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Kiku and Kanjuro were drawn different, darker. So yes they are really dead now. Kin'emon was kind of shadow death so not sure.
Let's think about Oda's deaths and fake deaths. When he really kills someone he really shows the person getting killed right(except for Luffy)? And when he fake kills someone he don't show but make us think like that. I don't remember well all those 1015 chapters to say this is right or not. But we never saw Pound getting killed for example. Pedro and Perospero is similar, they both should be dead but we saw Perospero alive after that. Maybe Pedro is alive too(betting on that).
Let's think about Oda's deaths and fake deaths. When he really kills someone he really shows the person getting killed right(except for Luffy)? And when he fake kills someone he don't show but make us think like that. I don't remember well all those 1015 chapters to say this is right or not. But we never saw Pound getting killed for example. Pedro and Perospero is similar, they both should be dead but we saw Perospero alive after that. Maybe Pedro is alive too(betting on that).

