We Should Make A Salad Sometime
Granted, it was a tad cliche in the whole "Hero must save girl premise," but the downer ending masterfully subverts that. I don't know why that tomato had to take up so much time overdosing on heroine, alcohol, and cigs when he could have been training that whole time in the first place so that he might be able to rescue the Carrot Cutie before she got cut up. Also I don't wanna sound like some PTA retard, but I question the "E" rating caused if I remember correctly, the fight ended with the guy one the floor with a knife sticking out in the back of his head next to read puddle that's either blood or tomato juice. Now granted, I do enjoy implied violence and getting crap past the radar, but the position of the knife I think jacks up the rating to "T." It's definitely not "M" material certainly, but I think you could imply extreme violence better if show the knife stained with red liquid to the side rather then being stuck in the back of his neck. Because your scene blatantly told us the human ended up stabbing himself as he slashed the tomato. Whereas if leave knife by the side, it implies either he knocked himself out and the red liquid is just tomato juice, or that he did slash himself and the liquid is both blood and tomato juice. However, the final fight scene was masterfully done and was a good payoff. I'm glad how the animation gets progressively better right up to the point where it peaks during the fight. That was some good finesse. Great Job.
Also "Chained Apart" as in "Food Chain." Durr hurr hurr.