User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 612 - DIRTY/@comment-24567599-20150123051604/@comment-5398287-20150123203910

To be fair, Kubo also outright said that Grimmjow was dead, so...

I wouldn't mind if Izuru's dead as long as it's confirmed. He seems to have been characterized as far as Kubo's willing to take him with his fantastic "battle is painful" speech, so we're not losing any real potential with him gone, and simply having some more named casualties on the side of the Gotei 13 (given the above criteria of not dying before they can really be fleshed out) is something I can get behind.