User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 617 - Return of the God/@comment-7606564-20150226215538

Can we all just take a second to stop and appreciate the epicness of Ukitake. A mostly underplayed character, he never really showed off that much strength. There was the battle alond shunsui against yamamoto and then him taking on starrk's underling (forgot her name, woops). We all knew he had to powerful, to be a captian, and to have such a high standing.

But what really drives my point is that he had so much friggin reitsu that without him the door couldn't be formed. losing that one captain required the addition of 2 more captain level reitsus, two lieutenant level, and all of them getting amplified. Just goes to show how truly badass Ukitake was. He will missed.