Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181229081856/@comment-24032889-20181230033956

PhantomHeartless5 wrote:

... since there are only four episodes left in this Volume, we definitely won't be getting to Atlas until Volume 7. Or until the absolute very end of Volume 6. (I assume that's what you meant, but I wanted to be clear.)

Like, Volume 4 had the goal of the Volume be getting to Mistral, while this Volume's goal is getting the lamp to Atlas (via Argus as a stepping stone it took a while to get to). So I think that, like Volume 4, they will get to Atlas at the very, very end of the Volume. It will probably come in the form of a short timeskip or something (like Ruby waking up in bed at the end of V3 or like Yang arriving on Anima at the end of V4).

The main reason I believe the above is because it would be unfulfilling if they didn't make it to Atlas. V5's ending had us believing for the last year that that would be the goal of V6.

But I'm also hoping for something crazy unexpected to happen to make things interesting. Like someone getting stuck in a pocket dimension or something. Not that that would happen, but something like that would be a great moment to see.