User blog comment:Toshiroichigo/Lack of strong personalities among vice captains./@comment-8669536-20131102153038

My opinion differs from yours on many points in this. But in many parts simply because I consider the lieutenants to be a severely underdeveloped group in Bleach. Some lieutenants are not meant to be strong characters but rather characters that awaken emotions in the reader and makes one think, and some lieutenants are very underdeveloped simply and have not been getting enough time on screen so to say. But the opinions expressed in this comment are just my opinions, everyone is of course allowed to have their own opinion and I'm not saying that anyone else is wrong. Also, sorry for Writing such a long comment.

Sasakibe did indeed master Bankai and did still not become a captain, but I believe his strong personality can be seen in this. His unwavering loyality was exceptionally strong and his loyalty was simply greater than his ambition, leading to him not even wanting to become a captain. Therefore I think this shows the strength of his personality rather than lack of strength, he was able to see past the normal ambitions and instead devote his life to what he wanted to do, which was serving as Yamamoto's lieutenant.

When it comes to Ōmaeda, I'm with you, he's a weak character in terms of personality. However he has at times demonstrated that his personality can have strong points such as when he protected Suì-Fēng from Ggio Vega or tried to help his sister. But he's still a weak character in my opinion too.

Izuru does indeed follow Gin blindly, but his personality is still strong on other points despite having a weakness in Gin. He has a, for Bleach, almost unique philosophy for combat and he has shown himself to have a strong will when his captain is not involved in the situation.

As for Isane, her personality is not very well developed. In fact she isn't even featured in the series very much at all. So I'll have to say that she has a sweet, caring, personality that indeed can be interpreted as weak.

When it comes to Momo, she has a huge weakness in Aizen and she is over all too trusting. But she has shown herself to be capable of doing things on her own, against Aizen, in Fake Karakura. The meaning with Momo I think is not that she is supposed to be a strong character, she's supposed to be more of an emotional character that gives more perspective on Aizens defection.

Renji is one of the most featured characters in Bleach and is one of the characters with the most development. And it has been shown several times that he has a strong personality.

Iba does appear to be strong-willed, but we haven't seen very much of him. And to be honest I don't like his personality, but I have to admit that it is stronger and more shown than some others.

Nanao is an awesome character, she has an extremely strong will and that has been shown in most of her appearances.

I agree with you that Rangiku has a strong personality. She is also one of the lieutenants who have been featured slightly more during the series, so she has gotten more development and opportunities to show her strength.

Yachiru is quite immature and is not very well developed, but for example she has been shown scaring people quite much and her personality has been somewhat elaborated on. So her personality is strong, but it is simply the personality of a child.

Nemu doesn't have much of a personality of her own, and that's obviously because Mayuri designed her with a personality similar to his own, he most probably also designed her so she wouldn't interfere with him too much. Also she has been suppressed and beaten so much that she has developed a habit of not saying anything. But the thing about Nemu isn't really that she's suppossed to be a character with a strong personality, if you ask me she's more of a tragic character.

And you forgot to mention Rukia, but I don't think anyone can say that she's weak in terms of personality.