User blog comment:Dragon018/Real or Fake??/@comment-4938779-20130323043934/@comment-1595565-20130323215603

This is why I don't like meaningless comparisons, they have no value when comparing situations that should be addressed individually and not retroactively. Kuro has absolutely nothing to do with this and neither does Kin'emon. If there isn't dramatic irony involved or  in-story reason for uncertainty when someone says a character is dead, I don't question it. It is literally choosing not to believe something not stated in the story for no reason other than you don't want to. If you want to argue semantics, Kuro faked his death and the only reason the readers didn't think he was dead was because he said who he was before he told the story of how he faked his death; last I checked, Jango don't run shit on here. Though I must say that I am surprised to find out that someone would think something that irrelevant could actually be applicable. When Kin'emon was petrified, we didn't know the gas took 5 weeks to kill someone, and since Kin'emon was otherwise preoccupied, we could only take Brook's word for it. What I can't understand is why people can't accept the fact that cases of death must be handled individually instead of always falling back to events irrelevant to the current situation.