Discussion[SPOILER]

[.::Haseo On The Clouds::.]

Okay guys so I've been thinking for quite some time now. Who here believes that Sabo is NOT dead? I mean the guy appears in one of the chapter covers appearing as if he were alive, and just the whole thing is crying out something. I believe that Oda was intending to have Sabo survive that blast.

Anyone else agree?

[thormundsson]

I know exactly what you mean, for what reason on earth would they show it if not to have him return. I think he's either coming as a villain or possibly (in a more stupid idea) as a replacement for Ace.

if he really is dead then it's one of the first filler arcs in a manga I have ever seen, he was pointless.

[.::Haseo On The Clouds::.]

Haha okay, but I truly do think he's alive. If I recall correctly, wasn't there something in the manga where an unknown figure is seen talking? You could guess it was Sabo....

[thormundsson]

yeah I think you are right, also, they never showed his hat vanishing, they just saw his ship explode, just like with ace's hat and luffy's, if the hat ain't gone they are alive

[Armani]

While I do tend to agree with the assumption that Sabo is alive, I wouldn't put it past Oda to have killed him off. After all, people can still play a role in the story even if they are dead. As for it being a filler arc, I'm not too familiar with a lot of animes or mangas (FMA and OP are the only two I've read or watched) but it seems like flashbacks in OP have a purpose. We saw each of the SH backgrounds in the past through flashbacks and even though someone was shown and consequently died in those, we wouldn't call them fillers because it gave us insight into the characters. Is Sabo any different from Kuina or Bellemere (Please forgive any misspellings)?

[hellcats]

I'm pretty sure Sabo is alive. Oda is notorious for only killing characters in flashbacks but this particular flashback carried too much in it. Especially after Ace dying, its too convenient.

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Sabo wasn't filler. Filler in a Manga could fall under such things as out of place or non-canon events taking place for humor or on part of author boredom. Sabo was an arc, done for the purpose of giving Oda time to prepare the time skip.

As for filler in an Anime, that's clear to most people who watch an read a series. Sometimes filler in an anime turns out to be canon because it wouldn't fit in the manga, but most of the time its just made by the animators to stall.

[paintman]

Sabo will likely be alive.

Remember Dragon was in the area when sabo was "killed"

it would surprise me incredibly if he didn't manage to save someone that Luffy thought of as a brother.

I'm rather surprised it was shanks that intervened at Marineford and not Dragon.

[nero]

Oda never explicitly said Sabo had died, so it's a possibility that he's alive.

[velvetnico]

Psh, Sabo is totally alive and kickin' it somewhere awesome. Oda loves to fake-out and surprise his readers. I just can't guess when Sabo will actually show.

[deciduous]

I consider him to be alive and probably maybe when he comes out he will be some big type of pirate or something like he wanted to be.

[Xavanezos]

I'm like 95% sure Sabo is alive and I have reasons to believe we'll see him in the revolutionary army. He talked with Dragon where he appeared to like him and he also refered to nobles as "trash", those sound good enough reasons to me for Dragon to just rescue him from the shipwreck and take him along!

[Badman Zeek]

Is it perhaps possible that Sabo has become a revolutionay, or even a pirate of new world. Afterall he had a long head start in becoming a pirate if he survived.

[Kurosaki]

I agree with Zeek, he's probably out way ahead now since he left while he was so young. I'm 99% sure he's still alive too.

[jaymez]

I dunno doesn't anyone else think it would kinda ruin the whole flashback bit if he ended up being alive? I mean Sabo's death had a big impact on Ace and Luffy... It'd kinda ruin the whole backstory if he was alive. In my opinion.

[drago]

i hope hes dead