User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 366 Review: Goodbye for Now/@comment-1393830-20120328034949/@comment-2120712-20120402171422

I never got the comedic part of Ichigo's arrival in SS in the manga though. I saw it as him paying respects to his predeccessor more than anything. I think the animator realized that they killed teh anime but pumping it full of filler arcs. Honestly, the Zan arc would have been perfect after the lost arc aired but instead we get some gender confusion arc bewteen teh deicide and lost arcs. The popularity has been to trashed that putting another filler to let the manga get some distance would just kill its ratings further. If Kubo wasn't so slow this anime would of had a better chance at a complete first run.