The "Final Season" of Attack on Titan is getting funny.
The "Final Season" of Attack on Titan is getting funny.
The "Final Season" have 3 parts. It haves has many seasons the rest of the show does. It's getting dumb.
EDIT I like the show but stop doing the "Parts" thing. Start calling them what they are Seasons.
"Final Season: Part 2" baited me hard. I couldn't even fathom that they weren't going to wrap things up at that point. I had waited to watch the first part and I thought I was clever.
Nope, another cliffhanger. Fuck me.
I watch anime with a friend and we have forbidden to talk about AOT until new shit comes back, I really hate how they handled this ending....
In the meanwhile we can keep watching other stuff, and forgotting part 3-1,2 of AOT lol.
I just remembered how waiting two freaking years to get the ending that Got did made it so much worse than if the airing of final season hadn't been so dragged out.
Really glad I just got Aot over with quickly by reading the Manga over waiting however many years it's been since they announced the "final season" to get the ending that it did. It would have been another GOT type disappointment, since if I'm made to wait that long then I'm expecting something legendary like I did for GOT.
I legit already forgot what even happened in the first 2 parts that I watched. I'm just gonna wait until it's finished and then rewatch the entire season.
The wait between these sections has been terrible. At least the first bunch was like 8 episodes, the second one was just the equivalent of 3 episodes taped together. What's taking them so long?
Just think of it in terms of the seals, trumpets, and bowls of the Book of Revelation
Am I seeing an obscure Biblical reference? In an anime community?
Lemmy really is the complete opposite of reddit in many ways. Instead of constant disappointment, I'm in a state of constant amazement.
I hope they don't retroactively try and re-number the seasons after it's all over to erase the evidence of their terrible planning
Or worse, find a way to use "The Final Season" thematically in the narrative to retroactively look like they planned it all along (unless this is already explicit in the manga).
Either way, their use of "parts" since Season 3 has been super annoying and misleading. I hope nobody pulls this shit again.
You know, I think I might respect them more if they just really leaned into it now and called the next tranche of episodes season 4, part 3, section a, subsection i
I feel like they did it this way out of some kind of contractual obligation. Like they are getting paid to make a third season, not a specific amount of episodes. So as long as they continue to produce "season 3" they'll keep getting paid.
I can't think of any other explanation as to why they'd do this otherwise.
I don't really think this tracks. The production committee gets final say on the branding and the number of episodes in each contract. The studio doesn't get to play hooky and unilaterally tack on episodes to a fixed contract.
More likely, the production committee underestimated the remaining source material and thought they could wrap things up by commissioning an unusually long 16-episode season. It makes sense why they'd fall into this trap, I feel -- they'd just dumped Wit who had continuously given them scheduling problems and wanted to lock in MAPPA to get the thing finished in a single contract (which they clearly failed to do, since this season has now required 3+ separate production runs)
There's an interview from back in November 2020 which I think demonstrates their eagerness to conclude the series. It's not surprising to me that MAPPA were the only ones to tell them that such a thing would be possible:
Tateishi: "While season 3 was in production, we consulted with Wit Studio, and it was decided that The Final Season would be created by a different production studio. [...] Through many talks with Wit Studio, we understood that the continuation would be difficult, so we looked for a new studio. Kinoshita, Maeda, and I divided the searching duties among ourselves, but most studios turned us down. Everyone understood what big shoes they had to fill, and we were told by dozens of studios that they emphatically could not accept."
Maeda: "Of course, there were also those who told us that they had the desire to do it but just couldn't make it work in their schedule."
Tateishi: "The only studio that said they would consider it was MAPPA. When we talked to WIT about it, they said they could rest easy knowing it was in MAPPA's hands. The producers were in agreement, so the production shifted to MAPPA."
Kinoshita: "MAPPA took the matter firmly into their hands, saying, 'Attack on Titan should have a proper ending for the sake of the fans,' which also made a strong impression on us."
Maeda: "I think you can see their fighting spirit reflected in The Final Season's PV. The show is in good hands."
The producers also stressed that, for the sake of all the fans who have supported the series, they are determined to adapt the manga all the way until the end instead of concluding midway through. Kinoshita said that he has felt obliged to adapt the entirety of the manga ever since seeing the reaction to season 1 episode 13, where the Eren Titan seals the wall.
The AOT anime moves at such a glacial pace, and there's so long between seasons... I still haven't watched past S2, because after S1 I went and started reading the manga, and like three hours of reading put me well past even where season 2 ended. It's like every episode is three pages in the manga lol. Really compelling mysteries, but at this point I'm waiting until it's all done.
What do they fill the anime episodes with, with respect to the manga? Do the two have large discrepancies?
There aren't large discrepancies from what I remember, but they removed some stuff. Off the top of my head, for example, the 1st day Reiner invasion flashback is much longer in the manga from what I remember. The anime cut some stuff (I think some of Annie's involvement, in the anime they make it seem like she was chocked out, but iirc it wasn't the case in the manga)