you don't really outline the WHOLE plan for your story, in most cases like George R.R Martin, they outline only the specific book or volume but leave seeds that will bloom into a tree in future chapters. This is how he does foreshadowing, he writes a scene in a specific book that will predict what will happen and decide when he will bloom that seed. Which he does not actually know when, it just happens when he sees the right timing that will connect the two.
Even my mom knew immediately they where sus 🤣 In the missions where Eren needs to block the entrance with the rock, Reiner, Berthold and Annie where always together and my mom pointed that: "They're always together when they're on screen, they must have something in hands" And i didn't told her anything about them, not even their names, my mom really pays attention when she really loves an anime
I used t Watch anime with my parents in the room, but after seven deadly sins, everything changed, my dad would make fun of us when “those” scenes would happen. Context: we’re Hispanic 🫥
From what I've heard, the reason Pieck looks so different from her Titan form is that Isayama was originally planning to have the Cart Titan be a middle aged man, but changed his mind before revealing its true form.
@@ProphetOP3it's not just about the human face. It's also about the titan power. Only one female titan out of those 9. So, cart titan is male automatically. And it has big wide mouth. You cant make pieck into a beautiful lady titan with that cart titan power...
It’s only part of the truth. Isayma really planned another Cart Titan owner so that’s why Cart Titan in Battle of Shiganshina in manga looks different. But I don’t think it is the reason why Pieck doesn’t look similar to her titan form. Her titan is just too strange to look like normal human.
@@DBT1007 Makes the most sense. One titan is literally called "female titan" but any titan can be a female human. Stands to reason it would have got that name because it's the only one that looks obviously female in titan form.
I bet none of y'all noticed the Eldian restorationists symbol on the tree in chapter 1. It's not some added thing either from the redrawn volumes, no, it's been there since the first version of the first volume released.
When eren injured his head from falling during his cadet training, you can see "healing steam" come through the bandages, this is only ever seen on titans/titan users when they are injured due to their regenerative abilities. Just another depiction of isayamas genius.
When Reiner "escapes" Annie's hand during the first mission of the 104 outside the walls in the Recon Formation, his head has steam healing him that's hard to notice because it's everywhere
I always felt like Ymir’s transformation came out of nowhere, but then I realised that earlier Reiner found out she could speak Marleyan like he could so her cover was blown anyway
When they were trapped in the Tower and there were those crates that Ymir looked at and found the canned Herring. Reiner didnt question either the Herring or the canned food, which both shouldnt exist inside of the walls. The existance of Herring alone means they have outside knowlege and he also asked "is there more?". He tried to turn this around and said he couldnt read the Marley language but Ymir probably caught on on that. Both blew their cover at that moment and they both knew that they were not from inside of the walls. Its also speculated that those crates were left there probably from Zeke when he turned Ragako village and turned them into Titans.
The fact they look like humans at all is a pretty big hint. The titans have no genitals so how would they reproduce? How and why the transformation happens is far more difficult to predict.
@@Playlist4EllaI feel like a fucking idiot....but it never dawned on me like that xD It's pretty fucking obvious lol, but in my defense as a non manga reader, the overly zealous imperialism and kinda religious fervour of the early world building...I kinda thought it was gonna get crazy and say that the maybe Titan, a god, had left his kids behind to torment humans or some dumb shit ( which i guess IS what happened but not the way i imagined at all lol)
@@jessehenderson2967you are not alone 😂 I just watched the anime and didn’t read any discussion threads or even theory videos, so my imagination went wild. I thought the beast titan was the king of all titans since he could talk and command them. And I thought Eren was a rogue titan because he was born within the walls and didn’t know of his kind outside
I also thought bertholdt Reiner and Annie were from a nation outside the walls that could all transform into titans, and all they wanted was the eradication of humans that couldn’t turn into titans
this is good theory, however there is an industrial city inside wall rose. as an outsider they may not know this city exist so reiner didnt really blow his cover bcs that industrial city might've produce the canned food. then again, the canned food cant be found in the city so this theory makes the most sense
AoT is a rare breed of manga where the author has very organized plot from start to finish before start working on it. As a result, there are not many plot holes and many minor details are consistence thorough the story.
Started rewatching again after finishing the last episode: it was literally there from the start, right from episode one. The perspective you have on a rewatch really shows that no matter how you try to rationalize it there was an insane level of forethought put into several parts of the mystery.
the 1 thing that gave away that the colossal titan was human, which I didn't notice until the ending of the first season was the transformation lightning. When they figured out Annie was the female titan and were trynna trick her to the tunnel only for her to transform which showed that big lightning blast and ppl getting blown away. For some reason that clicked in my mind that when Eren transforms there's lightning too and when the colossal titan popped out of nowhere those 2 times there was lightning Also.
No. All of that, no. Lighting has NOTHING to do with transformations. Lighting is something with added for effect. That's why there is no lightning in the Manga or S4
@@me_a_weeb5619 still a good observation though. and who cares if it’s only added “for effect” that’s the POINT. that EFFECT tells us a human has shifted into a titan. and you can’t say it’s not in season 4 either, it was there when eren turned into the founding titan
After watching the first season of Attack on Titan years ago, my theory was that all Titan had people in their neck because Eren got out of one & in one scene the professor of the 104th cadet corps show that the neck is the only place they can get killed. I thought about my science studies back in school & how at one point our teacher told us that we have what is called the cerebellum where the spine connect to the brain & how it controls almost all your body function. So I thought maybe it's connected in the story. I also thought that the Titan power came from space, like a meteorite crashed on earth centuries before & some people got infected. I thought that because in the ending of season1, you see space for a second & then a knife falling through water & then it shift to Mikasa as a kid running in a forest.
Yeah sure you did... When AoT came out I watched a lot of theory vids and such. Not 1 person was ever even close to getting it right. I myself had no idea what was going on. No one did. So forgive me if I don't believe that you were the 1 person who knew what was going on lol there's nothin you can say that will convince me. Show me a post or comment you made BEFORE it was revealed and we'll talk but it's too easy to go back after the fact and say 'yeah I knew that was it all along" I just don't believe you feels like your chasing some sort of clout right now trying to appear a head of the curve :/
@@chucktaylor2172 Well I didn't know I was right but I'm saying the truth. You believe or not I don't care. I'm just being honest. Plus I wasn't right. There's not people in every titan & the titan power didnt come from space so I'm not right there.
@@cecilwhinter I shouldn't have said anything anyways. I sometimes turn into a accidental troll online and I don't mean to. I'm trying to keep my negative opinions to myself so that's my bad. Your free to think and type whatever you want and the last thing I want is to start being a bitch to people online. I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut more
@@chucktaylor2172 bro who would be chasing clout in a YT comment ? 😂 why is it hard to believe he may have guessed it early? Your literally watching a video explaining on how isayama hinted it to us since day one
@@SuperBeanSquad Interesting. But no light doesn't mean there was no sound/shaking. Armin transforming and wiping out people during the process is a big plot point later on, so there is still an indication (energy release) for when people transform.
And no rumbling (lol wasn't intentional) of the Colossal titan walking near, only one rumbling. I also realized the Colossal Titan couldn't keep transformed for too long, far before the Shinganshina ambush in season 3 part 2.
10:20 the talking titan mustve been one of the cultist from back when ymir was "adopted" and painted as founder ymir (because ofc founder ymir is actually blonde, but the only ymir the cultist has seen was the "fake one"). since they found ilse's notebook in 850 (57th expedition) and ilse wrote her notebook on the 34th expedition , there is a month period before each expedition that makes it 2 years, so ilse died in 848 . ymir was adopted in 780 and turned into a titan (along with the alleged cultist) in 785 . ymir woke up in year 845 that makes 60 years so it all adds up 845-60=785 (ymir) 848-(60+3)=785 (talking titan) this is probably extremely obvious but ive encountered some people who didnt realize so i had to put this out (sorry if its confusing im trying my best)
Since the beginning of the story the mystery of the titans' origin begged the assumption that they are humans, the fact that they are human-like makes us at least suspect that. Despite the elegant foreshadowing and hinting, in my opinion the brilliance of Isayama's storytelling and subversions is mostly found in the focus he brings to character development, world building and philosophical arguments that arise from the different scenes and situations in AOT. He certainly allowed us to find out before he revealed things to us, but I find the immense level of care he put on flashing out the different stages of different characters's journeys, the intense monologues and dialogues and their subjects and the complex but tight social and militant structures he created to be the main reason as to why we did not notice or even allowed ourselves to consider the fact that the titans are humans. We get so deeply immersed in this dark fantasy and all of its details to the point of barely being able to grasp all of the details at once, so the hidden and more subtle things like visual similarities between the armoured titan and Reiner are not the first thing we consider, nor do we have any way to expect Eren to be a titan etc.
Fun fact when eren was trying to balance on his broke OEM gear and hit his head, when he was eating with the bandage on his head, there’s a part where he’s staring blankly while everyone else is arguing and you can see smoke coming from erens head until makasa snapped him out of it, hinting at eren was a titan as well
Are we to believe that in erens entire life and going through military training without ever noticing he steamed when injured and healed faster than others?
@@umwhajust a small thought, I know they were definitely smashed around to toughen them up, but I'd imagine they would go out of their way to avoid cutting/maiming their classmates, and I would imagine if someone did get cut, it would go unnoticed because it would be a normal thing
I read the manga, and though the idea was never really dwelled upon in depth, I have the thought that titans inherit characteristics from whichever intelligent Titan's spinal fluid they were initially titanified with. The best canon material on this is Falco insisting that his Titan could fly; Falco titanified from Zeke's spine wine before becoming the Jaw, so Falco was able to manifest beastly characteristics despite being a Jaw. With this in mind, I could take a wild guess that Rod Reiss's big phat turkey titan carried over from either a Colossal spinal fluid, or the Founder's spinal fluid (which is just more likely, but at the same time kinda a wild card in terms of distinct characteristics imo) Wish we knew more before all titans were revoked 😅
@@StevenMcStevehe was made to consume various Titan serums that allowed the female Titan to manifest other abilities: -speed and agility from the jaw Titan -endurance from the cart (as her Titan is shown to have incredible endurance and only 3 users were ever shown to transform in succession) -hardening from the armored Titan -calling titans to her (either beast or founding) -explosive transformation from colossal titan I know the manifest ability is canon, but the abilities are what I assumed were from other titans
Prob just founding i mean look at Erebus founding titan it looks the same but more deformed orob maybe. Becuz the lack of royal blood. If eren had meat on the bones he’d look just like rod
you're right, if you look at eren's founding titan, especially during the transformation, it's similar to reiss' titan, and the only avaiable titan to them was the founding titan
What I first thought before the revelation: I thought Riener, Annie and Bert were from another society they survived the Titans. Another civilization built behind walls and for some reason, want to go to war with Eren’s society I always thought other human societies survived but not the fact that the whole world was still out there I always guessed since chapter 2 that Titans were once human, one way or another.
@@SkitsyCat same, but I knew they were somewhat civilized, I thought they were using titans as weapons (which is partially true) to conquer Eldia or something
I've seen some people say that they miss when it was just "Humans vs titans" and that they didn't like the change. But that was the plan from the beginning, idk why some people think he chnagd his mind along the way
@@Spartan8676 Thats why it is a subjective opinion, but somehow AoT fans have a hard time to accept that some people just don't like these stereotypical "Oh but it was the racist/evil humans all along" - stories, which this one evidently unfolded into. For me personally AoT dropped from my Top 10 once they revealed that its just humans doing bad things to humans, instead of exploring something supernatural and mysterious. I mean we didn't even explore the prehistoric centipede, that just lived under a tree until someone fell into it and for some reasons titanizes them.
To be honest, in the 3rd episode of aot, where Reiner was training with Eren and then just before he got ass kicked by annie, in JP dub, Reiner said "as a warrior...". Yet the sub wrote "soldier", he clearly said "senshi = warrior" instead of "heishi = soldier". The episode I watch is the tv version of JP dub. The bluray version may have fix this.
Just a cool and fun fact, reiner and bertholdt were only around 12 when they first commited mass genocide. (attacking the wall) also aot has been produced for 13 years. Anime and manga. Isayama is a mastermind, as thats how long titan shifters have left to live after inheriting the ability, due to ymirs curse.
That was truly a cool and fun fact. I never would’ve thought it’s been around that long. I know the mainstays like Naruto, DB, One Piece had been over a decade cuz I remembered them as a kid.
The first time I realized that pure titans were also human was in the first episode of season 2, when the Beast Titan tells Miche something like “you use that gear because you know that we reside in the nape” and I though to myself, “wait, the ODM gear was made to kill pure titans, not titan shifters. Are pure titans human too?”
8:39 - actually I disagree with that, because as soon as we here the titan say "welcome home" to Connie, it comes it, and Hange, Erwin & levi were all talkimg about it at the end of Volume 12, and erwin was showimg thqt smile that his theory his father died for is correct. And In volume 14, when eren was remembering his fathers memories, it was clearly shown that Eren got injected with a needle that turned into a mindless titan. THAT was the "official" confirmation not Volume 22
Another big moment I think gets overlooked is during the scout training when Eren is injured and afterwards in the mess hall steam is coming out of his head. A lot of people could see this as a wacky effect added in but it reveals so much in hindsight.
I noticed that all the titans were probably human at some point at the very moment Eren was revealed to be in the nape of the neck. Which is exactly where the weakspot of Titan.
I remember reading the first chapters and then, once they found out Eren was in the nape of the neck, thought "why isn't any of the characters thinking that therefore, if they slice up the nape to kill titans, they're probably killing a human residing there?"
I've always been subscribed to the idea that there is no such thing as a bad story idea, it all comes into how you tell it. AoT at its crux makes no sense, it starts off with giant humans eating humans, and they use steampunk flying machines to kill said machines, then it skips into titan shifters, WWI esque technology, political relations, genocide, and time fuckery where the mc was the actual mastermind behind the entire events of the story. It literally makes no sense and is an ass pull each arc, but the way Isayama actually interconnects each story arc, and hides easter eggs hinting that not everything is as it seems is actually insane. We literally jump antagonists, from annie, to Grisha, to Zeke, to the Marylians, and then somehow back to Eren it's actually crazy, and people don't really shit on Attack on titan for that because the way Isayama set it up is insane. It's able to give that hit when the plot twist hits, the sense of surprise, but it also gives a good deal of readability, and rewards you for investing time into the series. One of the biggest issues for plot twists is some times they can feel like ass pulls if not prepared for enough, and for anyone rewatching the series it loses its value because you KNOW it's going to come. However in AOT, for any insightful viewer they'll see these flags and begin to ask questions, and those questions DO get paid off, for people who are rewatching the series now you see all these easter eggs and signs you didn't get initially and it all comes together a completely different feel from going through it initially, it's amazing and I applaud Isayama for this.
The only surprise that AoT had for me was when Eren Kruger said to save mikasa and armin. At that point I was like, did he see the future? Wasn’t too far off xD
Back then, I thought that the colossal and armored titan was just summoned in place. Like maybe a lightning strike or something, and poof, there they were. Its rather nostalgic, thinking about all the questions we had about AoT back then, before all the big reveals about the world
Originally, I thought the Titans looked too similar to humans for them not to be some sort of connection to humans. As a child (when Attack on Titan first came on Netflix), I thought the bearded titan that ate Eren was the Armin's grandpa because I didn't understand the scene at the time. I still kind of think that today even though its far from the truth.
i'm pretty sure the bearded titan you're talking about is one of grisha's former companions! he looks awfully similar to one of the titans we see in episode 20 of season 3
It funny too though, when I first read this manga it was like 20 chapters in or just under, the last chapter was the bit when Eren filled the hole of the wall. I said to myself and to my mum that the manga is going to be huge ( she didn’t read manga but she never feigned no interest when talked to her about stuff she didn’t invest in ) and then after life stopped me reading it and the anime hit. Seeing it just exploded the popularity did make me grin and got back to reading it.
I have literally watched 20-30 of AOT foreshadowing videos but everytime you guys come up with one more foreshadowing like in this video the way u noticed transformation of boruto is mind boggling Iseyama god
The thing that always got me was how warped humans looking they were so I was really suspicious. Especially when the colossal titan disappeared and teleported. I forgot how awesome the weird clues like Connie mom and the talking one bowing. I though maybe Ymir we got was the Queen Ymir they spoke about.
I knew Reiner and Bertholde were the Armored and Collosal titan from the moment that Eren was revealed to be a shifter, Reiner looks EXACTLY like the armored titan and he went nowhere without Bertholde. I knew annie was the female titan from her literal first appearance, like Reiner Annie and the female titan look extremely similar.
I thought Eren coming out from the nape made it obvious. "So he piloted the giant human-shaped creature, and he came precisely out of the human-sized(-ish) vulnerable spot that every titan regenerates from. WHAT AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE." I didn't understand why no human appeared when a mindless titan's nape was split open, admittedly. But it felt very likely that the "pilot" had merged with the titan flesh somehow.
The only way I feel a person would not know the titans were Annie and Reiner is because they thought they looked that way on purpose to throw you off if you didn't immediately know he was the armor titan I fail to see how you couldn't beyond outright denial.
Have you ever read Attack on Titan: Before The Fall? I think the reason Isayama approved that story to be released (he neither wrote the story nor drew the manga) was the idea of Kuklo (the main character) whom was born after the titan who ate his mom was killed during her preagnancy. This was set 70 years before the main story started. Then in the timeskip arc, Historia was offered to eat Zeke and become the Beast Titan with royal powers, while she was preagnant (and Eren strongly disagreed). If this idea succeeded, we will get the second Kuklo in the story.
Also there was an industrial area around the corner behind the walls. This didn't exist in the main story, but the Thunder Spears might be manufactured from the remnants of the technology in that area. So Isayama approved that story because it was a really good complementary of what he has planned since the beginning.
I dont know if there is in the manga, but there is a scene in a point where there is a suspicion about who actually killed one of the cadets during the first fight they had, later on when the jig is up the whole scene is shown where Reiner sound like a crazy person with a double personality. The hints were all there. This is how you actually build a good mistery story, not like most retcon shonens out there, but a story with a beginning, middle and end in sight.
I feel a bit sad for Reiner. He was just trying to make his mother proud. The tough Reiner was him using Marcel's personality. The true Reiner was the sweet, 'weak' kid.
Actually when you think about it, the lightning striking and “creating” the Colossal titan was the first clue, especially when we saw Eren and Annie shift. But your hint about the footprint was THE earliest hint. I’m just feeling stupid now wondering how I never figured that the lightning strike meant it was a shifter.
@@Ftrs2586 actually, the user of the colossal can control the explosion it makes when transforming, just like how he can turn his titan into steam and disappear
About Bertholdt's footsteps, I think many people just thought the titan came from the skies or something (but not literally fall from the space lol) considering how mythological creatures titans are
The most iconic is the "ippiki nokorazu" (after the title lol this was so cool especially when you know how Japanese language works) "Hiki" is the counter for rather small animals like cats or dogs. We think Eren is using this intentionally to show contempt to the titans. At the end of season, Eren enters a Berserk mode in which he is barely conscious. He then recites the same words, plus "destroy the World". All of this is of course revealed to not be referencing titans, but instead referencing the Rumbling and the tiny looking humans (hiki) in the World outside the Walls! Those who were really unleashing transformed Eldian people within the Walls! They end looking like tiny animals from up there, and they end crushed under his feet and those of the countless Colossal Titans. Annie smashing some bugs is also referencing the fact she holds grudge. When first transforming in Trost, the Attack titan can also be seen several times smashing with its feet smaller or knocked down titans.
I feel like Isayama already finished the whole concept of this world and just used it as a tool to dig further into the main plot. By tool, I mean A Long-Term Tool.
I could be wrong but I thought he wrote the plot to himself about how he wants to start the story and how to end it before he wrote everything in the middle, with some fill ins.
Let's also not forget that when they were at Utgard Castle, that when the Beast Titan appeared, Reiner and Bertholdt were staring at it, and the other scouts actually poked at them about it, saying they were acting like they "just saw a legend" in the flesh. Also, for the Anime, after Eren hits his head during training as a Cadet, at dinner, you see him there with his head wrapped up in bandages. But, if you look closely, you'll notice that there is steam coming from the top of his head. Not intensely, but barely. As if he's just now getting used to his Titan powers that he doesn't yet know that he has.
No way people does not think Titan was human from first chapter. I mean this is literally every zombie style plot ever, especially Titan still have their human face / body, the only question is “how” rather than “what”
11:27 I interpreted this scene differently, thinking that after getting many clues and finding out that humans are able to turn into Titans, as seen with Eren, Reiner also had his 'suspicions' with the village, but was trying to distract Connie's attention to the mission and also to protect him, since he tends to get emotional. So I had no reason to question Reiner, but in the end he really did want to just shut up Connie, although the empathy was maybe partly genuine, since he really did care about them.
For the scene where Bert was going to bite his hand we see Reiner with a shocked/rageful expression. Which may have prompted him to tell eren about them being titans.
2:57 that is actually a plot hole because titan bodies can't just disapper u get out of them from the nape then their body slowly fades away. we only saw the colosal titan do that
That is because it's a colossal titan power. It was explained that it can create an explosion on transformation (which is controllable by the shifter) or appear quickly and vanish quickly too. Just like how War Hammer Titan also has its own unique transformation.
When you're so obsessed with the attack on titan show, this kind of foreshadowing is already basic to you yet it also serves as a treasure that attack on titan will always be the best at this kind of plot
When the colossal appears the first two times, it literally looks like it was sent down to Earth from the heavens in the form of a lightning bolt, which is why no footprints. It's only after we see the lighting happen when Eren transforms can someone figure out the colossal is Human. Before then, there's zero indication of it.
6:15 The anime makes this more obvious since unlike manga panels which sometimes how the background while someone is talking, the anime shifts right to each shifter
My mom was pretty suspicious on Reiner and was confused on his true position in the fight for humanity, but didn’t realize the injured soldier in Marley in season 4 was Eren Jaeger 🤦♂️
Realized when early on in the series they mentioned that titans don't have reproductive organs so I wondered how/why there were so many of them, became somewhat obvious later in the first season when some humans are seen in a crystal like gel after being eaten then thrown up, realizing that if humans aren't a food source for them, we must be a means of reproduction similar to a parasite
5:30 I think the exact premise of AOT threw us off the rails that there could be human titans, so we easily overlook the foreshadowing like Reiner and Bertholdt, only when Annie showed us that there are shifters on the enemy side, did we start to connect the dots. Coincidentally, Annie’s reveal to be the Female Titan also led to the other characters being suspicious of Reiner and Bertholdt, such as Armin.
I'm Japanese. Sorry for my poor English. There is one more moment. Remember the conversation between Ymir and Reiner. Ymir said she doesn't like herring. In response, Reiner was surprised that Yumir could read those letters. There is something strange about this conversation. Because herring are saltwater fish. So generally people who live inside the Wall don't know the fish herring. Because there is a river in the wall, but no sea. But Reiner doesn't mention anything about herring. So you can tell that Reiner is from outside the
I actually noticed the one footprint on the first chapter back in the release, and for me it was pretty obvious that he had appeared there out of nowhere, but i kept thinking for a long time that the colossal titan had some kind of teleport power or that he had been "summoned" somehow, maybe even that he had fall from the sky via the lighting, it never crosse my mind the obvious answer that a smaller creature had transformed until the manga revealed that humans could actually transform into titans. And also thought that Erwin was the colossal titan and that the exploration corps had discovered some dark hidden truth outside the walls and changed sides lol
Also, there's a detail that could point to Reiner and Bertholt being traitors,when Reiner saves Connie from a titan in the castle,Connie is surprised and thankful to Reiner,he then asks to Bertholt "Bertholt,you who knows Reiner so well,was he always like that?" And Bertholt answered by "No,he was a warrior back then,but now,he is a soldier" And also by the fact they keep saying they want to go back to their homeland,which would be weird considering the village they pretended to be coming from was invaded by titans
I didn’t read the manga so when I first watched the show I assumed that the colossal titan could teleport and that’s how he was able to just show up and disappear lol..
Bertholt transforming into a titan in that tower would've been a dumb move, he would've blown everyone up including Reiner with the colossal titan's explosion
If he truly thought that he was about to die then, who knows, maybe he would have been willing to kill everyone, including Reiner, in order to save himself. I agree that it's dumb though, it'd be starter for Reiner to transform and carry Bertholdt to safety.
I don't remember where it was said but Armored titan has the best regeneration out of all titans and also has high durability in human form, and also it is the only titan shifter who can survive colosal's explosion(thou the last part probably only applies to his titan form)
In the Anime, one Titan at the very beginning looked wayyyyyyy too similar to Armins granddad, who was out on a mission to receive the first wall back after the attack of the colossal Titan. I don‘t know wich episode but I remembered this so well, because they literally looked the same.
My favorite foreshadowing comes from the very beginning of the manga/show where we see that all the titans look like giant somewhat deformed humans. Really makes you go, “hmm”
I remember back before anyone else was revealed as a Titan except like Annie and people were making all these OC Titans ala Sonic the Hedgehog OC's and it was hilarious. A lot of them just looked like altered versions of Eren's Attack Titan.
One thing I was sorta disappointed with when it came to Aot is how it dropped any and all of the interesting mysteries and world building that really helped the horror and atmosphere that made Aot scary in the first place. Like the talking titan story didn’t really go anywhere besides it just being an interesting abnormal titan.
Something i noticed actually a little bit ago and it might be obvious, but never heard anyone mention, is how soon the titans are there after the colossal kicked the wall in, its very likely that part of their plan was to have a batch of pures ready to walk through, and not only that but maybe they didn't even know zeke had followed them and was commanding them to gather. Yes i know that outside the walls there would be some possibly already nearby but you dont see any outside the walls when looking down from above the colossal. Also i had originally thought the whole point of breaking the wall was literally so they could infiltrate. If they really wanted to they could have probably just waited till night then have Bert transform and literally place reiner inside. But im guessing part of infiltrating hinged on the chaos caused, easier to blend into a population thats in complete disarray.
For those who aspire to become writers, this is why you outline your whole plan for the story first, then start filling in details
Couldn't agree more 👍🏻
And that needs time.
And it's normal for art to take time. Dont rush art.
Nah bro at this point isayama wrote aot from the end
naruto needs to take notes 😂 shippuden completely lost the plot
you don't really outline the WHOLE plan for your story, in most cases like George R.R Martin, they outline only the specific book or volume but leave seeds that will bloom into a tree in future chapters. This is how he does foreshadowing, he writes a scene in a specific book that will predict what will happen and decide when he will bloom that seed. Which he does not actually know when, it just happens when he sees the right timing that will connect the two.
That foreshadowing when Reiner said he was the armored Titan is my favorite example of foreshadowing in any series
That's not called foreshadowing
It's called "PLOT TWIST"
@@BEASTBOYSHUB_H bruh that was the joke ya dummy
@@BEASTBOYSHUB_H Sarcasm I think
@@tezla6332 hmm ho sakta hai lekin ye mujhe koi bewakoof lag raha hai
@@BEASTBOYSHUB_Hnah you're stupid
Even my mom knew immediately they where sus 🤣
In the missions where Eren needs to block the entrance with the rock, Reiner, Berthold and Annie where always together and my mom pointed that:
"They're always together when they're on screen, they must have something in hands"
And i didn't told her anything about them, not even their names, my mom really pays attention when she really loves an anime
Based mom.
Having a mother who watches anime and sharing it with you is precious. If only Eren could have had that sort of precious moments...
"A mother who watches anime & pay attention"... She need to be protected no matter the cost
I used t Watch anime with my parents in the room, but after seven deadly sins, everything changed, my dad would make fun of us when “those” scenes would happen.
Context: we’re Hispanic 🫥
@@ymaaw3735 are you fucking serious? eren's mother loved him
From what I've heard, the reason Pieck looks so different from her Titan form is that Isayama was originally planning to have the Cart Titan be a middle aged man, but changed his mind before revealing its true form.
Exactly. Pure titan looks similar to their human form. However shifter look like how they will look like when they die.
@@ProphetOP3it's not just about the human face.
It's also about the titan power.
Only one female titan out of those 9. So, cart titan is male automatically. And it has big wide mouth.
You cant make pieck into a beautiful lady titan with that cart titan power...
It’s only part of the truth. Isayma really planned another Cart Titan owner so that’s why Cart Titan in Battle of Shiganshina in manga looks different.
But I don’t think it is the reason why Pieck doesn’t look similar to her titan form. Her titan is just too strange to look like normal human.
More proof dude had no real plan for the story
@@DBT1007 Makes the most sense. One titan is literally called "female titan" but any titan can be a female human. Stands to reason it would have got that name because it's the only one that looks obviously female in titan form.
I bet none of y'all noticed the Eldian restorationists symbol on the tree in chapter 1. It's not some added thing either from the redrawn volumes, no, it's been there since the first version of the first volume released.
but why would that be there
@@zombor8249 maybe Grisha put it there
@@zombor8249 foreshadowing and also probably from grisha. Either way it's a cool ass detail that gets shown like 8 years later lmao
Isn't that just a blade of grass intersecting the tree bark? Sure it looks like a cross but I can't think of a reason anyone would carve it there
Wha-
When eren injured his head from falling during his cadet training, you can see "healing steam" come through the bandages, this is only ever seen on titans/titan users when they are injured due to their regenerative abilities. Just another depiction of isayamas genius.
It comes off as "haha funny anime steam effect to show he has a headache" but when you rewatch it...
When Reiner "escapes" Annie's hand during the first mission of the 104 outside the walls in the Recon Formation, his head has steam healing him that's hard to notice because it's everywhere
@@cantinadudes, _Attack on Titan_ isn’t your typical anime
@@truthseeker7815 thats the point he made
@@arturvegis2571, yeah, it was just to emphasise
I always felt like Ymir’s transformation came out of nowhere, but then I realised that earlier Reiner found out she could speak Marleyan like he could so her cover was blown anyway
When they were trapped in the Tower and there were those crates that Ymir looked at and found the canned Herring. Reiner didnt question either the Herring or the canned food, which both shouldnt exist inside of the walls. The existance of Herring alone means they have outside knowlege and he also asked "is there more?". He tried to turn this around and said he couldnt read the Marley language but Ymir probably caught on on that. Both blew their cover at that moment and they both knew that they were not from inside of the walls. Its also speculated that those crates were left there probably from Zeke when he turned Ragako village and turned them into Titans.
The fact they look like humans at all is a pretty big hint. The titans have no genitals so how would they reproduce? How and why the transformation happens is far more difficult to predict.
@@Playlist4EllaI feel like a fucking idiot....but it never dawned on me like that xD
It's pretty fucking obvious lol, but in my defense as a non manga reader, the overly zealous imperialism and kinda religious fervour of the early world building...I kinda thought it was gonna get crazy and say that the maybe Titan, a god, had left his kids behind to torment humans or some dumb shit ( which i guess IS what happened but not the way i imagined at all lol)
@@jessehenderson2967you are not alone 😂 I just watched the anime and didn’t read any discussion threads or even theory videos, so my imagination went wild. I thought the beast titan was the king of all titans since he could talk and command them. And I thought Eren was a rogue titan because he was born within the walls and didn’t know of his kind outside
I also thought bertholdt Reiner and Annie were from a nation outside the walls that could all transform into titans, and all they wanted was the eradication of humans that couldn’t turn into titans
this is good theory, however there is an industrial city inside wall rose. as an outsider they may not know this city exist so reiner didnt really blow his cover bcs that industrial city might've produce the canned food. then again, the canned food cant be found in the city so this theory makes the most sense
AoT is a rare breed of manga where the author has very organized plot from start to finish before start working on it. As a result, there are not many plot holes and many minor details are consistence thorough the story.
There’s also a tiny figure by the foot of the colossus Titan that could be an untransformed Reiner
They wouldn't be so close while the transformation took place ig
@@kiranthakur8793 He could have caught up with his buddy after his transformation.
isayama is genius until eren tried to saves armin from getting eaten by titan scene. and the ending scene.
@@aryantzh2028, do you mean when Eren gets eaten?
That could very well just be a footstep, couldn't it?
Started rewatching again after finishing the last episode: it was literally there from the start, right from episode one.
The perspective you have on a rewatch really shows that no matter how you try to rationalize it there was an insane level of forethought put into several parts of the mystery.
the 1 thing that gave away that the colossal titan was human, which I didn't notice until the ending of the first season was the transformation lightning. When they figured out Annie was the female titan and were trynna trick her to the tunnel only for her to transform which showed that big lightning blast and ppl getting blown away. For some reason that clicked in my mind that when Eren transforms there's lightning too and when the colossal titan popped out of nowhere those 2 times there was lightning Also.
No. All of that, no.
Lighting has NOTHING to do with transformations. Lighting is something with added for effect. That's why there is no lightning in the Manga or S4
@@me_a_weeb5619 still a good observation though. and who cares if it’s only added “for effect” that’s the POINT. that EFFECT tells us a human has shifted into a titan. and you can’t say it’s not in season 4 either, it was there when eren turned into the founding titan
@@me_a_weeb5619 Canon or not, the lightning is consistent with transforming titans. It's another hint for us to consume.
@@me_a_weeb5619 there is lightning is season 4 bro…
@@soleynate no, they have flashes of light, but no lightning from the sky
After watching the first season of Attack on Titan years ago, my theory was that all Titan had people in their neck because Eren got out of one & in one scene the professor of the 104th cadet corps show that the neck is the only place they can get killed. I thought about my science studies back in school & how at one point our teacher told us that we have what is called the cerebellum where the spine connect to the brain & how it controls almost all your body function. So I thought maybe it's connected in the story. I also thought that the Titan power came from space, like a meteorite crashed on earth centuries before & some people got infected. I thought that because in the ending of season1, you see space for a second & then a knife falling through water & then it shift to Mikasa as a kid running in a forest.
Yeah sure you did... When AoT came out I watched a lot of theory vids and such. Not 1 person was ever even close to getting it right. I myself had no idea what was going on. No one did. So forgive me if I don't believe that you were the 1 person who knew what was going on lol there's nothin you can say that will convince me. Show me a post or comment you made BEFORE it was revealed and we'll talk but it's too easy to go back after the fact and say 'yeah I knew that was it all along" I just don't believe you feels like your chasing some sort of clout right now trying to appear a head of the curve :/
@@chucktaylor2172 Well I didn't know I was right but I'm saying the truth. You believe or not I don't care. I'm just being honest. Plus I wasn't right. There's not people in every titan & the titan power didnt come from space so I'm not right there.
@@chucktaylor2172 I'm sure I can find my comment on an old video of aot season 1 but that will take a lot of searching.
@@cecilwhinter I shouldn't have said anything anyways. I sometimes turn into a accidental troll online and I don't mean to. I'm trying to keep my negative opinions to myself so that's my bad. Your free to think and type whatever you want and the last thing I want is to start being a bitch to people online. I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut more
@@chucktaylor2172 bro who would be chasing clout in a YT comment ? 😂 why is it hard to believe he may have guessed it early? Your literally watching a video explaining on how isayama hinted it to us since day one
Everybody knew the colossal titan appeared from nowhere without even seeing that footprint
Right like that's a pretty major plot point of the early seasons, how did a titan that big just appear out of nowhere
back then, i always thought they were teleported by the lightning
@@kurniawandwiseptian An unfortunate red herring created by the anime. There is no fanfare for Titan transformations in the manga.
@@SuperBeanSquad Interesting. But no light doesn't mean there was no sound/shaking. Armin transforming and wiping out people during the process is a big plot point later on, so there is still an indication (energy release) for when people transform.
Exactly, it was clear o everyone. This part of the video makes no sense, but ok...
I am impacted by the initial drawings of isayama, boy he got soooo much better
The first point is kinda obvious since there was a huge explosion in the place that the colossal appeared in
And no rumbling (lol wasn't intentional) of the Colossal titan walking near, only one rumbling. I also realized the Colossal Titan couldn't keep transformed for too long, far before the Shinganshina ambush in season 3 part 2.
Yeah, literally. I don't think that anyone thought that the Colossal Titan just walked up to the wall like a normal titan would
10:20 the talking titan mustve been one of the cultist from back when ymir was "adopted" and painted as founder ymir (because ofc founder ymir is actually blonde, but the only ymir the cultist has seen was the "fake one"). since they found ilse's notebook in 850 (57th expedition) and ilse wrote her notebook on the 34th expedition , there is a month period before each expedition that makes it 2 years, so ilse died in 848 . ymir was adopted in 780 and turned into a titan (along with the alleged cultist) in 785 . ymir woke up in year 845 that makes 60 years so it all adds up
845-60=785 (ymir)
848-(60+3)=785 (talking titan)
this is probably extremely obvious but ive encountered some people who didnt realize so i had to put this out (sorry if its confusing im trying my best)
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Yeah, if you re-watch the episode with Ymir's backstory you actually do see that Titan as a human in a few shots. He has the same face.
They show the exact cultist it was a few times, it was a girl i believe and she seemed to strongly follow Ymir even more than the other cultists
@@JakeYolk yeah she had gorgeous eyelashes i remember
@@RealitysParadox *She, not he. She was the one who screamed not to do it before injecting and thrown off the wall before ymir
Since the beginning of the story the mystery of the titans' origin begged the assumption that they are humans, the fact that they are human-like makes us at least suspect that. Despite the elegant foreshadowing and hinting, in my opinion the brilliance of Isayama's storytelling and subversions is mostly found in the focus he brings to character development, world building and philosophical arguments that arise from the different scenes and situations in AOT. He certainly allowed us to find out before he revealed things to us, but I find the immense level of care he put on flashing out the different stages of different characters's journeys, the intense monologues and dialogues and their subjects and the complex but tight social and militant structures he created to be the main reason as to why we did not notice or even allowed ourselves to consider the fact that the titans are humans. We get so deeply immersed in this dark fantasy and all of its details to the point of barely being able to grasp all of the details at once, so the hidden and more subtle things like visual similarities between the armoured titan and Reiner are not the first thing we consider, nor do we have any way to expect Eren to be a titan etc.
Fun fact when eren was trying to balance on his broke OEM gear and hit his head, when he was eating with the bandage on his head, there’s a part where he’s staring blankly while everyone else is arguing and you can see smoke coming from erens head until makasa snapped him out of it, hinting at eren was a titan as well
Are we to believe that in erens entire life and going through military training without ever noticing he steamed when injured and healed faster than others?
@@umwhajust a small thought, I know they were definitely smashed around to toughen them up, but I'd imagine they would go out of their way to avoid cutting/maiming their classmates, and I would imagine if someone did get cut, it would go unnoticed because it would be a normal thing
@@umwhaHe wasn't a Titan his entire life. Grisha made him one shortly after Marley invaded Trost.
I read the manga, and though the idea was never really dwelled upon in depth, I have the thought that titans inherit characteristics from whichever intelligent Titan's spinal fluid they were initially titanified with. The best canon material on this is Falco insisting that his Titan could fly; Falco titanified from Zeke's spine wine before becoming the Jaw, so Falco was able to manifest beastly characteristics despite being a Jaw.
With this in mind, I could take a wild guess that Rod Reiss's big phat turkey titan carried over from either a Colossal spinal fluid, or the Founder's spinal fluid (which is just more likely, but at the same time kinda a wild card in terms of distinct characteristics imo)
Wish we knew more before all titans were revoked 😅
This is the same reason Annie could call titans to her with her scream I'm pretty sure, I think she took spine fluid from zeke
@@StevenMcStevehe was made to consume various Titan serums that allowed the female Titan to manifest other abilities:
-speed and agility from the jaw Titan
-endurance from the cart (as her Titan is shown to have incredible endurance and only 3 users were ever shown to transform in succession)
-hardening from the armored Titan
-calling titans to her (either beast or founding)
-explosive transformation from colossal titan
I know the manifest ability is canon, but the abilities are what I assumed were from other titans
Prob just founding i mean look at Erebus founding titan it looks the same but more deformed orob maybe. Becuz the lack of royal blood. If eren had meat on the bones he’d look just like rod
@@antiisolation4 his Titan looked like that because his head was blown off and reconnected through a creature
you're right, if you look at eren's founding titan, especially during the transformation, it's similar to reiss' titan, and the only avaiable titan to them was the founding titan
What I first thought before the revelation:
I thought Riener, Annie and Bert were from another society they survived the Titans. Another civilization built behind walls and for some reason, want to go to war with Eren’s society
I always thought other human societies survived but not the fact that the whole world was still out there
I always guessed since chapter 2 that Titans were once human, one way or another.
I had the theory that there were a special tribe of people out in the wilderness beyond the walls that were one with titans 😅
Since chapter 2? How??
@@SkitsyCat I thought similarly, or that Titans could somehow turn back into humans, guess I was somewhat right with that last one lol
@@SkitsyCat same, but I knew they were somewhat civilized, I thought they were using titans as weapons (which is partially true) to conquer Eldia or something
I had a similar theory, I was heavily influenced by the Divergent Trilogy I guess.
I've seen some people say that they miss when it was just "Humans vs titans" and that they didn't like the change. But that was the plan from the beginning, idk why some people think he chnagd his mind along the way
Exactly, we were just living in the dark
@@vic_cresss, tatakae
Sometimes what the author had in mind is just worst or less interesting
@@sensaiko same goes with what fans want
@@Spartan8676 Thats why it is a subjective opinion, but somehow AoT fans have a hard time to accept that some people just don't like these stereotypical "Oh but it was the racist/evil humans all along" - stories, which this one evidently unfolded into. For me personally AoT dropped from my Top 10 once they revealed that its just humans doing bad things to humans, instead of exploring something supernatural and mysterious. I mean we didn't even explore the prehistoric centipede, that just lived under a tree until someone fell into it and for some reasons titanizes them.
When u realize humans are always the cause of their problems 😭
To be honest, in the 3rd episode of aot, where Reiner was training with Eren and then just before he got ass kicked by annie, in JP dub, Reiner said "as a warrior...".
Yet the sub wrote "soldier", he clearly said "senshi = warrior" instead of "heishi = soldier".
The episode I watch is the tv version of JP dub. The bluray version may have fix this.
Just a cool and fun fact, reiner and bertholdt were only around 12 when they first commited mass genocide. (attacking the wall)
also aot has been produced for 13 years. Anime and manga. Isayama is a mastermind, as thats how long titan shifters have left to live after inheriting the ability, due to ymirs curse.
That was truly a cool and fun fact. I never would’ve thought it’s been around that long. I know the mainstays like Naruto, DB, One Piece had been over a decade cuz I remembered them as a kid.
slowly becoming my favorite AOT channel ngl
The first time I realized that pure titans were also human was in the first episode of season 2, when the Beast Titan tells Miche something like “you use that gear because you know that we reside in the nape” and I though to myself, “wait, the ODM gear was made to kill pure titans, not titan shifters. Are pure titans human too?”
8:39 - actually I disagree with that, because as soon as we here the titan say "welcome home" to Connie, it comes it, and Hange, Erwin & levi were all talkimg about it at the end of Volume 12, and erwin was showimg thqt smile that his theory his father died for is correct.
And In volume 14, when eren was remembering his fathers memories, it was clearly shown that Eren got injected with a needle that turned into a mindless titan. THAT was the "official" confirmation not Volume 22
In the very first chapter when Eren wakes up next to the tree there is a cross where Mikasa buried his head at the end.
Another big moment I think gets overlooked is during the scout training when Eren is injured and afterwards in the mess hall steam is coming out of his head. A lot of people could see this as a wacky effect added in but it reveals so much in hindsight.
That can't be taken literally though because then everyone else in the mess hall would notice it.
The most shocking revelation I found on AoT is the Human form of the Cart.
I noticed that all the titans were probably human at some point at the very moment Eren was revealed to be in the nape of the neck. Which is exactly where the weakspot of Titan.
I remember reading the first chapters and then, once they found out Eren was in the nape of the neck, thought "why isn't any of the characters thinking that therefore, if they slice up the nape to kill titans, they're probably killing a human residing there?"
I've always been subscribed to the idea that there is no such thing as a bad story idea, it all comes into how you tell it. AoT at its crux makes no sense, it starts off with giant humans eating humans, and they use steampunk flying machines to kill said machines, then it skips into titan shifters, WWI esque technology, political relations, genocide, and time fuckery where the mc was the actual mastermind behind the entire events of the story.
It literally makes no sense and is an ass pull each arc, but the way Isayama actually interconnects each story arc, and hides easter eggs hinting that not everything is as it seems is actually insane. We literally jump antagonists, from annie, to Grisha, to Zeke, to the Marylians, and then somehow back to Eren it's actually crazy, and people don't really shit on Attack on titan for that because the way Isayama set it up is insane. It's able to give that hit when the plot twist hits, the sense of surprise, but it also gives a good deal of readability, and rewards you for investing time into the series.
One of the biggest issues for plot twists is some times they can feel like ass pulls if not prepared for enough, and for anyone rewatching the series it loses its value because you KNOW it's going to come. However in AOT, for any insightful viewer they'll see these flags and begin to ask questions, and those questions DO get paid off, for people who are rewatching the series now you see all these easter eggs and signs you didn't get initially and it all comes together a completely different feel from going through it initially, it's amazing and I applaud Isayama for this.
The only surprise that AoT had for me was when Eren Kruger said to save mikasa and armin. At that point I was like, did he see the future? Wasn’t too far off xD
Grisha: "... Who the fuck are Mikasa and Armin?"
Eren K: "... I don't know."
Back then, I thought that the colossal and armored titan was just summoned in place. Like maybe a lightning strike or something, and poof, there they were. Its rather nostalgic, thinking about all the questions we had about AoT back then, before all the big reveals about the world
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Originally, I thought the Titans looked too similar to humans for them not to be some sort of connection to humans. As a child (when Attack on Titan first came on Netflix), I thought the bearded titan that ate Eren was the Armin's grandpa because I didn't understand the scene at the time. I still kind of think that today even though its far from the truth.
i'm pretty sure the bearded titan you're talking about is one of grisha's former companions! he looks awfully similar to one of the titans we see in episode 20 of season 3
It funny too though, when I first read this manga it was like 20 chapters in or just under, the last chapter was the bit when Eren filled the hole of the wall. I said to myself and to my mum that the manga is going to be huge ( she didn’t read manga but she never feigned no interest when talked to her about stuff she didn’t invest in ) and then after life stopped me reading it and the anime hit. Seeing it just exploded the popularity did make me grin and got back to reading it.
I have literally watched 20-30 of AOT foreshadowing videos but everytime you guys come up with one more foreshadowing
like in this video the way u noticed transformation of boruto is mind boggling
Iseyama god
The thing that always got me was how warped humans looking they were so I was really suspicious. Especially when the colossal titan disappeared and teleported.
I forgot how awesome the weird clues like Connie mom and the talking one bowing. I though maybe Ymir we got was the Queen Ymir they spoke about.
I knew Reiner and Bertholde were the Armored and Collosal titan from the moment that Eren was revealed to be a shifter, Reiner looks EXACTLY like the armored titan and he went nowhere without Bertholde.
I knew annie was the female titan from her literal first appearance, like Reiner Annie and the female titan look extremely similar.
5:00 Close but no dice, the Colossal Titan was actually drawn before Bertolt whilst Annie and Reiner's titan was based of their human selves.
I thought Eren coming out from the nape made it obvious. "So he piloted the giant human-shaped creature, and he came precisely out of the human-sized(-ish) vulnerable spot that every titan regenerates from. WHAT AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE."
I didn't understand why no human appeared when a mindless titan's nape was split open, admittedly. But it felt very likely that the "pilot" had merged with the titan flesh somehow.
There's no human in a pure titan's neck, only their nervous system. They kind of "dissolve" into the titan.
The only way I feel a person would not know the titans were Annie and Reiner is because they thought they looked that way on purpose to throw you off
if you didn't immediately know he was the armor titan I fail to see how you couldn't beyond outright denial.
Skepticism is one hell of a drug.
Reiner i caught fast but Annie not so. Berthold on the other hand was a full surprise to me when it was revealed.
Also that scene when levi tells eren no one can see the future, but later on we find out the attack titan can
Have you ever read Attack on Titan: Before The Fall? I think the reason Isayama approved that story to be released (he neither wrote the story nor drew the manga) was the idea of Kuklo (the main character) whom was born after the titan who ate his mom was killed during her preagnancy. This was set 70 years before the main story started.
Then in the timeskip arc, Historia was offered to eat Zeke and become the Beast Titan with royal powers, while she was preagnant (and Eren strongly disagreed). If this idea succeeded, we will get the second Kuklo in the story.
Also there was an industrial area around the corner behind the walls. This didn't exist in the main story, but the Thunder Spears might be manufactured from the remnants of the technology in that area.
So Isayama approved that story because it was a really good complementary of what he has planned since the beginning.
Him : Says that all titans are humans
Also him minutes later : spoiler warning for attack on titan
10:55 Berdholdt’s face as he’s looking at Reiner experience a mental breakdown
the background of the episode number in the anime is a MAP that indicate sea and outside world. every episode from the very first.
That footstep thing. How didn't this get noticed more. Amazing.
I dont know if there is in the manga, but there is a scene in a point where there is a suspicion about who actually killed one of the cadets during the first fight they had, later on when the jig is up the whole scene is shown where Reiner sound like a crazy person with a double personality. The hints were all there. This is how you actually build a good mistery story, not like most retcon shonens out there, but a story with a beginning, middle and end in sight.
Yeah, like dwelling on a fucking door for no reason, right?
I feel a bit sad for Reiner. He was just trying to make his mother proud.
The tough Reiner was him using Marcel's personality. The true Reiner was the sweet, 'weak' kid.
Another small hint is the titans in chapter 1 are the people we see get transformed into titans when learning about Marley and Eren Kruger
10:04
I always thought that this Titan is a male. But in Ymir' flashback it was a woman with short blonde hair.
Actually when you think about it, the lightning striking and “creating” the Colossal titan was the first clue, especially when we saw Eren and Annie shift.
But your hint about the footprint was THE earliest hint. I’m just feeling stupid now wondering how I never figured that the lightning strike meant it was a shifter.
But … dont the colossal titan shifted will create a nuclear-like blast? Wonder if shifted nearby the wall will greatly damaged the wall
@@Ftrs2586 actually, the user of the colossal can control the explosion it makes when transforming, just like how he can turn his titan into steam and disappear
About Bertholdt's footsteps, I think many people just thought the titan came from the skies or something (but not literally fall from the space lol) considering how mythological creatures titans are
The most iconic is the "ippiki nokorazu" (after the title lol this was so cool especially when you know how Japanese language works)
"Hiki" is the counter for rather small animals like cats or dogs. We think Eren is using this intentionally to show contempt to the titans.
At the end of season, Eren enters a Berserk mode in which he is barely conscious. He then recites the same words, plus "destroy the World".
All of this is of course revealed to not be referencing titans, but instead referencing the Rumbling and the tiny looking humans (hiki) in the World outside the Walls! Those who were really unleashing transformed Eldian people within the Walls!
They end looking like tiny animals from up there, and they end crushed under his feet and those of the countless Colossal Titans.
Annie smashing some bugs is also referencing the fact she holds grudge. When first transforming in Trost, the Attack titan can also be seen several times smashing with its feet smaller or knocked down titans.
AYOOO 🧠 I never knew the "small" animals part that's deep
I'm not a fan of the last chapter, but I respect that Isayama stuck to his story from the beginning to the end.
Average aoe fan
@@lolabcd1234 best ending incest + thanks for murdering everyone lmao 🤣
@@cedricgalleon1435what is incest lmfao
@@cedricgalleon1435incest?
"You got a story in your Forshadows"
I feel like Isayama already finished the whole concept of this world and just used it as a tool to dig further into the main plot. By tool, I mean A Long-Term Tool.
I could be wrong but I thought he wrote the plot to himself about how he wants to start the story and how to end it before he wrote everything in the middle, with some fill ins.
back when AOT was shrouded by mystery. good times. some people thought the series took place in poland lol.
It takes place in Madagascar
Let's also not forget that when they were at Utgard Castle, that when the Beast Titan appeared, Reiner and Bertholdt were staring at it, and the other scouts actually poked at them about it, saying they were acting like they "just saw a legend" in the flesh.
Also, for the Anime, after Eren hits his head during training as a Cadet, at dinner, you see him there with his head wrapped up in bandages. But, if you look closely, you'll notice that there is steam coming from the top of his head. Not intensely, but barely. As if he's just now getting used to his Titan powers that he doesn't yet know that he has.
No way people does not think Titan was human from first chapter. I mean this is literally every zombie style plot ever, especially Titan still have their human face / body, the only question is “how” rather than “what”
Best thing about Isayama is he ended the story when there's no clear enemy left. Instead of keep adding unnecessary enemies, he ended it.
11:27 I interpreted this scene differently, thinking that after getting many clues and finding out that humans are able to turn into Titans, as seen with Eren, Reiner also had his 'suspicions' with the village, but was trying to distract Connie's attention to the mission and also to protect him, since he tends to get emotional.
So I had no reason to question Reiner, but in the end he really did want to just shut up Connie, although the empathy was maybe partly genuine, since he really did care about them.
For the scene where Bert was going to bite his hand we see Reiner with a shocked/rageful expression. Which may have prompted him to tell eren about them being titans.
2:57 that is actually a plot hole because titan bodies can't just disapper u get out of them from the nape then their body slowly fades away. we only saw the colosal titan do that
That is because it's a colossal titan power. It was explained that it can create an explosion on transformation (which is controllable by the shifter) or appear quickly and vanish quickly too. Just like how War Hammer Titan also has its own unique transformation.
When you're so obsessed with the attack on titan show, this kind of foreshadowing is already basic to you yet it also serves as a treasure that attack on titan will always be the best at this kind of plot
When the colossal appears the first two times, it literally looks like it was sent down to Earth from the heavens in the form of a lightning bolt, which is why no footprints. It's only after we see the lighting happen when Eren transforms can someone figure out the colossal is Human. Before then, there's zero indication of it.
The neck thing isn't foreshadowing lol, it's Just storytelling
Thank you for putting the timestamps I liked the video for that
You can really turn 300 word essay into 1000 word one
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The anime makes this more obvious since unlike manga panels which sometimes how the background while someone is talking, the anime shifts right to each shifter
broooo the introoo bro , you are precious
My mom was pretty suspicious on Reiner and was confused on his true position in the fight for humanity, but didn’t realize the injured soldier in Marley in season 4 was Eren Jaeger 🤦♂️
Your soo underrated you need more subs
Realized when early on in the series they mentioned that titans don't have reproductive organs so I wondered how/why there were so many of them, became somewhat obvious later in the first season when some humans are seen in a crystal like gel after being eaten then thrown up, realizing that if humans aren't a food source for them, we must be a means of reproduction similar to a parasite
i thought they were eating humans because they instinctivly know that eating a titan shifter will turn them human again
@@aliq45 never thought about it like that definitely seems right
@@aliq45And when did you come to that conclusion? after they revealed they were humans? lying ass
Reiner is by far the best and strongest character in AoT
5:30 I think the exact premise of AOT threw us off the rails that there could be human titans, so we easily overlook the foreshadowing like Reiner and Bertholdt, only when Annie showed us that there are shifters on the enemy side, did we start to connect the dots.
Coincidentally, Annie’s reveal to be the Female Titan also led to the other characters being suspicious of Reiner and Bertholdt, such as Armin.
The colossal Titan intentionally was given the exact same facial structure as Bertholdt. They absolutely look alike.
I'm Japanese. Sorry for my poor English.
There is one more moment.
Remember the conversation between Ymir and Reiner.
Ymir said she doesn't like herring.
In response, Reiner was surprised that Yumir could read those letters.
There is something strange about this conversation. Because herring are saltwater fish. So generally people who live inside the Wall don't know the fish herring. Because there is a river in the wall, but no sea. But Reiner doesn't mention anything about herring. So you can tell that Reiner is from outside the
I actually noticed the one footprint on the first chapter back in the release, and for me it was pretty obvious that he had appeared there out of nowhere, but i kept thinking for a long time that the colossal titan had some kind of teleport power or that he had been "summoned" somehow, maybe even that he had fall from the sky via the lighting, it never crosse my mind the obvious answer that a smaller creature had transformed until the manga revealed that humans could actually transform into titans. And also thought that Erwin was the colossal titan and that the exploration corps had discovered some dark hidden truth outside the walls and changed sides lol
Also, there's a detail that could point to Reiner and Bertholt being traitors,when Reiner saves Connie from a titan in the castle,Connie is surprised and thankful to Reiner,he then asks to Bertholt "Bertholt,you who knows Reiner so well,was he always like that?"
And Bertholt answered by "No,he was a warrior back then,but now,he is a soldier"
And also by the fact they keep saying they want to go back to their homeland,which would be weird considering the village they pretended to be coming from was invaded by titans
Bertoldt biting his hand, I always thought he was yelling and trying to block his face from debris
I didn’t read the manga so when I first watched the show I assumed that the colossal titan could teleport and that’s how he was able to just show up and disappear lol..
As for bertold's colossal titan. His height was also a giver, not just his eyes.
It’s crazy how eren could’ve killed the colossal titan at the start killed everyone because he could’ve saved lives
Bertholt transforming into a titan in that tower would've been a dumb move, he would've blown everyone up including Reiner with the colossal titan's explosion
He can choose not to cause the explosion.
If he truly thought that he was about to die then, who knows, maybe he would have been willing to kill everyone, including Reiner, in order to save himself. I agree that it's dumb though, it'd be starter for Reiner to transform and carry Bertholdt to safety.
@@suzuxiiiahdv it would still likely kill everyone there
I don't remember where it was said but Armored titan has the best regeneration out of all titans and also has high durability in human form, and also it is the only titan shifter who can survive colosal's explosion(thou the last part probably only applies to his titan form)
@@sydneypeck2488 nah
Reiner doesn't die, it's a well known fact
Bro what is that 2015 goofy ahh bg music 💀
The video could start at 1:42 and nothing of value would be lost
In the Anime, one Titan at the very beginning looked wayyyyyyy too similar to Armins granddad, who was out on a mission to receive the first wall back after the attack of the colossal Titan. I don‘t know wich episode but I remembered this so well, because they literally looked the same.
what? ofcourse he didnt walk to the wall.. there was a fucking huge lightning and he suddenly appeared
Literally XD
We learn that titans are humans at the end of season 2 technically
My favorite foreshadowing comes from the very beginning of the manga/show where we see that all the titans look like giant somewhat deformed humans. Really makes you go, “hmm”
the not walking to the wall Ive always thought it was obvious, its imposible that all the people on the wall didnt see him coming
Mikasa (w/ all sass): “I think the female titan looks like Annie.”
i like how it says "second, reiner braun" while he was also the second intelligent titan shown right after colossal titan
I remember back before anyone else was revealed as a Titan except like Annie and people were making all these OC Titans ala Sonic the Hedgehog OC's and it was hilarious. A lot of them just looked like altered versions of Eren's Attack Titan.
"The talking titan mistook Ilse for Ymir, because of their similar appearance"
*shows a comparison between two completely unalike people*
One thing I was sorta disappointed with when it came to Aot is how it dropped any and all of the interesting mysteries and world building that really helped the horror and atmosphere that made Aot scary in the first place. Like the talking titan story didn’t really go anywhere besides it just being an interesting abnormal titan.
The talking titan was revealed to be a shifted Ymir follower later on third season
@@desfaloloI think she also has Royal Blood which is why she was somehow able to talk? I can't remember it so I might be wrong.
Something i noticed actually a little bit ago and it might be obvious, but never heard anyone mention, is how soon the titans are there after the colossal kicked the wall in, its very likely that part of their plan was to have a batch of pures ready to walk through, and not only that but maybe they didn't even know zeke had followed them and was commanding them to gather. Yes i know that outside the walls there would be some possibly already nearby but you dont see any outside the walls when looking down from above the colossal. Also i had originally thought the whole point of breaking the wall was literally so they could infiltrate. If they really wanted to they could have probably just waited till night then have Bert transform and literally place reiner inside. But im guessing part of infiltrating hinged on the chaos caused, easier to blend into a population thats in complete disarray.
Good content but avoid using music we've heard a million times before im going crazy having to listen to it again lol