User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 673 - Father/@comment-24769684-20160512163312



This was a really dull chapter. Renji and Rukia are back...still. no. shinji. But really, what are they going to add to the fight? Hitsugaya's already stolen Rukia's powers and I don't think slapping Gerard with a baboon arm is gonna do anything. Renji and Rukia are basically exhausted in terms of logical power development, so yep...get ready for some kind of asspull. I did like the Hitsugaya's older brother joke though.

Then there's Yhwach stating some BS things to rile up Ichigo and get the fight moving. Orihime can't even go one chapter without saying "Kurosaki-kun" or the like, which is sad.

Now, I'd like to talk about the upcoming final battle, specifically the big bad. Ichigo's ready to kick some ass with some unseen techniques, but I do have a problem with the person he's facing. Throughout the entire arc, Yhwach has never struck me as a true nitty-gritty warrior that would give Ichigo a good sparring match. Most of his attacks have made use of The Almighty Asspull and his Reiatsu to randomly do whatever he wants. Guy has been built up to be so powerful that he can kill opponents by willing it and anything that attacks him is so irrelevant because he can just see through it. The only time he's been shown to use his sword is when he bisected Yamamoto and when he briefly clashed with Ichibei, but that's hardly enough screentime to establish anythinh. I really can't see a guy like that fighting Ichigo, it would hardly make for a well-choreographed fight. Perhaps Yhwach will break out the sword and go toe-to-toe with Ichi, but that wouldn't feel right either because he's never been portrayed like that in this arc. So yeah, I'm disappointed in Kubo's setup of Yhwach's abilities and kind of intrigued to see how he's gonna make the upcoming battle look natural for both characters.