Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160408232143/@comment-5774380-20160504225823

Tausendberg wrote:

But sometimes, like in Attack on Titan, you get monthly releases where you're asking yourself, "that's it?" I mean, not even about quality but just the narrative doesn't really advance. Like, I'm very grateful for Chapter 80, because it felt like a real chapter for the first time in a long time, but I swear, I forget which one, but like Chapter 78 or 79, I swear I read that whole thing in like five minutes. How many times in the late 70s chapters did you guys have moments where you're just like, "Did I really read 40+ pages?"

And so yeah, I mean, maybe monthly correlates to quality and depth, but not always.

The arc was just starting; every time a new arc begins, the story feels slower than normal because the author has to lay the ground for the events that are going to happen. Once this has been done, then the story finally can flow faster. This is a common situation for practically any series. If you think that AoT has a slow pace, then maybe you haven't read One Piece (and that's a weekly manga).

Also, I actually enjoy those chapters because one of the aspects I like the most of AoT is how Isayama puts so much emphasis in character development, so that you can understand their feelings and motives and feel identified with them. For a dramatic series like this, this is important because it makes them feel like real and complex persons instead of flat works of fiction; contrary to other mangas with characters with zero development whose fates and actions I couldn't care less about.