Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190708230504/@comment-35822279-20190709233731

YSL Slime wrote: I wasn't too thrilled about this chapter or the previous one.

The invasion of Marley and Liberio felt closer to war. Here, less so. Nile was a little too understanding considering he's a soldier in the middle of an invasion. Colt in this chapter doesn't have the brainwashed resolve that some of the other Marleyans have, which is weird. It seems like none of the Marley believes in the cause. Magath doesn't want to destroy Eldia, he wants to end the cycle of violence. Colt doesn't care about Marley or Eldia, he says Zeke can let them kill each other. I would be nice to see some of these characters actually believe in what their nationalist cause, which would make the conflict that much more interesting.

-And I still don't see Armin coming to that conclusion about Eren. Yeah, he figured out that Eren would be against Zeke's plan. But how can he truly rule out that Zeke is NOT controlling Eren? That the founding Titan has not found a way to corrupt him into let the Eldian race die out? It doens't seem realistic that the 104th would back up Eren after everything that has transpired.

-Eren's titan gets another shot to the head and still keeps moving like it's nothing? At least have him shown to need some time to regenerate.

-And Porco couldn't regenerate anymore? What the hell? Since when is that a thing? I know Piek took a while that one time, but it seemed too convenient here. It's like Porco had no choice anyways, whereas had they excluded that line, it woudl have gave his sacrifice some more significance. I think that scene could have been done much better.

-Falco's titan just looked stupid. I know, most titans do look stupid and silly, but they look stupid in a creepy way. His looked too much like Pac-Man or a bird.

-I'm really getting tired of Reiner wanting to die. I get that he wants to die, but it's becoming a stupid meme within the series that he's always thinking, "Ahh, yes, sweet death..." and then he's denied. It's like some Wile E. Coyote or Charlie Brown and the football gag.

-Yeah, Piek getting the harness back on so quick was way too convenient as well. At least show her trying to attack without it, or trying to get it back on.

-Of course Gabi is the one to shoot Eren. I would have liked it had it been a random Marley soldier, rather than Gabi. Too much coincidences.

-The anti-titan guns seem pretty advanced. They can pierce through titan skin and kill/destroy them, but they can be strapped across your back and fired with little recoil? Piek needed an entire cannon on her back to pierce the Advancing Titan and the Beast Titan. - I don't think Porco's death was outside the realm of possibility for the Jaw as it is clearly the second weakest Titan that excels at fighting humans and artillery because of its speed rather than Titans due to its size and lack of strength. The Jaw's regenerative capabilities have always been shown to be weak with Ymir taking a day and a half to regenerate 2 limbs and Porco getting knocked out in Liberio from being thumped into the ground twice by Eren. Here Porco got hit with boulders, hardened titan flesh (with the killing blow being directly to the nape), and warhammer spikes he fought valiantly but these are realistic wounds to die from as a owner of the 2nd weakest Titan (dude was missing half his head). I won't deny however that the stronger Titan powers are suspiciously reserved for main characters which does deserve criticism.

- Honestly with Pieck Isayama probably just took a shortcut because of a tight schedule which is perfectly fine not everything needs to be shown directly to the audience (+ this can be fixed in the anime) and I think its obvious she did a second transformation from underneath (where she was last chapter) as it does fit the Cart as it has the greatest stamina out of all Titans (Eren's Attack Titan is probably the second best while the WHT is the worst here).

- Armin understanding the plan isn't that farfetched as Yelena did tell him Zeke's plan and he cried because he realized it barely fit Eren as a person (Eren is definitely pro life not a nihilist). I think Connie also grilled Armin about helping Zeke/Eren last chapter and Armin pragmatically answered that they have no choice due to imminent invasion like attacking Zeke in this scenario doesn't benefit anyone but Marley so its out of pragmatism rather than blindly believing that Eren and Zeke have the best intentions (Pixis and crew also moved into position to maximize Zeke's effectiveness). I also doubt that the founder has any influence over Eren as he is not a royal (its been dormant for years) thus it would not affect him and apparently the holder of the founder in this loophole situation decides the outcome (according to Armin I believe).

- Finally the artillery was slowing down Eren as he was clearly losing energy throughout the fight (he was struggling to reach Zeke and this was partial damage like his fight against Reiner V1 rather than total cranial destruction like the WHT fight) and to be fair he does have three titans so it might be supercharging his regen abilities.