User blog comment:Godisme/End of Bond 3/@comment-44061-20110720185812/@comment-3207884-20110720225005

Just to let you know I'm not trying to antagonize you Salubri but I noticed a lot of people just getting mad at twenty chapters of not seeing overpowered ichigo fights and I noticed that the start of this arc was more about how Ichigo had just become emotionally separated from all of his friends who were in some way related to shinigami stuff seeing less of them was symbolic of their separation.