User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 680 - THE END 2/@comment-24531362-20160630115915

ANALYSIS MODE ENGAGE:

SUPER GERARD FINALLY DIE

Yhwach finishes chugging his strawberry smoothie.

Meanwhile, the infinite loop I predicted last week failed to occur, because Uryū is kinda a chump and is bleeding to death and all. How does he counter Jugo's overwhelming martial might? With a motherflipping friendship speech. See, it brings him pride to be associated with Ichigo. Ichigo's irrationally gung ho attitude helped teach Uryū how to see the true meaning of life, and he hopes that when he grows up he can be just like Ichigo.

Jugo counters that when he linked Uryū and Ichigo, he wasn't talking emoptions. He stated that Uryū's friendship with Ichigo has actually been detrimental to his abilities and that his powerup from Yhwach's Schrift-granting meant that, in terms of pure benefit, Uryū should be on Yhwach's side.

Taking a retrospective look for a second, we can see that Jugo is objectively correct: during his friendship period, Uryū went from not beating a Menos to not beating Renji to barely beating Mayuri to not beating Szayelaporro to not beating Yammy to not beating Ulquiorra to not beating Tsukishima to not beating Ginjō. He was kind of really weak if you think about it, mostly existing to be awesome for a short inconsequential fight then prove how epic the next baddie is by getting Quincy Crossed off the list of opponents. Compare this to the ridiculously OP The Antithesis (when used against someone that isn't Jugo) and we see that Uryū really did gain a ton more from JuJu Man.

Uryū then explains that he doesn't choose his friends for the benefits. He chose to be a member of that Mötley Crüe because they are his friends. Now this pisses Jugo off; remember that Jugo chose to cast aside his only friend so mustache-senpai would notice him, so Uryū's logic is basically anathema to Jugo's worldview. With his jimmies sufficiently rustled, Jugo prepares to end his foe maliciously... before getting sucked up by Auswählen laser beams along with Gerard. Yhwach no longer needs his 'ritters. Again, Uryū doesn't get sucked up, reinforcing his immunity to the sucky-laser-doom-thing.

Yhwach then blusters to a recently arrived Rukia and Renji that he's gonna destroy the human world, then leaves through a portal to do so because his godlike powers apparently don't enable him to destroy realms whilst sitting in a chair sipping pinot grigio. He invites anyone who wants to die fabulously to follow him.

This was a chapter. Between resolving the Gerard and Jugo plotlines, reinforcing Uryū's character development and royally curbstomping Ichigo's hopes and dreams, we see a lot happen. My only fear is that, with an ending in  chapters confirmed, we'll see a rushed pace that doesn't handle things well, a la Naruto's ending. We'll have to see in the future to be sure.

Also, Xil, how did you not put a Mötley Crüe song for the song of the week?

That's a wrap!