Attack on Titan - Episode 35 Discussion / Poll

[DemonneoPT]

Was Reiner's friend, the one eaten by Ymir, a human or a titan hybrid? Are 100% humans even a thing outside the walls? If he was a hybrid why didn't he transformed into a titan to prevent being eaten? Or was he still unable to do that? Also, that Ymir flashback... the people expelled from the city were already titans or the soldiers injected the titan serum into them before dooming them to roam the planet? So many questions, not enough answers

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by zibi88

no no the manga followed the story nicely..piece after piece it all made sense...

Now people might be confused on who are those soldiers, where are they from, what is the island the current story takes place ect. it added unneeded for now confusing material... it could be ok to show for now how yamir runs around as titan and eat RBA friend but more than this was not really good thing to do right now... since they could have easily made this flashback in the time "the letter" showed up...so while it is beign read we see the flashback story as we did now

How many episodes till the end of the season 2-3 ? scary to think how much spoilers they will imput in those future episodes.

S2 is 12 episodes. Which may be WHY they are putting those plot reveals a bit faster, simply because they didnt have have much episodes they'd have liked, like for Jojo or Hunter X Hunter 2011. And without running into the danger of catching up the manga.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by ArrowSmith

The idea of Ymir wandering in Titan-form for 60 years before the events of Trost is fascinating. Also the executions of the cultists was brutal.

Isn't AOT set in the far future?

It'd have to be before the first Colossal attack, not the Trost attack. Trost was 5 years or so after that, and she was already in the corps by then.

[Mr. DJ]

I wasn't expecting them to pull back the curtain on the titans this early...

Well, I don't think the manga dropped the hint in the chapter this ep covered...

[wingdarkness]

Ok guess I'll be the one to say it: Ymir is ugly as hell for a Titan morso than any I can remember in the whole show...Her cuteness in real life to ugliness in Titan form is also a huge mystery that MUST be answered...

[xellos2099]

Originally Posted by Klashikari

Your guess is beyond unlikely: anime planning has to be done months or even a year before its actual production (be it the script, storyboard etc).
The series was already in production at the very least 2 years ago (they have shown preview snippets of the second season in the movie), so no, they obviously didn't change their plans just like that.

In general, it is nearly impossible for a studio to make changes in accordance to how an anime performs with the audience, simply because of production schedule. It is usually cut content or cancelled episodes, not extra stuff right in the latter part of a cour.
Changing the script and storyboard would have a snowball impact on the rest of the series, which would be beyond unrepairable.

In a way, didn't Seed Destiny did the exact same thing you describe?

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by Chosen_Hero

^Thanks for the spoiler there, I meam it's not like they didn't mention anything about a drug and kept it out frame for a reason.

You're right. It could be a magic spell, or a special kind of acupuncture, I guess.

[ReddyRedWolf]

I know I'm late but...
Damn spoilers out of nowhere!

[Guido]

SThis was an episode centered around Ymir and packed with such intense but beautiful emotions. Secondly, this episode delivered some answers in concern to the titan transformation but raising brand-new one regarding the mystery of that world.

Spoiler:

So, if the pieces of the puzzle are neatly falling in their respective places, then the village folk from Ragako were the titans inside the walls turned into that state by some outside source; suspecting it's the work of the Beast Titan.

F
Ymir's past was so nostalgic and sad but paving the understanding for the reasons behind her recent actions.
One way or another Ymir sensed her death flag, and she won't be around much longer in this world even if Reiner and Berthold keep their promise to get her safe once reaching their hometown.
If Ymir's gonna die, she still longered to have Christa coming with them so as not to have regrets. Such beautiful display of raw emotions at work, since Ymir's done time ago to live from one lie to another, and she doesn't want Christa repeating her same mistakes.
But, Ymir as well doesn't want Christa living trapped inside a cage for anybody else sake but to keep her safe and in freedom. Well, I suppose that's how I interpreted Ymir once watching her background.

Spoiler:

From Ymir's flashbacks and dialogue with Berthold the following statements can be inferred:

1. Ymir comes from another place outside walls but, likely, is not the same hometown as that of Berthold, Reiner, and Annie's.

2. She was inducted into a cult that worshipped her as the heiress who had the blood of the King. However, the cult was found out and the capital punishment for all their members, including Ymir, was to be turned into Titans.
- The people from Ymir's hometown all hated the cult members.
- They were administered something and thrown down from an unknown wall before turning into titans. I believe from the sound that all were inoculated with something, and if I'm connecting the dots, then maybe is the same substance that Grisha inoculated Eren with that enabled his titan transformation.
- According to Ymir, she spent next 60 years roaming as a titan outside the walls, and then hibernated as she was eventually swallowed by the earth. Thus, she never aged during that time as a titan.
- Berthold conjectured that once Titan Ymir devoured his friend, then she was able to restore herself into human form, which is confirmed as the truth in Ymir's flashback. Henceforth, Reiner and Berthold's comrade was as well a titan shifter.
- I can theorize that devouring a titan shifter allows for the regular titan to return back to human form and keeping the powers of a titan shifter.
- Then, it's possible that whatever Ymir and prisoners were inoculated with is a substance that induces the metamorphosis into a mindless titan. Then, chances are high that the village people of Ragako were either doused or infected with such substance.

Why do I sense a death flag coming from Hannes?