User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-1268838-20131212223816/@comment-5398287-20131213031912

I'd like to address two of the points in this comment, since I've seen them in some of your other comments on this blog.

1. Mask crushing his eardrums. Now that I think about it, Mask is probably stupid enough to think that crushing his eardrums means instantaneous deafness, and for all we know it wasn't to counter Rose's Bankai, only to shock him long enough for Mask to counterattack with the Star Flash or whatnot.

2. The Asauchi accepting Ichigo. Based on what I recall of that sequence of events, the Asauchi had essentially rejected Ichigo prior because he was confused, lost, etc. because of Yhwach's words about his mother. Then he learns who she was and who was REALLY responsible for her death, and he matured, in a way. The Asauchi saw that and thus accepted him.

That's just my two cents on those matters.