User blog comment:Godisme/belIEve/@comment-955994-20111123083037/@comment-893506-20111123161632

And unfortunately, much of the fanbase of Bleach think exactly the same way, which is why a huge chunk of them hate the Lost Agent arc. I actually liked that Chad and Orihime went through some development while Ichigo was powerless, but it was disappointing that they were pushed out of the fight because of Tsukishima.

Jakuho, I know you're not a fan of Ichigo, but he is a main character, and primarily a Human. As such, regardless of how people feel about the Human characters, you would think that Chad, Uryu, and Orihime would be have some more focus in the series (not counting Orihime as Aizen's prisoner, since she was pretty much useless there), but instead they've been reduced to sideline characters when certain events unfold. I understand that Kubo wants to shine some development on many of his characters (heck, many Shinigami characters had some real development during the Arrancar Saga), but I don't feel he always needs to find an excuse to take the Human characters out of action in order to do it.

Character development is important, and I think it's great that many individual characters have gotten it by this point into the series, but unfortunately, since many of the allies to Ichigo are Shinigami, and the fact the there's a lot of them, the Humans are easily pushed off to the side as a result of trying to focus on all of them (and I already know that there are still some Shinigami characters who haven't been focused on yet).