Welcome back! Ready for some more devastation? Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3 has got you covered! Let’s see what Eren’s plan for the whole world was in this review!
Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3 Overview
What more is there left to be said about Attack On Titan? Even if you only consider yourself a casual anime fan, this show is probably one that you know about and watch avidly. It is an action and supernatural show based on the works of Hajime Isayama. It is known as Shingeki no Kyojin in original Japanese, and thus this part of the season is also called Shingeki no Kyojin Season 4 Part 3. You can also call it Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 or Shingeki no Kyojin Final Season Part 3 if you’d like.
This season is being animated by Studio MAPPA, a powerhouse studio behind several immensely popular anime properties, including Jujutsu Kaisen and the future Chainsaw Man. This season is directed by Yuiichirou Hayashi, with Jun Shishido serving as the chief director of the show. The duo was also in charge of Parts 1 and 2 of the final season, alongside several other acclaimed anime such as Kakegurui and Hajime no Ippo. You can find our review of the previous season right here.
– Shingeki no Kyojin Season 4 Part 3 Review does not contain any spoilers –
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This was fantastic in a way everyone saw coming from miles away. We have all seen the heights to which this series can rise depending on when you think it peaked, and it will be extremely hard for anybody to deny that Attack on Titan Episode 88 doesn’t comfortably sit at the top of what this series has ever managed to pull off. This was an extremely hard undertaking, made even harder by the studio and the production coalition behind it, making some extremely awkward decisions for reasons unclear to everyone. We’ll come to that, but let’s talk about the episode first.
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The biggest takeaway from Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3, at least for me, was that Eren had retained a lot more of his humanity than initially apparent in the previous season. He was never a cold-blooded murderer, but there was still a lot of dissent in the community and the show’s own universe about him taking such a drastic step. Even though he has been battling the influence of the Founder, it is clear that this is the only way he thinks he can save Eldians from being prosecuted and killed anymore.
Even still, his comment about “Freedom” in Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3 Part 1 (awesome title, by the way) made a whole lot of sense and gave logic and narrative to this somewhat shaky premise of this ragtag group of survivors going to stop a genocide of literal millions being caused by thousands of hundred feet monstrosities. It makes sense why Mikasa, Armin, and the others are trying to stop Eren in the first place and how Eren, who can stop them at any point, is letting them be free. That is good writing and much better than most things that happened in Season 4.
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Speaking of Mikasa, Armin, and the others, we somehow still didn’t get much out of most of them, even when this entire episode was about them and built on their attempts to get to and through to Eren. Mikasa spoke all five lines in the entire episode, three of which were to Eren. Armin’s role was a bit more nuanced, and he had a lot more to do, and his moment of peace with Annie right before the going got rough was sweet. Annie is still a weird figure, but we might be going somewhere good with her. The real star of this episode was Hange, but we can’t speak much about her. Spoilers.
Devastation, desperation, and the futility of existence were the major themes of Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3, and the show executed them to perfection. The kid whom Eren saved only to realise he was going to have to kill him eventually, and his brutal death right in front of us perfectly encapsulated what the show was going for. Nobody, however innocent or guilty and however responsible or regretful about how things went down, would survive. The Rumbling was coming, and there was no stopping it. At least not yet.
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Okay, now that I have praised the show for a full 500 words, maybe I can take some space out in this article to lament about how poor production choices have destroyed the heights this show could have gone to. What kind of horrible decision-making makes someone conclude that cutting a feature-length story into two parts and releasing them 9 months apart is a good idea? Who decided that the biggest anime phenomenon in decades deserves to go out in this way? What are the geniuses behind this production smoking behind these closed doors?
No Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3 Review would be complete without mentioning the absolutely horrendous naming and release schedule of this show. Still, there is something even more egregious to complain about this time around. In the year of our lord 2023, we are seeing anime episodes drop on streaming platforms without subtitles or not being released simultaneously worldwide. What is worse is that this isn’t happening to some random anime that nobody cares about. It is happening to Attack on Titan, perhaps the biggest anime currently.
If I didn’t know any better, I would say somebody is intentionally trying to tank this show from the inside. To make this big of a fuss about something that could have just been animated and released alongside the previous parts of the fourth season is downright silly. Can somebody give me one good reason why these two parts were separated from the initial run of Season 4 if they were going to be released as distinct episodes and not made into a movie? Just take one more year and add the final part to the “Final Season”, producers. It is not that hard.
The one reason people kept shouting at me during my review of the previous season was that “the final part was extremely hard to animate” and that “the studio needs more time to animate”. Those are the silliest arguments I have ever heard because the show didn’t look any different than Season 4. What’s worse, the “hard to animate” parts at the end didn’t look good at all. So why was this step even taken, if not to milk the series out of everything that it is worth? The music was great as always, so the production wasn’t all bad, but the rest of the production might just be what stops this anime from being considered among the greatest.
Verdict
Attack On Titan Season 4 Part 3 was extremely well written and absolutely devastating to sit through the entire way through. The horrendous production decisions continue to plague this show and have put a permanent dent in its quality.
this is a massive L, bad review
Could you elaborate on why?
It is pretty bad, a lot of bitching over nothing. I’m just happy to have an episode
Ok now I’m not defending production decision here but saying “hard parts to animate wasn’t good at all” is the biggest bullshit I’ve read by a reviewer. The CG looked better than 99% of anime released and way better than that below average cgi we got for chainsaw man with so much hype.
Cgi in broad daylight is really hard to animate and add eren founding titan and thousands colossal to mix I’m honestly surprised how good it looked, I thought it would look shit.
Even the best studio ufotable doesn’t have BALLS to give us cg fights scenes in daylight. Notice how every fight in demon slayer is at night. Why? Because they know it would look shit in day. Aot doesn’t get Hollywood budget to give flawless cgi and if you want full 2d then aot will finish in 2030 with added bonus half the staff dying due to overwork.
Besides the hard part you watched is nowhere near close to actual hard parts that’s about to come, trust me the next 20-25 min in p2 will be hardest in like anime history. There’s a huge difference between animating humans and titans .
Was the planning dogshit? Ofcourse
Are they milking it? Definitely not.
Even the author himself sent an apology letter for animators for giving them literal hell to animate
The difference in our opinions is mostly because of what counts as “impressive” to us. For you, what was displayed might be impressive. Me, I couldn’t personally distinguish it from the other parts of Season 4, and I think Studio WIT’s animation looked a lot better and grittier. I am glad that people are appreciative of what MAPPA did. I am not able to look past the production, and the end product does not appear to be worth the nonsense.
Lmao wit studio couldn’t even give us half decent colossal cgi in s2 while mappa gave probably the best odm sequence in series itself ( hange) while blending colossal cgi which is like 10billion times better cgi than what wit gave. It’s really funny how you compare 2d scenes of wit with 3d scenes of mappa. Pussy wit ran away when they realised they cannot 2d
animate final season and here you are bitching about mappa, failing to recognize how much upgrade the animation department is from p2.
“I couldn’t differentiate it from other parts of s4”
Yeah literal clown moment right here.
I’m pretty sure you dont even know the difference between cg and 2d.
To put it in the language of game of thrones
You know nothing jon snow
Sure, if that looked that way to you, good for you. It didn’t to me. I could just as well be the one to be calling you an absolute idiot for having a different opinion than mine, but I am not doing that because I realise that people are allowed to have different opinions and express them. You think MAPPA’s work is amazing, groundbreaking, and worthy of the production time it took? Good for you. I don’t. I don’t see it as worthy of the headache it caused anyone, and I would much rather have studio WIT back. You calling me a clown will not make me think any other way. The production behind this show is a mess and has been since MAPPA took over. I have learned better than to blame MAPPA for all production issues, so I’ll just say, “It wasn’t that impressive” and keep it at that.
This was definitely the one part that didn’t make sense to me as part of your review. Whether or not you personally found it to not look good, the demand for animating several colloidal titans, as well as shifters and hundred of people is a massive burden. Productions issues aside because they are present, this episode as far are is animation load, was vastly more significant to the rest of the season 4 and was in no way the same.
I understand and appreciate what MAPPA was able to do with the fight scenes, even though I didn’t find them quite as impressive as everyone. My only point from the start has been that it didn’t look so impressive as to cause this much pain while releasing the episodes.
Wit aren’t pussies. They couldn’t do it, so they stepped back. Theri decision and probably a healthy onw, considering the staff.
About the question, what the best ODM scene is, there are three options in my opinion: 1. Levi being persecuted in Season 3 by Kennys squad
2. Mikasa and the others fighting yeagerists at the harbour
3. Hanges last scenes
I couldn’t hold it when you said ”WIT’s was better and grittier”, Have you watched season 2 and 3?
The collosal titan by MAPPA is better than any other collosal titan WIT had done….. BY FAAAAAR!
The Armored titan by MAPPA is great and better than how WIT used to make it, Even if it was CG and WIT’s was 2D drawing but its style and animations are far better.
The cart and jaw titans were good in both.
WIT’s Beast titan is always better and i didn’t really liked the forset clash.
Attack titan was bad in MArley arc, But great in War on Paradise,
The special episode CG was GREAT on every level with no doubt.
I didn’t say WIT’s was better, I just said I preferred it. There is a huge difference between the two statements, and I will never put down the fantastic work MAPPA put into the series. Still, thanks for the comment!
I’m honestly impressed as to how bad this review is lol. This was without a doubt the best animation we’ve seen in AOT so far, and I’d go so far as to say it’s some of the best animation I’ve ever seen.
I will admit the production process has been wonky and drawn out, but’s it’s for a good reason. I’d personally rather wait if it means the animation will be top tier quality.
Also I hope you didn’t mean to sound this way, but this review was pretty ignorant. Saying “it is not that hard” to release everything at once or saying that the animation didn’t look that good is a crazy thing to say. I would truly enjoy seeing you attempt to do even a fraction of the work the producers of this show do.
Next time, maybe stick to just watching the show instead of reviewing it.
Also a 3.8/5 is crazy disrespectful
It is not. It is basically a 4* review. You have to consider everything about a show when reviewing it, and you can’t ignore an issue as glaring as the production of Attack on Titan.
Again, you might think that this was the best animation in the show ever, and from a technical standpoint, I will agree. However, I feel that Studio WIT did a much better job of making things look gritty and impactful, and what we got presented after waiting for this long and jumping through this many loops doesn’t feel like it was worth it.
You have your opinions, and I have mine, and just because you disagree with a review doesn’t mean that the review is bad. It just means you and I have different tastes and opinions, which is perfectly alright.
So you would have rather Wit did the 3D CGI for the colossal titans over Mappa? Do you even remember what the CGI colossal titan looked like in season 2 and 3? It was horrible. I will admit a lot of the 2d scenes under Wit were better than Mappa, but an episode like this, which requires a ton of CGI, is much better done under Mappa.
I wouldn’t say I would rather have WIT deal with the CG, as I do think MAPPA did a wonderful job with it. My point from the start has been that despite it being great, it doesn’t seem to be worth the pain that this production cycle has caused. I would rather take WIT’s weird CGI and good production schedule instead of MAPPA’s great CG and awful production schedule. I hope I was able to make a little more sense of my argument.
you think wit had great schedule? why even talk about the production if you know nothing about it? terrible production decisions have been made by the production committee ever since season 3 that was also split in 2 parts. its one of the reasons wit even dropped aot. season 3 looked very janky at times, some of the titan fights looked even worse than mappa’s cgi. studios ARE NOT responsible for the given schedules.
calling people fanboys for saying that your review is trash and arguing with everyone, tells a lot doesnt it?
you also either didnt even watch it properly or simply lie when saying that it doesnt look better than parts 1 and 2. the improvement is obvious, everyone except you noticed it. compositing, cgi blending, artstyle consistency, all of that taken on another level.
if you cant take criticism properly, when everyone is factually pointing out how tiny your knowledge about so easily researchable things is, just dont review this show anymore. if youre doing this to argue with everyone, just dont.
You have some great points, and I’m not going to argue against obvious facts like Season 3 also being split into two parts, but never did I blame MAPPA for these decisions. I know this isn’t on the studio, and you are free to prove otherwise if you can find it anywhere in the article.
Also, I am not lying when I saw it didn’t look much different than Parts 1 and 2. That’s exactly what came to mind while watching the final animation sequence, and that’s why I said it. About calling people fanboys, it is fine when people call me a garbage writer, and it doesn’t invalidate the opinions of the people who wrote those comments, but calling the same people fanboys invalidates mine? Those aren’t fair standards.
because…its obviously not supposed to look different generally. every major thing mappa was criticized about got improved except some idiotic ones like “artstyle changed = garbage season!!!”
part 3 being better than parts 1 and 2 does not mean they have to revert everything to how aot looked with studio wit.
part 1 had problems with rushed compositing? boom, the colors at chapter 132 are absolutely perfect and is the best color scheme aot has ever had.
parts 1 and 2 criticized for bad cgi? boom, colossals, being the hardest titan design to animate properly both in 2d and 3d look indistinguishable from 2d at times.
they did the perfect job in this part. its still aot season 4, but now without any major issues. and delaying the very last part of the show for mappa to not overwork their staff and deliver the good product is a rare good thing from the production committee. what i can agree about is that part 3 shouldnt have been released now. it shouldve been released with part 4 in fall. but chapters 135-138 are going to be the absolute hell to animate and mappa deserves all time in the world for the insane task they have to pull off. the delay is for the sake of health and quality.
i understand that the pressure in this comment section isnt the best thing to experience but really, what did you expect? when talking about something you dont know much about and arguing with everyone pointing that youre wrong, youre really not helping yourself there.
when i say dont review aot anymore, its for your good. save your nerves unless youre just a troll reviewer seeking for hate comments. maybe you have good story/plot reviews, but when it comes to production details and how animation works (noticing obvious differences in quality for example), youre…a bad reviewer. and if literally everyone tells you so, think about it before escalating the comment hate even more
First of all, I’d like to thank you for leaving an actually constructive comment in this sea of ad hominem attacks. I believe that if I respond to any of those points, we would just be going in circles over and over again, so I’ll just say this- I never said I wanted MAPPA to work harder to deliver the season as fast as possible and I never said that anything was their fault. Me finding the animation not as impressive is simply a way of saying I would have rather the series wait five more years to deliver a complete product than play the kind of game the anime committee is playing. The animation quality stops mattering as much when you look back at all the headaches it costs.
This was genuinely one of the worst reviews I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. This is the equivalent of IGN rating every CoD sequel a 9+ and giving actual good games 6.5. Your grip with production time is literally irrelevant. No one cares how long the show takes or will take to release, they just want a good product which was delivered. And you’re just nitpicking about the name, and grasping at straws for your pathetic review. Take the L and dont write another review, and based on the other comments it seems like other people would be inclined to agree with me.
How can you claim that no one cares how long it took when everywhere this show is even mentioned, this same topic comes up? It appears that far more people care than you care to admit, and you want to spin a narrative that is untrue just because somebody has an opinion you disagree with. If you are just that kind of a reader who looks for reviews that only agree with you, I guess follow your own advice and never read a review again.
lol guy, people that care about how long a break between seasons or parts literally nitpick about everything and are ungrateful when the product is released regardless of if its good or not, ie: you. “Wah it’s taking too long and I’m impatient and can’t wait” “wah mappa cgi bad” please re-read all your comments, there’s a reason why everyone saying your “review” is a big fat L. If you actually made any valid points Id be inclined to agree with you, but its clear you write to fill space, and not to actually write.
One could just as easily say people who don’t care when or how an anime comes out are ignorant and are going to blindly support the anime no matter what. You come across as a fanboy who can’t take criticism more than someone who wants to have a good-faith discussion. It was never about impatience or MAPPA taking too long. If you had actually read my article, you would have read that I wanted them to take longer and come back with the complete product instead of coming out with these instalments. Instead, you just read one complaint and went ‘wahhhh, somebody was mean to mah favourite anime and studio”.
“It was never about impatience” but you want released on a that makes sense to you, instead of just watching it when it comes out. if it was never about impatience then why do you even care that they come out in installments? and like I said before, if you actually had valid criticisms and complaints Id be inclined to agree/disagree with you but you sound like you dont have the patience for that as well. Like, its hilarious that every comment you’ve gotten on this “review” has been negative or has said that your “review” is a big fat L, but yet you’re not in the wrong and the other comments are dismissed. We’re done here, as it’s clear you dont comprehend what I or the others are saying. You’re literally bitching over nothing in your “review”.
I am glad that you can be a good consumer and lower your standards to the point that every decision made by a production company is acceptable to you. It is not to me, and I feel like the production deserves criticism for treating the final leg of the show the way it did.
This review just sucks, please stick to your kdrama and never critique anime, thanks.
Point me towards one Kdrama I’ve ever reviewed.
I just want to ask what do u actually know about 3d animation. Do you know how Cgi works. Doesn’t seem like it to me.
I just want to ask what you actually know about opinions. Do you know how opinions work? Doesn’t seem like it to me.
this review sucks
Thank you, I wear it as a badge of honour.
Imagine giving the production a 1.5 just because they decided to make the series better and not rush it. Bro, this is the dumbest review I’ve ever seen. Plus, you’re meant to review the quality of what’s out there, not bitch about things out of our control. Such a waste of time reading. I don’t understand why this was an official article linked to IMDb too.
I did review the quality of what was out there. You just decided to ignore all of it.
As an animator and someone who worked in the industry,
I was mindblown by the production and this review was LMAO
Well, I’m glad that it was able to make you laugh, at least.
You made very good points, It’s annoying the delay in the show and ‘Final season’ took almost three years and yet not completed. But to delever decent experince we must wait, James Cameroon waited ten years to make AVATAR 2 because he wanted to delver it in certain quality.
You are absolutely right in saying that, but James Cameron didn’t convert the Way Of The Water into 4 differently sized episodes and release them years apart. He completed the whole movie and released it in one piece.
Don’t ever give review on Attack on Titan
Why not?