User blog comment:Godisme/San'ou/@comment-1747976-20120728203832/@comment-5357349-20120801175748

im sure byakuya is alive caz hes the most famous captian and it took kubo more than 500 episodes to finally kill a character who isnt a antagonist which waz 1st squad vice captain plus it took so many arcs to finally replace the 3 captains i doubt they wud kill byakuya nd risk replacing him