Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191108184732/@comment-40015750-20191118035851

Definitely one of the weaker chapters due to it being weirdly interspersed with the chapters focused on the Rumbling. And because it's another flashback chapter that really plays out too much like Chapter 106. And seriously, does this jerk of an author need two chapters to remind us what the main group lost since their last appearance before the Marley arc? It's like he got distracted from the current focus of the story for one reason or another, and before remembering where his focus needed to be he just needed another excuse to stick everyone in the rib with a fork, taking a semi-happy scene just to hit us yet with the same familiar gut punch he's been playing up since 105. I don't know if Isayama's been so eager to remind us of any single character's death as much as he has with Sasha. Which is a pretty dishonorable move, seeing how I seem to recall he promoted that very event up to the chapter in which it happened. And we're still stewing over MIkasa and Eren's evaporating relationship, in his distraction it seems even he is still stewing over where exactly these two stand. That should've been done and settled in Chapter 112 when Eren basically told Mikasa to go F herself. The only coherent thing here was Eren stating his ultimate intentions.

All in all, this is not a good chapter of the manga. The flashback scenes are cute but they are badly undermined by whatever Isayama's intentions happened to be in the last months leading up to its release. Seems to have been a more mixed bag for more people, but I still can't believe the ratings for this chapter still lean positive even with all the issues raised here. Flawed chapter. And frankly not very good because of 1) Placement and 2) Intentions.