Retrospective

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.

+ Ashes on Fire is the definition of perfection. Those heavenly ODM gear scenes! Not even a single shot I found sloppy, it was insanely smooth. This is amazing. Then, Mikasa's rage!!!!!!!! Spine-chiller! The end scene was tear-jerking and perfect. This show is incredible. The next episode will be Peak Fiction.

Something that made AOT so great was always the fact that it was an anti-Manicheeist work, the origin of evil is not good and evil, it will depend on the viewer's perspective who is "good" and who is "bad". The animation and adaptation, the action and everything in this chapter has been a 10. Thank you MAPPA.

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.

THAT EPISODE WAS FIRE I WAS LEGIT CRYING MAN... I love this show with all my heart I really enjoyed that, mappa did more than great!! The characters they were killing it I really did so excited that it finshed super quickly I had to at least watch this 3 times because how insanely good that was ! The animation, the music, all that action... MAN DAMN THAT WAS A HELL OF A RIDE ! I'll just always be greatful for everyone that worked in this show it deserves a big 10/10 i don't why people be hating on it but to be honest this isn't just my favorite anime or show it's my favorite story EVER seeing all these characters now vs then... it's insane it's really is!