Thread by @thedoctor00_

A thread on why the haters of chapter 139 can't read a manga properly.
Disclaimer: this doesn't want to be an insult, it's just that some of the criticisms to the ending are just nonsense, and I'd like to prove here why analyzing every important passage of the final chapter

Let's take this for example, Eren says that one of the reasons why he did what he did was to save his friends, and many fans think that this was out of his character, well let's see what he said in chapter 123

He says that his goal is to protect the people of Paradis, and there are many other moments that prove my point, but this is already enough +

Now let's talk about this, many people think that this scene has somewhat nullified what Eren did in chapter 122 when he freed Ymir, but this is also false +

Eren succeeds in freeing Ymir, when he hugs her she stops obeying the royal family, and even there he says "you've been waiting for 2000 years for someone...", not specifying that that someone is him, Ymir saw the future and understood what would happen. +

This is why he lets 20% of humanity live, if he had killed everyone Mikasa would not have killed him because there would have been no need, so Ymir would have remained in the paths and the power of the titans would never have disappeared.

It's time to talk about this, a panel that has led to confusion in many, the main criticisms I have seen are two: 1)Eren did not know what he was doing; 2)Eren had a destiny. +

Frankly the first criticism doesn't make sense, no one has a plan that they know will work 100% unless they have perfect knowledge of the future, and Eren doesn't have that power, when he says "the only thing I know for sure is the consequence of Mikasa's choice", +

he means it was what he actually saw in the future, but he had a plan to get to that future, frankly it seems stupid to even think such a thing, it's not like Eren organises the raid on Liberio, the alliance and Zeke's betrayal on the spot without thinking about it first lol.+

Speaking of the second point, it has actually been made clear several times that the Rumbling event was now certain, so the "fate" story is not an asspull at all.

Another fundamental concept, Eren has no destiny, no deity has written his life in history, his 'destiny' is simply the result of his free will, it is his actions alone that make that future possible.+

Eren is ultimately a slave to his idea of freedom (which by the way, as is repeatedly said, is not free will, but exploring a new world without humans, which is why he says he was disappointed when he discovered that humans lived beyond the walls).+

In fact, in the famous 'freedom' panel Eren is a child, and says that whoever sees the outside world will be the freest person in the world.

Now it's time to talk about this:+

No, this scene doesn't make the conversation with Reiner a plot hole (Eren in fact asks him why my mother died, not why you killed her, and asks this to make him think about the nature of the world) and indeed gives us an explanation as to why Dina didn't kill Bertholdt.+

And the fact that Eren had his mother die (again, this is not exactly clear due to translation) is not out of character, rather it shows us even more of Eren's nature, a man who keeps moving forward to achieve his goals.

This is probably the most controversial panel from the chapter: +

The level of stupidity of the conceptual criticism directed at this panel is unbelievable, Eren has been called incel and simp (which are two different terms but ok) just because he expressed his feelings, dammit read the definition of the words before you speak. +

This panel makes us understand even more how Eren is a human character with feelings, "Chad Eren" never existed, even after the time skip he was seen crying (I think of chapter 131, when he beat Armin and Sasha's death).

Many people have said that this chapter changes Eren completely, making him a person who gives up his dream of freedom, but this is not the case at all.

Eren would have done the Rumbling in any case, to flatten the world, eliminate all forms of life and recreate the idyllic world that was present in Armin's book, precisely to seek his freedom.+

And when Armin asks him why, Eren replies that he doesn't know. Obviously, this panel has also been criticised, but there are actually more explanations (it's obvious that Eren knew why since he explains it in chapter 131).+

The first plausible explanation is that Eren has simply realised his mistake, freedom is not the unexplored world he dreamed of as a child, that world does not even exist, and he cannot create it, it is no coincidence that after the Freedom panel Eren has a sad face.

Freedom is not that paradise that doesn't exist, freedom is being able to appreciate the beauty of the world, understanding it and being happy, not being a slave to anything, and Eren was a slave to his idea of Freedom, and he maybe understood that he did everything wrong.+

The other possibility is that Eren simply can't explain his nature, it's no coincidence that every time he was asked a question about his plans he responded with "why was I born in this world/I can't accept it", human beings can hardly explain their nature.

Now I'd say I'm done talking about Eren and I can move on to Armin, seriously this guy has been accused of being a genocide fan (in the future he'll be a diplomat but ok) when in the adjacent cartoon he says what Eren did was a mistake, learn to read lol.

Now speaking of so-called plot holes, no there aren't any, Hallucigenia is seen burning here in the background, and the reason Ymir disappears is explained, extensively above, Mikasa broke her chains.

Ah of course it is not that as soon as Eren died a war broke out between Eldia and the world, it is explicitly said that they are just in a state of tension.+

Then of course there was war (we don't even know if it was actually a civil war or not), but that doesn't make Eren's efforts useless, I've already talked about it here qr.ae/pGUYdK

I think I can say that this thread is over, thank you all for reading.