

Attack on Titan Final Season doubles down on its complicated and uneasy appropriation of real Asian history by shifting perspective to the people that have been subjugating our heroes for the past eight years. Last season, Attack on Titan viewers learned that our main characters were not the last remnants of humanity, but a small group of Eldians - a race reviled both for its ability to turn into man-eating Titans, but also for a long history of conquest and alleged atrocities against other nations.

The show is now expected to wrap after the manga ends in April, with Final Season part 2 due during the next winter season. The final episode of season 4, which premiered on Sunday, promised a bleak and bloody conflict to bookend a bleak and bloody show. After eight years, four seasons, and hundreds upon hundreds of dead characters, Attack on Titan is finally in its endgame.
