User blog comment:TVthePunisher/Translations of Interviews in MASKED - Past and Future of Bleach?/@comment-1351982-20100817023624

I have a feeling a lot of the espada flashbacks and aspects of death explanation in the manga was cut for time reasons(like Ashido), I think these ideas were reintroduced in the anime. i mean Harribel's "past" appearance looks too well designed for something for Studio Peirrot to pull out of their...well you know what I mean. I think from what I have been hearing, Kubo has been involved more and more in the production process of the anime. I mean he has already from the beginning been more involved with his franchise than most.

So all of the recent "good filler moments" in recent episodes felt to me "wow it feels like it was always there in the manga" well if feel kubo might have some reason for that and the logic changes. Last week Toshiro released bankai when fighting Harribel with Risa(it actually is an english name, not engrish) and Hiyori, when in the manga he only releases shikai. I know he pretty much ran himself into the ground and has very little riatsu left, but when both Risa and Hiyori hollowify and release their shikai's, they are in their most powerful states(that we are aware of) and Toshiro releases with just a shikai, not that his shikai is unimpressive, but it kinda gives the feeling that he is holding back and has pretty much said" F#*K it I will just release an ice dragon and hope for the best!" It makes more sense that in the few minutes from when he last released his bankai to the moment Risa and Hiyori joined him, that he regained enough power(being a child prodigy) to use bankai briefly to help Risa and Hiyori.

I mean the logic there makes a lot more sense and the little tweaks and changes like that make me very happy. I am very excited for the coming episodes and chapters.