Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190508212248/@comment-1327106-20190509062815

I hadn't thought about that. xD But yeah, Gabi is hilariously incompetent compared to kind of person she wants to be (or thinks she wants to be).

Anyway, now that I've finished righting the wiki's chapter summary, I'm gonna indulge in my own thoughts about the chapter.

- Parachuting scene. Airships. Guns. The Marleyan military kicking ass. It's pretty much what I expected would happen if it came to a serious battle. The only thing keeping Paradis safe prior to the start AoT was the fact that the rest of the world thought the king still had the Founding Titan. Now that they know that's not true and Marley has been secured against third party invaders, they can attack Paradis with impunity. And they do. Their tech might not be great compared to other nations, but it's still well ahead of Paradis, and unlike Paradis, they have a lot of experience in fighting other humans. The covering fire scene shows a level of coordination that Paradis has never had.

- Pieck's hand severing. Ouch, but smart move for someone who can regenerate.

- I like that Eren pretty much ignores Yelena and does his own thing. Part of it may be because of a desire to face Reiner, but I'd like to think that part of it is that Eren is working on his own plan and doesn't care what Yelena has in mind.

- Eren vs Reiner rematch. I wasn't expecting Reiner to win, because after so many rounds of this we know how this goes, but the tag team between him and Porco was nice. They might not like each other, but they can still work together.

- Mobile artillery Pieck and Magath putting a shell through Eren's Titan head was great. I just love seeing a Titan being used as a mobile artillery platform. It's a great unexpected use of a Titan and I doubt I'll ever get tired of it.

- The Anti-Marleyan Volunteers freaking out over the organization needed to put this operation together when Eren massacred the Marleyan military leadership in Liberio. Obviously they didn't know that Willy was orchestrating things so that Magath, the one competant commander in the military, would survive and have all his obstacles removed by putting the leadership in the path of Eren. Ironically if Eren hadn't flattened them, this attack might not have been possible. I was really happy to see some of Willy's planning pay off since we never did get his full agenda.

- Now that Zeke's arrived, I think all the critical characters except for Hange and Levi (or what's left of him) are in Shiganshina. This really feels like showdown time now, and I hope whatever cards Eren is still hiding finally come out on the table.