The animites were more clever than I expected them to be, as far as Neji's "death" is concerned; some of them (correctly?) concluded that when Neji really dies, the final activation of his seal (to keep the secrets of byakugan safe) will get more than 0 seconds of screen time.

Still, I can't wait for their reaction when they realise that no more good characters are being 'killed' (when the reinforcements arrive just in time), and some of them start thinking that maybe 1-2 good characters actually might die - 'death' scenes for all of Naruto's comrades would've made anyone dying too unlikely, in their eyes, but limiting the deaths to only Neji and/or Chouji ought to make a few of them bite their nails for a while, out of anxiety. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]


Of course, it might be a humanitarian act to remind the animites that Shizune is nearby and the hokage is a medic ninja, and that it would be strange if nothing ninja-medic-style was done at all to help the group... I think the "disappointment" of not getting any expected casualties should be dampened a bit, for their sake.