User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/416: Deicide 18 (The End)/@comment-1712587-20100819110808

wow i obviously read this chapter a little late!! ^.^

well that's another arm to bite the dust!! Kubo really really has it in for taking characters arms as a sign they're done for!! if Gin was to miraculously survive he would be the... *doing the math*... fifth Captain level Shinigami to have been made armless!! not including Hyori who was full cut in half!

i wont ramble on about the "plot twist" as enough people have already made my point but for fandoms sake i will also add that i'm tired of these "shock revelations" Aizen makes, thereby re writing the entire Bleach story again. Waaaay back in End of Hypnosis it was an incredible shock and awesome shock to the system when Aizen made his grand i set this up speech and now it's another reason to groan. DOWN WITH AIZENFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm also a little tired of the last page of a chapter being the sole reason to get excited about Bleach. it's been going on ever since Aizen started fighting and is always a character introduction. basically since Yama-jii stepped in to fray. I think we are all set into this way of thinking that "surely XXX character will be able to do it", then we get dissapointed with the overpowered big bad and repeat. of course we are now literally at the last possible person who might stand a chance (i know Ryuuken and Tessai are floating around somewhere but at this stage anyone but the main protagonist is just a further stall) so at least this "oh look a new person has arrived to take a pop at Aizen" should be the last one.