Attack On Titan Episode 78: Every Easter Egg & Reference Explained
Warning: Contains spoilers for Attack on Titan.
Attack on Titan episode 78 is now streaming, and it contains several easter eggs and references to both future events and the franchise, as a whole. Attack on Titan usually isn’t the kind of story to be self-referential, especially when it comes to material outside of the main story. As such, the latest episode doing just that is quite surprising, especially with the specific material being referenced.
In Attack on Titan episode 78, Eren is shot by Gabi moments before he can make contact with Zeke and unleash the full power of the Founding Titan. Before he can completely die, however, Zeke manages to catch Eren’s head, resulting in both of their consciousnesses being sent to the Paths dimension. Before Eren fully awakens in the Paths dimension, however, the audience is shown flashes of a variety of scenes, all of them relating to Eren in some way.
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The scenes in question contain several easter eggs and references to Attack on Titan. Most are either references to past events or bits of foreshadowing, but a few are references to material from the wider franchise outside of the main story. It’s unclear why those sorts of references are being made, but even if it doesn’t end up amounting to anything big, it’s still nice to see them.
Many of the images shown are images of people like Armin, Mikasa, Levi, and Reiner that could only be from Eren’s point of view. Additionally, the audience is shown an image of Historia that hadn’t appeared before then and an image of a young boy. The image of Historia is from when Historia is asking Eren about his thoughts on her having a child, and the boy is Ramzi, an immigrant
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