User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 569 (You've been hit by / You've been struck by / Senbonzakura~)/@comment-24113610-20140223232155/@comment-24113610-20140224073203

If you wouldn't have described Rukia as weak pre-RG training, what would you call her Nels? Powerful? Heck no. I would say she was average/ decent at best. Just cause she gets a lot more pages and story development than most everyone else, doesn't mean she's the shit. And in my opinion AA was defeated because of his arrogance; he had her beat, could of killed her but he taunted her instead. I'd say Rukia caught a lucky break in that fight.

And GC, that doesn't make sense because you have to have a bankai to become captain. And you don't have to be a lieutenant to be promoted to captain as Urahara proved. And you do know that Ikkaku has chosen not to be moved up because he wants to die under Kenpachi? And what does reishi manipulation have to do with gaining a bankai?

I just think Rukia gaining a bankai is like going from 0 to 60 in 6 seconds with a mini-van; ridiculous. Sorry Rukia fans.