Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-45387321-20200610052817

You may not care, but we did things the correct way mathematically speaking, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't change the fact that he was asked for a "relative range", and he clearly had to really think hard about it too, as in he didn't seem prepared to answer it. The interview did also specify that the number he said was indeed an ESTIMATE, not an exact measure. I know the series isn't ending in 7 chps exactly, I never said that. What I did say was that I did the math according to how %'s are calculated and I got that number, and knew to judge that number as an estimator. 7 chps can be possible if the current and next one are both 5 chps like you said, but like I said before, this shouldn't be taken as an exact measure of when its ending. Given we are at the end, him doing both longer volumes and/or longer chapter lengths are possibilities. There will def be one more volume, maybe 2 (based on some other calculations and patters I've seen others notice), but let's not also ignore that Isayama may have screwed up the % here. Remember when he said back in 2014 that the story was 60% done? He has admitted that in the moment of writing the story, he realized events take more time and attention than he previously thought when planning it. He estimated 5% but it could go a bit longer than that, not to mention if there was only one volume left, he prob would've just said that. The interviewer just asked "How much is left? Even if its just a relative range, please tell me." Isayama could've estimated, he could've been more exact, or he could've chose to keep it a secret. He said he wants to cross the finish line of this marathon, but I doubt he is rushing to get there. He'll do whatever he sees fit to end the story properly, not just to end it according to his wishes of being done with it.

But I agree on how the next couple chps will play out. The next one will focus on maintenace, discussing Eren, MAYBE even confronting him, then in the next one, we'll finally get that talk that's been foreshadowed. We'll also see if we get the fight you envisioned, or the encounter I imagined based on Eren's character development. I'm looking forward to it. Its still too early for Isayama to reveal the ending date for the manga. No one does it, half a year before the end. Most do it like 2 months before. Volume 32 has not even been finished right now. If the next chapter is the final chapter of this volume, which i assume it will be, then during it's release you can expect Isayama to make an announcement of the sorts "The next AoT volume will be the last". That is how mangaka usually reveal when their story ends. Going by the fact that he wants to and aims to end the manga (this year), which he has not yet retracted, i assume that the final chaoter will be either 134 or 135.

Anyway, what was you take abot Eren's development again? Was it that he was good and that he's trying to unite the world? Or was that someone else. I literally can't remember.