User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 560 - Rages at Ringside/@comment-4794735-20131204230330

I found this chapter to be... boring. Really, really boring. I mean, what really took place? Rukia and Renji are still taking their sweetass time getting there. Hisagi (who had an amazing first REAL battle against Findor during FKT) got owned, which sucks because he's one of my faves.

Then Kensei shows up in a badass way, so I think it's gonna get good. And then to make it even better Rose shows up, so I think maybe I'll get to see some "art". But no. Kensei releases his Bankai (in a panel that Kubo appeared to have copy/pasted from the last time Kensei used Bankai), and we fall back into the same formula that we've seen for the last, what, 10 chapters. One side reveals some awesome power and owns their opponent, only to have their opponent come back seemingly unscathed and own them right back. I know fights tend to go back and forth between sides, but the pace Kubo's set and used for EVERY fight since the hiatus is starting to get stale. Not only that, but the fights are moving really slow and it just feels, IMO, dragged out. It feels like Kubo's just using the fights to delay the arrival of Renji, Rukia, and Ichigo, not to mention the eventual return of Byakuya. And we still have to see Zaraki and his now named Zanpakuto. The non-Gotei Visoreds I'm sure will get involved. Plus Isshin and Xcution.

I don't, maybe it seems like I'm ranting, but it's getting really disappointing reading essentially the same chapter with just different characters every week. It also seems like the longer the series runs the less happens per chapter. Especially when there's so much to look forward to happening and it's not. The Komamura chapters were nice because they not only explored more of an lesser-used character, but gave him a cool new twist with his human form. Now it seems like we're taking a step backward though.

In short, I'm getting impatient with this series z..z