Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-45387321-20200609160409

Attackcjc wrote: Eden Ushinatta wrote:   You did the math wrong. Even if you take as 95% the chapter 129, 5% more ends with chapter 135. And at the time of the interview, chapter 129 had not been released, so it's possible that he didn't take it into consideration. Not only that, but in the interview, Isayama initially said that the series had 6% left, only to then correct it and say 5%. If 1% makes a difference for him then it means that he really, like really, wants to end the series now, which he also mentioned in the interview. I didn't do the math wrong, and most people got the same answer I did. Also, your take could go both way. Keep in mind, the chp may not had been released OFFICIALLY when that interview happened, but it was still already submitted to the magazine, so as far as Isayama is concerned, that chapter is considered complete on his side of things. I'll also have to double check on the 6% thing as I realized you the only one who mentioned it, but it sounds like both percentages were estimates, or his simply misspoke on one of them. Not that its a big difference like you said, but maybe he meant to say "5-6% left", as no matter how you look at it, he was still estimating in the end, and you would think that if the series was really ending this year, or was supposed to before we lost May, he would be more straightforward on when EXACTLY the last chp is, as many other authors have done in his profession around this point in their stories. I don't care what most people got, most people got it wrong and are spreading misinformation all around the net. If 129 chapters are 95% then 100% is 135.7. You might think that Isayama rounded up to 136, but that's a spec. As for the 5%, the question was "Can you tell us how much of the story is left in %?". He says 6 and then immediately corrects it to 5. The series can't end in 136, because it doesn't correlate with the releases of the volumes. Each volume contains 4 chapters, with the exception of 2 and 4. In order for the story to go up to 136, Isayama would need to have the final two volumes contain 5 chapters. However, that won't be done, because Isayama has the tendency to pace the story according to the volumes. In short, each volume is a small story arc inside the whole arc. For example, vol.30 contained chapters 119-122 and focused on the event leading up to Eren going into the paths and what transpired in there until he left the paths. Judging by chapter 129, the next chapter will focus on the arrival of the alliance in Odiha, the plane's maintenance and then the team's search for Eren. Logically and narratively, chapter 131 will focus on Eren, since there is nothing left for the alliance to say. The only sensible way to do that is to start volume 33 in chapter 131 with Eren as the main focus.

​​​​​​One volume cannot have 6 chapters, so 135 will be the max, if the series ends with volume 33. Since its the final, 5 volumes can be excused, even with the final chapter having more pages than usual. Any more than 135 chapters leads to one more volume (34 in total=138 chapters), which goes against Isayama's estimates and wishes. If 138 is the 100% then 129 is 93.47%. That's like 6.5% and Isayama already made a distinction between 6 and 5% himself. The interview has already been translated so go ahead and watch it for yourself.