Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26912075-20160204195720/@comment-1210805-20160205104716

Overall I'm enjoying the arc, but it's a bit more up and down than the others have been. I bothered me that when we hadn't seen Ichigo for a while (recently), it was basically because he was doing the same thing as everyone else (running), but in a different part of the city. In past arcs his lack of involvement always had a more solid reason.

Some parts of this arc have felt a bit rushed too, particularly Uryu's return to being openly bffs with Ichigo. I think we all saw it coming but I wanted the tension to be built up more. His whole plan of scattering things around the city was fine, but he should have been engaging the Quincy's enemies at the same time, to be a little more convincing. It feels like a missed opportunity to not have a rematch between him and Kurotsuchi, particularly considering Mayuri's connection to his grandfather's death. There also seem to be a ridiculous number of plot threads dangling at the moment, and things that just haven't been used yet. The Zero Squad is likely to come back so we can see them fight properly, the Fullbringers have yet to reappear, Nel is supposed to be around somewhere, as is Urahara, Ichigo's dad will probably appear at some point, Yachiru is missing and so on and so forth.

Despite all of that, I think my biggest gripe is that relative lack of Rukia, particularly when it comes to what's happening with Ichigo's group. Their relationships were at the center of the series when it started, but since the timeskip they really haven't interacted very much. It's a shame, especially with Rukia at a more powerful level, that we can't see her and Ichigo fighting alongside each other.