User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/433: The Six Fullbringers/@comment-1268838-20110113063213/@comment-1268838-20110113173014

If by "cool powers" you mean a big mouth and the ability to get bifurcated, then yeah, I guess Hiyori fits with all of the above. Kidding aside, the characters are similar, but from what we have seen so far, Riruka is nowhere near as violent as Hiyori is. Quite frankly, Hiyori's character always struck me as extremely annoying. Just general preference I suppose.

Like I said, you could hardly call these characters "pointless." If anything, that term is better off being stamped onto half the Shinigami and Numero fodder that did nothing in the Arrancar arc, or, dare I say it, Kon (who I have not missed).