User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-61.18.34.115-20170102030527/@comment-7418318-20170103183902

Despite what Mashima might have said even seeing a dead body isn't a guarantee.

For starters it's hard to tell if someone's just unconscious or dead in black and white and for another we definitely saw Gray, Macao, Droy and Bacchus die for sure... only to have their death's undone by Ultear.

And I'm glad Makarov is still dead. Even if he ends up revived or not dead after all, at least it didn't happen within 3 chapters for a change. That makes a possible cop-out less annoying at least.