User blog:KiraMeansKillerInJapanese/How Fans Are Being Too Hard On Isayama

Every Attack On Titan fan fan will tell you, Isayama heartlessly and thoughtlessly kills off fan favorites. But this is not really true. Everyone was mortified when Sasha died, we are all trying desperately to discover if Levi is alive or not, but the statistica are not in the favor of these cases. Logically speaking, given the low survival rates on this show, how is it even possible that the only dead 104 survey corps members are Sasha, Bertolt, and Ymir? The latter two shouldn't even count! The truth is, Isayama is actually thinking a lot about this. Sasha was supposed to die a lot earlier, but her popularity gave her a few extra years to live! Its also likely Isayama doesn't even know if Levi is alive, and he is using the uncertainty to figure out if the negative reception to a bad comfirmation would be too bad to kill Levi!

In conclusion, if Isayama kills some more favorites in the future, keep in mind that the stats should have had them dead long ago.