User blog comment:Awesome!/Is Oda doing 3rd time the charm?/@comment-75.60.218.45-20101115004845/@comment-3079795-20101116205824

yeah. . . I can't think of a single named character (not in a flashback) who has died (the exception being Ace and Whitebeard, since their deaths played important events). Unless it serves the purpose of serious emotional drama Oda doesn't kill of characters. That's why Ace died and Whitebeard, they were key parts in the plot. Bon Kurei is not. ..