Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27139045-20151030154441/@comment-26091912-20151031055205

This arc has been relatively good, but oftentimes it's been so-so.

I'm not tired of this arc (otherwise I would've stopped reading it already), but what I am tired of is bullshit deus ex machina plot twists to save a characters' hide from difficult situations.

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Things I don't like about this arc: (so far)

1.) Yhwach defeating Yamamoto.

What I hate about this is that Yamamoto got killed so damn easily, even though he's one of the most powerful Shinigami in the series. Even his Shikai is capable of causing wide-scale destruction and can incinerate powerful foes to ash; even imprison three captain-level Shinigami. Then Yhwach steals his Bankai, cause, he's the only one powerful enough "to wield it", even though he hasn't used it so far which makes it a contrived plot device. Then bifurcates him as if he were nothing.

2.) Resurrecting the Scutzstaffel.

This is more of an issue of Kubo building up the image of the Royal Guard too much, rather than the Schutzstaffel appearing "too weak". From the beginning, the Royal Guard were hyped up to be much stronger than the Gotei 13, but in reality, they only had greater capabilities. The Scutzstaffel could've defeated the Royal Guard even without the power boost. But because the Royal Guard's image was built up so much, Kubo had to make it look like they meant serious business by making Nimaiya super strong—but then—not.

3.) The Almighty

This really peeved me and a lot of other people off. I mean, it literally came out of nowhere to save the main antagonist from losing (even though he already lost.) The ability to see into the future was only hinted at subtly, but then the whole 'I'm invulnerable to attack because I can already see it' was just damn ridiculous. And then, he blasts Ichibe, one of the most, if not thee most powerful character in the series, into a gajillion pieces as if he were fodder.

Then later on, Bach tells Ichigo that the Almighty is suddenly now the power to give and take power. Again, contrived to push the plot forward.

4.) The X-Axis

Another contrived plot device. Kubo can't seem to make up his mind about what this power actually does, and changes it whenever he sees fit. First it was all-penetrating shot, then it's spatial phasing and teleportation. Now it's apparently just not being able to die. Lille's body was already intagible and he had his head sliced off clean. But then, nnooooope... 'I'll just create a new head out of Reishi!' Like seriously, what kind of bullshit is that? What is this DBZ? Is Lille like Cell or Majin Buu where the only way to destroy him completely is launch a solar system kamehameha, or universal spirit bomb at him, until it destroys every last cell in his body?

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