okay I guess this is an unpopular opinion: I wasn’t necessarily disappointed in the ending of 139 just felt unattached to everything after time skip (i explained in a previous comment when 139 came out) but I totally love this. I love how it’s a slap in the face to the real world because it’s so... true. The world will never know peace unless everyone was wiped off the universe. People will never know peace unless we were all incapable of “sin”/doing anything unmoral. The honest truth is people are greedy and power hungry. They get one taste of power and they strive for more. If you take a look in real life history every war that’s happened is because one or more countries (typically the person in charge of the country) decided they wanted to expand their country, take more land, and gain more power... that’s always how wars happen. Someone decides they want more power, they start a fight, the other country either has to defend themselves or give up whatever it is the aggressor wants. I love this because it shows how deep down childish eren still was. He had a child-like dream of achieving peace but that’s all it was... a dream. People will repeat the same mistakes over and over again despite having history books to recall what previous wars have done because 1.) they didn’t live through those wars to they have no real memories and 2.) they have some naive idea that this war will be different and 3.) the greedy goal of power is more valuable to them than people’s lives. I honestly really loved this add on because (and i hate to say it) the previous end (139) felt too peaceful... this add on was perfect imo. I also don’t u first and why people are saying titans still exist...? To me there was nothing shown that titan still exist, I think it was showing that even if you get rid of one destructive weapon, another will always appear. We create weapon either to defend ourselves or to win the war we started, but all’s that happens is a new weapon is made that causes more death and destruction (flame throwers, nuclear bombs, tanks, planes, etc). Previously we saw titans destroying buildings but now they created a new weapon (bomb and planes) to destroy buildings. ANYWAY i think this ending was to show you Eren really didn’t achieve anything except getting rid of titans but even that achievement is insignificant when a new deadlier weapon just replaces what gets destroyed. (People are gonna hate me for this) but I don’t believe he achieved peace for his friends (mostly Armin and Mikasa) either. The war still continued after he died (there was just no more titans) and I’m sure it was torture everyday to live with Erens death, live with being the one who killed him, live with seeing your friend be the monster to everyone. Sadly Eren achieved nothing really and his actions, beliefs, dreams, the idea that he could truly achieve them, was all childish and truly showed how he never grew up. Anyway that’s my hot take on the ending and I loved the added pages ending so much.
okay I guess this is an unpopular opinion:
I wasn’t necessarily disappointed in the ending of 139 just felt unattached to everything after time skip (i explained in a previous comment when 139 came out) but I totally love this. I love how it’s a slap in the face to the real world because it’s so... true. The world will never know peace unless everyone was wiped off the universe. People will never know peace unless we were all incapable of “sin”/doing anything unmoral. The honest truth is people are greedy and power hungry. They get one taste of power and they strive for more. If you take a look in real life history every war that’s happened is because one or more countries (typically the person in charge of the country) decided they wanted to expand their country, take more land, and gain more power... that’s always how wars happen. Someone decides they want more power, they start a fight, the other country either has to defend themselves or give up whatever it is the aggressor wants. I love this because it shows how deep down childish eren still was. He had a child-like dream of achieving peace but that’s all it was... a dream. People will repeat the same mistakes over and over again despite having history books to recall what previous wars have done because 1.) they didn’t live through those wars to they have no real memories and 2.) they have some naive idea that this war will be different and 3.) the greedy goal of power is more valuable to them than people’s lives. I honestly really loved this add on because (and i hate to say it) the previous end (139) felt too peaceful... this add on was perfect imo. I also don’t u first and why people are saying titans still exist...? To me there was nothing shown that titan still exist, I think it was showing that even if you get rid of one destructive weapon, another will always appear. We create weapon either to defend ourselves or to win the war we started, but all’s that happens is a new weapon is made that causes more death and destruction (flame throwers, nuclear bombs, tanks, planes, etc). Previously we saw titans destroying buildings but now they created a new weapon (bomb and planes) to destroy buildings. ANYWAY i think this ending was to show you Eren really didn’t achieve anything except getting rid of titans but even that achievement is insignificant when a new deadlier weapon just replaces what gets destroyed. (People are gonna hate me for this) but I don’t believe he achieved peace for his friends (mostly Armin and Mikasa) either. The war still continued after he died (there was just no more titans) and I’m sure it was torture everyday to live with Erens death, live with being the one who killed him, live with seeing your friend be the monster to everyone. Sadly Eren achieved nothing really and his actions, beliefs, dreams, the idea that he could truly achieve them, was all childish and truly showed how he never grew up. Anyway that’s my hot take on the ending and I loved the added pages ending so much.