Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-27702860-20160614062709

Indeed, it will not be the same without Potato Girl ^ ^,

But we do not know. She is at least, for the time being, alive. Perhaps she is like Hanje in that she can receive chest trauma and survive, then take a few buildings falling on her and succeed in telling the difference between Jean and Reiner. If anything Hanje's eyesight improved!

Anyways, I think Ishiyama learned that Sasha--whom we all knew he planned to have gruesomely munched/stopped/bent-folded-spindled-and-mutilated issues past--like maybe Connie have some purpose to lighten the mood a bit. That does not mean they have not "come to their own" in a way--grown up. It is just that they are sort of people readers can identify with. Connie says he is "stupid"--something others agree with--but he is not, he is just not the genius or intellectual Armin was. I mean, really, Eren can be mind-bogglingly dense. Anyways, Connie is "normal." Similar, in a way, with Sasha--bit of a pest, but a well-meaning pest. One thing that impressed me with her beyond the Comic Relief was after the "Potato Incident" she ran. She kept running She did not hide or try to get out of it. She volunteered, she has served, and she chose the most dangerous branch rather than trying for a cushier posting.

Now that I have pontificated on that, watch the next issue reveal that she was ignominiously killed in a Collapsing Hrung Incident*

--J.D.


 * An incident shrouded in mystery since no one knows what a Hrung is or why it chose to collapse on Sasha in particular. [Apologies to Douglas Adams.--Ed.]
 * [Edited to redact based upon the kaige recension.--Ed.]