User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 670 - The Perfect Crimson/@comment-24769684-20160414120945

I had stated before that the events of the past two chapters made me angry, but it was kind of playful, just me reacting to various extreme fallacies and whatnot. But this chapter didn't inspire any cartoonish rage, it actually made me angry.

Gerard overpowering Kenpachi was ok, though I doubt it's the last we've seen of him. However, I thought that by removing him we could actually bring characters back into the forefront that need expansion on their powers. Shinji and the Visored are still AWOL and should still be active. But noooooooooooooo, we get fucking TOSHIRO HITSUGAYA for the BILLIONTH time. Hitsugaya transcends the ONE weakness of his power and grows into the handsome man that all fangirls would like to see.

It's clear from these past three chapters that Kubo seems to care more about getting his ratings up than actually telling a developed story with good character usage. Instead of expanding more on back characters like the Visored, Kubo is throwing his three most popular Shinigami into the limelight, despite them already playing extensive roles in this arc, and making them more powerful than ever. Sorry, but that feels like nothing more than a plea for attention. Did Kubo fuck up so much in the previous Schutzstaffel fights that he needs to sell out like this in order to stay in the magazine? We've seen plenty of Toshiro already. While his character arc in this arc was far from perfect, the battle against Gerard has done little to make it better. I grew around to liking his presence in this battle as a whole, as long as he wasn't the main course. But as with Kenpachi's Bankai, Kubo seems to be pulling new powers for his popular characters out of his ass to get attention. What is this "matured Bankai" even gonna do? If anything, Rukia should use her Bankai against Gerard because how could he escape out of overwhelming cold?

Rant over. One of the worst chapters since Chicken Lille