User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 310 Review: S.O.U.L (sorry on unacceptable lateness)/@comment-3344282-20110228204837

I finally had the opportunity to watch this one. Hm, what are they trying to pull off? Urahara claims that Ichigo might be able to use his diminishing soul reaper powers for another year?! Does that mean they are planning to torture us with a year of filler eps before they return to the canon? Yes, I know that right now the manga events are occuring at slow pace, which is a possible reason why the anime crew might have decided to make some excuses to add fillers. But do we really need Ichigo? Sure, he is the main character, but I enjoyed the rogue Zampaktou arc where he was only a minor matter of the plot. Besides that, Ichigo loosing his powers and Rukia disappearing are big issues and strongly connected to his fight against Aizen and using the FGT. So if they pull the events too far apart just for the sake of inserting a filler arc, they will loose a lot of dramatic momentum.