User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/407: Deicide 9/@comment-1248963-20100612083318

Don't worry Nick, it's a matter of who posts earlier. This week Godisme and many people got first because I couldn't get my hands on my PC (my fingers were itching to touch the keyboard and read the chapter and the little brat was "doing homework"... yeah sure)

But I was deeply impacted by Isshin's words in this chapter. That's why I wanted to put some focus on them and what a deep effect they seemed to have on Ichigo, where everything else seemed to just push him deeper and deeper into his self-pity pit. I really felt Isshin was reminding Ichigo of how neither of them was able to save Masaki, and that it was time to stop regretting and actually SAVE someone. I thought it was really powerful, and it showed in how immediately Ichigo picked himself up and finally showed some resolve (which he hadn't done in almost 20 chapters -since 388, the unforgettable ping-Ichigo-pong)