Anime Series Season 3 - Attack on Titan
The third season of the anime television series Attack on Titan was produced by Wit Studio, an animation studio which belongs to [Production I.G]. It was directed by Tetsuro Araki and directed by Masashi Koizuka. This season covers 2 Arcs from the original manga by Hajime Isayama. The first 12 episodes of the season were broadcast on NHK’s General TV from 23th July to 15th October 2018, and it went on hiatus until 29th April 2019.
Attack on Titan Anime Season 3 Arcs
Here are the 3 Arcs covered in Season 3 of the Attack on Titan anime series.
- The Uprising Arc (chapters 51 to 70)
- The Return to Shiganshina (chapters 71 to 90).
Attack on Titan Anime Season 3 Soundtrack
The opening theme of the first 12 episodes of Season 3 is "Red Swan" by Yoshiki featuring Hyde, and the ending theme is "Akatsuki no Requiem" (暁の鎮魂歌, Akatsuki no Chinkonka, lit. "Daybreak Requiem") by Linked Horizon. The opening theme of the second part of the Season 3 is "Shoukei to Shikabane no Michi" (憧憬と屍の道, lit. "The Path of Longing and Corpses") by Linked Horizon, and the second ending theme is “Name of Love”, by Cinema Staff.
Attack on Titan Anime Season 3 Summary
In the previous Season 2, Historia revealed to Ymir that “Krista Lenz” was a fake name. In Season 3 she also confesses that this name was created to protect her from the Military Police member who murdered her mother and sent Historia and her father, Rod Reiss, into exile.
Rod, who belongs by blood to the true monarchy, became the puppet to the current humanity’s king, Fritz. He kidnaps Historia and Eren and takes them to a hidden place. He explains that the Titan’s power has been passed through the Reiss family bloodline since Rod’s younger brother, Uri, did it to become the First King. Then, Uri decided to erase the existence of Titans from humanity’s collective memory for “a good cause”.
In the end, after trying to convince Historia to inherit Eren’s Titan’s power by eating him, she refuses to do it and Rod ends up consuming the liquid full of Founding Titan serum. In turn, he transforms him into a half-formed, humongous Titan.
In addition, Eren finds out that he inherited the Titan’s power after eating his father. Grisha had eaten Queen Frieda and destroyed most of the Reiss family in order to get the Founding Titan power. When the walls broke down, he had forced Eren to eat him to pass on this power to his son.
Another character’s past that is revealed during this season is the one of Levi Ackerman. There is a new character that is introduced with the name of Kenny “The Ripper”. With his dying breath, Kenny, who had been the childhood mentor for Levi, explained that he was his uncle and that both Levi and Mikasa were relatives of him. This is the reason why both characters share the same surname.
Later on, Erwin and Levi plan to take out the Beast Titan. However, such a plan does not succeed and ends with many soldiers seriously injured. With Erwin and Armin almost dying and one Titan serum, the characters have to make a choice of just one of them to get the injection that would allow them to eat Bertholdt and become the inheritor of the Armored Titan. Also, in this way, they could save one of their lives. After some divagations, Armin is the chosen one to eat Bertholdt and he emerges healed from his Titan form, while Erwin dies.
After these events, Hange, Levi, Eren and Mikasa arrive at Shinganshina to investigate the basement of Eren’s home. Eren unlocks the door with the key hanging on his neck and the group opens a desk drawer with a hidden compartment containing three books. Inside the book, they find a strange picture of Grisha, standing next to a woman holding a child who is not Eren.
Six years after the fall of Wall Maria, the Survey Corps begin the expedition outside the wall. But although Eren had always wanted to see the sea, he realizes that they only found enemies across the sea, instead of the freedom he was looking for.
List of Episodes
Here is a list of episodes in Season 3 of the Attack on Titan anime series.
- Episode 38: Smoke signal (狼煙 Noroshi) - July 23, 2018
- Episode 39: Pain (痛み Itami) - July 30, 2018
- Episode 40: Old Story (昔話 Mukashibanashi) - August 6, 2018
- Episode 41: Trust (信頼 Shinrai) - August 13, 2018
- Episode 42: Reply (回答 Kaitō) - August 20, 2018
- Episode 43: Sin (罪 Tsumi) - August 27, 2018
- Episode 44: Wish (願い Negai) - September 3, 2018
- Episode 45: Outside the Walls of Orvud District (オルブド区外壁 Orubudo-ku Gaiheki) - September 10, 2018
- Episode 46: Ruler of the Walls (壁の王 Kabe no Ō) - September 17, 2018
- Episode 47: Friends (友人 Yūjin) - September 24, 2018
- Episode 48: Bystander (傍観者 Bōkansha) - October 8, 2018
- Episode 49: Night of the Battle to Retake the Wall (奪還作戦の夜 Dakkan Sakusen no Yoru) - October 15, 2018
- Episode 50: The Town Where Everything Began (はじまりの街 Hajimari no Machi) - April 29, 2019
- Episode 51: Thunder Spears (雷槍 Raisō) - May 6, 2019
- Episode 52: Descent (光臨 Kōrin) - May 13, 2019
- Episode 53: Perfect Game ( 完全試合パーフェクトゲーム Pāfekuto Gēmu) - May 20, 2019
- Episode 54: Hero (勇者 Yūsha) - May 27, 2019
- Episode 55: Midnight Sun (白夜 Byakuka) - June 3, 2019
- Episode 56: The Basement (地下室 Chikashitsu) - June 10, 2019
- Episode 57: That Day (あの日 Ano Hi) - June 17, 2019
- Episode 58: Attack Titan (進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin) - June 24, 2019
- Episode 59: The Other Side of the Wall (壁の向こう側 Kabe no Mukougawa) - July 1, 2019