Attack on Titan: The Final Season: The Final Chapters (進撃の巨人 The Final Season 完結編, Shingeki no Kyojin The Final Season Kanketsu-hen) is a 2023 two-part television special anime based on Hajime Isayama’s manga series Attack on Titan and a continuation to the 2020-2022 television anime season Attack on Titan: The Final Season. The television special was adapted by studio MAPPA, and the staff staff credits include director Yuichiro Hayashi, series composition writer Hiroshi Seko, character designer Tomohiro Kishi and music composer Kohta Yamamoto. The first television special aired in Japan on March 2023 followed by the second special on November 2023.
Note: Due to the packaging artwork and contents, this unboxing will contain major spoilers for the series as a whole including The Final Chapters.
Background:
“Eren unleashes the rumbling with one desire in mind: destroy all enemies beyond Paradis. Standing against him is a band of misfits made of former enemies and allies. But no matter what they do to halt the destruction, Eren’s final act is preordained.”
Plot Synopsis via Crunchyroll UK, December 2024.
After 10 years, from 2013 to 2023, Attack on Titan‘s anime adaptation had finally concluded. Four seasons filled with various twists and turns and it was a rollercoaster ride that I had enjoyed watching. I didn’t watch the first season during simulcast so I was spoiled by the twists but from the second season onwards I went in totally blind and even avoided any spoilers related to the manga.
But going into Attack on Titan: The Final Season: The Final Chapters, I recall many people’s anticipation that it was going to end pretty badly because of how the manga turned out. Personally I had no major issues with its conclusion and it didn’t sour my taste with the anime series as a whole. I also knew people had concerns about the direction of the animation style because we went from WIT Studio, who animated the first three seasons, over to studio MAPPA. I personally love MAPPA’s work with this series and the character designs worked really well with the darker tone the story’s direction was going.
Now by the title you can tell this is not the usual complete season. Attack on Titan: The Final Season was divided into three parts. The first two were complete cours worth of episodes, and the final part became two hour-long television specials which adapted Volumes 33 & 34 (chapters 131-139), the two remaining volumes not previously adapted into anime format. In Japan they have also aired an edited version that turns the television specials into the regular TV format (as Episodes 29-31 covering the first special and Episodes 32-35 for the second special), and now we also have a new theatrical compilation version called Attack on Titan: The Last Attack, which provides 5.1 audio and animation corrections.
Like the previous anime seasons and parts, Funimation acquired the streaming and home video rights for Attack on Titan: The Final Season with simulcasts and a Toonami broadcast. Then came the Crunchyroll rebranding which meant the series is now under Crunchyroll’s name, and therefore Attack on Titan: The Final Season: The Final Chapters is available on home video from them for both the US & UK territories. With the anime now adapted, all that’s left for Crunchyroll to release on home video are the OVAs that Kodansha previously released on DVD via their manga volume releases and the various amounts of theatrical compilation films.
Limited Edition Contents:
You guessed it, Crunchyroll have kept it consistent and we also have a big box to house the entirety of the final season.
This release is presented with a rigid box and inside contains the digibook that houses both the discs and the 32-page Notes Beyond the Wall Part VIII Booklet. Also included inside the box is a 148-page Artbook with various interviews from the staff who worked on the final season plus storyboards and illustrations, and a cardboard spare box that is there to allow folks to house the limited edition releases for Parts 1 & 2, but inside that spare box are 7 Art Cards and 2 Enamel Pins.
The rigid box artwork is free of any information or BBFC content and there’s a wraparound covering that information and specification like recent Crunchyroll UK limited edition releases. The limited edition Blu-ray & DVD combo pack has an unspecified amount of units printed for an SRP of £74.99, with a standard edition Blu-ray also available same-day for an SRP of £39.99.
Considering that I had been picking up each of the limited editions close to release, I figured I’ll do the same with the final set to complete the ‘Tour’ edition as Crunchyroll have been calling them. I went with MVM’s Anime-on-Line webstore and picked it up for £56.24 which is steep in its price but I wasn’t expecting to see a massive artbook to come included so I guess that does make up for it.
Physical Contents:
- Rigid Outer Box with clean artwork to house Attack on Titan: The Final Season Parts 1-3 limited edition digibook releases
- Rigid Digibook with clean artwork
- Info sheet for specification and BBFC description
- 148-page Artbook
- 32-page Notes Beyond the Ball Part VIII Booklet (housed inside digibook)
- 7 Art Cards
- 2 Enamel Pins
On-Disc Contents:
Distributor: Crunchyroll UK
Released: 16th December 2024
The limited edition release for Attack on Titan: The Final Season: The Final Chapters contains both television specials across two Blu-ray discs and two DVD discs. All the discs were authored and encoded by Crunchyroll.
Audio options include Japanese audio with English subtitles and the Crunchyroll English dub. The white subtitles are locked during playback (they use the wording of ‘Off (dub only)’ to confuse you but it basically means subtitles can’t be turned off during Japanese audio playback) and the regions are accessible with Blu-ray players set to A & B and DVD players set to 1 & 2 (Region 4 has not been tested).
Blu-ray Specs:
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Audio | English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Japanese Dolby TrueHD 2.0 |
| Video | 1080p High Definition Native format 16:9 aspect ratio |
| Region | A B |
| Subtitles | English |
| Locked Subtitles | Yes |
| Discs | 2 BD-50s |
DVD Specs:
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Audio | English Dolby Digital 5.1 Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 |
| Video | Standard Definition in NTSC format 16:9 aspect ratio |
| Region | 1 2 |
| Subtitles | English |
| Locked Subtitles | Yes |
| Discs | 2 |
Blu-ray On-Disc Extra Features:
Disc 2:
- Textless Ending Song Special 1 “UNDER THE TREE”
- Textless Ending Song Special 2 “To You in 2,000… or… 20,000 Years From Now”
DVD On-Disc Extra Features:
No extras across all discs
Unboxing Photos:
Final Notes:
Attack on Titan: The Final Season: The Final Chapters is available to purchase on Blu-ray by Crunchyroll in the UK & Ireland. The limited edition Blu-ray & DVD combo pack release can be bought across different retailers including Amazon UK, Anime-on-Line, and Crunchyroll UK Store. A standard edition Blu-ray is available and can also be bought across different retailers including Amazon UK, Anime-on-Line, and Crunchyroll UK Store.
(Disclaimer: Amazon links are also included when available. They are affiliated so if you decide to order them, I’ll earn a small percentage if they ship which will help me with any hauls or small bills.)
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