User blog comment:Godisme/Bleeding Guitar Blues/@comment-1332195-20120607100756

It could be worse God; he could be playing an Ibanez or something :(. I almost laughed at the revealation of NaNaNa's name; good thing I didn't as it was about 23:30 and I would've woke everyone up. Maybe he could start a singalong at some point...

Good to see Rose try to get the jump on him, and I like the look in his eyes when he shunpo's behind him. As Nodt's thorn; are they a variant on the good ol' arrow? Or are they just arrows and the grunt doesn't know any better? But Nodt looks way creepy. Bambietta... she looks kinda like a homage Misato Katsurgi to me, don't know if you agree. But her attitude does seem a little cliche from that short exchange with Sajin.

It was going fairly well, then they introduce the Mexican Wrestling world heavyweight champion. Oh dear. Thankfully Byakuya appears and it looks like it's going to get tasty.

I've said in the past I like the fast pace it's going at know. Kubo said this arc'd last for about 5 years, so I don't think we need to worry about him running out of content; one would think he's planned this rush well in advance, and we'll get a slowdown later on; I understand that this is fiction, and therefore doesn't have to follow the pattern of heavy activity and relative calm you may see in extended conflicts, but it would make a certain kind of sense to give everyone (particularly the gotei 13, they are the heroes after all) time to heal and plan for the next stage of the campaign, and no doubt for the Vandenreich to make plans of their own.

And besides, because of all this action, we rhaven't eally had time to get a real look at how some of the individual Shinigami have developed as warriors, as well people. Particularly with Izuru, Mom and Shuhei, who all have new captains who are completely different from their predecessors, and could possibly bring changes in them (Izuru less gloomy, Momo less clingy, Shuhei less reluctant). That's one reason why I don't think Izuru's dead yet; we've yet to explore his interactions with someone who hasn't really taken the limelight, and Kubo (to me) implied that he's either learned Bankai, or he will.

So I'm kinda expecting maybe 6 months of the high octane stuff, then it'll settle down for a bit; should give plenty of panel time to get some decent fights.