Its not confirmed but i have been hearing a few talks lately that there are leaks saying that the final season might be a 12ep series only covering till chapter 131. A movie will also be released after that and that both the anime and movie might have different story endings.
i can understand needing a movie for the finale but it would be strange to make an anime original ending.
It makes a lot of sense because the manga ending is awful.
im not saying its amazing just that it would be strange that MAPPA would change the ending, if Isayama requests it then all g.
Yes, Isayama has done so & and his working on it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JusticeForEren/status/1461905434097369095
Its the sound director saying that they should think if they should keep the ending true to the manga or not. Where excatly do you see Isayama..?
As of right now there is nothing said about anything like that.
No, that's not what's being said there. "What if you all discuss whether this final season will end the same as the original story?" It isn't about deciding about "staying true" to the manga or not, but about "if" it will end the same as the manga - because the decision has already been made. The very fact a different ending was brought up in a official event to promote the Final Season, Part 2 all but screams what said decision was. And Kaji's panicked response to it "Please don't think of this as foreshadowing!"
As for where do I see Isayama, well, if the anime will have a different ending, and it certaintly seems that way, it's at the very least with Isayama's consent. Because MAPPA can't do whatever they want.
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I know its the most common theory at the moment that this season will end on chapter 131 and leave the rest for a movie. However, wouldn't the movie have to be like 3 and a half hours long? Even longer if they choose to expand on the manga ending and give things a bit more time to breathe. This doesn't seem that likely so either they rush it in a movie or they made an 8-10 episode final season part 3.
Isn't the last episode confirmed to come out at like the end of Aprill? If so then there's not really much content left tbh, i think they'll make it in this season, especially since rumbling is already happening.
Probably will be a movie. According to leaks ep 11-12 will cover chapter 129, 130 and 123. That leaves 9 chapters to be adapted after. I could imagine these being adapted into about a 2 hour movie. I feel if they tried to adapt them into a part 3 then the episode count would be very low, maybe 6 or 7 episodes? Also movies make a lot of money.
@Y0av @liliphobic @Skittles04 @kyojurorengoku1 what if they turn the last few chs into an ONA like they did for the ending of saiki k ??