Retrospective

Everything about this episode is the animators at their best. From the titan fights to the human-on-human ODM gear scenes. Mikasa, Hange, and Floch all got some insanely good action sequences. This is MAPPA firing on all cylinders and my god is it good.

First of all, HOLY SMOKES. This episode blew me out of the water with so many ODM/Titan Sakuga cuts. Floch's dynamic camera action sequence was a masterpiece, and the same goes for Connie Ackerman, the 2D Female Titan, Cart Sakuga, Mikasa's ruthless killstreak, Falco's Jaw design and transformation, other Yeagerist Sakuga, e.t.c. Shishido and Hayashi had really put in their all into this episode and it shows. This is by far the best animated episode of the season by MAPPA and rivals previous masterpiece episodes by WIT. My jaw literally dropped while watching this episode live.

Loved the change of Mikasa's dialogue, reaffirming Mikasa's resolve to stop Eren from committing any more indiscriminate murders as well as her desire to place humanity before the self-preservation of her home in an effort to save as many people as possible, tying to her pride.

Keith and Margath's double sacrifice could not have a better OST selection, and the silenced explosion was something I expected and MAPPA delivered. It was both emotionally visceral and gut wrenching.

Adding the beginning of 130 near the end was a masterstroke, with Annie's agony directly testing Mikasa's resolve to kill Eren if she needs to, the perfect way to end off a perfectly adapted episode.

Another 10/10 episode but really hard to watch Mikasa brutally killing yeagerists but it's a conflict no less than war so what can we expect. Action sequences were amazing even earned appraisal from Imai Araifumi. Music as always as good as possible.

Jaw titan looked amazing and cute lol.

Nice Mid screen card, said it all.

And there is one thing that I am sure of in shingeki you can never side with anyone nobody is in the right. This whole Season 4 has been some of the darkest stuff I have seen.

I don't really mind the fact that AoT episodes ain't animated with the flashiness of Demon Slayer or the fluidity of JJK, because the storytelling is just on another level, but mixing it with such a good and crisp animation really makes this episode a 10/10 in my view.

Season 3 part 2 was the best action wise and also from a Shonen point of view, but this season is just something that anyone who enjoys a S tier story has to fall in love with (despite it's darkness).

Complex, dark and emotional. The GOAT.

No words to describe the outstanding character development of Reiner, Gabi, Floch, Eren, Armin, Jean. This is (and most likely will be for a long time) my favourite anime!!

This episode has just been pretty much flawless. Even though MAPPA struggle with using 2D Titans due to unfortunate circumstances out of their control, they still managed to pull off 2D Annie for quite a few scenes, and same with Reiner as well. The music was on point, I absolutely LOVE the gore in this episode and how it's accompanied by the slashing sound effects. The sequence with Floch avoiding Falco, Hange and Pieck is probbaly the best they have done so far, I love it. The animation overall has been extremely phenomenal and knowing all of the obstacles that MAPPA Studio had to face when making Attack on Titan season 4 makes this all the more impressive (Less time, Covid issues, working on 3 other animes simultaneously). In addition, the voice acting was superb as it always is in this anime. This is by far 100% my favourite episode so far in all of AoT, and I'd like to say that it is in the top 10 best episodes, maybe even higher. Season 4 has been a masterpiece so far.