User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/415: Deicide 17/@comment-1248963-20100806020411

I'm still feeling ambiguous towards Gin. When he took the Hogyoku out, he said "With this, it's over" so it didn't seem like he was planning to use it, but of couse when it's him it's always too soon to know what he's really plotting. But I'm hoping next week will clarify his real intentions, most likely with a full flashback as I already said.

About Aizen and Ichigo, I'm with Salubri, we always seem to agree on this particular point. Aizen was overpowered since the beginning, with a Zanpakuto that nobody could escape (yeah, now it has a weakness, not that he needs any illusions anymore...) and yet he kept evolving again, and again and again, what's this, the third evolution? And Kubo just wants us to believe that this Final GT will be able to pull through it where nobody did? Sure, Ichigo is strong "potentially". Just like Hitsugaya "In a hundred years or so...". Maybe Ichigo won't need a hundred years, but 2000 hous aren't gonna pull the trick. I'm not gonna repeat everything that Salubri said

I'm just thinking of the worm in Pixar's "A bug's life" that does his methamorphosys at the end and yells "I'm a beautiful butterfly!!" I'm kinda embarrassed to go and meet with my friends this weekend, I just pray nobody asks me "what's up with Bleach recently" so that I don't have to answer "Well... Aizen just grew Butterfly wings". Agh, I'm sorry Mohrph but I'm never going to get over the wings, no matter if they follow the "methamorphosys theme", they just don't suit Aizen, they are completely off Aizen's character or his "Godly ideals" or whatever. They're just wrong. And the overall look reminds me of a prom dance... or a fairy.... I'm just hoping that he won't pull off a Resurreccion called Mariposa (that's Spanish for butterfly) or I'll die.

As of Ichigo's training, it seems like, just like Yammy's fight, or Kensei's fight, we're never going to know what happened there. Ichigo will come back with his new technique learned and that's gonna be it, just like when he learned Bankai. I don't quite get why Kubo showed that picture of Ichigo bleeding two (three?) weeks ago and then gave us nothing. I really wanted to see the Hollow Zangetsu in action and get good pictures of him because I love the design but it seems we're not getting any of those. I was very keen on that fight, I loved TZ's dialogues, they were so deep and moving, and striking right to the core of Ichigo's soul, telling him exactly what he was doing wrong and how it was affecting him and his soul.