Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180608184740/@comment-1037137-20180614030442

Let's recap here, let's go back about four to five years in manga time. Timeskip notwithstanding, Sasha's death was literally teased in her last onscreen battle in the saga, and that was the Battle of Shiganshina when she was pelted with shrapnel. And that was sure played up like she was not going to make it, especially since Jean took similar injuries but never lost consciousness about it. So in what is literally her next battle, Liberio, she's dead. Twenty-odd chapters later when the Corps are totally AWOL from the story.

I cannot be the only person incensed that this is how they chose to go about springing the next death card. I think it would've made more sense for Connie, who was not seriously injured in that battle, to have taken Sasha's place in this one. Not have the girl who stared death in the face be felled by it in her next immediate appearance. Why didn't Isayama just kill her back then? Again, shock value death, that seems to be the main priority of why this is happening now. Especially since half the people we see crying over Sasha between these two chapters did not have clearly defined or thoroughly explored relationships with her, when there were seventy chapters that could've amended that. Please comment.