User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 669 - 刃 II/@comment-27133783-20160407142259

I love how Kenpachi's bankai pays respect to back how it looked when first introduced how it looked chipped and dull yet still had incredible cutting powers. Now his bankai has the look of his broken shikai form; which is Shakespearean as it's now as broken as he is xD but on a serious note this chapter reads good with the Treachery theme and/or Zaraki's theme playing which I personally did. And oh yeah nobody called this shit looking like this. A broken sword along with the physical transformation which he now really looks like an Oni. I go with broken because if you look at it the edges of it, it looks like as it's broken off. Plus Gerad did say it was "mangled" if it was a knife his dialog probably would have been along the lines "what are you going to do with that short blade" I felt like Kubo made Gerad specifically for Kenpachi to show off his bankai. He has incredible size, stamina, fortitude, and healing powers. If we look at all the other Sternritters, SS Waffen, or characters period in the bleach verse aside from Yammy with their small frames...one swing or strike from Kenpachi in his bankai state the fights would be over they would never be able to tank a direct or indirect hit for the matter. If we didn't get that Soul King's heart line from Askin and Gerad not be the final of the SS Waffen I would have loved to say this fight is done. This would be good and bad. Good because it would give respect to Kenpachi's power, bad is because he would be way too op even higher than plot armored Ichigo at this point and people would use the logic if Kenpachi could end Gerad then he should be able to finish Juha or any body else and to hell with Mc Ichigo. Then Kubo would truly have to do an ass pull to nerf Kenpachi if things had went down like that. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS CHAPTER!!! This is a chapter that is simply meant to be enjoyed and get hyped over. We had the Askin vs Kiskue, Shunsui/Nanao vs. Lille, Mayuri vs. Pernitta, WE'VE HAD 3 OUT OF THE 4 WAFFEN fights THAT WERE DIALOG HEAVY AND INFO DUMPS FOR CHRIST SAKE (not a bad thing but just as a comparison) in between them and it's nice to simply enjoy a slug fest like this fight is currently right now and it's a great change of pace instead of all the intricate power and history explaining we had during mid-fights. I'm glad I'm able to enjoy a beautifully drawn fight without having everything being an info dump or play by play analysis like we had before in the other ones as if it was a goddamn football game. I see now we've turned into a fanbase where we want Kubo to hold our dicks and explain everything to us WHEN WE WANT from the start in order for us to enjoy it and not give him a chance down along the road. If the fight ends and we have no idea what happened then yeah we can talk ass-pulls and bull shit just like we all collectively did with the Unahona fight but geeze give the man a chance and enjoy the ride. I can tell he been wanting to draw those panels from a long time and didn't want dialog cluttering them. I know Kubo doesn't read comment sections but it seems like whenever he did explain something in the previous fights people would always exclaim ass-pull, ass-pull! So now it's feels like he's like fuck it if people are unhappy with my explanations and characters explaining their powers then I won't give out shit for people to rant over. Yet this is Bleach people will always rant over SOMETHING.