User blog comment:Godisme/HOT HOT HEAT/@comment-3536902-20121207045636/@comment-5405150-20121207110549

I think Godisme has a poi9nt - this Arc has been very frustrating so far, its full of questions, contradictions, Characters being off, things being over dramatised for what actually happens, the pacing isn't very well done, its been a mixture of lots of predictable things, and some unpredictable things which aren't very well thought of.

Some bits of this Arc I'm really enjoying, but there are so many questions flying around at the moment, very few answers. It seems for every chapter that makes some decent ground and interesting story, there are 2 which expand things, confuse and contradct things.

I can only assume Kubo is opening lots of things, this Arc is going to last for a few years to come, so he needs to have plenty of stuff to work with and now is the time to set up the arc so he can focus on progressing the story as we get further in to it. But I feel Kubo isn't making as smooth a story as the Substitute Shinigami Arc, or the Arrancar Arc, where the story was built up whilst kept interesting.