Attack on Titan manga went to dogshit *SPOILERS* Obviously my opinion

Cuebee said:
I understand what you are trying to say OP, I do also feel that SNK is a bit boring now compared to before although I wouldn't call it poorly written.

I think it was because lately there is more talk than action and we got used to the thrill of seeing the characters fight against the titans and the long explanation can be confusung (I got confused as well) but I am just really bad at reading a long explanation in manga not just in SNK.
Although if I will try not too go too deep into it..for some reason I at least get an idea of what is happening and it wasn't that boring. Try to read some few chapters back maybe it will helped, I put this manga on hold and then when things are looking good (after seeing it on tumblr) I started reading it again and reading it all in one go is better than just one chapter a month.

eyesalad said:
I felt that the quality of the manga was declining anyways, but the reveal after they get into the basement just felt very silly and jumping the shark-y, like Isayama wasn't going for what would be a satisfying explanation but instead for just shock value.

After stringing us along for so many chapters and so many months, something like 'everything you knew about the world was lie' just pisses me off, that's not something you throw in after such a long series.

keragamming said:


it was planned from the beginning, check out the title for the first episode. "to you 2000 years from now" and also re read chapter 1.

And it was so obvious there was a outside world, like Isayama gave us a lot of hints. Honestly, this is the type of story that you should wait until its concluded before you make a concrete conclusion. Isayama killing every character at the end would not change the plot line at all, at this current chapter we know that both Armin and Eren has limited time to live, and Isayama could still easily kill off every character, and in the latest interview he said he is still not sure how he will conclude the series. I bet it will be bitter sweet.

Anyways it is understandable, I knew some persons wont like this direction, just like how a lot of persons lost interest when the manga reach the uprising arc, meh I still love it, and I think this story is really interesting and well, made base on how well the author has put this together, I dont think persons understand how well put together this story is, maybe because you guys are not that invested in the series like me to re read it, or its just that you don't like these type of plot devices in story in general. Opinions I guess.

Anyways, its pretty obvious this is going to get worst for the persons that are not enjoying the series currently, because Isayama will go more in depth with these plot devices. Or you guys will just ignore these plot devices and enjoy the battles that will becoming in later chapters.

WyNdZ said:
I've seen this thread before and I even commented but my comment seems to have vanished.

Anyways I found the explanations to be pretty satisfactory although there's still a few things that need to be explained. If there's one thing I don't like it's that lack of character development of some characters, mainly Mikasa. I mean come on she's a main character.

keragamming said:
@eyesalad

But it was introuduced in the beginning of chapter 1 and episode 1. We the viewers just didn't pay too much attention to it. Plus there were more hints of it. During the ape titan fight when Zeke said that they are doing the same thing over and over again. It seems to be some type of repeated cycle.

eyesalad said:

It may have been hinted at slightly, but that doesn't mean that the big reveal being so late into the manga's run is any less silly, especially considering that none of the characters seems to be very affected by this. There's also the fact that since there's other plotlines as well. If a show goes with a plotline like this, it should be the only one they explore as it's such a huge and important thing and other plotlines detract from it, not to mention, something like this would affect the characters deeply. But let's just agree to disagree :T

Delishhh said:
Ever since they went into the basement and found out the truth about the outside world this manga has gone down hill really fast. There are so many things in this series that are made so much more confusing than they need to be. It makes me so pissed because I actually really used to enjoy reading this manga, and learning new things each chapter but everything is so fucking convoluted it makes it damn near impossible to understand what the fuck is going on. The origins of the titans didn't need to be some dumbass thing between 2 different races of people, and making a deal with the devil (Lmao like really?) and the actual process of turning into a titan shifter didn't need to be confusing either. Isayama (the author) laid out everything really well but just completely failed by making it a giant confusing cluster fuck with way too many small insignificant details. Everything is connected in a way that seems so forced. The royal family is also confusing as shit and how they play a roll in everything going on. So many things were just handled so poorly. I see tons of people on every manga site/youtube video I go to about the latest chapters confused out of their minds and completely lost. I'm personally just so confused that I don't really give a shit anymore. The series has just been handled very poorly as of late, and it's very hard to stay on track.

Horizon355 said:
This manga has gone downhill since the Uprising arc (which was an horrendeous arc).

kaanton said:
I felt that the quality of the manga was declining anyways, but the reveal after they get into the basement just felt very silly and jumping the shark-y, like Isayama wasn't going for what would be a satisfying explanation but instead for just shock value.

After stringing us along for so many chapters and so many months, something like 'everything you knew about the world was lie' just pisses me off, that's not something you throw in after such a long series.