User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 573 (Let Unohana return plz)/@comment-1659214-20140320180554/@comment-1268838-20140321152350

I just said that it doesn't have a huge impact, but it'd be silly to say that it doesn't matter at all. They are dying by the thousands. In the history of Soul Society, that doesn't just happen. Yes, they are essentially noncharacters, but in this case they dying because they are weak. They are just as important to maintaining the balance of the world as any main character, if not more so. Soul Society's job is to maintain that balance, and they can't do that if their personnel is being slaughtered in droves. Not even Aizen caused that kind of mess.