User blog comment:Godisme/Deicide 7/@comment-1405841-20100529182654

An amazing chapter that I have to admit, leaving so many unanswered questions...mainly just from those last two pages! Awesome isn't it, that's all it takes to start up a huge discussion on what exactly Isshin's Zanpakuto is, whether it be Zangetsu or a blade that mimics other Zanpakuto.

For awhile I was in support of this theory (as crackish as it may be) on Urahara being the next villian, but I'm not so certain of it anymore...I do have a feeling Aizen is destined to die by the end of this arc (if he doesn't, I am alright with that too...THOUGH I would like to see somebody else take up the Big Bad title instead of him) and perhaps Gin might go as well. If he doesn't, I don't know if Gin could function as a Big Bad...

I mean sure he's creepy, he seems pretty evil but...Aizen was a mastermind/chessmaster/magnificent bastard and more...he has all these plans and his own army (as much as it has shrank, probably won't even function after this Arc) and Gin doesn't have much of that in general. Gin's more of a Dragon than anything else (yes I'm quoting terms from TVtropes), but I don't see him as one that could surpass the already current Big Bad as the next main villain.

All things considered, if Kubo considers everything since we very first saw Ulquoirra and Yammy arrive in town up until the end of these next few chapters as ONE Arc, this last (supposibly very long one) should probably be twice that length. I expect a whole lot of sub-arcs (like Huenco Mundo, FKT)...and then at least 3-4 more Filler arcs on the anime. I'm HOPING to see Hell get an involvement in the final huge arc, but only time will tell.