User blog comment:Godisme/The Buckbeard/@comment-2089817-20120308235304

I have a theory that this leader is related to Ichigo. If you look at his face closely, he looks like a long-haired Isshin, complete with the same style of facial hair, and even the face looks similar (although Kubo is just lazy at times). We were told we'd find out the real reason why Misaki was killed, and maybe, it was by Vandenreich, as a sort of "punishment" to Isshin for marrying and conceiving a child with a human, and thusly, "tainting" the blood of "true bloods". This is called the 1000 year Blood War, after all, so it's not that outlandish.