User blog comment:Salubri/New Characters and Reveals in the Future of Bleach/@comment-1405841-20100828152948/@comment-44061-20100828154351

I believe the Espada issue he was referring to was closure. He felt that some didn't get closure and he wanted to possibly address that. I think we may have saw that with Harribel in the anime. Doing the flashback would be a way to address that closure seeing the manga is already past it.

As for the Royal Guard and the older character he was seemingly referring to later on not now, we have to remember Kubo doesnt reveal stuff he is currently doing like that, he wont speak on it. He wouldnt drop that on us. Not to mention the story isn't any position to do a reveal on these characters its a fight situation now. Alot of this is people speculating and talking. I was referring to asking the questions not answering them with fan explanations, who interpret stuff however they want.