Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190208231006/@comment-5179916-20190209081828

Well, I guess you could say Zeke went out with a bang (rimshot).

While I have some reservations about flashback issues (due to them being either a hit-or-miss), I really liked this one with Tom; I had a feeling he was the holder of the Beast Titan before Zeke, but the revelation about his family and his subsequent motivation in becoming the Beast Titan and a researcher was really well done. You can see the raw emotion between the two and how they both found something they were missing in their lives: Zeke as a surrogate son for Tom and Tom as the father Zeke wanted Grisha to be.

But back to the ending. I'm surprised Zeke's status is listed as 'Unknown' after this issue; sure, he has survived from a Thunder Spear attack before, but that was while he was inside his Titan form: here, it was in his stomach (essentially at point blank range) and it looked like Zeke was blown apart from the explosion. Unless Zeke has another unknown ability due to his royal blood, I believe he's a dead man. In either case, I can't wait to see the aftermath of this!