Published Apr 28, 2026, 2:02 PM EDT Hajime Isayama has mixed feelings about Eren Yeager's portrayal in the final stretch Image: MAPPA Sign in to your Polygon.com account Some protagonists stay true to their desires, while others are gradually molded by the world they live in. Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan is a blend of both. Nature and nurture morph him into the complicated character that he is, with rage against an unjust world fueling his tragic journey. Eren’s leap from doomed protagonist to out-and-out villain might be one of the most compelling aspects of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan . However, Isayama’s recent statement about the series’ ending brings some authorial doubts to the surface, as displayed on a block print at Attack on Titan Museum in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. Read Isayama's statement below: “Eren became a protagonist who committed mass slaughter on a scale rarely seen in other works of fiction.…