Recaps

The Fate Titan fought the Silver-Split Titans while the other Titans and soldiers clashed across the battlefield. He left the four Silver-Split Titan split bodies dead, as Levi’s group moved to target the Beast Titan and fighting against Eren continued.

• The Fate Titan charged the Silver-Split Titans after the Winged Titan flew away at Ebson’s command.
• The Fate Titan killed one Silver-Split Titan split body with a claw strike as the other three attacked.
• The Beast Titan battered Eren’s Attack Titan with rubble, and Levi led his squad and the Ackerman Squad after him.
• Survey Corps soldiers used Thunder Spears to pin down the Cart Titan while Eren severely injured Reiner’s Armored Titan.
• Historia’s Royal-Blood Jaw Titan intercepted the Flying Claw Titan, and Mikasa used Thunder Spears to blast the War Hammer Titan’s hammerhead away.
• The Fate Titan killed the remaining three Silver-Split Titan split bodies, completing the slaughter of all four.

Yago's Fate Titan fought the Fusion Titan while Marley and Paradis soldiers clashed around the venue. As Sasha hunted a Marley sniper and Magath tried to get Willy to safety, Zeke spotted Levi and other fast-moving figures closing in on the Beast Titan.

• The Silver-Split Titan created two more split bodies as the Fusion Titan charged the Fate Titan and drove it backward with a spike from the Fortress Titan.
• Yago unleashed a forest of Hardening spikes, pierced the Fusion Titan, escaped its charge, and began forming a giant Hardening greatsword.
• Willy and Magath argued as a Marley officer urged them to retreat, but Magath refused to leave his command.
• Sasha counted her kills, reloaded her rifle, and spotted a Marley sniper shooting Paradis soldiers out of the sky.
• Zeke watched Levi approach and realized several other figures were moving just as quickly behind him.

Levi and the Ackermans turned Zeke’s escape attempt against him and attacked the Beast Titan while Marley’s forces tried to stop them. The chapter ended with Levi reaching the Beast Titan’s nape as Zeke’s Titan was left badly mutilated and blind.

• Levi recalled Yago’s plan to let Zeke believe they were helping him escape while taking the Beast Titan out of action.
• Sasha shot and killed the Marleyan sniper who had pinned her down on the balcony.
• Magath realized the Ackermans were closing in on the Beast Titan, but Marley’s soldiers could not intercept them.
• A-Wu severed the Beast Titan’s left foot, and A-Two, A-Three, and A-Four joined the attack, hacking apart its limbs.
• A-Yi blinded the Beast Titan, and Levi reached its nape, telling Zeke to bear with their poor hospitality.

Levi brutally attacked the Beast Titan until Zeke emerged, while Magath learned that Marley’s defenses and communications had collapsed. Yago’s Fate Titan fought off the Winged Titan and Silver-Split Titan duplicates, and Ebson recognized the possibility that Yago was the crucial key before unfamiliar memories drove him into a furious outburst.

• Levi hacked apart the Beast Titan’s nape until Zeke exposed his head and demanded that Levi stop.
• Magath learned that the Guards Division had suffered heavy casualties and that contact with the city defense forces and naval port had been lost.
• Yago’s Fate Titan restrained the Fusion Titan with Hardening spikes, then wounded the Winged Titan with two Hardening javelins.
• Yago’s Fate Titan cut down one Silver-Split Titan duplicate and tore off another’s arm as the Fusion Titan charged again.
• Ebson deduced that Yago’s Fate Titan possessed several Titan powers and wondered whether Yago was the crucial key.
• Ebson was overwhelmed by unfamiliar memories, called Norman a liar, and roared in rage.

Aili and Zofia reached the Liberio Internment Zone gate to help the Restoration Army, but Marleyan forces prepared to attack the approaching rebels. Aili transformed into the Sea-Swimming Titan, enabling Selina’s forces to secure the gate and continue into Liberio as Eldian liberation drew near.

• A portly policeman urged Zofia and Aili to find somewhere safe, while Aili falsely told a Marleyan officer that reinforcements were needed inside the Internment Zone.
• Marleyan forces recognized the red-scarved soldiers approaching the gate as Eldian rebels and aimed their weapons at them.
• Aili transformed into the Sea-Swimming Titan, destroyed the heavy machine guns, and incapacitated Marleyan soldiers with blue mist.
• Selina arrived with more than two hundred Restoration Army fighters, and the remaining Marleyan soldiers and policemen surrendered.
• Selina praised the exhausted Aili and led her forces into the Liberio Internment Zone after explaining that the army had taken control of key locations across the capital.

The Paradis Island soldiers and Titan Warriors fought a bloody battle as Eren and Mikasa targeted the War Hammer Titan and the Fate Titan battled the Fusion Titan. The Winged Titan attacked the Fate Titan from behind, but a golden pillar of lightning struck it and sent it crashing downward.

• The Attack Titan battered Reiner’s Armored Titan while Historia’s royal-blooded Jaw Titan tore into Porco’s Flying Claw Titan.
• Porco tore off his trapped arm and escaped from the Flying Claw Titan’s nape before Pieck rescued him with the Cart Titan.
• Reiner struck back at the Attack Titan, but Mikasa blasted his nape with a Thunder Spear and then joined Eren in targeting the War Hammer Titan.
• The Fate Titan wounded the Silver-Split Titan with hardened spikes and formed an enormous hammer to attack the Fusion Titan.
• The Winged Titan silently dove toward the Fate Titan’s nape, but a golden pillar of lightning struck its back and sent it plummeting.

Annie appeared as the Female Titan and joined Yago’s Fate Titan against Ivanor and Bazel’s Fusion Titan. Magath realized Annie had betrayed Marley and began weighing a retreat as the battle continued.

• The Female Titan appeared on the battlefield, and Magath suspected she was Annie after recalling that Annie’s parent, Leonhardt, had gone missing.
• Magath learned Marley still controlled the train station and considered retreating before the situation worsened.
• The Fusion Titan repaired its damaged chest with Hardening, but Annie’s Female Titan attacked its exposed horse legs and broke one.
• The Fate Titan shielded Annie from the Fusion Titan’s counterattack, then gave her a Hardening longsword and fought alongside her.
• The Fusion Titan charged the two Titans, while elsewhere Eren was sent flying by a War Hammer Titan blow that knocked out more than a dozen of his teeth.

Eren and Mikasa fought the War Hammer Titan while Historia found and severed the tube connecting Lara Tybur to her Titan, defeating her. As the Fate Titan and Female Titan overwhelmed the Fusion Titan, Ebson ordered Bill to retreat, while Newt saw an opportunity to pursue revenge.

• Mikasa rescued Eren from the War Hammer Titan’s spikes, and Eren explained that Lara Tybur’s buried body and connecting tube were the Titan’s weakness.
• Mikasa used Thunder Spears to knock down the War Hammer Titan, giving Eren a chance to pummel her while Historia charged toward the tube.
• Historia severed the tube and captured Lara Tybur inside a crystal, ending the War Hammer Titan’s fight.
• The Fate Titan and Female Titan drove the weakened Fusion Titan backward as Ebson decided the battle no longer mattered and ordered Bill to retreat.
• Newt, who had hidden to recover after undoing his transformation, recognized that the other Titan Warriors were occupied and prepared to seek revenge.

Sasha and the Ackermans defeated Pieck’s Cart Titan and captured Porco, while the Colossal Titan’s attack shattered Shiobis District and Marley’s resistance collapsed. As the capital grew quiet and its warships lay wrecked, Hange believed victory was near.

• Sasha shot the Cart Squad’s machine gunners one by one, leaving Pieck without cover.
• Sasha blinded the Cart Titan, and A-Yi and A-Wu severed its limbs before A-Yi cut through its neck and dragged Pieck out.
• The Cart Titan fell and began evaporating, while the recovering Porco emerged from its mouth and faced the Ackermans’ blades.
• In Shiobis District, Connie knocked down a Marley officer, and the surviving Marley soldiers surrendered as Restoration Army troops subdued those who resisted.
• Armin supported a weakened Floch as they surveyed the destroyed district, while Hange told Erwin that the operation seemed to have succeeded.
• The fighting in Marley’s capital died down, and the warships of every nation except Paradis Island and Hizuru had been destroyed.

The Fate Titan defeated the Silver-Split Titan’s decoy but failed to stop the real one from escaping with Bazel and Ivanor. Newt confronted Ebson over Anna’s death, and their transformations unleashed a strange crimson lightning that left Eren and Yago in pain.

• The Female Titan and Fate Titan defeated the Fortress Titan and crippled the Paladin Titan, but a Silver-Split Titan ambushed the Female Titan.
• The Fate Titan destroyed the Silver-Split Titan decoy and hurled javelins at the fleeing real one, which escaped with Bazel and Ivanor alongside three Titan Warriors.
• Ebson taunted Newt about Anna and mocked him as useless, recalling how he had kept her alive with hormones.
• Newt transformed into the Red Fire Titan after remembering Anna and her hopes for their future.
• Ebson transformed amid a towering pillar of crimson lightning, causing Eren to choke and Yago to cry out in agony.

Yago and the others witnessed Ebson transform into a skeletal Titan that survived Newt’s flames and killed him, while Levi moved to stop it from escaping. Elsewhere, Selina’s Eldian forces surrounded Magath and Willy Tybur, leaving the Marleyans trapped as the battle appeared to reach its end.

• Yago lost control of the Fate Titan, and Annie rescued him as Ebson emerged as a skeletal Titan.
• The Skeleton Titan endured the Red Fire Titan’s flames, then tore Newt from its nape and crushed him to death.
• Levi attacked the Skeleton Titan and declared that it would not escape.
• Magath led Willy Tybur and the surviving Marleyans in an attempted retreat, but Selina and Eldian soldiers blocked their way.
• The Royal-Blood Jaw Titan arrived behind Magath’s group, carrying Lara Tybur’s crystal, and completed their encirclement.

Levi fought the regenerating skeletal Titan while the War Hammer Titan rescued Lara Tybur and tried to lead Magath's forces away. As allies moved to stop her, Levi unleashed his Whirlwind Top against the skeletal Titan.

• Levi repeatedly attacked the skeletal Titan's nape but found that its wounds healed almost instantly.
• The War Hammer Titan emerged again, took Lara Tybur's crystal into her nape, and urged Magath and his soldiers to flee.
• Petra, Eren, Mikasa, and Aili moved to intercept the War Hammer Titan, while Zofia went to help the Restoration Army and calm the Internment Zone.
• Bill injected medicine into Litt, who awoke trembling with crimson lightning in his eyes, and told him it was time to leave.
• Levi spun through the skeletal Titan's arm and nape in a high-speed attack he called the Whirlwind Top.

Levi wounded the Skeleton Titan, but the Winged Titan carried it away while Lara Tybur held off the pursuing soldiers so Willy could escape. By dawn, the Restoration Army controlled Marley’s capital and declared the Eldians free, while Zeke learned that the operation had taken an unexpected turn.

• Levi nearly killed the Skeleton Titan, but the Winged Titan seized it and flew away before he could give chase.
• Lara used the War Hammer Titan to delay the Paradis Island soldiers and Restoration Army as Magath led Willy Tybur toward an alley and the train station.
• After a night of fighting, the Restoration Army controlled Marley’s capital, and frightened residents learned that Eldians had occupied the city and Marshal Calvi was dead.
• Restoration Army soldiers told the confused Eldians in the Liberio Internment Zone that they were free, while Selina thanked Yago and Annie pulled their hands apart.
• Zeke woke aboard an airship and asked Onyankopon if the plan had thrown Marley into chaos, then toppled over when he learned the Eldians had taken the capital and the airship was still above it.

Yago urged the Restoration Army to pursue Eldian revival without taking revenge on ordinary Marleyans, while insisting that Marleyans responsible for Eldian suffering must face consequences. After discussing the occupation and learning that Willy Tybur and Magath were missing, Yago left Annie behind when a soldier summoned him over an urgent problem.

• Yago rejected punishing ordinary Marleyan citizens, and Albert and the other Restoration Army core members pledged to follow his ideal of restoring Eldia.
• Yago said Marleyan nobles, merchants, and officers responsible for Eldian suffering would have to pay.
• Yago explained that occupying Marley’s capital would help liberate Eldians, demonstrate their strength, and give them a platform to communicate with the world.
• The Restoration Army reported that it had found no trace of Willy Tybur or Magath, while Bagg demanded food and to see his little brother Loa from a room where he was held with Falco, Colt, Udo, and Gabi.
• Yago apologized to a sulking Annie and offered to take her for dessert, but a soldier urgently summoned him, leaving Annie behind in anger.

Yago confronted Eldians in the Liberio Internment Zone after they condemned the Restoration Army for freeing them, arguing that their supposed peace meant living under Marleyan oppression. He had a captured Marleyan officer brought before the growing crowd, leaving his next move unclear.

• Old Jeff and other Eldians denounced the Restoration Army and Paradis soldiers, while some threw stones at the soldiers from Paradis Island.
• Yago kicked Old Jeff away, silenced the crowd with a gunshot, and rebuked the Eldians for accepting life as Marley’s oppressed subjects.
• Yago tore off Old Jeff’s armband and challenged the crowd to say whether they believed Marleyans would reward their loyalty.
• Yago ordered a Restoration Army soldier to fetch a captive Marleyan officer, then waited as the crowd grew and Old Jeff was tied up.
• Two Restoration Army soldiers brought the frightened Marleyan officer before Yago.

Yago forced old Jeff to test the loyalty of Marleyan prisoners by making them choose between shooting him and earning their freedom. After more than thirty Marleyans fired blanks at Jeff’s head without hesitation, Jeff and the Eldians who had defended him were left shaken and silent.

• Yago freed a Marley officer, gave him a pistol, and ordered him to choose between shooting old Jeff in the arm or head in exchange for different fates.
• Old Jeff pleaded for the Marley officer to save him, citing his family’s sacrifices for Marley.
• The Marley officer asked Yago whether he would really be freed, then shot old Jeff in the head; the gun held a blank, and Yago took it back.
• Yago mocked old Jeff and repeated the test with more than thirty Marleyan officers and soldiers, who all fired at Jeff’s head for the promise of freedom.
• Old Jeff grew numb under the repeated blows, while the Eldians who had supported him fell silent and some looked uneasily at their armbands.

After the Eldians’ armband protest and the battle in Marley, news of Paradis and Ebson’s Artificial Titans spread around the world. In the Far East, Ebson investigated a child from eighteen years earlier and ordered Bill to find a successor for the Red Fire Titan, while Litt flew off in anger.

• Yago watched Eldians leave behind torn armbands, then hurried away after giving final instructions.
• Governments around the world convened meetings after news spread of the battle in Marley and Ebson’s Artificial Titan warriors.
• Ebson tested a liquid in a Far Eastern factory and questioned Bill about a baby Bill had been ordered to dispose of eighteen years earlier.
• Bill recalled abandoning the baby in Liberio, where an elderly Eldian had been rummaging through the trash, but insisted he had disposed of the child.
• After Litt demanded permission to take revenge on Willy Tybur, Ebson dismissed him and ordered Bill to find a new heir for the Red Fire Titan.
• Litt transformed into the Winged Titan and flew away, while Ebson returned to his work with a new plan.

Paradis Island's leaders approved reinforcements for the Survey Corps, while political tensions between the Imperialists and revival faction pushed Arno toward an alliance with Yelena. The chapter ended with Magath taking command of Marley's reorganized government and military, facing the challenge of retaking the occupied Marley Capital.

• Erwin urged Parliament to send reinforcements to the Marley Capital and volunteered to command them, and Zackly approved the plan.
• Arno told the Imperialists that Erwin would lead the reinforcement force, while Lance challenged the group's hostility toward the revival faction and walked out.
• Arno questioned the difference between the Imperialists and the revival faction, concluding that Eldia needed a true king rather than a figurehead.
• Arno accepted Yelena's offer of partnership and declared that Parliament had no right to control the King's power.
• Magath became Marshal and Minister of Defense of the Marley Empire in Texi Province and began considering how to retake the Marley Capital.

The Restoration Army expanded its forces in Hope District as Eldians flocked to enlist, while Marleyans gradually resumed daily life in the occupied capital. Yago Norman’s prestige rose, and he continued to crack down on nobles and capitalists who had exploited Eldians.

• Young Eldians joined the Restoration Army in large numbers, including many recently returned from the war between Marley and the Middle East.
• Yago recruited more than twenty thousand troops to defend the Marley Capital but avoided conscripting every available Eldian soldier.
• Yago Norman’s prestige reached its peak among the Restoration Army and the Eldians of Hope District.
• Marleyan citizens gradually left their homes, reopened small markets, and returned to parks and ordinary routines.
• Eldians ventured out of Hope District to explore the capital, while Yago harshly dealt with Marleyan nobles and capitalists who had exploited them.

Selina and Yago decided to keep the captured foreign envoys, while Yago struggled to maintain order in Marley’s capital until reinforcements from Paradis Island and Hizuru arrived. Kiyomi departed after assuring him that Hizuru and the Eastern Region stood together, and the chapter ended with Yago asking Annie about her secret drawing.

• Selina asked Yago what to do with the captured envoys, and they decided to keep them rather than release them.
• The Restoration Army publicly executed Eldians who had murdered a Marleyan family, helping reassure Marleyan citizens that its laws applied to everyone.
• Erwin arrived at the port with thousands of soldiers and specialists from Paradis Island, alongside Hizuru’s reinforcements, and reunited with Hange and Levi.
• Yago thanked Kiyomi Azumabito for Hizuru’s help, and she told him the Eastern Region was united and Hizuru would remain a friend to Eldians.
• Yago walked with Annie and asked what she was drawing, but Annie shut her notebook and refused to show him.

After Parliament proposed returning to Paradis Island for a victory ceremony, Historia resisted leaving the Marley Capital while Arno watched and considered helping her claim power. Armin and Floch struggled with Bertholdt’s legacy as Magath tried to hold Marley together amid military collapse and threats from abroad.

• Erwin explained to Yago that Parliament wanted them to return to Paradis Island to celebrate their victory and raise public morale.
• Historia complained about returning to the Royal Palace, while Arno watched her and offered in private to help her reclaim the power of the monarchy.
• Armin remembered Bertholdt’s request to deliver a stone to his father, then regretted learning that Mr. Hoover had already died.
• Floch struggled with the Colossal Titan’s memories beneath the ruins of Shiobis District, but insisted he would never regret his actions.
• Magath, newly appointed Marshal and Minister of Defense, learned that the Middle East Union was moving against Marley and lamented the empire’s weakened state.

On the fleet returning to Paradis, Yago discussed Zeke’s euthanasia plan and the island’s growing need to prepare for war. Eren revealed he had dreamed about Yago, prompting Yago to test whether the Founding Titan’s power had awakened, but touching Historia produced no reaction.

• Yago asked Zeke how he had devised the Eldian euthanasia plan, and Zeke said he had felt understood when Yago first approved of it.
• Yago left Zeke’s guarded cabin and reflected on how the Restoration Army’s trained personnel could help Paradis build its military.
• Eren told Yago he had met his grandparents and struggled with how to tell his mother about his father’s past.
• Eren described blurry dreams of crimson scenes and enormous figures, along with a clear dream in which Yago apologized for deceiving him.
• Yago took Eren to Historia and brought their hands together to test the Founding Titan’s power, but nothing happened.

Yago returned to Paradis Island after nearly three years away, where his mother Lucia and Annie’s father waited to welcome him and the returning soldiers. Lucia and Mr. Leonhardt discussed arranging Yago and Annie’s engagement, while Yago remained unaware of their plans.

• Yago and the returning soldiers saw Paradis Island’s expanded harbor and its growing fleet as their ferry arrived.
• Lucia waited at the harbor with sweets for Yago, while Carla stayed home to prepare a feast.
• Lucia told Mr. Leonhardt she wanted Yago and Annie to settle down together.
• Mr. Leonhardt agreed, and Lucia proposed that the two families arrange their engagement the next day.
• Yago watched Connie and Jean arm-wrestle, unaware of the parents’ conversation.

Yago reunited with Lucia, while Mr. Leonhardt began imagining Annie’s future family and Lucia urged Annie to consider marriage. At the port, Selina reunited with Nack and revealed that her group had become the Eldia Revival Army and captured the Marley Capital, leaving Nack stunned.

• Yago reunited with Lucia, and Mr. Leonhardt encouraged Annie to join them while privately warming to the idea of her marrying and having a child.
• Lucia fussed over Annie and asked what kind of engagement ring and wedding arrangements she wanted, while Yago ate the pastries from Lucia’s basket.
• Aili and Selina arrived at the port with the Restoration Army members as soldiers escorted an unhappy Historia from the ferry.
• Selina recognized Nack among the Imperialists welcoming Historia, and they reunited as Nack told her that many Restorationists had died and the survivors had become the Eldia Imperialists.
• Selina told Nack that she had joined Yago’s group, now called the Eldia Revival Army, which had captured the Marley Capital and liberated a million Eldians.
• Nack was stunned when Selina announced the Revival Army’s name and its goal of reviving the Eldian people.

Yago reviewed Paradis Island’s cautious arrangements for the Restoration Army as Parliament debated whether to trust the outsiders. Pyxis arranged for them to train half the Garrison Regiment, while Arno’s Imperialists plotted to stop their influence before it grew.

• Yago read that the Restoration Army personnel would train the Garrison Regiment but be kept away from the other military branches, and he suspected Parliament distrusted them.
• Parliamentarians argued over the Restoration Army’s strength and whether it could be trusted, while Pyxis revealed he had already assigned them to train half the Garrison Regiment.
• Pyxis sent Miniko to tell Yago that the island needed the Restoration Army’s help and that he would keep things steady until retirement.
• Nack warned Arno that the Restoration Army could gain influence through the Garrison Regiment, and Arno vowed to cut them off before they gained momentum.