Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191208140701/@comment-2202259-20191220211256

I take a break from this place for a week & a lot of crazy stuff happens. The 2nd World War thing of who the villains were, Japan's situation was way more complicated so it isn't fair to label Hirohito as a war criminal. Japanese Imperialism resulted from the Great Depression combined with a devastating Earthquake near the start of the 1930s & their goals weren't much different from what the United States & Britain did a century earlier.

I would suggest you watch the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" as it provides a fairly accurate view of both sides leading into the Pearl Harbor incident. The United States was every bit as antagonistic to Japan as they were to us. Many Japanese didn't want to go to war with the US, however the negotiations failed & mistakes were made. Japan never even touched any of the 48 States that existed at that time, yet we devastated their cities. Also the US relocated its citizens of Japanese descent to internment camps.

War makes people justify terrible things. Attack on Titan goes into depth with Marley doing things like that to various lands including Paradis. Eren currently is consumed by his own hatred & wants to lay waste to the world outside the walls. We can't forget the horror that Grisha had of what Eren was intending to do, which made him prefer Zeke's plan. I think Mikasa & Armin are both necessary to stop Eren's horrible intentions.

I think this final arc will likely be the longest in the series & I'm expecting at least 10 more chapters at this point because of how much there is left to do in this series. We have Connie's crazy scheme now, which is literally the only reason he's alive still. We have the thousands of wall titans & Eren's monstrous new form that everyone needs to take down. Annie needs to get to Shiganshina, then we need to find out what happened with Captain Levi, & we still haven't seen Falco's Jaw Titan yet.