Sunset

Not every episode needs insane action or crazy plot twists. Transitional episodes like this are essential to making the story flow. It's a solid, necessary episode, nothing more nothing less.

This episode does a great job at portraying the hopelessness of the situation the characters are in while also not doing anything major as far as the plot goes. The animation and music as always is great and the character moments in this episode are fantastic.

Rumbling shots this episode had significant improvement and Mappa's Annie CDs look fantastic, maybe an improvement from S4P1 even. Almost every scene so far in 125 had been elevated from the manga, for example the anime original addition of Annie's POV in the crystal, highlighting the darkness she endured over 4 years, and the nightmarish shots of the marching CTs with a sunset backdrop that's just wallpaper material.

I applaud the choice to use the instrumental version of the ED while credits roll over Connie and Falco's scene which not only allowed for more content to fit into this episode but also made the scene more emotional, which fit well as it transitioned to the after credits scene where we are met with a slick Levi CD. I'm pleasantly surprised and satisfied that Mappa managed to keep up the quality of these episodes, so I'm just as excited for the rest of the season as with the first 5 episodes.

This episode gave us a deep look at the past and present of some characters, the conversations were good and I loved them too, and there were no scenes of the main event and the plot, but it was necessary to know some information about the main or important characters, especially Annie's past.

Why it took 2 days to make a page for this Episode? It ruiend the hype for this episode. We seen backstory of around 20 characters in total. AOT is the best series at character development.