User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/416: Deicide 18 (The End)/@comment-1268838-20100819015730

It's not a matter of Ichigo receiving power out of nowhere; it's a matter of mastering the ridiculous amount of power he has had all along. I find it incredibly stupid that so many people are trying to compare Ichigo to Aizen, when there are just too many factors to account for. We have no idea how much stronger Aizen is in his latest form because even before he transformed, he was wasting captains left and right; at that point, Ichigo was taking him on with a handicap that was canonically stated.

As for complaints that this was all predictable, so what? The way I see it, any other ending would have undermined the way the series has progressed thus far. Aizen being beaten by Gin? Gin not dying? Ichigo not showing up on time?