Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31190419-20170130180218/@comment-10733658-20170201035747

Tatara meets our basic criteria for being labeled "Deceased", but not "Unknown".

Simple as that. Please accept this, as it seems we've reached a point of arguing in circles.

Your position is based on lengthy personal fan analysis, and considerable theorizing. We cannot base Character Status on one person's personal theorizing of things.

If we get some further information in the future, we can update as needed. Right now, Tatara's situation is resolved. Yeah, Ishida kind of offed him and Houji in a very unsatisfying and undignified manner for the sake of Takizawa's story.

If we change him to Unknown, we're going to have to start doing it with many other characters given similar endings. We can't do it simply because some fans may have theories of how they are alive, or possibly not dead because of this or that.

It was an on-panel death, without a scene change or cliffhanger. There was no additional information, or extra scenes to make us question what we had seen. This is usually how it goes in this series, and how we handle things as the norm. He meets are requirements for being labeled "Dead".

You may not be satisfied with that answer, but that is how things are done. I see that you are essentially doing a Thought Experiment on things, but really this is kind of a simple matter. We got our baseline for a Status, and members of the staff and the community agreed.