Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1387259-20130710190122/@comment-1268838-20130909150309

Sternritter M wrote: Then the rest happened like in the story, with Yamamoto taking on Aizen. That's a scenario I think would have been much better. I also think it was stupid how Harribel, a Vasto Lorde, was held back so easily by 1 captain and 2 former lieutenants. The Vasto Lorde were vastly overhyped in general. The fact that Harribel was able to take on Hitsugaya, Risa, and Hiyori all at once is more a testament to her own power than theirs. Especially considering that she was basically at a stalemate with Hitsugaya before he took a gamble.

More on topic, I thought that the Fake Karakura Town part was generally well done, at least in terms of Kubo keeping track of what was going on with different characters in different situations all in the same area (save for poor Kensei). That was a failing of the first part of the current arc, which was a confusing mess of unseen fights and characters with apparently nothing better to do than to not show up where they could have been useful. It was an effective way of showing how effectively screwed and caught off guard Soul Society was, but it didn't make for a very good narrative flow.

If the anime ever does come back, I do hope for some higher quality padding to even out the pace of the first Wandenreich invasion. I really like this arc in general so far (better than the SS arc even), but it could be better.