Yeah! Tohru's situation seemed a lot more vested with an interest in Ritsuko; he was torn but ultimately still killed Natsuno. His guilt drives him to let Yasuyo go, which is a solid plot arc. But rather than Ritsuko being a girl who really drives the guilt home by resisting where he couldn't, by not succumbing to what he did, she's all that and someone he admired and liked even before everything went to hell. Imagine how validated he'd have been if even she drank blood and how much harder it hits that she didn't. I thought that was a great change!

Ritsuko has some flashbacks to her boyfriend wanting her to ditch the village; the stuff he said would be pretty out of character for Tohru. There's a brief flash of said boyfriend dissing the village, though he might be a past-tense boyfriend she'd already dumped. If he is still her current boyfriend, it'd be interesting to explore in the anime/manga whether she's aware of Tohru's attraction to her, and whether she's entertaining that because he's a villager and won't push her to leave town like her current one. That's clearly important to her in any canon.