User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 602 - Bane Licking Good/@comment-28861328-20141023151805

I feel the constant comparisons of Aizen's virtues to Yhwach's are highly misplaced. For one (in my opinion), the manga has dove off a cliff since Aizen exited and is now a comedic side show. To even suggest these chapters are good is laughable, but that's just me.

But seriously considering the two villains, you cannot accurately compare what Aizen did to what Yhwach is doing. Aizen was arrogance incarnate and everything was basically a huge science experiment to him:
 * He allowed certain things to happen simply because it interested him to see how things would turn out.
 * He didn't actively seek to kill Ichigo (until the final battle) or the captains and outright said so himself. The only one he sought to kill was Yama-jii and he damn near almost succeeded in doing so.

Overall, his goals and reasoning were entirely different than Yhwach's. Yhwach's campaign is far more of a military-style invasion rather than Aizen's pseudo-guerrilla warfare. Unlike Aizen, Yhwach had, from the beginning, gunned for killing all the captains, converting or killing Ichigo, wrecking Soul Society, etc. So to compare the two villains side by side is implausible and unrealistic. They just don't fit.

Aizen was outlandish, but I would take him back any day. We don't know what the hell Yhwach is even doing. So far his entire fight has been a glorified temper tantrum. He hates the Shinigami so he's going to wreck their **** like some jaded younger sibling, mad that his older sibling is favored by their parents. He's in the Soul Palace. Why? Why did he go there? To kill the Soul King? Replace him? Why did he destroy Soul Society? Yes, obviously Quincy hate Shinigami, but if that was the only reason, why wait 1,000 years to do it and why not just mop the floor with them and leave if that was your only goal? Why the in the name of Talos would you invade the Soul Palace and fight the Royal Guard on their own turf when your original plan (he actually said this) was to lure them to Soul Society and fight them there?

You get the point. With Aizen, yes, he may have been annoying at time (he's still twice the villain Buckbeard will ever be), but at least I knew what the hell he was gunning for; what he wanted, what he believed, why he was doing what he was doing, etc. Yhwach has literally none of that. He's as two dimensional as a stick figure.

And as to the pragmatism, it's pretty much a staple of Shonen. It just is. We all think its nuts, we all hate it, but for some reason, Shonen characters feel the need to gloat about their powers to everyone under the sun. *shrugs*

And before everyone jumps on me for not kissing the ground Kubo walks in, don't. I just felt the need to vent so ignore me if you find it that bothersome. I loved Bleach originally but this entire arc might as well be Bleach's Dragonball GT. There is nothing redeemable about it at all.