Attack on Titan · Story arc
The Rumbling
Millions of Titans march across the world. The old enemies join forces to stop Eren: at Odiha Hange dies so the flying boat can take off, at Fort Salta the Alliance fights on the Founder's back and Mikasa makes her choice.
Ymir summons the dead Titan holders to protect Eren; Armin talks with Zeke in the Paths, and Zeke lets Levi kill him. Mikasa beheads Eren and kisses him. The Titans vanish from the world: 80% of humanity is dead, but the Curse of Ymir is broken. Years later Paradis is at war, and on a hill beside a tree there is a grave.
- Position
- Arc 14 of 14
- Saga
- The Final Season
- Period
- Year 854
- Canon status
- Canon
- Manga
- 123-139
- Anime
- ~ep. 82-87, The Final Chapters (speciali 1-2)
Arc events(11)
- The RumblingThe Rumbling (854)The Walls crumble and millions of Colossal Titans awaken. Eren speaks to every Eldian: he will destroy every land beyond the island, "until every living thing is wiped away". His body becomes a colossal skeleton.
- Annie awakensThe Rumbling (854)When the Rumbling begins, Annie's crystal dissolves. After four years she is free again, near Hitch who guarded her and talked to her, and joins those who want to stop Eren.
- Around the fireThe Rumbling (854)Around a fire in the forest, the soldiers of Paradis and the Warriors of Marley face one another for the first time: Hange, Armin, Mikasa, Jean, Connie, Levi, Annie, Reiner, Pieck, Magath. The guilt pours out, then they decide to fight together.
- The battle of the harbourThe Rumbling (854)The Alliance storms Paradis's harbour, held by the Yeagerists, to seize the Azumabito ship. Magath and Shadis stay behind and blow up the Marleyan warship so that no one can follow them.
- Odiha: Hange's deathThe Rumbling (854)At Odiha the Azumabito mechanics prepare the flying boat as the first Colossals arrive from the sea. Hange hands Armin command of the Survey Corps and flies alone to meet the Titans to buy time for take-off.
- The battle on the Founder's backThe Rumbling (854)Above Fort Salta the Alliance leaps from the flying boat onto the Founder. Ymir summons the Titans of dead holders from the Paths — Ksaver, Porco, Bertolt, Marcel — and a second scream transforms the world's soldiers gathered below.
- Levi keeps his promiseThe Rumbling (854)Zeke, persuaded by Armin, emerges from the Founder's nape and calls out to Levi. Levi beheads him, keeping the promise he made to Erwin: the Colossals stop.
- Mikasa's choiceThe Rumbling (854)Eren transforms one last time into a Titan like Ymir's worm. Armin detonates the Colossal against him; Mikasa enters its mouth and beheads Eren, then kisses his head. Ymir, watching her, is finally free of her love for the king.
- The Titans vanishThe Rumbling (854)With Eren's death the power of the Titans vanishes from the world: those who had been transformed become human again, the Curse of Ymir ends. The Rumbling has stopped after killing 80% of humanity.
- The peace envoysAfter the war (857 onwards)Three years later Armin, Annie, Reiner, Jean, Connie, Pieck, Gabi, Falco and Levi sail back to Paradis as the Alliance's ambassadors to negotiate with Queen Historia. Mikasa visits Eren's grave every day, beneath the tree on the hill.
- The tree on the hillAfter the war (857 onwards)The final pages span the years: Mikasa grows old beside Eren's grave, Paradis modernises, then is bombed in a new war. Long after, a boy finds the tree grown over the grave, as huge as Ymir's.