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[KizuyaKatogami]

Character deaths aren't some sort of requirement for a good story.

Seeing as how the end of shb and 5.3 went, i’d disagree with that statement.

[JeanneOrnitier]

Seeing as how the end of shb and 5.3 went, i’d disagree with that statement.

I'm not sure what you mean? ShB and 5.3 are widely praised as the highest points in the story and yet the only deaths were the villains, who you fully expect to die. It rather proves my point, you don't need to kill people off for a story to be good and emotional.

I'm not saying "a character dying makes a story bad", that would be absurd, just that it isn't some metric you need to check off a list in order to be considered a good story.