Japanese television network NHK hasrevealedthat the first half ofAttack on TitanThe Final Season Part 3 will air as a one-hour special. The special will air on thepreviously announced premiere dateof March 3. The second half of Part 3 will then be set to air later this year, though no premiere date for that has yet been specified.Once that does air, it will mark the end of a long, continuously stalled road for Attack on Titan. The original anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama’s manga premiered all the way back in April 2013. That series ran for three seasons and fifty-nine episodes, finishing in July 2019. A time-skip and a new subtitle of “The Final Season” later, the series got back underway starting in January 2021.That season has run for twenty-eight episodes across two parts so far, with Part 2 finishing on July 01, 2025. It was then confirmed that The Final Season would include a Part 3 in its run, itself divided into two separate parts.RELATED:Attack On Titan Recap: Everything You Must Know Before Season 4 Part 3’s Release
All that has led to some fans cracking wise that The Final Season would keep getting regularly divided up into diminishing portions without ever actually finishing. Mitigating those trepidations somewhat was Thursday’s announcement from NHK. This confirmed that the “first half” of The Final Season Part 3 would be a one-hour special airing on that previously announced March 3 date.
The second half then, while not explicitly confirmed or given its own premiere date, was insinuated to similarly be a one-hour special as well. That leaves only about the length of four regular episodes left in Attack on Titan’s run, which also allays any fears about the production trying to stretch what manga material was left into two whole cours of 12-13 anime episodes.
Still, it means that Attack on Titan will have taken over ten years to complete its anime adaptation once all is said and done. It’s also gone through two different studios, with Wit Studio handling the original series, while production moved to MAPPA for The Final Season. Commemorating this storied run in the lead-up to the beginning of the end, NHK will be running a special seven-part compilation series of the preceding anime material, for three nights, beginning February 25.
