The “Shocking” Season with Shocking Ending of Attack on Titan
Shock (衝撃 Shougeki) is the song written by Yuko Ando, as the Ending Song of Attack on Titan (AOT for short) in this final season. It closed the first part of the Final Season Anime.
The first impression when I was watching the Music Video, the image brings sorrowful atmosphere but the music seems calming and peace, representing our dead comrades in this chapter (Say goodbye to dearest Sasha Blouse, Udo and Zofia). Actually not that peace, with some instrumental (maybe it’s bass drum), but the minor key of piano bring those peace, along with accapella of the singer herself.
The yellowish-brown vintage color palette in this Anime Ending Song brings the sad and hopeless vibes.
Starting the vision of Eagle flew towards sky above Fort Slava. It shows War Vibes, connected somehow with the opening title of anime in this season. Somehow the dream of human being to fly high above the sky represent by that Falco boy. We could see the motion of Falco laying on the ground just like this Marley Arc begins (Episode 1 — The other side of the ocean).
Let’s take a look into the lyrics:
In an instant a second earlier in an abandoned world
If you flap your wings, it must be conveyed to him
The term wings of the song beginning is represent the freedom. To bring a “certain message” to a “certain person” in the abandoned broken down world. We could take an assumption that the freedom represent someone in this world to be free, to see the world without enemy, to see the world without war. But we are unable to locate who is the person mentioned “him”. Is it Falco which is the boy featured in the song video or maybe Eren’s dream?
Continued to the next image, we watched the birds, this time the color just so blurry (the effect of the video itself). The subsequent image shows us silhouette of two important character in this season: Gabi and Falco. The two represent the wish of them to eternal world peace, free of titans, and also Free of Bad Eldians (in Paradis Island).
Countless birds burned their wings
Scattering ashes and smile so peacefully
Someone’s falling apart
The lyrics feels complete with the war illustration behind Falco Grice. The feeling of losing, the sadness and sorrow felt behind Paradis and Marley. Gabi lost the one she valued the most: Udo and Zofia because the raid in Liberio. Survey Corps ehm I mean Connie lost Sasha Blouse … and some of the comrades including Lobov (nobody in the internet remember him, so sad).
The bird, exactly represents for those who sacrifice their live for the sake of the world peace. But certain person (in this anime Eren and Gabi) feels the hurt of losing somebody valuable in their life. Their soul is just broken.
And proof of my existence that I was here
Even if the bones turn to sand and disappear
One by one the corpse of many comrades is lost in the battlefield, but their struggle to the very last end, is still living in their heart.
Even the body has disappear, the soul of our dead comrades, somehow still linked with this path. The subject of Ymir also carried the blood and able to communicate in this coordinate room. The body may disappear, but their existence in this world still persists.
Again, this video ended with Falco staring at a bird soar in the sky. Somehow, the bird is the object that are closed to the freedom. The Wings of Freedom, Bird at Dusk, and also another symbolism we see at the Anime. Everytime they represent those people in the world described by mangaka who will fight to seek freedom, the birds in the sky is the most representing analogy.
This not-so-popular ending song has touched our little heart because the war vibes is still ongoing. Many death of the dearest will scattered throughout the season. Is this a Premonition of the bloody battle ahead awaits the Survey Corps and Marleyan Soldiers? We still don’t know, but this shocking season succesfully shocked us for the early beginning. It has shocking war related theme and “shocking” ending too. It seems the ending of the series will shock many people in the world, too. I think so.
