User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 685 - THE PERFECT END/@comment-24531362-20160804215813

Analysis Mode Engage:

One More Time!

K so this is a flash-forward chapter, 10 years after the end of the Blood War. Seireitei is being rebuilt. Ukitake and Unohana are definitely dead. Tetsuzaemon, Isane, and Rukia are new Captains, and Ikkaku is a Lieutenant. Yachiru seems to have been Nozarashi. There is a new Nemu, and she's rambunctious. Hisagi confirms he has Bankai but has never gotten a chance to use it (a sly jab ad Shueisha for cutting the manga short, maybe?). Kensei and Rose are still alive. During Rukia's official promotion to Captain, Akon, the new Lieutenant of the 12th Division, detects Reiatsu similar to that of Yhwach.

Okay. I feel like this flash forward has us missing something, namely the very end of the Yhwach battle. I think that we might see some of that next chapter. Also, that Yhwach Reiatsu can be one of three things, in my mind: A) Yhwach is back somehow, or was not truly beaten B) Aizen is showing up, having become the new Soul King or C) Ichigo is showing up, and has Reiatsu similar to Yhwach now. Place your bets folks!

That's a wrap!