User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 582 - The Headless Star/@comment-11446176-20140528080608/@comment-5398287-20140530055848

Believe me, I've been pretty sore over the lack of bows and arrows. However, I don't mind if Kubo forgoes them in favor of other weapons IF the Sternritter actually use their Quincy abilities in conjunction with their epithet powers. It's easy to forget they're Quincy when they're just imagining things out of thin air or making things explode. Quilge and Royd are great examples of how the Sternritter should fight (Quilge's already been described above, and Royd, while not exactly using his epithet power offensively, fought with Quincy techniques and even unveiled a Quincy spellcasting thing that hasn't even been touched on since), and I feel like Kubo's gonna start going back to that style of fighting with them, based on Candice's Galvano Blast that's a mixture of The Thunderbolt and a Heilig Pfeil.