Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-5774380-20160610210535

AhmedHadi1 wrote:

Yeah I figured there'd be countermeasures against constant bad edits it's most likely because it was shared the wikia has Armin as "Deceased" across some of the social media sites and everyone was easing themselves with "literally the wikia can be edited by anyone", "the wikia is not an official source it's not edited by Isayama himself" and the likes.

Well, that's strictly right, so we have to live with it. They say the same about Wikipedia and every other wiki on the face of the Earth, so... old topic, nothing I care about. :P

Aggression25 wrote:

Not every anime follows the exact line that the manga does.

Not the good ones, at least. Making Armin be alive in the anime while he's dead in the manga would mean that they would have to devise ways of involving him in storylines of which he's not supposed to be part anymore, so he would end up either being toned down and becoming a burden, or playing unnecessary roles just to continue having some participation, or stealing the actions that are done by other characters in the manga; and all of this with the potential of causing plot holes. And all for what? Just to please the fans and give them a cheap version of Armin while the original is being revered as a hero in the manga? It is never a good idea when the anime follows its own path far away from the manga. If Isayama decided that Armin's role ends here, then it must end here and move on with the rest of the story.