User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 655 - THE MIRACLE/@comment-1759748-20151210184420

Pretty lame chapter in my opinion. I used to have faith in this series, but given the nonsense of Shunsui's Bankai being explained only in the barest of details the past few weeks or so, I'm pretty jaded when it comes to how Kubo's been handling the fights so far. I mean, one of the most powerful and important characters in the entire series finally gets a chance to reveal one of the biggest secrets of his powers...and it falls flatter than Natsu Dragneel's one-dimensional characterization. It doesn't help Gerald is basically Yammy Mk II, a big guy who grows bigger. How clever and creative of Kubo to rip off his own works to rehash a fight from hundreds of chapters ago, a fight that got the barest of explanations.