User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 541 - THE BLADE AND ME 2/@comment-9282993-20130616200156

i'm not liking where this is going. So the old man is not ichigo's zanpakuto but the remaining essence of Yhwach... then if it's him, why would he train ichigo to become a stronger shinigami? so he's all like "oh well, he my bastard son, so i'll make a badass shinigami (aka an enemy) out of him to fight me when i take over seireitei"... he's a quincy... quincies hate and kill shinigami.. why would he stand by ichigo as his zanpakuto and turn him into a fulfledged shinigami? Why not a quincy? More of the weird stuff: If the old man is Yhwach from a 1000 years ago, then who the hell is the guy pretending to be tensa zangetsu? Howis he able to fuse with the hollow ichigo? How the hell can he know about the final getsuga? And some more: Yhwach is a quincy... wtf does he know about zanpakutos and their evolution? how is he able to guide ichigo in developing his zanpakuto, since zanpakutos are only bound to shinigami - Another thing: in the arc with muramasa controlling the zanpakutos and turning them against the shinigami, why the hell did he pull out the old man and not hollow ichigo? I thought muramasa's power was to control the zanpakuto? Yhwach is clearly not a zanpakuto, so why did he come out instead of hollow ichigo and why, hence, was ichigo able to fight allongside his hollow?

these new developments have MASSIVE plot holes. You'd almost think that Kubo never meant to write this arc, but with the succes of bleach, he wanted to add a new story and added some new plot developments that make absolutely no sence.

i really hoped that Kubo would reveal some cool new things about ichigo and what he really is, but this is ridiculous...