Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180906211831/@comment-8458738-20180910035405

Penguinluver1431 wrote: Tdfern14 wrote: Penguinluver1431 I see no positive development for her even after this chapter, no matter how hard Isayama tries.

Overall, though, much better chapter than most of the Marley arc itself, looks like we're building up for quite the explosive final conflict. Do you think Isayama is a terrible writer? I think he's done much better in the past than what we've been getting this arc. I've made no secret how much I loathe the Marley arc, it was the worst one yet; poorly written and a cheap attempt at Isayama trying to force us to empathize with what is essentially AoT's Nazi Germany. If he wanted us to empathize with the villains, he would have planted those seeds much earlier in the series. Doing it at this point, after showing the crimes Marley has committed against Paridis, it fruitless.

Barring the Warriors from before the time-skip (Reiner, Annie, etc.) the only one I like is Falco. Gabi I despise and want to suffer as gruesomely as possible. The others I am meh about. I'm probably one of the only ones who actually enjoyed watching Marleyans die, so needless to say, I'm a fan of Floch and would like to see Paradis resume its rightful place as the heroes of the story.

But yes, long story short, I think Isayama is slipping as far as his writing nice, but thats mostly the case with a lot of fiction that makes it as far as it has. Well Marely could also be perceived as Imperial Japan as they also committed war crimes (Nanking?), and while Nazis are bad, not all Nazis were downright evil as some stood up against the regime.

Anyway, while no writer is absolutely perfect, and you are bound to make some bumps on the road, but don't you think it's a bit early to start criticizing this series as a whole and pointing out the flaws of the writing and so fourth, I mean we are still early or rather in the midpoint of this current story arc (whatever the hell the name if this story arc is, I mean for all we know this could still be the extension of the Marely Arc?) which is still in progress with a huge pay off or climax with all the foreshadowing.