User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/418: Deicide 20/@comment-1439341-20100902200620/@comment-1432572-20100902212210

haha Earthbound Immortal Ccarayhua (Roar of the Earthbound), fellow yugioh fan? Anyway, I completely agree with you. I stopped enjoying the chapter the moment Ichigo caught Kyouka Suigetsu. Its just too hard to accept that Ichigo can even be considered close to Aizen's power, let alone a match for him, let alone beating him. I wonder how Mr.Kubo will explain this.. Let's just hope Ichigo doesn't become as strong as when Vegeta first came to Earth with Nappa, then he could blow up planets with a hard enough swing of his sword.

If a new villain pops up and Ichigo's still the protagonist, then the Gotei 13 will be utterly useless, even Yamamoto, Shunsui, Ukitake and Unohana. This is nothing like the SS-Arrancar Arcs, where you knew the Gotei 13 was still formidable. By the end of the SS arc it was very established that Captains were stronger and better than Ichigo, but going from Arrancar-Deicide Arc, its been pretty well established that the Captains are little more than cannon fodder now.