I really like the way Yujis grandad dies, it's what originally hooked me on the series.

Like yeah I don't give a shit about him and I don't find it very tragic but I don't think thats what the scene is about.

To me, this scene evokes a very specific feeling and -

- uses that to open up the series-long dialogue on the nature of human death.

The feeling im talking about is that weird space where you've just lost someone who wasnt super dear to you, but still someone you knew - that weird twilight were the importance of life and death is -

- almost blurred and you arent sure what exactly life is about.

The scene goes on to utilize this feeling to create a dichotomy - the contradictory "good" death.

Granpa thinks he is dying the worst death possible, alone and as a burden to his only remaining link, a fate -

- he hopes Yuji avoids.

Meanwhile Yuji thinks his granpa died a right death, peacefully and surrounded by someone who cared.

And the fact that both of these characters think they know how the other feels about it is just such a cool idea to me.

I wouldnt call it tragic but rather affecting. From the suddenness to the silence it just feels real and so contradictory and it uses those qualities to kickstart a really cool thematic dialogue on what a good death really is.

I like it.