Completed the rest of Attack on Titan: final season, part 2, special 1, special 2

This series is so Gundam-like that I don’t think I deserve a pat on the back for my correct predictions.

I didn’t expect the start of the final parts to have hints of Saga of Tanya the Evil though. Perhaps Tanya the Evil would turn out to be Gundam-like too… (which won’t be surprising since I like it a lot, just like I do of Gundam series)

thoughts; AoT spoiler duh

I’m kind of disappointed that Historia did not play a bigger role. In fact, Zeke had too little involvement towards the end too IMO.

By the way, the Female Titan reminds me of the trope where an ensemble cast in a shounen series (doesn’t have to be anime) have guys with different personality archetypes, then there’s the girl whose only role is there to be the female character. This concept is too dumb and I’m glad others on the internet have questioned what happens if a dude ate the Female Titan.

With how often they brought it up, I can’t help but feel like there’s an inconsistency with Marco’s death. I remembered that they originally found his body minus the 3D maneuver gears; now, a Titan ate him. Could it have been retconned? Did I mix two characters up?

The Survey Corps’ Ymir was a dumbass, passing down the Jaw Titan the way she did.

I was expecting the anime to explain why it is that Reiner and Bertolt chose that seemingly random moment to reveal their secret to Eren in season 1(?), but the explanation never came.

Also, people have pointed out the good music. I know that it shares the same composer as 86, but I can’t help thinking the OSTs during fight scenes sounded more like soundtracks from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trilogy.

Just like with the earlier seasons - except season 1 - I’m rating the final parts 10 / 10.

In fact, it’s so good that it is the first and only exception to my heuristic: that a series must be 10/10 for all of its seasons to enter my top favourites. In other words, it is among my best anime despite season 1 being an 8/10.

Now that I’m done with AoT, I have nearly caught up with almost all the top-rated, most-popular anime that I’ve been planning to watch.

Now I’m pretty much left with just: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Gurren Lagann and Code Geass. Maybe the Monogatari series too.

Other anime that I’m planning to watch are either too old (i.e. pre-2000), have way too many episodes, or the premise is just not very interesting.