User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 558 - The Heart of the Wolf/@comment-24099400-20131121022103

A heart wrenching chapter. A few chaps ago I was rooting for Komamura but fearing for the inevitable. To lose his powers and lose his ability to fight as a soul reaper and become helpless after completely elevating to one of the most powerful captains in the series is more worse than death to me in my opinion. Tite deliberately put death on our minds what would happen after the transformation wore off so the shock of seeing him revert to an actually "wolf" was jolting. I'm glad Sajin garnered his grandfather's acknowledgement and respect. The appearance of Rukia and Renji is cool and all but that leads me to think if they're that close this quickly they shouldn't make it there before Ichigo.