Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190708230504/@comment-27125793-20190709042242

Verdant Melancholy wrote: This was a really good chapter. Porco and Colt’s deaths were well done. And I’m gonna miss Nile and Pixis. As for the ending, I bet Eren used the nervous system trick that Reiner used to survive in RTS. He looked right at Gabi when she picked up the rifle so he had time. One small thing to note, I’m surprised Mikasa didn’t one shot Pieck. The Cart Titan is good in an open field in terms of speed, but atop the Wall? Mikasa should have blitzed her.

Also I did some research. The “Eren manipulated everyone’s memories” theory is likely bogus. Proponents of the theory try to bring up the fact that Eren’s clothes are a sign that something is off (since Eren’s pants got shredded by Porco) but Isayama apparently admitted that he rushed to finish this chapter for the monthly deadline. Two days before the deadline he had something like 20 pages still to complete. So all the errors are likely just mistakes on his part. That would be more difficult than you think. You can't forget that Pieck is still carrying the cannon on her back, which happens to be positioned right above her back, head and nape, causing many normally plausible routes of attack to be either difficult or impossible. Plus, while they aren't on an open field, this chapter and the previous one have shown that Pieck is still very maneuvrable and fast, even on the Wall. All this combined makes it extremely difficult to take her down with the 3DMG. Besides, while Mikasa is fast, I don't think she really excells in terms of speed either. Most of her one-shot kills have been when she struck by surprise or from the back, not due to blinding speed.

I'm not really certain about the whole memory manipulation theory, but I don't think it's implausible that it might be true. There are too many inconsistencies. First, Gabi rides a horse when it was excplicitly mentioned several chapters ago that she didn't know a thing about them; Eren's pants, obviously; abut also his jacket, as he's been able to transform without damaging them since the 57th Expedition. Even if he was in a rush, drawing is a careful and time-consuming process, and I don't think Isayama would've made this many mistakes when he certainly had time to think. Personally, I think these all might be deliberate hints to "something being wrong".