Indeed, this season we spend more time not just with Mikasa and Armin, but with Jean and Connie too as the characters struggle to come to terms with the people they thought they'd be, and the people they became throughout the course of the show. Attack on Titan makes the brilliant choice of distancing us from him and focusing instead on how the other characters react to Eren's actions. Rather than follow him through this whole ordeal, we spend half of the season without even seeing Eren, but he still casts such a large shadow that we consistently feel his presence even when he is literally hundreds of feet in the air as a terrifying whale Titan. Much of the season was devoted to reconciling Eren's actions with the kid we knew, and trying to understand what led him to activate the Rumbling, with revelations that recontextualized everything we thought we knew about the show. Eren has always been headstrong and brash, idealistic to the extreme even before we met him in Season 1 РІР‚вЂњ we just went along with it because he is the protagonist and because his anger was directed at nameless Titans rather than men, women, and children. Instead, the murderous rage inside him has always been there.

What makes his arc so satisfying is how clear the show is about it not being a sudden 180 Eren is no Daenerys. After last season presented a cold, closed-off Eren, this season finally revealed his plan to annihilate every last human outside of Paradis Island. It has been Attack on TitanРІР‚в„ўs biggest accomplishment to see Eren get one of the best heel turns not just in anime, but in all of fiction since Walter White.

At the center of this, of course, is Eren Yeager himself.

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