Thread:Attackcjc/@comment-5774380-20200302184514/@comment-44328804-20200305040235

Manuel de la Fuente wrote: If you consider Chapters 107-111 as part of the Marley arc, then War for Paradis arc is left without a proper beginning. Those chapters still contain flashbacks to the previous arc but they're more about dealing with its aftermath and building up the story of the new arc.

During those chapters, the Yeagerists get formed, Reiner awakes and calls to invade Paradis, Zackly is killed, the tetrad of Eren-Zeke-Yelena-Floch becomes the primary antagonist, etc. Chapter 112 doesn't work as a start for the new arc when all the character and story development happened in the previous chapters.

So even if those chapters still have connections to the events in Marley, that's something secondary, their primary focus has already shifted and it's more about the growing conflicts in Paradis than about the previous mission. I get what ur saying. I understand that chp 107-111 both built up to the final arc (starting chp 112) as well as was the aftermath of Marley attack. Maybe it is debatable where it stands as an arc in itself, and it which it pertains to more, but the truth is, it was more the aftermath to Marley which also set up the next arc, which is why I count it within the Marley arc.

This kind of thing happened before in the series, where the later half of one arc set things up for the next. Uprising did that for the RTS arc in the last few chps, and the Female titan arc kinda did it for the Clash of the Titans arc too. Maybe the reason why Isayam wasn't writing that down in those later volumes was that he brushed it aside as he didn't think it needed to be clarified, as the main topic was still Marley, and while it did set up the final arc, the events in chps didn't lead into it until chp 111 with the twist of the tainted wine. Everything else before that was mainly on Marley, not whatever the final arc would tell even if it did start establishing major factors within it like the yeagerists and the mystery surrounding Eren.

You can be free (pun unintended) to disagree with me overall if you like. I hate to be dragging you into circles like this, over a very moot point too either way.