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I think so to. This Blood War arc has been my favourite since the Soul Society arc because he's trying a lot of different things and jumping out of the box to wrap his story up. I'm really anticipating what's to come.

Fake Town Karakura was rather... poorly done. I suppose after Soul Society, Arrancar, and Huedo Mundo which all had adventure/mystery aspects to it the Fake Town Karakura arc was a poor way to wrap it up. It was one massive fight and all the battles were poorly built. We didn't know nearly enough about Barragan, Starrk, Hallibel and the Arrancar army to really care about most of the battles and it was the same with the Gotei as well. Sajin is a nice dude but he's a little boring, no matter how awesome Tousen was. Shunsui and Ukitake weren't expanded on, and we didn't really see things like Kira/Gin, Aizen/Yamamoto, anything with Unohana or Ukitake and Urahara/VIzard/Soul Society come into play too much. It's my least favourite arc, even if the fights were all pretty good. The best handled thing in the entire arc was wrapping up Hisagi/Tousen/Sajin. That was well done.

For me it goes, with Canon arcs at least:

Soul Society Agent of the Shinigami Blood War Lost Agent Hueco Mundo Arrancar Fake Town Karakura

Turn Back the Pendulum doesn't count.