Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-27702860-20160514062301

Indeed to all of that. I doubt, as you suggest, that much is unplanned. The manga obviously expands the relationship between Grisha and say, Keith Shadis. The anime simply has not caught up to it. So anime watchers do not get the answer of Shadis' previous relationship with Grisha which manga readers eventually achieve.

But what can we do but speculate waiting for new instalments?

Now on this:

''Woah... what if Grisha was a spy for them and he relayed information to the homelanders? "So, I suspect that the previous coordinate holder has died and that a new and as of yet unprepared coordinate holder currently holds the power. If you don't attack in the next couple years or so, you're gonna have to wait another generation." ''

I have sort of assumed that Grisha was one of the homelanders. Whether or not he had a specific "job" or "mission" like Bertoldt, Annie, et cetera remains to be seen. I like your idea but there is one small problem in that Grisha appears a few years before that event. Granted, given the time line, he may have been sent with a, "we suspect in the next decade the Coordinate Holder will die. Be ready." instruction, blended in, "went native," then decided to act on his own after his wife was killed.

--J.D.