‘Attack On Titan’ Season 4, Part 3, Part 2 Gets A Release Date, And Yes, It’s Really The End

If you can’t tell from my title, it’s a bit of a running joke just how long Attack on Titan has dragged out what it calls its “final season,” but in reality it’s really just a bunch of smaller seasons all strung together endlessly.

Well, almost endlessly. After the premiere of Attack on Titan Final Season (Season 4) Part 3, we now know when the second half of Part 3 will premiere, or I guess you could call it Part 4? Unclear. But it has a release window, and yes, this is supposed to be the last batch of episodes.

It’s just been announced that Part 3, Part 2 will be out in Fall 2023, meaning we will not have to wait until 2024 for the final run of episodes barring any delays. So, for the “final season,” this is where we are:

• Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 1 – December 2020
• Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 2 – January 2022
• Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 3 – March 2023
• Attack on Titan Sesaon 4 Part 3, Part 2 (Part 4?) – Fall 2023

The show is already up to 28 episodes in this “final season” which began two and a half years ago at this point, and may be closer to 50 episodes by the time all is said and done. Which essentially makes it three seasons contained within one season. I have no idea why they decided to do it that way, but it’s certainly one of the more absurd naming/release timing things I’ve seen in anime.

Anime series are known for experimenting with different airing formats. Demon Slayer, for instance, has gone down the road of doing theatrical releases for certain episodes, which made them half a billion dollars at the box office for the Mugen Train movie, so they’re doing the same thing for the Season 3, Swordsmith Village Arc premiere. Attack on Titan, meanwhile, is just doing this eternal final season and it remains as popular as ever, even as the plot takes weirder and weirder turns. I know many people who have read the manga are itching for people to reach the controversial ending, which now should be coming this fall.

Unless they decide to make a Final Season Part 3, Part 3 (Part 5), of course…

Update (3/5): Now that the Part 3 special episode has aired, we now know how it’s been recieved by fans. Pretty well, in fact! Here’s what this episode was about:

“Ramzi and Halil, two refugee children, flee the approaching Colossal Titans as they surround the crowds of refugees. One year prior, Eren reflects on his previous experiences, and his future actions.”

Right now, with 23,000 votes in, The Final Chapters: Special 1 has a 9.6/10 on IMDB. That sounds high, and it is, but fans have been known to really, really rate Attack on Titan highly on here, making it one of the top-rated shows in the site’s history. A 9.6 out of 10 in the context of the full series actually only puts it inside the top 25 of all episodes, as eight different past episodes have garnered that score.

The highest rated episode of Attack on Titan is 2019’s Midnight Sun with a 9.9/10.

The lowest rated episode of Attack on Titan is 2014’s OVA: The Sudden Visitor: The Torturous Curse of Youth with a 7.6/10. Nothing else is really even close to that, as it’s the lowest by a wide margin.

We’ll have to wait and see how other, future episodes fare in the grand scheme of the list here, but newer ones have definitely skewed higher overall.

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