User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Sabo: Dead or Alive?/@comment-180321-20100610164404

It's pretty obvious he's dead.

The point of Sabo's death was to show Ace and Luffy's bond, Ace was protective of Luffy because Sabo told him to be in the letter. That's Sabo's Part in the plot and he played it perfectly.

Just another Flashback death among the thousands. Anyone calling "Pell" on this forgets that Pell was main plot, not a flashback.