There’s a Reason Why So Many Attack on Titan Characters Survived in the Finale

Summary:

• The finale of Attack on Titan spared too many characters.
• Fans think it might have been done to leave room for spin-offs.
• The Bad Boy extra pages are a good example.

The Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) finale is a thing that can be discussed forever. Thank you, Isayama, for so many engaging fandom debates, we really appreciate it.

And one of the things is the number of characters that survived the finale of the series, which is, well, almost all of them.

Attack on Titan is notorious for being a series that’s not afraid to kill off important characters, and we’ve already discussed why it’s not entirely true.

However, there was a reason why people (used to) think about Attack on Titan this way, and the series was indeed very cruel to a lot of characters. But what happened in the finale?

Almost everyone made it out alive

Hange and Floch (well, and Eren, of course) are the only important characters who died in the Final Chapters. The Alliance managed to fight Eren and not lose any of their members. Even Jean and Connie who turned into Pure Titans were saved when the Titan Curse was broken.

And should we even say anything about Levi? He’s a character who had plenty of opportunities to die before the finale, and the ending injured him once again and put him into a wheelchair instead of just letting him rest for good.

It leaves room for spin-offs

Yes, this is the answer that fans think is the most real. And the announced extra manga pages “Bad Boy” about Levi’s backstory prove it. Of course Isayama couldn’t kill Levi, he’s the most popular Attack on Titan character, and you can basically release anything about him to make fans want to spend their money.

Attack on Titan is an immensely popular series, and even now, years after the manga ending and months after the anime finale there are hundreds of people who discuss it every day. They buy copies of the series, they purchase merch, they keep the series alive.

And there’s always a chance to make even more money from Attack on Titan. But for that you have to keep the series going. And if all the characters are dead, it might become challenging to come up with new ideas.

That’s why fans have come to the conclusion that one of the editors might have told Isayama to leave room for future projects in the Attack on Titan universe. It’s only a speculation, of course, but the Bad Boy chapters make us feel that it might be true.