User blog comment:Godisme/The Tearing/@comment-1351982-20120215175913

I was hoping Kubo would do something like this with the arrancar. To me that is the only logical way to reintroduce them into the storyline. I really believe that the arrancar will turn out to be the good guys. I am not a shipper, but shino and Ryu are sort of like Ichigo and Rukia in the substitute arc. Plus I am not surprised the about the smelling thing, I believe Orihime was able to do something similar or I could be mistaken. However it could also be a mistranslation on mangareader, I will wait to see the SJA version of 481. The part I loved the most where that all of the Nakama were fighting the hollows together, not just Ichigo, and if I am not mistaken, this is the only time they have done it on screen together in canon.