Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190508212248/@comment-35822279-20190508223030

This was a straight forward battle chapter and a damn fine one at that as the manga followed up last months winner with another pretty good chapter.

Pros:

- The action was excellent with the drawing, pacing, and set pieces all being top notch. Isayama especially deserves praise in this sequence for having so many moving parts (Eren's war hammer, Pieck's artillery, and the blimps) but keeping it all coherent and logical where it could of easily fallen apart.

- I really enjoyed the savagery on display from Reiner and Eren with the gore being impressively drawn (especially the detached eyes and jaws). It was also pretty interesting to see Reiner be the more agressive opponent for once compared to his usually more defensive and stoic fighting style (this always gave him a Terminator feel compared to other titans like Zeke's strategic style or Eren's rage) and it felt like a cool way of showing how Reiner's attitude has changed over the past 25 chapters especially how it portrayed his desperation to save Falco and Gabi.

- The further cementation of the themes of this arc was pretty well done with Eren coming close to being overwhelmed and the Yeagerists being thoroughly dominated by Marley due to Eren's lone wolf attitude and disregard for his friends which effectively shows the cost of this kind of thinking as Paradis is noticeably more weak than they were in RTS where they were truly united and managed to retake the island.

- Finally this is more of a timing thing but I find that the way Eren is presented in the anime vs the way he is acting here is a pretty excellent piece of synergy as it highlights how Eren shifted from a belief that humanity can only win if it stands together to a belief that only he can solve the problems facing Eldia (just like his big bro) as he disregards advice from everyone and does everything according to his own wishes for both good and ill.