Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-4383890-20180709151221

OctoRift wrote: RuneLai wrote: If I was Isayama, I wouldn't be reading any forums comments, because I'd be too busy. He has to write/draw 45 pages from thumbnail/outline to draft to final copy in a month and he doesn't miss a deadline. Aside from that he makes appearances and consults for the anime, video games, and no doubt other AoT projects. He doesn't have time for reading forums or listen to other people tell him out to write.

And Fire Eater, I just warned you a few hours ago to stop repeating yourself. If you don't cool it, you're going to get another time out, and it'll be longer this time. He damn well has read forum comments if he changed the entire story because of the fandom. On a similar note, I'm wondering what his viewpoint is on the arc fatigue felt from Marley and, more specifically, the overwhelmingly negative reception towards Gabi. With the Marley arc we can reasonably argue that he was trying to humanize the villains, but wth was he thinking with Gabi? All we know about his perspective on her is that she was designed as a genderbent mini-Eren. But were we supposed to like her? Did he expect us to love her like we do the main characters? Did he WANT the fandom to utterly loathe her? Or is she just kinda there to waste development that could be better spent elsewhere? I'm curious what Isayama thinks about that kind of reception.