembers how she would find Eren there napping and begins to cry, wishing to see him again, when suddenly a bird flies down and wraps her scarf around her the way Eren once did. Spirit lightened, she thanks Eren.
Over the years, Mikasa visits the grave with her friends and family until she, too, is laid to rest. Time passes on Paradis, with technology improving, wars still being fought, but the tree remains standing.
The structures of humanity are now ruins, when a boy and his dog discover a hole at the base of the tree where Eren's grave once rested.
Additional scene[]
Eren, Mikasa, and Armin have finished watching Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK and exit the movie theater. They share their opinions on the movie: Mikasa praises the fact that all the foreshadowing in the series paid off in the end and that they had the chance to say goodbye to their favorite characters; Armin thinks Mikasa did not look at the discussion threads because that ending has been predicted for decades, and hoped the movie would instead do something unexpected.
Armin and Mikasa then begin to argue, the latter claiming that the movie intentionally left things open for interpretation while the former claiming that it does not attenuate his frustration as there are still many unresolved plotlines. They then ask Eren what he thinks of the movie, to which he replies that he just enjoyed watching the movie with his friends and that he would like to see a sequel with them if it ever releases. Armin and Mikasa forget about their argument, so the three discuss whether the Titans they saw from the series actually existed a hundred years prior, and hope the three main characters were real as the scene pans to the giant tree atop the hill.
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
- Mikasa Ackermann
- Eren Jaeger/Founding Titan
- Ramzi
- Halil
- Carla Jaeger (flashback)
- Frieda Reiss (flashback)
- Ymir Fritz
- Jaeger
- Grisha's mother
- Armin Arlelt
- Annie Leonhart/Female Titan
- Kiyomi Azumabito
- Reiner Braun/Armored Titan
- Conny Springer
- Jean Kirschtein
- Falco Grice/Jaw Titan
- Gabi Braun
- Pieck Finger/Cart Titan
- Levi Ackermann
- Yelena
- Floch Forster
- Hange Zoë
- Onyankopon
- Erwin Smith (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Nanaba (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Sasha Braus (afterlife and spirit)
- Moblit Berner (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Keith Sadies (afterlife)
- Miche Zacharius (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Dieter Ness (afterlife and spirit)
- Charrette (afterlife)
- Ian Dietrich (afterlife)
- Lynne (afterlife and spirit)
- Keiji (afterlife)
- Franz Kefka (afterlife)
- Hanna Diament (afterlife)
- Dot Pyxis (afterlife)
- Abel (afterlife)
- Rashad (afterlife)
- Eld Gin (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Nifa (afterlife)
- Marco Bodt (afterlife and specter)
- Petra Rall (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Gunther Schultz (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Oruo Bozad (afterlife, flashback and spirit)
- Henning (afterlife)
- Leonhart
- Karina Braun
- Finger
- Müller
- Zeke Jaeger's Beast Titan
- Lara Tybur's War Hammer Titan
- Porco Galliard's Jaw Titan
- Marcel Galliard's Jaw Titan
- Bertholdt Hoover (spirit)
- Bertholdt Hoover's Colossal Titan
- Zeke Jaeger
- Ymir (spirit)
- Marcel Galliard (spirit)
- Porco Galliard (spirit)
- Tom Xaver (spirit)
- Grisha Jaeger (spirit)
- Eren Kruger (spirit)
- Ymir's Jaw Titan
- Eren Kruger's Attack Titan
- Grisha Jaeger's Attack Titan
- Tom Xaver's Beast Titan
- Historia Reiss
- Fritz (flashback and vision)
- Maria Fritz
- Sina Fritz
- Rose Fritz
- Dirk (spirit)
- Harold (spirit)
- Gelgar (spirit)
- Flegel Reeves
- Roy
- Peaure
- Rico Brzenska
- Hitch Dreyse
- Kaya
- Artur Braus
- Lisa Braus
- Nicolo
- Zofia
- Udo
Deaths[]
Cast[]
In both the Japanese and English versions, although uncredited, the infant son of Yuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger) is the voice of a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes that a crowd fleeing from the Rumbling attempts to save.[1]
Japanese[]
- Yuki Kaji as Eren
- Yui Ishikawa as Mikasa
- Marina Inoue as Armin
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Levi
- Romi Park as Hange
- Daisuke Ono as Erwin
- Yū Shimamura as Annie
- Kisho Taniyama as Jean
- Hiro Shimono as Conny
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Reiner
- Manami Numakura as Pieck
- Ayane Sakura as Gabi
- Natsuki Hanae as Falco
- Takehito Koyasu as Zeke
- Mitsuki Saiga as Yelena
- Kensho Ono as Floch
- Kiri Yoshizawa as Kiyomi
- Kouji Hiwatari as Onyankopon
- Hiroshi Tsuchida as Grisha
- Yutaka Aoyama as Commander Müller
- Shiori Mikami as Historia
- Atsuko Yuya as Karina
- Koji Ishii as Leonhart
- Saki Endo as Ramzi
- Ryoko Shiraishi as Halil
- Ken Uo as Ramzi's grandpa
- Seirō Ogino as Zeke's grandpa
- Tomo Sakurai as Zeke's grandma
- Motoki Sakuma as Falco's father
- Masamichi Kitada as Gabi's father
- Kaori Yagi as Gabi's mother
- Mistuki Nakamura as Pieck's father
- Yuki Onodera as Head mechanic
- Yuki Hoshi as Driver
- Michitake Kikuchi as Captain
- Shinnosuke Ogami as Doctor
- Masaki Nakanishi as Marley soldier
- Kentarō Takano as Cannon soldier
- Akihiro Tajima as Man
- Naoko Yunoki as Eldest daughter
- Naoya Miyase as Boy
- Yuuki Urushiyama as Refugee
- Haruna Mikawa as Refugee
- Shuhei Matsuda as Armored Titan
English[]
TBA
Trivia[]
- The anime series' director Yuichiro Hayashi has said that he storyboarded the THE FINAL CHAPTERS specials to be viewed together as a single film and that he considers this compilation film to be the optimal format to view the story.[2]
- Ian Dietrich is erroneously depicted with a Scout Regiment logo on his jacket rather than the Garrison Regiment logo.
- The last part of Armin and Eren's conversation in the Paths features changes from the manga that were given to the anime staff by Hajime Isayama.[3]
- The additional scene, featuring Eren, Mikasa and Armin in a modern city, is adapted from the final Attack on School Castes' bonus story, "End Roll", featured in Volume 34 of the Attack on Titan manga.
References[]
- ↑ "Attack on Titan Lead Yuuki Kaji & Ayana Taketatsu's Baby Makes Voice-Acting Debut in Finale". Retrieved on November 9, 2023.
- ↑ "Attack on Titan Caps Off Saga With Colossal THE FINAL CHAPTERS Compilation Anime Film". Crunchyroll. Retrieved on August 17, 2024.
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Volume 35