User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 654 - Deadman Standing/@comment-27133783-20151204041101

Chapter points:

- Kubo loves trolling people with this character as he's still not dead; not only with the way he acts but yet another out of left field powered down form and ability he has.

- Kubo hasn't forgotten bout Izuru nor Aizen (I felt Aizen was going to show up soon based on his name being mentioned in flashback).

- Shunsui is not invincible; and the sword does have an effect on the wielder.

- The holy weapon...convenient yes...ass-pull no. People started mislabeling it as a god-slayer. When it was never stated that it could destroy god's but be effective in dispersing their power; which is what exactly it did. Effective writing on Kubo's part to keep the description vague enough to have people insinuating it was something that it was not. If it was a god-slayer the line would have read along the lines of "it cannot kill a man but can kill a god."

- Those who felt the fight ending was anticlimactic can now change their tune as he's still alive and kicking to suffer more humiliation; a true fitting end for someone who is such an asshole.

- It's almost time for "I believe in Miracles" to be a song to listen to when reading the chapter in the near future.

Xill can't wait to hear the collective moans from everybody in this chapter's podcast that he's still alive xD