User blog comment:Godisme/Wrath as a Lightning/@comment-1429792-20120812194532/@comment-893506-20120812200159

They want him to be alive that badly, Yyp. I wouldn't be surprised.

But regardless of what you though, Byakuya's fight was finished, as was Renji's and Rukia's. There's no reason to focus on any of those characters right now, especially in Byakuya's case.