Board Thread:Anime/@comment-5774380-20180427103154/@comment-1327106-20180507073201

Fire Eater wrote: The man doesn't get what he's wasting. We get it, their world is a shitty place to be in. That needs no further emphasis at this stage. Especially not if he's still bent on a "Kill Em All" ending anyway. Save it for exactly that, the ENDING. Then things might balance out beforehand and we might see everyone flesh out before that final ticket is punched, but nope. That's not what he's doing. The whole deal is a brilliant example of why unconventional is not automatically a good thing.

But what Isayama is doing is not unconventional at all. We already know he's a big fan of Game of Thrones, and George R.R. Martin is far worse than Isayama. If anything, Isayama pulls his punches. Think about how many of the 104th's Top 10 is still alive. Two seasons of the anime and we have everyone but Marco (though Annie is in a crystal).

There's a subgenre of fantasy and science fiction called grimdark, and Isayama writes grimdark. If you don't like grimdark, that's fine, but that just means that Attack on Titan isn't going to be a series you'll enjoy. Isayama is not wasting potential. He's doing exactly what fans of grimdark like. Attack on Titan is not a bestselling manga for nothing.