Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160109013258/@comment-26932251-20160109024250

Manuel de la Fuente wrote: I also liked all the new information this chapter gave us. Now we know for sure that the "Marco is alive" theory was wrong (it never was a plausible theory, but it is good to see it undoubtedly refuted); we also know that the Beast Titan is not Grisha or Zackly, and the possibilities of him being Erwin's father seem to decrease too. 's guessing that Bertolt was hidden in a barrel proved to be right... and I hate Reiner even more than before. For God's sake, why is he not dead yet? He was the one who killed Marco! Die, Reiner, die! I'm holding out hope that Reiner is dead but maybe he had some kind of neurological programming tucked away to send a last signal out but honestly, at this point, pretty much Isayama is the only one who knows what's up because under the rules of reality as we know it, you destroy the brain and that's it, but given what just happened, things are definitely happening on Isayama's rules.

Also, seriously, how he did in Marco... fuck. him. I almost want to hope he still comes back together enough just so that he can be punished further with even more beating.

Also, slight tactical note, but the colossal being put into play now might be a tactical misstep on the part of the homelanders. We've never seen a colossal vs Eren-Titan battle yet but I imagine it would go poorly for the colossal because the colossal needs its steam emitting trump card to survive but all available evidence suggests that Eren in his titan form will be completely unaffected by steam because Eren is a super-heated titan as well. What the homelanders should have done was wait Eren out because he can't maintain a titan form for very long but this way they're giving him a chance to fight the colossal while Eren still has some juice left in him.

Also, strategic revelation, but the quad titan (can talk!) mentioned that the survey corps 'passed the base' which reveals two things... Apparently the homelanders have a base somewhere inside of the boundaries of Wall Maria as well as where the Beast Titan must have been stashing the proto-titans that made up the army of titans that now have surrounded the Survey Corps.

Also, gotta hand it to the homelanders, they really surprised me, it never crossed my mind, and it should have because the Beast Titan, I mean, war-chief Zeke exhibited the ability to throw big things a long distance with great accuracy dozens of chapters ago, that the Beast Titan could simply throw Bertolt wherever he was needed.

Exciting Chapter overall but it seems apparent now that