After this chapter, Attack on Titan officially ascended to the pantheon. It was no longer merely a masterpiece; it became a work that glorified the very existence of manga as an art form.
Before this, I had been unable to let go of the drop in narrative tension after the story opened up the world beyond the walls. But now, those flaws no longer matter. In Chapter 122, the entire story completes a perfect literary circle. The two most central mysteries—“To You, 2,000 Years from Now” and the “prophetic dream”—receive their most ingenious and moving answers here.
Well, not just ingenious—moving. A hundred times more moving than every prediction and analysis I had read before, including my own.
For everyone who had been worrying that Attack on Titan might not be able to make its mysteries hold together, that stone they had been carrying in their hearts can finally be set down. Looking at it now, the standard of “making everything add up” was selling Hajime Isayama short. What Isayama wanted was far more than a self-consistent explanation; he wanted something that could pierce the soul. I think he pulled it off.
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