User blog comment:Avolling/The Good Guys Will Not Die (Because Tite Kubo Is A Pushover)/@comment-1454424-20100322075314

sigh I don't know how many times I have to explain this but here it goes again.

Harribel is considered dead because along with her injuries, Mashiro Kuna said "Aizen killed her". Plain and simple. The reason Hiyori was NEVER pronounced dead was because when we last saw her, she was talking. I.e. she was clearly alive. Thus incapacitated. Ukitake? Last we saw him, he was face down on the ground and neither his best friends nor his mentor mentioned him being deceased. Thus incapacitated. Same with Hinamori, last time we saw her, she was talking. That is why she is listed as incapacitated. When someone in the manga says they are dead. We will change it.

I am sick and tired of the ignorance that permiates this topic. It's not really a hard equation. Is there reasonable cause to believe character x is not dead? Yes, then leave them incapacitated. Otherwise, they are dead. I would also like to point out that we still list Grimmjow and Tesla as incapacitated/unknown on the same principle. Both were last seen breathing. While they might well have died from their injuries. We were never informed of their death and that's why we can't call them dead.

It's not a good guy bad guy thing, its a "what does the manga show thing".