User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/396: The Bite/@comment-1962923-20100324001953

Whooo, I'm late to the party by a long shot since I just joined the community (Hi!), but I agree with a few of the posters above that Aizen has been in Soul Society for a long time, and it's possible he's manipulating Ichigo because he knew his potential power since he might have been around when Isshin was bombing around as a Captain-level Shinigami, and could have kept tabs on him, and taken an interest in his son. As for Yama, the way Kubo writes is damned frustrating, I agree. We're led to believe the power of his zanpakuto can destroy Aizen and everyone else there, and then has him dive on it after to protect everyone, then is almost dead, but uses a sacrificial kido... Head spinning....