User blog comment:San&Ashitaka/Chapter 51/@comment-3118594-20131108172158

And so, this was my quality manga-reading music for this chapter. I would originally listen to the first half of Vogel im Kafig, but I chose the former. Considering how this chapter went, I thought the music felt fitting. But that's just me; I'm weird like that.

***SPOILERS AHEAD***

Anyway, what did I think of Chapter 51, you might be wondering?.....well, it was okay. I can honestly say there weren't any eye-opening moments or moments that made me go "Huh?" like in the previous chapter when the Smiling Titan got tackled by another Titan......no wait; there was one moment. Early in the chapter I could've sworn I saw Mike, which baffled me because I thought he was ripped apart by Titans several chapters back.

I guess maybe the purpose of Chapter 51 was to be a type of "debriefing" after Chapter 50. Basically they made it back and Hanji comes in to explain updates concerning the Titans' physiologies. And I think this marks the first time I see what's inside the back of a Titan's neck....there's vertebrae. Huzzah. And here I was thinking also at the time that the BTF chapters might expose some gritty details about the inside of a Titan's nape, explaining why their napes are their weak spots, but the hint detailed in Chapter 51 kind of spoiled that I guess. Other than that, I guess we can sort of confirm that many Titans used to be humans, but how they became Titans remains unknown. All we can do is speculate; maybe that giant monkey does some spooky voodoo spell or something....maybe not.

It was good to see Sasha again, too. Looks like she's been doing okay, but how could she not do okay since having been reunited with her father and the others? They're southerners; we can all poke fun at southerners all we want, but they know how to survive.

And, to top it all off, Mikasa's a lumberjack.

No wait; there is one more detail......what did Hanji mean that there will be stability until Eren becomes an adult? What's going to happen when he becomes an adult? Or does this mean we can expect a time-skip in a future chapter? Only time will tell, perhaps...