It really blew me away that for once the magical deus ex machina sun-flame healing didn't work. That's what really made it scary for me, I think. I'm so used to everyone in shounen getting horrible life-altering wounds and then walking around like nothing happened a couple of days (or on occassion, hours, COUGHBLEACHCOUGH) later. But this time we actually saw him being operated on in the goddamn emergency room and it's like, holy shit, he really is just a normal teenager in this instance and his injuries are really, really terrible and just. Things are really looking bad right now.
Aaaaaaand I kinda love it. XD
I'm with you--this is exactly the kind of thing I eat up. EMOTIONS, ANGST, AND REALISM, it's just like you said. And it was all beautifully done, and PROPS, Amano. MAJOR PROPS. Haters can whine all they like; personally, I can't help but feel like anyone who found something to complain about in a chapter with this much character goodness and plot development is either completely burned out on the series as a whole, or is the type that thought the height of KHR's awesome was the end of the future arc with TSUNA BLOWING PEOPLE UP. Either way, I can't bring myself to be too bothered by their opinion. :P
And yeah, the anime will probably censor a good deal of it, but I like to hope that they'll do their best to show as much as they think they can get away with. They can show Yamamoto in the OR with less blood and fewer traumatizing closeups of what's going on. It shouldn't lessen the impact of everything too much, because we'll still see him lying there helpless and we'll still get Tsuna and everyone else's reactions, and that was what really hit home for me anyway.
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Aaaaaaand I kinda love it. XD
I'm with you--this is exactly the kind of thing I eat up. EMOTIONS, ANGST, AND REALISM, it's just like you said. And it was all beautifully done, and PROPS, Amano. MAJOR PROPS. Haters can whine all they like; personally, I can't help but feel like anyone who found something to complain about in a chapter with this much character goodness and plot development is either completely burned out on the series as a whole, or is the type that thought the height of KHR's awesome was the end of the future arc with TSUNA BLOWING PEOPLE UP. Either way, I can't bring myself to be too bothered by their opinion. :P
And yeah, the anime will probably censor a good deal of it, but I like to hope that they'll do their best to show as much as they think they can get away with. They can show Yamamoto in the OR with less blood and fewer traumatizing closeups of what's going on. It shouldn't lessen the impact of everything too much, because we'll still see him lying there helpless and we'll still get Tsuna and everyone else's reactions, and that was what really hit home for me anyway.