Attack on Titan The Final Chapters part 2

 After 10 years and a gazillion last season parts, it is finally here, the finale of Attack on Titan.

With the length of a full feature movie to boot!

So picking up where we left off, our heroes trying to stop Eren from destroying mankind in The Rumbling, as they landed on his ribcage in order to try and reach him.  Just as Armin is about to transform, unleashing the blast of the Colossal Titan, he is captured in the mouth of a strange, okapi like Titan.  The others in the meantime are beset by empty shells of the various Nine Titans throughout all the ages.

Just as they are about to be overcome, Annie and Gani appear on Falco, who has become a flying version of the Jaw Titan.  meanwhile, Armin wanders the Paths, discovering Zeke in there.  As they have a long conversation about the meaning of life and Armin manages to convince Zeke to see his point of view.  They call on the defeated Titan bearers from throughout the series, and they join in their alliance to stop the Founding Titan on his path of mass destruction.  Zeke sacrifices himself to Levi, stopping the movement of the Rumbling as a result.

Transforming into the Colossal Titan, Armin manages to destroy Eren's Founding Titan, setting free the centipede creature that is the source of all Titan powers from his nape.  The beast however turns all Eldians present into mindless Titans to help defend itself as the others try their best to stop it from reaching and reconnecting with Eren.  Mikasa manages to get inside his titan's mouth, and decapitates Eren, ending his reign of terror and setting Ymir free from the Paths to allow her to pass on.  She, and with her the powers of the titans, disappear from the world, turning all Eldeans into normal humans.

After Eren's death, Armin and the others recall a conversation with Eren prior to his death, where he revealed his true intentions of turning his friends and the Eldeans into heroes, before blocking the memory away until he had died.  Mikasa leaves with Eren's head to lay him to rest at the tree they always lingered as children, before passing on with her life.  With 80% of humanity killed, the Jaegerists form a military force to protect Paradis for future retaliation, as we see how the future unfolds.  Our heroes have moved on, and when dying of old age, Mikasa is buried alongside Eren, an elderly Armin watching over their grave as he was always thelast to reach the tree...

Many generations later, a futuristic Paradis is bombed from the face of the world, and a lone boy and his dog come upon it's ruins, finding the tree the friends are buried at... and has become to resemble the tree that contained the source of the Titan's powers.

So, after a decade it has ended, and while this finale was pretty awesome, it isn't that perfect 10 for me that many sites give it.  It was enjoyable, emotional (that baby scene!) and action packed, yet I never really gotten on the AoT hype train I guess.  The opening track of, and season 2 itself (the one with Ymir and Historia at the center), was for me personally the height of the series to be honest.

But yes, it remains a cultural phenomena, and face it, this was a MECHA series with a twist!