User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/424: The Lost Agent/@comment-452405-20101028052320

I guess with this timeskip that means all the leftover Arrancar like Nel and Grimmjow have been thrown out the window, and even Soul Society has completely separated themselves from Ichigo by the sounds of it.

As for everyone's new look, Tatsuki's has got to be my favourite! Yuzu though, well put it this way until Ichigo actually called her Yuzu I was absolutely convinced that she was Orihime. Oh and even though Chad wasn't shown it looks like he's grown his hair out as well going by the front cover.

As for whose badge it was it's definitely the new guy's, at no point did he have the chance to get at Ichigo's and the design (the cord) is different.