User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/406: Deicide 8 end of the Chrysalis Age/@comment-1405841-20100602201934

I don't know what he's doing with Ichigo, seriously. Well, no I take that back...he's trying to develop the "Hero can't do anything but watch on as everybody else falls" cliche I've seen in so many stories. Making him feel insignificant compared to a much greater enemy and Gin's the voice of these shannigans, repeating (like what Godisme said) pretty much everything he said before. I understand Gin, that you're trying to get into his head and crap...but come up with something else.

My hopes for Urahara kicking Aizen's ass died whenever he went into this "cocoon" state. First he shows up and makes Aizen look like child's play, which would have been a great ending at this point if he had succeeded in killing Aizen (and then we could finally move on to a new villain?)...but instead, Aizen transformed into the "Perfect Being" look. Whenever tha happened, a small part of me knew anyone else who shows up is just going to end up as tiles on Aizen's floor...so he can walk all over anybody that gets in his way.

To be honest (I'm going towards DBZ with this one...) it's like giving Gohan his mystic powers in the Buu storyline, he shows up like an uber badass to save the day and then all of the sudden he's beaten and absorbed just like everybody else (in this case, three awesome characters get beaten down offscreen...oye). In fact, this is turning more into DBZ every chapter...I don't know how much somebody can use the "Smoke Clears, HE'S FINE!" BS but Kubo's getting good at it. It's not just Aizen, he's used it on a lot of people up until now...it doesn't build suspense to know there's smoke, because we all know the person on the other side is fine.

Kubo = Aizen is perfect. No doubt, Kubo's own imperfections are erased in making an absolutely perfect enemy. What's that TVtropes phrase? Something sue, that's what Aizen's become...he was awesome but now he's just spamming the cheat codes. And W.T.F on the Rangiku thing?! She's running, this seems like it's going to be something cool...then where the crap did she go? All we see is Gin talking to Ichigo and mocking him with the same words over and over...and now he's gone like you said...and Rangiku is probably laying in a ditch somewhere (or maybe they'll do a thing for the next chapter, where Gin looks back and sees Rangiku calling out to him...before the gate closes AGAIN).

Anyways, those are my thoughts.