>>261935079>>261934653>>261935934If the complaint is about audience reactions, a lot of anons in the thread were cheering on Akoya seemingly off-screening Willem, going by most of the responses to the page where Akoya barges out of the door. Even outside of that plenty of anons are JUSTICEposting and it's somewhat difficult to tell if its sincere or ironic, and there are people in the thread going on about the weird positivity and controversy surrounding this chapter.
In this context, laser-focusing on the reactions to the explosion seems dishonest. The complaints about wojakposting before swerving into posting images of Neil next to greentexts caricaturising the anons the posts are responding to also come across as hypocritical. A few threads ago an anon even predicted the most major part of the chapter with what was supposed to be a satirical MSPaint comic, so that contributed to the outrage.
But the choreography of the scene was frankly confusing. Even brushing aside Akoya's apparent victory over Willem when he was on the backfoot moments prior, Gilbert had his eyes on Akoya the entire time while he was screaming about justice. Akoya wasn't holding anything in his hands because he was using them to open the door really hard. But the page after that shows Gilbert TURNING TO LOOK IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION from Akoya, at a grenade that seemingly conjured itself out of nowhere. The framing of the scene suggests that SOMEONE ELSE threw the grenade, not Akoya.
>using explosion as distraction is common and effective story beatWhat works in other stories is what works in other stories. If people brought up Goku throwing ki blasts to defend Shen turning off his brain circuits, how would that argument fly?
It is completely fair for people to question how a wounded Akoya rescued Kiryu, who was right next to Tiger Niko and Gilbert, and quickly enough to leave after the grenade was thrown and before it exploded and took out a large chunk of the building with it.