User blog comment:Stella8908/ENGLISH 21-22/@comment-27606725-20160114002815/@comment-26569404-20160114034444

Hello! I'm not sure if I'm the best person to answer your questions (if the admins will let me), but I'll try.

Most of us still don't know what happened to Nabu. The main source of the confusion is an exchange between Aisha and Morgana after the scene in question. Aisha asks if she'll "take care of him," and she responds, "Until he wakes up again, you have my word." (The wording may be different in the Nick version.) That led many fans to believe he's comatose, and Morgana's looking after his body until he "wakes up." But three seasons later, he's still supposedly "asleep," so the coma theory seems unlikely now.

To make things more confusing, he appears in the second movie: Magical Adventure. But since it has other inconsistencies with season four, it might take place before or during it when he was still alive. He also appears a couple times in the final episode. But since none of the characters -- not even Aisha -- react to him being there, it's probably an animation error. (It wouldn't be the first in this series.)

Based on everything I've read and seen -- the episodes leading up to his death scene, the episodes after it, future seasons, and other materials like the comics -- Nabu is dead. That also makes the most sense based on how the characters react. Aisha cries, says goodbye to him, then goes on a quest for vengeance. Her friends mourn him as well, and everyone starts to talk about him in past tense (ex. he was their friend). If he were just in a coma and could wake up at any moment, they would probably be optimistic.

Also, in the next season, Aisha's confronted by an illusion of Nabu that flat out says, "Why did you let me die?" He repeats the word die two more times. Some fans have dismissed this, saying it's just a trick by the villain, but the scene suggests the illusion came from Aisha's mind. That implies she knows he's dead and blames herself for not being able to save him.

All this to say while many fans still think Nabu's in a coma, it's becoming clearer and clearer that he's dead. I think we're all still in a state of denial, since he was a popular character and this was the first on-screen death in the show. We didn't expect it.

As for Aisha's future happiness, she does fall in love again in a later season. As of the most recent season, they're still together. But as we've seen, we can never guess what the writers have planned for her.