User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-1268838-20131211094931/@comment-1351982-20131211130803

To be honest I think the real reason he uses blasts so much is due to censorship. Jump will not allow anything super graphic such as highly dismembered bodies, so in order to get the point across that they are seriously hurt but not quite to the point where it could be fatal, he uses blasts. It symbolizes great damage without having to show realistic limbs being torn off or internal organs being gutted out, because this still technically is a story published in a children's magazine.

As for the chapter itself, I was kind of liking the pacing, it was different. I really liked the back and forth dynamic and the fact that no one was particularly dominating the other for a good majority of the chapter. As someone who does participate in sword fights, I can say from personal experience this is far more realistic. Fights are rarely one sided and it's like ping pong. Plus Renji...classic!