Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-27702860-20160611023427

Neetaku wrote: Has anyone else noticed how, after volume 9 of the series (in which Sasha was originally supposed to die), she hasn't really had much of an impact on the series? No, I have not, I have noticed quite the opposite actually. Her use of arrows was hardly minor: it saved a few companions. She, like Connie, "minor characters," who do important things occassionally. The manga has centered other other people like, obviously, Eren/Mikasa/Armin; Levi/Erwin; The Shfiting Trio; Crista-Historia/Ymir. . . and her whole arc.

However, she did have almost a whole issue where she saves a girl in one of the more creepier "well here is an interesting village" episodes.

Back to the current question on whether or not the anime would change things due to "popular demand?" Where have they done that? I disagree with. . . *Scrolls Up*. . .Tausendberg in that I think that was a nice touch. They could not even bring home their corpses. I saw the anime before I read the manga, so perhaps my perspective is scewed, but that whole scene reaffirmed how the Survey Corps was not some "Super-Elite Unbeatable Awesome Team of Rag-Tag Don't Play by the Rules Blah Blah Corps"--they were, and are, an UTTER FAILURE. Even with the addition of Eren as a Shifter, Armin with some ideas, and even a few very good ideas, they hemorrhage men and achieve little.

"But . . . but . . . they made Crista into Queen Historia! And Levi! He's awesome!"

And?

That is not an attack on SC so much as a credit to recognizing the reality of the situation. Such a Corps with such resources will "not do well" to its level that one may wonder "what's the point, other than to keep the population down!" Because, other than them, the rest of the military does not actually fight anyone until B and R decide to stop by and "hey! 'Sup?"

I see a rant is starting so I will stop.

--J.D.