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Deconstructing the GREATEST REVEAL in Anime - Overanalyzing Attack on Titan & Retrospective

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Today at the Mystery Shack, we continue our retrospective journey through season 2 of Attack on Titan and talk about episode 6 - "Warriors". Join me in overanalyzing every single detail of the show and generally nerd out about anything and everything!

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Timecodes
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00:00 - Opening Sequence - Themes & Distractions
00:41 - Opening Sequence - Information Asymmetry
01:35 - Opening Sequence - Ymir & Historia: The False Promise
02:23 - Opening Sequence - Armin's Narration
02:58 - Episode 31 Title - Warriors
03:45 - Weather, Bonds and Distractions
04:51 - Literal Red Flags
06:04 - False Promises & Bond of Eren and Reiner
08:17 - Historia Reiss
11:12 - Reiner's Arm, Shifting Minds & Dub Discrepancies
14:43 - Soldier =/= Warrior
16:46 - The Art of Suspense
20:14 - 'We need to talk'
22:51 - Midcard - A literal lift.... truly incredible
23:21 - Why reveal themselves now?
26:14 - Where to? & The Duality of Eren
26:32 - The Personal Files & Erwin's plan (again)
27:54 - Denial
30:02 - The Calm Before
31:44 - The Storm
33:15 - A Symphony of Destruction
36:48 - Closing Thoughts
37:30 - Outro

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20 Comments

@SpammytheHedgehog 3 years ago

Girl: All boys do is lie.

Reiner: I'm the Armored Titan and Bertoldt is the Colossal Titan.

@theacademy_cxc 3 years ago

I wish you had addressed when Reiner says, "Why there'd have to be people like this? Why?" It shows the reason why he was so conflicted. There were no devils on Paradise as Marley had thought him, there were just people. People like everyone else he's ever met.

@konstantinriumin2657 3 years ago

This episode is shocking on the first watch, and very sad on the second. Reiner's break is just so painful to watch.

@SpammytheHedgehog 3 years ago

I like how Eren kept denying Reiner and Bertoldt being Titans, until Eren saw Reiner's arm heal.

@Silkcrowcrimson 3 years ago

During the Reiner reveal, besides Mikasa hearing the news, Sasha also heard it even though shes further away. Showing how good her hearing is. A nice little detail.

@kaygirl10101 2 years ago (edited)

I love how Reiner revealing his delayed regeneration to Eren to seem like a normal human in this episode is reversed masterfully when Eren does it with his eye and leg in Marley.

@adelboukabous8225 3 years ago

Funny how the 104th Cadet corps has 5 Titans , an Ackermann, a Genius and The Queen. Only Jean and Connie have nothing to hide because they are normal.

@smitsel 3 years ago

I have to say, my absolute favorite moment of the reveal was how my sister and I guess it minutes before the actual reveal. Not because of any of the foreshadowing or the good writing or anything like that, we missed all of that on our first watch through.
We guessed it because after the "Ymir's a titan" reveal, we started joking to each other, "Fuck it, everyone's a titan. Reiner's the armored titan because he's buff, and Bertholdt's tall so he can be the colossal titan." We were just joking, and then the reveal happened the way that it did and we fully lost it. Favorite moment of the entire series, just because of that

@AllTheArtsy 3 years ago

Isayama's design for the Female Titan is actually quite wild because even at first sight, the Female Titan looks exactly like Annie. Like, once you see the Female Titan, it could not be anyone else. Without any of the hints of the next episode, you know for a fact that the Female Titan is Annie. Which, then, makes it so obvious that Reiner is the Armored Titan and Bertholt is the Colossal. Which is so weird because I didn't think the Armored looked like Reiner prior to that. But it definitely looks exactly like him in retrospect. I don't know how he freaking did that. It was so obvious from the start.

@case127toMYmoon 3 years ago

I'll never forget Eren's "what?" mirrored by me saying "what" out loud irl and having to rewind the episode. This is one of the moments that cement AOT as a masterpiece

@SpammytheHedgehog 3 years ago

I like how the red flag broke off. Symbolizing that Bertoldt and Reiner couldn't hold their secret any longer.

@Katsuya89 2 years ago

I love that the story makes Reiner look like one of the strongest characters in the ahow, but in reality he is actually mentally broken, and had to create a fake persona to cope with his pain.
Berthold just closed off all his emotions to deal with his guilt.
And Annie had the most most difficultly withit.

@theadma184 3 years ago

Hope you read this. My idea on bertholdt being a background and largely reactive, quiet character is that's exactly what makes him the perfect choice to be handed the power of being a literal walking nuke that generates a literal colossus. He's a meak, mentally stable, yes man. Who better to trust with that ability? Love to hear your take on this!

@hhdbhn302 3 years ago (edited)

On my first time watching this episode I LOVED how blunt and quick the reveal happened. You didnt have time to process it before everything fell apart. Just like Eren in that moment, we were in shock stare and had to take a second to collect ourselves, accept the new narrative and fully pay attention to it. I didnt even understand why they took Ymir with them. It was just overall chaos and so SO good.

@young__blacksmith 3 years ago (edited)

The best part is that even if you guessed the twist beforehand there is NO way you expected it to play out like this

@josephs.4813 3 years ago

I’ll never forget watching this episode with the homies. The scene they were talking on the wall was slower so we were just kicking back relaxing and when Reiner casually said “I’m the armored Titan and Bertholt is the Colossal,” we all sat straight up and looked at each other like “WTF DID HE JUST SAY??”

@corntaco 3 years ago

Another reason as to why (I think) Reiner and Bertoldt outed themselves when they did—on top of the reasons you pointed out. They JUST saw The Beat titan / Zeke, they have a more complete understanding of the implications of his presence—Marley is attacking. Reiner finally snaps out of it. His identity and purpose as a warrior lock back into focus and he realizes, they have allies on the island now and if they can grab Eren and Ymir from this outer most edge of Scout Eldian controlled territory and make a run for it they'll have support to make their escape (though obviously they don't make it that far). Marley's presence on the island gives Reiner and Bertoldt that moment of hope that they may actually be able to go home as "heros".