Wow... at least it sounds like the anime made a good choice to move the training to before that, but at the same time, it was still hard to follow and I zoned out of it a lot because it was less about everyone else but more LOOK HOW HARD EREN'S WORKING??? (To be honest I completely forgot about Bertoldt and Reiner until I learned about the spoilers and I was like WHO?)

I'm not too familiar with manga protocol (beyond the simple fact that if you value free time, you never want to be a manga author EVER), so I don't know if I should be surprised such slip-ups seem to slip past editors or if their main concern is appealing to the hip young folk so WHO CARES ABOUT STORY SHOW SOME CREEPY TITANS