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i personally could see them easily being alive considering we know Gremmy needed to focus on a person to keep the effect he puts on them active, i could also see them being indeed dead but honestly while there "death" was shocking it lacked the impact that usually is required for a good character to die, we know these characters better than Chojiro which is the only good character i can think of that has died without us seeing a decent bit of them. Obviously we will find out likely at the end of the series. Plus Kaido i think you are making a big assumption that there is only Haschwalth left, we really don't know that and considering how many people need to still show there Bankai's/abilities there needs to be more unless you are just assuming there lost causes which i guess could be the case but i personally am going to choose to have faith in Kubo in regards to that.