User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 667 - BIGGER, LOUDER, STRONGER/@comment-3219912-20160324150518

I don't know but the way the chapter ended made it seem like to me that Hoffnung is special because Nozarashi only nicked it, but Kenpachi got cut by it? I don't know maybe I read that exchange wrong. Also Kenpachi lost his eyepatch somewhere in that fight with Gerard.