User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-28861328-20131211160420

The most jarring thing to me, especially as a med student, is...... you can still hear without your eardrums. Anyone whose ever had their eardrum rupture knows that too. Now, you can loose your hearing if you let it go and it gets really infected, but that takes awhile.

So, Kubo basically just made Mask inflict himself with pain... but nothing else. After that, I couldn't even enjoy the chapter because, by that faux alone, Rose should've won. Idk, just me being a party pooper. Loved seeing Rose's Bankai, though, so I will give Kubo credit for that.