Thought-about to be probably the greatest anime collection, and, in most respects, one of many biggest tv collection of all time, Assault on Titan captivated audiences via its deeply complicated characters, masterful storytelling, stellar pacing, and magical animation high quality. Upon hitting tv screens in 2013, the world turned enamored with the world of Eren Yeager (Yūki Kaji & Bryce Papenbrook) and the Titans. The present would go on to obtain quite a few accolades and have become the highest-streamed anime on Funimation only one 12 months after its launch.
With the finale lately launched on November 4th, 2023, many have been wanting again on the collection, reliving the perfect moments and rewatching their favourite episodes. The five-season run introduced pleasure to the eyes of hundreds of thousands and have become a present that may go on to assist outline this period of anime whereas additionally setting an enormous commonplace for the standard of the anime launched round it.
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“Retrospective” (Season 4, Episode 27)
IMDb Ranking: 9.5/10
With Reiner (Yoshimasa Hosoya & Robert McCollum) and Annie (Yu Shimamura & Lauren Landa) on the sphere of their Titan varieties, the group has to combat off Floch (Kensho Ono & Matt Shipman) and his Yaegerists as they attempt to cease the protagonists whereas they look ahead to the flying boat to be serviced. This battle managed to usher in an enormous growth and in addition a few of the best possible combat sequences in all the season and doubtlessly a few of the greatest in all the collection.
In a time of want, Falco (Natsuki Hanae & Bryson Baugus) turns into the Jaw Titan, which initiates an motion sequence with Floch that could be one of the crucial well-animated within the present. To not point out, Mikasa’s (Yui Ishikawa & Trina Nishimura) rage is unleashed in opposition to the Yeagerists and reminds the viewers that not even the Titans can match as much as her ruthlessness.
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“Sole Salvation” (Season 4, Episode 15)
IMDb Ranking: 9.5/10
Ever since his introduction in Season 3 (in his human kind), audiences had lots of questions on Zeke Yeager (Daiki Yamashita & Ernesto Jason Liebrecht) and who he was and what he had deliberate. They’re given some hints and tidbits of knowledge all through the episodes, but it surely was in Assault on Titan Season 4, Episode 15, “Sole Salvation” that they bought the data they sought.
The entry in Season 4 acts as a serious flashback into Zeke’s previous to offer the complete story of the long-lost Yeager brother. This offered the viewers with a ton of perception concerning his motives and all the plot surrounding him because the season moved additional into its remaining act.
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“Kids of the Forest” (Season 4, Episode 13)
IMDb Ranking: 9.5/10
Zeke’s plans are coming to fruition as Floch’s Yeagerists start to actually take motion and, resulting from this, issues start to go majorly awry. However this isn’t the rationale that Assault on Titan Season 4, Episode 13, “Kids of the Forest,” is so infamous and remembered. The fanbase and viewers keep in mind it for a far completely different cause.
It is on this episode that Eren lastly will get to work together with Mikasa and Armin (Marina Inoue & Jessie James Grelle) after fairly a while, and it didn’t prove the best way many had hoped. This was no comfortable reunion and confirmed lots of Eren’s true colours (or so many had thought (nonetheless up for debate)). The previous hero would go on to utterly insult Mikasa and get right into a fistfight with Armin, insulting him, as properly. It was heartbreaking for followers of the collection to observe and went down within the present’s historical past as a serious turning level in folks’s opinions of Eren.
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“The Different Facet of the Wall” (Season 3, Episode 22)
IMDb Ranking: 9.5/10
The reality behind every part is lastly made public and the results are felt for higher and for worse. However most significantly, the Scouts lastly get the prospect they have been in search of for 3 seasons: to enterprise past the partitions and see what is really on the market. The Scouts lastly make it and, for the primary time, see the ocean.
Whereas most of them are comfortable and have a joyful time taking part in within the water and discovering issues like shells, Eren is just too caught up wanting in direction of the horizon. Not but happy with the work they’ve all executed, he is able to face the remainder of their enemies out on the earth. It is right here that Armin actually sees how completely different he and his greatest pal have change into through the years. It is a bittersweet second and the proper strategy to cap off Season 3.
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“Shut Fight” (Season 2, Episode 7)
IMDb Ranking: 9.6/10
The fights in Assault on Titan have at all times been a few of the greatest components of the present and if there’s an episode that is absolutely targeted round Titan-on-Titan fight, it is Assault on Titan Season 2, Episode 7, “Shut Fight.” Each Eren and all the Scout Regiment get to tackle Reiner and Bertholdt (Tomohisa Hashizume & David Matranga) one-on-one of their Armored and Colossal Titan varieties.
Eren will get an opportunity to essentially tackle the Armored Titan once more whereas the Scouts try and take down the Colossal. This combat provides Eren the prospect to indicate off a few of the preventing strikes he discovered from Annie again within the first season and surprises Reiner. In the meantime, the Scouts actually wrestle to tackle the Colossal together with his lethal steam talents.
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“The Daybreak of Humanity” (Season 4, Episode 28)
IMDb Ranking: 9.6/10
Mikasa fondly remembers touring to Marley for the primary time and interacting together with her associates and refugees. Nonetheless, she shortly remembers Eren’s plan to observe Zeke and needs issues may have been completely different. Eren can be remembering how issues had been and the occasions that led him up to now. How he would use the rumbling to wipe out the remainder of the world. The episode ends with Eren arriving on the shores of Marley.
A pivotal episode that goes into higher element about Zeke’s euthanasia plan and Eren’s secret plan to divert and destroy the folks of Marley. Within the final episode earlier than the ultimate chapter, followers had been in anticipation to see if Eren’s plan would come to fruition.
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“Assault Titan” (Season 3, Episode 21)
IMDb Ranking: 9.6/10
In a flashback, Grisha Jaeger is distraught over the lack of his household. Nonetheless, his pal, Eren Kruger, convinces him to take up the mantle of the Founding Titan from the king who refuses to make use of the facility to guard the folks inside the partitions. Within the current, the group discusses turning into extra secluded, that the folks exterior the partitions don’t belief the themes of Ymir. Eren realizes he isn’t a descendant of loyal blood however can nonetheless management the Founding Titan. He remembers being touched by the titan type of Dina Fritz, giving him the power to manage the Founding Titan.
A lot data is given concerning the Titans and Eren’s connection to the Founding Titan on this episode, making it an essential one. This episode is the place the story begins to shift and followers, and Eren, are taken without warning by studying how all paths interconnect within the story of his father. On this episode, the collection begins to change into extra complicated and branches off right into a wider view of the world of Titans.
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“Scream” (Season 2, Episode 12)
IMDb Ranking: 9.7/10
The smiling titan swallowed Hannes, and Erin unleashed a scream that by some means induced the opposite Titans to swarm the smiling titan and tear it aside. Erin watches because the Titans devour his fellow scouts, desperately attempting to make use of his newfound powers. Ymir leaves the scouts and retreats with the soldiers into the woods.
The significance of the episode comes on the very finish, because the digital camera pans over Shinganshina, a person sporting glasses emerges from the beast titan. It is the primary time we glimpse the one that controls the Beast Titan. The episode ends on a cliffhanger with the reveal, making it one of the crucial thrilling.
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“Reminiscences of the Future” (Season 4, Episode 20)
IMDb Ranking: 9.8/10
In hopes to indicate him he is been brainwashed, Zeke takes Eren via their father, Grisha’s reminiscences. This episode takes the cake for being one of the crucial intelligently written episodes of all the collection, with the large twist of the episode revealing that Eren was in Grisha’s head manipulating him into killing the Reiss household and taking the Founding Titan.
The reveal of the episode induced followers to take the web by storm and sparked developments and memes that solely uplifted the episode much more in many individuals’s eyes. The massive twist of the episode ties all the collection collectively in a good knot that genuinely enhances the writing of the previous seasons wanting again, as the creator of the collection, Hajime Isayama, had the collection deliberate out from the very starting. This aided in making the journey of watching the collection up till now and rewatching really feel a lot extra rewarding.
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“Two Brothers” (Season 4, Episode 19)
IMDb Ranking: 9.7/10
Eren’s Assault Titan and Zeke’s Beast Titan wrestle to get to one another as the remainder of the world fights in opposition to them, and Colt pleads with Zeke to not use his titan roar to save lots of Falco. Zeke decides to make use of it anyway, remodeling the troopers of town into titans. The pacing of this episode is finished very properly, persistently providing new developments that hold it transferring quick and hard-hitting, which makes every new growth really feel extra impactful than the final.
The episode’s pacing slows down considerably as soon as Eren and Zeke find yourself with Ymir in Paths, which supplies the viewers respiration room after the insane sequence of occasions that happened in the actual world. This aids the ultimate reveal of the episode to hit the toughest, giving it an honest time to be constructed up.
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“Savagery” (Season 4, Episode 14)
IMDb Ranking: 9.6/10
Mikasa begins to consider that Eren is being manipulated after he assaults Liberio. This sends Eren right into a rage, and he begins chastising his associates for being manipulated in their very own method. Elsewhere, Levi tries to get Zeke to tackle the position of the Beast Titan, however Zeke is reluctant.
Whereas not essentially the most action-packed episode, this one exhibits the wrestle Eren is having together with his place of energy. He is lashing out at his associates and inflicting rifts between them at a susceptible time.
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“Assault” (Season 4, Episode 7)
IMDb Ranking: 9.7/10
The battle between the Scouts and Marleyans rages on, and this episode serves as the purpose at which Season 4 begins to discover its iconic message that the Scouts and Marleyans are simply in their very own methods, making the continued battle start to really feel tougher and tougher to choose a facet on. The writers’ potential to steadiness good and dangerous moments between the 2 sides makes for some extremely jarring moments as audiences get to see characters in a lightweight they are not used to.
This leads to the climax of the episode, Eren killing and taking the facility of the Warfare Hammer Titan, feeling scary in so some ways. The person who’s seen as the principle character of the collection is all of the sudden portrayed as a villain, and it adjustments the tone of the present exponentially transferring ahead.
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“That Day” (Season 3, Episode 20)
IMDb Ranking: 9.7/10
On this flashback episode, followers are handled to flashbacks that reveal the backstory of none aside from Grisha Yeager, Eren’s father, a part of which particulars how he paid a heavy sacrifice for going past the Internment Zone for his sister. However no matter his sacrifice, his sister’s physique remains to be discovered useless in a river and fuels his want to affix the Restorationists. This episode additionally reveals how his first spouse turned the titan that may eat Eren’s mom and confirmed how Grisha would find yourself on Paradis Island, which offered an enormous disclose to followers in all places.
The episode was large with its wild plot twists and divulges that confirmed audiences a backstory that recontextualizes all the collection. The episode’s reveal of the origins of the titans introduced concern and horror into the hearts of many, evoking a plethora of feelings from followers in all places and making this an episode that was positive to be one which was remembered.
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“Hero” (Season 3, Episode 17)
IMDb Ranking: 9.8/10
Being thought-about one of many greatest tv episodes of all time each inside the fanbase and for its IMDb score, Assault on Titan Season 3, Episode 17, “Hero” is one that can go down in historical past. After Erwin’s highly effective phrases within the earlier episodes to purchase time for Levi, the fan favourite captain will get his likelihood at vengeance in opposition to the Beast Titan whereas Armin makes a sacrifice play that adjustments every part.
There might merely be an excessive amount of good to say about this episode to include in a single paragraph. Whether or not it’s the astronomical animation high quality as Levi takes down the Beast Titan all by himself or Armin sacrificing himself to provide his comrades an opportunity at victory in opposition to the Colossal Titan, this episode will make viewers sit again in awe and depart them sitting with heartbreak. Each with compelling emotion and unbelievable motion, this episode’s rating is greater than warranted.
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“Excellent Sport” (Season 3, Episode 16)
IMDb Ranking: 9.8/10
One of many highlights of Assault on Titan for a lot of is how profound and highly effective its writing and messaging could be. The climax of Assault on Titan Season 3, Episode 16, “Excellent Sport,” is a borderline good instance of that form of writing and messaging. With the Scouts in a tricky spot, Commander Erwin makes a tricky name to take down the Beast Titan, however it’s going to kill him and the Scouts within the course of.
The writing in Erwin’s speech is so transferring and profound that it is caught with viewers even to at the present time, going so far as the dub iteration turning into a viral sound on the favored app, TikTok. The extreme and heartfelt phrases of Erwin mixed with the masterfully composed rating and breathtaking animation cap off the episode in a really bittersweet method that also stays one of many biggest moments within the collection.
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“Warrior” (Season 2, Episode 6)
IMDb Ranking: 9.7/10
Reiner talks with Eren after the scouts regroup and confesses that he and Bertholdt are the Armored and Colossal Titans. He asks Eren to affix them in retreating into the woods, however Eren is reluctant and suspicious that he’s mendacity. Mikasa overhears them and proceeds to assault Reiner and Bertholdt, however the two flip into their Titan kind and attempt to seize Ymir and Eren, however Eren transforms within the Assault Titan.
A revealing episode for each viewers and Eren. Whereas there isn’t a motion, it units up a battle between Bertholdt, Reiner, Eren and Mikasa. The 4 finally combat, however come to a stalemate as Bertholdt and Reiner escape.
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“From You, 2000 Years In the past” (Season 4, Episode 21)
IMDb Ranking: 9.7/10
After the stunning growth that Eren manipulated his father into murdering the Reiss household to seize the Founding Titan, Zeke and Eren start to go head-to-head as they attempt to attain Ymir and get the facility of the Founding Titan for themselves, all whereas seeing the horrifying backstory of Ymir despatched a chill down the backbone of many. The Ymir plot is proven primarily with out dialogue, letting the viewers simply sit with the stomach-churning scenes earlier than them.
The writers do an exemplary job of letting audiences develop sympathy for the younger woman and that does an unbelievable job at informing understanding round her determination to affix Eren and start the rumbling to flatten the world. The truth that the writers had been capable of make folks really feel for Ymir a lot that such a horrendous act just like the rumbling can really feel justified is an unbelievable achievement in and of itself.
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“The Warfare Hammer Titan” (Season 4, Episode 6)
IMDb Ranking: 9.8/10
Going down instantly after the terrifying assault on Marley from Eren’s Assault Titan, the Marleyans regroup to try to cease Eren earlier than he can kill and take the facility of the Warfare Hammer Titan. What makes this episode so thrilling is the eventual reveal of the Scouts after not seeing the principle forged for six entire episodes and Eren being completely outnumbered earlier than their arrival. The dearth of the Scouts within the earlier episodes aids this second, feeling extremely rewarding and thrilling.
Followers additionally word the combat between Eren’s Assault Titan and the Warfare Hammer Titan incorporates some breathtaking animation high quality. The Warfare Hammer’s distinctive potential provides a complete new fashion of battle choreography to the motion sequences that serve up a battle in contrast to any which have come earlier than within the collection. This, mixed with the Scouts lastly making their long-awaited Season 4 reveal, leaves viewers of the collection ending the episode on an extremely excessive word.
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“Declaration of Warfare” (Season 4, Episode 5)
IMDb Ranking: 9.8/10
Equally to Assault on Titan Season 4, Episode 6, “The Warfare Hammer Titan,” this episode would characteristic the primary Season 4 reveal of none aside from Eren Yeager himself. After spending the primary 4 episodes with Zeke and Reiner whereas introducing us to the brand new forged in Marely, Eren’s reappearance comes as a shock to each the viewers and Reiner.
The climactic dialog between Eren and Reiner spells out the parallel between the 2. Eren informs Reiner that he lastly understands why he broke down the partitions within the first place and states, “Over the ocean… contained in the partitions… we’re all the identical.” The second does wonders in exhibiting the viewers how equivocal the world of Assault on Titan has change into and leaves followers with a deep consideration of whether or not Eren is really doing the proper factor.
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“Midnight Solar” (Season 3, Episode 18)
IMDb Ranking: 9.8/10
What makes Assault on Titan Season 3, Episode 18, “Midnight Solar” so splendidly compelling is the ethical dilemma posed within the episode’s climax. After the borderline deaths of each the skilled veteran Commander Erwin and the intense and youthful Armin, Levi should determine which individual’s life to save lots of with the titan serum. The scenes of Eren and Mikasa preventing tooth and nail to persuade Levi to save lots of their greatest pal are tear-jerking to say the least and do wonders in making the choice that rather more troublesome for each Levi and the viewers. To not point out, the voice forged actually brings their A-game for this episode.
The great thing about the episode is there is no heart-pounding motion to be seen, and it focuses purely on slowing its pacing down, giving the viewers time to sit down with the seemingly inconceivable determination at play. The second lingered on for fairly a while, which is an excellent method of constructing rigidity that makes Levi’s eventual determination really feel each relieving and heartbreaking.
