>>96950131
>first draft
H-Haha… Yeah, I do drafts and revise my writefags… I totally do that…
In truth, I actually DID have a visual explanation for how that scene went, but I thought explaining it in text would’ve been too weird. Ran was in this black void, sinking into the water, while he could see the hospital scene through an eye-shaped “screen” of sorts. Momofuku and everyone else would’ve walked in, but without sinking in the water like Ran, just walking on it like it was a floor. If I ever draw comics for my writefags (far too much effort) I think you’d get the vision.
Also, when I have 9 builds to worry about, I’m gonna miss some perks here and there, but you’re absolutely right in the sense that Ran had to realise these things from other people’s reactions, and the experience at hand, in order to awaken that determination. Things like Forward kinda get in the way of having anime character development moments, so I’m sorry if you felt that was ignored. My goal was to have a situation where Ran considered that, maybe, having taken the accident in Ken’s place would’ve saved the both of them a lot of trouble, but eventually he does come to realise that Ken would feel the same way he does now if that were to happen.