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This Week in Anime - Who Are the Villains of Attack on Titan?

If you drop a bomb on a military target, knowing full well that they are surrounded by civillians, then you are intentionally targeting civillians.

And they established in the first episode that war crimes and treaties are a thing here.

Seriously, let's not splir hairs here.

If you use civilians as a meat shield to protect a military target, that is on you, not your enemies.

The show only has 3 war crimes actually:

- The destrucción of both walls.

- Gaby disguising herself as a civilian in need to attack those guys un episode 1 of this season.

Can't think of another.

And this series is trying to have it both ways, by making it painfully obvious that Magath and Tyber chose the setting they were absolutely sure Paradis would would take their bait to attack—to the point of choosing their least favorite commanding officers seating arrangements based on where they’d most likely meet their doom. Maybe someone more well versed in military history can correct me, but I don’t think that’s based on an actual historical occurrence .

I’m in the “Eren committed a war crime” camp, but beyond the attack being immoral, it also seems poorly thought out—he took the bait, just as planned, and has now antagonized Marley and most of the world (because Tyber helpfully invited dignitaries to his one-man show). It mirrors what Reiner did on Paradis, but Eren is older, more experienced and more aware of the consequences than Reiner was when he broke the walls. He also had the support and advice of multiple friends trying to talk him out of it before reluctantly agreeing to save his ass (and maybe they shouldn’t have).

Eren is the villain now, and this attack was a huge mistake. (And before you ask, yes, I’m up to date with the manga)

The show only has 3 war crimes actually:

- The destrucción of both walls.

- Gaby disguising herself as a civilian in need to attack those guys un episode 1 of this season.

Can't think of another.

I am going to place the next text in spoilers but they are not, its just a recollection of 2 past events:

spoiler[- In chapter 1 the very first thing we see Eren doing is waking up alone in a field crying for something and asking Mikasa why her hair is long and not short.

- Kruger mentioning that he was giving Grisha the Attack Titan's power in order to save Mikasa and Armin with himself not knowing what the hell was he talking about.]

This time the plot is quite in your face if you ask me.

Anyways, quite frankly I felt nothing when they attacked Marley, maybe because I don't like anybody in there.

Just wanted to add that there is a theory among some manga readers that Eren spoiler[is being used and manipulated by Original Ymir as a tool to destroy the world, in which case he is playing into multiple enemies’ hands—Marley in this attack, and Original Ymir in the Rumbling. I don’t think the theory is likely, but it’s worth noting that even some manga readers think Eren is in the wrong for killing civilians just as his enemies want him to]

I am going to place the next text in spoilers but they are not, its just a recollection of 2 past events:

spoiler[- In chapter 1 the very first thing we see Eren doing is waking up alone in a field crying for something and asking Mikasa why her hair is long and not short.

- Kruger mentioning that he was giving Grisha the Attack Titan's power in order to save Mikasa and Armin with himself not knowing what the hell was he talking about.]

This time the plot is quite in your face if you ask me.

Anyways, quite frankly I felt nothing when they attacked Marley, maybe because I don't like anybody in there.