By Eric Vallen
The last few months, according to manga creator Hajime Isayama and MAPPA studios, were supposed to bring Attack on Titan to its end. Attack on Titan’s manga released its final issue in June of 2021, at the time having scheduled an anime airing date from December 7, 2021 through April 4, 2022. As of April 9, Attack on Titan’s anime has not come to an end, having scheduled a third part to come to screens in 2023. However, show-runners and animators can’t just say that they’ll have the show up next year— they need fans and investors support, which they are actively using. For three years now, MAPPA has been teasing the final season, the fantastic ending of Attack on Titan, but have failed to deliver. Now, fans are becoming restless, with many on online forums and social media platforms defaulting to reading the manga and learning the ending for themselves from paper, rather than waiting for the anime. In turn, with an honestly disappointing ending to the animanga, viewers and readers alike are bashing the anime’s actions in extending deadlines, pointing them out as useless now, in light of many fans spoiling the ending for themselves. Furthermore, besides fans, MAPPA studios itself may be imploding before our eyes. The studio has taken on several new animes, with rumors circling that they have not been paying their animators proportionally. In fact, just last year a freelance animating group by the name of Mushiyo quit their mappa jobs, claiming horrible working conditions, spurring several other animators to quit. At this rate, viewers may never see Attack on Titan animated by MAPPA, and considering other studios reservations at animating it due to the ending, viewers might not see Attack on Titan…ever.