Frequently asked questions

Four. Season 4 is called The Final Season and was released in four instalments: Part 1 (2020–2021), Part 2 (2022) and two long specials in 2023. Together that comes to 94 regular episodes plus the specials.

Season 1 → 2 → 3 Part 1 → 3 Part 2 → 4 Part 1 → 4 Part 2 → The Final Chapters Special 1 → Special 2.

The OVA No Regrets, about Levi, fits well after season 1; Lost Girls after season 3.

Crunchyroll usually carries the complete series including the specials; Netflix has a changing selection of seasons. See the Where to watch page for details.

Around 40 hours for everything together.

Yes. Crunchyroll carries an English dub for the whole run, though the dubbed episodes of the newest specials arrive some weeks after the subtitled ones.

The Rumbling (地鳴らし, jinarashi) is the release of the millions of Colossal Titans walled into the three Walls. They then march across the mainland and trample everything in their path. It is Eren’s ultimate plan and the moral core of season 4.

Pure Titans are transformed Eldians. They eat people in an instinctive attempt to devour a titan shifter and so regain their human form. They cannot digest the food.

Anyone who inherits one of the Nine Titans dies within thirteen years — the same span Ymir Fritz lived after her transformation.

He comes from the Ackerman clan: an Eldian line that is immune to memory manipulation and that, in danger, can draw on the strength of a titan power without transforming.

The story speaks of roughly eighty per cent of humanity outside Paradis. Precise numbers are never given.

For the most part the anime follows the manga closely. The biggest differences are in season 4: MAPPA added scenes, moved a few events around and gave the finale a slightly different closing image than chapter 139.

Only if you want more detail in the last twenty chapters. The story is complete in both media.

Yes: No Regrets (Levi), Lost Girls (Annie and Mikasa), Before the Fall (a prequel) and a number of parody series such as Junior High.

The main series is finished. New releases are reissues, games and collaborations — not a continuation of the story.

As a soldier: Levi Ackerman. As a titan power at its peak: Eren with the Founding Titan. In the lore, Ymir Fritz is the source of everything.

More people than you would like. The Who dies when page has the full overview — behind a spoiler warning, of course.

That is precisely the question the series asks and deliberately leaves unanswered. The analysis Was Eren good or evil? sets out both sides.

Eren gave it to her on the day he saved her. It is the symbol of their bond and returns in the final image of the series.