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進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin] #31-34
Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 7
Contains the FINAL VOLUMES of Attack on Titan in an extra-large size, on premium-quality paper!
16 and up.
END OF AN ERA
Determined to protect his beloved home of Paradis, Eren uses the Founding Titan’s power to rouse a parade of massive Titans from their centuries-long slumber, breaking free of the Walls to answer their founder’s call—to wipe out all of humanity. Though once hailed as humanity’s greatest hope, the Attack Titan has now morphed into a grotesque, colossal skeleton of its former self, with Eren long unrecognizable as a friend, a brother, a savior…and soon indiscernible from a devil. Now, Mikasa, Armin, and the surviving members of the Survey Corps must band together with their sworn enemies to stop the Rumbling and Eren once and for all. Will their attack finally put an end to the Titans, or will the cycle of fear, oppression, and destruction only continue?
FINAL VOLUME!
This edition contains Attack on Titan Vol. 31-34
Attack on Colossal Edition 7 is an oversized collection of Vols. 31-34 of the Attack on Titan manga series. Weighing in at over 900 pages and a 7-inch by 10.5-inch trim, Colossal Edition 7, like its predecessors, contains the same material as the original volumes, but bigger and on higher-quality paper. The best reading experience and the ultimate collector's item for any Attack on Titan fan!
16 and up.
END OF AN ERA
Determined to protect his beloved home of Paradis, Eren uses the Founding Titan’s power to rouse a parade of massive Titans from their centuries-long slumber, breaking free of the Walls to answer their founder’s call—to wipe out all of humanity. Though once hailed as humanity’s greatest hope, the Attack Titan has now morphed into a grotesque, colossal skeleton of its former self, with Eren long unrecognizable as a friend, a brother, a savior…and soon indiscernible from a devil. Now, Mikasa, Armin, and the surviving members of the Survey Corps must band together with their sworn enemies to stop the Rumbling and Eren once and for all. Will their attack finally put an end to the Titans, or will the cycle of fear, oppression, and destruction only continue?
FINAL VOLUME!
This edition contains Attack on Titan Vol. 31-34
Attack on Colossal Edition 7 is an oversized collection of Vols. 31-34 of the Attack on Titan manga series. Weighing in at over 900 pages and a 7-inch by 10.5-inch trim, Colossal Edition 7, like its predecessors, contains the same material as the original volumes, but bigger and on higher-quality paper. The best reading experience and the ultimate collector's item for any Attack on Titan fan!
832 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2022
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About the author
Hajime Isayama
637 books4,704 followersJapanese name: 諫山創
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創 Isayama Hajime, born 1986) is a Japanese manga artist from Ōyama, Ōita. His first and currently ongoing serial, Attack on Titan, has sold over 22 million copies as of July 2013. He has mentioned Tsutomu Nihei, Ryōji Minagawa, Kentaro Miura, Hideki Arai and Tōru Mitsumine as artists he respects, but stated that the manga that had the biggest influence on him was ARMS.
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創 Isayama Hajime, born 1986) is a Japanese manga artist from Ōyama, Ōita. His first and currently ongoing serial, Attack on Titan, has sold over 22 million copies as of July 2013. He has mentioned Tsutomu Nihei, Ryōji Minagawa, Kentaro Miura, Hideki Arai and Tōru Mitsumine as artists he respects, but stated that the manga that had the biggest influence on him was ARMS.
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February 14, 2023
I'm a mess. This was so good! Fuck.
May 13, 2023
The end of a Era.
Attack on Titan is easily one of the craziest, best, insane stories I've ever had the pleasure of reading. How it began and where it ends up, it feels like it's not possible to make me change my views SO many times. To question who to root for. Who's "bad" and who's "good" and with that, makes the entire series so compelling to read.
This last Colossal edition showcases the remaining characters having to work together to stop a threat against all of humanity save a small section of people. Twist and turns are here, and the ending, akin to something like Watchmen, hit all the marks for me. I especially love the reasoning and how the last few pages show the heartbreaking nature of humanity while also showing the adventurous one.
Overall a fantastic series and a solid ending leave this long time viewer and reader very happy. A 4 out of 5.
Attack on Titan is easily one of the craziest, best, insane stories I've ever had the pleasure of reading. How it began and where it ends up, it feels like it's not possible to make me change my views SO many times. To question who to root for. Who's "bad" and who's "good" and with that, makes the entire series so compelling to read.
This last Colossal edition showcases the remaining characters having to work together to stop a threat against all of humanity save a small section of people. Twist and turns are here, and the ending, akin to something like Watchmen, hit all the marks for me. I especially love the reasoning and how the last few pages show the heartbreaking nature of humanity while also showing the adventurous one.
Overall a fantastic series and a solid ending leave this long time viewer and reader very happy. A 4 out of 5.
August 20, 2025
Thank you AOT fans for being so unreasonably angry at the ending to not spoil this perfection for the rest of us!
But in all seriousness the vast majority of people who hated the ending did not understand AOT’s meaning whatsoever.
But in all seriousness the vast majority of people who hated the ending did not understand AOT’s meaning whatsoever.
June 17, 2023
Känner att en kris är på G nu???
August 17, 2024
"Ten years, at least!!"
Yeah, I don't know, dude. I thought this manga was thoroughly pretty good. I've seen the copypasta that's like "the Japanese got the new chapter and they are NOT happy" so many times, but... ehh. It's aight. Or, maybe some choices are silly, but it's not as stupid a manga as e.g. Promised Neverland, which, even then, I found somewhat excusable.
Look, the thing is a) this is a manga, and b) this is a shōnen manga, and c) it's even more specifically a shōnen battle manga. This isn't High Art. I guess, to put it simply, if you're stupid enough to read something like this, you don't deserve to complain. And I'm calling myself stupid here, for reading as much shōnen manga as I do. If you've read any actual book, or even just some middlebrow speculative fiction like George R. R. Martin, you've set too high a bar for yourself to really warrant complaining about the writing here. That is to say it should be assumed the writing will be worse. So why fight it?
Two things kinda-sorta bug me about the manga, and they're both my problems and not Isayama's: 1) I took like six to ten years to read this, without re-reading anything to refresh my memory; and 2) I kind of wish it got sillier with the battle elements.
A big reason why I enjoyed this manga is simply because my memory is not perfect enough to be able to contest some possible foreshadowing and/or general connection between plot beats. As far as I remember, everything seems to work out well enough. But a lot of (what I have read other people consider) the more "controversial" elements felt appropriately set up within the course of Colossal Editions 6 and 7, which I read rather close to each other. The "hottest" issues seemed to be Mikasa killing Eren, and Eren's secret love for Mikasa. Both of them are affected by the flashback to when Eren tells Mikasa to gargle his balls (or whatever, I don't remember precisely) and she thinks it's a trick or something or else is just thrown off by Eren potentially accepting her love. She later has a thought about making the wrong choice or something, and it may thus be assumed a lot of the climax of the manga (the Rumbling, &c.) may have been avoided. Like, if she reinforced a romantic love for Eren, he might have dropped his plot, similar to Zeke's later heel-face turn when Armin summons the baseball. Eren's also on some Dune Messiah Paul Atreides shit where he's so fucked up by his omniscience that he's losing his grip on selfhood. He's a slave to a causal loop, he's committed to the Rumbling, and he has to paint himself as a villain so Mikasa will kill him so Ymir will stop being a histrionic cunt. Maybe Isayama muddies the situation by making Armin say Eren killed everyone for his friends' sake because the wording is just kind of r*tarded. But, anyway, my main point is that I can see how the post-basement stuff works out, but don't remember pre-basement well enough to recall if a lot of stuff was too openly foreshadowed. I do believe the Rumbling was planned in some fashion since the very first time we saw Titans in the Walls. Beyond that... no sé.
I do believe the manga is often at its "best" when Isayama is just drawing action, especially when it's Titan versus Titan. Or especially especially when it's a clash of some of the Nine Titans. But Isayama ends up juggling tropes without clearly favoring playing shit straight or trying to be clever. Eren getting Titan powers so early is basically the same shit as Ichigo getting Shinigami and Hollow powers in Bleach. Eren getting the Founder and Warhammer powers is like Naruto becoming Ninja Jesus. The fact that there are only ever nine special Titans at a time feels very "Saint Seiya." That said, Mikasa and Levi remain semi-superhuman the entire time, without Titan abilities, and Connie and Jean last a long time without even Ackerman abilities, which is maybe "better" than, say, having Kuririn stick around the entirety of Dragon Ball... or maybe Mikasa and Levi would be like Piccolo and Kuririn, and Connie and Jean are Tenshinhan and Yamcha? Regardless, the point is "red shirts" stay significant throughout the manga without getting too buttfucked by power-scaling. But I kinda do think it would be cool to have, like, Mikasa become the Female, maybe Levi gets the Beast from Zeke, Connie and Jean could have Armor or Cart (don't know who should get which), and keep Sasha alive to be the Jaw (cuz she eats a lot). I don't know who would be Warhammer. Oh, I guess Hange. But, anyway, that's not how it works, so it doesn't matter.
There are (probably) two ways to do a timeskip: the Dragon Ball way or the Naruto/One Piece way. DB has two major timeskips, both of which could have been adequate endings: first, after Piccolo Junior is defeated; then, after Cell is defeated. If you don't like the Saiyajin stuff, you could pretend it never happened. If you don't like Buu, you could pretend it never happened. Naruto and One Piece are quite different; their timeskips happen after non-endings. If you don't like Naruto's post-timeskip adventures at all, then tough titties cuz getting his ass kicked by Sasuke leaves too much for the future to feel "final." Luffy's 3D2Y thing is much worse in this regard. Shingeki no Kyojin takes this sort of approach, though. We get to the basement, and we can't just end it there. Whatever happens must be huge. A gamechanger. And so it is. But the Marley race-war stuff is so different from the "what if zombies but giant??" premise of pre-basement. It's easy to see how/why people might not like this direction. But, then, you have to ask: what the fuck did you expect would happen? They find a magic cure to stop Titanism? There is an outside world but everyone is nice? There's just a singular Titan Boss our heroes have to defeat?
(I realize I keep making Jump comparisons, but the fact is I'm not too familiar with a lot of Magazine manga.)
****
I'm pretty sure I started noting the plot details in each volume compiled in manga omnibus editions before I started reading Colossal Edition Volume 6, but I neglected to write for that volume. So I may as well skip Volume 7 here. But whatever.
Volume 31: A flashback seemingly explaining Eren's motivation, including a point where Mikasa may or may not have made a bad choice (this is probably especially important!). Eren formally launches the Rumbling while using the Founding Titan's power to telepathically give all Subjects of Ymir a heads-up. Connie kidnaps Falco to try to feed him to his (i.e. Connie's) mom to turn her back human. Gabi ends up joining Mikasa and Armin, kinda. Annie is forced out of her cocoon. Floch reveals himself as something like Eren's right-hand man. Hange and Levi connect with Pieck. Annie connects with Connie and Armin. They gather Jean, Yelena, Onyankopon, and Reiner. The volume ends with the Cringevengers assembled.
Volume 32: The Cringevengers have a pow-wow for a Festivus airing of grievances. Floch takes the old Asian lady captive. The Cringevengers spend Chapters 128 and 129 in a pretty fun skirmish against Floch's forces. Falco ends up activating the Jaw's power for the first time. Magath and Shadis sacrifice themselves to help the Cringevengers take a ship toward Marley with the Asians. Another flashback reinforces Eren's plan to kill everybody so his friends can live(?). A big-ass navy makes a weak attempt at retarding the Rumbling, but it makes for a cool series of spreads. Eren may or may not be able to warg into seagulls.
Volume 33: Some random Jewish kids get Rumbled. Armin tries to get it in with Annie. Floch turns out to have survived just to slightly hinder the flight of the boat so Hange is forced to sacrifice herself. Eren contacts the Cringevengers telepathically to tell them to fuck off. Falco theorizes he can turn into a flying Beast-Jaw hybrid. Some blimps attempt a bomb run against the Rumbling, but Founder Eren summons a Beast copy to destroy them. The Cringevengers arrive to confront Eren.
Volume 34: Armin is captured by the ghost of Ymir, who also summons copies of the Nine Titans' incarnations of the past. Falco comes to the rescue, with Gabi and Annie aboard. Armin makes contact with Zeke within the Paths, where he performs a Talk no Jutsu. Zeke is won over by the Power of Friendship and partially restores the consciousness of his buddies so their Titan forms can help the Cringevengers. Levi decapitates Zeke anyway. The Rumbling is stopped. Worm-kun is born from Founder Eren's neck. Armin transforms for... what, like, the second time ever? Eren takes a new Super form. Or I guess just a Colossal form, whatever. Worm-kun Zyklon-B's everyone who isn't an Ackerman or Titan-Shifter (I mean, they get turned into Titans instead of merely deloused, but whatever). Colossal Armin faces off against Colossal Eren while Reiner, Pieck, and Annie hold off Worm-kun and Levi helps Mikasa break through Eren's Titan teeth. Mikasa decapitates the real Eren and skullfucks him. Titan powers are erased from the world. The Eldians end up getting holocausted in the distant future.
****
The spread of Founding Eren's face while announcing the Rumbling is adequately "iconic."
Gabi tying her hair in front of a mirror is... a bit on the nose, in how it repeats an image of Eren. But I respect Isayama's cheekiness.
Annie's ass and thighs look pretty great when Hitch tries to do a shoulder throw against her...!
Annie's hips and thighs in the brief flashback panel when telling Hitch about how she heard Eren's message...!
Floch shooting that dude in the face was pretty pimpin'.
Connie's master plan to feed Falco to his mom by... tricking him into brushing her teeth... ತ_ತ
Annie's hips and thighs at the start of the Cringevenger pow-wow...!
"Pieck... In that case, I'll gladly ride on the Cart Titan's back and feel the heat of its body as we--"
"Stop. Why are you being so gross all of a sudden?"
The panel of Reiner becoming the Armor against the Beast is pretty dope.
The Titan clash in Chapter 135 is very fun.
"If Falco's Titan hadn't miraculously been able to fly, we would've died back there!"
Lmao fuck off, Connie. I guess you too, Isayama ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Pieck is actually a pretty good fighter.
The "debate" regarding whatever the pig Titan is... is hilarious.
Female Titan lookin' fit when kicking that other Titan's head off...! 🥵
Mikasa's profile before she leaves to bury Eren is the hottest she's ever looked.
****
I thought some of the Titan choices for the Colossal Edition cover arts were odd, but at the end of this volume we see the French got twelve omnibuses instead of seven, filling in the gaps. It's still weird we Americans don't get Eren until this last one, whereas the French get three (3!) Erens, but whatever. France likes manga more than us, simple as.
Yeah, I don't know, dude. I thought this manga was thoroughly pretty good. I've seen the copypasta that's like "the Japanese got the new chapter and they are NOT happy" so many times, but... ehh. It's aight. Or, maybe some choices are silly, but it's not as stupid a manga as e.g. Promised Neverland, which, even then, I found somewhat excusable.
Look, the thing is a) this is a manga, and b) this is a shōnen manga, and c) it's even more specifically a shōnen battle manga. This isn't High Art. I guess, to put it simply, if you're stupid enough to read something like this, you don't deserve to complain. And I'm calling myself stupid here, for reading as much shōnen manga as I do. If you've read any actual book, or even just some middlebrow speculative fiction like George R. R. Martin, you've set too high a bar for yourself to really warrant complaining about the writing here. That is to say it should be assumed the writing will be worse. So why fight it?
Two things kinda-sorta bug me about the manga, and they're both my problems and not Isayama's: 1) I took like six to ten years to read this, without re-reading anything to refresh my memory; and 2) I kind of wish it got sillier with the battle elements.
A big reason why I enjoyed this manga is simply because my memory is not perfect enough to be able to contest some possible foreshadowing and/or general connection between plot beats. As far as I remember, everything seems to work out well enough. But a lot of (what I have read other people consider) the more "controversial" elements felt appropriately set up within the course of Colossal Editions 6 and 7, which I read rather close to each other. The "hottest" issues seemed to be Mikasa killing Eren, and Eren's secret love for Mikasa. Both of them are affected by the flashback to when Eren tells Mikasa to gargle his balls (or whatever, I don't remember precisely) and she thinks it's a trick or something or else is just thrown off by Eren potentially accepting her love. She later has a thought about making the wrong choice or something, and it may thus be assumed a lot of the climax of the manga (the Rumbling, &c.) may have been avoided. Like, if she reinforced a romantic love for Eren, he might have dropped his plot, similar to Zeke's later heel-face turn when Armin summons the baseball. Eren's also on some Dune Messiah Paul Atreides shit where he's so fucked up by his omniscience that he's losing his grip on selfhood. He's a slave to a causal loop, he's committed to the Rumbling, and he has to paint himself as a villain so Mikasa will kill him so Ymir will stop being a histrionic cunt. Maybe Isayama muddies the situation by making Armin say Eren killed everyone for his friends' sake because the wording is just kind of r*tarded. But, anyway, my main point is that I can see how the post-basement stuff works out, but don't remember pre-basement well enough to recall if a lot of stuff was too openly foreshadowed. I do believe the Rumbling was planned in some fashion since the very first time we saw Titans in the Walls. Beyond that... no sé.
I do believe the manga is often at its "best" when Isayama is just drawing action, especially when it's Titan versus Titan. Or especially especially when it's a clash of some of the Nine Titans. But Isayama ends up juggling tropes without clearly favoring playing shit straight or trying to be clever. Eren getting Titan powers so early is basically the same shit as Ichigo getting Shinigami and Hollow powers in Bleach. Eren getting the Founder and Warhammer powers is like Naruto becoming Ninja Jesus. The fact that there are only ever nine special Titans at a time feels very "Saint Seiya." That said, Mikasa and Levi remain semi-superhuman the entire time, without Titan abilities, and Connie and Jean last a long time without even Ackerman abilities, which is maybe "better" than, say, having Kuririn stick around the entirety of Dragon Ball... or maybe Mikasa and Levi would be like Piccolo and Kuririn, and Connie and Jean are Tenshinhan and Yamcha? Regardless, the point is "red shirts" stay significant throughout the manga without getting too buttfucked by power-scaling. But I kinda do think it would be cool to have, like, Mikasa become the Female, maybe Levi gets the Beast from Zeke, Connie and Jean could have Armor or Cart (don't know who should get which), and keep Sasha alive to be the Jaw (cuz she eats a lot). I don't know who would be Warhammer. Oh, I guess Hange. But, anyway, that's not how it works, so it doesn't matter.
There are (probably) two ways to do a timeskip: the Dragon Ball way or the Naruto/One Piece way. DB has two major timeskips, both of which could have been adequate endings: first, after Piccolo Junior is defeated; then, after Cell is defeated. If you don't like the Saiyajin stuff, you could pretend it never happened. If you don't like Buu, you could pretend it never happened. Naruto and One Piece are quite different; their timeskips happen after non-endings. If you don't like Naruto's post-timeskip adventures at all, then tough titties cuz getting his ass kicked by Sasuke leaves too much for the future to feel "final." Luffy's 3D2Y thing is much worse in this regard. Shingeki no Kyojin takes this sort of approach, though. We get to the basement, and we can't just end it there. Whatever happens must be huge. A gamechanger. And so it is. But the Marley race-war stuff is so different from the "what if zombies but giant??" premise of pre-basement. It's easy to see how/why people might not like this direction. But, then, you have to ask: what the fuck did you expect would happen? They find a magic cure to stop Titanism? There is an outside world but everyone is nice? There's just a singular Titan Boss our heroes have to defeat?
(I realize I keep making Jump comparisons, but the fact is I'm not too familiar with a lot of Magazine manga.)
****
I'm pretty sure I started noting the plot details in each volume compiled in manga omnibus editions before I started reading Colossal Edition Volume 6, but I neglected to write for that volume. So I may as well skip Volume 7 here. But whatever.
Volume 31: A flashback seemingly explaining Eren's motivation, including a point where Mikasa may or may not have made a bad choice (this is probably especially important!). Eren formally launches the Rumbling while using the Founding Titan's power to telepathically give all Subjects of Ymir a heads-up. Connie kidnaps Falco to try to feed him to his (i.e. Connie's) mom to turn her back human. Gabi ends up joining Mikasa and Armin, kinda. Annie is forced out of her cocoon. Floch reveals himself as something like Eren's right-hand man. Hange and Levi connect with Pieck. Annie connects with Connie and Armin. They gather Jean, Yelena, Onyankopon, and Reiner. The volume ends with the Cringevengers assembled.
Volume 32: The Cringevengers have a pow-wow for a Festivus airing of grievances. Floch takes the old Asian lady captive. The Cringevengers spend Chapters 128 and 129 in a pretty fun skirmish against Floch's forces. Falco ends up activating the Jaw's power for the first time. Magath and Shadis sacrifice themselves to help the Cringevengers take a ship toward Marley with the Asians. Another flashback reinforces Eren's plan to kill everybody so his friends can live(?). A big-ass navy makes a weak attempt at retarding the Rumbling, but it makes for a cool series of spreads. Eren may or may not be able to warg into seagulls.
Volume 33: Some random Jewish kids get Rumbled. Armin tries to get it in with Annie. Floch turns out to have survived just to slightly hinder the flight of the boat so Hange is forced to sacrifice herself. Eren contacts the Cringevengers telepathically to tell them to fuck off. Falco theorizes he can turn into a flying Beast-Jaw hybrid. Some blimps attempt a bomb run against the Rumbling, but Founder Eren summons a Beast copy to destroy them. The Cringevengers arrive to confront Eren.
Volume 34: Armin is captured by the ghost of Ymir, who also summons copies of the Nine Titans' incarnations of the past. Falco comes to the rescue, with Gabi and Annie aboard. Armin makes contact with Zeke within the Paths, where he performs a Talk no Jutsu. Zeke is won over by the Power of Friendship and partially restores the consciousness of his buddies so their Titan forms can help the Cringevengers. Levi decapitates Zeke anyway. The Rumbling is stopped. Worm-kun is born from Founder Eren's neck. Armin transforms for... what, like, the second time ever? Eren takes a new Super form. Or I guess just a Colossal form, whatever. Worm-kun Zyklon-B's everyone who isn't an Ackerman or Titan-Shifter (I mean, they get turned into Titans instead of merely deloused, but whatever). Colossal Armin faces off against Colossal Eren while Reiner, Pieck, and Annie hold off Worm-kun and Levi helps Mikasa break through Eren's Titan teeth. Mikasa decapitates the real Eren and skullfucks him. Titan powers are erased from the world. The Eldians end up getting holocausted in the distant future.
****
The spread of Founding Eren's face while announcing the Rumbling is adequately "iconic."
Gabi tying her hair in front of a mirror is... a bit on the nose, in how it repeats an image of Eren. But I respect Isayama's cheekiness.
Annie's ass and thighs look pretty great when Hitch tries to do a shoulder throw against her...!
Annie's hips and thighs in the brief flashback panel when telling Hitch about how she heard Eren's message...!
Floch shooting that dude in the face was pretty pimpin'.
Connie's master plan to feed Falco to his mom by... tricking him into brushing her teeth... ತ_ತ
Annie's hips and thighs at the start of the Cringevenger pow-wow...!
"Pieck... In that case, I'll gladly ride on the Cart Titan's back and feel the heat of its body as we--"
"Stop. Why are you being so gross all of a sudden?"
The panel of Reiner becoming the Armor against the Beast is pretty dope.
The Titan clash in Chapter 135 is very fun.
"If Falco's Titan hadn't miraculously been able to fly, we would've died back there!"
Lmao fuck off, Connie. I guess you too, Isayama ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Pieck is actually a pretty good fighter.
The "debate" regarding whatever the pig Titan is... is hilarious.
Female Titan lookin' fit when kicking that other Titan's head off...! 🥵
Mikasa's profile before she leaves to bury Eren is the hottest she's ever looked.
****
I thought some of the Titan choices for the Colossal Edition cover arts were odd, but at the end of this volume we see the French got twelve omnibuses instead of seven, filling in the gaps. It's still weird we Americans don't get Eren until this last one, whereas the French get three (3!) Erens, but whatever. France likes manga more than us, simple as.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 17, 2023
One of the greatest stories ever written finally reaches its end after a decade. There are so many thoughts that I have, but the quality and action are amazing, even up to the controversial ending that still has me debating internally over the meaning of everything. Eren is still a mysterious character whose motivations will leave a lot of room for debate, especially after certain strange revelations. I enjoyed some of the happy endings we had, even though a lot of the world was destroyed. It reminded me a lot of the End of Evangelion, although less depressing and more geared to a classic Shonen story. In the end, I still think that AoT is the greatest work of fiction ever created (and I do not say this lightly).
May 7, 2023
The final edition, coming in full swing, switches its momentum from an expository mode to a kinetic ride towards catharsis. The exploration of its themes emerges as an emotional crescendo that aims to bring a definite sense of meaning to its entire saga, yet still doing so without abandoning its integrity for convenience. Heartbreaking, thoughtful, and reflective, perhaps more than one anticipated given the rushed nature of its last two editions, but I am glad to see Hajime Isayama paying things off.
September 13, 2022
Book: Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition, 7
Author: Hajime Isayama
Rating: 5 Out of 5 Stars
When I first started reading this series, I made a prediction that this was going to be a better series than Death Note. It has topped Death Note in so many ways. I am currently making my way through the show and it is giving me all of the feelings.
One thing that I have really enjoyed about this series is the characters. I like the time we have taken to develop these characters and how we are given a chance to know them. We are thrown into the mix of things, but, yet, there is something about the time and care that has been taken to create and develop these characters is just unbelievable. When things go wrong with me, you hurt. Whenever thing so right, you feel their joy. This bond with the characters is what makes the story work. It reminds you that even when the world comes at you with everything it has, there is still hope and light. If you have someone by your side who believes in you, you will make it out and everything will be okay.
However, not everything is okay. That is one thing that makes the stakes so high in these series. Everything and everyone are not okay. You get sense right away. Whenever we are in the heat of battle or another intense sequence, you have to keep your guard up. Everyone and everything are not always okay. This makes everything look and feel all that much more real. We are in the middle of a war and it only makes sense. If you stop and think about war, things are almost never okay. I guess that what I’m getting as is I liked that everything will not be okay.
The idea of having such high stakes and bringing it home on the final novels just makes me feel good. I was worried about the ending. Whenever I picked this one up, I kept thinking that there was no way that the author would be able to pull this off. There was a lot left to cover. However, it happened and it worked. There were moments that I felt was rushed, but it worked out.
Overall, this series is worth the hype. I had a great time with it, but now I have to find another series and I don’t know what to pick up next.
Author: Hajime Isayama
Rating: 5 Out of 5 Stars
When I first started reading this series, I made a prediction that this was going to be a better series than Death Note. It has topped Death Note in so many ways. I am currently making my way through the show and it is giving me all of the feelings.
One thing that I have really enjoyed about this series is the characters. I like the time we have taken to develop these characters and how we are given a chance to know them. We are thrown into the mix of things, but, yet, there is something about the time and care that has been taken to create and develop these characters is just unbelievable. When things go wrong with me, you hurt. Whenever thing so right, you feel their joy. This bond with the characters is what makes the story work. It reminds you that even when the world comes at you with everything it has, there is still hope and light. If you have someone by your side who believes in you, you will make it out and everything will be okay.
However, not everything is okay. That is one thing that makes the stakes so high in these series. Everything and everyone are not okay. You get sense right away. Whenever we are in the heat of battle or another intense sequence, you have to keep your guard up. Everyone and everything are not always okay. This makes everything look and feel all that much more real. We are in the middle of a war and it only makes sense. If you stop and think about war, things are almost never okay. I guess that what I’m getting as is I liked that everything will not be okay.
The idea of having such high stakes and bringing it home on the final novels just makes me feel good. I was worried about the ending. Whenever I picked this one up, I kept thinking that there was no way that the author would be able to pull this off. There was a lot left to cover. However, it happened and it worked. There were moments that I felt was rushed, but it worked out.
Overall, this series is worth the hype. I had a great time with it, but now I have to find another series and I don’t know what to pick up next.
March 29, 2025
Attack on Titan is now a story about the cost. The cost of survival, freedom, and hatred. Volume 7 is the reckoning, the consequence of every action, every sacrifice, every choice that led us here. And now, standing in the ruins of the world, we are left to ask: was there ever another way?
The Rumbling has ended. The devastation is beyond comprehension. Cities, nations, entire generations—wiped from existence. The earth itself bears the scars of Eren Yeager’s will, and there is no undoing what has been done. He was the product of this cruel world, and in the end, he became its final curse.
And yet… I still stand with him.
From the very beginning, we felt his burning need for freedom. This was not the future he wanted, but the only one he could see. He bore the weight of too many sins, carried the traumas of an endless cycle, and when the time came to break it—he shattered along with it.
But maybe… just maybe… if he had not been forced to bear it all alone, if he had not been consumed by the cruelty of this world, things could have been different.
Sasha’s father once said:
"We’ve gotta let the children outta this jungle, at the very least. Else the same thing’s just gonna happen again and again… As adults, it’s our responsibility to shoulder the sins and hatred of the past."
Maybe this should have been the way. Maybe the burden should have never fallen on Eren’s shoulders. Maybe if the world had been kinder—if the cycle of hatred had been broken sooner—he wouldn’t have had to become this.
There was never going to be a winner. It was about a world where children inherit the hatred of their forebears, and the ones who try to break free are swallowed whole. It was about the sins of the past, the fear of the present, and the uncertainty of the future.
Now that the dust has settled, I am convinced—there will never be another story like this. Ever.
The Rumbling has ended. The devastation is beyond comprehension. Cities, nations, entire generations—wiped from existence. The earth itself bears the scars of Eren Yeager’s will, and there is no undoing what has been done. He was the product of this cruel world, and in the end, he became its final curse.
And yet… I still stand with him.
From the very beginning, we felt his burning need for freedom. This was not the future he wanted, but the only one he could see. He bore the weight of too many sins, carried the traumas of an endless cycle, and when the time came to break it—he shattered along with it.
But maybe… just maybe… if he had not been forced to bear it all alone, if he had not been consumed by the cruelty of this world, things could have been different.
Sasha’s father once said:
"We’ve gotta let the children outta this jungle, at the very least. Else the same thing’s just gonna happen again and again… As adults, it’s our responsibility to shoulder the sins and hatred of the past."
Maybe this should have been the way. Maybe the burden should have never fallen on Eren’s shoulders. Maybe if the world had been kinder—if the cycle of hatred had been broken sooner—he wouldn’t have had to become this.
There was never going to be a winner. It was about a world where children inherit the hatred of their forebears, and the ones who try to break free are swallowed whole. It was about the sins of the past, the fear of the present, and the uncertainty of the future.
Now that the dust has settled, I am convinced—there will never be another story like this. Ever.
December 1, 2022
After finishing this amazing series, I have to say that the ending feels bitter sweet, as to be expected from this story. Something that really bothered me though was that had the story ended where the author originally intended the ending would have been more sweet than bitter. However, the author ultimately decided to add another half chapter to the original ending that is only a few pages long but that drastically alters the tone so that the ending becomes more bitter than sweet. The thing is he really didn't have to do that in order to get the message he wanted across because that same message is arguably hinted at throughout the story and even explicitly hinted at in the final full chapter. The final half chapter slaps readers in the face (though to the author's credit this is most likely unintentional) in order to make the ending more mysterious and open ended which was unnecessary because it already evoked those aspects in its original form without bashing readers over the head with them. Not a terrible ending but still a bit dissatisfying because of those final pages.
February 11, 2025
This omnibus collects chapters 123-139 (volumes 31-34).
I like a lot of things about this ending, but as I find it to be always the case with me when it comes to stories, I'm not unhappy about the whats but about the hows. Opinions of the sort, "I didn't want this thing to happen," or "I would have preferred if it went this other way," don't really mean much to me. The problem of this final stretch is a bunch of rushed and facile decisions in how certain things are made to happen and how they are justified in the story. So, yes, it almost all boils down to issues concerning the writing for me. A pity, all in all. Even like this, however, the series remains wholly worth reading and hugely important and stimulating.
I like a lot of things about this ending, but as I find it to be always the case with me when it comes to stories, I'm not unhappy about the whats but about the hows. Opinions of the sort, "I didn't want this thing to happen," or "I would have preferred if it went this other way," don't really mean much to me. The problem of this final stretch is a bunch of rushed and facile decisions in how certain things are made to happen and how they are justified in the story. So, yes, it almost all boils down to issues concerning the writing for me. A pity, all in all. Even like this, however, the series remains wholly worth reading and hugely important and stimulating.
November 2, 2023
Wow… I truly do not know how to express my feelings about this book and this series overall. There were so many moments here that made me ugly cry, gasp, think to myself “wtf???”
I have never known where this series was going or how it was going to wrap up, down to the final few pages, and that has always made me love it. This was a phenomenal end to a 5-star series, one that was 5-stars from beginning to bitter end.
These characters will live on for me forever. One of the best manga of all time.
I have never known where this series was going or how it was going to wrap up, down to the final few pages, and that has always made me love it. This was a phenomenal end to a 5-star series, one that was 5-stars from beginning to bitter end.
These characters will live on for me forever. One of the best manga of all time.
September 25, 2023
HUGE AOT FAN FOR STARTERS. Ended up getting the last few books bc I got tired of waiting for the show to finally come out. I loved everything about the series….. except for literally the last three pages. They should’ve ended it off with the dove flying away, wrapping the scarf around mikasa. The last four pages of the book, give everything else prior zero purpose. Titans are back right? That’s what they were hinting at with the tree. Idk 10/10 but -1000 points for the last two pages
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November 23, 2025
I’ve enjoyed reading this brilliant manga. There were some emotional moments in this final one and it has been rewarding seeing the characters develop. I have liked so many of the different characters and it would be hard to name my favourites as so many are well written.
I have enjoyed all the twists and turns throughout this series. It’s a crazy journey when you think how it all started to how it ends!
Overall this is a fantastic series and a new favourite of mine!
I have enjoyed all the twists and turns throughout this series. It’s a crazy journey when you think how it all started to how it ends!
Overall this is a fantastic series and a new favourite of mine!
October 20, 2025
12/10
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This is one of the greatest stories in fiction. While it stand against such titans, (pun intended,) as Tolkien, Herbert, Martin, etc, it stands its ground. The character work, story, message, foreshadowing, everything is top tier. Set aside any notions you have about anime and watch the show, it truly is a fantastic story.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This is one of the greatest stories in fiction. While it stand against such titans, (pun intended,) as Tolkien, Herbert, Martin, etc, it stands its ground. The character work, story, message, foreshadowing, everything is top tier. Set aside any notions you have about anime and watch the show, it truly is a fantastic story.
October 31, 2023
Read in one sitting. I could not put it down and had to see it through to the end. This series was an intricately-woven emotional gut punch of a roller coaster ride! This will stick with me for a long time. Can't wait to finish the anime now!
April 21, 2024
"I felt that those seemingly meaningless moments were actually incredibly precious"
overal, the series is a 3 stars for me because holy moly was there a lot of yapping in the last 2 editions, but we came back to our roots with this one
overal, the series is a 3 stars for me because holy moly was there a lot of yapping in the last 2 editions, but we came back to our roots with this one
May 10, 2024
THIS SERIES
When I tell you this is a must read. I mean it. Every thing was PERFECT
LOVE WAR FAMILY FRIENDS POLITICS CULTURE
IT HAD IT ALL.
These were the perfect last books in this amazing series.
I laughed. I screamed. I cried.
I'm sad it's over ♡
When I tell you this is a must read. I mean it. Every thing was PERFECT
LOVE WAR FAMILY FRIENDS POLITICS CULTURE
IT HAD IT ALL.
These were the perfect last books in this amazing series.
I laughed. I screamed. I cried.
I'm sad it's over ♡
December 10, 2022
Despite the controversy, I love the story and how it ended
Want to read
December 31, 2022Character Introductions
--Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 7
Bonus: Attack on School Castes
Cover Art Gallery
--Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 7
Bonus: Attack on School Castes
Cover Art Gallery
January 7, 2023
The ending is honestly not as terrible as everyone makes it out to be. I don't totally love it or hate it but why do they give Eren so much credit for everything😭😭
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January 7, 2023
Speechless...
I can't wait to read more of Isayama's future works.
I can't wait to read more of Isayama's future works.
March 3, 2023
*post attack on titan depression setting in*
March 7, 2023
It’s over and I’m emotional.
March 13, 2023
Honestly, with the full scope in mind, I could see myself giving some volumes 5 stars on the next read-through.
November 7, 2023
A PERFECT STORY WITH A PERFECT ENDING, NOBODY CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE!!! THE STORY IS LITERALLY A FULL CIRCLE!! ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!!!
January 12, 2024
A Strong 4/5 Graphic Novel Volume
February 15, 2024
Yeah my friends were right when they said this series is GOATed
February 22, 2024
Дори след като съм гледал анимацията, пак ми е трудно да следя какво се случва в комикса!
Без значение от формата, това е колосална творба и не е за изпускане!
Без значение от формата, това е колосална творба и не е за изпускане!
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