@hunterwar wrote some trites:
kid you get out of the way to call everyone who complains about the author's mess of pleb or animufag
You know, that mix of insecurity and attitude would've been adorable if you were five. But given that you're probably at least decade older than that, i'm gonna go with incredibly cringy.
Also,
you were the one that started droning on about, pleb
(s), elites, and so on. I don't even get your need to bring some sort of "hierarchisation" into this thread, because my remarks were targeting your group's
temperamental ills, not the intellectual ones. Don't pin the responsibility for bringing up your psychological soft spots on others, just like you were trying to justify them earlier by externalizing some unsubstantiated bullshit about the story's execution.
Another also, check your spelling, structure sentence and meaning of the words you're using. The only
mess that i see here is that quoted line above. Kid.
The way he's telling this story is terrible.
So you're gonna double down on that, huh. This is just your shitty opinion, but okay, let's dismantle it.
This back and forth is not a really good way to lay down your story it even worse if you have to wait a entire month to read it's conclusion. The first time he used this to explain the world through erin's father memories was really good but now it's just a mess.
Chronological back and forth, as well as constant shifting point of view through ensemble cast of characters are both perfectly viable options to present the plot in an interesting way. Among other things, they can be used for world building, deepening the character's portrayal, to provide a starting point or an internal explanation for character's development, or to explore their social connections in more intimate manner. It's been proven countless times by fiction, serialized or otherwise. But shortly after that claim (presented as fact), you spout your real problem with it -
you just don't have the patience nor the ability to follow that sort of narrative in monthly format. And that's on you mate. That you also have the gall to claim that the ability to follow events of the story relays on "superior memory", when you can't even remember who died
recently, proves how insecure, immature child of a reader you are.
Why you put a time skip on your tale if you will show EVERYTHING that happened during it? It's completely defeats the point of a time skip LOL
I'm not gonna go into all possible reasons for introducing a time skip in a narrative. You gotta do the research on your own -
here's a good starting point.
Why was it used here? Probably to NOT show EVERYTHING, as you try to claim. That's a very narrow minded point of view. Author can skip the tedious task of going through every little change of importance that occurred in chosen time frame, and select those that are of value to elements he wants to focus on. It also reads better than dry "and then x amount of years passed, when some stuff happened...", accompanied by static illustrations. Specially in character driven stories, which was proved here once already i believe (may be wrong about it though).
...there's also that teeny-tiny fact of several months of in story time translating to what, six real life years for the readers? How long Eren and the gang could've stayed fifteen? Serialization takes place in shounen magazine, which target demographics aren't exactly known for their ability to stay focus on, or interested in things for prolonged amount of time. Hence you, by the way.
And by the by, the way in which Isayama Hajime presents the plot hasn't really changed that much during course of the years. There'd always been lots of post facto in-depth explanations and storytelling done through past point of view insertions. First that i recall? Reasons for Mikasa's attachment to Eren. It's not even a relatively new thing, and you trying to frame it as such is just weak.
On a final note, Shingeki no Kyojin reads great in bulk. There, bullshit about non standard narrative "not being a good way to present a story" here "definitely" disproved, in your favorite decisive manner.
edited for stylistic indiscretions
