User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 674 - Father 2/@comment-1351982-20160519121839/@comment-29183117-20160519224753

I could probably go on for a while talking about how much I loathed the Reigai arc, but I'll keep it condensed. Pretty much every bad Shonen trope--overpowered villains, forced morals about friendship, cookie-cutter characters, etc.--was present in the arc. Nozomi, Inaba and Yushima were all either bland, annoying, or both, and the Reigai's motivation of "wanting to protect Soul Society in their own way" was utterly ridiculous and out-of-nowhere. And making Kon a prominent part of the story was more or less the biggest indicator that the arc was doomed. I could go on but the very action of thinking about this arc makes me annoyed.