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Abaronkakaku wrote:

maybe Kubo planned it like that so that when Giriko, Shukuro Tsukishima and the others who were at Kukaku and Ganju's finished their training or whatever, they'd step in at a certain point. That's not too far off, actually. In those "The Dagger" review things that came out during the 6-week hiatus last year, Kubo referred to the Fullbringers in Soul Society as "the third force". Considering the other two forces are the Gotei 13 and Wandenreich, that's saying something about how important they might end up being.