User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Top 10 GOOD Things About the Blood War Arc/@comment-26091912-20160828121321/@comment-24769684-20160828174108

Yeah, despite the narrative flaws, I can say I legitimately enjoyed the arc until the end of the Royal Guard vs. Wandenreich fight. But what happened afterward did do a lot to sour it.

I was pretty into the first Quincy invasion, and it could possibly be seen as an extension of the strong beginning with Ichigo and co. But that led into one of the first major problems of the arc: no character of major consequence, except for Yamamoto and Unohana, died permanently. And Yamamoto's and Unohana's deaths were handled absolutely horribly. Characters who could have had well-written deaths that served to show how powerful the Sternritter were were all revived: Byakuya, Hitsugaya, Kensei, and Rose. Byakuya was handled extremely poorly after the first invasion, Kensei and Rose were revived at the end for no real reason, and Hitsugaya, well the stuff he did afterward wasn't bad, but he did end up hogging more spotlight.