Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-44328804-20200609183102

Eden Ushinatta wrote: I don't care what most people got, most people got it wrong and are spreading misinformation all around the net. If 129 chapters are 95% then 100% is 135.7. You might think that Isayama rounded up to 136, but that's a spec. As for the 5%, the question was "Can you tell us how much of the story is left in %?". He says 6 and then immediately corrects it to 5. The series can't end in 136, because it doesn't correlate with the releases of the volumes. Each volume contains 4 chapters, with the exception of 2 and 4. In order for the story to go up to 136, Isayama would need to have the final two volumes contain 5 chapters. However, that won't be done, because Isayama has the tendency to pace the story according to the volumes. In short, each volume is a small story arc inside the whole arc. For example, vol.30 contained chapters 119-122 and focused on the event leading up to Eren going into the paths and what transpired in there until he left the paths. Judging by chapter 129, the next chapter will focus on the arrival of the alliance in Odiha, the plane's maintenance and then the team's search for Eren. Logically and narratively, chapter 131 will focus on Eren, since there is nothing left for the alliance to say. The only sensible way to do that is to start volume 33 in chapter 131 with Eren as the main focus.

​​​​​​One volume cannot have 6 chapters, so 135 will be the max, if the series ends with volume 33. Since its the final, 5 volumes can be excused, even with the final chapter having more pages than usual. Any more than 135 chapters leads to one more volume (34 in total=138 chapters), which goes against Isayama's estimates and wishes. If 138 is the 100% then 129 is 93.47%. That's like 6.5% and Isayama already made a distinction between 6 and 5% himself. The interview has already been translated so go ahead and watch it for yourself. You may not care, but we did things the correct way mathematically speaking, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't change the fact that he was asked for a "relative range", and he clearly had to really think hard about it too, as in he didn't seem prepared to answer it. The interview did also specify that the number he said was indeed an ESTIMATE, not an exact measure. I know the series isn't ending in 7 chps exactly, I never said that. What I did say was that I did the math according to how %'s are calculated and I got that number, and knew to judge that number as an estimator. 7 chps can be possible if the current and next one are both 5 chps like you said, but like I said before, this shouldn't be taken as an exact measure of when its ending. Given we are at the end, him doing both longer volumes and/or longer chapter lengths are possibilities. There will def be one more volume, maybe 2 (based on some other calculations and patters I've seen others notice), but let's not also ignore that Isayama may have screwed up the % here. Remember when he said back in 2014 that the story was 60% done? He has admitted that in the moment of writing the story, he realized events take more time and attention than he previously thought when planning it. He estimated 5% but it could go a bit longer than that, not to mention if there was only one volume left, he prob would've just said that. The interviewer just asked "How much is left? Even if its just a relative range, please tell me." Isayama could've estimated, he could've been more exact, or he could've chose to keep it a secret. He said he wants to cross the finish line of this marathon, but I doubt he is rushing to get there. He'll do whatever he sees fit to end the story properly, not just to end it according to his wishes of being done with it.

But I agree on how the next couple chps will play out. The next one will focus on maintenace, discussing Eren, MAYBE even confronting him, then in the next one, we'll finally get that talk that's been foreshadowed. We'll also see if we get the fight you envisioned, or the encounter I imagined based on Eren's character development. I'm looking forward to it.