@SeaOfHope:
Oh yeah, and Perospero lost an arm. And he had candy armor on, and was literally on top of the man. Didn't prevent him from getting hit with casualties. It's not really leaving to the imagination if that's what happened to Perospero, what happened to Pedro.
So your point is the blast wasn't life threatening?
Pedro was a hero character, so he has the strongest armor of all, plot armor. Maybe he loses a limb or gets another scar, but no reason he needs to be dead over it.
Crocodile drained all the water from Luffy's body and left him as a dead husk, then with a little splash of water Luffy was fine.
Enel bruned multiple characters to a crisp with lightning and they were fine… including a guy who was assumed dead for the entire arc.
The Franky family fell off a cliff and died. Wait, Paulie got them with a rope.
Gedatsu ( a villain!) fell from the top of Skypeia to the ground, and was fine.
CP9 got buster called. Turns out they were all fine.
The Sunny has been destroyed twice now, it was a fake out both times.
Magellan hit Luffy with a multitude of poisons that were literal guaranteed death that had no cure because there were so many, and with just a little help to his healing system Luffy tanked right through it.
Dude bites off his tongue, is declared dead by doctors, is up two chapters later.
Luffy and Ace thought Sabo was dead for a decade but he just had anesia.
Bellamy was murdered by Doflamingo until he was fine 10 years later IN REAL TIME.
Mr. 9 was dead for nearly 15 years! IN REAL TIME! before he showed up in cover story.
There was the time Doflamingo got beheaded... oh wait, just a realistic pupet... that sweats.
Law got his arm cut off and was then killed! Oh wait no he switched his body with a corpse. And later re-attached his arm.
Vivi's childhood friend and loyal advisor Igaram was blown up in a huge explosion and died! Vivi thought he was dead all of Alabasta. But then he was fine, no explanation.
Vivi's other childhood advisor Pell is blown up in a CITY destroying explosion, actually gets storytelling symbolism like cracking statue, Vivi cried about it... and he gets a scar, but is fine. And has done literally nothing in the years since except appear in the background of a few panels.
Wapol murdered the snow bunnies on Drum and... wait, they're fine.
The Tenryubito, the heartless bastards, exploded a collar on a slave's neck, then shot him, and had a dog pee on him. Doctors got him and he's fine.
Caribou's entire ship had its bubble pop underwater and so the water pressure crushed everyone and they all drowned... wait no, they're fine.
We're supposed to think right now Sabo, Pekoms, and Sanji's family are all dead, but come on.
And on and on and on, countless examples.
Oda does not kill unless the story absolutely demands it. If someone being knocked out and thought to be dead gets the same emotional weight, that's what oda will do.
Yasuie is the only on-screen present-time death present time we've had since Whitebeard. And... it was on camera, clear the readers, had multiple witnesses including main characters, the whole chapter was built around it, it actually affected the course of the story, and the characters got emotional as it happened. Not as an afterthought in the next chapter or trying to add to it later, the chapter it happened it was a moment.