User blog comment:San&Ashitaka/To be or not to be?/@comment-71.174.253.115-20140613200601

I think Isayama plays it a lot safer than people realize. Walking Dead this series is not. Yeah there are a lot of deaths, but we're almost 60 issues into the manga and none of the really major characters have died yet, and indeed I can see some of them surviving up to and past the finale.

I feel like the 104 soldiers in general are gonna be pretty safe. If anyone's taking a hit, it's gonna be the older Scouts. Erwin seems most likely at this current moment, just because of the events as they are right now. I feel Levi's gonna take a bullet (figuratively or literally) at some point to protect one of the newbies. But the majority of our 104th crew...I can honestly see most if not all of them getting through this, albeit with a lot of mental and emotional trauma.