Attack on Titan, The Movie: Part 2

The second half of Shinji Higuchi's live-action diptych, scripted by Yusuke Watanabe together with Tomohiro Machiyama, scored by Shirō Sagisu, continuing directly from Attack on Titan, The Movie: Part 1. Also marketed as Attack on Titan: End of the World, it shares its alternate title with a novelization of the same name and departs even further from Hajime Isayama's manga than its predecessor, resolving the story with an original mythology and villains.

A prologue shows Eren's father injecting him as a child, moments before soldiers drag his parents away and torch the study. In the present, Eren hangs bound before a firing line while Kubal debates whether a man who becomes a Titan is still human. Armin's defense fails, and Souda is shot mid-explanation of the transformation process, revealing with his dying words that Kubal murdered Eren's parents. Before the execution, an armor-plated White Titan smashes through the roof, slaughters the Military Police, and carries Eren away.

Eren wakes in a pristine white room where Shikishima, his rescuer, screens footage of the old world: Titans were engineered as weapons, and a century ago a virus turned ordinary people into them, collapsing civilization. The ruling class that emerged uses the Walls, and carefully rationed fear, to keep the survivors docile. Shikishima reveals himself as Eren's brother and recruits him for a plan to blow open the second Wall, feed the interior population to the Titans, and rebuild atop the ruins. Eren refuses, learning in the brawl that follows that Shikishima killed their father. Sannagi buys the group's escape with his life, toppling a building onto Shikishima's convoy, but the captain survives, stabs himself, and transforms into the White Titan. Sasha's explosive arrow, Jean's blades, and Mikasa's precision cripple it long enough for Eren to transform and batter his brother down with a wrestling move learned sparring Jean.

The recruits haul their recovered bomb up the Wall to seal the breach, only for Kubal to appear, shoot Armin, and reveal himself as the Colossal Titan. Jean dies in the fight that follows. With the bomb damaged by Kubal's tampering, the White Titan returns, rips the device free, and drives it between the Colossal Titan's jaws; the blast kills Kubal and buries the breach in rubble. From the top of the Wall, the survivors see the ocean for the first time as dawn breaks. A post-credits scene shows an unseen observer with champagne and a remote, noting that two subjects have escaped the Experimental Zone, and hinting Shikishima lives.

Toho released the film across Japan on September 19, 2015, with Funimation bringing it to the United States and Canada on October 20 the same year, three weeks behind the first film's North American run. Haruma Miura, Kiko Mizuhara, Kanata Hongō, and Hiroki Hasegawa return in the lead roles, with Jun Kunimura as Kubal. The song playing on the white room's jukebox is Skeeter Davis's 1962 recording of The End of the World, a wink at the film's alternate title.