User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-2220112-20131212001440

This Chapter was wonderful. Yes Kubo is rushing, but I think it is only because we are more so at the start of this battle than near the end. I think Kubo has really fooled us in the way we look at the Quincy. 1. They all vary in strength. 2. We have seen some defeated, but everything is still going according to Yhwach's plan. 3. A military genius who defeated the strongest Quincy with little effort, has had 1000 years to plot his revenge. 4. The stealing of the Bankai's was a misdirection, done just to cause confusion and keep the Shinagami distracted from the invasion aspect. 5. I don't think before Mask we have seen the true strength of the Sternritter, Mask seems way stronger than the one's we have seen defeated, and this without even Vollstanding. 6. Rose talked about his Bankai only to explain it to the audience, no true warrior would do so otherwise. 7. Apparently there is a reason the captains have not used their mask, i'm sure Kubo will get to that in due time, but as vicious as Mask has been I don't know if it would have mattered much. 8.This chapter remember is not the final battle but the separation. 9. Yhwach told Yamamoto from the beginning that they had all grown week and content. Yhwach isn't so much trying to destroy the shinagami but bring them down to his level, angry,vengeful, and savage. The original Goti 13 were ruthless killers, but they are far from that today. Once he got Yamamoto emotional he was able to steal his Bankai and destroy him effortlessly. Yhwach does not want to just beat the Shinagami but destroy their identity and turn them back into monsters. He is aware that killing the Hollows will bring forth the end of the world, but again this is jus misdirection to keep the Shinagami away from what he is really planning. Just food for thought.