Quote Originally Posted by Uchiha Barles View Post
They definitely did mess that up. I got the feeling that it would've been reasonable for him to have difficulty breathing if the extra exertion he made during his run out of the ravine had been taken into account. The heavy breathing made it seem like it was but that his O2 meter might've been malfunctioning. But his sudden reaction to the drop when time was up kind of threw that out the window.
Yeah.

I think they should have kept him fine up until Zero and just have him carefreely thinking about stuff.

When the counter hits zero, the curve should drop off slowly, while Hibito gradually loses his breath in a corresponding manner.

The alternative would have been to drop it rapidly and have him die really quickly but that's not good for drama.

And there's also the premature depletion as you mentioned.