Although Attack on Titan had been popular ever since its anime began airing in the Parallel World, fans only started considering it a work that could rival Fullmetal Alchemist when the Third Season began!
The Royal Government Arc in the first half of the anime's Third Season revealed many secrets about the world of Titans, but it was nowhere near as passionate or exciting as the First and Second Seasons!
In fact, the true essence of the Third Season lay in its final ten episodes. The Return to Shiganshina Arc truly elevated Attack on Titan as a work, and then, in the Third Season's Final Episode, Eren and his friends saw the sea and pointed toward the land beyond it.
In the Parallel World, countless Attack on Titan fans had felt reassured when they reached that scene. Most of them were convinced that Attack on Titan could stand alongside Fullmetal Alchemist!
If Attack on Titan had really ended at the sea in the Parallel World, even with an open ending, it definitely wouldn't have lost to Fullmetal Alchemist in the eyes of most anime fans!
Unfortunately, a Bad Ending seemed to be the fate of every great work!
Looking across all the classic anime in the Parallel World, only a handful—Fullmetal Alchemist and Slam Dunk—had avoided bad endings. That was why hardly anyone came out to pick fights whenever people called them masterpieces!
But whenever someone called works like Death, Fire, Sea masterpieces, tens of thousands of people could come out to argue against them!
After all, those works had focused too much on commercial value and dragged things out endlessly!
The ending really mattered!
But in the Dragon Kingdom, Attack on Titan didn't have to worry about that. At least Chu Yu wasn't worried that fans would criticize Attack