Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190408212907/@comment-1327106-20190409041132

I liked the chapter overall, but have some thoughts.

- It was too easy to see through Pieck's farce. Eren giving her a grudging bit of trust to hear her out is understandable, because he doesn't know her, but for the audience it was too easy to suspect Pieck was playing him. If her backstory was given in previous chapters, it would have been harder to tell whether she would switch sides, but giving us the tragic lone parent left after all this time made it clear that sob story was for Eren's benefit and not ours.

- Though, I did like that she reveals at the end that even if she doesn't trust Marley, she does trust her comrades in arms, which is followed immediately in the next panel with Magath, an ethnic Marlayan, who is leading the charge to avenge Liberio.

- Similar to Pieck's "betrayal," nobody's buying Armin's tears and even though Yelena seems happy enough with it, if she knows him at all she ought to be suspicious.

- I liked that Porco is in the crowd of Yeagerists as they're heading up to the roof. Nice detail and he blends in so well that I missed seeing him on first read.

- Surprised to see that Nile and Falco are in the same cell. They're characters that have never interacted with each other. Nile's the kind of character that Isayama can leave off the page and no one will really think much about his absence, but by putting him with Falco and having him notice that something is going on, I have to wonder if Nile's going to become a more active character in the near future. (Or maybe he'll just get turned into a Titan at first opportunity.)

- We see soldiers putting on anti-personnel gear, but we don't see those soldiers at the end of the chapter, and that gear isn't meant to fight Titans, which means Eren and Zeke were expecting Marley would invade with human soldiers.

- I like the ambiguity that Eren gives when he talks about not trusting Pieck just like he doesn't trust a particular woman. You can read the line multiple ways without any idea who he's talking about (though I like the idea that he's referring to Yelena while speaking to her face).