Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-24407809-20180723061922

I never called it unique, I said that attributing its success to "morbid curiosity" does not hold up to scrutiny, because a series cannot survive for as long as AoT has on curiosity alone.

I can only think of three main characters that have been killed in the series, and I would only call one of them "well-crafted", but I suppose that falls into opinion-based territory.

Of course curiosity plays a part in first starting a series. No one decides to start reading a story if it does not peak their interest in some way. In my case, I follow the series because the main cast is, for the most part, populated by strong, well-developed characters, and their the arcs and character progression that they are subject to are usually quite intriguing.

And yes, I am "chill" about the characters that are dead in this series. Because at the end of the day, no matter how greatly or poorly they are written, they are just lines on a piece of paper. Of course I get annoyed if a character I like is taken out of the narrative, but at the end of the day, all a character death in the series means is that Isayama no longer has to draw those specific lines. The world is going to keep spinning on its axis, and we are going to keep living our lives.