Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20190308225839/@comment-25279441-20190310182355

Penguinluver1431 wrote: Tdfern14 wrote: Penguinluver1431 wrote: Yikes, not a lot to like this time around:

- Hange stepping up and risking her own life to save Levi and escaping the Yeagerists at the same time. I'll admit she has been really annoying and unlikable while going on about peace and negotiation with Marley, but saving the life of one of the few true friends she has left made he regain a little more respect for her.

-Even after the Levi "death" leak seemed to not be 100% true, Isayama is at a point where he literally just kills a character purely for shock value. Don't get me wrong, I DESPISE what he did to Sasha, I will still regard it as one of the biggest mistakes in writing he could make, but at least she is still a part of the story. Killing Levi in such a cheap and half-assed way when his character arc is not even finished yet is just lame.

-Like I said, the asspull that was Zeke's ressurrection was another moment of 'Really? That's the best you could come up with?'. The more Isayama reveals about PATHS, the more confusing it gets and the less sense it makes in the overall narrative.

-Gabi's back. Instant downvotes there.

-Also the fact that there's Gabi but not Falco.

Neutral:

-I don't exactly hate Pieck, but she's no girl scout. She's clearly still complicit in war crimes, so I don't see why people call her bae and want her to be this indestructable machine even though, despite being smart, she is the weakest of the Warriors and could not possibly hope to take down Eren with just a firearm.

4/10 overall, though honestly it might have been higher for me were it not for the pre-leak fiasco surrounding misinformation that seemed to ruin my enjoyment of the chapter. So you hated Hange for the whole peace thing?

Also really the biggest mistakes in writing? Well the jury is still out on that one, but I am getting a lot of bias here.

The PATHS aren't that confusing if you have been paying attention to dialogue about it. The Paths are the thing of how Titan shifters transfers the memories and it follows to the origin of Organic Matter where Ymir Fritz got her Titan power in the first place. I feel like the PATHS are going to play a big part in the final battle and the rumbling. So maybe that will trigger your fancy. -Not the peace thing specifically. In a perfect world that would be the best option. But Hange and Armin are both under the delusion that just talking to their enemies is going to end a war with a world that wants nothing more than to wipe Paradis out of existence, even before Eren's rampage in Liberio. Add the fact that she actively suppressed support for Eren and is against the people of her island despite their overwhelming support of having Eren lead them tells me she is unfit to lead. So yeah, little more respect for the Levi thing but overall haven't liked her in a long time.

-From a certain standpoint, many deaths in the series have all been cheap and lazy, particularly when some characters could have had much more use in the story. With Sasha specifically, she only died because Isayama didn't like her (his editor made him spare her, for which makes me glad the editors/powers-that-be have some control over what Isayama does with the story) and would rather focus on a 12 year old psycho war criminal that is literally just a copy and paste of the MC. Sasha aside, however, if a character death/story element causes enough people to literally drop the series, the author is doing something wrong (look no further than Levi fangirls ragequitting even after the leaked spoilers), because no matter how you want to tell your story, keeping your audience should be a writer's top priority.

-PATHS probably will have a role in the final battle, but if it does connect to Ymir being able to revive Titan shifters, why'd she pick Zeke over other candidates? Just cause overwhelming public support leans towards a person doesn't mean it is at all right to let that person run amuck. Eren has done absolutely no favors to gain the trust of anybody other than the mindless masses who've been spreading thoughtless propganda. This chapters kind of prooves why characters like Hange would be more than suspicious of him, never once did they get a sign that Eren's interests actually aligned with the interests of them and the island, as shown he had the completely potential to be on Zeke's plan to euthenize Eldians and nobody would've known if they just put blind faith in him.

The people who "drop" the series over a mere character death are the loud obnoxious minority. Hardly worth considering in the grand scheme of things. Why should you bend over backwards for them? They're the same people that would send you death threats just cause you didn't do exactly what they wanted you to do, because they feel entitled. Misguided fools.

As for you last point. Easy, Zeke is important and has a role to play. The end. Plus this is the first time we've ever seen a shifter die to a cause other than that of another shifter.