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A world where giants devour humans is pretty terrifying. So what exactly led to such a world? In this video I talk about the world that existed before the walls went up. And how Titans came to rule all.
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AlternateHistoryHub where's that video for part 3 man? Anytime this week?
AlternateHistoryHub *Patiently waits for episode 3 of Southern Victory Series*
BRING BACK ALTERNATE FAN COUNTRIES!!!!
AlternateHistoryHub PLEEAAAAAAAASE read my comment about the thinning thanks!
Here's an idea for a video : What if the Ottoman Empire successfully captured Vienna in 1683, thus opening up the gateway into central Europe? Since at this point the ottomans were at the height of their power, I personally think history would have been very differently written. (Yes, this question can be summarized into "What if the Winged Hussain never arrived?")
2017: Very “unnecessarily” complexed 2021: Very necessary
Only to all be thrown out the window with the biggest letdown of 2021
@@goldengibus6300 wdym
@@wilderburke9292 lol
@@goldengibus6300 nah the last chap wqs gr8
@@goldengibus6300 I liked the chapter but yea your right
Well now today finally this is relatively spoiler free.
Shit, really?
Lone Wanderer yea anime finally caught up
+@@Smells-Like-Ass+ Yes indeed, the flashback episode that mostly covered the backstory after the Scouts FINALLY got to the basement was released when I posted my comment.
Yeah I'm glad I watched season 3 before watching this, would've spoiled so much
Sasha dies
*Eldians win a war* Eldians: Lets be Nazis! *Marleyans win a war* Marleyans: Lets be Nazis!
Marlay and Eldia: How do you deal with genocide? Genocide back!
We don't necessarily know the full history of the Eldian Empire, as both sides of world history are taught (presumably) by propaganda.
*Germans lose a war* Germans:Lets be Nazis!
Japanese clan: Exists Japanese clan: Mikasa empress
I think of the Eldians committing a Holocaust while the Marleyans are committing more of an Apartheid
To all who are confused about the setting: just because it looks like madagascar doesnt mean it is. The most probable explanation is Isayama just thought "why should I make a new map when there a perfectly good upside down one here?"
^^ This.
It should also be noted that during the 2nd world war there was a plan in Nazi Germany to exile Jewish people to Madagascar and to let them live there, as it was expected that many would perish due to harsh conditions, so I think that’s a pretty interesting parallel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
@@Yingking wow , great observation . Isayama takes a lot of ideas from the real history of our world and as a history nerd this actually really facinating.
Also the Paradis island has temperate climate, while madagascar has equatorial and subequatorial climate
@@artaum5635 geography can fool us, i saw that Madagascar is actually densly forested in the coast, and is plain in the middle, and also Madagascar's temperature is between 23 and 25 in the coast and 20-15 in the middle, so yeah, Madagascar with more trees could perfectly be Paradis
Whether it's a apocalyptic super plague or giant humanoid monsters, Madagascar will always close its ports and airports and be the only ones left standing.
kozaklm94 and why do all the people have german names?btw Ackermann or Jäger sound really german
Ggggffg Xxfffyd Because this is if the Nazis won WW2? Think about it: No Africans, just some Japanese, giant man eating Monsters roaming the planet. Sounds like Nazi ideology to me.
Ggggffg Xxfffyd there are South Africans
Hahaha plague inc
kozaklm94 *A man coughs in Brazil*, CLOSE EVERYTHING, LET NOTHING ENTER!
I'm assuming that Australia is ruled over by Emus
Giant Titan Emus tho
et 37 this is probably an alternate universe where they had other Emu Wars and lost again.
between a thousand Titans and one emu, I'd rather fight the Titans. at least my death won't be as horrible as anything an emu would do.
Is it safe to assume New Zealand being overrun by kiwis?
The Emu Empire
You could remake this next year after the manga ends. A lot more lore
I second this
I agree
Mangoes are for eating not for reading
a lot of lore gotten wrong too
Y E S
LETS GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEE
Underrated
FFS this is funny Af
That’s right ladies and gentlemen at the massive pukeaplex organise arena we have attack on Titan fans versus a animator who gets paid to tell history get your tickets now now now it’s awesome be there be there be there
@@theshockerpit7274 what?
Teoman Kaya I’m trying to promote the event
Ok now lemme break it down real easy for ya: The Royal Family ARE the Lemurs! I mean, THINK about it. Whose the lemur in the Madagascar movie? That's right: KING Julian. There fore the LEMURS are the KINGS. Case closed.
Does that mean that Madagascar is actually a sequel to Attack on Titan since the Titans eventually turn into Lemurs overtime including the Royal families. This allowed society to rebuild and then the Madagascar movies show King Julian's quest to bring back Titans so he can once again rule the world
Exactly.
Fuck, MatPat was right.
I refuse to believe that Crista is a lemur!
My god your a genius.
Do the lore of Cory in the house
ALWAYS ANGRY Best anime ever
I don't know... Cory in the House is a pretty complex
CORLY IN THE HOUSE LORE YAA
Orphvn - 平和と死 that's why we need it it's so interesting but I barely understand the plot
Could he really explain something more complex than Dwarf Fortress?
meanwhile, in North America: "Should we?" "No, just leave them."
Solitary neglect era of the 13 colonies.
I wouldn’t want to mess with someone who not only has a powerful military but also the ability to create 50 foot tall nigh-unkillable man eaters.
They are South America in the story though 😄
Peter Liu 1223 fuck you im vador
Vader*
This needs an update. Ymir was the slave of King Fritz, and was infected by some sort of parasite while running for her life (she was being punished for losing a pig, which all the other slaves pinned on her). King Fritz used her to build roads, bridges, furrow fields, and also lay waste to his enemies. The poor girl basically had Stockholm Syndrome, and didn't resist when Fritz "rewarded her with his seed", bearing three girls in the process. When Ymir died saving Fritz from an assassination attempt, the tyrant had her body chopped up and fed to their three daughters until they attained titan powers. On his deathbed, he demanded that they breed endlessly so as to ensure that his Eldian Empire would rule the world. Also, Black people DO exist.
had to go digging pretty far to find this. This video is cool, but it's real interesting to see just what had and hadn't been revealed yet even by that point in the story.
Bruh this video is 5 years old lmao
S3 is coming out in 2018 Also in the manga AoT is basically Magical Jews vs Normal Nazis
You Good Bruh? Point they are revealing more stuff every chapter such as if any human (exept asain) has edian blood he she can turn into a titan and inherit one for example Reiner
More like Magical Aryans who once ruled over all, but then succumbed to infighting and let the Normal Jews take over, oppress them and use them to fight their own people.
Rowlet _ l more like regular Jews who arent really magical hating magical Jews but love the regular Nazi who are actually sometimes magical jews
Don't take that out of context, relative to what this story is about, it makes sense. Except that they may not be Jews, but some other race that Germany accepted though still considered less than them (like the Japanese).
speedy01247im still waiting to see what happened to everybody else after the time skip
The asians got geoncided because they where not affected by the memory wipe and alot of them did not agree with the fritz plan
SWLY they were too smart to get memory wiped
SWLY asians in the continent seems to be just a merchants descendants in the first place so asians or non eldians that fled to paradis island seems already pretty low. And yes, only eldians that affected with the mass amnesia. So non-eldians are hunted down to keep the secrets.
Where did you get this information?
Docter Yoda from the manga duh
The more lore I hear about Attack on Titan the stupider it sounds
You forgot Levi. He's also from minority group of Ackermans.
Levi is not asian
@Dexter clarence Fongkot wow 2% Asian
@Dexter clarence Fongkot No he doesn't. The only one on Paradis who does is Mikasa from her mother, Levi is related to her father _not_ her mother.
hacker-mans
Ackerman's are a super soldier project intended to give eldians the power of titans without transformation.
It takes place in an alternate universe. The geography of their world has nothing to do with ours except it's just based on ours. There's a theory their version of Earth is at least 5 times as big though to fit the walls on Paradis. Also, Japan in their universe is called Hizuru.
Like titans?
@@elykeom1 more like complex life being limited to water, insects, worms, and basically anything that can withstand being crushed by 49m/s/s gravity. That's enough to knock you unconscious from the Gs _before_ you hit the ground due to your kneecaps popping and your legs buckling
Garathex that sounds like fun
Life could still exist if the world was 5 times less dense than Earth. Gravity is affected by the mass of a planet, not the size.
Redead Link explains why titans weigh so little, as noted by hanji in the manga
Do a video on Warhammer 40k.
I want to so bad
hype?
AlternateHistoryHub Go ahead and do it, but do it on like Halloween, and make the tone if the video bleek and creepy with almost no hope.
Would be interesting, but would be hard to do the whole timeline justice without making a crazy long video
Darth Cindros Do a lore video on Fidget Spinners
Actually the manga makes it rather ambiguous as to what really happened during the Eldian regime. The Marleyans teach of their alleged genocide, but this is being questioned with the argument being that there wouldn't be any other races left, while the Eldian resistance fighters believed the regime to have brought stability and infrastructure everywhere, which, again, is doubted by an important character
The Mango confirmed they were really asshole. It's a major theme of the series, the cycle of hate and man's inhumanity to man.
@@augustokonrad3572 Ah, yes. The Mango
@@imtootiredforthis9776 lmao imagine not reading the mango
@@shgds ikr
Who is the character that doubt the résistance story ???
2013 : An anime about humanity on the brink of extinction fighting off giant creatures inside a walled off society. 2021: WW1 but with giant humanoid creatures.
2013: a Bunch of Traumatized kids fight Naked Giants who eat People. 2021: a Group of Child Soldiers try to stop Hitler and his army of *Giant Skinless Men* from Trampeling the World.
You mean WW2.
@@kenudice9841 I keep getting more WW1 vibes from season 4 due to the technology. That and the fact trench warfare seems to be a common thing there.
@@kurros1270 I see more WW2 due to the constant images of internment camps and the Star’s of David; these were used to identify to Jews in the camps.
@@kenudice9841 it’s a mix, the technology is more early 1900s as well as warfare, but the ideologies I guess is WWII.
3:52 - this is what you are probably looking for
3:53
If you read the manga you will know......... Everything
Well there's more
well did Ymir get her shit from the devil or was it science gone mad?.
No one knows yet
so reading the manga will not provide that answer. there for you wont know everything?.
There are currently 4 different Theories in the Manga about that, only person alive that knows is Eren
I just realized, there are episodes in a snowstorm how tf does it snow in madagascar
Shows how good the weebs are at their geography. They say us Americans are mad
Cemo67 Actually it's not in Africa, it's a fictional nation with a fictional map. Pretty sure the animators/ manga artist were just too lazy to draw a map or something
that... looks like Africa.
It snows in the mountainous area of Madagascar.
Cemo67 idk. Why are there 100 foot redwoods everywhere instead of jungles?
This is marleyan propaganda, don't believe the lies about Ymir
#YmirDidNothingWrong
fucking pigs
#eldianlivesmatter
Spoiler alert, Ymir's deal with the devil represents her rape by Fritz.
@@codemancz798 stop spouting bullshit
This information, while technically correct, is already out of date and we have learned a great deal more in the past year and half. - The squabbling Titan families were all kept in check by the power of the Founding Titan which is why Elida never fell in all those centuries. - The reason Marley got the upper hand had nothing to do with any of their efforts, it was, in fact, the 145th King's (Karl Fritz) will that they be freed and the Eldian people be subjugated. He arranged for all of this in conjunction with the Tybur family (the ones who possessed the Warhammer Titan power) and set up a fake Marleyan hero named Helios for those people to rally around. The plan went forward by having the various houses fight among themselves as usual, but Fritz did not intervene with the Founding power, thus allowing Eldia to self-destruct. - Karl Fritz never intended for the wall titans to be used, he just wanted the Eldian peoples to live in blissful peace until Marley or the world decided to come and exterminate them, which is why their memories were taken away. - There are peoples living in the walls that are not affected by the Founding Titan powers because they are not of the People of Ymir. It is one of the reasons why the Asian clan are hunted is because they cannot be affected by that power. Another clan that cannot be affected is the Ackermann clan, which are super soldiers created by the royal family to act as body guards. The Ackermanns did not agree with what Fritz had done and were hunted down for it. - We know now why the Colossal Titan and the other Warriors were sent; it was to draw out the Fritz family and then take the Founding Titan power back to Marley so that Marley can buy time with it until their dependence on Titans can be sufficiently reduced. Marley became too dependent on the 7 Titan powers they captured to maintain their empire and so had let their technology stagnate some compared to other countries. Those other nations now have significant anti-Titan capabilities and soon with increasing advancements in airpower as well as artillery, Titans will become obsolete as weapons. - We now know that the analog to Japan in this world : Hizuru was once a staunch ally of Eldia and when Eldia collapsed, so did Hizuru's fortunes. Hizuru is ruled by the Azumabito clan. The Asian people are partly descendants of that clan and Mikasa is a direct descendant of them which is why she has that scar/tattoo on her wrist. Like the Ackermanns, they also disagreed with Karl Fritz and refused a place of nobility inside the walls and in turn were hunted down for it. - There are African peoples as well as other dark-skinned ethic groups still left. But most of the Eldian and Marleyan peoples are fair-skinned.
Well explained
I was never all that interested in the lore of AoT nor the series in general (I don't like steampunk, nor do I like the 3DMG), but this is actually fairly interesting. One could hope that the 20th century-tier technology of the rest of the world means that titans, armoured or not, wouldn't be a problem for them (because anti-tank rifles are a thing hehe).
AdotLOM Do yourself a favour and read the series. The geopolitical aspects of it were what got me interested and it is one of my favourite series now, despite originally thinking it looked kind of boring. To answer your question, this will be a spoiler I’d suppose, one of the bigger plot lines recently is that as technology has progressed and Marley have put all of their focus into the titans they are behind on the times and the titans themselves are becoming less reliable as weapons.
@@Doom_Hawk That's pretty much what I suspected. And yes, knowing what I do now I might be willing to dive into the manga now :)
But why would an Eldian ruler want the Eldians to be subjugated by the ennemy ethnicity?
Sorry for the delay. I went to VidCon, then had tech issues. I hate having two lore videos in a row, so back to classic alternate history next week. Then Part 3 after that.
AlternateHistoryHub YEEEEES SASAGEYO SASAGEYO
gucci
AlternateHistoryHub injustice please
AlternateHistoryHub this an another video before part three if if the south won? WHYYYY CODY WHYYYY
AlternateHistoryHub S A S A G E Y O
In the 'Attack on Titan' Universe, Madagascar is Paradise. And since the world is up-side-down, Madagascar is closer to the North Pole
Shakeela-Milkshake which would make the 'South Africa' and Madagascar have similar climate to europe
@@nolimitarmani the white people of south africa are descendants of dutch from europe they're not originally africans
@@nolimitarmani More like Dutch. Those darn Brits hated the boeren.
Australian reality
@@nolimitarmani Yeah the white people in south africa are from colonizers settling there. No group of people can live there for thousands of years and still remain white.
;It's going to be complex *Zooms in to eren and mikasa* ;Very complex Continues to zoom in to Mikasa
Holy shit man I am BEGGING you to redo this video!! You did an amazing job for the time it was released but holy shit has the series evolved. We’ve gotten so much lore and information over the years and especially in the most recent chapter that answer some of the questions you had and some blanks in the timeline. If not now I really hope that you remake this video in the future!! I promise you won’t regret it :)
Looks like the present time in AOT is in the 19th centuary, given that the marleys have blimps and WW1 weapons while the people in paradis island live in (what looks like to me) the 17th centuary, and they recently invented electricity.
jamie That's because the king halted technological advancement in the kingdom, to prevent the citizens from discovering the outside world. One of the few technologies that were permitted to be developed is the Maneuver gear, since defending the kingdom from Titans is still important.
Elsie Mongado that is one of my favorite twists ever
Wrong century. Ww1 was in the 20th century
Hey, just saying this even though I'm replying to a year-old comment, the guns are mostly flintlock
Nah, from the future I am. Paradis is actually 100 years backwards due to no contact with people outside the wall. And The Rest of the World is in the 1900s. So, technically. The Present Time in AoT is the 1900s and Paradis Time is 1800s
Before I post this, Spoiler Warning: but in recent chapters we actually see some people of African decent. Not a part of the main cast, but they are there.
Reason: Political Correctness
YellowTwerker was he necessary to the story? Pavlov's gun mate, things added to as story need to have a purpose, don't draw attention to a gun hanging on the wall if it ain't gonna shoot someone. Same principle, why do you think this black guy was drawn attention to? As far as the story yet goes Marley and Paradis are the only countries that matter. Any time something like this happens it is because the creator feels he needs to to avoid negative backlash. If a story from the start contains black people or they are introduced later as a major point with defined reasons for existing, fine, but if they bung in one black guy because they feel they need to that's just them trying to satisfy the world's ridiculous need for political correctness.
that's dumb you are talking bullshit the new chapters are about paradise island opening to other contries not only black peoples but also asian you even see people from the midle east btw sorry if my english is bad
Wasnt there a black kid and his girlfriend very early on in the show? They didnt have any lines and were always in the back ground but the boy and his girlfriend died after the first attack. I think he was missing his lower half or something like that
@@KinghtofZero00 nah there where white there are all Europeans even tho some peoples have foreign origins asia/north Africa but they were eliminated because they can't be controlled
“Very unnecessarily complex” Well Yes but really No
man this needs a sequel
What if Portugal and Spain joined together to make the iberian empire during the colonization days?
No Portuguese today then.
I think in one of his fan alternate country videos someone did the Iberian empire
That actually sounds like a really cool name for a country.
Axel Pingol i know but during the days when they colinized nearly everything together
Sounds like the sort of stuff you could answer by playing EUIV
Personally I think that the continents were actually flipped on earth, explaining why the native races of Africa are white and why paradis is in no way like Madagascar. The climates are reversed; Europe probably has a black majority, Asia remains about the same, and south America lacks the empires that real south America had and is easier to colonize than north America because of it.
Europe and asia would most likely be Antarctic cold, middle of this 'africa' or slightly south would have black population
Do you know what flipped means ?
Asians live in North and South America and vice versa
bee time so that means the white people may become slaves in the future of this timeline that’s kinda ironic
ITS THE SUN
Cody should definitely update this once the series is over
Looking back at this.... No, the lore got twenty five times more complex in a span of like 20 chapters.
Marley kidnapping Eldians and mutating them into titans reminds me a lot of the Master Kidnapping Vault Dwellers and turning them into Super Mutants
Super Mutants do have a lot in common with Titans. Loss of personality and intelligence and sterility, for starters.
long live the master and the super mutant army
lifes40123 Long Live The Unity
I'd say it's more like the Enclave enslaving people to dig up the FEV at Mariposa, which resulted in them being turned into super mutants. They wanted the FEV to turn it into a pathogen that killed everyone and everything that was "tainted" by mutation, I.E., everyone and everything that wasn't them. They were trying to use mutation to kill mutants, like Marley was using the titans to kill off the remaining Eldians.
@@spawnzillafinalwars That's a long slow way to do it? Why not wait until splitting the atom and then nuking them from orbit? It's the only way to be sure.
The most important question: Where are the lemurs?
Alex the Person True
Alex the Person lol
In Madagascar. Paradise is too cold for Lemurs.
The important question is...Where's Thor?
Top 10 questions science still can't figure out.
I watched this video. I forgot about it. I got into anime. I watched Seasons 2-4 of AOT unspoiled. I returned to this video.
Same
I remember watching this years ago and it's incredible how much is still accurate but of course not all of it. I'm glad I was reminded of this channel
Ghost in the Shell lore! Code Geass lore! Both great alternate histories, especially the latter.
Stev Hussar I'd love a code geass one^^ how did Britain become Britania!
Fun fact, Britain isn't in Britannia since Napoleon conquered England.
sakuradl Yeah, isn't Britannia really in America?
Stev Hussar GITS world is pretty close to IRL, only in the future. Code Geass world on the other hand is the alternate world in the aftermath of WW2 sci-fi mechas.
Croz Raven Actually, the GITS universe has the Soviet Union still existing, as well as the fact that there were two more world wars, and there's an American Empire...
try to do a vid on the Code Geass universe, I know you're not a fan of anime, but from a world and political perspective, Code Geass has quite a good dystopia setting
Isaac Rafio That would be awesome
Absolutely.
Yes please
Isaac Rafio This
If you're watching this in 2019, watch season 3 part 2. It's so good
I got emotional for the first time watching the series...
You should really remake this one, it has alot of inaccuracies, Like Eldians genociding Orientals, when Infact the Eldians and Hizurus (ancestors of the Orientals) were actually allies, one of the prince of Hizuru was actually stuck on Paradis when Karl Fritz lock the Eldians inside the walls
I clicked on this so fast
Big Smoke what?
HA I was faster!
Clorox Bleach I love you!
Me too, to find out what happened to Southern Victory Part 3. I was satisfied in his explanation.
Raunald Chatto me to
you actually fell for the marley propaganda that the eldians committed genocide on marley? umm it was even stated in the manga if that happened over the span of thousands of years marley would be long gone
Are you sure they're not?
what if that is eldian propoganda tho
Nothing to notice actually they're both propaganda
i know
ELDIAN DETECTED ELDIAN DETECTED YOU WON'T FOOL ANYONE DEVILSPAWN OFF TO THE WALLS WITH YOU MARLEY WILL NEVER FALL
The most recent episode made me realize something... They put all the Jews in Madagascar
The Nazis actually had a plan to do that
@@gustavovillegas5909 that was the OG final solution yeah
@Not a Spongytard Well yeah. That's exactly what I meant. The nazis originally planned on relocating all of the jews they amassed and putting them on Madagascar. So yeah, it exists is exactly what I'm saying lol
@@piecicle7652 If that's the case... I wonder if Isayama took inspirations from this too.
@@EzioIlMentore It also reflects the Rwandan Massacre
Finally, after this week's episode, I can watch this video!!!!
Good video but I'd like to answer and correct a few things. First this earth is simply a different earth entirely from ours, it is africa but in this universe it isn't "africa" in fact its not even a desert/jungle continent. It's been shown to be very european, in fact the entire Attack on titan lore is heavily based on Norse mythology thus all the german and swedish names of the characters. As for WHEN does it take place, again it doesn't exist in our timeline however the current world of attack on titan greatly resembles early 1910s, WW1 era to be specific. As for "were there always titans?" Well...no, Ymir was the first titan ever thus why she was able to take over the known world at the time, This happened 2000 years before the story so she was met with spears swords and arrows. Also Ymir getting her power from "The devil" is revealed in the story to be false, propaganda by Marley to depict the Eldians as evil and "descendants of the devil" to justify their genocidal treatment of them. The truth behind how Ymir found the power to become a titan is still unknown exactly, much like many real mysteries of the real world its been lost to history.
Its the climates that are traded but not the names of the continents that changed
The planet has had many climate shifts before. And Africa is by no means limited to deserts and jungles. The climate is way more diverse than you think.
Wait, event if u said it doesn't exist in our timeline (with it dose make sense), this current world are nothing close to early 1910s, because in this kinda of time we will have "both-action Rifle", some Car or close to a Machine-gun, but here we have Musket Rifle, horse at the main transportation, also the Equipment of the soldier are Way more advanced than most technology they have (maybe just for the animed show, but i like to points it out)
... that is because you haven't seen Marley yet, silly.
Also, there is no electricity throughout the entire country of Paradise. No telephones or radio.
What happened with part three of the southern victory series?
Jose Miguel Caballero restrepo I have been waiting for that since the second part 2 came out
Liam McDonnell same
It'll never happen, rip
Next week he said on Twitter
It's like doctor who part 3
This really cleared things up for me, thank you! I was super confused about the difference between Eldians and Marleyans.
You should definately check out Attack on titan s4. It has a crazy story and the lore feels organic. Every detail makes sense in the grand scheme of things
Lol
That is until the ending
@@Josuh still complain the ending but the starting theme and ending theme was very loyal to its lore
*Lore of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air* I wanna know about the "one little fight" he got into and how his mom got scared okay plz bae do this 4 me
The "little fight" actually led to his death and he was sent to what he thinks is Bel-Air, but is actually the afterlife.
Bruce Custodio Piss off no it wasn't
i just want to know how is life turned upside down
I want this too
Forgot to mention the part about Eldian's being represented as literal devil worshipping nazis came from the Marleyan textbooks (the irony), in the manga Owl reveals to Girsha how both interpretations of history, both from the restorationists and the government have their biases and serve mainly as propaganda, so we dont know 100% on how the titans came to being or how the pre wall Eldians really were. I really actually like how each story was made to fit a historical narrative. It reflects the way our history was passed and was prone to manipulation for political purposes. Good video though! I thought i was the only one who cared more about the world and politics than the main cast (though the some characters ive grown to love later on)
I remember watching this when it came out. I think most people know it needs to be updated. Easy new content! It's a win!
Would love to see him come back to this now that we know so much more about this world.
The story is taking place around WW1/WW2 (the Middle Easterns they fought had Ottoman-inspired uniforms and the Marleys were saying that Titans are becoming more and more useless because of the improvements to Navy and Air Force). Technology within the walls on Madagascar is outdated because it has been repressed by the regime, presumably to maintain stability (for example they killed some people that tried to invent a hot air balloon because they thought it would be used to get over the walls). Basically they're the North Korea of AOT. They don't want the people inside to know anything about the outside. That's also why they have wiped their memories so they'd think they're the last bastion of humanity. I think they did it because they wanted to "restart" humanity, they wanted to have a new start without any grudges. It's an endless genocide cycle with Marleyans and Eldians. So they wanted to break that cycle. At least that's my theory. AoT has a very interesting world indeed. It was a huge surprise to everyone when it was all revealed around chapter 80. Before that chapter for years everyone had so many theories and many people thought it was just a simple manga about humans fighting titans in medieval times. Then it did a 180* and changed into Game of Thrones/House of Cards lol. And after all it's just about humans killing humans.
Hey don't be a spoiler dude!
This whole video is a spoiler dude, so quit crying.
ARC Read the god damn manga it's AMAZING
Read all already all the way in 95th chapter. Waiting for the next one next month to come out.
It looks to me more like Renaissance era Germany. The architecture is very German and a lot of the uniforms are German as well. Being Germany also somewhat fits as during that era Germany was in an almost constant state of war. Mercenaries exploited peasants freely so many sought protection under lords and behind walls for that. It's no surprise that German is the most common descend for Americans. Millions upon millions of Germans left. I think that fits with the cut-throat world they live in and just how dependent they are on their walls.
Roses are red Yellow is the bee Hype for Harry Turtledove's alternate civil war part 3?
Lord Vegas yessss
7:20 the Orientals weren't from the island but were from the azumabito kingdom who were friends of the royal family and some of them went with the king to paradise island.
We didn't know that at the time
@@EisenSMT but was also never said they were the original inhabitants either
thanks for making this video, this is one of the reasons why i watched aot in the first place. which would lead to me finding my favorite show of all time
What happened after Death Note? How would the world change after the reign of Kira?
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You'd literally get what Death Parade was!
My Boy Light couldnt posibly kill thousends of people every hour while preventing any murder and war, there just to many new deaths in death parade.
Some people would return to their pre-Kira ways. Others would worship Kira as a Christ-like figure. The last chapter of the manga literally has a procession through the mountains made up of people of various age groups with one woman at the center of it uttering the words, "Kira-sama," aka "Lord Killer."
Didn't it say in the manga that crime rates rose again to normal and things went on?
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Hotel? Trivago
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In Madagascar?
I think that Meme is dead.
Perfect video. I love the effort you put into it
FINALLY SOMEONE I LIKE READS THE MANGA.
Well, he never really said he liked the main bit, with those anxsty teens. Just the lore bit...I never liked anime myself bit I find this lore is actually more interesting in itself. Are you triggered?
Turtle Chief From the comment? no, From the amount of times you used bit? yes
I only said bit 3 times, sure it's a bit more than probably necessary, and sure, I may be a bit dull with my use of words but honestly I couldn't give the slightest bit of a shit.
Should've saved Erwin...
Turtle Chief Just like I couldnt give the slightest bit of a shit about your comment so poorly structured I didnt understand it
1:38 i mean look at it this way. that is still as correct a map as ours is, but they lost the context of our maps before titans. Their east is our west and their north is our south, the're all human constructs so it is not incorrect, just different. Its actually really cool because it shows how disconnected they are from the previous world. edit: oh yeah i guess you get it or maybe the writer was lazy but this is a cooler theory.
Baker's Bread actaully the map is correct for the most part. The world itself is flipped and no Africans weren't genocide. Alot of what he says seems a bit made up, as though he just read the wiki and did patchwork.
but it's inverted. If you face south and look to your right you will look towards paradis in their world, but not madagascar in ours. So it cannot be this world. A better term for it would be "mirror world" or something, not alternate timeline.
"Like Game of Thrones?"
If you've caught up on the most recent AoT stuff, this video's age shows lol "Unnecessarily complex" well uhm
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i want to say I really like these lore videos.
same
Thx Cody you saved me so much time of my life
That made the back story make muuuuuuuch more sense!!! Thank you for covering this😆
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We need this
I wholeheartedly support this endeavor.
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Great video, only 1 thing wrong. Mikasa isnt the only ackerman, levi is one as well
And kenny
no BYE yeah but who tf is kenny
Varinius Aurelius You will see in this season of the anime.
he said the only asian, not the only ackerman
Josephu Joestar there might be more Ackerman that fleed in the huge continent or there hiding in the underground or outside the walls
My opinion to different kinds of races in AOT Marleyan people are Slavic People much more like Russians, Polish , Belorussian and Siberian people. Eldian People are Aryan Races much more like British, Germans, French, Finnish and Norwegian people Ackerman Clan are much more like South Mediterranean people more like Italian, Greek and Croatian people. Mikasa Clan was comprise actually with Chinese, Japanese and Korean people
Actually marleyans are Italians
It's not actually earth. Its supposed to be the opposite of earth. North and south are opposite. Even though east and west stay put, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. There are black people, they just aren't from Africa (Marley). When the Eldian empire started, Marley did not have a whole empire to themselves. Instead, at that point, Marley and Eldia were essentially Mesopotamian-esque city-states. So, aot is not alternate history. I think Isayama just wanted to use the world map to make world building easier.
*Shinzou wo SASAGEYO!!!!!*
Is that one of dem japanessy charge phrases?
SUSUME
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In light of the recent series finale that's ongoing, there are a fair amount of reveals about this world's history that are different compared to this vid (still an excellent vid though btw). I hope you consider doing a follow-up/updated vid on AoT lore and it's world history. It's really fascinating, and how you go into detail with your vids is always interesting.
“Which might explain why there are no Africans” * Cuts to ad
The show definitely takes place around WW1. A time where traditional warfare is beginning to become obsolete. Artillery shells, and other machines of mass destruction are being incorporated into warfare. Human technology has finally caught up to titans.
I think people are taking the geography a bit too literally....Yes, It's set in an inverted, upside-down version of our world, but that doesn't mean the geography is the same. The only similarity our world has with theirs is the shape and that's it. Paradis island is NOT Madagascar. If Isayama wanted to set his story in Madagascar, he wouldn't have based Paradis off of Germany.
Exactly. And the latest chapter revealed that the world isn't an upside down version of ours at all, just look at the globe.
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Robert Farcingtin damn
In Madagascar they speak Franco-German
Yeah, it's just shaped exactly like Africa for no reason. Lol.
Hope we have an updated version of this! :)
An actual amazing AoT in a Nutshell video. Very well summarised.
“It’s the devil look at him” 💀💀😂
Averi J yup...thats the Devil..*shouts at a random guy* GET ME A CROSS AND HOLY WATER!!!!
I think that the AoT world is a parallel universe when the north and south pole are swapped and that's why there are no lemurs in Madagascar/Paradise You can say is a *titanic* mid blown? :D
😑...*SIGH*
Maybe North and South for them is different from north and south for us
2017: titans came from the devil isayama: lol hold my pigs
"doesn't resemble anything like our world" is actually just our world flipped upside down
Idea: Gundam Universal century timeline.
Gundam SEED would be best accurate
Henny B! Howabout fullmetal alchemist
I think in this world it isn't just an inverted map, but an actual inverted Earth, which would explain differences in climate, race, and culture.
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I like your essay. Please keep up with this show because season 3 has just started and word is they're no longer following the manga and now this thing just turning strange. Thank you
i know you made this comment 2 years ago...but where did you hear that they were no longer following the manga?
You should definitely do an updated version when the series is finished.
I thought the most interesting thing about the lore is the radical difference in advancements of their societies. The Marlyens at this point were WW2-era level of industrialized might while the Paradis Eldians stagnated with 18th century tech. I mean the average Marlyen would scoff at the notion of Jaeger "fighting for humanity". It would be kinda like the premise of The Village.
more like ww1 tech
It was shown in season 3 that the technology remained stagnant because of the interior military police hindering technological progress to keep the people from uncovering the truth. They already have invented lighter than air flight but the inventors were hunted down. And in the Before the Fall prequel Manga which is set 70-50 years before the events of the main series you'll see that Paradis already has industrialized manufacturing akin to 1880s irl. They wouldn't never have made thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of those precision engineered ODM gear with 18th century technology.
Kitty Yuki Exactly. Specific innovations and fields of scientific advancement were allowed, such as ultra-hard steel and gas-fluid mechanics for Titan-killing blades and ODM gear, respectively. But guns and cannons remained undeveloped because they were of limited use against the Titans, while flight technology was banned altogether.
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Uh, it says in the anime that it takes place in the mid 800s
6kvin10 That's not actually true, they just didn't really develop their technology because 1) The people inside the walls on Paradis lost all their memory and didn't know about different technological advancement, and 2) The citizens on the mainland were in near-constant warfare and were busy developing weaponry instead.
Hexx Uhhhhh I just said that it said canonically that it was set in the 800s... not technological advancement or anything.
Marley has early WWI planes, tanks, artillery, and shit.
And we know before they moved to paradis, late medieval plate armour was what soldiers would've worn
6kvin10 I recall reading somewhere in the manga that the year OUTSIDE is actually 1854. Basically at the beginning of the story the year is 845 (1845 for the outside world). By now in the manga, its 854 (1854).
The reason the humans are so far behind because they got cut off nearly completely when the titans showed up not allowing them to develop new technologies. They can’t keep contact with other humans beyond the island because of the constant titan threat
No the governments keeps the people technology behind on purpose read the manga bro
he should make a another video on this topic since a lot got added and we got some answers to the questions
AlternateHistoryHub please do a video on the World of Watchmen Universe Lore
It takes place around the 13-16th century. I know this because the two test subject titians were named Sawney and Bean. And Sawney Bean was actually a real serial cannibal around the 13-16th century.
It takes place around what would be WW1 in our world. The problem is Paradice is isolated and technology was destroyed and hidden from the general public, as a result the outside world advanced while paradice did not. This vid gets lots of things wrong.
But Hanji's two previous test titans were called Albert and Chikatilo. Albert Fish was a cannibal who died between the 30s-50s (I can't remember at the moment), and Andre Chikatilo was a Russian cannibal who was executed in the mid 1990s. In MY lifetime.
Werevampiwolf yeah they're just little refferences, not an actual names of people within that world.
Actually in season 3 of the anime we see that the Marleyans have technology comparable to the early 1900s... So not 13-16th century.
"The people who push themselves into hell see a different hell from the rest of us. They also see something BEYOND that hell. Maybe it's hope. Maybe it's yet another hell. The only people who do know ... are the ones who keep moving forward." - Eren Jäger. SUZUME
susume
But I don't want mikas to find another man!!!!
For the first time I understand what's going on in Attack on Titan. Thanks man
Africa is my city
Potato of Doom Madagascar is my resort