User blog comment:Godisme/The Crimson Cremation/@comment-44061-20120329002716/@comment-4515326-20120330022239

that seems understandable, due to the fact that picking a captain to kill off would be very hard for kubo, seeing as he's made them all so real and we're able to connect with them. it would be tough to choose just one to be taken down, so maybe having chojiro being killed eases the pressure, while allowing our favorite fighting machines to still live to fight another day against the vandenreich!!!