User blog comment:Fire Eater/Differences between the manga and the anime?/@comment-1037137-20180629031158

So the empty machine gun on the blimp, we clearly saw one there, why no explanation on why nobody was manning it during the retreat, something that might've saved Sasha and Lobov? Or is there simply no justified explanation for what I can only observe as a major plothole?

Because if you intend to go forward with this totally unwarranted death scene in the anime, that's something to be addressed because there is no way in hell Gabi should've gotten anywhere near that door. Sasha's dead solely because all logic and sense was cast aside in the circumstances leading up to the moment it happened. Not because it made any sense for Gabi to get so close to her with no other obstacles after Lobov. During which there literally was nothing between himself and Sasha to slow her advance.

So is there any rational explanation for why a gun turret that was in our plain view had nobody on it in the middle of a warzone? Even before everyone decided it was a good idea to celebrate with the enemy still fifty feet below? We never saw that thing fire once in the actual battle.