User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 588 - The Headless Star 7/@comment-2211792-20140709113014

Oh boy, Gigi is very sensitive about her (his?) gender. Sensitive enough to make a creepy Gremmy-like grin and summon a zombified Bambietta to battle at long last. Funny how it was Yumichika, another effeminate guy, who saw through Giselle... takes one to know one. Also, bonus point for him and Ikkaku being smarter than average Squad 11 grunts and not cutting Giselle up. You know it's a trap when it smells suspicious... in more ways than one.

Haschwalth summons Soldat who are immediately crushed by Kirinji... why did he summon them, anyway? Did he think those fodders could stand a chance against Royal Guards? All of them sensed the intruders' arrival, but Kirinji is the first one to face them, with his zanpakuto ready. Didn't expect it to be light-based, but it hardly matters. Vanguards exist to be defeated and swept aside.

The most intriguing part of this chapter is, naturally, Yhwach's reaction upon seeing the Soul King's palace. Haschwalth voiced his condolences, but he retorted that he feels nothing for a 'rotten gravestone'. Well, when there's a gravestone, there also has to be a grave... who was this someone, who had a connection to Yhwach and died in the Royal Realm? I already have a theory for this: it was Yhwach himself. This dimension is where he fought and lost to Yamamoto in the past. Yhwach's physical body was destroyed, but his soul survived and waited for a thousand years to return. Then the palace was built, and SK lives in it now... This makes Yhwach the one who was SK in the past, which fits into the whole "reclaim the world in 9 days" thing, but it surely doesn't answer the question about who or what the current SK is, or where he came from. Perhaps Aizen did have a solid reason to try and remove him from power... but since he refused Yhwach's offer to join him, then he obviously didn't want Yhwach to succeed.

P.S. Orihime, please heal Bambi!