User blog comment:Yawyawyaw/Chapter 56 predictions/@comment-179280-20140402210604/@comment-179280-20140403222540

@ It's natural everyone wants to know about Annie. There's a reason why Isayama didn't kill her and put her in a crystal instead. As far as I know, everyone has just had enough of Eren/Erwin's POV, because we know where are they going. Nobody knows what's with BRA or Ymir, so it's only natural everyone is curious about them. And as for me, I really don't care about the story anymore, because Isayama insists on going too much in detail over Eren's and Erwin's POV. It's really boring to read a story where you don't like any of the characters present (except Hange, which is the only one left I like).

@ It's quite obvious you only watched the anime, so it's only natural you think Annie is evil. Araki butchered the story so much, she's presented as exclusively evil due to all the scenes where she was sympathetic were axed out. I never really cared about Levi's Squad, so I don't feel their deaths were terrible at all. They were there simply as a plot device, showing Eren the contradiction of one of his closest friends being actually an enemy of humanity who killed them (who were considered by Eren as the "good guys"). But since Annie's friendship with Eren was not elaborated upon in the anime, and altogether removed, the deaths of some "good guys" by a Titan Shifter, will obviously earn said Shifter the label of "evil".

That probably responds the question why everyone, or manga readers, "love Annie" (I don't, but I find her a rather interesting and complex character) and anime watchers want to see her dead.