Attack on Titan: Chronicle

Attack on Titan: Chronicle is the fourth compilation film, jointly directed by Tetsurō Araki and Masashi Koizuka with Yasuko Kobayashi scripting from Hajime Isayama's manga. Where earlier recap films each covered a single season, this one distills episodes 1 through 59, the entire first three seasons, into a single feature ahead of the anime's final stretch. It follows Roar of Awakening in the recap series and precedes Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK.

In the year 845 the Colossal Titan breaks Shiganshina's gate, and Eren Jaeger watches a Titan devour his mother before swearing to exterminate the species. Five years later, at Trost, the same fate seems to claim Eren himself, until a rogue Titan turns on its own kind and Eren emerges from its nape. His new power seals the Trost breach with a boulder, and after Captain Levi claims responsibility for him, Eren joins the Scout Regiment. The 57th expedition brings the intelligent Female Titan, the slaughter of Levi's handpicked squad, and, back in Stohess, the exposure of Annie Leonhart, who crystallizes herself as a Titan's face is revealed inside the damaged Wall.

Titans then appear inside Wall Rose with no breach to explain them. At the ruins of Utgard, Ymir reveals her own Titan form defending her friends, and Christa answers her by reclaiming the name Historia. Atop the Wall, Reiner and Bertholdt calmly confess to being the Armored and Colossal Titans and abduct Eren, forcing a rescue in which Erwin loses an arm, Hannes dies against the Titan that ate Eren's mother, and Eren's scream awakens a power that turns the mindless horde on his enemies.

The film's back half follows the rot inside the Walls. Kenny Ackermann's death squad hunts Levi, Rod Reiss reveals Historia's royal blood and the theft of the Founding Titan by Eren's father, and the military stages a coup. Historia refuses her father's syringe; Rod becomes a grotesque colossus that the Scouts destroy at Orvud, where Historia strikes the final blow and takes the crown. Two months later the Scouts retake Shiganshina at horrific cost: Erwin leads the recruits into a suicide charge against the Beast Titan so Levi can maul its pilot, Armin burns alive stalling the Colossal Titan and is revived with the sole Titan serum while Erwin is allowed to die, and Eren pulls Bertholdt from his Titan to be consumed. In the basement, Grisha's journals reveal the world beyond: the nation of Marley, the persecuted Eldians, and the island of Paradis as a penal colony. A year later the Scouts finally stand at the sea, where Armin celebrates and Eren, pointing across the water, asks whether killing every enemy beyond it would finally mean freedom.

The film opened in Japan on July 17, 2020, positioned to catch audiences up before the final season, and became available to stream in the United States through Funimation on November 24, 2020. The television cast returns in full, from Yuki Kaji's Eren and Yui Ishikawa's Mikasa to Hiroshi Kamiya's Levi, and the compressed structure leans on the series' most iconic set pieces, letting each arc's climax carry the narrative weight that connective episodes normally provide.