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- #1665138
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- Attack on Titan - The Other Side of the Sea
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This is a fanedit I worked on in 2022. I’d consider it 99% complete, the only thing really left to do is polish. It’s been rotting on my hard drive for about three years. If there’s any interest in this project, I’d love to finish it and move on to a sequel.
“Attack on Titan - The Other Side of the Sea” is a TV-to-movie fanedit of the Marley Arc from Season 4, taking scenes from Episodes 1-10 & 28. I restructured how the story is presented in a way that I found very satisfying. The first act of the movie introduces us to the new setting, the new characters on the other side of the sea and how the world and our old characters (especially Reiner) have changed during the four year time skip between Seasons 3 and 4. The second act of the movie intercuts Willy Tybur’s political maneuvering on the Marleyan side of the story, with the flashbacks from Episodes 9 & 10 showing what happened in the past four years within the Walls, showing the lead up to the war that’s about to happen from the perspective of both sides of the sea. The climax of the second act is the Island Devils flashback from Episode 28 alongside Willy Tybur’s declaration of war. The third act is the Battle of Liberio.
Reorganizing the exposition of the story in this way is this fanedit’s main strength. Rather than relying on the shock and mystery of being dropped into the wildly different post-timeskip phase of the story, the viewer is given all of the context of the war between Marley and Eldia and have a full appreciation of what they’re watching from the get-go. This holistic experience really synergizes well with the movie format, as well as improving the pacing of the story from the source.
This approach to how the story post-timeskip deals with mystery & exposition would continue into a second movie, providing us with the full context of Eren’s mental state within that movie. Both the manga and anime wait until very late in the story to fully reveal both Eren’s characterization, and the full context of the conflict.
The biggest potential downside to this is spoiling Zeke’s secret allegiance, since this is all over the flashbacks which are now in the middle of the movie. But I think this still works. It’s not an especially shocking reveal, and the moment where this is supposed to be revealed still works well as a character moment for Gabi. What might be worse is Eren and Reiner’s fight at the end of the movie. Without several minutes of credits, changing the episode, intro, between Reiner’s one-liner and the end of the fight, it’s a lot more apparent how Reiner just gets punked in about 20 seconds of runtime. But that’s kind of an unavoidable problem of the source material that the anime just masks haha
CLIPS
All of the clips are in the English dub which isn’t super great but bear with me. The fanedit is available both in sub and dub.
Beginning - The movie is bookended with Armin talking to Annie frozen in her crystal
Suicide Man - Shows how the three scenes where Annie, Reiner, and Bertholdt talk about the man who killed himself are merged into one.
Island Devils Flashback Beginning - This shows an unfinished part of the edit, but also shows how Mikasa’s monologue is removed and edited around
Island Devils Flashback Ending - Also shows how Mikasa’s monologue is removed, but I also really liked cutting from the applause at this guy’s bloodthirsty rhetoric to Willy Tybur preparing for his war speech
Reiner vs Eren - I just wanted to show off what I was talking about above lol
Sasha’s Death - Intercut with the final flashback of the movie. It might be a little heavy-handed, but I still think it works well for the theme it communicates.
Ending - Again, bookended with Armin talking to Annie
CUTLIST
Trimmed clunky exposition to Falco from Warrior candidates in the trenches
Lengthened shot of Reiner walking toward camera, saying “Will I have to go back to that damn island?”
Added year count title card to Reiner’s childhood flashbacks to match with the flashbacks from Episode 9
Lengthened shot of the man hanging from a noose to better sync with audio
Merged together all three scenes where Bertholt, Reiner, and Annie talk about the man who committed suicide
Added audio from the third scene over scene with Eren and Reiner in the Training Corps
Redid year counts in the flashbacks from Episode 9 to be more consistent
Removed Historia talking to Mikasa about being a princess (since the scene revealing it is also removed)
Removed exposition from the Azumabitos about Zeke informing them about iceburst stone, and rearranged the dialog in their meeting with the Eldians to work around this
Removed Hange and Pixis’s internal monologues in their meeting with the Azumabitos
Removed Eren’s grandfather’s weird freakout and the preceding dialog where Eren criticizes him for how he treated his dad
Removed the weird clown making a short joke about Levi (sorry)
Removed Mikasa’s monologue from the entirety of the Island Devils flashback
Rearranged shots at the end of the Island Devils flashback to accommodate Mikasa’s monologue being removed
Shortened Eren interrogating Reiner about why he broke through Wall Maria
Cut out Lara Tybur’s one-liner before transforming into the Warhammer Titan
Cut out clunky exposition about the Scouts’ tactical plans that make Connie look like a dumbass and get repeated soon after anywayCut scenes:
Narration expositing about the Battle of Fort Slava over the aftermath of the battle
Bertholt and Reiner breaking through Wall Maria
Bertholt, Reiner, and Annie infiltrating the Walls and then the military
Annie spying on the government and running into Kenny
Warrior Candidates being wait staff at Willy Tybur’s banquet
Gabi having a stomach ache after the festival
Willy Tybur leaving his family before going to make his declaration of war
Willy Tybur and Magath’s last conversation during the festival
Zeke’s initial contact with the Scouts & Eren revealing that the Founding Titan can be activated by an Eldian with royal blood
Sasha eating Niccolo’s cooking
Mikasa finding out that she is a long lost Azumabito princess
Zeke negotiating with the Azumabitos over the Iceburst Stone on Paradis Island
Workprints are available for anyone who wants to see the incomplete fanedit, DM me here, Fanedit.org, or on discord. This fanedit is currently 2h58 in runtime. It has both Japanese and English audio tracks and English subtitled. I’d also like to add the German dub… but working with two audio tracks already created weird hiccups and adding a third is bound to create tons more.
I did NOT put Vogel im Käfig over Eren’s transformation. Sorry. I don’t think it works all that well.