User blog comment:FoolishMortalFOOL/Whitebeard's injury (Both versions)/@comment-3119203-20110130074838

Losing half of his face is worse, because he can survive being wounded in the chest (squardo stabbing him, kizaru firing a laser through him, guns/swords, etc), but he lost half of his face, including part of his brain and still survived. The anime probably didnt want to show something so gruesome