Thread by @vincent5126

Attack on Titan
The Final Season
Part 1
The Rewatch Thread

After WIT staff and Araki brought AoT into a wider world
MAPPA staff under Yuichiro Hayashi's direction take on the pressure and challenge of adapting the post-timeskip content and a stronger discourse on war
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Today is the 2nd anniversary of the Final Season
A big day for me
I will be making a live-tweet series per season but as the anniversary of the season that basically immersed me into the anime online community, I needed to skip to this point
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https://twitter.com/vincent5126/status/1463019688548466691?s=20&t=91jnXUpSw1_V7eLLgpHe4g

I will make different threads per episode, as well as links to any blog post I made before as references
Part 1 actually had most of its episodes reviewed on my Hubpages
Also watch out for special thread series in between
Will organize all thread types soon
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Opening 6: My War by Shinsei Kamattechan
The OP storyboarded by series director Hayashi may have "bland" visual direction if not for the fact that minimalism itself is a form of art, especially when expressed for a purpose
The OP is stripped of color for a cause
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Every figure and lifeform is a walking statue, devoid of dignity and purpose
The haunting march, crumbling soldiers, falling Titans, and remains of the dead are the same as the rocks and walls of the world
This is the helpless view we have of life
Gray without dignity
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However, the explosions remain colorful (and way detailed)
Fits how the primal desire in violence is the thrill, the "color" as living is empty, dull and that is how the lifeless of war remains content
"Some want to watch the world burn", a desire of a post-war world
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References are in each unrelated image
Abstract approach was similar to Dorohedoro's OP minus faces
Spine is Reiner's transformation in Ep 60
Flamethrower is the Ragako gassing
Scouts and city blast (Armin) from Assault
First explosion might be Hallucegenia gas (138)
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Marley's soldiers march on the streets as a haunting daily reminder of fascism
An empty face that we become should we submit to the Forest
The falling of birds shows the death of innocence, of "children clinging to their last coins"
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Lyrics are intentionally creepy and catchy altogether
Noko's dual singing embodies Ymir and Eren as spectators
The MV emphasizes a depressive tone in its reality but both versions use chants to disguise lyrics
War, the world's noise, the forest, is what we are used to
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This is just the beginning
Stay tuned as I will discuss Ending 6's lyrics and implications in a separate thread, along with the rest of the episodes