Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK

THE LAST ATTACK closes out the franchise's run of theatrical recap features, arriving after Attack on Titan: Chronicle as the fifth entry. Rather than condensing a whole season, it fuses THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 1 and Special 2, the third and fourth parts of the anime's fourth season, into one continuous 145 minute cut. Yuichiro Hayashi directs from a screenplay by Hiroshi Seko, working from the closing chapters of Hajime Isayama's manga.

Japanese theaters screened the film on November 8, 2024, and it reached American audiences on February 10, 2025. No further compilation followed, making it the definitive theatrical send-off for the story.

As the Wall Titans flatten Marley, the refugee boy Ramzi and his friend Halil die beneath the advance, a loss Eren Jaeger foresaw years earlier when he rescued Ramzi from a beating and wept over what he knew he would one day do. The surviving Scouts and Warriors pursue Eren across the sea in a flying boat. At the abandoned port of Odiha, Hange Zoe stays behind to hold off the oncoming colossi while the craft refuels, naming Armin Arlelt the next commander before dying in flames. Floch Forster, dragged along beneath their ship, holes the fuel tank before Mikasa Ackermann strikes him down.

Eren pulls his pursuers into the Paths to declare that discussion is pointless: whoever wants the Rumbling stopped must kill him. Above Fort Salta the group leaps from the sputtering aircraft onto the Founding Titan's spine, where regenerated husks of past Nine Titans swarm them and an okapi-like Titan swallows Armin at Ymir's direction. Falco Grice arrives in a winged Jaw Titan carrying Annie Leonhart and Gabi Braun, turning the battle. Inside the Paths, Armin and Zeke Jaeger rediscover meaning in small remembered joys, a leaf, a baseball, and Zeke surfaces to accept decapitation by Levi Ackermann, cutting the Rumbling's royal power source. Jean Kirschtein detonates explosives looped around the Founder's nape, and when a glowing centipede-like creature tries to rejoin Eren's severed head to his body, Armin's Colossal Titan detonation fails to destroy it. Its mist then transforms Jean, Conny, and the Eldian refugees into Titans.

Guided by a vision of the quiet mountain life she and Eren never shared, Mikasa enters the mouth of his reborn Titan through a hole Levi blasts open, cuts Eren's head free, and kisses him while Ymir Fritz watches, finally released. The Power of the Titans vanishes, restoring everyone. Armin regains the memory of a hidden conversation on the boat in which Eren confessed his plan to make his friends the heroes who stopped him, his love for Mikasa, and his fear of dying. Three years on, the former enemies sail toward Paradis as ambassadors for peace while Mikasa keeps vigil at Eren's grave beneath the hilltop tree, which still stands ages later when a wandering child, dog at his side, stumbles on a hollow at its base.

Series director Yuichiro Hayashi storyboarded the two FINAL CHAPTERS specials with a single theatrical presentation in mind, and he has described this compilation as the ideal format for experiencing the story's conclusion. The film also carries dialogue changes that Hajime Isayama personally supplied for the last stretch of Eren and Armin's exchange in the Paths, setting it apart from the manga's version of the scene.

An exclusive epilogue shows modern-day counterparts of Eren, Mikasa, and Armin leaving a theater after watching the movie itself and bickering over its ending; the gag adapts "End Roll", a bonus story from the Attack on School Castes spinoff printed in the manga's 34th volume. In a small casting footnote, the infant son of Eren's voice actor Yuki Kaji voices a baby that fleeing crowds try to save, and one animation slip gives Garrison officer Ian Dietrich a Scout Regiment emblem on his jacket.