User blog comment:B214/Volume 21 info & spoilers/@comment-99.118.13.217-20160603030142/@comment-1359322-20160603070815

Do i sound like i'm trolling to you? Did my first response on the sealing sound like trolling cause if you think i am then you're clearly wrong here. I'm replying seriously and i'm questioning you seriously how does killing Akeno make it seem like "show they meant business". I can accept character dying and i think it should happen in a story where it involves lots of fighting but it should be the appropriate reason for the appropriate situation.

666 killing Akeno accomplishes nothing story-wise accept seeing Ise and the others cry and despair for a while before Valerie revives her using the Holy Grail. So it serves no purpose whatsoever in the end.

Why even bother taking that step? This is like saying Aizen must kill Hanatarou to show that he means business to show that he's super strong. Or Acnologia must kill Lisanna to show that he means business, to show that he's very strong. That's meaningless killing. It's not logical, killing off character shouldn't be just for the sake of having the fans cry, it must be meaningful and have a great impact on the story. What you're saying has no meaning to it whatsoever.