Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24098614-20141217095950/@comment-1746153-20141229174044

I dunno, I'd rather my favorite characters died in meaningful ways than lived but did nothing. And by meaningful, I mean from the point of writing, not necessarily from an in-universe perspective. I wrote about the Jaegers' deaths that happened so far in the manga on a different site - they all had kind of symbolic deaths tied to their biggest desires. It's beautiful. They all were sad individuals messed up in one way or another, they all had paradoxical existences, they were all doomed (Wave is the only exception). There is beauty in meaningful tragedy. Tatsumi sacrificing himself for the greater good is quite fitting for his character, it was just somewhat ruined by the anime's overall pacing.