User blog comment:Xilinoc/Chapter 529 - Everything but the Rain, "The Rudiments"/@comment-957629-20130306230248

Well in the chapter Gin is a Captain so it had to be less than Fifty years ago that the flashback is taking place in which makes me so so happy considering I really didn't want Masaki to be over a century old!! And if he's been powerless for 20 years I'm going to go with that mark!! Their plans seems to be continuing their experiments, which we know at least 40 years ago they were still doing with Kaien since thats when Rukia joined!! So I wouldn't say this is as far back as 100-110 years and Aizen is aware the Visoreds are in hiding so his plan is regarding them so it may be that Isshin gets involved and thats how he uses Mugetsu whilst injured, and is found by Masaki!!

To be honest sort of bored of Aizen being constantly there twiddling his fingers in the shadows, doing more and more plans!! Nice to see Gin though, miss Gin!! Tosen and Aizen not so much!!

At first I thought Rangiku looked younger than what she did when she found Hitsugaya but alas its obviously set after this time!! I'm sort of happy that we have more on Hitsugaya that he didn't just leave the Academy to the Captain slot but yeah I want to see interactions there now that Ichigo knows they were actually his daddy's underlings but we don't see any Urahara/Hiyori stuff beyond the flashbacks, at least we got some Lisa/Kyoraku interaction!!

Overall, happy that its confirmed that Masaki was not stupid old and its nice to see a different Isshin before he grew into Father-mode!! Bit like how Urahara used to be the shy awkward captain and yet in the current timeline hes a lot more confidant, must be the hat!!