Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-44328804-20200609042003

Eden Ushinatta wrote: I'm not completely won over yet, but I do get your theory a little better now. While I still don't agree on where you think the details point to this  story going, it neverthless sounds good. But just to clarify a couple of things solidly, since most of our disagreements are based on our "headcannons":

1) I didn't read or watch that movie, but I did understand it was about good people turning bad based on their circumstances, NOT how they were born. I understand why you're comparing this to Eren, but I think Isayama was only comparing it to his series on the sense that "right and wrong" can be subjective based on the circumstances.  Eren felt he was born to fight for freedom, while the serial killer didn't start out that way, and instead he was molded by inhumane treatment that earns him commismeration.  The main point of Himmeanole, as well as what Isayama is doing recently, is that "good and bad" aren't cut-and-dry topics.

2) I know what's going on in the world, and you made a pretty unfair comparison between our world and the series. The racism in AOT is widely problematic, gave rise to the Eldian restorationists, and led to propaganda against Eldians.  The "peace" you described was already pursued in the story too. Look back at Willy Tybur's speech.  Needless to say it didn't pan out.  It goes back to what I told you before too: the final panel, even if you worked it into your theory, can't concide with racism still happening as it will prolong the conflict.

Other than these 2, any other agreements we had are based on "headcannon" and we both seemingly have reason to think that about the other, even if we both know that isn't the case, just cuz we have different theories. Truth is, this story is still ongoing with atleast 7 chps left, as Isayama himself verified there's "about 5%" left, which means we got a little over 5% remaining. Alot can still happen, including new developmetns with what we feel has been set in stone, like the PATHS stuff for instance (your response there wasn't completely definitive).

Let's just wait it out and see if Isayama suprises us. Man, you replied on the wrong post... Hahaha.

Anyway, i don't have a lot of things to add, other than that the series will end at most in 6 chapters. Isayama repeatedly stated his wish to end the series this year. Not mention that when the interview was filmed, the latest chapter hadn't been revealed. 5% coincides pretty well with his aim. Also something interesting, Isayama at first said that the story had 6% left and then corrected it to 5. Haha... for some reason your message wall wasn't working.

But yeah, the series is set to end ATLEAST at chp 136 in 7 chps. He really only said it once last new years, as far as I know. Also, the interview when he mentioned the remaining length was very recent, and the interview where he showed the final panel was in late 2018. But to go back to your point there, he was clearly estimating given he says "about 5%", and if he's estimating that, it means it goes a little bit above the 5% mark (7 chps), given any lower amount would be too low to estimate. So it makes sense he was going back and forth between percentages like that.

So atleast 7 chps left...let's see what's in store for us.