Spike lives. No question about it. If this were a Chinese anime, no question he’d be dead — they’d have killed off every major character in the last ten minutes of the show. But a Japanese director is at least 50/50 likely to sew him back up. After all, it was only a flesh wound.
Besides, the director was dropping hints last year about reviving the series. Absolutely necessary since my youngest daughter has adopted the nickname “Radical Ed.”
Nah, he’s dead. His star went out.