User blog comment:Godisme/Everything But The Rain/@comment-1351982-20130227205147/@comment-1351982-20130227215349

In one aspect that is true, however there is more to it. While Kubo doesn't always make the greatest of authorial decisions, he's much more clever than people give him credit for. Aizen isn't really so much as a character, but he's more of an allegory of humanity and its desire to evolve. Throughout the centuries, humans have tried to overpower their nature and become "gods" over their domain, despite to social, political, moral, and physical consequences. A lot of this thought became prevalent during the renaissance era, when Europe was getting away from God and religion as being the center of life, and humans were subjugated by god. They created things, to try to "play god" and prove that they were the superior creation of god and (I know I am saying this poorly but) everything else was a failed effort and humans could do no wrong. Aizen similarly created inventions in order to affirm that he was a higher being, and his poem in volume 48 sums up his mentality perfectly. Also, the title of volume 48, GOD IS DEAD is brilliant in the fact that like humanity, Aizen miscalculated in some form and his dreams crumbled.