User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/385: Vice It/@comment-1747976-20091214220701

Maybe Minato, maybe. Or he acted surprised at what Shunsui was telling him at the time in order to throw them off of what he was trying to do, which is his m.o. Also, just like he told Renji, "the Aizen you knew never existed" and so it is with all of them. If he had memory of the event, he stil wouldn't have spilled the beans on his plan anyway, right? So, its just a theory, but he seems hellbent on reaching that place and is turning the worlds on their collective asses to do so. Everyone is being used for this purpose. Everyone is playing their part, whether they like or not. He is just that calculating with his thing.