Board Thread:Presentations/@comment-108.200.170.115-20151230202245/@comment-30069705-20180122112619

In the past, Isayama thought about maybe giving his story an ending similar to "The Mist", where pretty much everyone, except maybe one or a few, die pointlessly, just for the sake of getting everyone worked up for laughs. Because of this, some people, even to this day, think it will be a dark ending where practically no one lives.

He has since abandoned this mindset completely due to popularity and maybe even getting attached himself as well as just maturing all-around in general, and he now wants his story to have a better and more peaceful ending more similar to "Guardians Of The Galaxy". So what do I think, I think there will ultimately still be some degree of tragedy, death, and destruction as there always has been here and there, but that it won't be anything excessive or pointless.

Something Isayama likes to do if he's going to kill off a major character is give red flags and a lot of focus to that character, much like what he did with Erwin back then and what he seems to be doing with Reiner right now.