User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 564 (Mask is too fabulous to live)/@comment-1904799-20140115175108

Interesting chapter. It's a little wearisome that Kubo keeps pulling the "incredible new power-up, defeat the bad guy in one fell swoop" card, but at least Renji's new Bankai is interesting to look at and has some apparently-awesome abilities. I suppose this now means that Renji is obligated to give James some kind of mercy-killing. Mask is decidedly dead, so James is the only part of the duo left standing, and he doesn't seem to have much going for him on his own (although I could be wrong; watch James actually have been Stern Ritter S all along and Mask was just his "mask" or something equally silly).