Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180608184740/@comment-4383890-20180702151211

Tdfern14 wrote: Penguinluver1431 wrote:

Fire Eater wrote: Penguinluver1431 wrote: At this point, I could care less which other characters live or die. As long as Gabi Braun is brutally and savagely killed (maybe eaten by Titan, torn limb from limb, or just gets a well-deserved bullet to the friggin skill), I will be satisfied with the series that the worst, most god-awful and widely despised character is six feet under where she belongs. I am in one hundred percent agreement with this statement, I really don't care what happens anymore. After the events of 105, I can't raise anything more than halfhearted concern for any of the other remaining characters. Not because I hate the rest of the main cast, but Sasha was the one I was most invested in, and for the story to continue without her just feels wrong on so many levels. I am not going to attempt to explain why I feel so strongly about it, it just feels wrong. I mean I don't even care about what happens to Annie, who's been out of action for just far too long for me to give a damn. For the longest time I was curious about where this was headed but after all this, I'm just done. To care is to set yourself up for heartbreak, which is the only outcome that is ever afforded by this thing, so why bother. Why should we care when we know it's all going to end badly no matter what happens is my point. I can only hope Gabi Braun will suffer in the worst possible way regardless of how her story plays out, she absolutely earned all of the hate she had received. Otherwise I can only say I regret that Eren is still our protagonist. One of the worst in recent anime, any one of the others is far more suited for the role than he is. One site I saw put way more value on Levi as the main hero than Eren, and someone in Japan should've made that the case instead. I'll still read/watch the series, of course, it looks like the overall story will finally pick up after the abysmal Marley arc, but as long as Gabi gets the worst death possible, I'm indifferent towards whether the other characters live or die.

I actually don't hate Eren despite his recklessness, I'm just glad he took out several Marleyans (citizens and soldiers alike) during all of that. You hated the Marley Arc that bad? Why? Also while there are a few issues with the Marely I actually enjoyed it & I don't hate Gabi despite what transpired. From a storytelling perspective, it's one of the worst written story arcs in any series I have read or viewed. The pacing was off and took too long to get back to the actual protagonists, and its placement in the overall narrative was horribly disconfigured. Definite point loss for Gabi Braun, she is single-handedly Isayama's worst creation, and one of the worst of all time, and the new Marley characters (as opposed to the ones we already know such as Zeke and Reiner), with the possible exception of Falco, are uninteresting and unrelatable. Isayama's goal seemed to be to give us a new batch of kids to know and love, but by making them Marleyans, he failed to make us love them (particularly with a certain fan-fave killer). He has tried and failed to blur the line between good and evil and the mess he made with the Marley arc is almost reminiscent of the Naruto author's mantra of "everyone is redeemable" being shoved down our throats.

On a different note, though, I am legitimately curious how Isayama is handling the overwhelmingly negative reception towards Gabi. It seems like he created her just as a female min-Eren with the hopes that she would be known and loved over time. Well, she was hated before 105 and definitely is after that, so I want to know how he feels about the majority of the fanbase (myself included) just wanting to watch her die and be rid of her for good.

I apologize if this overall post seems unnecesarily cruel, I really do like the series and am hyped for S3, but at the same time, I've never wanted anyone, real or fictional, to die more than Gabi Braun.