User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/409: Deicide 11/@comment-1712587-20100625224846

i'm not into the zero squad appearing now, i very much doubt that it'll happen purely for the fact they will turn into cannon fodder for Aizenfly. If you think we're on 409 now, Kubo has been putting down every major character in the bleach universe now for a good 30 or so chapters. Aizen has cut down practically the entire G13 force by himself (off the top of my head 13 or 14 people) so that there is now absolutely no one left apart from Ichigo to stop him. Kubo would not have gone to such huge lengths to get rid of the major power players just to introduce a brand new cast now before Ichigo and his powered up self takes his prize shot at Aizen. Lets look at it this way, Ichigo is going to come out of this training with that cocky "show me your Bankai so i can destroy it" face on and at least initially suprise Aizen that he can keep up before Aizen eventually lays some smackdown on him. We've seen it plenty of times before and sticking the supposedly uber powerful zero squad (pure speculation that they are more powerful) would just muck up the flow that the story is picking up.