but that's the problem. how do you justify having someone get mauled by a rasengan when you cant even show it?
for example, it was one thing to show ichigo with a hole in his chest, but it was clean cut by a high powered energy beam and just looked like a circle cut-out, but a rasengan to the chest sounds like it would be messy.
being meant for 8 year olds was obviously hyperbole, but this show certainly isn't into the kind of stuff elfen lied or hellsing would show.