User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/412: Deicide 14/@comment-1454424-20100716142729

Clearly you guys have visiting different Gin/Rangiku fan clubs then me because the ones I have seen are extremely happy with the new chapter. In fact, fanfiction.net has also exploded with Gin/Rangiku romance fics coming in thick and fast based on chapter 412. So really, I am not sure where you are getting the whole Gin/Rangiku fantasy going "blam". It seems to have come back alive from what I can see.

This has less to do with Gin cutting Rangiku and leaving her to "die" and more to do with the fact that most Gin/Rangiku fans have been seeing this coming for sometime now. Some Gin/Rangiku fans were expecting the love conquers all thing but anyone who has ever read a fanfiction where Gin turns on Aizen in the middle of battle for Rangiku's sake knows that Gin goes out of character so fast that it make your head spin. So, most people who can follow a character progression knew that Gin was going to shank Rangiku in the near future for better or for worse. So that actually happening isn't going to stop the Gin/Rangiku fantasy.

In other words, the majority of the people who believed Gin and Rangiku love each other and care about each other before the chapter came out, still believe Gin and Rangiku love each other and care about each other. If anything, most people are taking what happened as Gin throwing a massive temper-tantrum because Rangiku tried to use Kira as a excuse (I have already seen two fanfiction on that theme).

Whether that's the interpretation Kubo wanted the fans to take away from the latest chapter or not is irrelevant. That's the interpretation some fans have made AND it is a legitimate interpretation in the land of fanfiction, where the point is to explore the story through interpretations, extrapolation and interpolation. I suggest you lot stop trying to muscle in on the realm of fanfiction writer and move on with discussing other aspects of the chapter.