User blog comment:Godisme/Double Feature: Bond Behind Blast and March of the StarCross/@comment-1712587-20120419193952

One thing I have been really looking forward to seeing is if they got around to filling in any Captain positions, shame we haven't seen anything about it since things have shifted to Soul Society. They already lost a Bankai using Lt who by all means sounds like he was up there as one of the more powerful Bankai users (probably stronger than Ikkaku and Renji) and frankly I only really rate Renji, Kira, Hisagi and Rangiku at Lt level (that's purely my opinion so no need to argue about it here) so Soul Society seem to be sorely weakened right now. This against Quincies that have proven themselves to be incredibly strong. I doubt Uryu would even rank anywhere close to these guys, despite being a prodigy, maybe that was down to the speed he picked up the techniques rather than his power.

I'm nervous for SS, I think they will find themselves outmatched very quickly.