User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 342 Review: The Big Goodbye/@comment-1752488-20111005212642/@comment-893506-20111005215509

Nozomi was an okay character for me, and I agree that I think she wasn't developed enough. But I've noticed this trend with most filler arcs; every character introduced would either die or the writers would find an excuse to write them out of the story. And for the ones they didn't write out they could have used, namely Urahara's Mod Souls from the Bount arc.

Like Lemur stated, I would have left Ichigo alone and just focused more on his friends, so they can have some key importance to the story. He may be the central character in the series, but it's not like they really needed him in this arc, especially since he's supposed to ultimately lose his powers, and they could have easily written the arc without him in the story.

But again, there were many things wrong with this arc, and while they really could have done much better, they didn't and there's nothing we can do about it. But now that it's over, we can look forward to the Lost Substitute arc. I've already heard both Kugo's and Ikumi voices, and I'm looking forward to seeing everything in that arc in the anime now.