User blog comment:GVASS/Chapter 52 Predictions? Possibility of a Time-skip?/@comment-24121336-20131109075043

I think th maid outfit, the emphasis on cleaning for Levi, and agruing with Jean over watching Mikasa excercise was put in for comic relief and to lighten up the atmoshphere. I just really feel like everything in this chapter was just delayed and strung out to avoid starting another arc. Anyways, this isnt a chapter 51 review so sorry for talking about it.

I think that Historia will start sharing information about the walls to Levi and the others, but why do they need her to be an adult like Erwin said? She is already a soldier and is ready to die for humanity yet she still is in the custody of her parents and can't live by herself or represent herself legally? Or what will be easier when she is an adult? I don't get why it would matter and why they even mentioned it...

It is undoubtedly, blindly obvious that Eren will fail and cannot control the Titans when he needs to, he always screws up with his new powers, ie, Trosts' boulder. But this series really needs to pick up the pace, a monthly release is long enough for someone to forget about the series and move onto something new... I believe that Erwin looked shadey on purpose, and had a beard because of the trauma his body endured, but I agree, he does know something. Another thing that really confused me is that Levi said to Erwin "So is that why you created the Survey Corps?" (referring to solving the mystery of the titans) which is inconsistent with BTF as the Survey Corps were around 70 years ago before Erwins birth.

The amount of foreshadowing done in earlier chapters rendered the information given in this one useless. Back to the days before the reclaimation of Trost, Pixis told Eren "There is a legend that someone once said that if there were a huge external force threatening us then humanity would finally unite and stop its wars against herself" of which Eren replied "Yea, I've heard of that legend."

Note: the manga and anime were not consistent on this point, in the manga Eren agreed to hearing about the legend and in the anime he said "I've never heard about that." which did confuse me greatly... Im not sure if it was a mistake or the author regretted Eren saying it and changing the script to keep it more well known to the 'higher-ups' ie, generals (Pixis/Erwin), Wall cult and king. But working of the manga I believe that this legend is not a legend or a mere story, but true. Someone had the intentions to unite humanity and enter an era of peace behind these parameters called walls. But then the Ape Titan... wtf... he is not even human??? And he never carried any weapons or tools to convert titans into humans as we saw in the Castle Utgart interaction. So that can only mean that it is something unique to his biology that can transform humans into titans and sustain them at night.

They really need to elaborate on the Ape Titans relevance and explain something about him, it has been over a year since he was in the manga, we've been waiting so long for answers just give us some! D: