User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 569 (You've been hit by / You've been struck by / Senbonzakura~)/@comment-5059679-20140219101052

I can live with the fact Rukia has a Bankai, as long as she doesn't have complete control over it. I'm sure it's complete (Ichibei must have confirmed its name), but by no means should she be able to use it's full power only after a few days of training.

As Nodt falls into the old formula used with Yammy, Giriko and so many others... You power-up by growing in size, you die. It's a shame he goes out like that and to me this new form looked silly more than anything.

The scariest part of this chapter to me is Byakuya's strength. We've been seeing that to defeat a Sternritter, you need Bankai... Byakuya came in and broke through As Nodt's Tatar Foras (his Vollstanding aka Quincy's Most Powerful Form) with just his Shikai. I'm sure he could defeat As' new silly form with just Shikai as well if he wanted to, which makes me think... how strong is his Bankai then???

Another thing I thought with this chapter is that things are about to change drastically... Consider all the Sternritter that stole Bankai, which were the ones we all thought as the strongest... well, as of next chapter, they're all out it seems. This leaves us Haschwalth, Askin, Bazz-B, Col. Sanders, NaNaNa and Bambietta's Powerpuff Girl Squad... Not much of an invasion force, considering the most hyped characters are out. So what now? We'll probably still have Renji vs NaNaNa, which will transition to another opponent vs NaNaNa. Then what? Kyoraku, Ukitake, Mayuri and Kenpachi still haven't fought... some of them may fight, then I'm predicting a Captain battle royal against Haschwalth &/or Yhwahc... either way, the arc's turning point is coming soon.