Warning: this review contains spoilers Note: After like 2 years AniList decided to break my image links I will fix them soon. Also this is more of a personal rant about the series rather than an actual high effort and wellspoken review. If you are easily triggered or something yes people actually get triggered by other peoples opinions nowadays then Id advise you not to read it. Anyway with that being said lets get right into it: that sounded like a generic rs intro lmao Introduction. Attack On Titan The Final Season Part 2 is way worse than I initially imagined. Jesus. I mean I knew that the story was going to be bad and filled with plot conveniences and poorly written moments because Ive read ahead in the manga after The Final Season Part 1. I also knew that the characters in AoT would continue to be shit like they always have been and mainly used as plot conveniences with a single and repeating character trait rather than becoming actual fleshedout characters who are supposed to be and behave like humans. But at the very least I expected the animation to improve. Sadly it is still just as bad as it was in The Final Season Part 1 if not worse. While I never had high expectations for Attack On Titan especially after Season 3 Part 2 I always thought it would at least be a visually stunning show to watch. This of course is no longer the case after The Final Season Part 1 since as we all know MAPPA did one of the worst possible adaptations Ive ever seen with some absolutely horrendous CGI and at times little to no movement / animation with lots of grotesque looking and poorly drawn stills Ive included examples below but we will get to that later. But... at the end of the day I could somewhat excuse that emphasis on the word somewhat because personally something that looks this bad isnt excusable at all but anyway because the shitty animation in The Final Season Part 1 was probably due to time constraints tight schedules constant pressure from the producers bad management overworked employees etc. So when The Final Season Part 2 was announced for 2022 and after taking consideration that the studio would at the very least have more time on their hands work on this season and properly animate it I expected a huge improvement in terms of visuals. Sadly when I started watching it not only was I disappointed but I was just plain shocked. Animation Art. The Final Season Part 2 not only managed to be only slightly better than an average PowerPoint presentation you see by a not so diligent student in high school but at some points it also has even less movement and animation compared to The Final Season Part 1 which already had almost non existent animation to begin with with like 80 of each episode being still images with only a characters mouth moving up and down. This is what we call animation nowadays folks. There are even several and I really do mean several times where there is literally no animation and a single badly drawn still image just... hangs in there for 510 seconds with literally nothing happening at all animationwise apart from a randomass narration from a character in the background. Hell a lot of the time there isnt even any dialogue during those stills directly implying that they were just hastily added in there as fillers just to be able to hit that 20 minute run time each episode needs to fulfill. It really seems like they couldnt find anything else to put or they didnt have the time or they didnt ever bother to add something of importance and they just said fuck it just fill the rest of the episode with a PowerPoint presentation made for free by my 12 year old nephew I have seen The Promised Neverland S2 they did something similar why shouldnt we?. But I digress. Most of the art and the faces of characters keep looking as if they are melting like they were drawn in one of those guess the drawing games where you have like a minute to draw something and the other people have to guess what it is. While those who suffer the most from this are the faces of background characters that doesnt necessarily exclude the faces of main characters at the front of the screen making some stills from the anime look like someone spilled some water over the drawings and then decided it was okay to include them into the final product. Sadly this problem just keeps getting worse and worse with each episode and by the time I got to episode 10 the problem was so bad that I now genuinely struggle to think of another popular and generally wellliked anime with worse animation than Attack On Titan. This anime or season/part whatever you want to call it in general had an abysmal production in terms of art and animation and people who say that MAPPA did as good of a job as WIT but they have a different style are just objectively wrong. The only thing thats barely keeping this from falling below the 1/10 mark in my eyes was some RARE but genuinely good background art the arguably great voice acting a short but nicely animated/directed sequence in episode 11 and episode 3. But those episodes which in general were kinda decent ? lets say like a 4/10 in terms of quality were a welcome but in general pretty insignificant surprise in an otherwise abysmally ugly looking written show. Some Screenshots... Those screenshots were mainly taken from episodes 10 / 11 because it was at that point where I decided that I was going to make this review and I havent started taking screenshots of the episodes yet because I had no reason to other than to laugh at them. Of course that doesnt mean that those are the only ones though I have many more but I decided to spare your eyes from those abominations. And for those who are going to say oh you just took some zoomedin screenshots and you think thats bad animation? Of course characters in the background are going to look a bit sketchy Id like to tell you that these screenshots are not zoomed in nor freezeframes during intense action scenes well apart from that Armin face one that was just way too hilarious not to include. Those images filled the whole screen and they were probably there for several seconds with little to no animation or a change in scenery or camera angles making them inexcusable for... questionably one of the best but arguably one of the most influential anime of all time. 720https://i.ur.com/Hi6u0Qe.png 720https://i.ur.com/TeBhWMI.png 720https://i.ur.com/G6jVZeH.png Note: Bro is literally missing his entire elbow. 720https://i.ur.com/MiaVOal.png 720https://i.ur.com/xLQArbK.png Note: Its baffling to me how wrong the perspective is in this one. Jean looks like he is a 2.5 meter fucking giant while Armin looks like a 130cm child. 720https://i.ur.com/vS9KhwJ.jpeg Note: this has to be one of the worst backgrounds Ive seen like... ever. Genuinely looks like a badly rendered background from a PS1 game. On the left you can also clearly see a line of some sort which suggests that there are 2 different .png files that are not even connected properly. Like in old games where you had dirt1.png transitioning into dirt2.png but you could always tell where one started and where the other ended because of the graphical limitations of the time. I unironically would have done a better job connecting those two and making the transition more seamless with Photoshop in like half an hour. 720https://i.ur.com/XMoWFRY.png Note: apart from this being a really bad still background looks like a ps2 games graphics with the cartoon filter and that Yelena woman looks like she was drawn in milliseconds I wanted to ask WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS GUYS PALM??? the one dressed in white 222https://i.ur.com/fhQ4y5l.png Armins face is literally me during the entirety of those 12eps. Keep in mind btw that all those screenshots came from the last 3 episodes this is around the time when I decided Id make this review and I caught ALL THOSE animation errors and/or badly drawn stills while watching on 2x speed. The amount of atrociously bad stills and animation errors in the sad excuse of an anime probably far exceeds what I can show you here I will never forget that LITERAL 50 SECONDS OF A STILL IMAGE OF A FOREST in the middle of episode 9 for example. Characters. I could also go on and on about the characters and how badly I believe they are written / developed but thats mostly a problem that began from the very first season and carried throughout the series so its not necessarily this seasons fault. Although one could argue that it actually is this seasons fault for not trying or trying but failing to fix its characters and their issues. Eren continues to be an extremely edgy and predictable Lelouch copycat Mikasa continues to be basically a simp for Eren throughout the series with this being her one and only personality trait since season one wow she is such a great character and the best written female character ever :0 Gabi still is one of the worst written and most annoying characters in anime history with her presence in the anime being completely forced and unnecessary since the time she was introduced her friendship lmao I cant believe Im saying this for a person she actively tried to fucking kill with the blond haired chick who I fail to recall the name of is still one of the most braindead writing decisions Ive seen in my life also she is not a unique character that oh I used to hate the other side but now I kinda get them thing has been done to death if you think thats original then you just havent seen enough anime/shows/series Armin continues to be that irrelevant friendship above all character each anime seems to need for some reason and like Mikasa this seems to be his only personality trait like a fucking robot thats programmed to be that way and lastly Reiner continues to be that lucky bastard who literally cant die for plot convenience purposes. Motherfucker could have a nuclear bomb drop and explode on top of him and the show would still pull some bullshit reason on how he would and should survive. Fans of the show will say that if you pay attention to the plot you would understand why him surviving makes sense but Id argue thats mostly the plot bending itself and developing in a way to make Reiner live instead of the opposite. But I digress... The rest of the character cast is either completely forgettable and irrelevant that bold guy for example Connie I believe was his name? or just straight up annoying and unlikable seriously who even likes that Hange girl and the only 2 good characters in the show are either dead Erwin or... forsomestupidplotarmoryreasonnotdeaddespitehavingafuckingexplosiongooffrightinfrontofthem Levi. Story. For similar reasons I wont go into detail about the story. What started off as a cool idea quickly turned into a plot armor/ plot hole shitshow around Season 3 Part 2 since the whole Reiner getting his fucking head blown off but still surviving and Armin being burnt to a crisp turning into charcoal but... still surviving enough time to be given the titan fluid...? and The Final Season Part 2 is certainly no exception. Everything in this season feels like it was introduced as a way to fix some previously obvious plot holes paths for example only to make them even worse and more apparent in the process rather than actually being part of the story from the start and the whole thing coming together in a big and grandiose reveal or whatever. The whole attack on titan storyline as a whole has become more and more of a jumbled mess rather than a normal coherent and wellwritten story and it gets worse and worse with each installment. Things happen only to shock us but then they are revealed to be not so important Armin dying again huge battles happen with literally no casualties for our main boisss Mikasa killing like... 1000 people in ep 11 without having a single scratch YAAAAS SLAY QUEEEN 20https://images.emojiterra.com/google/notoemoji/v2.034/512px/1f929.png and blah blah blah... But then again those are problems that AoT always had so I cant really pretend to suddenly care and be even more overly critical about all that now in The Final Season Part 2. My thoughts... I never really cared which anime is considered to be the best by the community but Attack on Titan is by far the least deserving of that title. Not only because I personally hate it and because Im a mindless hater who hates popular stuff to get attention as some people will claim but because its an objectively bad show. Definitely animationwise although I could argue that its also bad characterwise as well as storywise because it has some objective problems with its writing in those aspects like plot holes and such. But at the same time Attack On Titan is an action show so I consider those problems to affect my enjoyment of the show way more than that of a normal actionloving viewer who just turns their brain off and just watches the show for how hot Mikasa and Eren are. In my eyes though over the past few years and especially after MAPPA took over its production Attack on Titan has become a genuinely bad show that is not only outclassed by literally every other critically acclaimed anime I can think of but it has also become worse than generic memedtoshit isekai trash like sword art online which at the very least had some minor improvements in terms of its storytelling over the years plus some amazing animation and is comparable in terms of quality with shit like the milf isekai and the smartphone isekai. Just like those anime still milking the isekai cash cow that SAO created Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 feels like a genuine cash grab to capitalize on a craze. A craze that was created by itself way back in 2013. It has now become the lowest of the low when it comes to manga adaptations for profit. A blatant copypaste of the already kind of average looking manga panels with littletono creative / artistic input and alterations to make it more suitable for an anime format. Taking the manga panels coloring them and then making that into an anime is NOT a good and creative way of doing things and NOT a sign of a great and faithful adaptation as many people falsely claim it is something even an amateur animator can do. A real masterpiece is when the anime adaptation elevates the original source material to new heights and makes things that were originally impossible in a manga format possible through the medium of animation. Something that truly transcends the source material. A true masterpiece isnt merely faithful to the manga. And The Final Season Part 2 is far from a good adaptation let alone a masterpiece. MAPPAs version of Attack on Titan is for me one of the biggest failures Ive seen in anime adaptations ever. Conclusion. I know I will get a lot of hate for this review and I dont really care. I think its stupid to be like well what I believe about this show is vastly different from the general consensus so I wont talk about it etc. I genuinely hate this show. I genuinely believe it is objectively subpar. Im tired of pretending its not just because the community thinks otherwise. I would even go as far as to say that I genuinely believe it sets an extremely bad precedent for every anime sequel that is set to air and come out after this one. It proves that hype itself is enough to carry a show to greatness not actual talent work creativity etc. Just take some already successful manga colour its panels turn that into the most creativitystarved anime hire some great voice actors so that we seem legit and were good to go. When The Way of the Househusband did exactly that everyone got mad but when The best anime of alltime does it is cool and MAPPA did a better job than WIT because its a more faithful adaptation than that of WITs or some other bullshit. I feel like concepts like creativity passion and innovation in the anime industry are dying and Attack on Titan is partially the reason why if not then its definitely the reason this mindset and work ethic is becoming more and more prevalent. It should be common sense that overworked animators directors etc... with extremely tight schedules cant make a solid product. Attack on Titan is probably the best or worst depending on how you see it example of this that Ive seen in my 5 years of animewatching.