User blog comment:Omar067/Done with Bleach and you should be too./@comment-4484409-20121011052539

First thing I want to get out of the way is that I'm current with the Naruto manga and Bleach is still better. The plot to this arc is that the extermination of the Quincies 1000 years ago is now coming back to bite the Gotei 13 in the butt because there was at least one man left behind and he's garnered his hatred and used it to gather power and followers to destroy the Gotei 13 and the Soul Society. The messages in this arc are 1. War is hell 2.The world isn't always black and white. Both sides think they are fighting for a just cause and one side is immensely stronger than the other. Yes it is slaughter and yes Yamamoto didn't get the death he deserved but sometimes war is really a slaughter and the death Yamamoto deserved didn't fit the mood of the arc that Kubo is going for. The situation for the Soul Society has to be darn-near completely hopeless for the reader to have an emotional response to it and to get the Royal Guard involved.