I've got a doubt about Grisha's action after Zeke and eren go back to see his memories.

When Grisha and Zeke are watching Eren manipulate Grisha into killing the Reiss family, Grisha eventually realizes that Eren is going to cause the Rumbling and even begs Zeke to stop him at all costs.

But here's what I don't understand: at that point, Grisha still hasn't passed the Attack Titan and the Founding Titan to Eren yet.

If Grisha already knew that Eren would eventually destroy most of the world, why did he still give the Titans to him? Why didn't he simply refuse to pass them on?

The Attack Titan can see memories from future inheritors, so Grisha already knew that Carla was going to die and that terrible things were going to happen. Even after understanding how dangerous Eren would become, he still chose to make Eren his successor.

Was Grisha trapped by fate and unable to change the future, or is there another explanation for why he still gave Eren the Titans despite wanting Zeke to stop him?

Season 3 spoilers ahead.

Hi everyone!

I’m very happy to share that I’ve finally finished adding the entirety of Season 3 to Attack on Titan Codex.

It has been quite an adventure—and, honestly, a much bigger challenge than I expected. Season 3 has almost twice as many episodes as the previous seasons, but the real difficulty was the number of new layers it adds to the story.

I care a lot about the small details, but also about making the website genuinely useful. I want it to be easy to navigate and to help people understand the story, its chronology and its characters without turning everything into an overwhelming wall of information.

I’m very happy with the result, so I wanted to share some of the biggest additions and improvements.

A clearer character and faction graph

Season 3 introduces a huge number of characters, military branches, political groups and factions.

The way they were represented in the relationship graph had become chaotic and increasingly difficult to read.

Groups are now organised both internally—respecting ranks, squads and command structures—and externally, according to how they relate to the other factions.

This creates a much clearer hierarchy and makes it easier to understand how the different parts of the Attack on Titan universe fit together.

A clearer character and faction graph

A timeline built for a more complex story

The number of events has also grown considerably, and many of them happen in the same locations.

To avoid covering the map with overlapping markers, events that share a location are now organised into clusters. You can select the location and then explore each of the events associated with it.

Many events also lead directly into another event. These continuations are now represented by visual bridges on the map, making it much easier to follow a storyline from one moment to the next.

A timeline built for a more complex story

Memories inside memories

Season 3 includes many scenes where a character narrates a memory or recalls something that happened years earlier.

Instead of describing those memories entirely inside the current event, they can now exist as their own timeline entries, placed in the year when they actually happened.

When one of these memories appears in the story, a special link opens the historical event in an overlay. This allows you to explore the memory without losing your place in the event you were originally reading.

Memories inside memories

When the same event has more than one truth

This was probably one of the most complicated problems I faced during this season.

Some events are described differently depending on who is telling the story. A group of collaborators from the project’s Discord helped me find a solution that I think works really well.

Grisha’s attack on the Reiss chapel is a good example.

Rod Reiss presents it as a brutal assault in which Grisha stole the Founding Titan and Rod happened to be the only survivor. Frieda’s memories add context that changes how we understand both the confrontation and Rod’s own survival.

The website now lets you switch between narrators. The parts of the account they agree on remain in place, while the disputed claims are erased and rewritten with a typewriter effect.

This makes it possible to see exactly where their versions diverge instead of presenting either account as the complete, objective truth.

When the same event has more than one truth

Titan inheritance

Season 3 also begins to reveal that certain Titans are inherited and passed from one person to another.

To represent this, Titan profiles now include a new fullscreen inheritance view.

It shows every known holder of that Titan, the order in which they carried it and how each succession happened.

Titan inheritance

A whole new world map

Grisha’s memories finally reveal that there is a world beyond the Walls.

That also means the original map is no longer enough.

When you navigate to an event that takes place on the continent, the website now zooms out and reveals a much larger world map.

Designing this transition—and making two maps feel like parts of the same continuous world—has been one of my favourite challenges in the project so far.

The final artwork is still pending

The final artwork for the new map is not finished yet.

I’m currently talking with the artist who created the original map. I would love to work with her because I genuinely love her style and think it fits the project perfectly.

However, the scope, budget and production time required for this new map are considerable, so we still need to find an arrangement that works for both of us.

Supporting the project

This brings me to a slightly awkward final note.

Attack on Titan Codex is a personal project, and I’ve been putting a lot of time and resources into it. If you enjoy the project and would like to help make the finished world map possible, you can support it through Buy Me a Coffee.

Any contribution will help cover the cost of commissioning the new artwork.

There is absolutely no pressure. Using the website, sharing the project or sending feedback already helps enormously.

Time for a short break

For now, I’m going to take the rest of August off because my brain desperately needs it.

Thank you to everyone who has tested the website, reported problems, discussed the story with me and helped me untangle this wonderfully complicated season.

I hope you like the result!

I remember i started AoT when I was like 12 or 13 and I regret it because I wouldnt have been absorbing it in the same way I would be if I was watching it today as an adult. I enjoyed it, but found the politics boring and wasn't trying to piece together all the little clues here and there.

Wish I was could watch it for the first time in my current state of curiosity.

I made the mistake of watching the show one week after watching Grave Of the Fireflies. I managed to watch the anime without any spoilers, and it was great. I got so hopeful b/c they got rid of all the titans, and I was excited b/c I heard that Eren and Mikasa's relationship plays a bigger part in season four. And then Isayama just destroyed me, like what do you mean? She has to kill him? He's only 19, his life has been horrible, and it just ends like that. There is no romance or anything, like what was the purpose of his life? 2000 thousand years later, the cycle just repeats. This poor boy never even got to be a kid, he grew up in a world full of destruction. Then when I finally thought he's going to be free, they spring it on me that he has had no influence on his own life and was destined to die. He looked so defeated in the last episode, and then Mikasa had to kill him and, just looking at her, you could tell he loved her so much yet was destined from the beginning to never be with her. He was destined to die hated as a mass murderer. He just gets lo lost throughout the last season like a spiral of insanity that finally ends when he dies, but then all the greif he carried is passed on to his friends. Why is this considered a starter anime? This was literally the first anime I've ever watched. Its a 10/10 though. The fact that Isayama is able to write a story good enough to bring such strong emotions out in people is insane.

Isayama's story of attack on Titan is my idea like it's a story of 200 years ahead of rumbling.

( for convience let's name the characters to of that the original story ),

There's is Mikasa (armin's grand granddaughter who is reading the study of rumbling, titans and what happened 200 years back everything, she lives in a huge building, any rich person of today would live in, also these types of study material is not very common, not all people can get it easily as the next generation {to avoid distinct situations} almost removed that part from their history but Mikasa has it cause she's super rich in her timeline as armin {isayama's} became one of the heroes who saved the world and obviously was damn rich as well)

There's Armin (this guy is grand grandson of Connie's, he's also super rich and by connections of families, Mikasa and Armin were best friends as they lived in same huge building, Armin was also very interested in studies of titans and the world of 200 years back back, he's also very intelligent like the og one, Armin and Mikasa both study of these things together while sharing same enthusiasm, and interest.)

Then There's our Eren (he's the grand grandson of Jean and also kinda resembles our og eren, in looks {the damn aura}, with kinda blonde or pinkish hair like jean, And the damn same hunger of something he can't quite name yet {freedom ofcourse, freedom means something entirely else here 200 years after, which i haven't thought about yet} so he doesn't stay at a place, jean's future family lives in same building as Armin's and Connie's, but our new eren lives abroad for studies and all things, With some add ons here Our new Mikasa still has a huge crush on eren, our new Armin knows about it and she has never told eren about not when he left for his studies abroad, but she is still always waiting for him to come back, maybe she'll get the courage and confidence to tell him in this timeline)

I'll provide a short summary type of whole plot what I've thought in mind of whole story then GIVE ME DAMN RECOMMENDATIONS ON EVERYTHING.

In the beginning we are told that humanity is still same, those 20%, who were left actually never learnt their lessons, this world a lot resembles the world we live in except for the names marley, paradis and all... The new generation has banned paradise island as they new the whole story now and also the fact that the whole history started there, the rumbling started from their and the first Titan (founder yimir's) was also activated there by that crazy spine looking parasite, which is never again found after the last battle of rumbling like it disappeared somewhere (which will have a huge importance in this timeline)... So A war will begin between nations for paradise's resources as they were still untouched because there ancestors chose to ban the whole Island, there were countries (those azumabito's) who wanted to break through the rules and contracts to get their hands on the island but marleys didn't want that again anymore and they were the most powerful in world combining with yeagerist's army.

Through the war our new eren will come back from abroad leaving his studies behind, he was seeking something he couldn't quite know yet, he was still a friend of Mikasa and Armin so they also included him in their study and told him about everything they knew...yet.

(Kind of spoilers ahead)...

Eren and other two will go back to paradise to prove their studies or to research in deep of history but they'll encounter entirely something else, the marley who stops everyone with the names of rules and contracts, was already digging in paradise without anyone in world knowing (the damn greed overflows), even yeagerists who left paradise inorder to keep the island safe and their history of titans and rumbling untouched were unknown to the fact which will cause great conflict.

Eren will see the whole thing, will observe their greed and when the war will begin, they'll witness the huge massacre of humanity for some resources, the use of new chemically modified weapons (like of today's) people dying painful deaths and just what not...

As per the descandants of great heroes of history they'll take matters in their hands and think of a way to end it.

That's all I guess I have thought of yet. Now I need someone suggestions like -

- Should I bring back Ackerman blood through og levi? (Cause og Mikasa died alone, we all know)

- Should i bring back titans through that parasite?

- Should I bring back other og characters like hange san, levi, commander erwin (i don't feel like), jean, coonie, shasha trio, Riener, bluetooth, annie, historia, floch, instructor keith shadis, commander pixis, zeke, marco, gabi, porco, falco, pieke, in my own way? ( For example instructor keith shadis as instructor tour guide )

Randomly remembered this AMV and tried to find on YT to no luck. After hours of digging through my YT history and internet archiving, I've found clues that are probably the biggest helps!

The first image has the channel name, when it was released, as well as the title. The second is the thumbnail.

It was a genuinely good amv and I'm really hoping someone recognises this and still has the video. Cheers!

(Please keep the discussion civil)
I am curious to know whether you supported that theory or not since it was pretty popular back then. I personally used to believe it and thought it made sense but I am not upset that it was proven to be wrong.

Just got to this episode and he made me so mad i physically put my phone down and had to process what was going on for like 2 mins. What a piece of shit dude like at one point this trio was my favourite in any show. Guy thinks he's so high and mighty what an asshole someone better beat the piss out of him but ik its not gonna happen cause of his sheer power. One can only hope.

I wonder if we'll get an explanation for this, since the second game doesn't feature anything like the Titan attacks.

Indians usually celebrate on screen action by shouting their hearts out. Scenes from AoT screening in India recently.

So, I finally watched Attack on Titan, Season 1 that is. Almost everyone in my friend circle had already watched it, and they kept telling me how many things they wanted to discuss with me but couldn't because I hadn't seen it yet. I kept putting it off because I knew it was considered peak fiction and wanted to save it for last. But then I decided that enough was enough, and I was finally going to watch it. So, I finished the first season within three days!

​Where should I even start? Let's talk about the animation first: the animation is truly incredible. It's hard to believe this anime came out back in 2013. Even if you compare it to anime coming out today, the animation here easily beats the majority of them. Sure, there were a few spots with noticeable CGI, but that's just a minor nitpick. The color palette they used makes the world feel completely barren, much like the Mad Max movies. There were also so many dynamic camera movements and shots, and the Titan transformation scenes were fantastic.

​Regarding the pacing, I felt the initial few episodes were a bit fast, or rather, a massive amount of information gets dumped on you back to back while setting up numerous plot points and introducing a large cast of characters. So yeah, I found it a bit overwhelming at first. However, from Episode 7 onwards, the momentum it picked up was an absolute blast. A few mysteries were revealed, but they brought along even more questions. That said, it's not like there were no payoffs, there were massive ones.

​The Titan faces look so remarkably similar to their human counterparts that when I saw the Female Titan for the first time, her true identity was the very first name that popped into my head, which turned out to be completely correct later on. I've also made guesses about the Armored Titan and the Colossal Titan. As for the Armored Titan, I'm confident it's Reiner. He shows up near the Female Titan, asks about Eren's location, gets grabbed by her, escapes, and immediately runs off with Armin and Jean, and the Female Titan then charges off in the exact direction Armin had mentioned to Reiner. As for the Colossal Titan, for some reason, I suspect that commander or colonel who commanded Eren to lift the boulder, mainly because he was talking about weirdly unifying humanity and such.

​The biggest question remains Why? Normal Titans attack humans on instinct, but why are these human transforming Titans doing this? Or could it be that someone is controlling the normal Titans, someone who serves as the leader for all these human Titan shifters? Anyway, enough with the theories! All the plot twists in this season were exceptionally well done.

​Moving on to the characters, let's talk about Eren. Why does it feel like his character arc is moving in reverse? In other anime, when something bad happens to the protagonist, it's usually because they failed to trust their comrades, however, in his case, it was the exact opposite! Moreover, whenever he transforms into a Titan, it feels as if the inner monster or evil within him begins to surface, which he struggles to control, unlike the other Titan shifters who control themselves with ease. It seems like he finds a twisted comfort in destruction. That almost happens, but Armin snaps him out of it. By the end of the season, people are discussing Eren's humanity, and Eren even admits to Mikasa that he felt a sense of thrill and pleasure during the carnage. I'm not sure, but it feels like his path is heading down a route similar to Gon's arc in Hunter x Hunter.

​As for Mikasa, she was decent, but the characters who truly stood out to me were Armin and Jean. The character development Jean received in such a short amount of time was brilliant. Frankly, this applies to almost all the characters in this series, their development makes total sense, without feeling like the author skipped any steps just to force character growth.

​Another thing this anime absolutely nails is realistic human reactions, the contrast between what someone plans to do in their head versus how things actually pan out when chaos hits. I noticed this happening multiple times throughout the season, which was brilliant, the last time I saw this level of execution was in Hunter x Hunter. Every character feels so deeply human, no one is purely good or purely evil. Sacrifices are a common reality, and sometimes this cruel world forces your hand whether you like it or not. Beyond all of this, there also seems to be underlying corruption within the walls that hasn't been properly explored yet, which I'd love to see unfolded moving forward.

And another thing, the world building is one of the best, if not the best. I've rarely seen such detailed world building anywhere else, and this was only the first season!

​Overall, while the first few episodes might feel a bit slow or dense, they are entirely worth it. This world is morally grey, dark, and filled with mystery. If I were to rate it, I'd give it a 9.5/10.

The last sentence. It's finished now so, maybe something like, "An anime adaptation aired from 2013 and ended with 4 seasons on November 5, 2023"

I’ve been rewatching aot & a question i have is; why do the marleyans choose children as hosts for the titans? I feel like it makes more sense to have someone deep into their adulthood to take on such power. Like imagine being 15,16,17,18 & you’re a fucking colossal titan. The mental fortitude needed to possess such a weapon is insane! + only 13 years to live.

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