User blog comment:Sicarius001/Royal Guard and Eighth Division Captain/@comment-4207271-20130419010418/@comment-7658432-20130424085136

You can 't say for sure that Unohana is dead. Byakuya too was really killed but fanboys can't take it so he was ninja backed to brink of death. I understand those twist plot-kai events but until there's no formal confirmation, Unohana remains unknown. Same as Izuru who was the first casualty of the attack. His body is still not shown and it is stated 1 Lieutenant-class Reiatsu vanished so he's supposed to be dead but no confirmation so... At least they're UNKNOWN/UNCONFIRMED. I know what you're getting at, Yamamoto and supposedly Unohana's death as plot twist but Byakuya's story is the same. Supposed to be a plot twist.