User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 654 - Deadman Standing/@comment-1248963-20151204034004

Lille is ridiculous at this point, completely pathetic and annoying, reminds me of Quilge way back at the beginning of the arc, but Kira returning after 3 years was definitely not something I expected and I was pleasantly surprised. And like Xil said, that panel with the moon showing through the hole in his body was absolutely baddass.

As far as Gerard, I was actually hoping Urahara-Shinji would take him on. Or Shinji-Hinamori, to continue the theme of captain-underused female vicecaptain teams (although I don't care about Hinamori). I love Byakuya and Renji but they've both had their chances to shine in this arc, and we're running out of Quincies to showcase all the powers we haven't seen