User blog comment:Godisme/Goodbye to Our Xcution/@comment-44061-20120111183911

The basic question for me was where is Love, Hachi, Hiyori, Lisa and Mashiro. There positions werent open for them to take back. I could see Hachi and Hiyori working for Urahara though. Any number of possibilities are apparent here. We also find that Kugo apparently stole his shinigami powers in the first place. The whole Ichigo wanting to bury Kugo didnt seem to make much sense. It would seem that the reason is basically he would want that if he was in the same position and its not for any respect for Kugo or anything. Ichigo makes it clear its not about forgiveness or respect really. Im not convinced that Ichigo has changed at all. As for Riruka it seems her point was more toward suicide but she apparently used bringer light, its questionable that she killed herself though that seems to be what she did.