2013-02-28, 09:37 PM
Rona Wrote:I think it's about as good as saying Crocodile isn't really missing an arm based on the fact that Oda forgot to draw it in on that cover page. He ended up fixing it way later when the tankobon were released. I agree that it doesn't really matter whether she's alive or dead to me either way, but I doubt Oda would leave such easily spotted visual cues about a character's survival on purpose. It would have totally ruined the gravity of the moment in terms of how she was killed in the knick of time to save the others on the island (including possibly Vergo), and that's not really like Oda.
A cover page doesn't really have significance to the story. I would think in the middle of drawing the landscape and specifically drawing that stake, that it would be positioned in the heart if the intention was death. Also that's not accurate either, Oda has constantly stripped the significance of moments like that, Pell being the biggest.
Can you name me one time that one piece has completely off'd a character who's intentions weren't entirely clear? Yes she wants to help donflamingo become pirate king, however, who gave the note to chopper? It was most likely was her and for what reason did she want them to escape? Plus majority of villains, I would say 90% aren't killed but reformed. Bellamy/nero were examples to essentially to show how cruel the actual villains are, so they aren't good examples as to oda's writing style, where he milks every death scene for what it's worth.
Now that I think about it almost every villain has been revisited besides don kreig and Kuro