Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-25933225-20200408124539

Overall, I liked the chapter. It was far from being of the greatest, but it wasn't mean to be, we're still in the transition chapters between 122 and the "facing Eren" (if it takes place).

Pros :

- The gore. That was probably one of the goriest chapter we've ever had in SnK (even if I personnally don't really consider that as a gore chapter, but for SnK's standards it is). Big up to zombie Armin.

- Daz/Samuel vs Armin/Connie. Firstly, is was a big surprize to see Samuel and Daz in this chapter (seriously, who would have thought that we'd get to see them before we'd get to see Eren or Historia again?). But the most interesting part is the confrontation between the two sides. It reminds me a lot of events that occured during the Clash of Titans arc/Season 2 : when the Scouts are on the Armored Titan, and Bertolt says that the moments he passed with them were honests, that he really enjoyed being with them, that it wasn't all a lie. Now, Armin/Connie are playing the role of Bertolt here, saying that they did enjoy being friends with Daz and Samuel, that they're not "bad", but they have to kill them anyway because they don't relly have a choice (Bertolt being like "No, you're not demons, but you have to die anyway"). Alos, this scene had similarities with the reveal of Bertolt/Reiner being Titan shifters (the revelation of them being traitors), especially as both times the hold of the Colossal Titan has been hurt and transforms right after (it's not a big issue to assume Armin will transform).

However, the scene would have been more powerfull if we were more familiar with Daz and Samuel. They've been absent from the story since chapters 4 and 12. They should have been introduced again earlier to get us to sympathetize with them. But I totally get that from Armin and Connie's perspective, it's horrible to be forced to end up killing them, and now, they totally understand Bertolt.

- Properly speaking, it's not in the chapter, but it's an hypothesis for the future one : Isayama probably has the intention of having Reiner surviving at least for a few chapters. There are chances that he will be impressive in the fight to come, which would be a good thing because the Armored Titan hasn't been a real threat since... The first Battle of Shiganshina ?

- I was afraid that they planed to have Onyankopon to control the plane, as he's already piloted airships (but it would have been stupid indeed, both vehicles aren't the same at all). But they brought the Azumabito's engineers for that, which is good, and also coherent.

- Yelena's sentence, "You can't take violence away from people". It was another reminder of Isayama that the story isn't going to end with a peaceful ending, and that the peace some characters seek for is a dream.

Cons :

- Kiyomi suddenly going full Naruto or whatever. The fact that she tries to resist is a thing, but if she has a military training or something like that, why haven't we never heard of it ? Especially as the way it is executed looks more ridiculous than anything. I get that she takes advantage of surprizing Floch, but he's still in his twenties and is a trained soldier.

- The Wall Titans have reached Marley's coast or are close to. At first I thought they were far to speed, but after a few maths I did myself, with a lot of approximations, covering such a distance in 48 hours isn't that impressive. However, the "cons" there is that it seems that with such an anouncement, I've got the feeling that the story is still extending, and we're not going to see the end soon. At first, I thought that the harbor would be the place of the final battle, with the Scouts reaching the place a few hours before Eren/The Wall Titans (which would have allowed us to see Eren's form probably in chapter 130). But now, we might have the final battle in Marley ? I would have prefered on Paradise. Especially has it just extends the story.