[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Gatack

That's absurd. And avoiding death or any kind of actual danger is better?
The dead children and suicide aspects of the porcupine grongi arc you're referring to never felt forced to be mature and edgy. They were there to progress the story. The always optimistic and happy hero was affected by those horrible events and he raged with power when he finally was able to get his hands on the killer. The rage and power gave us a foreshadowing of Ultimate form, presenting the plot point of wether Kuuga's power was good or evil.

But it does, that's the problem. They were added in solely to boost the body count. The death of those people weren't handled maturely, they were solely used as motivational means for Kuuga to kill the monster.

Compare the deaths of multiple people in Kuuga to Sayoko's death in Blade. Both deaths were used as motivation for a character to defeat a monster, but Sayoko's death rang throughout Garren's entire character for the series, the death of the kids played no factor once the Grongi was killed.