>Okay, but We Don't Know For Sure that she is really dead.

I checked the Magic Eightball. It says all signs point to yes ;)

>>Sure, they could bring her back, but that would ruin the impact of her
>>death. Of course, this all my unsolicited opinion.
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>Noriko got better, but what happened to her still had impact.

But Noriko didn't die. She is a fantastic example of an incredibly important, violent, dramatic event can happen to a character without having to resort to killing them off and then bringing them back later. I'm a firm believer that if someone dies, they should stay dead.

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