Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20170309020558/@comment-24407809-20170512193506

"Great Titan War arc" just isn't doing it for me. It's already been established in the manga that the "Great Titan War" is a completely different event than what is happening currently, so if we were going to go with a name along those lines, "Great Titan War II arc" would be more fitting. But I don't like that either.

I honestly think that, if we want a name that is going to be representative of Marley and Paradis' fight for the Nine Titans, "Attack on Marley arc" would be the most fitting name. "Return to Shiganshina arc" ended with Eren proclaiming that the people of Paradis would need to destroy Marley in order to finally gain their freedom. The new arc began with a war that was started after a hostile foreign nation attacked Marley during a period of perceived weakness. Are you starting to see a pattern here?

What's more, I'm willing to bet that all of those Marley ships that disappeared at Paradis (note "disappeared", not "destroyed") are something that could potentially allow the people of Paradis to launch their own assault, rather than wait for Marley to attack them again. Which makes sense from a storytelling standpoint, since it would be rather repetitive to simply have the Warriors attack the Walls again. But, of course, this entire paragraph is speculation, so we'll have to wait and see if any of it is actually correct.

But, more than anything, I would like to remind everyone that this arc could, very possibly, be the final arc in the Attack on Titan series, if Isayama and his editor are to be believed. And for some reason it just feels fitting to me that the final arc of the series be a pay on the series' title itself. Attack on Titan's final arc is not going to be about humans fighting Titans, as it has been up until now. It is going to be about the people of Paradis fighting Marley, the nation that has been creating the Titans that have plagued them until now, and "Attack on Marley arc" reflects that.