Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-4383890-20200416045501

All of your arguments read like: I don't like the story and how it developed, i only care about Eren and the Walldians, screw everything else. And you assume that the majority of the fandom thinks the same and that the anime crew will have to cut some parts, because a small portion of the fandom dislikes it. Great reasoning there mate, but where is the proof that the quality of the series is going down? Did you get a sample from the Japanese fandom? The people that actually buy the magazine? Did you check if there's a drop in sales or negative feedback? Because, i haven't seen proof of that. Even when Isayama decided to make changes during the Uprising arc, it was because HE felt that he didn't do a good job. Not because of negative feedback from a wiki written in english.

Anime is a storytelling medium. Stories can't live survive on action alone. Especially Attack on Titan, where the action was never it's strongest point. For all it's action, Attack on Titan was better at creating a mysterious, anxiety-filled atmosphere, strengthened by a respectable cast. Now this cast has been developed more than ever. Cutting that development out would be a terrible decision. Anime viewers will stay and watch a respectable story, with likeable and fleshed out characters. You don't want to watch an anime. You want to watch an amv. Good for you, but that's not how story-telling works. At least not good story-telling.

Ah, and one last thing. AoT as an anime has never been able to adapt 2 chapters in 1 episode consistently. First season: 34 chapters=25 eps. Second season:16 chapters=12eps. Season 3 part 1:22 chapters=12 episodes. Season 3 part 2:18 chapters=10episodes. Just LOL at the thought that 16 chapters can be adapted in 6 episodes. That's a travesty. I didn't say anything about sales or anything like that. I just go by fandom reaction. Before the serumbowl and basement reveal, most of the fandom agreed on the same things, good or bad. Once the story shifted towards a soapbox lecture on why "revenge is bad and we should forgive our enemies", the fandom was suddenly divided. Which is why it is not unreasonable to say the series goes through 'Seasonal rot' as of Marley arc, because that's where a large number of people lost interest until the SC came back, because it abandoned what defined the series in the first place: humanity against Titans. Survival of the fittest. If some people prefer the war story about why Nazis "are not evil, just misunderstood", then okay fine, but what defined the series more than the characters was the unique setting of mindless Titans that were the stuff of Lovecraftian horrors. Take that out and it's just like any other anime/manga falling into the same tropes and traps as other mangaka (such as Naruto's preferred brand of "everyone is redeemable"). It just isn't the same as the original story of survival against a mindless enemy. It's just not as good.