Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180608184740/@comment-35822279-20180702212328

First things first I would like to say hello to the AOT Fandom as this will be my first comment regarding the AOT series.

I haven't been a big fan of the last few chapters of the manga as I personally didn't love the way that The Battle Of Liberio concluded with the WHT being more of a cheap upgrade for Eren to acquire rather than a character and how shockingly low stakes the conflict itself was with the only losses being two underdeveloped children that were only killed for shock value, a character with the personality of a Westworld Drone Host (Ms. Tybur is bar none the worst character in the manga as of right now), and a character that started out with loads of potential but was eventually relegated to repetive food jokes and blankly staring out of the page for 20+ chapters. The death of Sasha for me was also handled exceptionally poorly as I feel that her death was melodramatic as it tried to make the death of a minor character seem like a grandiose tragedy when another character would fill this role better (Mikasa, Jean, or Levi would be the best choices as losing them would have actually been devasting), focused on the wrong character interactions (like why in this chapter is Mikasa of all people brooding over Sasha's grave instead of say Connie? Mikasa basically says in season 2 that she doesn't care for anyone not named Eren or Armin, so why does Sasha's death impact her so much?), and was a cheap attempt to remedy the fact that the Battle Of Liberio was a flawless victory for the Survey Corps as they lost 7 easily replaced nameless soldiers in exchange for stealing 2 titans, killing hundreds of Marley soldiers, and crippling Marley's fleet beyond repair yet in this chapter Isayama is trying to convince me that the loss of Sasha is a devastating moment for the Survey Corps when it clearly isn't as victory is all but assured as long as Zeke isn't going to pull out a quadruple cross (which he probably is) due to the full power of the Founding Titan being at there disposal. The only thing I've really liked in these last few chapters were the progression of Porco and Gabi's character arcs as it was nice to see Porky get pulverized based on his character flaws rather than OP characters and I think Gabi's speech on her motivations was the best part of these last three chapters as I felt it humanized her greatly and honestly some people need to understand that her killing Sasha was a realistic reaction as most people who just lost friends to an invading enemy force wouldn't stop to think that "oh this person is actually really nice and likes potatoes" and would instead kill whoever they saw first out of rage (See Saving Private Ryan and how some of that crew reacted to having one of there own killed because it wasn't pretty). This chapter though was probably the worst of the last few as it's kinda of a dull read with Yelena being a duplicate character of Mikasa and it focused entirely on shining a light on stuff that in my opinion would of worked best through dialogue in the present or as a greatly reduced flashback rather than a unbearably cheesy flashback that felt more like a no sh** Sherlock style exposition dump rather than anything substantial that moved the plot forward but atleast the implications of getting to see Bert's memories and Eren's fall from grace are both enticing and interesting story threads that I would like to see going forward.