User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 670 - The Perfect Crimson/@comment-1268838-20160414204946/@comment-26091912-20160415024430

Not surprising, no. But that doesn't make it any less annoying.

We know Gerard's power is damage conversion/reflection/whateverthef, and he's already taken out most remaining combatants, we don't need to see anymore of him. At what point in this series does recovering fully after being vertically bifurcated along with all your vital organs become the norm? This isn't DBZ.

Ulquiorra, as strong as he was, and as effective as his high-speed regeneration was, at least had a weakness. His brain and internal organs, if destroyed, could never grow back. That balanced him out a bit. Gerard on the other hand is just simply broken. He shrugs that last attack off, as if it were a regular occurrence, even though this is supposedly the first time he's been overpowered by a Shinigami like that.

If Kubo wanted to show off Hitsugaya's complete Bankai, he should've done that in the first place, instead of ruining Kenpachi's character forever.