My theory was two nations at the war. One nation used titans as their weapon to attack on wall nation.

the smiling titan? I was hating him, with his evil look face.

the first season anime. How wrong I was.

First off, the retelling of the early parts of the story from Reiner's POV was unnecessary in my opinion. His early life in Marley was great to see,
but I felt like his POV in Paradis was just padding. Everything that we already understood had to be underlined, highlighted, and ended with exclamation points.

For example, Porco makes a comment that Reiner was trying to be like Marcel: dependable, confident, leader-like. We see Reiner reminisce on his own childhood and we see he was the opposite before getting to Paradis. He was without talent, insecure, and a kiss-ass.

But then we later have a seen where Reiner tells Annie "Reiner is dead! I will become Marcel!!"


Isayama showed the original wall breach from the POV of Reiner and co and all it did was create new continuity errors.

The whole story with Marley's bunch of warriors is interesting. Great characters so far. I don't like where they're headed with Tybur family though. So they're the big bad, and manipulating both sides? And the villain's name is "Billy"?

who is Annie's father?
what are the "paths"?
who was the original ymir exactly?
why is there a curse?
what is the source of the titans? experiments? the devil?
who are the Ackermans and why do they have special abilities?
what was the significance of Eren's future dream in the first chapter?
what is Zeke's secret?
what's the deal with the purple flowers?
why does the first king still exert power over the founding titan's powers?
why did the first king retreat?

I really didn't feel like we needed to see everything in Paradis happening from Reiner's POV.
The way Annie was yelling at Reiner and Bertholdt when they captured Marco told me everything I needed to know about their relationship.

Did I need an explanation for Bertholdt's fake story about his home being invaded by titans? No. I get it, he made it up. He lied. I didn't need an origin for that too.

Did I need to see a new scene of Eren crying and actually telling Reiner he wants to be like him? No, we got that when Reiner first gave him advice out in the woods about the 3DM gear, and later when Eren fights Reiner's Titan form and he thinks "to think I wanted to be strong like you..."

We didn't need a retcon to spell it out for us.

Plus, I thought the only time Eren broke down during the training was when the he could even balance with the gear. In the retcon he's flying around with it but still messing up, and cries some more. Sounds uncharacteristic of Eren at that point.

In the original scene of the Colossal Titan kicking the wall, we see a wide shot from behind him, and there's no Reiner or Annie there, and we see Titan's just milling about. In the new version, Annie and Reiner are there, and they just led a stampede of Titans to the wall.

And how does Annie spy on the royals in wall rose when she has to be back everyday with her fellow trainees Reiner, Bertholdt, Eren, Mikasa etc? There's no way she could travel that fast and be back every night.

And their plan is pretty bad too. I thought they were sent there to infiltrate for a certain amount of time. But apparently they were just suppose to break the wall to draw the founding titan out and capture it. Instead, they lost Marcel, and decided to say for like 4 years. The military in Marley were just chilling that whole time? They didn't think "fuck, we probably lost four of our titans over in Paradis. They never came back."

Honestly, it feels like Isayama is making some of it has he goes along. I know that's the case for most writers, but I think it's beginning to show in some of his writing.
Take Ymir. We found out that she was secretly a titan. Cool. Neat little surprise. But then we found out that the reason she's a titan shifter is because she ate Marcel, who was a Titan shifter. Okay. But then we find out that Marcel's titan, the Jaws Titan is huge and looks completely different. So now Isayama has to explain WHY Ymir's titan looked the same before and after she ate a Titan shifter, which goes against what we know of Eren's transformation.

that Eren managed to reach another island. Can't wait for next issue for how he does that.

So there is no Heros/Helos. And is what Billy/Willy told the audience true about King Fritz. I doubt it.

I thought Annie was dead, but it seems like she's coming back, with what her father said.