Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20190308225839/@comment-35822279-20190309051700

Tdfern14 wrote: Freeman1378 wrote:

- Levi and Zeke surviving. Unfortunately this confirmed that Octorift was right in the last thread, Isayama has no balls when it comes to offing characters that matter. Unfortunately moments like this have completely drained the tension for me as its just weak as it shows that even a regular human like Levi is practically invincible as long as they are a primary character. The one thing I miss from early AOT is the feeling that anyone can bite it but it feels like that hasn't been true since the Female Titan arc as its only gotten progressively worse. The manga is close to the breaking point for me when it comes to its stakes right now and Isayama needs to pull the trigger on someone that matters (Ex. not a character like Pieck as she's the least developed shifter).

Look I get you have your doubts and misgivings but you can't say primary characters won't bite the dust because they are primary characters, what about characters such as Erwin and Ymir? Remember that Levi have the Ackerman genes which are a different type of human, but it doesn't mean he is immortal, plus doesn't it count for something he got his hand blown off and pretty much bloodied and scarred from head to toe? Also I do agree the one characters are the ones at least developed such as Sasha, Petra, and others I could name get one-offed as they are  least developed or not. The thing is that one of those characters was basically MIA for 90% of the manga only ever being important for one arc and the other death was over 30 chapters ago. Frankly I got hooked into the franchise because of the intitial feeling of hopelessness in Trost as it felt different to the anime and manga that largely left me indifferent to the genre for a long time. I just feel that the manga has lost that pulse and become more stereotypical as time has gone on and some injuries to Levi isn't going to change that for me. This is definitely a reaction too the chapter at hand though and if Levi dies next chapter (albeit getting to say goodbye to his comrades) I'll be perfectly happy with that.