Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200308161511/@comment-1327106-20200309050227

I liked this chapter. It did a reasonable job (and a much better one than the last one) of showing the tensions that are bound to exist given the different groups involved. Barring Yelena, everyone has lost a lot of people they care about and it should not be that easy for them to let go, even if they eventually do.

Yelena does a good job of laying it all out, while also completely failing to bury them in the hatred she feels they ought to be drowning in. I like that she tried, even if the result is not what she intended. If they hadn't discussed it, it would have simmered in the back of everyone's mind, but now that it's out there, the air's clear and everyone knows what they're going into. Jean might never forgive Reiner, but they're both willing to work together to get the job done and no one's hiding anything from anyone.

I also like Hange feeling the weight of everyone who'd gone before, being another call back to Erwin's talk with Levi in "The Nameless Soldiers," though now Erwin himself is among that number.

I also find found a couple things to be strange.

1) They're worried about finding the Founding Titan once they get in the airplane when the stego-Titan is pretty big and distinctive. If Eren's anywhere around the mass of Colossals it seems like he shouldn't be hard to find.

2) Even though Magath captured Yelena to get insight into Eren's heading, they don't learn anything, but they go ahead with the plan to get the plane anyway even though they have no idea where they're going to fly it. >.> Like, what if he's not in range of the plane at all?

Let's see, remaining thoughts.

Jean's daydream in the beginning. I liked it, since it acknowledges him as still the guy he's always been. Given the chance he'd like the comfy life, but push comes to shove he gets out there and does what he needs to. His daydream wife does look suspiciously like Mikasa, but I don't think that's a death flag because Mikasa has had zero time for Jean regarding anything that isn't business, nor do I think she's suddenly going to change her mind. She's got other things to worry about right now and it's not the time for anyone to be thinking about starting new relationships.

The English title for this chapter also really bugs me. "Eve's End" just sounds really clunky. The eve of what? Maybe "Eve of the End" would have been better?