Direct hit from bijuu bomb?

[Xzaro]

I'm debating this with someone.

If an opponent is within the explosion radius of the bijuu bomb (with sage energy and without), do they get melted/killed?

I can't find any videos online, but I know for a fact that there have been some battles where the opponent suffered a direct hit from from a bijuu bomb if not within the radius and they survived. Killer bee vs suigetsu, Naruto vs Obito, Naruto vs Orochimaru, etc. The only instance I can remember someone dying from this attack was when the ten tails shot a bijuu bomb in direction of the shinobi alliance HQ, but considering it was the ten tails I wouldn't compare it to the power of a single bijuu.

Of course you could argue that some of the opponents were in a transformed state or shielding against a direct hit in some way, but they were still in the radius of the explosion and managed to survive and at the very least, not get melted.

The specific scenario I had in mind was someone using a sage powered bijuu bomb attacking a city. Someone in the sewers below transforms into Kisame's shark form to swim away but still manages to get caught in the radius of the attack. Could they survive?

[SS_ShitStorm]

Well Suigetsu can turn his body into liquid and Obito is ******** Obito so they're poor examples to judge by.

Orochimaru was hit and his body didn't melt/explode so I want to say no.(At least with someone at or above Orochimaru's power level) He did have to vomit himself a new body but he seems to do that with relative spontaneity anyways.

[Itachi -ox]

I'm sure it's possible for someone to survive the attack. I think the only ones who'd actually have little to no chance at living, would be the average ninja or civilian. I wouldn't think that they'd be powerful enough to reflect or escape an attack that big.