User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 554 - Desperate Lights/@comment-5551986-20131023163303

Pretty decent chapter, a good review too.

What does amuse me is the fact Yhwach seemingly has an intellect paralleling that of Aizen and perhaps Urahara, seemingly having predicted nearly every event up until now and has yet to have even been surprised by one. single. thing. He's like a budding Sherlock Holmes. I'm still 100% certain he has a plan for those who have yet to fight and could possibly provide reinforcements, such as Isshin, the Visored, the Royal Guard, Ichigo & Friends. I doubt he has plans for the Arrancar help and the Fullbringers assisting, I doubt he will care, Yhwach may even have a Royal Guard of his own? The Sternritters purpose is to purge, annihilate and defeat the Gotei 13 and Shinigami, he would surely have others who would protect him, almost like a defensive force, its quite ludicrous to send your entire army to fight another and not have anything in reserve.

As for the Volstandig, I'm glad that happened, time to up the game, I would have liked to have seen the Sternritter have a little bout with a Shinigami's bankai without it. Maybe just utilizing blut.