Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160908231942/@comment-24036697-20160921013447

Manuel de la Fuente wrote: AhmedHadi1 wrote:

Let's hope it's the 110th then...

As I said, that estimation was under the assumption that both the Return to Shiganshina arc and the next arc would span 20 chapters, but since the Return to Shiganshina is ending in 16, in order to reach the 110th chapter the next arc should have 24 chapters and there has never been an arc that long.

Mathematically speaking it's more probable that it will end in either 102 or 106, although my personal belief is that the next arc will be a war against the Hometown, and then there will be a mini-arc of conclusion just like there was a mini-arc of introduction at the beginning of the manga. In this way it would be possible to reach the 110th issue; but I repeat, this is just speculation from my part.

What seems to be for sure is that the next arc will be fast-paced and full of reveals, according to Isayama's words from his interview in June: "Since I don’t want to expand the story any further than my current plan, I will hurry up and reveal the answer soon!". The books found in Grisha's basement and maybe Ymir's letter will already be uncovering a large part of the background story and as soon as in the next chapter we could be getting some of it. I don't know how Isayama is planning to handle this information and avoid revealing it all at once since it's already in possession of the Corps. Maybe part or all of it is written in the herring can writing and will require a work of translation? This writing was just introduced but has never played any actual role as of yet. Yeah, it seems logical to assume we will have a mini-arc at the end to wrap things up.