User blog comment:Godisme/San'ou/@comment-3405923-20120725183924

Nice right up. I feel the same about Bankai that you do. As far as Byakuya's death, story wise there may be no purpose but reader wise gives me a sense of hopelessness when first seeing it by thinking, "If Byakuya can be defeated so easily, what hope does the rest of the SS have?" and then right after that, you see Kenny carrying 3 dead Quincies and challenging the leader. That gave me some hope back that maybe the SS can pull through. I can't say for certain that was TK's motive but if it was, it worked for me.