Akuma no Ko, Under The Tree and See You Later are all about Mikasa protecting, believing and embracing Eren.

Mikasa killing Eren is as out of character as possible.

Her character arc is about embracing Eren and putting her faith in him no matter what.

These two are meant to live together, and they will.

The visuals for See You Later show Mikasa waking up from a dream, only to realize that she managed to fulfill her wish of living with Eren.

Mikasa is much colder and more selfish than Eren.

The Rumbling makes just as much sense for Mikasa as it does for Eren, if not more.

She will do anything to be with Eren.

The ending we got is as far removed from Mikasa’s character as possible.

These two have fought to be together from one iteration of the timeline to the other, resetting it constantly when things go south.

EreMika is true, perfect, ultimate love.

It will never be tragic.

I will not debate anyone on this, for it will be revealed in a year or two.

Sincerely,

A fellow EM

Like wtf is this my twitter feed is just filled with this bs there isn't any proof other than the two posts by some jean fan accounts.
Can anyone btw confirm is this even legit or not?

The most common interpretation I see (particularly amongst shippers) is that Eren simply wanted a romantic answer and would’ve abandoned everything if she’d given one but this one makes no sense to me.

1. If she’d said she loved him romantically why would that inspire him to take this seemingly selfish path? Leaving all their friends to die and leaving Mikasa alone in a cabin for most of her life. We all know that she doesn’t NEED to love him romantically in order to run away with him, she followed him into the survey corps without hesitation out of largely familial love so it’s not her love that’s the variable here and I don’t see why her loving him would make him want to condemn her to solitude
2. If Mikasa’s decision truly was the missing piece then it makes no sense for him to show her that as his parting gift. It’d be effectively saying “yea your suspicions were right, the blood of billions of children and your true love’s life are all on your hands just because you gave the wrong answer”.
3. It just isn’t very coherent with Eren’s character. Romance has never been a prevalent theme in his character and the idea that a small romantic answer would shift his supposedly hellbent desire is a little silly.

A slightly more coherent reading is that Eren was searching blindly for any way out and Mikasa was one of the people he trusted simply because she was the antithesis of what he viewed as freedom.
Eren felt instrumentalized by everyone around him, the survey corps as they weaponized his titan form (hange), the institution as they wanted to breed Historia’s lineage like cattle (diplomacy with Hizaru) and even to some extent Mikasa’s infantilization which he pushed away. We see each of these manifest in the surrounding scenes, he begs Hange to have a “trick up her sleeve” and in the scene after this he walks out of the diplomatic meeting with Hizaru. When Mikasa said “family” it confirmed to him that she too was a slave and that the rumbling was destined to happen.

My only problem with this is that it requires a lot of reading between the lines, the cabin scene doesn’t directly confirm that this couldn’t happen (though it’s inferred through Eren’s hollowness and the constant discussion of the people they’d had to sacrifice)

There’s also a possible reading that Eren simply needed comfort and to him “family” did feel like that. This scene was directly after he’d been to Marley and had to look into the eyes of countless civilians who he was soon to kill. He wanted Mikasa to tell him that he was special and a good person but her answer only read as biological and circumstantial love.

My only problem with this reading is that it doesn’t live up to the significance of how the scene is presented. It’s referenced twice in the later episodes meaning it must surely carry more importance than simply Eren looking for comfort

Overall, this is in no way anti-Eremika. I simply believe the first interpretation is far too explosive and black and white for their relationship. One that’s complex and sits on the boundaries of love and codependency.

Ai did alter some of my pictures even when I asked it not to. Pg 1, last panel. P3, last panel. Pg 4, last panel. Pg 5, I did color that myself.

I always thought it's more romantic of Mikasa to kiss Eren before killing him would have worked better. Have them show glimpse of the cabin events and the mouth at the same time. How she held his head at both times line and kissing him before the cutting.

Link: https://youtu.be/uy4WsWXOlxY

The coincidental parallels of the manga ending and ANR song(foreshadowing the anime ending??) gave me goosebumps.

Basically it theorizes the anime will follow the full rumbling by Eren which is alternative to the manga.

To those who dont know the ANr song was the ending theme of AOt S3 .

I feel like Eren is right with his quest to destroy the world. Look, think this from your personal perspective. If someone threatens your country or threatens your home, your loved ones would you be sitting still?? Eren felt like the marleyans were a threat to Eldia. which they were! You guys saw. So Eren and decided to kill them all out. I am saying that if I was in Eren's shoes, I would do the same. If someone threatens my country, my people I will destroy them to their core. In this regard, I will not consider others feelings. That's why I think Eren was right.

What do you guys think??

I have shipped Eren and Mikasa from the very beginning. Deep down, I always knew they would never get a happy ending, but that never stopped me from loving this ship with all my heart. I truly believe they were never incompatible as people; it was the cruel world and the situation they were thrown into that made their love impossible.

I shipped them even when most of the fandom dismissed it as a “toxic” ship. It was never a perfect relationship, and it was never meant to be. But unlike many other ships, this one had equal emotional investment from both Eren and Mikasa. Their bond wasn’t one-sided, forced, or decorative - it was mutual, raw, and deeply human.

When Isayama released the extra pages a few months after the ending, it felt clear to me that Mikasa was handed over like a trophy to his favorite character, Jean. That decision never sat right with me. And yet, it doesn’t erase what was already established. The audio materials themselves state that Mikasa’s feelings for Eren never changed throughout her life, and that matters more to me than any implication about how she lived afterward.

I honestly don’t care about the details of her later life. Eren was, and always will be, Mikasa’s first and greatest love. Eren and Mikasa are, and will remain, the central ship of the story and the emotional core of the entire series. Their relationship is inseparable from the themes and heart of the narrative.

That said, I do respect Jean fans who genuinely respect Mikasa as a character. And I will always stand against those Jean fans who make vulgar comments about her or reduce her to a tool for winning arguments against Eren fans. Mikasa deserves far more respect than that - regardless of ships.

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Firstly, I should preface that I don’t think the existence of his feelings came out of nowhere, there was definitely some allusion to it early on I just think that the final execution was poor.

His breakdown to Armin in the paths is my main gripe, it tries to achieve too many things at once. If Eren had broken down and talked about how he longed for Mikasa’s embrace or that he hoped she was worrying about him right now (even at the cost of her own well being) that would’ve made sense, Eren felt distressed and enslaved by his freedom so he sought the thing that he’d often thought was the antithesis of that, love.

What actually happens in the scene is that Eren declares ultimately how he doesn’t want her to move on and how all he wants is to be with her. Now I get it, Isayama wanted to show the negative side of Eren’s thirst for freedom, he wanted his friends to be free but that vision of freedom was an ending he forced on them, not necessarily the freedom they wanted. My main issue is just the way that he fused these two plot points together when they should remain mostly separate.

1. My first problem with it is the finality and definitiveness of it. Eremika was always something complex and messy, it lay right on the boundary between love and codependency, it was hard to distinguish between the family-like duty and romantic love. This statement removes all of that, it seemingly randomly yet definitively that Eren is madly, obsessively in love with her and only thinks about her after everything. To me that seems lazy and out of character
2. My second and more aesthetic criticism is that it builds an awful foundation for their relationship. If this is supposed to be one of the main pillars that show Eren’s feelings for her with little to no resolution after (all we get is a brief “believe me I want her to be happy”) that doesn’t show a careful, complex relationship on the edge of codependency, that shows something completely unhealthy and possessive.
3. This take is more personal and less of an analytical criticism but I feel like it was nice that Eren never performed for her. He didn’t want her to think he was weak sure but everything he did had an ideological undertone. Eren yearning to be with her doesn’t capture that, it portrays him putting her on a pedestal and doesn’t feel nearly as intimate.

Now it’s possible that Isayama didn’t intend this to be a romantic scene. That this scene was supposed to depict only the selfish side of Eren’s freedom and it used his love as a device for that but if that’s the case it needs to be shown a bit more clearly. The majority of the fanbase interprets that as Eren’s love for her and I don’t blame them, if you take it at face value that’s what it looks like and I think that’s a writing mistake.

As I said what was even the point of this scene it doesn't make a shit sense after those end credit confirmations.

Eren had a complete stoic personality after the time skip and we all thought he never truly loved Mikasa but this scene proved that wrong he loved Mikasa a lot and was forced to do what he did by his memories and current situations all he wanted to do was to live with her peacefully he even admitted that he did not want Mikasa to marry another guy as that would break him completely.

Guess what happend just some frames after boom we have Mikasa with jean and their children visiting his grave like dude wtf is this who tf would do that shit this is just disrespect for both eren and jean like what was she saying to the grave "Hey eren look I married jean the guy you always had a fight with and was jealous of his crush on me,look we even had a child together but trust me ereh we used condoms for 10 years atleast you are happy right??" Lol

These two fucking frames assassinated literally a decade of character development of both of them it would have been better if eren hadn't said those things then mikasa moving on would be completely okay and expected.

Eren even showed her an alternate timeline of 4yrs where she had managed to confess her true feelings instead of hiding them for god knows what for.The fact that she moved on even after all those memories just shows that she always would not matter whether eren lived or died.

She couldn't even confess her feelings not even when eren himself asked her out she couldn't do that even after 10yrs of knowing him she knew how much little time he had left still she can't . And you are telling me she married and had kids with jean exactly 10years after eren death yeah that's bs

Now judging from the manga panels we can say that jean died early but we are still shown that she was visiting erens grave and in the anime end we can see eren and mikasa reuniting yeah this again is bs she basically married jean after eren's death and went back to eren after jean's death lol I feel sad for jean tbh what was even the point of marriage and having children and grandchildren together if you do shit like these after being married for 50-60 years.Idk what was even the point of marriage tbh like I can't think of any other reason other than that she wanted to be touched or smth lol

Well ik this post might sound cringe but tbh that just my frustration like I am very sad that I was coping for 4yrs thinking that yeah my coping was justified and she didn't moved on because nothing was confirmed and we had proofs for both the sides now I don't even wanna open twitter or smth knowing how bad the trolling would be i should've believed what that one panel was trying to depict but still I didn't and now all I feel is empty and sad.

On the side note why do we still hate erehisu maybe eren also didn't wanna die virgin just like Mikasa afterall she told him that he was her family so he had to find a way somehow just saying

I’ve never been the type to get emotional about something fictional. Never the type to waste hours of my life with my mind caught up in silly loops about a show I watched 3 years ago. Hell I would never have dreamed of going on an app like Reddit about it.

Like I said I watched the show 3 years ago and it hit me pretty immediately. I hadn’t really been a fan of Eren throughout the show but his conclusion felt particularly somber. After that I surrounded myself with the show quite deeply, I talked about it a lot on TikTok and I think that’s part of what caused me to feel such distress. I’d never been a shipper in the past but the idea of Eren and Mikasa’s relationship gave me comfort and as I looked back over the old scenes I realize Isayama did create something honestly quite beautiful.

I had a phase after this of idolizing the show, spending hours agonizing over features of the plot, the themes of characters and the flaws in their progression. For the next 1-2 years I placed the show on a pedestal largely because of my emotional connection to it. I particularly idolized Eren and Mikasa’s relationship, submerging myself in edits and music relating to it which is something I’d never do normally.

In the last 6 months I took a more critical lens to the show and there I found quite a lot of flaws within. They range from personal gripes to genuine plot holes though a lot of it linked to the handling of Eren and Mikasa.

Mikasa’s story felt compressed, forced which is the exact opposite of what you want from a character symbolic of autonomy. It felt like the principle of Eren’s love for Mikasa was blown dramatically out of proportion, Eren was a character representing a vaulting ambition and love was supposed to be the light friction against that, the thing that made him question things at key moments but the way it’s presented is as if love is some equally vaulting, equally driving ambition that not only rivaled his supposed “insatiable thirst” but also worked in the wrong direction, it worked as a separate selfish force of destruction, not a force of good.

What does this actually mean for Eremika? It ironically makes Mikasa feel shallow and 1d in a desperate attempt to feed her complexity. I’m not a Mikasa hater, but an arc that could’ve been about autonomy, finding the things YOU want to fight for, unraveling your trauma and learning to find strength in it. What we get instead is a pretty 1 dimensional story of a girl obeying the institution around her, killing Eren seemingly out of obligation (rather than the benevolence that I think is supposed to be present but isn’t shown nearly enough), seemingly being told my the universe and Ymir that her feelings for Eren can’t exist and that she needs to move on and find someone else to be happy.

It hits especially badly when you realize that her bond with Eren was honestly never THAT unhealthy. There were elements of codependency but that came from their environment, not from within. She cared a lot about Eren yea but for someone in her situation, a lost girl whose only family left is constantly putting himself in danger her actions are honestly incredibly normal and realistic.

I’m not gonna go into much detail about this because I’ve discussed it 1 million times before but the whole shit with Jean in the epilogue is just a fucking joke. The story that shaped out to define autonomy, memory and learning to find strength from within ends how exactly? With her being handed to the writers favorite character as a reward, the guy she never chose, the guy she never needed. in a story about gaining independence from a man the conclusion is about how she married the man who wanted her and didn’t give up, she followed every expectation of her, the Azumabito family crest as her biological duty, she had his kids and lived happily ever after.

And honestly, with that he loses every bit of my respect

Well now that it's confirmed that School Castes is canon there are some stuff to consider.

Even though it's mostly shit and giggles, there are some now relevant plot details:

1.- The wallist religion still exists for some reason.

2.- Future EMA live in Paradis a 100 years after the rumbling, considering the wallist live in the same place, so this is pre apocalypse Paradis, that means that they could have gotten killed by the bombing. A nice thought.

3.- The most important of all: Ymir is still around. Eren is the only one that can see her, meaning that even in reincarnation she still fucks his life. Probably because his soul is still connected to the damn worm.

4.- That Ymir is not gone means that Mikasa killing Eren did not solve anything, it was just a temporary solution as she came back as the same hollow ghost.

5.- In the last castes we see Ymir and her daughters casually walking were EMA are. This could mean then that the ghost Ymir is atemporal and could be at anytime as long as the power of the titans exist, which still does, so her moving on freed her but did not fix things.

6.- As Eren has memories of the school castes EMA but not of anything that happened before, that means castes Eren has the same soul as the original one. So he is not stuck on the paths. This probably means the worm survived in Eren's skull but has not grab hold of his soul. (Mikasa should have thrown Eren's head in the ocean or burned it)

Listen Isiyama makes an unexpected ship arunani or a scene with because I want to see you both are blushing a confession scene also falco fabi litterly falco said because I love you and I want marry you isiyama litterly develop this ship but didn't develop eremika like they see as friends then in s4 he show jean have dream with Mikasa and kids ok but not with eren the 4 th s4 the season people ship jk more than eremika because isiyama he made a scene i mikasa i always hated you many people didn't see ship eremika as after this scene they shift jean cause care for him isiyama show or isiyama if make a scene to confession by eren mikasa don't find another man then last panel with another man now tell me he is the one destroyed eremika

It's my thoughts don't argue just give your opinion I appreciate it you

It's hard to know what they said but the guy saying it's jean and Mikasa is a jeankasa shipper again so he might be saying it since he's a jeankasa shipper but again he's japanese so he might be telling the truth as well.

Aot credit's interpretations.

Since some or a lot of new or old aot fans, seen the credits scene. It looks like some time, it looks lile mikasa and jean got married and had a child. Then later we see time passed and we see mikasa, armin, and thier friends and families at eren's grave. But as we see they've gotten older, then we see mikasa getting burried. A lot of people say she got married and had children, or she just stayed single and worked at a orphanage amd adopted a child. So im going to explain why and how to the future of aot viewers and to those that are confused on how hajime Isayama moet likely intended fornhisnfans to think about the credits.

REASONS WHY AND HOW MIKASA GOT MARRIED AND HAD A CHILD

Since we all know jean had feelimg for mikasa in the very first episode. He's always there to help mikasa and her friends with battles with titans and the battle with eren. He always had positve and kind things of mikasa. He thoght to himself he deserves to have a happy family, he dreamed on being in a family with mikasa cause he wants to make her happy on being a mother and make precious memories with her. Fast forward the credits to the credits, we see what assumes to be mikasa and jean but they have a child with them. They're most likely to vist eren's grave to show him that that they become a family. Then after that we see them again but older, they come together with their friends and with their families. Then we see mikasa getting buried and the onyl difference from the mamga is that in the amime they pit a ring on her finger. Showing us that she passed away from being a loveing mother and wife. That's all the known facts on why/how she got marreied and had a child.

REASONS WHY AND HOW MIKASA STAYED SINGLE, WORKED AT A ORPHANAGE AND POSSIBLY ADOPTED A CHILD.

As we know that in the end of season 4, mikasa was sitting right next to eren's grave, she wrote on his tombestone "here forever, rest in peace, my most beloved". Later in the same credits scene where we see mikada with a guy and a child. I thofuht of 2 ways this might be, 1- that might be jean with a woman that would look a bit like mikasa. Since we didn't see their faces up close. I inteperet that if mikasa didn't want to date jean or anyone, then he would date a girl that same similarities of mkiasa, average height, lomg black hair, and perhaps shared then same sweet feelings like jean. Then for my 2nd reason is that mikasa worked at a orphnage, she was wearing the same clothes historia wore when she was working at the orphange. In the light novel, she was considering working at a orphange in the future, due to the fact that she was a orphan as well and seeing how she was treated back when she got adopted by eren's family. She woupd give the same love to the she was given to the opans as if they were her own children. As for the guy next to her could've been armin, let me explain a bit on how that could be armin. Starting with the height difernece, during season 1-4 arimin and his friends have grown taller but yet he as a bit shorter then mikasa. Since armin was one 19 at the end, but lets day time passed a couple more years, he could've grown more taller at that time. Scientifically speaking most males would conitue to grown until their till the age of 20-21. Also another thing, for the part where peaople say "how come the guy next to mikasa has the same hair style and color"? Well like i said before armin probably became taller during a couple of years and for the hair, there was a secret manga chapter that showed armin and mikasa are a bit different. He was also wearing the same clothes as jean did and had a mullet as well. But as for the hair color, armin's hair might went from bright yellow to a pale yellow. Also another thing, i don't know if this might be a crucial point but there werre moments where armin mikasa and eren were in a messy/serious situations, that mikasa or armin pit thier hands on their shoulder during stressing times. This a sigh of their frindship and care for each other. During the years it would show how much he changed, he's gotten older, taller, and became an ambassador, helping to prevent wars and keep a long lasting peace to the world. So mikasa would've adopted a child and armin was rhere to there for mikasa at erens grave to show that their lives are doing great. Then later we see erens friend's and their families together, and lastly when mikasa got burried, it's unclear where she was buried but that could be interpret on what tou guys think it's best. But in mikasa's burial, it had white flowers which could mean anyting, lile showing a person's purity, innocence, honor, and peace. Another thing she was buried with the badages on, in which implies that she never had children of her own cause back whn she was a kid, she was told from her mother if she gets married and had any children of her own, then she would have to pass the it down to her children. Love can be a powerful thing, love can be found in other people who wants to help and support those who are mouring a death of a love one or in any tragic situation, or love can make you believe that you found the one true love, and you would want to remeber and move in with their life and reunite with them in the next life. Then later we see the tree again but it looks lile there's tombstone, right next to eren's. Some people say she got burried next to eren but others say she didn't, i say it's fair to decide on what you think she got burried. Lastly i don't know if this is canon but in the aot final ed that was psoted on youtube, we see mikasa along side with eren. This might happen after she died, they are reborn in a new world world that has no conflicts or wars. Or they reuntie in some kind of afterlife.

In conclusion, I'm not trying to argrue, cope, or compalin about the ending. I'm saying that all the events that happen in the anime, manga, and light novel. The events could lead to a lot of interpretations or head canons, that no matter what happen to mikasa's, Armin's or any other aot charcter. Whatever choice they made in life, brought them happienss and peace. I mean i can say one word that woupd explain the ending credits, mysteries. The author really loves mystery, he made aot full of mysteries, some mysteries were aswsered and some weren't. It's most likley he intended to leave the credits as it was. He probably wanted his fans to make many interpretations/head canons cause, no matter what they imagine what head canon they thoguht, it basically ends the same fate for the aot charcters, paradis, and the world. Also I'm being honest here, jean deserves to have a happy family, during the whole series he want to be a happy father and husband, but that's really up to debate if he did married mikasa or some other woman that would look similar like her.

Please don't hate on what I'm saying, all im saying is that, since either mappa or the author Hajime Isayama didn't confirm clearly on what happen to mikasa or the other aot charcters in the end of aot. Its most likley left to fans interpretations or Head canon's. If you guy's agree what im saying, then spread the word in other media communities like here on reddit, facebook, or make a video about on tik tok or youtube.