Talk:Plot Empowerment/@comment-4867780-20150518120447/@comment-24053170-20160607053829

Some deaths have to happen even in shonen manga, otherwise the story gets stale and boring.

Sure there are awesome fights and adventures, but you can only go down that road so often before the readers become disinterested.

So they have to kill characters every once in a while to make things more enjoyable and get more sales

One example I can name right of the bat was Ace's Death from One Piece (followed by whitebeards shortly after, though Blackbeard had to go and desecrate his corpse shortly after to steal his devil fruit power...)

Character deaths are a part of almost every manga. So for all we know they may kill off another important character at some point in FT just to drive the plot forward.