User blog comment:Mrlmm0605/Let's Talk Bleach! - Part 9: Tōshirō Hitsugaya/@comment-5398287-20150925231631

Least favorite...hmm...

Everyone rags on Zommari, but for me it's gotta be PePe. He's like Zommari in a lot of ways: similar powers, similar positions, and similar wasted characterization. While Zommari was initially characterized as a pragmatic, effective, quiet assassin, PePe was originally set up as a sort of shadow-lurker with the ability to control others: with his only dialogue being "Geh-geh-geh", he was by far one of the most mysterious characters introduced so far, and he seemed like he would be manipulating at least one fight between other characters from afar or something. So far, so good, given that we don't really get those types of characters anymore. Then came his interaction with Askin, where he got some actual lines and was further characterized as 1. the kind of guy who uses hearts in his text bubbles, and 2. someone who prefers to work from afar. Still fine.

But THEN came his "fight" with Byakuya, and this is where he completely derailed. In the span of one chapter, PePe went from laughing in the shadows to bouncing around claiming love is responsible for everything and so on. He wasn't funny, he wasn't cool, he was just stupid. But even beyond that, even Zommari was a better character. You know why? Because Byakuya got to be badass and stuff during his fight, especially with the whole cutting his tendons thing, which made it memorable. While "fighting" against PePe, Byakuya was an idiot, throwing away his Zanpakuto and somehow forgetting that he could incapacitate Hisagi with Kido. Then he had to be saved by someone who was already dead. Just ridiculous.

/rant