Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180608184740/@comment-24407809-20180615202045

Fire Eater wrote: Helel ben Shahaar wrote: Well, we have a fact the she was a comic relief character, which makes her nigh-deathproof.

And people liked her. A lot.

And she even became a meme.

Not much weight in the plot, but a lot of weight where it matters: in the hearts of readers. There, we don't need overly complex analysis on the level of Freud to make a point, she was a character a lot of us loved and who provided badly needed relief between all the cannibalistic rampages onscreen. I'm just gonna post a shorter version of my previous response.

Sasha was no longer effective as comic relief, having effectively been replaced by Hange (and, in his own sardonic way, Levi) as the comic relief character.

Lots of characters who have fans die. Erwin placed number 1 in the most recent popularity poll conducted, and he's dead. Marco and the original Squad Levi still have tons of fans, but they're all gone. And even if Sasha does have fans, I've noticed that her death hasn't had the effect on fandom that you are claiming it did.