The finale of Attack on Titan aired tonight. We are sure that even those who do not dare to call themselves anime fans will not remain indifferent to the seemingly cartoon, powerful drama that carries deep philosophical meaning at its core.
Hence its millions of viewers around the world, its status as the “most popular anime” after breaking the Guinness World Record, and the fact that the manga on which the project is based has sold over a hundred million copies.
Yes, like any anime, “Attack” is of course based on Hajime Isayama’s manga – it was published in Japanese publishing house Kodansha’s monthly Bessatsu Shonen Magazine from 2009 to 2021 and served as the basis for the acclaimed series. The finale, unfortunately, is very soon for the audience and for us personally – the world will see the last episode of the fourth season before the end of this year.
But to the credit of the creators of the film adaptation, the series repeats the literary original with almost one hundred percent accuracy, although there are some changed, cut or added scenes. We will talk about the latter!
Do you remember the last episode of the first season, which featured Eren Yeager and Annie Leonhart dueling while dressed as titans? What about that moment when the Attack Titan suddenly loses control of himself, bursts into flames, and enters what the anime would later refer to as “berserk mode”? In other words, neither this phenomenon nor the transformation exists in the manga. On the contrary, if in the series all the credit for capturing the Woman is ultimately given to Eren Yeager, in the original the scouts reach the “pilot” using improvised means while Eren Yeager eventually catches her.
In the sixth episode of the fourth season, while Eren Yeager is fighting Hammerman, Theo Magath, commander-in-chief of the Marleyan artillery, gives a categorical refusal when asked to finish off the Attack Titan (i.e. Eren Yeager). – They say that Ata must be fed to one of the warriors loyal to Marley at all costs. At least, this is how the events develop in the series, but in the manga, Theo Magath, on the contrary, supports the decision to kill the enemy in order to “never trust the power of the giants again”.
We know Erwin Smith from the anime as the capable and wise commander-in-chief of the Survey Corps, but the manga gives his story much more poignant detail. For example, future Military Police chief Niall worked with Doc and they were both in love with the same girl – a girl named Marie – but it was Erwin Smith who eventually lost him to his former comrade. And this detail, although not very important, gives meaning to the part where Erwin Smith asks Niall Doc when he meets him: “How is Marie? Is your family okay?”
In the anime, very little attention was paid to the life history of Eren Yeager’s best friend Armin Arlert, which is a shame. From the manga and Hajime Isayama’s comments, you can learn that the hero’s desire to see the world behind the walls is not just a childhood dream, but something like a childhood trauma inherited from his parents. The truth is that his mother and father also dreamed of the outside world and even built a balloon to overcome the walls, but they were caught and executed, leaving their son with his grandfather.
Source: People Talk
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