User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 610 - Mausoleum of Skulls/@comment-28861328-20141219003243/@comment-28861328-20141219020040

Explanations of what exactly? I'll give you points on the Everything But the Rain mini-arc. That was well thought out (except, how did Yhwach not kill Ichigo and his sisters, who were also impure Quincy, when he killed all other impure Quincy save Uryuu, whom he didn't kill because he apparently couldn't?). We've always known Ichigo's true Zanpakuto. From his second appearance onward, Hollow Ichigo has always called himself Zangetsu. The only thing that explained is how Ichigo managed to complete his Spiritual Collage of races. Seriously, he's all of them now. Human, Shinigami, Fullbringer, Quincy, and Hollow. All rolled up into the most irrelevant protagonist in shonen history.

Really? Zaraki and Unohana's relationship was well explained? Did I miss something? Their "relationship" wasn't even hinted at until three chapters before it happened. We know nothing more than they fought each other once before and it, apparently, really turned the other on (I don't mean that as a joke, that is literally what was implied). Add onto that Unohana's non-explained Bankai, which was used for no apparent reason, and that entire "explanation' was a flop.

That isn't storytelling.

How can you possibly compare any of that to what he used to be capable of? People used to get legit attached to the villains. Ulquiorra? Grimmjow? Aizen? Gin? Tosen? Name 'em, they had some real depth. Meaning. They had relevance. When Kubo realized he couldn't possibly show all of the Sternritter he'd needlessly created (because the others only lasted maybe a chapter or two and were horribly two dimensional) he plothaxed them all out of existence to spare him the extra paper.

Kubo makes a lot of pretty drawings. He's good at that. But that's about all he's good at any longer. Its not about Kishi vs Kubo. Kubo vs Oda (whom I also despise). Kubo vs any other manga. Its about Kubo vs Kubo. He's his own worst enemy and this entire trainwreck of an arc is undeniable proof of that.