User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 571 (Yachiru's gonna wreck it)/@comment-2211792-20140305115549/@comment-1268838-20140305213934

...yes? Do you even know what series you are reading? The pattern you just described has applied to Bleach since the very beginning. And to both of the series you alluded to as well, in addition to god knows how many others.

This is a war arc. The conflict isn't terribly complex - this ends when everybody on the enemy team is dead. And if that happens in one chapter, well, then the author is doing something terribly wrong. Making someone from the other side a little more dead is about as much plot progression as you can expect at this point in the story. We already got spoonfed a dozen or so chapters dedicated to exposition.