User blog comment:Godisme/BORN IN THE DARK/@comment-4431351-20121105173924

When will people learn: Kubo won't be going back to Hueco Mundo. It's a dead end. Urahara and his assailant will show up on a critical time in the arc, but not now. That's just plain logic.

As for the complete obliteration of Soul Society, it isn't really farfetched. Soul Society has some kind of a hierarchy, but except from the Captains and Lieutenants, the Shinigami aren't very powerful. Most of them can maybe kill a lowlevel Hollow. So then suddenly a highly organised army comes barging in, creating havoc as they go. The Vandenreich is loosely inspired on Nazi Germany, I repeat: LOOSELY. They have been training for years and are extremely disciplined as we have already witnessed. They overpowering the Gotei 13 isn't so unbelievable.

As for the deaths of Byakuya and Yamamoto, they were necessary to completely annihilate Soul Society. There are three things which you have to destroy if you want to bring down a organization: it's infrastructure, it's leader and it's pride. The infrastructure is quite obvious: the Sternritter just wrecked Seireitei. Byakuya is the personification of Soul Society's Pride, he always has been. Chapter 513 illustrated this perfectly. And of course Yamamoto. Genryuusai is THE image of leadership and power in Soul Society. As the head of the Gotei 13 for the past 2000 years, he is the strongest Shinigami who has ever 'lived'. His death, or at least his utter defeat, was totally necessary. Especially if he even couldn't slay JuhaBach a 1000 years ago.

As for Ichigo, I can't say I'm surprised. I don't blaim Kubo for giving him Quincy powers. He is the Protagonist who has received all the other powers available in the manga. Don't forget the main character is ALWAYS overpowered. Ichigo turning out to be a Quincy isn't surprising, but nonetheless quite interesting.

Kubo is doing a good job on the outlines of this arc, he can really make this in something huge. However the way he fills his outlines can be better, that I can't deny. I just hope Kubo don't screw it up now. This arc has so much potential, please make it happen too.