The unfair treatment of the fans might have made many of them turn their backs on the show.
Attack on Titan's (Shingeki no Kyojin) upcoming series finale — also known under its hilarious community alias 'Season 4 Part 3 Part 2' — is just around the corner with the release date being November 5, 2023. But is there actually that much hype around the ending of this hugely-popular franchise? Some fans argue that the answer to that question is a definite 'no' and the creators' have nobody to blame but themselves.
It took the show 6 years (2013-2019) to air its first 3 seasons of 59 total episodes. The fourth and at the time supposedly the final season premiered on December 7, 2020 and that is where the troubles began. The fourth season, in the same fashion as its predecessor, was supposed to be split into 2 parts.
However, if the break between the 1 and 2 installment of the third season lasted a mere 5 months — the pause between the two parts of the 4 season lasted a whopping 11 — almost a year!
Naturally, this did damage the hype around the show but — being an absolute cultural Juggernaut — Attack on Titan powered through… But only for the fans to be unpleasantly surprised with a very lackluster second half of the season that, adding insult to injury, also was announced to be 'not quite the final one'. The fourth season was to receive another part — the third one — that too would consist of two hour-long special episodes. And, in order to see the first of them, the fans had to wait for thirteen more months!
It is at that point, according to the fans, that they started noticing the hype slowly go away. With less people talking about it, less posts on social media being made and less fan-theories regarding the AoT's ending circulating around. As viewers speculate, those who were the most invested into the story simply went ahead and read the manga while many of the casual fans gradually got tired of waiting and eventually moved on.
The ultimate finale of the show is scheduled to be released in just a month — however, after everything that the creators' made the audience go through over the last two years, chances are that not that many people might actually show up to see it.
The unfair treatment of the fans might have made many of them turn their backs on the show.
Attack on Titan's (Shingeki no Kyojin) upcoming series finale — also known under its hilarious community alias 'Season 4 Part 3 Part 2' — is just around the corner with the release date being November 5, 2023. But is there actually that much hype around the ending of this hugely-popular franchise? Some fans argue that the answer to that question is a definite 'no' and the creators' have nobody to blame but themselves.
It took the show 6 years (2013-2019) to air its first 3 seasons of 59 total episodes. The fourth and at the time supposedly the final season premiered on December 7, 2020 and that is where the troubles began. The fourth season, in the same fashion as its predecessor, was supposed to be split into 2 parts.
However, if the break between the 1 and 2 installment of the third season lasted a mere 5 months — the pause between the two parts of the 4 season lasted a whopping 11 — almost a year!
Naturally, this did damage the hype around the show but — being an absolute cultural Juggernaut — Attack on Titan powered through… But only for the fans to be unpleasantly surprised with a very lackluster second half of the season that, adding insult to injury, also was announced to be 'not quite the final one'. The fourth season was to receive another part — the third one — that too would consist of two hour-long special episodes. And, in order to see the first of them, the fans had to wait for thirteen more months!
It is at that point, according to the fans, that they started noticing the hype slowly go away. With less people talking about it, less posts on social media being made and less fan-theories regarding the AoT's ending circulating around. As viewers speculate, those who were the most invested into the story simply went ahead and read the manga while many of the casual fans gradually got tired of waiting and eventually moved on.
The ultimate finale of the show is scheduled to be released in just a month — however, after everything that the creators' made the audience go through over the last two years, chances are that not that many people might actually show up to see it.
