From You, 2000 Years Ago

This is one of the best episodes of the series, if not the best. I've been saying this for the last 3 weeks about every new episode though. Attack on Titan is a masterpiece and this episode reveals the plan of its best character in an extremely satisfying way. The backstory was also handled extremely well. Music, animation and voice acting are all stellar, as is the plot.

I just feel so bad for anime or AOT haters. They CHOOSE to hate something so spectacular and it's just sad. This was probably the best episode I've ever watched. It's so hard to top your work even once, but AOT does It every week.

Greatest of all time. Zenith of the medium. Hallmark of media. Gold standard of storytelling. Apogee of creativity. Vertex of invention. Crest of ingenuity. Acme of imagination. Pinnacle of innovation. Epic of epics. Legend among legends. Peak Fiction.

I'm literally speechless like Ymir right now. This is definitely the BEST episode of Attack on Titan. I don't care what anyone says, there's no question about it. Eren's dream under the tree in chapter 1, his motivations in the post timeskip, the origin of the titans, the truth of this cruel world, the names of the walls, the name of the first chapter and episode, how the Attack Titan's power came to be, literally every piece of foreshadowing from the first episode was building up to this point.

13 years ago in the manga, 9 years ago in the anime: Episode 1 "To You, 2000 Years Later"

Today: Episode 80 "From You, 2000 Years Ago"

SPEECHLESS.

OMG! As a manga reader, this episode exceeded my expectations. The gritty art, some insane animation sequences and the titan animation and designs are the best of the Final Season so far. The flashback scenes were so intense and emotional to watch. MAPPA went above and beyond with the visuals and the ost. Thank you MAPPA :)

This episode took me by surprise, thrilling isn't even the least of words i would use. A follow up to last weeks episode with us already knowing the sudden complicated relationship between Eren and Zeke suddenly tenfolds into complete destruction.

Ymir's past was such an emotional narrative to sit through, with hardly any words spoken by certain characters and the music intoxicating. To then back to Eren and Zeke's story unfold to absolute conclusion, destruction and emotional fantasy.

I'm not one to over exaggerate reviews but how could you not like this, it isn't just the peak of anime but the peak of TV in general. A true marvel in story telling. It's come to my confidence that this episode deserves to stay at a 10/10 but if it had to go down to a 9.9 then it would be an insult to think lower.

10/10.