User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Sabo: Dead or Alive?/@comment-71.141.250.148-20110429025352/@comment-96.40.179.240-20110617042258

It could very well be just a tease. It would be awesome to see Sabo alive and if he is you cannot overlook the fact that he wanted to be a captain himself. Either he would be a pirate captain of his own or be a part of the revolutionaries since he shared a strong and common hate for the nobles like Dragon. The piece of evidence that is given to basically say that he is 90% dead tho is time. Look at the times that Dragon and then Sabo departed. Dragon departs the harbor at night with a bunch of injured Grey Terminal citizens. Sabo leaves around midday so it seems very very unlikely that Dragon would happen to pick him up because he would most likely have drowned. You can also think that maybe somehow he survived, hanging on to pieces of the boat when Dragon turns his ship onto that part of the island, sees him and rescues him but the fact is the points do not add up together perfectly. Like what Oda does masterfully, he leaves too many dots to connect to create a picture so it could easily be a teaser but in actuality he's dead or he's alive, but either way there's no use thinking about it because Oda will do what's best for the storyline and the other characters and not necessarily what we want, which is what makes One Piece so great.