Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-1327106-20180711035256

Isayama really likes flashbacks. I wrote the the bulk of the coup d'état page for the wiki (basically the Uprising arc summary) and that was a nightmare to put in chronological order since everything happens in the span of a few days and a lot of the action takes place in flashbacks.

You'd see something, and Isayama would rewind so you knew how it came about. Then you'd see the next thing, and he'd rewind again. Sometimes same chapter, sometimes different chapters.

He's always done it. So it's no surprise me that he's doing it here, because that's what he does.

Heck, more recently he even retold the fall of Shiganshina from RBA's perspective and that was an event we had already seen before.