After a nearly two-month hiatus, Isayama Hajime has finally shared a new blog post, where he included the original sketch of the cover of tankobon vol. 26 (Release date August 9th, 2018)!

His blog discusses his thoughts on season 3 of the anime. Please check back here for a translated summary!

Update (July 24th, 2018): Isayama wrote some very honest and emotional words for Season 3 that you can now read below!

Translation: @suniuz; Editing: @fuku-shuu

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[T/N: Isayama first apologized for the lack of updates, as he hadn’t written in his blog in about two months]

“However! SnK Season 3!!! It was indeed wonderful!!

The moments around Volume 13-16 in the manga might be a result of my personal fallout after I finished drawing Volume 12. It felt like I was in a state when my energy/fuel was totally exhausted due to nothing but my own incompetence. Back then, I managed to somehow keep turning in the manuscripts, which I reluctantly extended and made duller each month.

At least, in my self-reflection I was weak-minded. Thus, when Season 3’s anime production first started, I discussed with the staff members and expressed that I hope they could appropriately rearrange the sections and functions of storylines in Volume 13-16 from the get-go.

As a result, they delivered an idealized script for me, and this time the story has a structure that I had no way of accomplishing with my own skills!

It was already in a good shape even during the first round of proofreading. Thanks to the talents of screenwriter Kobayashi Yasuko-san, she constructed a clear and succinct backbone for my messed up manga. Then, with his specialized expression of roughness and astringency, Seko Hiroshi-san turned some poorly-written plots in the original manga into more compelling forms.

In addition, thanks to Director Araki who brought together guidelines for the overall production, seiyuus who give life to the characters, as well as all members who participated in the production. This time, I can ascend to heaven right after I die!”

[T/N: Isayama then said he is going to watch the film One Cut of the Dead (Kameru o Tomeru na!), which his sister highly recommended.]

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