User blog comment:Toshiroichigo/Lack of strong personalities among vice captains./@comment-24141380-20131107145542

Well personally I think the character list is too long for Kubo to do justice to each of the characters. I mean Squad 11 has been instrumental in giving quite a few shinigamis to the Vice-captain/Captain ranks. So at least their past in the division could have been highlighted.

We have Zaraki, Yachiru, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Unohana, Iba and Renji ,and we are still in the dark with most of the characters. I personally was really excited about the Zaraki and Unohana battle, but in the end I felt that Unohana's bankai was never explained fully. Those chapters seemed rushed.

Iba is even a bigger ghost that Sasakibe, atleast the aged man got some reveal on his abilities. Iba is a clean slate. The series has gone for so long and still one of the initial characters hasn't been explained. Each arc we are bombarded with new set of characters and some fall out on the side.

I mean Yammy was the strongest arrancar and he was offed off-screen. In SS arc captains were termed as monsters and yet we have seen them struggle a few times. A 390 Zaraki overpowers a Tousen and Komamura tag-team. I think the power scales were redudant.

All this may seem a rant, but it is just my opinion at some instances in which I felt let down by this great series. Kubo pulls a master-class every now and then but the troughs always remain frighteningly close.

All in all in my random rant, I agree with the OP that lieutenants need some decent screen time. Apart from Rangiku, Ikkaku, Renji and Rukia. The darker ones need a light. Especially Yachiru and Iba in this posters opinion.