User blog comment:Gourgeist/Shingeki no Kyojin Chapter 64 Review: Welcome Party/@comment-189.199.61.170-20141214070734

This was a really intense chapter, filled with a lot of action and providing us with some answers but also adding more questions to the already big list of mysteries surrounding the titans and the walls.

I'll start with the action part by saying "a good stategist has nothing to fear" and this chapter proves it, as Levi's team manage to outmatch the MP interior brigade despite being outnumbered and with the anti-personnel 3DMG, as Armin pointed several disadvantage of the gear such as the guns and the anchor ejector being fixed at the same direction, meaning the back of the user is out of range and unable to shoot enemies coming from behind, not to mention that once shoot both rounds of ammunition, the time it takes to reload the weapon leaves the user open to attacks, add a clever use of smokescreen to make more diffcult aiming at a target and you have the upper hand, Armin proves again that the brain is stronger than brawn. However Kenny's right-arm manage to adapt to the situation and lands a nasty shot at Hange's right arm with the hook of the gear and crush her against one of the pillars, leaving Hange badly injured and being my favorite character, i hope she doesn't die and manage to fully recover.

It seems like what that goverment official said was true and some royal bloodlines are unnafected by the titan's power to erase memories, not only that, Rod reveals to Historia that it was a special titan the one who created both the cave, the three walls and altered the memories of the remaining humans, wishing for a life of peace among them a hundred years ago, and leaving it's power and the knowledge of the world, including how the titans appeared, to the Reiss family, who have the choise to reveal everything or not to what's left of humanity, thus becoming a living compendium and they transfer this power and knowledge to the next sucessor by transforming into titans and eating the previous holder, in this case it was Frieda who ate her uncle.

But this open a lot of questions, to begin with, if a single titan created the walls, then why are giant titans hidden inside them?,Rod's story implies that titans existed long before the walls, but that doesn't tell us if they were titans or humans transformed into titans, of course no one remembers anything before the walls, except for Frieda, to which leads us to the next topic.

Rod tells Historia that only someone from the Reiss family can use the true titan power that Eren holds, and apparently that power is so strong that even Rod believes that with it they can get rid of all the titans in the world, since Frieda was the original holder of that power, she could have used it to save what was left of humanity but unfortunately Grisha ate her and transfered those powers to Eren and since Historia is the last descendant of the Reiss family, Rod wants her to eat Eren to obtain those powers.

Sincerely i don't buy everything he said, to begin with, if the titan power is so strong, then why didn't they used it in the first place? or better yet, why the original titan didn't used it to get rid of the other titans? maybe it has something to do about how it was the world before the walls, and maybe they believe the titan's power can only be used by the Reiss bloodline, but we saw that Eren manage to "unlock" some sort of titan control during his rescue mision from Reiner and Bertolt when the smiling titan killed Hannes and unintensionally ordered the other titans to eat the smilling one and even attacking Reiner, which leads me to believe Grisha knew about the titan's power that the Reiss familly was holding and that it wasn't neccesary to be a member of the Reiss family to use them, that's why he told Eren that his memories will help him use those powers, but only time will tell if that's true or not.

On a side note, i believe that Annie's flashbacks of her father means she ate him to obtain the hardening ability, but the reasons behind it (if it is true) are still in mistery.

To end, it looks like Kenny wanted to eat Eren and use the titan's power to change the world, what's he gonna do now that he knows only a member of the Reiss family can use that power?, can't wait for the next chapter.