User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 553 - Frozen Cross/@comment-3290324-20131016160353

To be honest, I'm very disappointed with Hitsugaya and Sui-Feng's battles. The battles were extremely short and set up in very predictable fashions. And to top it all off, the battles ended with both Captains on the verge of death, which means that neither of them will be of any use in the coming battles. Sui-Feng's battle in particular bothered me the most. Firstly, Sui-Feng never used her Bankai, so why was losing it such a huge problem? I'm not saying that she should've beaten B69 without Bankai, I'm just saying she should've put up a much greater fight. Her greatest skills lie in her speed, Hakuda prowess, and her Shikai's ability. Yet we saw literally none of that in this match. This is Bleach's final arc, and if that was the last time I'll see Sui-Feng in battle, which I'm positive it was >_>, I'll be pissed beyond consolation.

B69 and Cang Du's deaths were anti-climatic, but I really hope we've seen the last of them. The last few chapters have all ended the same - big attack that should have ended the match and the next chapter reveals that the victim of the attack had something up their sleeve. Doing it again would be awful in my opinion. Also, the Quincy so far have been kind of overpowered, which makes them unbearably boring. No one wants to see a series of one-sided fights.