Attack On Titan Forced Us To Fall In Love With A Villain, And Other Anime Should Take Notes – Looper

Now, as fans of have seen in the latest supersized episode of “Attack on Titan,” Eren has become godlike and has no means of turning back, even if he wanted to. Like Dr. Manhattan in “Watchmen,” Eren now experiences all time simultaneously, as we see from him remembering a boy he once saved as he is being crushed under his current onslaught of Colossal Titans and is helpless to stop it.

With this revelation and Eren’s confirmation to his friends that they will have to kill him to stop him, Eren’s apocalyptic death march will be his final act on this earth, one way or the other. His lasting legacy will be one of worldwide destruction, with millions dead, and the genocide of entire peoples crushed beneath the feet of his massive, unstoppable army of giants.

It’s a deft trick, and one that forces even Eren’s most ardent defenders to see how truly awful he has allowed himself to become. As the survivors of The Rumbling and Eren’s former friends face Eren down in a final confrontation this fall, what Eren’s final moments will be will remain to be seen, but one thing is for sure: he’s done far too much evil to ever come back from the brink now and if other anime want to chase the massive success of “Attack on Titan,” they need to be willing to go just as dark and heavy as the anime megahit has in The Final Season.