Board Thread:Manga/@comment-24930713-20160309012840/@comment-26932251-20160310002956

Neetaku wrote:

On the negative side of things, we see Isayama exercising his right to kill off redshirts and unnamed background characters in a tired old attempt to convince fans that the main characters are in danger. Yeah, I gotta say, the whole redshirts business. I mean, Isayama in the course of two chapters managed to kill off what looks like 90% of the survey corps.

But of course, the main cast, except for Hange, escapes danger without even a wound among them. At least kill Sasha or Connie, you know, to at least make the story a little less predictable. I mean, at the rate things are going we'll find that Hange survived the explosion because, well, she's part of the main cast.

Really kills it for me because what got me into AOT was because I thought it was an exception, that it was different, that it didn't fall in the habit of superficial depictions of danger.