User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 480: The Northern Gravestone, Review./@comment-24546844-20160405165049/@comment-24546844-20160405180251

I didn't say it's worse, I said it makes this scene even worse. I may be reading on it too much but it felt like Hiro was trying to invoke some sort of feeling on the reader. Chaining someone represents dominance over that individual, and another layer is added to it when it's done to a woman, and though he could leave it out Hiro choose to do it, and chose it to be done exclusively to Yukino when doing it to Sting, the guild master, would be more symbolic. It gets worse when you know about the common treatment of female war prisoners. It's like he either did it just to invoke some weird fetish (I don't think he would stoop so low) or to increase the shock value and make us despise Alvarez even more.

I agree with Nc, Hiro did get his point through and I'm not even saying he did it wrong, it's just that I felt a bit darker than the usual for this series when you think about it (like naked eletric torture).