User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-1489595-20131211174812

I didn't find this chapter all that awe inspiring. Its ridiculous to treat Bankai-powered warriors with hundreds of years of experience like low level mooks. Kensai is supposed to be some sort of hand to hand master and he gets worked over by a Quincy with a wrestler fetish like he was a rookie. Rose has a very interesting Bankai but it hardly worth worrying about because defending himself is apparently beyond his skill (and maybe keeping his mouth shut and letting the Bankai do the talking for him).

Meh. No tactics, no sense from either side. Just raw brute force and inexplicably quick defeats that fail to generate any sort of tension. Even the long awaited reveal of the Bankais are little more then tricks to get you to read since they do nothing of note.

It was nice to see Renji again. I suspect he will win this fight which is good. Anything to put a quick bullet in the head of this plotline with a stupid villain and dumber heroes.