User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/408: Deicide 10/@comment-44061-20100617040314

Just to point out Karakurarizer was anime filler. Secondly Kubo has stated when he puts in comedy interactions its because he's bored with writing the story so he does something to lighten it up so he can continue. Also arcs commonly end with an event and then a period of rest and normalcy. A change of area is apart of a new arc but not without these other two taking place. The same fights with the same guys will continue. We take the time distortion to mean no more then the small amount of time that Ichigo attained banaki except longer but there would be nothing interesting in actual 3 months of training. We didn't even see the full extent of bankai or vizard training.