Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-45387321-20200415110530

Drivebladesman wrote: Eden Ushinatta wrote: The Marleyan side gets humanized, something important, considering where the story is right now. It's just too bad that the story failed to make it work, at least in most peoples' eyes, since it seems like hardly anyone sympathizes with them; for example, I see things like this on TVTropes:  "Hate Sink: Initially, the upper government in Marley is this. As more of the situation is revealed, they become far more nuanced, but the fact that they're basically the Nazis makes it difficult to really sympathize with them."

I will say this, though:  Maybe the anime could do a better job with that? That's an idea I'm open about. Did the story fail though? Falco is a hugely sympathetic character. Gabi hate seems to be going down with each passing chapter, Reiner is regarded as one of the best written characters in the series, Annie had a big fanbase from the beginning and so on. If anything, the story did a fine job.

You say that Marley is basically Nazis, but are Floch and the Yeagerists any better? The ultra-nationalists who murder every single person that opposes them and their dream of an all-powerful Eldian Empire? The side of Paradis is not that much better. The only difference is that it's only now that they've got enough power to see their plans through.