Board Thread:Manga/@comment-39432850-20190511180121/@comment-39215828-20190511215213

Not looking good, to be honest. I'll be surprised if she ever does return. Well I'm going to be a bit of an a**hole pessimist, as I usually am, but most of our favorite characters outside the main trio seem to become a permanent loss after a while. I read up somewhere that Isayama was planning to kill off all the main characters I believe, unless I'm mistaken. Annie's crystalization might have been her "death" in the story. I just personally hope the anime does things a little different, doubt it though. Been pretty accurate with the manga so far, other than a few small changes. But everything major is there to stay. I wouldn't pin any hopes on any characters. Yes, this is coming from someone who's primary favorite characters are Annie Leonhart and Bertholdt Hoover. (And yes I ship them, so kill me.)

Best bet is to make your own story, or read others, in my opinion. That's what I plan on doing one day. I'm just mainly being realistic here, it's not just pessimism, that's the pattern the story is leaving. The story is all about pessimism and losses, despite the characters' speeches of hope in the story, and Isayama seems adamant. I'd just leave Isayama be, and let him do what he wants to do, it's his story.

I've, for the most part, mentally accepted how the story is going to go.

All that being said, I hope I'm proved wrong.