User blog comment:Godisme/The Crimson Cremation/@comment-44061-20120329002716/@comment-4515326-20120329095416

i agree about chojiro having more talent than we expected, honestly when i learnt of his death in the last chapter (or the one before) i wasnt exactly affected by it, similarly to many, because he didnt have a massive amount of character traits or any real connection to the audience. its hard to understand why kubo would decide to give him a bankai if we can't even see it now, but i guess with him having to kill off sasakibe for the sake of a personal affliction to yamamoto, we really needed to have something to affect us about him. finding out that he was possibly on par with kyoraku and ukitake leaves so much unanswered, always sad to see, but necessary at times. seeing him in combat just once would actually be amazing, his potential is now seen to be quite great