Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-27702860-20160614015644

Tausendberg wrote:

If Isayama closes off AOT and goes into retirement without revealing the origin of the titans and the homeland then there will be riots in the streets probably. Isayama will have to be moved to an undisclosed location. We will find him.

''Like, I say it again, but based off of the information we've already been given, I think the world within the walls is a giant prison created and maintained by the Reiss Family. We only found out in a recent chapter, the one with the previous head of the survey corps, that apparently it's illegal for common people to go outside the walls.''

Who is Number One?!

I do not know if it is a prison--as in punishment which is probably not what you mean--as much as a self-contained society that benefits the Reiss and other families who are in control. The population is kept to a minimum. There is no war since the population is not allowed to reach a sufficient size so "one group" want to fight "another group." Obviously, outside a few Homeland Shifters, there does not seem to be anyone nearby who wants "their stuff."

Improvement in weapons--and even the addition of balloons--threatens that stability. Of course, they cannot come out and say that--and with a new regime we think--they are able to build "Titan Guilotines" which dramatically changes the game. Now if the "New Regime" is really "new" and willing to find out "The Truth" we may have progress. Who knows?

Aggression25 wrote:

''Some questions they could never answer are how the Coordinate came to be made, like is it a single power that possesses the three, known abilities that make it up, or if it's an amalgamation of abilities? ''

Understood. For some there just cannot be an explanation--like how you "make" Titan bodies and people become part of it, blah. . . blah. It is fantasy. Though see the Ringu-Rasen-Roppu [Ring-Spiral-Loop--Ed.] trilogy by Suzuki for an example of a horror story that becomes a medical mystery that becomes science fiction. I am not sure Ishiyama is doing that, though. There are probably some things he simply cannot explain because it is fantasy.

''Another question is why it took the Homelanders this long to do something immensely cruel to the innocent? ''

Waiting for the Breaking Bad final season. . . though it is possible they suffer from some of the amnesia? Incidentally, perhaps that is another reason people cannot leave. WHATEVER happened in the past from Apocalyptic Zombie Diseased Aliens Invasion as Plants Revolt [Starring Matt Damon--Ed.] to "Nuculer" War or What Have You, the walls and cities must be remote. Otherwise, you would think someone--if there are "someones"--would have wandered by. Homeland? We do not know where it is.

So is it possible the closer you are to the city, the more you are likely to "forget?" Perhaps this is why Grisha was someone amnesic when he "wandered in?" Granted, that could have been an act given his "work in the Man Cave" and everything else.

--J.D.