User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/423: Farewell Swords/@comment-44061-20101007062251/@comment-1248963-20101008022123

Yes, I found that Orihime was underused. I've always found her healing powers a bit annoying and even overpowered. What is there that she can't fix (theorically?) Nothing! She can bring the dead back to life! Which leads to statements like: "Gin died? Orihime can bring him back! Ulquiorra turned to dust? She'll put the dust back together! And then they'll marry and have little vampires and call them Edward and Bella" (I hate Ulquihime SO BADLY). Or my new favorite (I have heard so many crap these days) "Orihime can restore Ichigo's power!!!!!"

The point is the importance of death or the war itself is lost with the greatness of Orihime's power. We don't really get hit by how huge it is to get an arm turned to dust because we know she can restore it. And if she does/did restore those arms, there are basically no scars from the war. Everyone survived, everyone has their limbs back... it's like nothing happened (let's just for two minutes ignore the psychological scars).

Yet, it seems Yamamoto has definitely lost his arm. We don't know about Soifon or Hacchi, but both of them are basically handicapped with one arm missing. Hacchi can't do Kido without both hands. I'm really wondering if Orihime even touched anyone in the battlefield, because it seems Unohana did all the work, considering that Hinamori seems to be still in a crytical situation. Seriously, way to waste the "power of God" on Kubo's part. Didn't Shinji say it "If Orihime had been there they could get patched up in a sec"? But it seems she didn't patch anyone up. Like Kubo just forgot she had this great healing powers.