User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/408: Deicide 10/@comment-1454424-20100619025151

... Amusing but you are entirely mistaken. Kubo likes Hitsugaya and gives Hitsugaya the screentime he does because Kubo like to draws stories and fights with Hitsugaya. He does not do what fans want. I quote from Kubo himself ''Kamenashi-kun huh? That makes me happy, but even if say Obama or Madonna liked a character, it wouldn't change how much they appear.''

The above tweet was in response to the question ''When do you plan to show Byakuya again? Shoko-tan, Hirano Aya, Kamenashi-san and a bunch of other stars like him, so it would be nice if he was in the manga more.''

To further emphasis this point, in All Colour But The Black, Kubo wrote  At this time I never thought that Hitsugaya would become so popular...Well, since he fights with Aizen at the end of the Soul Society arc, it probably would've been rough if he wasn't popular. I.e. Kubo's plans for Hitsugaya involvement in the story came first, Hitsugaya's popularity came after.

Seriously, if you don't like Hitsugaya, you don't like Hitsugaya. But please don't transfer your dislike of Hitsugaya onto Kubo and assume he's only treats the chibi captain the way he does because of fangirl pressure. Actually that's one of my pet peeves. People assuming they know why Kubo does what he does without a shred of proof by their own dislike of a character to back it up. It's really irritating.

PS. Here is the link to the original tweet translations.